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In principle, you could indeed - even with the current FLAC container - have a single FLAC file in combination with a cue sheet. But I wanted more than this:

1. Something that is based on what people do already (e.g when you download an album from Bandcamp, you get a Zip)

2. Proper booklet support

3. Support for lossy albums (Opus)

4. An easy way to get to the individual tracks (most OS can open Zip files without additional software)

So in the end, having everything zipped up seemed the most straight-forward approach.

Concerning album-level metadata, all information is currently only inside the Zip file. In theory metadata could be attached to the Zip (I think you can add comments at the beginning of a Zip file without breaking the format). Could you elaborate what would be the added benefit of additional metadata?
Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL (2018)
I don't say that.

I only argue about wrong crypto bro arguments.

Feel free to invest in whatever you want but in these discussions cryptobros argue from crypto is the future and is better than fiat.

Be aware though about the energy consumption of BTC. The GPU shortage and Asics garbage it creates.

I would have loved to buy an rtx GPU over people gambling on the side.
That would actually be pretty cool. Too bad government software has a tendency to come out shitty and expensive.
This was my experience last year when I wanted to find a locksmith. EVERY result on GMaps that was shown as being in my city was, in fact, some centralized company that seemed to contract out to guys working out of their cars. Every one took my name and said they'd get back to me (which they did).

This is certainly a problem with the locksmith companies, but I think there's also a Maps problem, too: Google enables this kind of commerce, especially businesses that apparently have a physical location but explicitly stated on the phone that I can't stop by there. It reminded me of all of the thousands of Delaware corps housed in a single building.

If Google made it so that you're only listed on the map if you actually have a physical commerce location, that would help a lot -- at least for those kinds of businesses that need it. Towing companies and the like may be an exception?
> If they're anything like me, they do this because not doing it is a 1% - 4% increase in cost.

Yep, I have 3% cash back so I put every bill I can on my credit card, even if there's a fixed fee (usually $2-3) on it. I earn about $30-60/month that goes straight to savings.
I mean, you can also hit up the Shell website and read all about how good they are for the environment, driving the transition to clean energy etc.
Search is objectively worse today than it used to be, it's not just that "it's harder to use for old people", it's just worse.
How many apples does that land get to market if no one is working on it?
French IT meltdown sparks chaos on Eurostar
Selling the search result slots is just Overture all over again.
The way Rust epochs work requires a compiler that is fully aware of all existing epochs, and goes through all the code applying the epoch semantics the crate expect on their build definition.

Also epochs can't introduce backwards incompatible semantics that break across epochs, imagine a crate exporting something whose representation at runtime changes between epochs and is used as parameter in some callback implementated in that epoch.
Container instances are pretty good really, the app service for containers is pretty good too. I’ve been playing with k8s because that’s what everyone thinks they want and need to be able to speak to it, and use it when the time comes, but I’ve yet to run into a case where I really thought it was necessary, for the platform I work on (millions of users, big number of transactions per second).
I believe this is the name of the parent company behind the Luna cryptocurrency.
I think we used a combination of WeddingWire and Google sheets for us. I know we had a sheet with a column for each day and what needed to be done that day, and another sheet that kept track of contacts and addresses and RSVPs and whether we sent thank you cards or not, etc.

Doing everything for a wedding is already hard enough. You don't want to fight your tech at the same time. At least I didn't.
Terraform Labs was behind Terra USD stable coin which collapsed recently. It is run by South Korean crypto-entrepreneur Do Kwon.

It would be interesting to see if Do Know emerges from this ultra rich as I suspect he was able to redirect some of his earnings (or should I call them winnings) out of the Terra USD stable coin and into other holdings.
While I wasn't aware other countries didn't do the automatic withholding … seems like you can (and should) still do that yourself. You know you're going to have a tax liability. But even then, in the event that I had forgotten, the few RSU awards I've gotten amount to "nice bonus" amounts. The tax liability would be easily covered by normal salary/bank account.

And, after vesting, I've always considered any RSU then just … a normal stock. You have to decide whether you believe enough in the company to continue holding it, or if it'd be better off turned into cash &, if you want investments, then just mixing the cash into whatever you normally put your money into.

> Multiply that by 1,000 to [$1M of RSU awards] and you get into difficult decision territory quickly.

I am still on Duck Tales, Larry.
Georgists have studied the mechanism by which land captures the value of labour quite extensively and many of them even predicted this trend. The solution to land capturing excess amounts of labour is to reduce total labour capture by taxing land instead of labour.
Part of the problem is, I think, many searches strongly benefit from up to date content- programming tools, fashion, celebrities, things to do in X area, etc.

It seems that Google has decided that most people want the most updated information when they look for something, which I don't think is entirely unreasonable.

What I would love, however, is a way to turn that off for particular searches. Researching past events, as a trivial example, benefits far more from exact results rather than most recent tangentially related blogspam.
I understand this comment comes from a good place but it falls into the same bucket as "well they can just sue" for me.

As-in, sure, technically they could do all of that but some people just want to work and not take on a huge fight that they themselves may not survive. I'm very pro-union but organizing one sounds miserable and thankless. I want to create software, not herd cats and I assume most people feel the same way. I have huge respect for union organizers and would support them but it's not a simple thing.

These people wanted to do their therapist jobs and they asked for the bare minimum and it was rejected (and the were effectively fired for it), I think that tells you how management would react to a union-effort. You might have legal protection but legal protection doesn't put food on the table.
From a pure "what we've budgeted" standpoint you're likely correct. But that budget included paying their CEO several million in salary, and several more million in bonus structure. Not to mention other executives who were making relatively similar pay. This wasn't some big company either. They had 12 facilities in the state, and each maybe had 50 employees. So at the most, including corporate, they had just north of 600 employees.

For these small market healthcare-focused companies (not really hospitals, not really clinics) they're always barely making money. But it's not because they aren't bringing money in. It's because they're incredibly poorly managed. They're super top heavy, and they always pay frontline staff like shit. It's why we saw the incredible rise of the traveling nurse in the past 10 years (and especially during covid), where nurses could make 5x traveling than what they could with a typical FTE job.

You tell me why a facility would rather pay a traveling nurse the equivalent of $300k per year + fees to the placement company for 12 months instead of hiring an FTE at slightly above market rate, which is more like $100-$120k? It's because they have zero ability to make long term decisions and middle management is completely powerless. Managers in these types of business are 100% middle men. They have no autonomy to do anything. Even hiring and firing takes several layers of corporate oversight.
I'll be the odd man out and say he's right. Communication is hard enough to do effectively, let alone over remote work.

The only formula that seems to work: relationships were developed in person then moved to remote. But unfortunately this makes it impossible to onboard anyone. Furthermore getting this to work at scale still seems to be a challenge.

His presentation style... definitely cold and brusk. Wouldn't be my approach
An economist Michael Hudson talks about this a lot as "industrial policy" and includes what we think of Socialist welfare benefits in the calculation.

Housing shortage is one part of the equation that drives up worker's demands for wages, but so is having to pay for healthcare, fund their own retirement, the burdens of childrearing, and education.

His point is that by socializing those costs, companies can pay their workers less, which leads to a cheaper cost of goods sold, and more competitive exports.

Fascinating take that would probably never have occurred to me.
Google won because they started early and had the right algorithm. Back in 1998, Google's PageRank was an innovative algorithm that calculated relevance based on counting backlinks instead of parsing the word counts in embedded HTML text like other search engines. This made Google way better than any other available search engine back then (Lycos, Yahoo, AltaVista, etc.), and within weeks, everyone was switching to Google.

A successful Google competitor just needs to be way better than what’s currently available. Nobody seems to have the next big idea for a better search engine yet.
Put aside money every month now as a "car payment" and buy your next car in cash. Save yourself the interest and still have a plan if a vehicle gets lost.
Yeah I understand but I disagree.

If you race a skilled Rust team against an equally skilled C++ team to build some big complicated fast software, the Rust team would likely ship first, and with less bugs.

The C++ team will eventually ship too, but it will take much longer. The software will also be of high quality, and very slightly superior performance, but there will be a couple of memory leaks, maybe a couple of exploits, and possibly a tricky segfault, somewhere down the line. Maintaining the C++ team’s software without introducing further issues will require superhuman intelligence, so it won’t happen - there will increasing issues as the team turns over and the detailed understanding of the code is lost over time.

The Rust team will mostly suffer from frustration about how bad async is, go down the rabbit hole of using it, and then rip it out and replace it with hand-rolled state machines and epoll. Down the line at some point, future programmers will decide this is legacy garbage and replace it all with async again.

There will be no segfault or memory exploits, and a similar number of logic bugs to the c++ team.

I say this having worked on large C++ projects and large Rust projects, and with no particular religious love for Rust other than a grateful appreciation for the compiler.
Is it so hard to imagine that people who are home, surrounded by a spouse/so, perhaps children, entertainment systems, a fridge, a bed, no one looking at their monitor, etc... aren't on average more distracted?

I certainly am. We are only human.
And, I believe, Thunderbolt uses DisplayPort as a video transport over USB-C. Nested protocols.
For many people, a nice vehicle is 'the thing' they've always wanted. Many people I know seem to spend as much as they can afford on a vehicle, it's part of the personality somehow.

On the one hand, I can't really identify on spending so much money on something with so little utility. On the other hand, why are we making all this money if not to spend it on the things we desire?

Before the world shut down, I was spending between $5-$10k per year on travel, but I have no vehicle payments and that represents (a good bit) less than 10% of my annual income.

The problems really on start when you want to do both. If you need to have a new vehicle and travel, and whatever else, you're going to over extend.
Elon Musk a few months from now "There is a labour shortage and nobody wants to work".
Crazy. Then again, perhaps it would be worse for the economy if people hoarded their money. Perhaps better to be a saver in an economy of spenders than to be spender in an economy of savers?
That’s fair, for example I couldn’t manage to run clustered Redis. Something with EFS file system that Fargate nodes use.
Are you logged in? Google works best when search history is enabled. Just saying.
I strongly disagree that there's a startup opportunity in Google's relatively poor search performance.

Obsessive programmers like myself really want a search engine that does better and helps us find the weird corners of the web.

Most people do not care. They can type a question into Google and get an answer, and that's all they're looking for.
Only 2% of households make over $250k per year. So it's .67% of the overall population.
Draft horses and oxen eat grass too. Since we were talking tractors I figured you meant animals to do both.

Sadly, I really don't know how many grazers you need to keep an acre of field from getting overgrown. Grass doesn't really grow during the winter though, so you'll need to have some way to feed them then. Also overfeeding is a concern. A buddy of mine has had a horse get obese from eating too much grass.
Or you could give them a cash signing bonus enough that after a year with you they'll no longer feel economically precarious and just... own that they may be a bit flaky forever after.

I had really hoped to be hired in at Mozilla when I interned, since unlike many other companies, they paid a relativey decent wage then pay out cash rather than only give stock in "The Company" (then extort you over 2 to five years to break the internet and or the law, as your rent goes from an excessive 1500ish USD when I was last spending the summer in Frisco, to more like 4500 for a similar sized studio like I'd been looking into today.)

That combined with folks who know words like "schadenfreude" or "Neue Deutsche Härte" but not "cash for keys" or "duty to mitigate loss" can really grind the gears of folks who don't have the resources nor inclination to let neoliberals or worse "save face".
For a man that has been investigated by the SEC for tanking his own companies stock price with a few tweets, it's hard to imaging someone accusing him of having ulterior motives for the sole purpose of increasing his wealth. I certainly don't know him personally, but outward evidence would suggest to me that your comments implications are without merit.
I was significantly more distracted and less productive in an office. It's the same with everyone I've spoken to, in tech or not.

And with all the side effects, particularly the crazy energy use to move people around needlessly, it's such a net positive for society to just embrace remote work.

I'm going to guess that, as an employer, you're doing something massively wrong to not be able to to trade 2 extra hours saved by the commute into at least equal productivity. Unless the work requires in-person & physical collaboration for a very specific reason, you're doing something wrong.
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I have a simple definition. "Rich" == doesn’t have to work for money. "Poor" == must work for money. Having said that, congratulations on your worry-free life! I’m not there yet but I’m focused on that goal, hopefully will reach it before I’m too old :)
I was not talking about tesla, i was talking about working 60 hours in a risky environment, but hey why not work 120? Or better, sleep in the factory eat there and pay for it?

>My parents worked at Honda in Ohio and often worked more than 40 hours/week because they would get paid overtime.

Yes that's normal, sometimes you have to do overtime, but 60 hours at a regular basis is something else.
Where does a doctor’s stethoscope fit in? Other examples: Mechanic’s stethoscope for diagnosing an engine, airplane vibrations to foretell maintenance, bump oscillations to grade quality of a roadway.
Yeah, it is a premature optimization issue. Everyone is starting to implement scaling solutions before they have scaling problems.
I did mean Manhattan, sorry, I should have clarified.

Even still though, let's assume you're paying somewhere around $900/month, that's a pretty tight budget for someone making $15/hour, especially if the employer isn't giving you enough shifts to qualify for "full time". My brother in law worked at Taco Bell when he was living in NYC, and they never gave him more than 29 hours, because they were afraid of having to pay real benefits. Fortunately for him he was able to stay with us and I have a yuppie engineering job and a spare bedroom, but I can't imagine what people who have kids working at $15/hour actually do.
The "current establishment" of the US comprises two major political parties that switch control back and forth (and sometimes control different parts of the US government simultaneously, as seems likely will occur in 2023.) I see no evidence that Musk is picking a fight with both parties, just the one that is currently disfavored to retain control in the next Congressional elections.
The title is very misleading.

When I read "the Lightning" I think of the open-source Lightning Network.

https://lightning.network/

It turns out that this is about a sports club...
Maybe your subjective opinion about the working conditions is not universally held. Recruitment data would remove individual bias in favor of the collective bias of the actual workers, which is what's most important in my opinion
I hear you about feeling dumb. I think some early decisions in the k8s ecosystem led to a lot of wasted time and effort, and this frustration.

YAML: significant whitespace is always unwelcome but YAML also introduces unexpected problems, like how it deals with booleans. For example, say you have this array:

foo:
- x
- y
- z

You might think this is an array of strings, but you'd be wrong.

It's also difficult to read through a YAML config and understand the parent of each key, especially in code reviews or just on GH.

I believe k8s life would have been easier with JSON configs, where it's impossible to confuse e.g. booleans for strings and where it's easier to understand the object's hierarchy.

Helm's use of gotpl: this choice exacerbates the problems with YAML. Now you're treating a structured language with a text template library. You have to spend energy thinking about indentation levels and how the values will be interpreted by both the templater and k8s.

I think helm would be less frustrating if they chose some templating library that made objects first class citizens. Where you can inject values at specific locations with one-liners or simple blocks of code (e.g. `ingress.spec.rules[0].append(yadda yadda)`)

I'm sure there was debate about these choices early on and I don't have any unique ideas here, so I don't want to be too critical. These are just a couple of pain points I've personally experienced.
If there's one cohort that has gotten the shaft is Gen X.

Millennials conflate them with boomers and, quite often, blame them along with Boomers.

Yet, very few of Gen Xers got all the perks of being a boomer such as a affordable education and housing on one income. Especially the ones born in the early late '70s.

And, too old to get to enjoy conveniences that millennials got that made childhood fun like Saturday morning cartoons or Nintendo (remember that gaming used to be mainly for kids. It wasn't until late '90s that gaming was targeted at young adults)

Pure fucking middle child syndrome.

But they made some kick ass music in the '90s.
Thats how it is in most salaried jobs in FAANMG.
> There was a reason for the office. As an employer I can tell you most workers are not able to focus or properly contribute remotely.

Can you share what method you used to determine this? Has productivity dropped in a measurable way or is it something like the duration between when you send a Slack message and when they respond?
There are wedding planning apps/websites out there. WeddingWire and Zola are the two big ones from when we were planning our wedding 3 years ago.

https://welcome.zola.com/

https://www.weddingwire.com/
I think OP is referring to how Musk acts like a drug addict. Because he does.
One could pose this as an adversarial game. For the simplistic case consider two participants -- (i) the ranker that chooses a ranking scheme (we need to constrain the space of ranking schemes somehow for this to lead to any useful formulation), (ii) web page who tries to outrank other pages by strategically linking to other pages, and possibly buying links to itself from other pages. One can give (ii) a budget to add and delete links and pages that it can control. In this framework one then try to compute what's an equilibrium strategy. The multiplayer version is a lot more complicated.

If you check my original comment, I gave a simple scheme to attack HITS rank. The main drawback is that one can 'harvest' Authority score using 'out-links'. Outlinks are cheap and easy, compared to 'inlinks'. Sybil attack is a little harder for Pagerank.
NYC's plan for public internet paused under Mayor Adams
The best way to deal with this is to add savings-creep too.

There is no reason why you can't enjoy things if you make more money, but increase your savings and investing rate by an equal or greater % as your salary goes up.

If you do not have a savings or investing rate, the next time your salary goes up, if you think it will, take 50% of that and put it into savings and investments. Treat your salary increase as a 50% increase.
Musk risked everything? That's new. If I am not mistaken, daddy wasn't exactly poor...
The twenty-minute commute isn't a luxury good, but buying the single-family house would be if a condo, townhouse, or rental would serve the same function.
I've spent 20 years working in dynamically typed languages and I've never needed to spend that much time understanding the types of functions.

90% of the time the types are simply an extension of the database and enforced strictly at the database layer while everything else is just data pass through anyway (in Ruby, Python, PHP, etc). You understand the database, you understand the application data.

With Elixir you get so much added clarity just from pattern matching and guards that you end up with a Strongly typed code base, just not Statically typed. For an application backed by a relational DB, strong typing is more than enough for almost every use case I've ever come across.

Now, if there's a lot of data work happening inside the application that's not a direct extension of a database then the value of static typing goes up significantly.

I really think it's just one of those areas where people come at problems differently. Some people love it and swear by it. For those people, I think the lack of static typing causes a real gap in their entire approach to programming which translates to frustration and seeing a lot of "this wouldn't have been a problem with static typing..." experiences.

For the people used to dynamic typing, static typing adds a lot of unnecessary complications and headaches without much benefit. Suddenly you have to ensure your types are in sync with your database at all times. You have to enforce them at many different locations in your code base. You've got to define a lot more structure just to translate arguments from web forms, APIs, JSON, etc. If all that overhead saves your bacon later, great...but for a lot of people used to dynamic typing the benefits just haven't been there to outweigh the negative tradeoffs.