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> I wouldn’t give PM Boris Johnson too much credit here. He regularly skipped crucial meetings at the start of the pandemic

He did more than skip them, he remained thousands of miles away on holiday on a Caribbean island. Didn't deem it important enough to return early.

You also forgot the Lockdown parties. ;-)

Even before the party revelations, his and his government's handling of the pandemic was already well understood to be dire (dither & delay, too little too late, billions on dodgy contracts).

Post-party revelations ? Whatever scraps of credibility that may have remained quickly took a long walk off a short pier.

He and his supporters try to cling to his credibility on the back of the vaccines. But even that was dire. The completely un-necessary and embarrassing EU fighting and unfounded British exceptionalism over the vaccines, the false claims about AZ being a British invention when it is well documented that (something like) 75% of the AZ vaccine team are EU and Other nationals ... the list goes on.
Agreed on bureaucracy. Bureaucracy and the imbalance of power is rampant in the U.S., and it concerns me. I don't know if people ever did, but it really feels like nobody gives a shit about their customers or citizens, as far as companies and the U.S. government, respectively, are concerned.

Last year, through a fluke since I ended up being away from my apartment for several months, I found out my gas company had incorrectly installed the gas meters in my apartment. Thus, I had been paying the upstairs neighbors' gas bill (and vice versa) for over five years. It took 7-9 months to get the thousands of dollars they owed me. And that was after basically calling them every two weeks, going through no-shows of their technicians, and arguing with them that they needed to go back the entire time I had overpaid. They wanted to only go back two or three years because that's only how much data they kept. Which fuck that, because after arguing about it, they were somehow magically able to go back the full duration of my account with them, "finding" the data. We literally hunted for a house and bought one in the in-between time of discovering the issue and getting my money. Can you imagine being able to tell some company you owe money to "I'll get it to you when I get to it, I'm really busy right now" or that "well, my records only go back so far, so I can't do anything about money I owe you before a certain time"? You'd be submitted to a credit agency and completely wrecked.

In this and more of these scenarios, it is absolutely the most remote possibility that you can act like this towards companies and the government when they want something from you. It really bothers me to my core that we have no power against companies or government. This is what it's like to live in an oligarchy.
The lack of transparency makes these deals ripe for fraud. I have heard anecdotes from people I trust of their realtor offering to generate a fake offer (by soliciting one from a third party) to drive up the escalation clause.

Where there is money and little oversight there is bound to be fraud. It grinds my gears to think about this because I bought a house and the escalation clause went to the maximum. Now do you think that was purely coincidence?
It's in the same category as whatever Bolt is doing.
To avoid the problem of the tax just being passed on to renters, you would presumably make the tax "progressive" (i.e. marginal), or only apply after a certain threshold, right?

I think that one mathematically appealing structure for such a tax is to work out what the median (inhabited, primary) property size is (including garden etc.) and set that as the tax-free threshold. Any land tax paid by the top half can then be distributed to those in the lower half.

This would be similar to (and is based on the same logic as) Thomas Paine's proposal for what we would now call a Universal Basic Income.

https://basicincometoday.com/thomas-paines-centuries-old-arg...
The Indy didn't have any 3D hardware in it.
> Just embrace PowerShell.

Instead of learning a young, new language, I could just boot into Linux and used an established operating system?

I don't understand this mentality of 'Windows must be better'. PowerShell is alright, but as the article pointed out, the Windows terminal experience is terrible. Even the OG terminal interface on linux is better (supports copy paste with mouse for one thing).
There is no law against Canadian Asians buying houses. The law applies to foreign Arabs too. Most people who don’t want foreign buying have never wanted foreign buying from anywhere!
Don't worry, you'll be well taken care of. No government will ever mess with the wealthy homeowner class.
I (as well as most social psychologists) agree with you. Everyone's the hero of their own story. You bomb an abortion clinic to "save the children" and you bomb parliament because "the politicians are all corrupt" and you bomb another country because "they would do it to you if given the chance".

True APD (anti-social personality disorder) and Narcissism (the 2 disorders where the sufferer is most likely to be "bad for the sake of being bad") relatively rare. Most people have something resembling a reason for why they hurt others.
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Those are downstream effects of the problem with housing being an investment.

We don't want prices to go down so we don't build enough supply. The policies that make housing a good investment increase demand from speculators and investors above the natural need for housing. There are all sorts of subsidies that exist to give people more money to buy housing instead of trying to make housing actually cheaper. Interest rates are a lever the government uses to support its political goals which includes increasing housing values. It all comes back to the same root cause.
Find a sport. Basketball, tennis, raquetball, cycling... anything you can do with a friend. Go ahead and get addicted to it. The biggest challenge is finding a friend. You can try meetup.com
++ to this, beyond committing frequently for your own sanity, doing so in a way that:

1. Runs CI
2. Can be merged independently (to reduce the chance of merge conflicts by preventing drift from master/main)
3. Can be reviewed in isolation (so your reviewers can follow your route)

Is also good. That's the idea of Stacked Commits (https://graphite.dev/blog/post/N8SOs49y4bYdV1Vjf5qE).
kfx.fr but it's a created and essentially never populated web 1.0 site, my goal was and still is in my loooooooong wishlist a website readable with links2/w3m/eww etc normally used via RSS not by direct visits and backed by org-mode but still manually-created html/no js.
Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics
What did I say that was misinformation?

> it's well established that those who contract COVID .. will have a good immunity response for subsequent infections.

> those who survive a COVID infection do end up with an immune system that is able to handle COVID.

It seems like we're on the same page here.
> If a typo in a variable name doesn't cause any problems until it get evaluated

Linters even in languages like python will catch that kind of thing.
Congrats! Hope to try it as soon as it comes back.

Also, I'm pretty surprised that Google doesn't block AWS from doing automated queries.
Turns out we are a NPC, not the main character.
> architect your services to be able to double-write

Can you share any details on how to achieve this?

For instance, if the first database accepts the write but the second is temporarily inaccessible or throws an error, do you roll back the transaction on the first and throw an error, or <insert_clever_thing_here> ... ?
You've chosen not to address the (very clear) point made by the previous poster. Instead you retreat to familiar talking points. Genuinely disturbing to witness an interaction like this.
> If you have a kid at 20, they're (hopefully) leaving at 38....

The "(hopefully)" is interesting! Living in an Arabic country and having many Mediterranean colleagues I recently started to appreciate that different cultures have a very different point of view on when kids should leave their parents house. For them it is perfectly normal to stay with their parents until the age of 25-30, while e.g. in Germany this would be considered quite weird already.
I'm irrationally annoyed that the first graphic misspells "stash" twice.
I learned at a relatively young age some of these realizations. And realized the biggest thing is WHO you have in your life. Family, children etc. That we arent ancient egyptions and things like cars and boats dont come with us in the afterlife (figuratively). And that a company will cut you as soon as it benefits them and is expediant, that no one is going to write "he was a good worker" on my gravestone. It does seem many have had that realization in the last 2 years, but I had it in my early 20's when my father passed relatively young.

And so over the years i have moved up, realized some goals. Manage a department, lead a team or two, still get to work in weeds etc, but have direct influence on budget, organizational decisions etc (at least to this point). And i make a solid salary and frankly the I could do much of this in a much more efficient fashion, and many of my decisions these days are more based in "am I setting a good example".

That said, it can still be hard to maintain that focus. During this "great resignation" i have faced an internal battle with the realization i CAN earn more, but whether that will come as a cost of being sacrificial to the other ancillary benefits..

Frankly it can be hard to rectify and sometimes i feel my spouse takes advantage of it. For example its known (at least internally) that family trumps work in almost every instance. That I will not miss my kids...halloween, gradauation, whatever for some on call BS. But that has come to also mean that I get leaned on when a kid is sick, or theres some scheduling thing. And sure i can make it work. Heck I can probably even get away with it without much political cost, but that's sometimes not the point.

I also fight with considering offers or "advice" that i should jump ship and move to xyz. I could double salary etc. But does that mean i double benefits if i pay more for insurance or get less days off or am expected to be plugged in or more responsive?

Finally, I still have that internal drive. Lately i constantly find myself still trying to map out the next "steps". Do I move further into management? Its not as rewarding for me but the people I have managed seem to have established a pattern of loyalty and trust despite the environment. And the possibility of again having more "freedom" and the ability to drive organization direction and choices would be really nice. I'm in a spot where i have some say, and even some influence, but would more be better? How do i get there, or recognize an open door or oppurtunity.

Frankly i find much of it exhausting, just like i have come to find people and politics pretty exhausting lately.
General Relativity does not conserve energy.
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Thanks, Orta! I'm especially keen to get money in the hands of under-represented developers that would otherwise not have a chance to spend time on getting a startup off the ground. Hopefully we can be first money in at a time that truly makes a difference in whether a startup exists or not!
And if they aren't willing to even write it into the initial offer (despite how toothless that promise is in the long term in the US legal system), you know they aren't really serious about remote.
IMHO the purpose of unit tests is to ensure the code is correct and allow you to safely refactor and introduce new functionality without breaking existing behavior. The purpose is not to pinpoint the exact line where the bug is, if a test fails.

What you describe is white-box testing, where the test is coupled to implementation details of a class. This gives you more fine-grained reporting in case of an error but it makes it impossible to refactor the code safely. So I don't think that is a worthy trade-off.

If you often have hard-to-locate bugs in particular large component, the solution is probably to refactor into smaller more loosely-coupled components with well-defined interfaces.
Beautiful course pages on an important topic: Parallel computing is omnipresent. It is the duty of the ecosystem, the language and the programmer to exploit ressources available. Stop telling the young folks that computer ressources are available in vast amount, because if you cannot exploit them, what we get is slowness and feature creep instead of lightweight fast and parallel codes.
You're right, let me make a good faith response to right-wing late-stage-capitalism propaganda, that's worth my time.
Are you using V8 heap snapshots to speed up startup time by any chance?

IME this can greatly improve cold starts.
How does your theory explain the difference in housing prices between San Francisco and Lubbock?
> succumbing to political incentives

Why are people surprised when government institutions succumb to political incentives?

I once had a discussion with a PhD research scientists who said how great NSF funding was because they made funding decisions completely on scientific merit. I pointed out all the ways that it obviously allocated funds based on bias and politics.
Your frustration has already been addressed in danluu article under the header "Cross-project changes"

I believe he said that he wrote this article to avoid repeating the same convo again and again....
The best thing about this is other people don't need "old.reddit.com" to "new.reddit.com" redirector extensions. Reddit assumes if you put "old." or "new." then you explicitly want to override your account's preferences.
Personal experience with KiwiCo: They were absolutely wonderful for a while, especially during pandemic lockdowns. Unfortunately, they've gone significantly downhill in recent months, with kits just not being of the same quality, so we cancelled our subscription. Maybe we'll try them again in a couple of years, maybe not.
Colloquially "therapy" tends to refer to just talk-therapy. It's useful to the extent that talking out your issues with someone is useful, but at $100/h.

There are forms of therapy as interventions that are generally shown to be effective according to research (e.g. CBT and variants), and I think we'd be rid of a lot of confusion by better distinguishing one therapy from another.
> Tiny daily sales numbers which all employees received was the first such warning sign. Internally, Fast was transparent on sales. Every day, every employee would receive a sales summary email that listed the number of sales completed with Fast checkout, and the total sales amount.

> Fast did less than $300K worth of sales and below $6K in revenue on most days from January 2022 to April 2022. There were days with around $2,000 in revenue for Fast.

I'm actually surprised that everyone was receiving daily updates of company revenue.

If you're surrounded by 100s of people at a company known to give high base pay but you're seeing daily revenue numbers in the range of $1K to $6K (they had $600K total revenue in 2021, supposedly) then you have to know that your time is very limited.

I assume they were led to believe that more investment money was just around the corner to keep the business going? With a $10 million monthly burn rate they would have needed a staggering amount of capital to just continue to exist, let alone execute any plans to turn the ship around.
I made latkes last night, fried in (my) confit fat. The wife sez when the fat was heating up, "smells great already!". And yeah, we scarfed them down.
Using a generated story to assist memory is an interesting idea. (Although I guess anyone imaginative could make up their own story from a normal seed phrase, without using a generator like this)

This method could be used for any kind of password, not only cryptocurrency things.

It's a proof of concept, so it's probably not necessary to say that this needs to be available as an offline, open source program

I think there are some probable issues with decoding the story to reproduce the secret. For example if the story begins "In Florida I saw a Clever Cosmonaut run in a Garden". Then I might remember Astronaut instead of Cosmonaut, Park instead of Garden, or Smart instead of Clever

Carefully choosing the words in the wordlist would help avoid such ambiguities
GDPR doesn't stop me from having ad1.example.com and ad2.example.com landing pages. Aspirationally perhaps, but technically no. I think this is different from fonts.gstatic.com in that it doesn't need to follow people around the internet and it's also not info necessarily going to a third party.
Some observations after using many different testing philosophies on many different teams in the past 20 years:

1. Unit tests for code with no side effects (code that takes well defined input and produces well-defined output) are easy to write, easy to understand, and I've never regretted writing them.

2. I've had good experiences transforming as much error-prone logic as possible into code with no side effects.

3. Integration tests that execute in an environment that is similar to production have proven to be incredibly valuable, especially when refactoring. When possible, I prefer to make technology-stack choices that make such an environment quick to setup and teardown such that these tests can run in seconds.

4. Many bugs occur because team A makes bad assumptions about how team B's system behaves, and they encode these assumptions into their (passing) test cases.

5. Unit tests with lots of mocks should be avoided; their cost-to-benefit ratio is terrible. Sometimes the best solution is to delete these tests. Relying on mocks for a few error-case tests that are hard to reproduce on the real system is ok.

6. If they cannot be avoided, fake implementations should be written by the same team that writes the real implementation. They understand how it actually behaves much better than their users, and are in a good place to reuse critical logic from the real implementation in the fake to make it more realistic.

7. If my project includes firmware running on custom hardware, building an emulator for the hardware that can run on standard computing infrastructure is valuable for writing test cases against.

8. More tests or coverage is not always better. We have a finite amount of time to improve our systems, and it is our duty as engineers to ensure that the benefit we get from adding a specific test-case is higher than using that time to make some other improvement to the project.
> Just like building roads can't reduce traffic, building houses can't either.

Mega tower condos could solve housing issues, but the NIMBY folks and local governments need to get out of the way - https://citylimits.org/2018/10/26/cityviews-proposed-mega-to...
Checked the network logs - it seems to perform an API query [0] which returns a stream of data, that's then computed upon on-the-fly in the browser.

[0]: https://sourcegraph.com/.api/compute/stream?q=context%3A%40r...
Mainstream adoption, at least near to the ground Apple have been able to make against Windows.
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> Even if one thinks Wolfram's foundations of physics project will never bare useful fruit, it's undeniable that he has made progress in other fields that are of interest to many people.

This is true, I'm sure, in Physics. But I don't think it's true in logic. Did anyone working in logic at the time care about this question? Does it have any practical significance? If experts at the time didn't care and it has no useful purpose, then why should this impress me? Doing novel work is really easy -- just work on stuff other people don't care about.
RISC did change everything - the primary computing device of users are ARM-based phones. Dependent on x86 servers in the cloud for much though.

Of course it's arguable how RISCy ARM really is, but x86 is the only CISC left for non-embedded computing anymore, and really A) it's a hybrid with SIMD and a lot of recent instructions, and B) I the ISA is essentially internally virtualized atop a microarchitecture which operates vastly differently than the ISA - all the wacky stuff done for performance is tucked away there until it rears its head with Spectre-like issues and such.

Further, couldn't it be said that RISC changed Intel? - one wonders what Intel would have done had RISC not been making gains in the 90's against Intel.
If this was part of a retargeting campaign it would probably be a good audience too.
Not Google deep, that's for sure.

Many of these fonts aren't Google's, so by not including a valid license file, they aren't honouring the terms of the original license. It could theoretically also be Google whose door is knocked on by lawyers.
> in-memory testing database gets in the way

Why would using an in-memory database prevent use of triggers?
Advertising is pretty important for commodities. When you can 10,000 movies, advertising can have a huge lift to nudge you. Same with food. If there’s a dozen kinds of sour cream at the store, an ad might lift one brand hugely.

Probably less valuable for industries with less competition. Like do I really need to see an Apple ad? Is not seeing one gonna make me go Android?
I can see why people think this, however, is it easier to use electricity or borrow money from a bank? You don’t need permission to use electricity for specific purposes, you pay for what you use. A loan is entirely at the grace of the Banking stake system. Same analogy.

Someone had to sell you the coins in the first place. Remember all PoS coins were issued on day one by the oligarchs and you live by their wishes when they sell you their coins.

The oligarchs always fear the state taking their stash, they will lie and cheat for the State. PoS is subjective truth. PoW is objective truth, verifiable without trust.
I received a demo of a $250k SGI when I was about 14 (1990). It powered a military F16 flight simulator and the experience was nothing short of mind blowing. Those machines were tightly packed magic.
>This is not the result of a hushed down societal decision. The refusal to allow housing construction the cause of the ever increasing prices.

And what would you say is the cause for that? I would generally say it is people trying to protect their existing investments in housing.
I remember being on a stand next to SGI at E3 in 1997. They had a giant black truck in the arena like the one that Knight Rider drove into. They were selling these machines that looked way more powerful and expensive than anything the games industry could afford. People at the show were mainly debating when and if Intel could release a 1ghz processor. Stange what you remember.
Is there a pop sci accessible version of the work that details the physiological changes?
Incredible amount of misinformation in one post.
“New Mexico is next to last on their list…”. If this means NM won’t attract the sorts of people who make life decisions based on media like this, it should be more widely circulated. It is this decade’s “Breaking Bad” for NM. If you are the sort of person who makes life decisions based on where TV shows are shot, NM isn’t really for you. Someone might write a comic book about how great Arkansas is, and you’d be forced to move again.

A word to the wise: always poke around in how they measure attributes, how they weight the attributes, and how they combine them in a single score (or sub-score). In the 1970s, there was published a Places Rated Almanac for US cities, by a NYC-based publisher. NYC (in the era of the burning Bronx) was inexplicably rated in the top ten…maybe top five. I looked deeper and saw they took, say, the crime statistics and simply truncated them, uniquely, for NYC. NYC was actually, say, 13 for crime and they said, well that’s too high, we’ll count it as 5. No justification at all. The fix was in.

Find your querencia and you’ll be happy.