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I do hate the obsolescence - in my case it's 100% the device vendor's fault. Had some great Firewire interfaces, they worked fine in Mojave, but when that went out of support I couldn't keep it back because I use it as a work machine so I really need to keep on top of security updates. (I still do have an install on an external drive for messing about but it's a lot of friction to jump back into that).

As far as I can tell, literally all the vendor would need to do is re-compile the drivers and sign them. But they just say "Sorry, it's end of life so we won't bother". So my perfectly functional hardware doesn't work on any recent Mac OS or Windows versions anymore...
The article mentions he's run into armed groups, but it hasn't posed an issue.

> Not infrequently, Silva said, he has been stopped at checkpoints manned by cartel gunmen. Once, in Durango, cartel members poured into the hotel where he and his crew were staying, guns slung over their shoulders.

> [...] But during each confrontation, Silva described his cross-country run, and the armed men let him continue on. In several cases, gunmen radioed ahead to other checkpoints, telling their comrades to expect a runner entering their territory. Sometimes Silva handed out running shirts to their children.

> “If they know you don’t pose a threat to them,” he said, “they don’t do anything.”
I thought it was just what they called the Prime Number Theorem before it was proved.
> Undo the laws that prevent retailers from driving over the border themselves

It's cheaper elsewhere because those countries have set maximum prices. For instance, in Canada, the Patented Medicines Review Board sets maximum prices for pharmaceuticals.

I don't have any kind of philosophical opposition to importing medicines from Canada, but Canada has a practical objection: if we allowed these imports, it's very likely to cause drug import disruptions in Canada. Thus, Canada has asked the US not to do this. [1]

I think this is very likely a legitimate concern. The US is a much larger market, and a _much_ more lucrative market than Canada, since the US does not fix prices. If the US allowed imports from Canada, it's likely the pharmaceutical industry would stop selling to Canada at the rates set by the PMPRB. The industry would sooner miss-out on 100% of sales to Canada than have their pricing power in the US eroded.

Other than the anomaly of Covid vaccines, Pfizer actually has larger sales in the US than the entire rest of the world put together, which tells you something about how much the US is overpaying.

If the US wants to set maximum prices for drugs, and we have the votes to do that via importation, why in the world can't we just have our own Patented Medicines Review Board, rather than relying on Canada to set policy for the US?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-pharmaceuticals-ex...
World’s first second-hand IKEA store to open in Sweden (2020)
Impressive results. Nice write up
Plenty of people, me included, (males and/or high performance in particular) care more about things than people and will find extremely tiring to talk to people or take care or their kids. Coding doesn't tire me, dealing with kids does.

There are people who have the opposite experience and people who feel ok with both.

This idea that parents should uniquely and equally be caretaker for their kids is absolutely against biological reality for a lot of people; I'm happy to be around my kids for a limited amount of time (and the less they're toddlers the more I can spend with them without going insane) but my main contribution is providing them food, shelter and protection.

My mandated paternity leaves, while being economically advantageous, were an absolute nightmare.
I used basic view for a while, and didn't miss any of the advanced features. What made me stop was the fact it inserts newlines into messages to keep lines below 70 characters. (I guess this is in line with the RFC, but my recipients didn't like it.)
OP says Twitch uses AWS IVS. And IVS says:

> Codecs: Amazon IVS supports H.264 for video and AAC (LC) for audio.
I see people get tech debt wrong. I've heard it called sorts of things. My current team thinks it's easy tasks, 1 pointers. I've seen it called sysadmin work that isn't business focused.

In my opinion tech debt is the result of a choice. Tech debt is the remainder of a solution modulo good enough. You choose to do something you consider less than perfect with the understanding that you're just delaying some of the work until later. That left over work is Tech debt.

For example, we need to implement auth on our web app, but let's hard code the permissions and do RBAC later. That's hard and not really valuable with such a limited feature set. RBAC in your web app is therefore Tech debt.
A layered approach to content blocking
The senior title has no formal definition. Personally I don’t consider anyone with under 10 years of highly diversified experience to be senior. Any senior with less experience under their belt I assume their employer tossed the title at them in lieu of a raise.

The software industry in particular has gotten really lax with titles, to the point that they mean next to nothing.

I get a laugh imagining a kid just a few years out of school explaining to people that they’re a “senior software engineer”. Anyone on the outside would assume they’re either full of shit or some kind of Doogie Howser.
I tried to do it with Toyota and got absolutely nowhere. I talked to dealer after dealer, and they all told me that they couldn't customize a vehicle order. I also couldn't do it on Toyota.com - after I configured a vehicle, all it did was refer me to a dealer who told me that they can't customize anything.
> This likely has everything to do with YouTube using VP9 vs. Twitch using h.264.

There's nothing inherent about VP9 over h.264 that will make it look better. Especially when delivering a downscaled stream (480p when the source is 1080p or 4K) the pre-encode processing (scaling, filtering, etc) is going to matter more than the codec in most cases. Just in downscaling video, a Lanczos filter vs bicubic makes a lot of difference even using the same codec, profile, and bitrate.
As a counterpoint, I have a 2011 MBA that I still use from time to time. It doesn't have half a decade of updates but it does everything that it used to do, just fine. I primarily use it as my no-distraction writing device.
Doctor Dobb's Journal had a cool article once about using Prolog to prescribe medications, in particular avoiding conflicts with other prescriptions. It would have been in the early 2000s. According to the author, they used Prolog to rewrite the app from a tangled mess of nested if statements. After the rewrite, the rules could be managed by pharmacists instead of programmers. It seemed like a good application to me. I studied Prolog in college but have never used it professionally. I keep hearing good things about Datalog, which I know even less about. . . .
Thank you for the thoughtful response.

I agree that they were pretty spot on with the market segmentation. I’m one of the folks who doesn’t need more than a single external monitor, and I consider myself a power user when it comes to resource consumption. I just wish the cost of ram would come down, holy moly.
Very well put.

I think it’s the simplicity of it that is deceptive; the RPi and other alternatives work great in experienced hands. In particular when the user can detect any early sign of an issue or is good enough to quickly diagnose what’s going wrong, fix it in 5 min and forget about it, it looks like a cute trivial little cheap machine that just works fine.

It takes looking at a kid or less experienced users working through a task for 5~10 mon to realize how much the hardware/software has to be flexible and permissive to make the user successful.
I applaud you for not taking the bait on the Model 3, which is overrated, but I cannot fathom purchasing an appliance car like a Camry. You can’t possibly enjoy driving it. Why not at least a Honda?
It's amazing to me that the passively-cooled Macbook Air can do that. Makes me wonder if M1 iPhone/iPad can handle long-running jobs as well. I'm in the process of converting a torch model to Core ML for fun and I'm curious to know whether the ANE on the M1 iPhone/iPad will handle long-running jobs without thermal throttling.
I actually really enjoy the crappy camera in my 2020 Air. I work out of my garage which is pretty far away from the wireless router. Absent of running Ethernet through the walls or using a non-ideal mesh and halving the speed, there’s no easy way to get really good internet in there currently.

I use it to take video calls instead of my much nicer Logitech cam on my desktop since the crappy camera works just fine on the weak signal.
I've been working four-day weeks for about six years.

It's a force-multiplier for contentment. No other life change comes close. I'm grateful every week and like you I'm never going back.
> incentives are misaligned

If an organization decides that reliability is important (which honestly isn't always the case), then the question becomes whether they can trust Product to include reliability work or not. If not, if reliability is so essential to the business that the business is willing to sacrifice velocity for it, then a separate SRE reporting structure can exist to slow down Product when reliability objectives aren't being met. If reliability is negotiable, then an embedded structure means Product can make its own prioritization decisions and move quickly when it needs to.

The embedded structure doesn't mean that SRE always, necessarily gets overruled. It means that SRE leadership needs observability into when SRE is getting deprioritized by Product, so that consistent failure by Product to respect a core business goal (reliability) can reach executives who will, ahem, clarify for Product that they need to spend some time prioritizing reliability.
I just bought out my lease, and the estimated dealer purchase price of my vehicle is substantially higher than what we paid for it. One of those situations where the script was flipped from what I expected.
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I've got a lot of experience with the former (medicinally).

Would one be able to tell a difference at a much higher dosage? What about when compared to an equivalent dosage of another CNS like methylphenidate or cocaine?
I don’t know if it is the case with Citi, but it may not be that titles are inflated, but that titles are different. I’ve spent most of my career on Wall Street (i-banking and investing) and VP is a mid level position, and it comes before director. Whereas my mom works for Google and VPs there are quite senior.
Not quite that old, but I work (daily) on a workstation from 2013. Apart from a memory bank, nothing broke and it still runs all the newest software I need, including Vulkan or Win10, which wasn't out in 2013 yet. There's no need to update.

In contrast, around that time I also brought an iPad and a Android phone (Galaxy S3 mini), I still use. Both can't be updated for years anymore and barely run the essentials.
I've had two SIMs in my 13 pro max for a while now.

One of them needed to be converted to an eSIM and the other one is physical.

There is a very clear delineation of which number is being contacted, which number's data is being used, etc. You can even choose separately to use the data of carrier 1, whilst having carrier 2 as your primary voice line.

You can also choose which carrier you'd like to be the primary carrier of conversation for each individual contact as well. It defaults to the default voice line you choose, but you can manually choose to change contact preferences and which number they are used with.

I don't understand what problem you are having. Could you elaborate further? I have had 0 issues using a dual sim setup for over a year now.
I mean, this[1] sounds like THS, mostly. I don't think THS (or Ford) use any clutches though.

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15121345/honda-accord-...
A Glossary of Gestures for Critical Discussion (2014)
> Doesn't it make more sense to separate concerns?

Wouldn't it be better to design a protocol that doesn't have those concerns in the first place? A good design would be easy to implement without opening up users to security and privacy issues. Designing something insecure and/or harmful and then saying that it's the implementer's job to figure out a way to fix the mess you just made feels wrong to me.
"Compared with the latest 10-core PC laptop chip, the CPU in M2 provides nearly twice the performance at the same power level"

"compared to the latest 12-core PC laptop chip [...] M2 provides nearly 90 percent of the peak performance"

That doesn't make sense. Twice the performance of a 10-core Intel CPU, but only 90% of the performance of a 12-core? This implies Intel more than doubles performance when going from 10 to 12 cores. Reading the footnotes, the 10- and 12-core Intel CPUs that Apple used for benchmarking are the i7-1255U and i7-1260P which have respectively 2P+8E and 4P+8E cores (performant and efficient cores). So the second Intel CPU actually has twice the number of performant cores than the first.

This means the benchmark mostly depends on performant cores and nearly doesn't use or doesn't depend on efficient cores. If so, that's a rather useless benchmark for evaluating the CPU as a whole (P and E cores.)

But what this also means is that Apple is being sneaky. The M2 has 4P + 4E cores (not revealed in the press release, but we can tell from the die shot). Thus comparing it to an Intel CPU with only 2P cores (i7-1255U) is guaranteed to make the M2 look better as the benchmark doesn't use E cores (see above.)

What I'd love to see is the M2 put up against a Zen 3 or 3+ mobile CPU like the Ryzen 7 6800U (15–28 W) which straight up has 8 regular ("performant") cores.
If young people don't go to the polls, they are a non-factor in election wins & losses. Eventually they'll figure that out when politicians continue to spend their tax dollars serving the interests of the people who vote, not the people who whine.

But sure, continue snarkily throwing away your vote, continue whining about disastrous elections. Who cares if you have to live in the society you threw away your vote in, as long as those snooty leadership preferred candidates suffer it's all worth it.
I couldn't find alternatives to LinkedIn and I don't know how to filter out such content in a feed. The only thing that comes to my mind is to interact with content that you really like.

I know that Xing is pretty popular in Germany. [1]

[1] https://www.xing.com/
I feel like technology is at the point where we should be seriously considering the idea of personal computers that are intended to have twenty year usable lifespans. (That includes software stacks.)
If this is the base, it'll just be a form of inflation and get lost pretty soon. Currently 1 hr of fast food labor buys you 2 gallons of gas. That's probably pretty close to what it was in 1996 also.
For durability, some car manufacturers start adopting OLED screen. I wonder how long is it lasts.
If you've managed to insert your malicious code in a place where you can bypass TLS, secrecy of the password isn't my main concern anymore, as all is lost. It's not a threat model I worry about in most circumstances (sure there's always exceptions).
Manufacturers having the capability to do this is a relatively recent development, though, historically speaking. Originally even the largest manufacturers couldn’t afford to build out the necessary sales and service infrastructure across the US without the independent dealers.
A bit confusing because the hospitals in Boston have wings for foreigners with luxury accommodations, and people all over the world fly in to get top-tier procedures done. My son was born with complications and my insurance paid for all of it at such a top-tier Boston hospital (I am a Boston resident and US citizen). So maybe things aren’t so simple.

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2015/11/24/boston-hosp...
Lately I've been thinking that perhaps our technological progress might be deterministically leading us to our own destruction (or a major and irrecoverable regression) through some kind of unavoidable dynamic evolving.
Like a combination of nuclear weapons, biotechnology or AI with a tragedy of the commons type situation derived from the same competitive social nature that is required for us (or any other society) to develop technologically.

Perhaps even the most basic property of life, the self-preserving tendency of a self-preserving structure once it randomly emerges, can lead with mathematical precision to its own destruction a few billion years later, regardless of the specifics and despite the profoundly complex mechanisms evolved in-between.

Perhaps long-lived advanced civilizations are not possible at all, and can be seen as a weird transient natural phenomenon; starting with hydrothermal vents and ending with billions of odd etched silicon fossils.
> Further, you must make a hypothesis, then run experiments - things an AI cannot do.

Uh, you do realize that AI and classifiers are two different things right? Like, there are literally, right now - like, already - AI which make a hypothesis and then run an experiment. Just because it is popular to phrase things as supervised learning problems and just because we often want to have classifiers as components of systems we build doesn't mean that is the only technique in AI that exists.

Honestly, your entire point reeks of this really unjustified hypocrisy that makes you think you don't realize this. You seem to pick the cherries for the human, but grab only the poisonous mushrooms for the AI. For example, you seem to close your eyes when you hear about the replication crisis in the social science acting as if humans only emit proofs when they don't, but you're more than willing to focus on how some subsets of AI don't emit proofs despite there being subsets of humans which don't emit proofs.
And Nazi Germany ironically led the world in animal rights.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_in_Nazi_Germa...

The world is a bizarre place and humans are unfathomably complex.

This should be cause for curiosity and investigation into history and The Human Condition
Vice President at financial companies is just a mid-senior title. Similar to L4/L5 at Google. There is no expectation of managing people.
Freedom of speech is in retreat (2016)
Why not unfollow all who present material that you find egregious or banal?
Try and connect with people who are more interesting or more sympatico with respect to interests/fields/profession?
People spend about $20k-80k more than they need to just so they can drive something they like.
We could all be driving Honda Civics, but the world is full of BMW 3series.
If you're blowing an extra $20k to have a car you like, what's another $20k on some fuel if that's what you like.
Honestly not a dig, just surprised.
Completely agree.

This is the reason I don't hire anyone for my business but partner with other developers I trust and promise part of the revenue.

Without promises of passive revenue (30-50% equity), almost no engineer worth their salt would be productive.

I could hire contractors for a project and get shitty code but at that point I'd rather just do it myself.

I've tried hiring multiple times in my startups and little equity is essentially wasted on people, same as market rate salaries.

That's why nothing gets done in mid - big companies. People are not tied to the success of the company and layers of middle management provide a way to hide.
This website is so beautifully, cleanly, professionslly and simply designed and typset. I really enjoy looking at it.
It’s hard to get insight into. Hard to see anything at all from the outside, and on the inside you will suspect it. But the depth will be impossible to know unless you are accepted into those circles or know someone that is
My desktop is about 13 years old if I'm not mistaken. My last two laptops were refurbished ones.

I still use my old HDD drives as secondary backup.
You're far from the first person to be confused by this, if it helps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-polynomial_time
Show me where the GDP touched you
If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid :-)
That all makes sense. Thanks for sharing. I guess I'm still interested in considering- how could your life be better if you did have some you time too? A lot of parents really lack any kind of time, it's always work or family, and it seems unreasonable in extreme to me; I really want to see a world where parents have some self time too.

I feel even worse for layering on more here, but I think, ultimately, one of the best things a parent can give their child is a sense of personhood. It's one of the slowest, least clear lessons, and the impact seems slow to naught, but having hobbies, doing things, having your own interests as a parent is setting a model of being interested in the world: of engaging yourself & demonstrating control & direction & volition. Parents- in living- to demonstrate what a self is.

That idea- of a world where we can visibly see others who are motivated, have intrinsic motivations desires and pursuits- beyond subsistence & survival- I think that's a keystone factor in the world, in what has made humanity enduring & interesting & capable. I worry after it, significantly. And I want, very much, for parents to have time & permission, for their self to continue to mature & engage, and to not just have to always be engaged, always be tending or working.

I have plenty of time & I spend a lot of it somewhat-inertly, so I can't expect too much from 1 day a week where there might be no work & not constant family. But I do have lots of pursuits, and they do help me shape myself, help me grow & see myself over time. I want very much everyone to have some option, some time to explore on this earth, engaging, not just being engaged.
Pretty good piece of advice. Not that you should never repair anything, but thinking about cost/benefit is worth it.
Why? Python gives you the ability to spawn processes so there's always an escape hatch for building multi-core code.
Perhaps because nearly all car trips are those in which they are mostly acting as an appliance as central to (presuming here) American life as AC is in most of the country.

Personally, I’ve never driven a Camry and thought, “this is awful”, but rather “this is totally fine and wow, great mileage!” In a similar vein, its status as an abundant vehicle with many parts out there and being generally reliable are all similar and useful things I’d consider before buying a new washing machine or whatever.
Hence my "Yeah, I know", and pointing out that I only use it for UNIX scripting.
Only on some makes and some models. Try doing this with a Japanese car or your average Volkswagen and you’d get nowhere. This apparently used to be more of a thing when American cars ruled the industry — custom orders could be quite profitable — until the Japanese makes came along with severely limited optional equipment as a quality and cost saving measure.
For the same reason this exists in email.
> Very few organizations give their employees real license to do good things, to tackle the work well & encompass broad wins.

I sympathise with your argument but the problem is that the Dunning–Kruger effect exists for both the employee and the manager.

I've seen 20-something, know-nothing developers relentlessly question every business decision during planning when they clearly have no idea about the larger scope of the business.

The reality is that the average person is average and every organisation is setup to succeed _despite_ the lowest common denominator.
Any advantage of this over just a magnetic usb c connector (like $20-30, works with anything)?
What a rosy idea of what constitutes 8th grade math. My 8th grade math had no statistics and no programming. Hell I didn't get any of either until college.