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job creators have been printing money for more than a decade, with the powerful policy lever of "do not let working people get it, it will cause inflation" .. meanwhile check out the price behavior of appreciating assets, and important upper-middle class consumables. The stock market beating value records is not even reported since it occurs so often.

The parent comment here amounts to "if working people get more money they will cause inflation"
When James VI/I wanted to call himself King of Great Britain, he was basically by himself in wanting to do that.
It's not about functional programming, it's about managing state. And FP is good at managing state, so no it's not going away, specially with multiple cores and distributed systems. Even databases are learning from the patterns seen in FP.
I've had a great deal of experience with the "Measure Twice, Cut Once" approach. Most of my career was at hardware companies, and hardware development tends to be about as Waterfall as you can get. It was incredibly frustrating, because they insisted that software be developed the same way as hardware. Efforts to tell them that software is different were met with sneers, and accusations of being "lazy," or "sloppy."

The OP was done by a professional writer, so it's not surprising they have a "documentation-first" approach. I tend to use an approach I call "Forensic Design Documentation"[0], and "Evolutionary Design"[1].

Knowing what you want is not easy. That's the single biggest problem with a "requirements-first" approach. I've learned the value of rapid prototyping, and getting involvement from non-tech stakeholders, as early as possible, so the project design is iterative, and hands-on.

But there was this chap named Damocles, and his sword is often brought up, in situations like this...

"Rapid prototyping" is often taken as license to do sloppy work. The single biggest issue with rapid prototyping, is that management always assumes that the project is "done," and cut the schedule and budget, forcing you to use the junk prototype as the ship product. After a couple of these, I learned to make my prototypes top-quality, if functionally incomplete. That way, by the time management says "f**k it, let's ship!", the project is actually shipshape.

And I am careful about documentation. I tend to use a lot of embedded documentation (headerdoc-style)[2]. That's because it "ages" well, and tends to be a lot less of a "concrete galosh."[3]

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/forensic-design-docu...

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/evolutionary-design-...

[2] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/

[3] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/concrete-galoshes/
I had never considered this. Are there other countries with this stance?

Do you have any sources?
Honestly, to me, this sounds more like an older person take than a young person take (ironic given your claim of boomer whining). America is not exceptional! Talking about demographics / geography, all that bs is how we get rooted in thinking America can't learn from other countries or change.

Australia, for one, does a massively wonderful job with healthcare. My friends there, young by the way, love the healthcare there. But, like us, the housing market is awful. Well, worse honestly.

And this is one of many countries who have great social healthcare.

I don't think you're talking to me in good faith though given you've fallen back to "most of us get by just fine without healthcare". I'm young, like you, and I need healthcare. Plenty of my friends do too, especially some with rare conditions like narcolepsy.

Did you honestly accept in an earlier comment that plenty need healthcare?

It sounds to me like you want someone to confirm your viewpoints rather than to talk / learn / empathize with others.
All those billionaire grocery store owners just raking it in.
...so you're just using "Brahma" to refer to the computer that is running the simulation that is the universe. And when the simulation becomes aware of its own condition, it becomes conscious?

This is just rephrasing of the symulation hypothesis in mystical terms and is just as useless as the symulation hypothesis itself (regardless if it's "true" or not).

There's some valuable deeper stuff in hindu and buddhist philosophies, but this set of ideas isn't it (neither valuable nor actually deep, just "exotic" sounding to an extent).
I don't think it works like that. If it did, we could end inflation by legislating away pay raises and price hikes.
It's a good thing only if you are Apple, Google or Microsoft, or a shareholder of them.

You'll note that no-one from Mozilla has their name attached to that RFC draft.
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Great point.

Most people are also not aware that sea level will rise even more in the coming 20k years if we go on like that.
> What is time? What is space? What really is mass? What is a force? These are things we can describe the effects of but not really what they are.

That's how models work. Even a unifying theory would not satisfyingly answer those questions.
No, Walking Simulator generally refers to games that eschew almost all gameplay besides walking around and looking at things. Like with any genre, there is no hard line of what is or isn't a walking simulator but think games like Dear Esther [0], Firewatch [1] or Proteus [2]. While RPGs typically do have a focus on story, there is also a heavy character building and/or progression component as well as almost always some form of combat.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/203810/Dear_Esther/
[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/383870/Firewatch/
[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/219680/Proteus/
The article mentions that Subversion existed at the time Linus chose Bitkeeper. As I understand it, the development goal of Subversion was to be CVS without the problems.
What's the crash rate per mile for Tesla vehicles in production? Compare that to the crash rate per mile for the rest of the market and you probably have a better measurement. A more informed headline.
"Progress" and "better" aren't a straight drive down the road of convenience for a lot of us.
Oh that will never happen. They first flood the zone with liquidity and then flood the zone with immigrant labor, to make both savings and labor diluted. The finance minister of Canada already announced that in the name of modern supply side growth [1]. One thing both mainstream liberals and conservatives are unified on is to slow wage growth.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6412716
Because taxpayers are on the hook anyway when billionaires risk too much and their companies end up getting bailed out. Except now we've collectively spent even more than we likely would have so that they could, in the meantime, buy several yachts and lawyers to make sure they can hang onto their "risked" money and assets.

And sure, you could just say "well, let's just not do bailouts then", but then that leads to things like bank closures, airline collapses, imploding automobile industries [0], etc. Basically, we can argue about specific cases, but there are some things that become too important to fail.

Ultimately, there are things that benefit society that taxes should be used to pay for. Some of those things should be done regardless of what any potential payout might be. Note that billionaires don't help solve these problems. If anything, they make them worse because they often pay a far lower percentage tax than anybody else.

[0]: Of which the US at least is highly dependent on. I want this to change, but it won't be an overnight thing by any means.
> Where do you draw the line?

I would draw it around the user. Devices aren't inherently bad, unless they're used against their owners. Also, removing the concept of ownership creates a new set of problems. Cellphones would be a wonderful technology if their main purpose wasn't to profile and track users pushing them to micropay or be exposed to advertising to use functions that they could easily find, download and install on more open platforms. Ditto for Smart TVs, car electronics, home assistants, etc. they all are faces of the same problem: manufacturers went past that line and the user lost all ownership and control in exchange for low cost and ease of use, but this came at a price that some of us aren't willing to pay.
Sounds to me they are very close to being able make a plastic 6502 processor. That would be huge. There is a ton of code (and programmers) out there that could make use of it in short order.
I know it's not magic, but right now it's not mundane either. I want it to be mundane. Everyone gets raises with inflation. Prices go up, wages go up, and we don't have to worry about falling backwards by sitting still.

Then what's the point of inflation? So people deploy their spare cash in productive ways. That's it. Mundane, no drama, money moves around.
It’s baked into tsc: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/jsx.html
I'm all for anything that gets rid of those annoying "Click all of the..." CAPTCHAs.
Maybe slightly off topic, but economics have philosophical underpinnings that are worth studying.

A a very rough, very incomplete chronological list: Smith, Marx, Keynes, Friedman, Hayek, Piketty.

Big Thinkers have thought deeply and thoroughly about this topic and have a surprisingly strong influence on what happens in the grand scheme of things. They have conflicting ideas and political stances. But still, you'll find quite a bit of truth in what they say, because you can literally observe some of their predictions, but you have to kind of mix and match them.

Both economics and finance are still Black Arts in my opinion. You'll find a ton of math and studies but it is all very much mixed with politics, paradigms, huge assumptions and inconsistency. It is an incredibly complex subject matter, and there are quite a few people who want to make us believe that they've figured it out, but in essence it is all about social interactions and any model that tries to boil human behavior down to something simple, rational and well understood is doomed.
Reads like a sad state of affairs, but the article itself doesn't really explain whatbthe actual concerns where that caused the proposals to be put on ice.

From reading, I mostly get "PTC was un-implemented and put on ice because some browser vendors had issues with it; the alternative proposal, STC, was put on ice because other browser vendors had different issues with it. Then everyone (from the browser vendor side) kind of lost interest."

But what were the actual issues that blocked the two proposals?

Edit: Ah, I'm sorry. The issues with PTC are indeed described, but STC was brought forward specifically to address those reasons. So why wasn't STC implemented then?
Sorry to sound elitist, but no reasonable phd graduate that wants to pursue academia would ever want to do their PhD at Clemson university. Only possible exception would be that PI has done Nobel prize level work or the candidate has personal reasons to be in South Carolina.

For perspective postdocs, it’s not about money, job security, or job environment . It’s first and foremost potential to be a leader in their field.

Plenty of phd graduates are willing to postdoc at MIT or work with a Nobel laureate for starvation wages and intense work environments.

Clemson university just can’t compete.
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It gives certain customers time to mitigate - and certain others time to exploit - the issue before the embargo is lifted. It maintains the customer/vendor relationship. It also allows Intel, even if current products are still impacted, a head start on R&D for future products before disclosure. Remember Intel also has their own Linux, has their own compiler suite, and directly supports development of Linux and Windows (and probably macOS for Apple) for their industry partners. So they could have been working on figuring out software mitigations during that time which they can now share.
Doesn't the Denmark (or somewhere) tie wages to inflation? Is runaway inflation rampant there?
You have it backwards. Communities that are suddenly purged of investors will suffer a drop in home prices. It's a lot harder to sell a house if you cut off a large and wealthy chunk of the market.
As a contrast, is it possible to produce data on how many crashes, if any, the software has prevented?
I dare to disagree - I still think that functional programming is a FAD of the day right now. Like object oriented was the FAD of the day in the 1990s and many then procedural languages saw OOP extensions on top of them (Perl where you need a bless() to work with an object? :-D ) and some even were like "yeah everything is an object so let's wrap every procedure into a class and use Command Pattern instead of closures and build a Kingdom of Nouns where people will name their classes after design patterns and everything will be perfect with a cup of hot Java").

Nowadays C++ has closures. What will become the FAD of the day in 10 years? Will wee see embedded Prolog in C# 12 or C++31? Who knows? Like OOP has been with us since 1968? and hasn't disappeared anywhere, functional programming features will not disappear from mainstream languages. But the "cool new shiny silver bullet" will be something else. Like Simula-68 and Smalltalk-80 paved way for OOP, Haskell and OCaml (et. al.) have been paving way for functional programming and Prolog and Datalog have been paving way for logical programming. They won't become mainstream when logical programming becomes the FAD of the day.

BTW you mentioned you taught a couple of junior programmers an ML-ish language. That's awesome! We all (programming community) need more legends like you.
FWIW I'm an indie strategy game dev (https://store.steampowered.com/app/690370/Cantata/) and am well aware of the full scope of the space of games (used to also be a game journo, and actively do a games podcast where we play most everything https://www.badendpodcast.com).

I want to be clear that my post isn't trying to be a Gamer and complain about "mOnEy gRUbbIng pUBLisheRs!!!!!!" — it's trying to look at the economic reality of making games in 2022 and how that steers design towards conservative decisions. I'm not on some moral high horse about design (and also think that game design itself doesn't sell, sort of like a notable DP in film doesn't get butts in seats).

That said, an addendum to this post is that I do think strategy games are where some of the best design IS happening (with games from devs like 11bit and Klei, like you mentioned), and perhaps not incidentally I think a lot of the best design work is happening boardgames right now. Strategy is a weird genre because it enjoyed dominance in the early days of PC gaming, but with the limelight off of it I think it's forcing developers and publishers to get more creative about what they are making. For boardgames, the economics just make way more sense — things like GMT's P500 idea act as pre-validators for design + thematic pairings in a way you can't really do for videogames (and Kickstarter similarly).
I’ve used Autopilot (EAP, lane keeping, auto lane changes and highway transitions on intestates) more miles in four years (without an accident or death) than some people drive their car in it’s entire lifetime, and yet, my Tesla will only get counted as a single vehicle in the stats. Including miles is a necessary datapoint, statistically speaking.
I quite prefer types on the left. The name of a variable expresses hope about its use and purpose, but the type is a definite statement about what the behaviour of the object is. I've used both and really prefer left types.
I helped develop a semantic search engine for patents that was highly effective... But instead of using some canned language model like BERT we trained a model for every document collection.

A model trained on some other set of documents (BERT) is going to hurt relevance, not help it.
I'm nervous about how these technologies impact public computing like public libraries or other shared networks. We still occasionally run into sites flagging our network as spam and requiring additional attestation (something your average public library user can't really understand or even sometimes cope with) and further barriers make it harder to work around at point of need and more challenging for administrators. I completely understand how this happens, but it's also another way we widen the digital gap with good intentions.
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That would only be true if salaries made up 100% of their costs. There is a finite fix point for the price that is less than infinity.
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None of that is inflating. Real money, voluntarily given, backs any investments. Valuations are just the price of the last share sold multiplied by the number of shares. They aren't to do with inflation.

Inflation (in the US) is caused in Washington DC. Printing more money to spend, subtly taxing everyone by that increased percentage, and by policy.
Not really a direct example, but the friction of accounting for and paying tax strikes me as quite insane in most places. I pay a bookkeeper and an accountant thousands a year, plus deal with loads of hassle on top of that. I can't imagine that if you designed an enjoyable working lifestyle from scratch, you'd decide the whole tax rigmarole as we know it was essential.
Are those rural areas at altitude? There is a link between higher altitude and increased suicide risk.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180309170654.h...
One advantage of syntactic tail calls is that you can give an error if you are unable to transform to a tail call.

Otherwise, you could have a program that seems to work file, and then you refactor and now your recursion isn’t a tail call anymore, and your stack blows up.
I had the impression, the ECMAScript spec would only accept proposals "after" they were implemented by the major players.

How did PTC sneak into the spec?
This should be a headline of its own.
In the unlikely event that such a repo gets deployed to prod without any oversight?
I should probably clarify that this bot does not output your actual OS details, like the original CLI tool, but instead it attempts to "replicate" a Neofetch like output on Discord, with the help of ANSI escape codes.

Complete with fully customizable prompts and ascii distros, and a distro specific colored neofetch-like output, I believe this is every dev's dream come true.

Why did I make it? Yeah, cause everybody absolutely loves neofetch, plus this bot is a hobby project of mine, and I, inspired by the original CLI tool, wanted to make a visual Discord version of it. Also you get to show off your favorite distro (looking at you arch btw users).

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It's sort of interesting as a human tendency. You very rarely hear anyone in the industry refer to 0.25u as 250nm, but below 2 at 0.18u you do occasionally hear it referred to as 180nm. By the time you're at 130nm, it's quite rare to hear it referred to as 0.13 and at 90nm you never hear 0.09um. This wasn't some industry planned marketing thing... it just seems reasonable. It's convenient that there are angstroms as well, since they are close atomic sized (Silicon atom is ~0.2nm - lattice parameter 0.54nm).
Some people seem to think that you can't raise wages without stealing those wages back with higher prices. Deeply cynical world view, imo. More importantly, its missing the fact that there are other, mitigating, factors that go into inflation, namely productivity.
Well I'll be darned. I never noticed that. Thanks!
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-public-thinks-the-average...

"For the general retail sector, the average profit margin is only 2.3% and for the grocery and food retail industry, it’s even lower at only 1.6%."
How many mg at what body weight did you settle on?
Come on dude, dont pull humanity into your gambling addiction. It's very bitcoin-megalomania to talk of "freeing the world" from urban first world fiber connections, but truly, it's not doing anything for most people on Earth.

Tyranny has many shapes and like communism promised to free us from exploitation by exploiting us, bitcoin promised to free us from intermediaries by intermediating instead.

Thanks, but no thanks.
> always took the bread from a breadbasket home

Care to explain it to non native speaker from Europe? Is it some bakery chain and she took home some cheap/free leftover bread?
> enormity of stimulus

I agree that, with benefit of hindsight, there is room to nitpick the sizing of the pandemic stimulus, but remember, at the time nobody knew how long the pandemic was going to last and how deflationary the the collapse of spending was going to be.

I do think that the link between current levels of inflation and stimulus spending is weak. At best maybe _some_ of the current issues with inflation are caused by pandemic stimulus (which is already captured in my "post-pandemic pent-up demand" bullet anyways). I'll leave the verdict on that link for the economics post-docs to write about over the next decade.

> out shutting down small businesses

How did the FED or the Biden administration "shut down small businesses"? It seemed to me like the intent of the pandemic stimulus was exactly to prevent this?
House prices more than doubled since 1965, yet incomes barely increased.

https://wtfhappenedin1971home.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/un...
> normalised to crashes per km driven

Preferably normalised by type of road too. I.e. if one system only drives on highways it might not compare to one that drives on more dangerous roads.
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Also true. Slightly weird instruction though :D "Here are 5 keys for 5 people, if something happens to me you'll need any 3 of those keys, then the neighbor kid will be able to help you get the password".
Yeah.. they would be the type when billionaires and corporations cause pollution to destroy the earth to say.. it was your fault too. I might be 0.000000005% responsible for something but that doesn't mean that the people majorly responsible shouldn't have to do more to fix the issue.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but in case you are, here's a story from Canada

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-loblaw-prof...
I quickly glanced at the spec, but didn’t find it. But I didn’t make it up though, I remember reading it on the jvm mailing list and I found it here described by Brian Goetz himself: https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/design-notes/state-of-...
Thanks I like this, didn't even think about it!