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> actual inefficiencies of the Soviet system were significantly underestimated in the dominant Western narrative

Not at all.

> Your ideas about Soviet industry appear to be based on some ideology rather than familiarity with Soviet culture.

They are based on quite sizable knowledge of history of warfare, defense technology. Which all the effort of the Soviet system was geared towards. Placing its efficiency there.

> Since quality of manufacture was usually terrible

There. That bit is strongly-entrenched Cold War propaganda that actually stems from the aristocratic propaganda against the left-wing ideologies when they first appeared in late 19th century - 'them peasants' cant do anything good.

For example, in this outlook, we are told that T-34 had 'terrible build quality' because one could see outside from in between some riveted plates. And this is drummed up incessantly by comparing mainly Angloamerican tanks to Soviet ones. Not outright saying that those tanks were better, mind that - because the track record of that particular Soviet technology, the T-34, is too obvious to be able to deny. But anything can be smeared. And that's the objective of such propaganda. Similarly, Angloamerican establishment diminishes German or Italian technologies by smearing them with non-related issues. Absolutely no different than how outlets like Murdoch press operate today.

None of which have any relation to the questions at hand, obviously - since no bullet could statistically enter from the tiny opening in between the riveted plates of T-34, nor the 'over-complicated' German tanks had much problem with being so because they were mainly intended for defense operations in the latter parts of the war so they did not need to travel much.

Same goes for consumer sectors.

The fact that Soviet system raised more than a hundred million people from mud huts to apartments, from illiteracy to space age is undeniable. So, it is SMEARED on the 'quality' of Kruschevka apartments, and, well, its rather hard to smear Soviet scientists, but they try anyway.

The USSR was chronically short of everything outside what was needed for the military to fight World War 3, indeed. That was because they had only 15% of the world's resources to rely on in order to maintain a military bloc that was preparing to fight the war to end human civilization.

One can easily turn the table and say that, why the US, who had 85% of world's resources and who had the benefit of making entire '3rd world' work as its unpaid colonies had so much poverty, homelessness and suffering in the same period. Especially among the blacks, minorities and those who were not from the 'right' socioeconomic background.

Then again, the inefficiency is built into capitalism in the form of maximization of profit.
I built https://www.quikk.co.uk which gives users a better audit trail and backup of their Xero accounting data. I’ve never really marketed it, but MRR-wise it’s doing ok. Promising volumes so far. I keep meaning to put effort into getting it into the hands of those who would benefit most from it but always get sidetracked with my other projects.

Throwing this out there, why not… if anyone would like to help me, let me know!
What if it's used for farmland only? Isn't that the main contributor to aquifer depletion in the midwest? Would the silt be helpful in that case?
You're a lot more polite than I would be :-)
Strongly disagree; The book is still highly relevant today.

Just because there is more unnecessary cruft and complexity in today's systems and tools does not mean the fundamentals/techniques are invalidated.
Nit: Power law distributions aren't specific to biology. Even the sizes of asteroids follow a power law. Absent some law of physics or another, your null hypothesis of any measure of just about anything is a power law.
The muxfs source code is a lot smaller than that of ZFS so if security is a concern to you then you might find muxfs easier to audit than ZFS. It also compiles quickly so could be a good match for a source-based system. This said I never aimed to "beat" ZFS.
Yes, and no one knows what Fukushima will costs, current estimates differ, but $200G are mentioned - the insurance would be 1% of costs.
> No X server and an obscure web browser. Useless.

Indeed, it uses a custom Wayland compositor. To me it looks like using a minimal Wayland compositor would fit the project better than using X. The same could be said about using Netsurf.
Are we sure this isn't a parody? You know, Poe's Law and all.
but did they unionize after getting rich or when they were broke?

for screenwriters, most studios will not even review scripts without going through SAG, according to an awarding screenwriter/director who is a good friend on mine.
What does “IF” stand for in your comment?

Are you referring to the IF expression or something different?
Virginia’s answer to Greyhound shows rural areas are worth serving
And more people die in car accidents each year than in wars. You need to compare against the number of trips made and I suspect they are substantially greater for bicycles.
> a four way stop will be even worse than a roundabout.

Maybe for people coming from the west, but it'd undeniably be way way better for people coming from the south.
ah. it talks about issues with putting fermions with spin on a lattice. there's more to fermions than a continuous exponential function though! :)
I'm coming out of the game development 'social circle' which is still a Windows fortress, but even there the wall is slowly cracking ;) In general I notice more and more that 'new peeps' are not automatically familiar with Windows, but instead started to tinker with programming on Linux.
>Shared libraries were introduced for a reason.

Lack of storage and bandwidth in the 1970s
This article makes do many poor assumptions. Disregard it.
You can try to define "commonplace" to win the argument, much as someone might define "blue" to win a "stop signs are blue" argument, in their own mind.

If you went looking for a human in medieval England who had never seen animals fighting each other to injury or death, surrounded by (indeed part of) a crowd yelling enthusiastically and enjoying the spectacle, you might find orphans raised in monasteries. Or infants who died before getting a chance, there was more of that, but I feel it's fair to discount that entirely.

Easily 99.9% of these people would have experienced that.

It was commonplace, your protestations notwithstanding.
Only if you think movies are reality ;-)
Doesn't work on all zip files I receive.

Doesn't support the bz2 and other that are quite frequent in my environment.

I haven't tested it, but my perception is that it's slower when there are a lot of small files.
Fortune is the worst. All clickbait bs.
It's a superset, but couldn't you just use Prolog?

E.g. GNU Prolog Compiler: http://gprolog.org/

> GNU Prolog accepts Prolog+constraint programs and produces native binaries (like gcc does from a C source). The obtained executable is then stand-alone. The size of this executable can be quite small since GNU Prolog can avoid to link the code of most unused built-in predicates. Beside the native-code compilation, GNU Prolog offers a classical interactive interpreter (top-level) with a debugger.
Holding foreign currency (USD)is not that easy and if there is a "corralito" event like the one that happened in Argentina, your USD is at risk too.
BSD-style init is over 40 years old with minimal user facing changes.
nix and containers actually eliminate all the benefits of shared libraries while still having all their problems
If we could preserve only one sentence (2013) [about economics]
The audible “buzz” in Yahoo Messenger remains my favorite feature to this day.
If I own 0.001% of a company which has to do 100 years of jailtime, it doesn't make sense to pay the overhead costs of jailing me for eight hours. Maybe I should do community service related to the harms my company caused or something like that instead.
This reminds me of yet another alternative implementation of ninja: N2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30806875
You can resolve the issue by getting this apple cable: https://www.amazon.in/Apple-MK122HN-Power-Adapter-Extension/...

I suggest reading the reviews since some people got the wrong ungrounded version of cable on amazon.

Apple India support is aware of the issue.
In K8 paths are clearer: Every bit of component that goes into a deployment is versioned. They deploy the same in every build. Its 100% certain.

The problem with stateful app scaling and HA comes from two things: the need to make files and database multi read-write and high available. Other than that, app scaling is pretty easy in K8 even for stateful apps.
I meant a real-life example, e.g., a news article of it really happening to someone or a court decision that upheld it.
I'm stuck with an open source project on Discord for a mix of developers, artists and casual users across a wide range of age groups. I'd love to migrate off but I honestly can't think of the right platform.

1. Lots of people like realtime chat. It's worth having something that fills that niche (the old "mailing list + IRC" combo used to work well)

2. Forum software is usually fairly awful. I don't want to install some 15 year old pile of PHP with bad UX.

3. A "Stack Overflow" style site requires a lot of moderation and either annoys users for being too messy or annoys users for being too strict

4. I actually still have some fondness for Google Groups but Google's brand is too tainted for most people.

5. Nobody under 30 seems to use email any more so mailing lists are out but something that syncs with email is a must (reply notifications etc)

I am also hoping for something free but very easy to install. (SaaS with a free tier, one-click docker or similar). And easy on resources ideally (I guess $10/month for hosting is about our limit at the moment)

Yeah. I'm asking for a lot.
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> A good interviewer will recognize that you memorized the answer, and ask a different question until you don't know it. Only then, will the interview be useful.

100%. You want to get to the boundary of the candidate's knowledge as quickly as possible.
So... Correct?
Exploring land-use histories of tree-crop landscapes
The best and simplest way to keep Windows 11 safe is to burn the disk it is installed on with gasoline; buying another and installing a Linux distribution such as Debian, OpenSuse and Fedora.
That is very interesting! Thanks for that info.
1 GB+ files to create a react app seems pretty crazy to me. That's an order of magnitude more than Rails.
FWIW I get a faster boot time than that slimmed Debian VM with a physical Celeron class physical box booting a stock kernel, even including the real BIOS and hardware initialization time. I don't think systemd really has much to do with why that VM boots slow.
I made a simple tool to extract comments from PDFs with different severity levels. Mainly developed for my use marking up documents for review in an academic context, a need many academics have but I'm not sure how many others.

https://github.com/hoffmangroup/pdfcomments
The only thing that incentivizes startups is access to capital. You need rich people.
You are correct - it was taken from just off the side of the road at the south end of the bridge where Townsend-Winona road crosses the railroad tracks.

You can see everything lines up on the street view, including the two telephone poles.

https://goo.gl/maps/v53oXcHXUpU49mXr7
Let's try that again.

ALGOL. The ALGOrithmic Language.

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

Which is the ancestor of C (via never-completed CPL, subset to BCPL, B, then C).

Which part of this are you disputing?

1. That the inventors of ALGOL knew their language well enough to choose a correct name (or knew what an algorithm is)

or

2. That C is a descendant of ALGOL?

You might also want to check out "The use of sub-routines in programmes", 1952

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/609784.609816

"Sub-routines seem to have two distinct uses in programmes. The first and most obvious use is for the evaluation of functions, a simple example being the evaluation of sine x given x. The second use is for the organization of processes..."
What kind of math is that?

That car will last you 10 years something you can hardly say about the cargo bikes.

You don't need a new car every year.
Are we Blub programmers? (2006)
I think it’s pretty silly to compare it to what was essentially a research and defense project. That’s why I compared it to the web.

I wouldn’t consider blockchain ecosystem growth as moderate at all. There is no growth. There are zero unique use cases on blockchain. No blockchain apps or use cases that couldn’t exist without blockchain. It’s an ecosystem for gambling on shit coins and reinventing the wheel.
One of the top 5 programming books.

Old AI is today's bleeding edge computer engineering. There is an enourmous amount of free lunches for computer engineers and software startups in the old school artificial intelligence.

* modern SAT solver performance is impressive. They can solve huge problems.

* Writing a complex systems configurator with Prolog or Datalog can be like magic.

* Expert systems. There has never been so much use for them than today. Whenever you see expensive systems utilizing complex mess of "business logic" and expensive consultants, you should know there is a better way.

(I use SAT-solvers to partially initialize neural network parameters).
> I think the total energy that's available to be used isn't 100% but 122%

This violates all known principles of physics. You can't use more energy than is input.
But even if we concede that the ADA is entirely untrustworthy, they are only one of many nutrition and dietetic institutions who have officially stated the same thing. That’s why it’s the general consensus, not just the theories of the ADA
Oh gosh. If anything, we're entering a golden age. Yeah, climate change is going to be a real pain. But nothing really more than that on a civilization scale. Global poverty is at an all time low, hunger has never been lower, overall health is the best it's ever been, education is going great globally, we've never been more equitable between the genders, our access to clean water is the highest ever, etc. And all these metrics are just going to get better, more or less.

https://upgrader.gapminder.org/
Valid points in the article but they boil down to:

1) WFH unexpectedly made for awkward at-home office arrangements (eg kitchen table) and meeting formats (eg. zoom) BUT over time people sorted these things out
2) WFH people worked much longer hours perhaps over compensating for not being in the office, and that takes its toll on health

That's it. So really nothing to see hear _except_ that this is a subtle attack on the WFH spun to favour those who need to see their workers in the office.

The funny thing is: WFH favours those who are productive but penalizes those who get ahead by 'networking' or 'schmoozing with the boss'. If you're in the latter group where promotion-by-popularity is what works for you then, yeah, WFH is a bummer.
And it doesn't address the semver malware injection bug demonstrated by colors author. Funny isn't it, any one of the thousands of npm package authors can inject a malware into our computers and nobody gives a shit.

https://snyk.io/blog/open-source-npm-packages-colors-faker/
It's a named lambda, using self capture, and that's been in other languages for decades. Scheme is a good example, with letrec.

Compile time recursive functions are likewise available in common lisp via recursive macros. Some schemes have them, too. And the syntax is much more elegant.
Would you also like to limit the size of the houses?
It's the current state of the art anyway. But also it's worth mentioning it's more complex than just a function x^2. When looking at a Feynman Path Integral you integrate an Operator (mapping a function to a function) over a an uncountable domain of functions. The other approach which is used to calculate probabilities goes with an approximation that cannot be used for simulations though. All this is not mathematically bullet-proof as Mechanics also speaking about Wightman axioms. (And even in Mechanics it's possible to construct infinities)
Apple reportedly tried to partner with Facebook to get a cut of its revenue
Keep in mind that it's restricted to Pro and up. Are you a home user who wants to disable all the crapware and telemetry Microsoft infected your machine with? You've got to pay Microsoft more money to be allowed to do that!
Here's the math:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32458027

I'm disappointed in HackerNews.
Related book by Stepanov and Rose : From Mathematics to Generic Programming.
True, but if it’s too early for a good documentation then talking about taking someone’s crown is too early as well.
That's only the case if you are a believer of socialism/communism, ie the labor theory of value. If not, then if one were a capitalist, they would say that systematically derisking the idea of reusable rockets is where Musk gets his billions from. If his workers are content with their compensation then that is what they agreed to.
I’m using iOS shortcuts for that. I guess an app is useful for those who don’t want to fiddle with setting up shortcuts.
Yeah, I've remembered this episode as well!
I'm curious how it handles the client side dns resolver. That's one of the sticking points for "fully static linking".

Edit: Looks like it uses musl's resolver. Which is better than I remember it when using it a long time ago. It does still lack some things like IDN/punycode support. And things like this: https://twitter.com/richfelker/status/994629795551031296?lan...

Pluggable authentication modules (PAM) may also be an issue with this setup, probably at least requires a lot of manual research and twiddling.
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What are the headaches with shared libraries?

Assuming that you pin the version of the library you need, two applications using the same library /shouldn't/ cause issues.

In most *nix systems - each instance of a shared library has its own data.
A chat service with extension to overlay anonymous chat functions on any website, with rooms grouped by url. All JS.

Also a peer to peer parking spot rental platform a la Airbnb. JS with a python backend.

A gamified voter registration Facebook app. Rails backend.

Not that I didn’t think I would market them, at the time I built them I was just unaware of how to effectively, and I have newer projects since.
We should be expecting a smaller proportion of the population to be working in most sub-sectors of the economy each year, as new, innovative areas provide opportunities for relatively inexperienced people with high aptitude to work more productively and earn higher wages. It's fine having people bagging groceries at supermarket checkouts, but that isn't really going to work out in the coming years if those same people are going to be demanding state-of-the-art medical treatments, developed-world retirement benefits and cutting-edge consumer goods.
Have had the same experience with my son. The T1 eyeball scene, even while quite primitive by modern standards, was much more impactful to him than anything in Stranger Things.
The point was precisely that all of these odd jobs are individually occasional but collectively common. You only need to move a mattress once every few years, but you also take camping trips a few times a year, you have vet appointments several times per year, you want to take your dog to a more remote park a couple times a month, you want to take your kids (and all of the things they require) to visit their relatives out of state a few times a year (plus other road trips), you have to transport large furniture or shopping items a dozen times per year, etc.

Moreover, it’s also just convenient to be able to get across town in half the time that you can by public transit.
This is the answer.

A lot of programmers I've met are either narcissists or autists bereft of self-awareness.

If you're a normal person you go into product management.

A coworker once told me that we are "society's elite". That's the level of delusion we're talking about here.
Yet, anything in the water is no more than a few hours away, and any mass of equipment or supplies can be moved there in that time, anytime you like.

Mars is always at best 9 months away. (Not 6 as Elon likes to lie.) Usually it would take much longer. And, how much stuff you can move at once is drastically limited.

There is no need to go below just a few atmospheres worth of pressure, in any case. Little that happens at the surface penetrates very deep.
It does not, in Sweden.
If I was painting a picture, and some well-meaning observer came up to me and said "I think the bottom left corner should be red; I want to hang a copy of this on my wall and it needs to co-ordinate with my colour scheme" then I would rightly tell them to go away and paint their own picture, or pay me to paint the picture they want.

Code is no different: you only get to tell me how my code should look and feel, or what features it has, if you pay me for it. If I'm creating it for the joy of creating it, then I get to say what it is and what it does. And it's utterly my right to refuse your money, block your comments, and continue doing something with my code that you don't like.

At least in OS you can fork my repo. Then it's your code and you can do what you like with it.
My go-to for needing to deserialize structured data in a fast way these days is flatbuffers[1]. It compacts nicely and more importantly is zero copy/allocation(within the constraints of your language where possible) in deserialize. Which lets you do neat things like mmap it from disk.

We used to store 20-30mb of animation data with it and we'd just mmap the whole file and let the kernel handle paging it in/out, worked great.

I don't know how up to date their benchmarks[2] are but my experience has been that it beats almost every other off-the-shelf solution(other than maybe capn-proto which has some similar properties).

[1] https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/

[2] https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flatbuffers_benchmarks....
5 years of (Neo)Vim – A personal retrospective
Base rate and attribution fallacies.

When a car kills a cyclist it's not the bicycle being dangerous, and you can't compare numbers directly without normalizing by some metric (hours, km, trips). Although in the latter fallacy I believe correcting it will make bikes look worse.
I’m actively working on language learning software through immersion at https://polyglatte.com . It’s currently completely free with no way to pay for it but I still feel some amount of guilt about self-promotion even though I get lots of positive feedback and it’s already helping people.

I find marketing to be very uncomfortable so I’ve been neglecting it, but I know it’s the only way to any kind of success.
I have a relatively common occurrence that seems somewhat similar.. often when I've entered a state of flow while building something (coding) and finished my session by being distracted and then not returning to the code until the following day, it appears to me that someone else wrote that code. I have no recollection of most of it - the solutions seem creative to me, novel, like I hadn't thought of them.
Why gas is cheap in America
I haven’t use it, but this fork of 7zip claims to have added some security features including Control Flow Guard and Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) Shadow Stack: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
I don’t think that’s true.

That machine is a threadripper 3970x with 256G 3.2GHz DDR4, with a 4xNVMe RAID0; it’s a disturbingly fast glass-cannon.

I mean, it’s not an accurate test for sure; but I seriously doubt your VMs can boot faster stock and with the bios, on a slower machine.
New cars don't cost $40k in the real world.

Also, there is close to no second hand cargo bike volume so it is absolutely a fair comparison.

If I want to buy a vehicle I don't care if second hand cargo bikes are available or not. I know that second hand cars so exist though.