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> how comfortable they are with all the non-sensical processes and red tape

That's a good way of putting it. There is this "managerial comfort zone" that goes straight up the org chart. I have observed managers evolve to optimize the environmental constraints, delivering the correct messaging, delays, and target zone realignments, just but knowing how to apply the correct templates. On the other side, this has caused top-down management to evolve to push back on these constraints, creating unreasonable landing-zones knowing they will not be hit. It is a crazy passive-aggressive arms race.

Maddening. It is these boondogglers who should be excised due to nepotism and failure to deliver, as well as their enabling upper management. However, the knives-out behavior of the early 90's has changed to "you pat my back..." as competition has vanished leading to monopolies who are free to stroke each other.

Sources: my experience at IBM, Intel, and Microsoft. Among other companies that weren't as large.
How can they even have 1100 employees? That's more than the East India Company needed to run a whole subcontinent, probably.
There's big differences between drugs in the same family. Personally speaking Methylphenidate is much less intense and easier to fit into my normal life than the Lisdexamfetamine (which are probably closer to phentermine)
Had to put down over $300 to apply to an apartment this year. Comprised of an "application fee," "admin fee," and "holding deposit" (only the last one goes as a credit to my rent) for a 1 bedroom apartment.

The holding deposit was the largest fee of them all (at $300) and would have been refunded if I was rejected but it's a ridiculous amount of capital required to _apply to_ an apartment.
The top 1% complaining about the top 0.01% while ignoring 99% of the world is a nonsensical argument?
You have invented maybe the best way to concentrate wealth even further than it already is.
It is not a worthy thing to do for the US, people should have to adapt to higher prices as a cost of supporting Ukraine.

As for the Arab spring, that never had a chance of working. Not even Turkey can deal with democracy and Islam.
My claim is that if these companies weren't useful than they wouldn't exist. People hate Bezos but they spend their money at Amazon. Methinks they doth protest too much!
Yes?

Whether you're receiving the value of the asset or not, you're locking up the value of the asset and preventing a larger group of people from benefiting from the value of the asset, which is sort of the point of a wealth tax.
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Apple. Of course they're not as nimble as a startup and they release a dog now and then, but by and large they continue to innovate at a remarkable pace for their size and age.
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> Lots of bureaucracy is caused by a few base requirements for compliance/governance required by laws or customer need.

Read the underlying compliance requirements carefully. In the case of e.g. SOC2, the regulation requires visibility but does not say who may open tickets or who needs to approve them. You can do a lot by making processes more open, and so long as they are still visible, you can still pass.

If specific customers tell you how to run your business, either write process that isolates their requirements to a bare corner of the business (e.g. a completely separate environment for FedRAMP) or consider firing those customers.
Do you think it's fair to compare something written in Struts to a modern Java framework like Spring Boot or Quarkus? I'd bet that it would have taken a similar time to rewrite in one of those frameworks as it took to do your rewrite.
Well, I haven’t finished reading the paper but this is the kind of thing that would basically get is down to security iff sharing is disabled and performance is compromised. So, pick one.
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was really good.
The backup was created using the included windows software at the time. The computer I bought is pretty useless
Does that have any relationship to pornography usage? Porn usage affects those feelings but can negatively affect actual sexual performance, especially in monogamous relationships.
1100 is not even close and populations were much smaller.
1/5 of raw fertilizer materials come from Russia!

Is there a reason Russia is so prolific a source of fertilizer? I assume it's a legacy of Soviet Union attitudes towards raw material production.
Doctor are unlikely to help, since most medical societies consider 300ng/dL (incomprehensibly low) T levels acceptable. With this (and a sadly too large number of other conditions), doing research and being one's own advocate will fare 1000x better than naively expecting a doctor to correctly spot, and be willing to treat, low T. That just isn't how they're trained, and here, their training is wrong.
Didn't they pay a CPO $600m+?
That's a big problem.

If you created an algorithm that evaluated all possible 32 bit inputs in parallel and then picked the correct value at the end based on the input, you'd still have some funky corner case where the branch predictor in your x64 processor spilled the beans. Are we going to have to design our crypto algorithms entirely on SIMD instructions to combat this sort of thing?
Could you recommend me a light web-stack for my web app?
I'm making a small free web app in Django with bootstrap for frontend for small-size farmers to exchange services in between each others, the app will have no more then a 1000 users. Along the way i stumbled with a lot of problems:

* phone version
* chat in with selected groups of users
* deployment and security

I tried making it in django-rest with vue or using uvicorn and django-chat and even implementing my own chat system but it complicated the whole project a whole lot. Is something like firebase or aws lambda with preact or petite-vue with ionic(for phone version) better for these kind of small apps ? I'm looking for a different web framework that will have all these things included with minimal code required. I just would like to get it shipped as fast as possible. Do you have any suggestions ?

Thanks in advance
Fastest-growing black hole of past 9bn years may have been found
> What it will achieve is enraging the greater populace at the supposed decadence of the homeless and sharpening a sense of moral superiority over the homeless, quenching political support for any tangible aid.

So, what we already generally have in many places in the US? We simply start with building more housing and reducing or limiting zoning only allowing single family detached homes. It's that simple to begin with. Moral grandstanding accomplishes nothing however.
"lots of suicides" - that's bold claim. In searches I've only found one related to CB. One is not "lots"
Move implies some atomicity, Cut is only the first phase of an operation that also involves zero to n Paste commands. And paste also combines with Copy for more variants.
The US government has completely lost the ability to act strategically.

Biden is currently in Saudi Arabia begging for more oil production, meanwhile he's blocking measures to increase North American oil production. So, instead of fixing our own problem with inflation, we're asking one of the worst regimes on Earth for help and enriching Russia with higher prices simultaneously. Even if you support greener energy, like I do, this policy makes no sense other than to appear greener than you are.

The US consumer could easily handle food inflation and energy inflation if we weren't also dealing with inflation on a bunch of other fronts -- from policy-induced labor shortages and policy-induced supply chain problems. But since we've got multiple compounding problems with inflation, we're pushing everyone towards an unnecessary recession.

And of course the background here is a Fed that is whipsawing from creating trillions of dollars to destroying trillions of dollars and giving markets whiplash in the process.
Yep, I witnessed the effect when living out near Kapiti island, which is pretty big, quite tall, and very close to the mainland. The effect some evenings was drastic, especially when you had the moon and island on the horizon. It reminded me of the cover for the film Synchedoche, New York. That sense of the scales all being very wrong.
They still haven't fixed an issue where when you expand on a message thread in the bell menu, sometimes replies don't show up - just a couple inches of empty space between the "Hide <number> replies" link, and the comment below it.

It sounds a bit similar to the above.
Absolutely. As an Engineer, I've found the Pomodoro technique to be invaluable. I work with high focus for a 20-minute "cycle", get up and walk around, then repeat. No faffing about while working, and the mild exercise stimulates the brain so my "on time" is very effective.
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All libraries we use are constant time.

What’s constant time? Crypto libraries need to do operations to encrypt and decrypt your data. The simple, naive implementation of these operations will work - giving correct input and output. However, a person can time the operation being performed and learn about the key being used. If you’ve deployed on a server and the other person can submit any text they want, whenever they want, they would be able to extract the key from your naive implementation. That’s bad, the worst outcome possible.

That’s why good libraries will make sure that these operations take the same amount of time, regardless of input. So we thought we were safe.

And now these authors tell us, no. That’s not the case. The guidelines used by crypto library developers don’t protect against the attack being described here.
The West could've ended this war by now if they just went all in on sending howitzers, MLRS and other heavy equipment into Ukraine but they keep slow dripping it, or just doing nothing like Germany. The most powerful societies in the world history just twiddle their thumbs while negative consequences keep mounting.
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If you actually implement being able to sue polluters into oblivion for polluting you don’t get checks and balances on pollution leading to less pollution you get Rothbard-style deindustrialization libertarianism. You reduce things to the point where people can’t drive a car or produce electricity without being sued to oblivion.
Because that provides ~$40K/yr in income during retirement. That seems like...way not enough to hold out as the absolute maximum.
That's an arbitrary cut off and it's not just about whether they will work less hard or not. It's about effective capital allocation. If they earned their wealth through smart capital allocation, why would you want to remove capital from proven allocators and forcibly move it to the least effective allocators?

TLDR. Elon makes vastly better use of capital than the government does. He turned $180M into SpaceX and Tesla. They turn $180M into some bombs and maybe an unfinished train station if we're lucky.
I agree, and I'm not sure why people are downvoting you. SF is slightly more dense than Jersey City, so it should look like a slightly more built up version of Jersey City, not a bunch of single family houses and homeless on the streets. The built up portion of SF is tiny compared to the rest of it

There should be federal laws protecting your right to build to prevent cities like SF from preventing the construction of housing to try and push out poor people
We can get statistics for some of the parent's claims:

> On the other hand, saying that the majority of the population is grinding in tough physical labour is just not true.

10.3% of US jobs are classified as "physically demanding". [1] (I didn't see parent said "labour" until after my research, but I expect figures in the UK are similar). Assertion is TRUE, the majority is not doing "grinding" labor.

> Most other jobs are generic office jobs that don't need to be done (just like 80%+ of software engineering jobs don't need to be done).

Hard to say about the parenthetical, and it is impossible to say if the jobs don't need to be done without running an experiment, but some research has been done on whether people think their job needs to be done. A study of the European Work Commission Survey [2] showed that in 2005 only 7.8% of people responded that they were not doing useful work. In 2015 even fewer, 4.8% felt they where not doing useful work. (The UK reported slightly higher at 5.6%). A "recent poll" from an article dated 2017 which links to a 404 for the poll claims that poll said that 37% of Brits felt their jobs were useless. [3] Even the originator of the "bullshit jobs" book thought that 20 - 50%--maybe as high as 60%--were useless. Assertion is probably FALSE, most jobs have some utility.

> Most of us are just doing things for money.

Yes, and so what? Does that make it not worthwhile?

According to a Pew study from 2016, 49% of Americans are "very satisfied" with their job (59% of people whose family incomes were over $75k), and about half said they viewed their job as a career. 51% said their job gave them some sense of identity (higher percent as with more education), while 47% percent say the job is just what they do for a living. However, those working in non-profits, government, or self-employed were about 62% likely to say their job gives them a sense of identity, while only 44% of those working at a company said the same) Assertion is PROBABLY FALSE, depending on the definition of "most" and the intent of the claim, but the statistics certainly do not make it a definition-true assertion.

[1] https://dc.citybizlist.com/article/639055/dc-has-the-2nd-sma... (scroll to the bottom for the US figures)

[2] https://phys.org/news/2021-06-workers-useless-jobs-previousl...

[3] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/why-its-time-to-rethi...

[4] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2016/10/06/3-how-a...
This is cool =) I submitted PrintNanny.ai, which started as a side-project but has grown into a full-time job for me.
I don't get it. Is this only a problem for platforms that can read the current CPU frequency?

Does this mean platforms such as JavaScript in the browser are unable to exploit this?

Ditto for WebAssembly? If you don't give it the CPU frequency and don't give it the ability to make a syscall for it, then its unaffected?

Is the longer term fix then to make reading of any compute metrics a privileged operation?
And as soon as BPA was discouraged companies switched to the close analog BPS which hadn't been proven harmful yet.
> The hypocrisy needs to be called out

It's only hypocrisy if you assume there are some greater moral principles driving the behavior of nations. There's not.

The US puts pressure on people to do what it wants, just like every other country does in proportion to its power. The US just happens to be a global hegemon so it's gets what it wants more often than not, and has disproportionate control over the narrative of what's happening. Russia is particularly good at realizing and exploiting the few pain points there are in US hegemony and uses that to its advantage.

Everything else is just propaganda/ideology to keep you from paying too much attention to what's going on. There's no moral narrative being played out here, and those driving policy in nation states don't sit in big rooms talking about what's "right". They talk about what they need to do to continue to prosper/remain in power and how to do it. They let the media handle attaching a narrative to it that makes it easy to swallow for the public.
Maybe, but I'm not really talking about that.
You need a brokeragelink account in your 401k. Then transfer from index funds to that account and then you can trade stocks. After filling out an application you can enable derivative trading too in your 401k BrokerageLink account.
Depends on your workload, spot batch jobs would run at sustained maximum.
Not science fiction.

From my memory,

a) Brothers Karamazov (Dosteovsky)

b) Crime and Punishment (Dosteovsky)

c) Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)

d) Short stories of Checkhov

e) Pale fire (Nabakov).

Not sure if you would consider Nabakov as Russian or American, but his prose has clarity and is hypnotic.
That only means you were making space for others to phase in and use the remaining resources that you spared. You're not the one deciding which process sits on which resource, after all.

The only reason why resources might be left unused are usage spikes that all customers share.
As I understand it, the hydrogen in most industrially produced fertilizer comes from petroleum products. Given that, Russia being a big producer of fertilizer makes sense.
Let me put it another way then - ADHD meds increase the range of tasks I'm able to do succesfully. They add to my life rather than take something away.

I'm talking about tasks I want to do but would struggle with without medication (mainly coding for pleasure).

Yeah - I could find different things to do with my life, but I love coding and I am delighted to find there's a simple pill I can take that helps me do more of it.
"the discrimination makes factual sense."

I can't figure out what you mean. Examples?

You seem to be linking religion with "moral standards" and science with "facts". Neither of those are appropriate.

Not all religions teach morality and, if there is such a thing as "fact" on some topic, there is no need to do science on it.

Science and religion are both about our "best guesses". They can point in different directions but that happens within each domain too (Islam vs Buddhism / string theory vs standard model) and doesn't make them incompatible tools.
I've always turned off Turbo Boost on my Intel laptops anyway, because of the heat/battery hit. If I was doing something that I really wanted the extra speed and I was plugged in, I would turn it back on for that task, but I never really felt I was missing anything by having it off.

Considering how easy it is to turn on/off (on macOS at least I used Turbo Boost Switcher which added a button in the menu bar to toggle it) I don't think you would have a noticeable performance hit by keeping it off except when you need it.
Why not abolish third-party cookies altogether? There are very few good uses for them.
Yeah, but I’m that’s the attitude that separates you from a billionaire. Billionaires are never satisfied with their net worth.
buying twitter at $54/share is an effective use of capital?
Depends on the cloud - OVH and Digital Ocean yes, but AWS give you whole uncontested cores ( bar the t* instance line, but that's it's whole thing).
The bond market is almighty [1], and given that daily volume seems to be around $bn 500 or 600 [2], it seems that it would not be too hard for USDC to unload $bn 50 of treasuries in a fairly short time (despite worries about bond market liquidity [3]).

However, as the article points out, if USDC gave most of the money to a bank (SBNY), then it is not obvious that the bank put it in short term treasuries - the bank could have done the usual thing of putting it into longer term loans ("maturity transformation"). Given that USDC constitutes nearly half of that bank's balance sheet, but cash/cash equivalents less than a third, things could get interesting on the way down.

[1] > In the 1990s, the Democratic political adviser James Carville said: “I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-29/the-daily...

[2] see eg. https://www.finra.org/filing-reporting/trace/data/trace-trea... (click on a recent weekly report) or https://www.statista.com/statistics/189302/trading-volume-of...

[3] see eg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-24/treasurie... (Note: also a running gag in Matt Levine's Money Stuff column...)
I would claim to know less than nothing about what's happening here, but to press a bit on the analogy -- aren't there workloads where clearly you're going to be more sure about what's happening? E.g. consider a bastion host proxying SSH connections into an environment. If you can observe the power meter on that laundry machine, you're much more likely to know what's using the power, no? (Especially so if the bastion isn't used flatly throughout the day).
Nah, vCPU is generally just hyperthreading. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/cpu-opti...

So you get 2 vCPUs per core.
Food prices in Africa and the Middle East have skyrocketed as a result of Russian sanctions.
You had me for one second with that argument. But if you sell off your company, you would still get rich and be taxed - so why wouldn't you stay on board and your goal is not to get richer, but to create the best business you can?
Shared tenancy in cloud platforms.
Dynamic scaling involves bringing the CPU frequency down but not off - you can get almost as much power savings for some loads by using the old HLT instruction, so your CPU/core is either at full speed or basically off.
Since you didn’t, I won’t spoil it either, except to say that the first five minutes were an unexpected gut-punch. I knew the premise going in, but I was stunned at how much it affected me to see it happen.
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> vfork() does the opposite of solving these problems. While there are a few functions that you can call after fork(), there is absolutely no function you can call after vfork() before exec(). You can't even write most local variables.

Mostly wrong.

You can call functions on the child side of vfork(), but you don't want to exec() in them -- you want to exec() in the same function that called vfork().

And you can write to local variables, but you have to be careful about it.

There's a ton of vfork()-using code that does these things.

Now, it's true that a compiler optimizer that knows nothing about vfork() but knows about _exit()'s semantics, could delete code it thinks is unreachable. So there is some issue, but you can just disable the optimizer if you run into this.
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It's amazing when things have survived in such good condition for so long.
Without the fertilizer, the US would grow less corn. So, reduction in biofuels, HFCS , beef and pork. Did I get that right?
No, 2 vCPUs is 2 logical threads, which is equivalent to a single physical core on x86. So yeah, they are cramming 11 x 2 vCPUs onto 20 physical cores. In fact, it's more like 20 x 2 vCPUs.
In the article though, they make it clear the 3 resources they are talking about are nitrogen, potash, and phosphate.
I feel like the author starts from a position of poly being the "right" way to conduct yourself and worked backwards to deduce a reason why their school of thought is right and monogamy is wrong.

Couldn't you make the same argument the other way if you assume that monogamy is "right": "poly people are insecure in thinking that no one would commit to them and only them and they choose to act accordingly to that principle instead of working on themselves"? Of course there are poly people that are like that just like there are monogamous people that want to control/are jealous of their partner but I don't think either are as good of arguments as the author thinks
Many powerful people in Washington genuinely thought they "won the game of history" in 1991 and subsequently turned their brains off.
Stunned that a community of software engineers is forgetting the top-down approach to algorithm design.
> I wish there was an opposite pill, one which made people inattentive and impulsive.

I suggest you have someone sleep 4 hours a night for a week. You'll often see the same symptoms as someone with ADHD.