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It is more like you have the option of bribing the earth quake to happen later with the same intensity, any sane person would bribe the earth quake to happen as late as possible.
I know. I'm saying for my projects, I never had to reach that level of robustness and distribution. I imagine the vast majority of Elixir/Phoenix projects are the same, especially with the language gaining traction and new projects being spun up with the language.
A cheeseburger is much more than just beef. The article highlighted that getting beef, cheese, fresh lettuce, tomato, etc., a bun, seasonings and condiments all at the same time is what required a larger supply chain.
I don't know them either.

Am I fake?

Like her acquaintances, I imagine I could puzzle out much of it, but in all honesty I would be guessing.
It wasn’t meant as a negative. As you clearly imply, people have built a trillion dollar company on it. You don’t have to care about the implementation details is basically Apple’s value proposition. E.g. I just want my airpods to work with all my stuff is a great user story.

And that’s not meant as a positive.
Euclidea doesn’t have proofs. This does.
Code available is awesome for simple games.

I think it was a Q-basic game called worm or nibbles or something that I first “programmed” on. Wanted infinite lives or a very short maximum length. Just had to change a variable.
At best this is a semantic argument, and giving "function" a different name.

> First of all, let’s define a cat as a runnable chunk of statements or instructions

That's a function.

> Functional Programming (FP) will argue that cats are chains of functions but more accurately they are a chain of function calls (e.g. a bunch of statements - and therefore just one particular type of cat).

First of all, there is an isomorphism between programming, Category Theory, and mathematical logic -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...
...from which Functional Programming has roots in, with Lambda calculus to languages like Lisp and eventually Haskell. It's a little naive to suggest something better than FP which is somehow better because it's based on CT.

Functions exist since Alan Turing and Alonso Church, even though they might have used the word "sub-routine" (arguably they go back to Charles Babbage, and Ada Lovelace in the 1800s). In essence functions are programs. The distinction is semantic and used to denote that functions are the building blocks of programs (because programs can call other programs). A function could be called a program. We could also use routines and sub-routines, but the basic principle is a set of instructions to be executed by a computer.
> What good is speed if the accuracy isn't significantly better than a coin flip?

Because distinguishing an object as belonging to one class out of a thousand with 50% accuracy doesn't mean it's a coin flip. You'd need a thousand-sided coin. Random chance in that case is 0.1%, which maeks 50% way, way better.
Either way I suspect no one is asking the developing world not to have an improved quality of life. I am suspicious, however, that bucolicism is incompatible with the number of people alive today, though I certainly like the esthetic
My building was built before the earthquake and fires
This. The fact that it only grew to 400/mrr after 8 years means that the word of mouth is not very good, which is a signal that the product is not very good. You shouldnt HAVE to spend money on marketing to grow the product* if you have initial customers like you do.

*up to a certain point.
I'd be very interested to see non-BEAM approaches to enabling this - i kind of end up in the same pattern thanks to "expected? Return an Error<E>. Unexpected? Throw." However, the supervising part is then difficult.

How do people approach this in Python? NodeJS? Rust? .NET?
> To help citizens deal with inflation, 14 states are giving them free money. Giving people free money is what caused inflation.

Yeah no. Not even a little. I know there's a narrative that Americans are just sitting on huge piles of cash and have too much money and it's tanking the economy, but it's pure bullshit.

Pandemic stimulus money probably did play some role, but that would be the corporate welfare, not the money that went into the hands of regular Americans who lost their jobs and couldn't work forcing them to live off of saving, or go into debt just to survive, or the 20 million Americans who just months ago were at risk of ending up on the streets. (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eviction-19-million-americans-r...). The idea that these people "just have too much money" is beyond absurd.

The pandemic (which still rages) was a huge financial blow to a lot of people who are even now absolutely in need of aid. The pittance that most Americans got from Trump wasn't enough to cover their rent during the time they were unable to work. The checks that came from Biden were not enough for them to claw out of the financial hole covid dug either.

Out of desperation and a deep longing for normalcy after years of suffering and going without some of the little things that make life worthwhile there is now a lot of demand that the supply chain can't support, and a lot of companies profiteering and price gouging. That can't entirely be blamed for inflation either, but it has more to do with the problems we see today than a couple 1k checks going to poor people did, and arguing that people who are genuinely struggling shouldn't get the help they need today in order to try and save the bank accounts of obscenely rich people "struggling" in this economy is sick.
"fair share".
I think unions for remote customer service roles would be counterproductive. Why would the company not just move the operation overseas?

I don't like unions in most cases, but I honestly think it would be a really bad idea in this case.
Decentralization and Centralization
We are counting the specific efficiency of the solar panel now to malign solar? And <1200 kw/h per square fucking meter is negligible?

The proof is in the pudding. Even with all the structural headwind, people can put solar on their roof and a battery in the basement and trivially source the majority of their own power. Who is going to give you the $15B+ it takes to build your nuclear power plant that needs to run 50+ years when that's what is possible today? That's why no one is building them anymore - it's not plausibly ever going to make money.
Please don't be so naive. Read some labor history. Workers' rights were won in blood. This idea that capitalism somehow magically bestowed rights on workers is absurd and quite insulting.
If you're intrigued by FORTH, I would also recommend checking out Factor, another concatenative language https://factorcode.org
https://www.brikbase.org/sites/default/files/researchdesign_...
They will get more and more efficient. Now imagine someone saying Apple I / personal computers are close to useless because they are inefficient and only IBM datacenters can run serious programs and solve real world problems.
People don't seem to grasp that lower interest rates make it cheaper to build new housing but more expensive to buy existing housing. Existing housing sits on land that appreciates in value, that is the primary driving force of higher real estate prices. The two effects basically cancel each other out.
Its common for me in PHP land to call die("Error! $e"); when something really bad has happened in a request and I really don't want anything to happen
Functions are at best glorified cat containers. I can write a script and never use a function. I can write SQL and never use a function. The Turing tape never mentions "functions" So functions are hardly the bedrock of computing that some claim it is

Categories specifically contain "morphisms". Then FP completely gets category theory wrong by trying to claim that functions are immutable. Which is it?

Instead of chasing strawmen, why not address some of the issues raised in the article directly? Code reuse? Integration? Use of convergence hardware? Interactivity?
Ok, I am still waiting for where in the section would give the federal government the power to mandate solar power access?
I don't agree with this approach. Say you have a network service that relies on other network services. It is not difficult to write those such that they know to back off / retry when something disappears.

It's extremely useful in a lot of situations: if you do work on a laptop that gets regularly unplugged, having running test services that know to reconnect makes your life easier. In production, having things automatically reconnect means a lot less restarting of services once whatever root cause problem is corrected. Just shrugging and giving up ends up being a lot more work in the end.

I like to tell junior developers to catch everything they can, and handle it or die as nicely as possible. Of course you can't plan for everything, but you can write around network and disk issues and issue warnings in a way that makes the root cause more obvious. That involves catching errors.
Yeah nice, PHP's request scoping is a really good fit for this.
In the market for new window fans - what model numbers? Had two Comfort Zone CZ310R 3-Speed’s that failed after 5 years in 2 weeks of each other.

Replacements are nearing 3 months and the motors are whining.

Inflation seems to have hit small electric motors hard. Resigned to spending more to replace them again but want something good. Anyone know of any reliable/ durable window fans?
> e.g. my health insurance premiums rise because I bought too much bacon. This would indeed be very bad, but it is currently a mere hypothetical.

Regulations prevent this from happening with health federally and life in certain states. For now.

Insurance companies are dinosaurs but they're catching up. Lots of new VP and up AI/ML positions that report directly to the CTO office are spinning up. Suffice it to say that after my latest job search, which included senior roles at insurance cos, I switched to cash for sin purchases.
This is simply false. Ruby modules are first class. They're objects that you can pass around like any other object. You can put them in a local variable. You can define methods on them. You can do metaprogramming using them. You can build classes by mixing modules together. You can create modules (and classes) at runtime. Many things that need to be built-in in other languages are just a library in Ruby.

Files and modules in Ruby are two distinct things. While Python makes files one-to-one with modules, Ruby allows you to define as many modules as you like in a file, zero or more.

It's true that if you define a constant at the top-level of a file, it uses the global namespace.

By convention, if you have a file named `foo.rb`, you'd write:

module Foo
# Code here
end

and it's equivalent to what's done in Python. But it also has all the other features.
I would actually love for Congress to try that, it would give the Supreme Court a prime opportunity to Roll back the commerce clause or even completely undo Wickard like they did Roe...

I would love beyond all measure to see Wickard reversed
My wife, kids, and I lived in an old farm house located in a marshy area of the Midwest without AC for nearly a decade. Summers in the upper 90s with really high humidity. I've also spent a fair amount of time with family who don't have AC south of Flagstaff.

* Windows and doors wide open all night, always paying close attention to the temperature outside. Once it's hotter outside than in, we'd close up the windows and blinds. Typically this only lasts for a few hours.

* When you live without AC, your body adjusts to temperature more quickly. So, you turning AC off for the day feels markedly worse than if you didn't have it at all. We'd be "fine" outside on a hot day while our family members with AC would turn into puddles.

* When it's really bad at night you tuck your pants into your socks and your shirt into your pants (bugs), then go sleep in on the ground in the yard.

* You eventually just accept that you're going to be hot and uncomfortable. Personally, once I hit this point I realized the feeling that you can't escape the heat is often worse than the heat itself.

Interestingly enough when you live without AC it's common to get headaches when you go into a HVAC controlled building.

Edit: grammar
Don't forget ©=©
There's an "and" in the parent comment.

Both these phrases are true:

"There are still people living in medieval-era houses in the US"

[There are] "ruins that make Rome look young"

The Mediaeval period in Europe extends from the 5th to the late 15th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages

The Taos Pueblo has been continuously inhabited since the 13th century, if not before. This qualifies to satisfy the truth criteria of the first phrase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taos_Pueblo

Note that the second claim refers to ruins and not continuous inhabitation.

I'm not a specialist in North American indigenous cultures, but am aware that there are signs of human inhabitation at sites such as Bandelier (NM) dating to 10kya, and elsehwere cliff and/or pueblo dwellings dating to several thousand years BCE.

Both would make Rome look old.

Heading further south, the earliest Mayan villages date to 2,000 BCE, again pre-dating Rome. Cities emerged in the period 750--500 BCE, roughly contemporaneously with the agreed origins of Rome (753 BCE), and well before the rise of the Roman Republic (509--27 BCE) or Empire (27 BCE -- ~480 CE (Western)).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_of_Rome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire

Cholula, Mexico dates to 2000 BCE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholula_(Mesoamerican_site)
You truly know zero about labor history, don't you. Either that or you're an incredibly nasty troll. State police power has historically and to this day been used to enforce the power of capital against labor and unions, not to "enforce closed shops." Give me a break.
Does not even matter that majority of the rail in the UK does not operate at night.
Not everyone has that screen in their pocket.
For a while in the 2010s I read a magazine called CPU I picked up MicroCenter. It's glossy about all aspects of computing aimed at gamers. It was written at the Scientific American level- not too technical like ACM Communications and not too dumbed down like computers for specific computer brands.

Another folksy magazine is 2600. Its hacking for both beginners and advanced experts. Often there were tutorial articles on broad principles of computing.

I have seen neither since covid reopening. Either they failed during covid or bookstores have shrunk magazine inventory. Also many magazines/journals have gone digital only. You cant really browse them at university libraries anyone unless you have an affiliation account at the university.

P.S. I remember when Byte was a mimeographed newsletter before it turned into a glossy.
Big Tech Monopolies Endanger American Security
Interesting. I wonder why the UK (which also has no ongoing property tax - just stamp duty) doesn't run into the debt problem. Perhaps, it's just that the country got rich during the period when the government was heavily involved in all that.
> I thought people stopped thinking like this after 2008/9

Why would they? It's not like it stopped in 2008. If you bought at the _peak_ in 2007 and held, in pretty much every area in the UK you're currently _way_ up, particularly if you leveraged yourself.

> When people buy a house and sell for more, they don't include property tax, mortgage interest costs, maintenance costs in their mental calc of profit. Sometimes they include renovations costs, sometimes not.

And people who make this argument often fail to consider the alternative costs, e.g.renting (which here in the UK is likely to be ~30% greater than the cost of mortgage interested to cover affordability checks), and leverage. You know what beats a 10% return on a 20k investment? A 100% return annually on a 20k investment.

For a £200k property in the UK, you could buy it in 2017 with a 20k downpayment, ~£1000 in fees, on a mortgage with 2% interest rates, and it would _very_ likely be worth £240+k right now even without any renevation work.

> They also don't factor in their next house they buy is inflated too.

You're assuming that people are selling to buy bigger houses, or that the rises are spread equally across all pricing bands. If you take my parents as an example, they bought a family home in late 80s/early 90s, sat on it for 30 years, and then downsized to a smaller home. The "inflation" of their house was far more than the inflation of the house they moved into. Also, the ceilings are loosely capped with earnings (since 2008 here at least) - stress tests for lending mean that in practice for the last few years, banks have been lending a maximum of 4.5-5.5x of borrowers income, so the cap is loosely set based on that.
When your daughter's behavior abruptly changes, ask "why" instead of "how do we deal with it".

You're a jerk. It's not OK. Learn to be better with people, and less ego-driven and self-centered.

Give yourself more to the kids, and don't try as much to protect your own mental space.

No, that guy you're trying to help can't stay overnight at the house.
For all the hate that Java tends to get, the language natively supports this distinction between:

* Expected errors - Checked Exceptions

* Unexpected errors - Unchecked Exceptions

Idiomatic Java also makes heavy use of asserts, e.g. using the Guava Preconditions library.
Depends on the details. For a lower level position I might give a written warning, on the provision they take down the offending post(s). But since she’s named a client, that could harm business relations. So in that instance the severity of the misdeed is greater.

I’m sure their performance would be taken into account too. If someone is generally a high performing individual who had this one incident then a more lenient outcome might be expected. But if the company are already unhappy with the employee’s performance then this might just be used as an excuse to terminate their employment.
By saying "not wanting to invoke Godwin's Law", and by the above comment, you are saying that Trump = Hitler.

It is sad to see a /r/redditmoment on Hacker News.

I'll reword rmbyrro's comment in another way. Trump was right, and the German envoys laughing at him on camera (including Heiko Maas, the foreign minister), was wrong, on the biggest German blunder in 80 years. Just in July alone we've had

a German minister stating that becoming dependent on Russian gas was a "grievous mistake", and that his country is begging (yes, begging) for turbines from Canada "with a heavy heart"

* His government stating that entire industries might "collapse"

* Rationing of gas announced

* Local municipalities planning warm buildings that those without heat in their homes can visit during the winter

Again, this is the greatest German catastrophe in 80 years. It is an existential threat to the German (and, thus, European) economy and nation. It is also 100% self-inflicted. You know this.

Instead of acknowledging that Trump was right on this issue, people like you can only resort to some variant of "Even a broken clock is right twice a day" | "Trump = Hitler and even Hitler every now and then did something right" | etc., etc.
It is very hard to match the efficiency of something like this:

https://costagroup.com.au/our-categories/tomatoes/

Their Guyra tomato farm is an enormous undertaking that produces all year round. I'm sure in WWII Britain it was easy to double vegetable production because while the UK is covered in farms, they are relatively tiny and unproductive and only survive through subsidies.
I remember having to unpack the jar but I don't remember the function names being obfuscated or anything like that. Then again, this was a while ago.
> Scratch is great, but the problem is: where do kids go after scratch?

Sadly, they often move on to real computing. They are taught how to use Word and Excel.
Or equity release, but yes. Downsize/release equity for a sizable profit, and don't have to continue to pay market rents to continue living.
Definitely harder than Minecraft as it was in C and also a more adversarial environment bc Nintendo made it very challenging
Too bad wildlife can't go out and purchase ACs.
For anyone else that hates yellow jackets, hanging yellow jacket traps early in the year will help catch queens and reduce their overall population for the year. My 2 traps caught 13 this year.
>.. how is this not printing money and creating a deck of cards?

The liabilities cancel out the assets, the system is symmetrical and balanced. Money printing implies asset without liability and that is almost guaranteed to cause inflation. It is also not what is happening right now. If people want to save more money, companies have to borrow more money into existence, how is this supposed to cause inflation? As I said, the system is balanced.
A very long way.

I wrote this comment earlier today, but didn't post it. Now I do, and added some stuff at the end to hint the answer
to your question:

I worked for amazon logistics some time ago and the lack of future vision and aim for automating everything™ was the biggest reason for why I quit.

I wish amazon would invest more into automation, but at the moment humans are just so much cheaper that you’d rather hire 500-2000 people for a few months peak (prime day and holiday season), than invest in automation.

Actually, amazon itself does zero to none research and engineering in logistics by themselves. Instead, they only buy third party solutions (Opex) or the whole company (Kiva - now amazon robotics). And Kiva is only working on the six wheeler, Robin (arm) and Pegasus.
What does this mean? Well, amazon has more than one warehouse type: they have the fullfillment centers, where the six wheelers are used, but they also have IXDs (inbound cross dock), where EVERY product, which comes from the vendor and will be sold via fullfillment centers will go through. These IXD facilities have almost no automation, at least the ones which I visited (UK, DE, ES).

People are counting hundreds of shirt buttons by hand.

People are bubble wrapping hoes for gardening by hand.

People are bagging clothes by hand.

People are repackaging STANDARD SIZE cans (food and drinks) into boxes by hand.

People are palletizing STANDARDIZED CONTAINERS BY HAND(!)

People are putting a single scissor into a tote, because the computer told them so. Why? Because someone entered wrong dimensions BY HAND. (You could easily get the dimensions by scanning. Even taking a picture would be sufficient to get the correct dimensions into the system). [1]

Kiva's projects don't solve a single problem regarding: Palletizing, receiving items, sorting items in the RECEIVING part of IXD, labelling items, bubble wrapping items, bagging items, repackaging items into new boxes (literally putting item from container A into container B).
What made me sad is that amazon didn't even try to solve these issues. They just act like these problems don't exist and always show the nice fullfillment centers where you pick and stove.

To end my rant: Amazon was the worst company I ever worked for. Insanely slow, very inefficient and way too much nepotism. They lack the actual will and hunger for improvement. My main goal when I applied to amazon was to make an "all lights out warehouse". What I got instead was an enterprise which is rotten on the inside.

But hey, there were still a lot of brillant people, especially my manager (kudos to him!). Also, the engineers who worked for AWS were always very friendly and problem oriented (only had very little contact during outages though).

[1] A tote is one of those yellow boxes: https://media.wired.com/photos/593256d2edfced5820d0fb9d/mast...
While the article focuses on the programming side, the other side is BEAM's Links and Supervisors which is what really allow this.

Letting BEAM handle that stuff like it is designed to could probably do a better job than your junior devs, and of course then free them up to be writing useful stuff instead.