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I used to think of stateful applications on top of k8s as an anti-pattern until I learned a bit more about some databases uses and changed my entire opinion about what k8s is.

If you're coming from the container world, it makes sense to think of orchestration as a way to scale stateless services.
This has been known for years now, and it's really depressing that nobody's been able to improve it.

Since you've looked at the code a lot more than me, I believe you when you say: "I doubt we can improve that much without breaking backward compatibility." -- although it doesn't make sense to me why partial lookup can't be cached at a given call site in a way that's perfectly backwards compat as well as fast (after first partial lookup from a given call-site).

But if true -- I wonder if it's time to consider backwards incompat? Perhaps in a way you can opt into, not just app-wide, but per-file/view/action or per-call, and the opt-in not just as a temporary deprecation situation, but planned for long-term support of being able to do it "both ways", the backwards compat way or the performant way.

But in the limited amount of time I have spent looking at the code, I quickly get lost, it has evolved into pretty convoluted code. If the problem is not really "there's no semantics for caching partial lookup that are both backwards compat and higher performance", but "the code is so convoluted we can't really figure out how to change it to do what we want without rewriting the whole thing in a way that's going to be hard to be backwards compat for all edge cases" -- that may be even harder.
> Forcing carriers to implement the required technical measures to stamp out spam... that could actually work.

Another desperately needed measure is enabling law enforcement to actually fight spam at the root: follow the money. When the spammers can't monetize their spam, they won't have any incentive to spam and scam.

Uncooperative countries (e.g. India, just look Mark Rober's Youtube series where he and a bunch of associates track down and prank scam call centers or Turkey which is the German equivalent) should be sanctioned until they are compliant. Letting spammers, scammers and hackers operate in a foreign country unimpeded should be considered an act of war.

Forcing carriers or anyone to implement technological measures (remember the idea to charge people .5 cents to send out emails?) is a worthwhile effort but it's at the core a band-aid at best and the only thing it achieves is to marginally drive up the cost and complexity of service for everyone else while the scammers simply find workarounds.
What do you mean are not tied to intelligence?

If you use your smarts to conclude that having a spouse will negatively affect your happiness, don't have one.

A very intelligent person should be able to figure out a way to improve their finances.

The article makes the distinction between well-defined problems (eg. increase my monthly income) and poorly defined problems (eg. find a spouse that matches you for life), and clearly suggests that intelligence helps with one but not the other.
I had the same thought. Perhaps the bound quarks are never far enough apart for the strong force to be constant?

My understanding is that if you do manage to pull two quarks apart the energy of separation is eventually enough to form two new quarks, thus pairing them up again.

My question is whether this pair production happens before or after the strong force reaches the region where it is constant?
And the OP is never actually wrong, he just couldn't explain himself
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Sounds like my experience, too. I'm not autistic.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines continues to hold:

So, how likely is it that Meta will actually pull its services from
Europe? In reality, the chances are probably pretty slim. Meta has
said it has “no desire” to leave the continent, going as far as
publishing a blog post titled “Meta Is Absolutely Not Threatening to
Leave Europe.” Europe’s 30-plus countries are a large market for
Meta, and stopping services, even temporarily, could be costly. (A close
comparison is when the company briefly banned news posts in Australia in
early 2021, following a row with publishers.) While Meta may not leave
Europe, it may have to make changes to how it stores and transfers data
once the final decision from the Irish regulator is published, although
there is no set timeline. It may also face a fine.
I’d rather skip messaging friends and family altogether than use a service owned and operated by sociopath anti-human Mark Zuckerberg.
That all sounds fine and good. Of course assurance that there are no panics has practical benefits. Sign me up.

I'm still not sure what that has to do with complaining that Rust makes it too easy to panic. What's the alternative? If you're suggesting "garbage-in-garbage-out" everywhere, then I don't think that's a plausible answer for things like 'slice[i]' or 'RefCell::borrow()'. Whether garbage-in-garbage-out makes sense as a strategy depends a lot of the specifics of the situation. (And your polygon example sounds like one of those.) But that to me doesn't suggest something systemically wrong with the frequency of panicking branches in Rust code.
This seems due to EVs being primarily rented to Uber/Lyft drivers, where they experience 5-7x fewer "touches" due to weekly rentals.

(common sense: cleaning, body and interior repairs, tires, windows/locks, climate control, etc should all be the same - implying that motor-train maintenance is half the total maintenance cost, and the EVs need zero maintenance...)

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Stephen M. Scherr - Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. - CEO & Director
The answer is unequivocally yes. In fact, last week, we did kind of re-underwrite on the EV fleet, how it's playing, how it's presenting relative to
what we thought it would do on the initial decision to go in.
So I'd say a couple of things. First of all, we continue to take delivery of Teslas, and we'll continue to do that, number one.
Number two, I think you should expect in the coming months that you'll see announcements from us about purchase of electric vehicles in sizable
quantity from other OEMs as we try to sort of build out kind of a broad population of vehicles across a range of OEMs, and we'll see those at very
attractive kind of price entry points.
Third, we are capturing, I think, as I said in the remarks, kind of a $30 to $35 premium on this. That premium has been fairly sustainable. And in the
TNC channel, we're renting these for about $334, $335. We have found kind of just the right price point where, given all sorts of externalities around
economics for an Uber driver, they want to and are excited about renting that, and they can turn a profit there.
What that means for us, by the way, particularly in the TNC side, is fewer touch points on the car over a course of a month, maybe by as many as 5
to 7x. That reduces cost considerably. We're obviously passing some of that on because the weekly rental is lower for the TNC driver than the per
diem or per day rental out to the normal RAC.
On maintenance, I think Kenny said to you, we are running kind of 50% to 60% of what maintenance costs are on ICE vehicles. That's roughly in
line with where we are. If there's any one surprise, it's probably slightly higher expense on tires, but not much more, and that's embedded in the
figure I'm giving you.
So I would say, overall, we're very pleased with the results. They're coming in roughly in line with what we thought when we first underwrote the
move in this strategic direction.
As a relatively non-car guy, Tesla's are so much easier to do maintenance on than gasoline cars. Mostly because there is so much less to do. Here's my maintenance schedule, which is more than what Tesla recommends.

- replace wipers as necessary
- rotate summer & winter tires semi-annually (cold climates)
- inspect & lube brakes annually
- test brake fluid biannually
- replace cabin air filter biannually
- replace A/C dessicant bag every 6 years.

So if you learn how to test your brake fluid (really easy with the right gauge), replace the cabin air filter and lube your brakes, you only have to go in for maintenance once every 6 years. All of those things are easier than changing your oil on a modern car IMO.
Also, some percentage of catastrophic accidents are likely due to cowboy mechanics introducing new failures.

Complexity reduces the grey zone where end users will attempt a ductape fix themselves. Paying more for an accreted mechanic to do more complex repairs is probably another cause of increasing road safety.
I can’t imagine dedicating this much time analyzing whether or not I can acknowledge when I’m wrong. It’s almost like this entire piece is an elaborate rationalization the author is making rather than admitting they are wrong.
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Options are priced commensurate to the risk. They are traded with supply and demand. They are priced at what people think the risk/reward ratio is.

Hence, theta.
> Some application code that random developers write will never be a match for constraints in a mature, well tested database.

Well, lucky for you, most places don't hire random developers, only qualified ones. /s

Where I work has billions of database tables sharded all over the place. There simply isn't a way to define a constraint except via code. We seem to get along just fine with code reviews and documentation.
In many scripting languages this is not the case, and you are ever only passing around references. Python comes to mind.

Lots of people obviously have a problem with this as it deeply different from the algebra derived assignment syntax.

local a = b creates a local copy, but even then, its not a deepcopy, containing references to other tables.
I absolutely appreciate all these risks. I have seen ads tho for diy solar where companies give you a kit and help you work through the permitting process. Also a couple YouTubers documenting the process.
It’s mostly a question of sustainability. In the midwest, the water isn’t diverted from rivers, lakes, or reservoirs.
The relationship between wisdom and intelligence is complicated in practice. But the benefit of wisdom is often that it allows you to accept the bad that you can't fix or affect and move on.

You can't single handedly fix any of the problems you highlight. The most you can do is alter your own behavior but let go of the consequences of other peoples behavior. You can't do anything about it.

The balancing act of wisdom is that:

* You can care about and advocate for solutions.

* But you can't own the success or failure because it's not realistic for you to do so.
I wear old clothes when doing yard work or woodworking or metalworking --- by the time I'm done, they're only suited to be cut up for rags, and I have a jar which I clip the buttons into --- if a zipper is YKK and still in good condition I'll cut around it in case I need to replace a zipper on something.

I've tried to convince my wife to take up quilting, but she has zero interest, and I don't have the time.
The issue with this article is how the author is approaching all of these discussions. There is no attempt to see the other person's perspective, or evaluate how the author should be approaching the discussion. This is very common among us Engineers but is a massive failure. If a manager comes over and suggests something to you, you need to understand their perspective for coming to that discussion, not asking questions that would make you make the same suggestion they made.
Presumably the cost of road maintenance and the healthcare costs of the additional pollution - that's what I've seen brought up elsewhere when this subject was discussed at least.
Ding! At a certain point constant existential dread becomes tiring. You spend years mulling on it and the answer continues to be there’s nothing you can do, so what’s the point in worrying? Might as well go do something else and enjoy yourself.
It might help to read the actual article.

There is a widely accepted definition of intelligence in there, and the article attempts to delineate between problems intelligent people are good at and not-so-good at (at least not better than everybody else).
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Not the author but the framing in the article implies that the author would have zero issue acknowledging if they actually were wrong.
It's called narcissistic entitlement to expect the whole world to change their behaviour because of ones own inability to fit in.
I'm not saying it is fair. Life is never fair. The only one who has the ability to influence those situations is oneself. You can't rely on other to change - it won't work anyways. You have to be the one that improves those interactions. For your own good.
I think this was initially built to enable Google Docs commenting within Gmail, then expanded to third parties. The Docs feature is actually useful.
My tutor once told me that “an automatic gearbox has no idea what’s ahead of you on the road”. You are in more control of your vehicle when you drive a manual.
Source: have worked with many smart and not so smart autistic people over the years. Have many friends “neuro atypical” and think I’m probably somewhere on the spectrum (aren’t we all?).

Autistic people have what seems like a much higher tolerance for bullshit both in the context of wanting to argue a point to finality or to obsess over a particularly detail until they’ve reached a shared plateau of understanding. Many times this is actually a very satisfying method of conversation, at least for me. Other times it can feel like talking to a wall.

Your mileage may vary.
IMO autism causes an absence self-awareness, and because of that inability to recognize and modulate their own behavior, they are naturally defensive when you point out their errant behavior. In a way it's almost cruel. They don't, and can't see themselves the way other people do, and pointing out a flaw just makes things worse.

Is it wrong to say that a person with autism can't really help themselves?
I think it pretty much invalidates it and just enforces the stereotype. "There must be another explanation than me being wrong".
What if you try to get along with others instead of looking at their logical mistakes and fallacies and verbalising them and see where you can both work together.

Hopefully this will bring you peace.
thanks for reading, author here! the article is very much a response to a blame already expressed. People can be wrong about factual things, which can be verified. Otherwise it’s a difference of opinions.

These are my thoughts on why differences of opinions get phrased as “autistic people just can’t admit when they are wrong”, when myself and most autistic people I know in fact readily admit when we are wrong and move on all the time. I don’t think of blaming anybody here, that is you reading things into it. I just need explanations and strategies to handle these situations.
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I read this as being strongly opinionated and egocentric..

I want to call it "ausplaining", this tendency to go "no no, YOU don't understand ME (because I'm special, not because I'm wrong)" whenever we get ourselves into situations like the exemplified.

I do this A LOT as well, and when people do stick with me for long enough, I often find that I'm either getting my point across by re-framing my explanation, or discover that what I'm pursuing as oh_so_important is in fact not important for the question at hand (then I feel even more stupid, because, not only did I find this of paramount importance, but everyone else didn't even consider it (because it so clearly didn't matter)).

> Because I value learning, I read about 50 technical books every year

If the author reads this, I'd congratulate them on finding the time to do that, but also advice them to maybe read 40 technical books every year, and then read 10 about the topics they clearly do struggle with (social interactions, politics, negotiation, psychology)..

The opinion reads as "I'm right and the world is wrong" to me, maybe because I can strongly relate (except the parts about reading tons of books and being really smart).

I think the author would benefit from realizing that these things they dismiss as irrelevant (mind games/politics) are actually important and beneficial to understand and master (I am not saying it should be that way, but merely point out that it is, in fact that way).

The author may also benefit from investing some of their mental capital (I'm not being sarcastic, they're obviously very intelligent) into learning how to play the games, to figure out neurotypicals enough to communicate with them on their level/terms.

Yes, workplaces need to be accommodating, but in the end, no matter who we are, it's our ultimate responsibility, to ourselves, to learn how to function in this world.

As for the situation where the other party is factually wrong.. Well, yes.. I always imagine this situation, where I have the right of way on my bicycle, and it's the semi-truck that must yield.. There are a fair number of times where being right does not matter.
While I can see you try to be nuanced you're only achieving depicting the situation in a moralistic view.

You're postulating many things that are not necessarily true (by definition) :
- that massive immigration to the EU will succeed
- that EU needs more unskilled labor

So "serious" politicians shouldn't promise one thing or its opposite but have a global view of the best interests of THEIR electors and act accordingly.

I will hence have to take the antithesis to balance it overall :
- with automation and the current unemployed people ("natives" or not) already in the EU, more unskilled labor is not what is needed
- a cohesive society is not solely based on its productive capacity
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> What I find sad about this article is that it needed hydroponics for the appreciation for plants. Hydroponics is a very sterile and artificial way of growing plants, removed from their actual environment and only showcasing a single aspect of growing a plant.

In the end, the result was still the same - an appreciation for plants. I find it quite fascinating to see the wonders of nature taking place within the artificial environment. It provides such a stark contrast and there is something almost magical and transformational about a formerly purely artificial environment suddenly being awash with the natural. I think one can appreciate the unique characteristics of hydroponics, and also still respect and appreciate the wonders one finds in nature.
Here's an interesting counterargument to this by one of the leading AI researchers (creator of Keras and much more), François Chollet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V-vOXLyKGw
The problem with dark matter is not that it is ad hoc. It is that it feels un-parsimonious to resolve a discrepancy in rotation curves by inventing five times more stuff than you had, all undetectable, and distributed just right to make all your curves come out right.

It turns out that the mass of neutrinos produced so far adds up to as much mass as all the rest of particulate matter. I guess neutrinos must be distributed about evenly throughout the universe. If we could not ever detect neutrinos, that would be awkward.

I have not heard of a mechanism by which these dark matter particles can cool and condense to clumps to seed galaxies. By contrast, baryonic matter gets to emit photons to give up kinetic energy.
> Pretty toxic community too.

Quite the opposite according to my own experience.
XKCD 1758 on the subject https://xkcd.com/1758/
But to be honest you don’t really need to live in the whole world of spam, if that’s your preference then you can just avoid Apple stuff? You live in the best world of choice
So you want them to prepend every paragraph with "I know I'm wrong sometimes"? What does that achieve? The article is nice, concise, and gets the point across beautifully. Everybody's wrong sometimes, but some people are genuinely very rarely wrong in their area of expertise, and I'm willing to believe this guy is one of them. I'm glad he doesn't give in to the petty workplace politics, and I wish more people would.
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Those other products have their own revenue streams. Apple would not profit from allowing access to iMessage without owning an Apple device.
I'd say a lot of people experience this and feel this way, whether allistic or autistic. It's just normal office stuff.
If you could take a pill that had no cost or side effects but was guaranteed to make you happy for the rest of your life, would you? Why/not?
The Aral Sea was used for irrigation. Huge volumes of water were pumped out over millions of acres to evaporate. The water pumped out of the great lakes is far less and it is largely returned to the lakes (closed loop).
There is one in Baltimore!
In that case, it'd be interesting to see the benefits of Astro vs something like Gatsby
Oh, it’s the beginning of the horse corpse beating season just before every iPhone launch.
It sounds like you're confusing intelligence with depressive realism and cynicism. :)

Sure, the universe itself is indifferent at best, but that doesn't mean you can't find meaning in life, or that you can't experience happiness. On the contrary, admitting that most things are completely outside one's control seems to be a key to being happy with life.
I wouldn't know if 'most of them' don't work, but I know for a fact that I have one (made by Vivanco, using a Prolific chip) that works fine in combination with my IBM 5160. I use it in combination with FastLynx, which still works even under Windows 11.
It's the only one I've tried, so I've not encountered any that didn't work.
This article does give me a little more insight into working with divergent thinkers. However, this one part gave me pause:

"Plus, "giving in" does not preserve peace—it simply appeases bullies and makes the workplace toxic."

I would have to disagree here. Authority structure is useful and sometimes there are multiple good options. Not "giving in" every now and then can lead to analysis paralysis.
Furthermore, in most countries original car sellers are legally required to stock parts for their cars for some seriously long time; I think it's close to twenty years.
That's been my experience as well.

I'm much happier in my 30s, having enough experience that I've learned to let go and accept existential dread for the useless bother that it is, than I was in my 20s. Truly realizing that nobody's that special also was a qualitative leap.

Not that I'd call myself « smart » with a straight face, but I certainly used to care a lot about things outside of my control.
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Seems like op can’t acknowledge that they are wrong when they are actually right.

As many other things you may never actually do it, but it’s good to have that option.
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No, this isn't removing some imaginary consensus process on money, it's sanctioning a criminal money-laundering operation using well established law.

> The day there's a fair election at the federal level on any core economy-related topic, then your argument could begin to have something to stand on, but right now it doesn't.

Just because your system is already broken doesn't mean it's a good plan to enable it to be outright bought.

> This is strictly shifting power away from citizen into the hands of a few.

Bullshit. That is exactly what so-called financial privacy does. "The many" are not incentivised to hide their financial movements because they are uninteresting. "The many" are not using ethereum-based money laundering tools, nor will they. Cryptocurrency in general is already a niche activity of techbros and crimininals. The very, very few.