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> For life saving care you are strictly better off in Canada, Australia or Britain.

I don't remember a single OECD measure that the US falls behind the UK in, perhaps child mortality at birth, so I'd be interested to know which life saving care you're referring to.

Moreover, as the nurse was teaching my class (in London) how to give CPR said "if you're going to have a heart attack, have it in America (because your chances of survival will be higher".
Lexing and parsing doesn't strike me as a task that would benefit significantly from multithreading.

I always use golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goyacc to generate my lexers and parsers. It's a Go port of Lex/Yacc (Flex/Bison) that works pretty well and is very fast.

It basically works by writing your lexes and parser in a Domain Specific Language (DSL) and compiling into go. It's pretty fast.
It has no dedicated headphones jack !!!
I feel like you glossed over a lot here though.

Reading? Yes, the intricacies of clause structure? No, no one uses that besides a few people.

Science? Almost no one I know uses chemistry or biology. I don’t even remember how to balance a chemical equation.

The same arguments against mathematics education can be used for almost anything.

If “Reading” is the example for English education, then “addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division” are the analogs in math, and they’re used by pretty much everyone in day to day life and in other classes. Hell, they’re even used when reading.
I really hope an electric car model will take up the mantle for reliability and repair ability. Toyota is lagging hard in the EV space. Maybe those Chevy Bolts will last a while? Or the Kia EVs? Probably the F150s, but I'd prefer a compact.
You are one of the lucky ones to learn today just how good dual SIM can be. If you have an iPhone 10S or better, or a recent Pixel, install the Truphone app, grab a T-Mobile prepaid SIM, or try silent.link, and watch your main carrier’s dead zones vanish as the second carrier automatically fills in. And don’t ever worry about changing SIMs when you travel again.
Developer-wise, I'm kind of stoked that they'll be integrating their Dark Sky acquisition into an internal API (I know it'll frustrate non-Apple platform users).

I was just working on an app earlier this year for fun where I really wanted an easy to access, low-volume usage weather API in the same vein as using MapKit for mapping.

Now they've announced WeatherKit, which sounds like it'll fulfill my needs if ever get back to working on my project.
Im not that familiar with Bernie Sanders policies, but it seems he is in favor of a federal minimum wage, which means he isnt actually promoting the Danish Model for the labour market. Maybe he wants a social safety net and healthcare like in Denmark, but not the Danish Model for the labour market?
Suppose you are the CEO of a bottle cap company in the Midwest. Whose call you going to take, a VP at Goldman or a junior banker at Goldman?
Thanks; not wrong. I don't want to try to rebut; I accept this, appreciate it.

I do want to just offer, perhaps, that I feel like there's a huge tide I feel, of rejectionism & negativity, in the world & also here. One of the site guidelines that I think is violated consistently, that deeply violates the Hacker ethic of inquiry & exploration is:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals,

I respond a lot because I see a lot of people just blowing shit off, creating a lot of iniquitous social pressure- creates a sense of certainty & derision- without argumentation, without allowing that there might possibly be good or advantages or reasons for things. People stridenly believe this or that things are terrible & awful, & they don't want to debate: they just want to score points, be able to preserve what parts of them have that belief. I'd like to see such a more explorative mindset. Let us speculate, let us regard positive possibilities of things, consider how so/so things might possibly get better or improve.

I think humanity deserves far better fates, and we deserve them on most topics. Contrary especially to the loudest & often most cantankerous opinion-havers- the jury is out. To seed only doubt & debate-to-win denies the future. To condemn too quickly & too readily is to obstruct gain & possibility, prevents the letting the good ever occur, predisposes us to ruination. I stridenly believe that, and stridenly believe it is existentially imperative that unbounded negativity be routed. I admit readily it's hard for me to keep balanced, keep eyes on the real prize, of openness & exploration, but I hope I can reasonably channel & embody the open & inquisitive Hacker spirit, hope I can encourage growth & exploration & interest in electronic frontiers. I hope I'm learning & getting better at it.
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I wonder if the overhead in the US somehow makes small businesses like that not viable. Maybe there is something here about minimum needed profit to even live?

I don't see any good reason why it's so rare to have businesses on more floors. I wonder if it's a zoning or simply a cultural thing.
I'm afraid you're not familiar with how things work in Cuba.

In short, you mustn't believe much of what you read on Granma, which is the official newspaper, fully controlled by the government. It's not free press, it's a government propaganda machine.

No one can publish a response or contradicting article there, or in any other newspaper in Cuba. There is even legislation to prevent what they call "free press" online.

What this article refers to as a "democratic process" is in reality a quick assembly at work places and your neighborhood, organised by the government and the only legal party (the Cuban Communist Party).

Assistance is mandatory, or you risk losing your job or place at university.

Voting against will have the same consequences.

So, yes, a lot of people were asked if they were in favour or against the new family code, but they were all coerced.

More importantly, those people cannot choose their own government because only one party is allowed in the country, and a huge repressive state controls their every move.
It seems there's some sort of medium-term mandate to build manufacturing facilities in California.[1] Presumably these preexisting ventures aren't interested in building a facility in California (instead of elsewhere), nor keen on working with a state that may eventually compete directly with them.

[1] It's unclear how strict is this mandate. The 2020 legislation only requires investigating the feasibility of directly manufacturing drugs in-state. See the summary at https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml... as well as section 127694 specifically. I'm guessing Newsom is trying to find a way to justify building an in-state manufacturing facility. It fits into the state's broader policy to develop the biotechnology sector, which is already significant--depending on metric, first in the nation or second to Massachusetts. Not sure it's worth delaying these deals over, but perhaps Civica and others are demanding long-term contracts in an attempt to preempt California building a competitor. (It's understandable why they wouldn't appreciate more competition. Even for a charitable venture, more capacity would impact their financial viability, especially considering that preexisting, for-profit suppliers will aggressively use their pricing and market powers to try to suffocate these new ventures. OTOH, that's exactly why one might want a state-backed facility, so they're not beholden to investors--even beneficent investors--and the ruthless economics of the market. And theoretically a state-owned facility might be more resilient, either legally or politically, to Federal government suppression, which is one of the primary tools the pharmaceutical industry has used to rig the market in the U.S.)
Sorry, I mean the socket.
Every example I'd seen publicized of someone who "can't afford insulin because it costs $300/bottle, so they died" has been a blatant lie. Every single one of them, without exception, could have switched to L/R/N, which are on the order of $25 per bottle. Are they as good? No, certainly not. But they do work, and they are certainly better than dying. Heck, you don't even need a prescription for them.

Don't get me wrong; insulin prices are out of control, and something should be done. But these stories about people dying because they couldn't afford $300 for a vial of insulin are misinformation; and propagating them weakens the argument to get insulin prices reduced; because it gives people a factually correct way to push back against it (what with it being factually incorrect and all). Please don't spread those stories.

Side note: People will comment about how awful R/N/L are, and say you'll always feel sick, etc. I was on R/L for on the order of a decade. It's annoying because it's effectiveness curve (of the R) means you need to take it 20 minutes (give or take; it's been a while) in advance of eating.. and if you wind up not being hungry, you have to eat anyways. But they are plenty effective for controlling blood sugar.
Don't we already have this problem solved via HSTS and particularly the preloaded list? Which is even more secure than doing it via DNS.
Until around 2020, I used a 2006-ish Thinkpad T42 for almost everything, including radio program production (warmest greetings to the author of Non DAW [1]!) and occasionally even live recording.

It's a 15" 4:3 model with IPS, Pentium M and my all-time favorite keyboard, so it's not easy to let go. Currently, it works, but the GPU is dying -- a pity, because I would still need that machine to work in WinXP and Avid Pro Tools about twice a year. I can stubbornly use it with Tiny Core Linux in framebuffer mode for lighter tasks and experimentation, though.

I bought that machine in around 2014 for 20€. Really fun to think about that, considering that I used it for years to do pretty much everything that another radio producer had to buy a shiny Macbook Pro for. :)

Probably because of grandparents' influence, I like using all kinds of gear until it stops working or seems irrepairable. I'm not a coder by profession, so my computational needs are really modest. Currently, I am making efforts to use a Dell Mini 9 as a daily driver in framebuffer mode. Interesting macine: 8.9" screen, Intel Atom, but fanless build, thus spookily quiet. Saw it in mint condition for about 20€ a few years ago, and, having recently been inspired by Joey Hess' endeavours [2, 3], I just couldn't resist. I added an anti-glare coating, and now it's actually a joy to use and carry along, especially considering that it is around the size of an A5 writing pad.

I guess I'm just one of those guys who likes to build himself a world where well-chosen tools could live forever. Not anti-progress, but old tools do have a lot of unused potential IMO. (What are the chisels, jack planes and scythes of computer hardware?) It is quite possible that climate warming will be a huge eye-opener for contemporary societies in this regard.

On the other hand: not quite sure, but I think it was Alan Kay who said that by using yesterday's technologies, you're also stuck to solving yesterday's problems. Even those can still be interesting, though.

1: https://non.tuxfamily.org/

2: Link from 2012: https://usesthis.com/interviews/joey.hess/

3: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/xmonad_layouts_for_netbooks/
Can you please explain why not RSUs?
Can Education be Standardized? Evidence from Kenya of improved outcomes
Without a doubt the quality of life improvement is massive.

Because of taxes and other expenses, you wind up with more than 4/5th of a paycheck anyway.

I'm very, very happy to have a little less money and way more time.
Notes on a Genre
The word I'd use to describe a program that does what the OP does is indeed "transpiler", but it's not technically incorrect to call it a compiler.

The textbook definition of a compiler from A to B is any program that takes as input a program PA written in A and gives as output a program PB written in B, such that for all valid inputs I and modulo the undefined behaviors of A and B, it holds that PA(I) = PB(I).

So you could write a Java program that turns C++ into Python and it would technically qualify as a compiler.
> ... will likely mean you'll be generating that private key yourself, this makes you identifiable across registrations.

DIY/CLI apps have no reason to include a legitimate attestation - attestations are used to convey trust in the implementation, such as 'This is a Yubikey 5i'. The public key is usable to look up additional metadata, such as passing conformance and security implementation tests.

>Some sites (Cloudflare) may reject the use of attestation keys which are not found on the Fido Alliance Metadata Service. This precludes the use of any DIY solution.

The feature is meant for higher security environments (say workforce and government employee/contractor) to reject a home-grown implementation.

Cloudflare's (beta experiment) usage is a special case because they are using attestations to show that it is real hardware with a real financial cost. They are experimenting with using that as a replacement for captcha entering (while also experimenting with other technologies like privacypass to limit the number of times they ask for captchas).

The alternative to attestations in both of these use cases is that FIDO is not acceptable at all, not that a DIY implementation would become accepted.
Ok, recruiter tells you a total number. How do you confirm it?
I believe in general purpose languages - from the business point of view its better to invest in one platform/language/ecosystem (if possible of course) than to spread too thin - each specialized language is potential liability (its trade-off but still the additional languages have to carry their own weight allowing for example to access more platforms)
I do my Zoom calls happily with by 2013 MBP 15”. But I haven’t upgraded macOS for 3 years, partially because BigSur dropped support for these macbooks.

Might it happen that more recent versions of macOS are extremely slower for Zoom? I’ve always thought they tune macOS for bigger L2 cache and it keeps paginating, but you’re telling me recent hardware is slower too.
(No offense) We're paying in-experienced new to industry engineers way too much money. Thanks for sharing.
If Apple made all the changes to an iPad that I would want for doing work, they'd have built a laptop anyway.
Meh, I’m not seeing a capacity problem. Either their panel can handle the load or it can’t and then they have to upgrade panel to higher amperage, and if the whole street upgrades their panels then the utility might have a problem.

I think the main problem is going to be that we are going to need a tonne more energy to replace fossil fuels and the daily demand curve with the diurnal pattern is going to flatten right out as people charge all night.
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Thanks.
> But the idea that national governments can commit "crimes" has always been tenuous at best, because there is exists no supranational entity with the willingness and the authority to enforce violence against rule-breaking states.

There shouldn't be any supranational entity. In a democracy, governments should be accountable for their doing.
That is part of the problem, you have taken something that can be measured objectively and instead politicised it. Not a uniquely American phenomenon but definitely practiced most commonly there.

The system is without pros but that doesn't matter because of the existence of lobbyists. The American political system assigns representation proportionally by wealth of interests, that is just how it is.

You can see it play out over and over again from tobacco, oil, healthcare etc. Preservation of outsized corporate profits at the expense of normal people is simply the norm in America and is ingrained in its political system.

It has nothing to do with the pros and cons of actual healthcare provided to people (or the cost at which that care is provided), simply that those that stand to lose from making the system more efficient are willing to spend anything and everything to prevent that from happening.

Unfortunately too much of the American population are happy to be duped into thinking the current system is good in some way AND that they should tie their political identity to it's preservation regardless of the facts.

It's a tragedy tbh but maybe one day logic and economics will win out. Spending this much of GDP on healthcare is just stupidly inefficient, especially when you still have so many simply not seeking care because of the financial ramifications of doing so - cheating the economy out of their productivity.
I don't know if this applied to your situation, but some automakers don't accept custom orders from dealers. Toyota comes to mind, for example.
It's apparently not as fully functional as you'd expect. It's designed where apps will have their data all stored in the cloud and profiles act as just a single sign on where the apps will sync down the correct data depending on the signed in user. Especially important as users will be switching around between physical devices so it all has to be cloud storage anyway.
Additional Cons:

2. Need to keep track of mount, one more thing to forget or lose, and possibly have to replace. Cost of having one for each of home, office, and travel bag, if that's your typical solution for reliable access to small easily misplaced accessories.

3. Need to futz around setting up mount and phone every time you want to web cam, assuming you use your phone for other things in between, and don't plan on having the mount attached to your MacBook all the time.

3. Can't use phone while web camming with mounted phone.

4. Can't use phone to cam on days you can't find your phone, or other corner cases: left it somewhere, phone battery is low (ok you can add sum extra futz for a charging cord), ...

5. Non-ergonomic and possibly physically unreliable for moving or tight situations, like when in a vehicle or a cramped plane seat.

6. Looks/seems silly. Unprofessional. Cluttery. (Worth putting in here twice!)
I get more of what you're saying now, but I still think that reinforces OPs point because, to me, what you described is a Systems Engineer not a Systems Administrator. OP is asking for some structuring as to what these roles require in terms of knowledge. To me, "Administrator", "Engineer", "Technician", etc all prescribe different degrees of knowledge and also usually correlate with responsibility.

As for "SRE" vs "DevOps" vs "Systems Engineer", I'm not so sure. For instance, I typically expect SREs to be able to write application software and orchestration software. I have similar expectations of someone who uses the title Systems Engineer but I might expect less application software development experience. DevOps I think I'd rather forget is a word.
Ah, for email, I use flags to mark them that I need to respond. I treat "Read" literally – that means I've seen it. Thanks for the explanation.
I literally said it's a 3rd car, what makes you think one of my other two cars isn't something fast and fun, that runs on premium gas and eats through expensive Z rated tires? Its per km cost is considerably higher. Maybe I don't want to use it for like, buying groceries at Costco, and with two seats it's not very much good at all for picking up family members with luggage from the airport.
Personally I only use my ipad as a drawing tablet. I'd be perfectly happy to share it with family members if that didn't mean giving access to my entire apple account and notifications / IMs / Photos
That’s also why the “remote learning” during Covid was such an infuriating joke: the main purpose of schooling (which is daycare) was destroyed, and the learning was marginal at best. This is all while the elementary school children were at no risk from the disease, and while plenty of other “essential workers” were busy working their jobs in person. What a joke.
I've got these abacuses here for sale... very robust and safe with complete privacy.
> They are cops not supermen.

Part of the issue is that a good portion of the US worships cops as heroes, and police themselves actively cultivate this image, when in reality they are civil servants.
From 2008-2018, I went all over the world handling incidents and attempting to teach companies how to do the kinds of things the author is talking about. It was multi-diciplinary and very demanding, both in terms of technical and organizational (political and communication) skills.

One of the core observations I made was that few companies were willing to actually get better. Rather than figure out what skills they lacked organizationally, or how to improve their processes, or how to align their goals and teams, or any of the lessons they could have learned, it was way easier and cheaper to just keep on status quo. SRE as a practice, a position, a skill - whatever it could have been, it instead failed to really exist apart from maybe a hero here and there who chose to care about it. SLOs (or whatever name might have been used) did not exist to actually measure or inform anything. They were a kind of placebo - come up with something that looks measurable, find a way to make sure we always score well, and make sure there is a wall between these metrics and anyone's compensation / job performance.

An example of this, at a very prominent health insurer. I identified issues that could have been solved for, let's say well under $10MM. Rather than do any of that work, the company threw about $50MM in new hardware at the problem. In another case, at a national name Pharma company, about every two years I went back out to do the same basic consulting engagement, because they lacked the leadership to develop the skills in house or to figure out how to align their teams with the work they actually did. Still another case (prominent bank), they had this serious problem that blocked their commercial lenders from doing their job... they finally called me in after about a year of fooling around, I got the problem fixed, rolled out a bunch of tooling and training, but I guarantee they never used any of it... again - problem outright blocked key bank personnel from doing their job and yet it took them a year to do anything about it.

So... I guess what I'm saying is that yes SRE work can be fun and rewarding, but it's just not something most companies have the maturity to really do. I read the Google SRE book way back when, but I didn't find it particularly insightful. Likewise, I'm not really sure what to take away from this blog - for me, it doesn't answer any questions about a clear path forward and leads me to believe not much has changed since I left that kind of work years ago.
I'm also tired of constantly upgrading hardware, but it's 2022 now and there's still no linux mobile device that compares to the MacBook Air in terms of workmanship, battery life, size, and weight.
I guess it's amusing to you because you don't have children.
It's almost like different people have different expectations from their computer. (Different workloads, different environmental conditions, etc.)
I think the real answer is that Apple does not see Android tablets as real competition so they don't need to match Android feature for feature since someone considering an iPad will not consider a Samsung tablet a viable alternative.