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* u/ExcusesRUs_BOT

NTA

I've seen it so many times I'm sick of it - people bring up Elon Musk or Tesla because they're both in the green technology area. Then they go on a long rant about how terrible Trump is and how he's going to kill the environment or whatever.

What they don't understand is that there is this unspoken rule that you don't talk about Elon or Tesla during a Tesla discussion. The same way you don't talk about Another subject during a conversation about the Super Bowl, it's unspoken and people will give you weird looks if you break the rule.

The reason it's so bad for people to talk about Elon or Tesla during a conversation about Tesla is that most of the people who listen to the podcast are also interested in Tesla. Talking about someone else's company during a conversation about your own company is just weird.

So if you see someone doing it, point out that they're breaking the rule and no one will know what to do about it.

* u/SanAndreasYourFault_BOT

YTA.

> there needs to be some rule similar to godwin's law about how no matter how unrelated a topic is, someone has to mention either elon or trump.

* u/SplitTheBaby_BOT

YTA. I feel bad for the person who has to deal with you in any capacity.
> Ah Dan O’Dowd. He was an early customer of Tesla, and I recall him bragging about owning two red Tesla Roadsters and a Model S.

Well, he doesn't seem to be opposed to Teslas in general - just the self-driving tech.
I used to walk to and from school by myself, and after school I'd walk to the bookstore by myself, apparently most other kids aren't interested in reading at all, before heading home for dinner. It was a merely ten minutes walk, but other parents are somehow surprised. Fortunately, I've only encountered nice strangers who gave me free snacks and all that, but now I think about it, I just felt super lucky nothing really happened.
> Youtube should really kick him off the platform.

This is a dangerous thought. There is already too much decision making of what is allowed on our social platform by the big corps.

YouTube should at best demonetize the video, and only if it does that consistently based on a public policy.
>"I work in a start-up because I got tired of corporate BS and middle managers that produce nothing in the best case and hinder progress of my work in the not so good ones."

Perhaps I'm unlucky but I've worked for enough startups where that sadly still existed. I feel like there's some point in the growth trajectory where inevitably those folks show up. Sometimes they even bring others from their former corporate cabal to help with those things.
The investments would be going to companies other than FAANG, and there are plenty of software industries that aren't ad-propelled. The reduction of influence from adtech may even be a boon for practical software industries, where currently they are all competing for capital and talent against the VC and revenue of ad-propelled businesses.

I've long said tech wages need to come back to reality, so that the rest of the world can get back to building software for the rest of the world, not just the tech bubble compatible ventures. I think adtech and online advertising propping itself up is part of the problem.
I am suggesting that it may be possible to safely, carefully, and legally crash a plane in a controlled scenario.

For instance: https://youtu.be/zuynxwQMad4
I guess I got the snark from things like this... "I don't fault them for making MOST of the mistakes, C was a rather new language at the time, they didn't know the hardware they were working with and EVEN programmers in 2022 would make many of these MISTAKES. Besides you either get to know about these things or spend time learning about these things or you get to go out and touch grass it's an either or, you can't do both".

Emphasis mine.

He regularly trashes the quality of other people's code in his twitter https://twitter.com/KazeEmanuar/status/1343569532976304131 despite building his following off the years of work of those same people.
> It would take a very foolish bank to write a loan on a plane (or boat) that is secured by said object.

What now? Air Fleet Capital and AOPA Finance will both happily do this. It is quite typical, just like buying a car...
Chuck Feeney would disagree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Feeney
> Unless it’s a clearly serious felony like a murder or burglary, you aren’t really getting any information.

Good news! The numbers reported in my citation are specifically about: Larceny/Theft, Burglary, Aggraveted Assault, Motor Vehicle Theft, Robbery, Rape, and Murder/Non-Negligent Manslaughter. Every single one of these has drastically decreased since the 90's (90's increased in crime since the 80's but current levels are below that).

I don't mean to sound sarcastic, but I can't but help but feel that this could have better been resolved by clicking on the citation I included.
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There's probably a less specific crime he could be charged with. Even the FAA reg he violated—"careless and reckless operation"—is a catch-all the FAA uses to say, "we don't have a specific rule against what you did, but you were definitely being a dumbass on purpose."
It still has many cool features that are not common elsewhere, and it is still evolving (https://pharo.org/features, the list does not mention some things like object-centric debugging). And yes, it can pay your bills.
In the cannabis industry it’s been that way for months already. 10-20% lower CPMs from the networks.
You're absolute right and the process is sometimes referred to as 'tuning'. A living fish is generally looking to hold station and avoids the region closest to the obstacle which draws it forwards towards the obstacle. The process is conducted by the natural elasticity of the fishes tissues but the fish does activate muscles in reaction to perturbations in the flow. So, to conclude, I think that the fish is mainly actively putting effort to first find the 'sweet spot' and then keep itself there, the actually act of 'tuning' is typically considered a passive process and can be seen exhibited in any well-positioned flexible object e.g. a ribbon or string placed in a flow will oscillate at the vortex-shedding frequency. So in terms of the question they ask, it is relevant because the fish needs to be able to detect small perturbations in the approaching flow in order to react to them and maintain its position, the goal being to minimise active muscular contractions and maximise efficiency.
I use optuna, it has a global blackbox function minimizer suited for parallelizing parameter search space for slow evaluations.
Well then I guess everyone is actually already in the cloud. They just have varying levels of UI/UX.
> Comcast/Centurylink spent $500k in a city of <100k people

That seems a lot of money until you think revenue. Average household, 2.6 people, so let's say 38,000 households.

Let's say half of them have internet from one of these providers and we'll be "generous" and say they're averaging $50/mo on their bill.

That's 17 days revenue, if it had succeeded. An entirely worthwhile investment on their part.

To be clear though, I despise efforts to fight municipal broadband.
These aren't "Future User Interfaces". They are UI's to look good on Film, appearing fancy and futuristic. Take a hologram for example, great to have a person and the thing they manipulate in the same shot. Actually working on a hologram, not so great.
Often they will have very little information on a huge surface.. while real user interfaces need to convey as much information on as little surface as possible.

They probably have as little value for a UI designer as a car chase in a film for a regular driver.
I don't know if there's a term for this. The limit of reach any task has. Everything has a deadline and we all live with partial results in a way. It's like civilization internal resistance (with a cycle of survival on top)
My take on it is that every new generation has to learn this lesson the "hard way" if only because they are pumped by people saying "Yeah, this time it is different."
note that symmetric encryption is also really hard. it wasn't until 2010 or so that GCM mode came around and provided a system that is somewhat easy to implement without accidentally breaking everything.
Well more like a kept a couple of hours a few times a week for podcasts, and the company was happy to have me as I had a worked with them for awhile prior to becoming an engineer.
i3/sway style tiling window managers
It might be just me - but I don't understand why any company would want to make their roadmap public. I feel like only the company's competitors ever look at it
> I'm a long time hobbyist programmer (~20 years) with decent knowledge of a few languages

> but have no portfolio or commercial track record

A 20-year hobby, dedicated enough to be "decent", but nothing to actually show?

Not trying to take a jab or anything, it just more leaves me wondering maybe you're starting from a fairly low skill level. There's plenty more to software engineering than just languages.

In which case, maybe a 3-6 month full-time course? I work with a guy who was a carpenter. He did a 3-6 month (can't quite remember) full-time coding course. It was very practical - Javascript, HTML, etc. He then took an internship at our company. I'm not sure of the salary, but it would have been fairly low. But just through hard-work he's now a terrific mid-level engineer, and he could move on to another company with a solid story to put on his resume.

I suspect a lot of people might be against coding courses and more leaning to DIY self-learning. But not everyone can stay on track, it's hard to know exactly what to study, a good coding course can point you in the right direction with jobs, and it looks better on your CV. Just my 2c.
It's really transparent to anyone who's flown. He spends no time debugging, no time communicating, no time looking for somewhere to land. He had a lot of altitude and his immediate thought was "Oh ok I guess it's broken, seeeeyaaaaa".

Amongst all the other callouts, like why a parachute, why so many cameras strapped up, some timeline incongruities, some camera shot incongruities. His flight path made no sense. It was well executed enough to trick your regular view I'm sure, but it did not stand up to scrutiny, and you better believe the FAA was going to scrutinize.
I have found AWS services not to be maintenance free. And I think at least for some services, the required maintenance is greatly overstated. Especially in the age of pre-built containers where updating can literally consist of changing the version tag.
Short duration of sleep increases risk of colorectal adenoma
And < and > increase and decrease playback speed, for what that's worth
Apple sells ads.

https://searchads.apple.com/
I just use zram for this usecase.
Considering every first world country is about to drop the hammer on Google's core business practices, and pretty much outlaw them entirely, expect this to end very, very abruptly.

If the US passes either or both of their laws with strong bipartisan support, or the EU gets the DMA into effect, a lot of Google's core businesses will be open for real competition for the first time in a decade.
Managing mental health while running a startup
What follows is a generalisation from the Australian experience (my experience - I'm a child of first gen migrants i.e. a 2nd generation Australian). For the first generation and some of the second generation this is true. Migrants often don't know the language, and don't have pre-existing connections in the community, so they tend to cluster in areas where there are more people like them (often cheaper places to live). Working, they are more likely to work for other migrants, prolonging the "bubble" and deferring the need to integrate. This generation tends to live productive if somewhat fearful lives - "look at those locals with their degenerate customs!", "They don't like us!", "Be careful! Don't trust them! They'll take advantage!". These attitudes are of course almost exact mirrors of what the locals thing about the migrants. Attitudes primarily born of ignorance and lack of first-hand experience with the "other".

The second generation - children of first gen migrants - go to school, the local language is the one they're more proficient with. Perhaps its true that this generation feels the weight of anti-immigrant feeling more than any other. Mainly because inside, they don't feel that different. They grew up here, went to school here, understand the local culture. They straddle a cultural divide. They bear the weight of anti-immigrant feeling as well as the parental expectations to stay within their original cultural norms. This is rarely achievable. This generation often achieves well due to the over-emphasis on "Get an education! We never had the chance! You have opportunity! Don't squander it!" They feel the burden to do better than their folks very acutely. For those that can't achieve academically, or in business, or in sport - they are easy prey for ethnically aligned gangs. They can "retreat" into their origin culture and use anti-immigrant sentiment to justify bad behaviour.

By the third generation (e.g. my kids), a lot of the anti-immigrant feeling has moved on... to the new groups of migrants. My parents came from Southern Europe to Australia in the 60s. They were the "wogs" and "dagos" of the era. I remember being told in primary school to "go back where you came from!", which confused the hell out of me because I was born in Australia. Now, people from my ethnic origins are considered part of the wallpaper here. No one thinks of them as anything other than Australian (ok, maybe a handful of hardcore racists). In the 70s, the southern Europeans were replaced as the anti-immigrant bogeyman by the Vietnamese. Then the Lebanese. Then the Somalis. Then the Syrians. With each wave, the crime wave moves to a new group. Within a generation (or at most 2), any such spikes have dissipated.
I would normally agree with you but I feel like there’s a moral issue with what is essentially monetizing criminal activity. At a minimum, it should be demonetized and YouTube shouldn’t show any ads either.
Open source contributions I think.
Is there data on this though? I'm against the out of control car culture in the US, but cars have generally gotten safer for both drivers and bystanders, right? Yes a giant SUV is bad for pedestrians, but so was a rigid metal box like cars used to be. And drinking and driving is more socially unacceptable than ever.
You're only listing consumer product tech. There are other tech industries out there with plenty of room to make money.

Also question: Why would high interest rates expose Uber etc?
You can ask your DOT to close the street in front of the school, but, at least where I live, even if they are supportive it is likely that your child will be out of school before something actually happens. Increasing the density of an area also takes years or even decades.
Go will use pdqsort in next release
In FAANG sure but Tesla also qualifies.
Streaming is a funny one. I was led, as I'm sure others were, to think of streaming as new media vs. old media. The talk around the recent stock dip made me find out it wasn't the case. Now there's Disney+, Peacock, etc., and it turns out the old media's pretty good at streaming. We might not see any businesses solely based around streaming in the future.
I've used lpsolve [1] for over 20 years in various projects in the beginning. When the project momentum picks up and the finances can be justified, it's CPLEX.

lpsolve is simple to use. Open source, with packages in most every language. Easy to embed.

CPLEX because it's fast. With CPLEX I often find it takes more time (1 - 2 orders of magnitude) to formulate/construct the problem than it does for CPLEX to actually solve it.

I would love to get the chance to use Gurobi.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/lpsolve/
This is not the answer about the PWA, but WOW, thank you.

I put in some serious numbers and it looks great. Now I'm a bit concerned for the last 3 years of my life, lol

I will definitely want the "tax adjustment" feature, I'm very happy you provided the "lifetime" option.

Do you have a "plan" in case everything goes wrong and you don't have enough funds? I wouldn't want to lose all the planning.
That being said, the software is incredibly good, I don't expect that to be a thing.
> This is cool. Reminds me.. I have always liked the idea of opening a cafe (who hasn't !?) but I'd struggle with the modern behaviour of peeps sitting for hours taking up a plug

You'd have done well in Budapest at one time [0].

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_235-hSeKFI
We use OpenStreetMap Routing containers. There's a bit of setup, but it works great!
Did you mean to say they best founders don't treat their investors like employees? This arrangement would be favorable to the investors no?
Sorry to interrupt your delights, but the majority of the digital ad industry already has moved to cost per conversion model. So you're just decreasing conversion rates for those ads, thus advertisers will bid less, pay less per click and spend a roughly same level of amortized cost...
Multiple times, I've performed a multi-hour intestinal cleanse from the Yogic disciplines. And many times there is a mental-emotional release hours later.
"No, having too much power without storage is exactly as bad as not enough."

That makes no sense to me.
US chip output growth a futile exercise, warns TSMC founder
Maybe I'm just a dumb hermit, but still, I frequently think:
Is there real proof the marketing is worth the extra effort?
Adblock is very popular.
Most people seem to want the same things their friends get.
Seems like the best place to get control is the influencers.
But yes, I'm out of touch.
I don't understand SEO much, but the result of that seems much more valuable.
I think there was an article like this recently.
Electric cars are affordable now, assuming electricity is dirt cheap.

Nissan Leaf: $17K after tax incentives, $27K before.

Gas is $5/gallon. You can buy 5400/gallons for the price of an unsubsidized leaf.

Assume a leaf-alike ICE car gets 40 miles per gallon. It will go 216K miles for the unsubsidized retail price of the leaf.

Leaf batteries last at least 100K miles, and cost about $6K.

The purchase cost of the ICE car, and 216K miles of motor oil, engine and exhaust work have to be under $6K ($12K if the leaf batteries need to be swapped twice) or the leaf is cheaper.
If there is less air and there is suddenly a market for air is humanity collectively richer or poorer?

> Official measures of economy are mostly about money moving around.

Agreed.

What I'm trying to say is I'm not worried about the official numbers representing a doomsday scenario.
I interpreted the comment you're replying to such that while the statistics for the serious crimes show a marked decline, parent are not only concerned about those crimes when letting their children walk alone to school and we have poor data about less serious crimes.
I've been using the Tuxedo Pulse 15 for quite some time and I'm happy with it.

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note...
Apple runs an ad network. https://searchads.apple.com/

That aside, all that money could go on non-tech things, or on debt servicing, or be left in the bank, etc.
About midway into the N64 lifecycle a ram expansion card (expansion pack) was released. His modifications sound like they still play on a stock N64 but the expansion pack is needed. This was fairly typical with higher end games made by Rare. Even as a purist, this added detail doesn’t really detract from the outcome of the project to me.
I must disagree. Image concept is just a tool, and it only depends on how you use it. In Smalltalk, you can modify the "base-objects" and assign these changes to your package and export them with the other sources (managed by Git, for example), so there is no difference to JavaScript here. But unlike JavaScript and others, you can use the image for things like saving the system state with a debugger open on a bug that is very rare and hard to reproduce.
Who said writing documentation is boring? A list of guides to make docs fun
I’m patiently waiting for us, the programmers, to discover again server rendered HTML and native desktop GUIs.
I don't think you need anything to expose Uber, I can't believe they still run at all. 20billion in loss and no end in sight, they've failed to create a moat and they've failed to dethrone the taxi industry.
> Now many years later, in US, with my son (~15 soon) I'm still spooked where he goes, we have the tracker (he's okay with it) and track each other in case something happens. I wish I had less available information...

You wish you had less available information? So turn the the tracker off?
>> Every tech company in China is in part owned or supported by the chinese government.

> So it’s exactly like the US.

Here's a bit of news for you.
"China’s Global 500 companies are bigger than ever—and mostly state-owned" - Fortune
https://fortune.com/2015/07/22/china-global-500-government-o...

Here's top 500 companies in USA. Do you know how many of them are state owned? I think that number is zero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies

Are chinese tech companies really state owned? Well they're mostly funded by the government based on this news article (venture capital), so they're at least in part state owned.
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/technology/in-china-tech-is...

"An executive at a Chinese search engine recently summed up the new dynamic: We're entering an era in which we'll be fused together. It might be that there will be a request to establish a Party committee within your company, or that you should let state investors take a stake, you know, as a form of mixed ownership. If you think clearly about this, you really can resonate together with the state."

Us government spending and support compared to these effort is miniscule. Yes, they have some green energy initiatives (e.g. Tesla, Solar City benefited from those). But in the big scheme of things, us public investment in tech is about zero.

Learn some capitalism, my friend :) Remember Chinese (state owned and controlled) capitalism isn't what we call capitalism around here. Chinese capitalism is a bit like "chinese democracy". Not quite the real thing :)

>> China: aiming to invade Taiwan

> China hasn’t invaded anyone for decades. US had.

Not every invasion is wrong. The world needs a police, otherwise bad guys create chaos. China? They think Taiwan belongs to them. Which is crazy if you ask 26M Taiwanese.
Whonix support for QubesOS 4.0 has ended ( upgrade to 4.1)
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Also in in such an environment (real world not interview) you almost always have constraints on your data and/or requirements that allow you to write something faster or smaller (depending on your needs) that can beat the standard implementation because it doesn’t have to handle corner cases (or as this post shows, some major cases as well).
Part of the problem, and perhaps the main justification for swapping today, are all the programs which run infrequently but don't use the OS features to get themselves started on demand or periodically. On Linux, do "ps axl"; on Windows, use Task Manager. Look at all that stuff.

There has to be some way to evict those memory hogs.