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GP brought up a thing that’s certainly not equally represented in all languages. There are physical limitations for reading, and the amount of novel context you can juggle.

There is a balance between verbosity and conciseness that makes code more or less readable to different people.

If you have few experts who are maintaining a codebase over a longer time, then verbosity gets in the way. If you have a wider skill distribution and fast turnover, then you want verbosity.

Additionally I think there are more objective features. Like ambiguity, simplicity, formatting, naming, visual hierarchy...
I haven't used Thunar, but I wrote a GTK+-based file manager that was fairly popular Way Back When (late 90s, early 00s perhaps) called "gentoo".

Congratulations for landing a GSoC gig of course, that must be awesome. A project I worked on ages ago almost tried to apply, but all we got was the t-shirt. :)

My take on the ideas:

Undo/Redo sounds like a lot of work, at least if it is going to be integrated well and supported for many operations. Again I don't know Thunar, but I guess you're going to have to figure out if there is a command abstraction internally, and start storing a log of executed commands so that undo can compute the reverse action. I guess some commands ("delete" comes to mind) are really hard to undo without rather intricate changes such as inventing a trashcan and moving things there, and so on. It seems clever to start with this, it's a real heavy-weight.

File counts for folders sounds strange; if there's a size column I would of course assume it to show size for folders too, not a completely different thing like the number of contained objects. In gentoo there is an explicit command ("GetSize", if I remember correctly) that recursively computes the size of a directory, and replaces the on-disk inode-level size of the directory with that. It's explicit since it takes time (gentoo is not multi-threaded or async, so it will block) but on modern disks it will be very fast.

Picture-specific view sounds like a great idea, especially if it's possible to integrate it well so you don't have to re-implement a lot to get access to basic file management commands for that view.
Monkeypox is new global threat. African scientists know what world is up against
At least he doesn't have to do much, most of engineering is probably leaving.
Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism and Localness
I use Pocketsmith for their automated bank feeds, but I'm thinking of moving as they don't support the bank I have my mortgage with, leading to periodic statement imports.
If there's one thing that most economists generally agree on (a rare occurence), it is that resources are better allocated through a market economy than through central planning. It is my understanding that they do that with water, your example, because it is free public utility which is not subject to market forces. Government is generally not involved in the allocation of resources.
Don't forget to count in the carbon footprint of the physical printing presses all over the world, the cost of disposing the old bills, the fuel needed to transport all those bills every single day, and all the resources associated with building and maintaining that giant infrastructure we take for granted nowadays. I'd also add the cost of waging wars that are made possible by the inflationary policies of the central banks.
Nonlinear two-level dynamics of quantum time crystals – Nature Communications
I honestly felt that this is where Sears dropped the ball. If any company should have had the "DNA" to compete with Amazon, it should have been Sears. Which basically owned the catalog/mail order space before the internet.

They could have leveraged their large stores to be showrooms / distribution hubs (that they mostly already owned, which is why the private equity people were so interested in them, due to their real estate holdings). You visit a sears, you see what you want, you order it and in a couple of days you come back to pick it up. Their logistics pricing should be cheaper than what amazon could have done (as they are skipping last mile), and for many consumers it wouldn't have made much of a difference (the sears that was local to me growing up was in the same general shopping center as the groccery store we generally went to, so we were regularly there).

Of course they did try to do "in store pickup", but this was when they were dying already and the experience was pretty terrible (i still used it a bunch back in the day as at one point they were basically paying us to shop at sears via the amount of free shop your way points they were giving out).
Improved workflow and new role for pricing changes
No I think we can look at simplicity/complexity absolutely to some degree.

A compiler is a nice pure function - one array of bytes to another array of bytes. You need to use some algorithms and data structures in there to do that, but it's fundamentally simple.

A web app is fundamentally complex - asynchronicity, interacting with other services, network connections, all kinds of chaos.
maybe

but also independent labels have much less negotiating power and human power to check for infringements or unauthorized reproduction, let alone legal authority.

All in all a good deal for them it's peanuts for a mainstream label.

(I have co-founded a small independent label)
I used to do it by hand with a spreadsheet I built, but after finding a few bugs in my spreadsheet and getting tired of manually managing things, I switched to YNAB.

The risk there is that they use Plaid on the backend.
Simplicity in workflows and metadata, writing everything down in tickets, time tracking. All the things that SWEs will never want to do because it would be so much better if there was more automation. IMHE Jira has always failed because of SWEs wanting to make it more complex and then complain about how complex it is. In a past role I ended up having to remove all the project tracking systems and interview Dev leads every week because they over complicated things beyond the point of comprehension.
It's not the only way, but if you do the tradeoff of going with manual memory management, then you should accept what the tradeoff entails. Essential complexity is non-reducible -- you either manage it automatically through a GC or choose a model that while let you ignore it quite often, will make you think about it in the end.
I think it goes both ways here. It's not like Amazon was refunding fuel receipts before lock down. And when you are making 6 figures, maybe you can consider those couple of hundred dollars already included in your pay check.

All I see are stingy engineers making sure we can't have nice things, such as work from home.
The point I'm trying to make is that if there would be drinking water shortage in LA and the government wouldn't subsidize agriculture, almond production in California would probably get bankrupt, the farmers would move to another state that is more suitable for water intensitive farming, and the market would just solve the issue. Regulations can be beneficial, but harmful as well.

In the current case gas prices are high anyways, and Bitcoin miners are dynamic resources in containers that can move easily, so I guess they will just create another wave of demand for solar panel + battery pack installations (just like Blockstream did with Tesla solar+batteries, and what's going on in Texas in the last few years with solar overprovisioning). I'm in favor of this law, just not the title.
In my experience that is more a commentary on how bad the workplace is than the workers.
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If Amazon is such a terrible place how do they manage to hire many people? Are all the other places more terrible?
> And, of course, taxing fuel is FAR easier than trying to accurately measure the carbon in the jet blast at every stage of a flight.

Right, but that's exactly why we're not doing it... Anything that's actually effective would eat into profits too much and upset the people that the lobbyists and lawmakers work for.
I don't consider it an ideological pitch, but who am I to characterise my own words?
I'm not sure this is true universally. I just spoke to a friend for the first time since I got a phone that does "HD" calling, and although I've been speaking to them for 25 years on the phone, I didn't recognize their voice. I feel like POTS and edge->3g calling made me miss out on a lot of detail and intonation. I'm just glad I get to experience this call quality with non-technically inclined friends before I go completely deaf.

I use a lot of voip services and there's something to be said for the phone companies actually making a competitive product, here.

I suppose one could argue that "HD calling" is technically just VoIP as well.
Writing WebAssembly Code by Hand
>Invent a class of legally informed people who can be paid to think about such things and gather experience in it over time.

lawyers are legally informed people who are taught how to convince a judge about how the facts explain a certain fact. the judge has to accept the reasoning of one lawyer or the other so the judge needs to be equal to both.
Drivel, meaning there is other stuff out there that even YOU may find to be better, but you will never hear it because of the platform and ITS priorities.

A feature for the platform and a select few artists, but not a feature for the listener.

Elitism isn’t the issue here. Limited access outside of funnels is
> Nothing but pain. As much as I appreciate the severance, the damage being done here is immense.

Harsh, but that is what happens when you lie with dogs: you tend to get fleas.

With that said, you're better off not going there and can now use the severance as run way for your next role.

Let this be a lesson, anyone wanting to deal with CONbase this the type of standard they have, and their customer/userbase has been leaving in droves for a reason.

Their IPO was probably the last gasp of that rotting corpse.
I love the idea, living in Europe I had the opportunity to squat in my younger years and the fun of living with others while having the opportunity to transform the house we lived in was extremely empowering... have you ever heard of Hundertwasser , his houses seem similarly exciting ...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedensreich_Hundertwasser

Ic.org is a good place to visit to see what exists and you could emulate, it was started from a community called Twin Oaks that has quite a radical approach :-) I learnt about it from a book called "Is it Utopia yet" picked up in of all places Nuremberg... honestly agricultural land is cheap (2k a hectare) in non productive places and vegetable gardening or just plain planting stuff for lols like from "plants from a future" (pfaf.org) interspersed with a couple of weed plants should cover expenses... strawbale housing, adobe or trailer parks are much cheaper options at least initially...
Gas made from compost, shit or wood chippings is a great alternative...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compost_heater
The targeted normally implies that you have a specific incident and a specific person suspected of a misdeed. Building an AI for blanked surveillance is the opposite of that, you aren't looking for a specific incident, have no specific person to suspect. You are basically accusing everyone of being a criminal without any evidence of wrongdoing. Most people don't want to spend their whole lives treated as criminals, anyone who does is free to live in north korea or russia.
Oh FFS. Fine, if the fanboys demand it I'll do a personal use comparison.

What do you do in your Accord? You commute in it, or something along those lines, and that's probably about it. How much back seat wear is it getting? You got kids fighting back there? Do you stick your new dryer on the roof or do you pay the $20 for delivery? Your peers probably answer those questions about the same way. Meanwhile, several tax brackets down things are way different. Some single mom's four kids are doing their best impression of UFC in the back of her '09 CVT Altima, no wonder the seat is ripped, the floor contains a dozen types of dried soft drink syrup and the "window lock" switch is worn out by 100k. The differences only get wider as you start considering vehicles that are sold as having a lot of utility (wagons, SUVs, minivans), at the lower price tiers people size these vehicles to be just barely enough for what they want to do. At the high end people are buy way more vehicle than they need.

Let's even remove brand from the equation. How many grand Marquis do you see on the road these days? Probably 2 for every non-cop and non-ex-cop Crown Vic you see. Do you think that is in any way representative of the sales numbers when those things were rolling off the line back in the day? Of course not. Vics out-sold Grand Marquis and Town Cars by a wide margin. But a greater fraction of 'Vic buyers rode them hard and put them away wet with the intention of getting something else around 100-200k. The older, wealthier Grand Marquis buyers did the maintenance on schedule and kept them in good order so they lasted longer.

A key mechanism of "lasting longer" is price. People have different expectations and give different treatment to a car depending on price. So you trade in your Accord or whatever, it's in great shape. It goes on the used car lot for a lot of $$. So that ensures the the statistical next buyer is more well off, expecting it to last longer and therefore more willing to care for it. Meanwhile the guy that buys the Altima from the above example pays pennies for it and is expecting it to go maybe 50k before needing something big at which point he intends to dump it. So he's not gonna fix that window lock switch. He's gonna have no qualms about letting his dog f-up the already torn back seat. He's also gonna skip the transmission fluid changes and air filter and generally neglect the car because there's no reason not to if you intend on dumping it in short order.

You can run the same comparison on '00s Impalas and the Buick equivalent (both generally regarded as supremely reliable cars). The Impalas got beat and thrown away. The Buicks are still around (proportionally).

You don't think Ford, or GM, or whoever, makes reliable models for the same reason you'd never consider buying a house anywhere other than a good school district. It's a self-reinforcing expectation foisted upon you by the kind of people you surround yourself with.
I don't know what the wage range for these roles is, but at the company where I was, they weren't.

They were fantastic wages for southeast Asia, and competitive wages in parts of Europe and South America, but were solidly 30%+ below our competitors who were also based in the U.S., never mind that the wages were so stagnant retail jobs became competitive with us after awhile.
They can be washed by hands, like billions of people still do in the 3rd world. But that's a sacrifice most western environmentally-conscious folks aren't willing to make.
Exactly. Even very experienced people will be easily misled to believe something is performance-sensitive -- computers are ridiculously fast. Like honestly, if it is not a tight loop chances are it seriously doesn't matter what you do. Remember, we write plenty of shell scripts that literally spawn a new process for almost every line, and yet they feel instantaneous.
The usecases are related but difference -- these are block storage solutions, not filesystem level solutions. Some technologies work on multiple levels (Ceph), but others do not.
I have never dabbled with constraining the parameter values themselves. Ive mostly put the constraints into the loss function. This works well when working with regression, a super simple constraint that adds penalty when the regression goes outside of the possible solution space has been extremely helpful in our work. Heuristically, I think it’s more useful during the first few iterations to find the correct local minima. If you were already finding the “correct” local minima this might be less important, but if you’ve ever dealt with convolutional artifacts (boxes, lines, edge effects) in your predictions, well informed constraints tend to help avoid these, as they are a symptom of being in an incorrect local minima.
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> no actual reason

You don't know what they're doing and can't know updates are and will stay benign. Anyone signing an NDA that uses it is irresponsible/negligent, unless it is a controlled security exception (or firewalled in some way - but if it can't connect out half the point of the editor is gone).
Bitcoin is not a payment system. It’s a store of value (like gold) useable to underpin payment systems such as Lightning (like fed wire underpins bank to bank transactions today but more like the gold standard of the past). If Bitcoin were wildly successful and using 1% of energy usage it would probably be displacing enough of the existing financial system to be coming in net ahead as an environmental benefit. In it’s current state it doesn’t justify its environmental footprint largely because as a store of value it fluctuates too much, but it will be interesting to see Lightning and other new tech play out.
> Async support is incredibly half-baked. It was released as an MVP, but that MVP has not improved notably in almost three years.

As the primary mover of the MVP (who stopped working on Rust shortly after it was launched), I'm really sad to see this. I certainly didn't imagine that 3 years later, none of the next steps past the MVP would have even made it into nightly. I don't want to speculate as to why this is.

I also recommend avoiding async if you don't need. Unfortunately for people who don't need it but do want to do a bit of networking, a huge part of the energy behind Rust is in cloud data plane applications, which do need it.
I stopped using Code-OSS and Vscodium after this bug. For the longest time, the "solutions" suggested in that issue tracker were disabling CORS validation.

https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/issues/306
You haven't offered any objective evidence that your viewpoint is correct, which ipso facto implies it's a purely ideologically based statement. To paraphrase an old expression, "you can 'deem' in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first."

Your tone is also similar to that of the stereotypical 14-year old "libertarian/ancap" living in their parents' basement, and your only other comment on this site outside this thread is one from over 6 years ago accusing the Washington Post of publishing fake news. This doesn't affect the truth or validity of what you say, but it doesn't help, either.
It is: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry
And the vibration-isolated floor. And the vacuum thingy. And the hv power supply.
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I think that's just a reflection of how terrible the Euro-vans are in general. in North America they're not held in high regard by anyone other than the highfalutin taxi/airport shuttle/mobility van fleets that buy new and depreciate over the warranty period.

The Transit and the Sprinter (the latter of which has really gone down the tubes since it's '00s peak) might be "good" but that's like being MVP in a junior varsity game. Anyone operating them outside of warranty generally hates them compared to the Ford and Chevy vans they're replacing.
> Coinbase is probably the least shady cryptocurrency company there is.

This is simply not true, from CASH, to Gemini and Kraken (even Binanace) have not had this level of continued 'shadyness.'

Just because they appeal to the lowes common denominator and have a large presence in the US and out doesn't mean they are the least shady by a large extent: I still argue BTC-e was the most honest and upfront exchange which got taken out by the FBI despite operating in an entirely different justification (RU).

With that said, we need to shift to decentralized exchanges: BISQ is where people should be by now.
Julia has this
I don't see how is it bad for branch prediction. Like, if you use the same smallvec object in a loop and do not insert any elements to it (so that it doesn't allocate on the heap) the branch will always turn in the same direction making it easy and cheap to predict. And I would think that in most use-cases your smallvec object will either remain in one state, not changing in-between.
what if they decided to replace "cryptocurrency mining operations that use proof-of-work" with "pornography on the internet" ? or with "non-useful streamers and their platforms" ? What's a good use of energy and what's not ?
I’ve only ever played with constraints in the loss at this point. Would love more time to also deal with constraining the optimization. Do you have any examples that come to mind that worked well when doing this? Thank you for your suggestion!
I think GP wasn't referring to use a groupset with mixed SRAM/Shimano components, though
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What an absurd statement. Next you'll say private property it "immoral".

Open source software is wonderful and I love when companies create and support FOSS. That said, to say it's immoral not to give away the work you produced/paid to produce is ridiculous. You're not taking anyone freedom away by providing proprietary software. As I believe another commenter replied, they're free to not use it or develop the software on their own.

If it's too difficult for them to replicate or for a competing FOSS product to exist, then it probably is complex enough to warrant payment.
I have been way more productive with Rust than with C++.

For instance, I haven't yet had to debug weirdly muting memory, deal with the immense nuanced possibilities of doing the same thing (there's a reason for CPP core guidelines), stuff like the rule of five, writing cross platform cmake files that include various libraries, ...

Not proof for a general statement, but another example from a Rust adaptor