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> The Merge is one of the largest technological events in the industry to date.

I feel kinda ashamed. I work in the IT industry and I claim to have knowledge about ("good") software engineering practices, distributed systems, compilers, algorithms, etc. Nevertheless, I didn't understand a word of what the article is saying. Could you recommend serious references (preferably books and not random blogs) I could read to catch up with what's going on with crypto these days? I'm not planning to "buy" crypto; I would like to understand the technicalities.
(albeit with some compromises)
I'm guessing you are not from Denmark as you read it in a completely different way than I do as a Dane.
Elephant in room.
Completely indefensible in a world beset with global warming and energy shortages
I do find it interesting that people hate on crypto for its energy consumption but ignore all the other wasteful computation.
what you're referring to is an earlier way the merge was designed. there is no PoW mining anymore.
This might help https://malisper.me/category/debugging-common-lisp/

I am not aware of another lang/platform that can offer this kind of flexibility except may be Smalltalk or Erlang, but then they don't have the homoiconicity.
What Clarence Thomas is saying is that these decisions shouldn't have been made by the supreme court, not that these things shouldn't be allowed. In his view these decisions require the legislative branch to rule on, not nine lifetime appointed judges. I'm not sure I entirely agree that the constitution has zero room for implied rights, but that's where I think he's coming from.

Edit: the Crux of the issue is that the supreme court can just as easily make bad rulings as they can good ones. To pick an admittedly dated but relevant example, the supreme court once ruled that black people are property and must be returned to their "owner", regardless of the laws of the state they were currently in.

Or we could just say "supreme court justice hates minorities and gay people and wants to make his own (interracial) marriage illegal." Who needs nuance?
Do you really think that the intersection of folks who are going to notice that images they've shot are over-processed/sharpened and folks who know how to get ProRAW files into Lightroom isn't a circle?
We'll still use that 0.5% for something else, right? It's not as if power generation (and emissions) will be reduced.
The validator of the first proof of stake block earned just over 45 ETH as everyone clamored to get their transaction in this historic block:

https://etherscan.io/block/15537394
There actually really isn't any difference between the two groups. They differ only in how they articulate the same bad logic.

Vaccines became broadly available in relatively wealthy countries in 2021 wherein the only reasonable position would have been that vaccination of all groups would decrease net mortality even among those unlikely to die and reduce damage to people's bodies that we were already seeing even with mild infections of otherwise healthy people.

A reasonable analysis of a complex topic with an unknown number of unknown factors is ultimately going to have at least some support among smart people for niche positions.

Going with what your emotions proves you are intellectually incapable.

Picking out one smart person with an articulate position that matches your emotional position proves you are an intellectually incapable person who thinks they are smart.

Picking out a niche position and searching for a handful of smart people who support it because it makes you feel smart to be a contrarian makes you intellectually incapable AND smug.

I respect people with the aptitude and the niche knowledge to break new intellectual ground even if they turned out to be wrong. I do not respect the 1000 idiots following that one fellow into the brush who ignored all the other smart people going the other way and neither should you.
Works well in comparison to anything else we know. Would love to hear any other methods you might have for communicating complex ideas.
Out of curiosity, I followed the wifi citation [1], and at a first reference it comes from the 1byte model on the page, which gives a simple Wh/byte figure. Which in turn appears be derived from the 5th spreadsheet by taking the total yearly energy consumption of devices that use wifi and dividing it by the amount of data said devices use over the year.

Which I have absolutely zero idea what use that ratio even could have, let alone be important enough for an entire spreadsheet. But it certainly is complete garbage for calculating the energy cost of data transfers.

(well, infrastructure kWh/GB calculated that way could be interesting, but still utterly useless for calculating a marginal energy cost)

[1] https://theshiftproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Lean-...
One can use also mermaid JS with its live editor.
From time to time i go through this cdc[1] website. It is quite comprehensive on child rearing tips.

For a longer form reading i went through [2] and still visit it from time to time. I like it because it discusses multiple approaches and methods and discusses what works and what does not. A bit more scientific, but the gist of it is that most of children's behavior problems are actually parenting problems.

Recently I was trying to figure out why my 1,5 years boy had more liquid poop only when he was in the kindergarten. This made him need to be home quite often. Turned out they were giving him some drink with fruit that made him drink too much water. Given that children do not have perfectly function water absorption in the colon if they drink too much, their stool gets more liquefied. The liquefied poop gets confused for viral diarrhea and he then needs to stay home. I got that insight from [3]. After resumption of diet and removal of sugary fruit from the water, he has been fine for a while now.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/parents/essentials/index.html
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK402020/
[3] https://adc.bmj.com/content/79/1/2
> just being a good person

You say it like this is something well-defined and easily achievable, but I am not sure it is.
I think it's just as simple as "if you want to interact with people through software you have to use the same software as them." Nothing controversial about it, its just that the interaction isn't chatting over telegram, it's transacting.

There's nothing stopping you from selling your ether to someone who wants it and deploying that capital on something else. Or ignoring it and forking the chain and keeping your fork ether. "But it's valueless" I hear you say, see my above paragraph for the answer to that one.
I wouldnt worry, the whole system up to this point has used "technobabble" as a means to confuse and impress outsiders. When reading up on it, there is no meaning to find besides "yep, its a linked list allright".
If that's the case, I stand correctly. Seems my understanding of the merge was an outdated one then. Thanks for the correction.
Some power generation is done by demand, e.g. coal plants are fired when there is demand or turned off when there is low demand. Same with e.g. pumped hydro and other sources.
That's on purpose. Used to be they only tested straight-on crashes. Of course this ment that car manufacturers only optimized for that situation. In the real world you're rarely aiming squarely for the front of the other car though, so those sorts of crashes were rather a lot more lethal until crash testing started taking them into account.

It's also generally just a harder crash for a car to deal with, so it makes sense to use in a comparison like this.
In the US, most credit cards don't have PINs and if one does nobody/nothing ever asks for it.

Debit cards, however, are downright nazis about PINs.
And a million gamers are still waiting for reasonable GPU prices.

Nvidia really milked that cash cow.
> ... encourage everybody to treat the customers fairly and kindly?

Do you believe that is an accurate summary of "management through a simple set of rules that stimulate complex and intricate behaviours benefiting customers"?

The customers in the story had experience that were more than fair and kind. In fact, they are quite remarkable interactions. And the repeatability of remarkableness is not easy.
Seems like you ought to be able to buy bismuth foil tape to put over the mag stripe, and block any sort of reader. It's not like most of us ever need to use it.

Or erase your stripe.
Bitcoin has had hard forks before as well man.
If I call a closure, I know what's going to happen - the closure is going to get called. Unless you are talking about the virtual jump, in which case that ship has sailed because Odin has function pointers. This is an allergic reaction to anything more useful than C, not a real complaint.
Also covering narrative of "great" and "safe" experimental vaccines.
I think this is why doctors consider chronic pain kind of not a thing. We are supposed to recalibrate. But I'm personally pretty sure this is nonsense and they have convinced themselves this is true so they don't have to feel bad about withholding powerful painkillers due to society disapproving of them.
>So many anti-vaxxers say you can't have any disagreements with the party line or you get cancelled and then these prominent experts at the top of their fields do it every week on TWiV and don't get cancelled (because they aren't full of shit).

On the one hand you say anti-vaxers are not cancelled but on the other hand you refer to them as full of shit. In spite of so many of their claims about the vaccine having been proven correct: it doesn't prevent transmission, it doesn't prevent severe covid or death, and for some age groups the risks outweigh the benefits: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4206070.
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You're correct! Thx
That’s because eth is a hype train. If you’re a distributed systems engineer you definitely grasp it
Energy generation changes depending on energy usage. The grids around the world are highly flexible (in relative terms) so when energy usage goes down, less energy is produced and vice-versa.
Solution: clear your magnetic strip.

(Actually I haven't done this. But really, shouldn't it be that simple?)
No, PoW on Ethereum mainnet is forever done after The Merge. The chain is now fully PoS.
Uber will close its IT center in Vilnius, the ride-hailing service remains
The validator is randomly chosen, no? So we essentially have a lottery as a banking system now?
The article sheds no light on why the charges were dropped. I myself never enjoy the sense that a guilty party gets off on a technicality when I care about the broken law.

If DNA is a random false positive generator, its efficacy as a perpetrator identifier is less than many are led to believe.

I'm not advocating for this use of DNA. I am soliciting any evidence for mixed feelings about it.
The car is only a hard requirement in the US because the country is designed for it to be a hard requirement. It's not some intrinsic fact of reality.
I don't disagree with you but using US sources when talking about Russian disinformation is like using Russian sources when talking about US disinformation.
Let me answer and then give you some background for my question.

> Which says you estimate 50-100 machines to saturate one "low-core count VM" Redis. But now you say you meant 50-100 machines for Redis servers?

No, I was referring to machines running business logic functionalities using Redis as part of their processing pipeline.

Said that, the reason for which I was asking for some numbers was to figure out if my expectation of "very often you need more room for the data than better performance" was making sense.

Because cachegrand will be able to store data on disk and to handle stream writes as well allowing to leverage the time series db, once fully implemented, it will able to cover a number of different needs.
This combined with the ability to run Webassembly means that you will also be able to run whatever you want directly in place and data will not have to go out and in from multiple systems to be processing making the pipelines much faster and cheaper to run.

Of course it doesn't take 1 day, especially because I am working on cachegrand during my free time (e.g. At night or over the weekends).
63 people were employed by Uber.

On Wednesday, 7th of September, Uber's leadership announced the Vilnius site would be permanently closed. The directors of their respective teams came to the office to share the sad news that Vilnius, as an engineering site, will be closed down. The reason? Lack of local, senior leadership.
So should all parking meters be replaced? Paid for by tax payers? How would you implement something like that?
Someone who has never seen a breast after feeding the babies that bite for long, and never known the pain when babies suck the hurt nipple.. Yes, we all would like to breastfeed the babies and keep them calm forever. (I am a father of twins)
The official Ethereum docs [0] are a good starting point. There are a lot of good resources under the "Learn" tab as well.

[0] https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/
>And it reduces the world's energy bill by 0.5%

I live in Europe and the measures my county is taking to combat energy shortage are pretty wild like limiting the heating of apartments, indoor swimming pools, reducing street lighting, but nowhere was is stated "banning crypto mining".

Pretty insane how we're just tolerating this massive energy waste just so some people and organizations can have something to speculate on for money.
Amazon had tons of quiet quitters. We probably could have coined the term.

1/4 to 1/3 of the engineering teams checked out during COVID. They operate in klo mode, keep the lights on.

Leetcoding doesn’t make you an effective hire. Plenty of leetcode geniuses who landed a job but can’t solve problems and either can’t do the work or just don’t want to.

Maybe 1/3rd are still active and faking it and last third are moving things forward.

I left last year, and it was a very political place. Management quality also regressed. One team I worked with were all former IBM employees who came to manage at Amazon. They quiet quit on Day 1.
I don't think that's feasible for anyone but someone like Google or another tech giant.

They could use Wikimedia Commons to get a smaller collection of better labeled images. Currently it's images from Common Crawl extracted by Laion, not sure if it already includes Wikimedia Commons.
I assume it has been debated again and again, but since I don't know the answer I'm going to ask:

We often complain people hold cryptocurrencies instead of using them as money. Isn't this change going to make this worse ?
Work in a tech role at a non-tech company. You get, like working conditions.
Crypto has a far lower ratio on utility/speculation than other wasteful computations. Deep learning is changing the world in many visible ways (with a whole lot of speculation regardless).
No one will ever say anything bad about game consoles, which consume much more electricity than cryptocurrencies =)
As it was before.
So this boils down to us lacking a fair and effective valuation methodology for leadership, which includes psychological aspects that possibly can't be objectively quantified.

p.s. Possibly a feedback mechanism where each contributor votes a fraction back to the person/team in charge and valuation (compensation) emerges that way.
I've referred to the first 3 years as a slow-motion hulk morph of stretchiness.

Hulk is grimacing for a reason ;)
I suppose my pointing out the obvious, isn't that obvious to people. But it strikes me as a crazy blind spot; Every serial killer, rapist, child abuser, blackmailer and swindler - had a job, in IT, in civil service, many more recently in the police force. We are bombarded with a steady stream of examples. How can people maintain a Disney princess belief in strangers, so long as they are employed?
I thought the same at the beginning. Yet somehow I think I'm missing something a bit more complex (complicated?) than just "linked lists". I don't want to understand only the theory but also the "practice" (e.g., one could read all about distributed systems... But one really gets the gist of it until one has to deal with real world networks in the cloud or on prem, dealing with real systems)
Are you familiar with Metalstorm? Pretty fantastic site for all things metal music related. The 'New Releases' and 'Upcoming Releases' section under 'News and Events' at the top would provide something similar to your Wikipedia page.

https://metalstorm.net/home/
Most cars do particularly poorly in overlap crashes. It's why those get tested specifically. it's harder to absorb than a full overlap crash.
There are not many anymore without a CHIP reader, because VISA and Mastercard FINALLY stopped the delay of shifting liability for all fraud to the individual gas station in summer 2021.
What is pre-registration?

https://www.cos.io/initiatives/prereg
there is no digital record on my Google Pay, because it is a tokenized system on top of a tokenized system
The mark of ignorance is to dismiss things you “think” are beneath you before any real consideration.

In my opinion too, the crypto crowd is typically one I like to avoid. But to dismiss the tech behind it as babble is sad.
To be clear, it's not possible to PoW mine with your GPU anymore. That's what today's update changed.
i don't know if we were just lucky, but co-sleeping worked very well for us.
The exact opposite.

Most published research is bogus. Not everything is physics or chemistry. Most things are actually not.

I'd rather advice based on extensive experience and wisdom than "research shows that ...". Basically everytime I see someone says "research shows" I mentally mark it as bullshit.
What sort of weird bootlicker wrote that headline?

Also, this is a cheap and bad reblog of this Insider article: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-hiring-freeze-cuts-pe...
I'm just following Rustacean traditions of fixing things from the root.

When you have to write a web browser, you do have to fix C++ before you can actually start. I'm digging a bit deeper by avoiding blackouts so my French servers keep running (the Nest has two other locations), then I'll fix the server code.
I'm in the same boat. However, I'm holding strong in being ignorant, as I believe crypto is a fad with no inherent value. I'm an avid reader and learner, but only if the topic is interesting or makes sense. Cryptocoins meet neither of those criteria -to me-.

That can be difficult if you read tech news like us, but it will give me a small twinge of joy if I live longer than crypto. Guess we'll see.
But wet bulb temperature != true temperature of the environment, no?
Or king size refrigerators and secondary home freezer a lot of people feel the need to have
calling it “The Merge” (with capital letters) makes it sound like a blockbuster action movie. I’ll say I prefer the book.
Thanks. I know the official docs. They just feel to me like the official docs of K8s (they are good, but not great. Great in the sense of "Brian Kernighan" or "Stevens" book kind of great). I guess there are not many more options out there I'm afraid.
This doesn't really change anything, I still cannot find any legitimate use cases for blockchain, Proof of Stake or not.

I would happy to be proven wrong, but this is extremely rare as I can't find any legitimate actual useful use case since Bitcoin and Ethereum's existence.
First thing I did when I got my new tv was to install this as screen saver (for oled tvs this is recommended).
We change strategies based on the expected cost/benefit of different strategies. The expected cost of covid is much higher than the flu and may be much higher for decades. We are basically never fully getting back to normal unless the cost of spreading your sneeze around gets back to where it was in 2019.

Instead we are looking at plentiful deaths and accumulating damage courtesy of even mild infections. We aren't actually going back.
Switch to a different currency that is still proof of work? I mean if you've got all the gear and just need to change was software is running and you get back to making money, wouldn't you?
For those having issues with copilot on vscodium, you can try this out, it's working for me now: https://prose.bentopais.pt/vscodium-and-copilot
If you still use plain chrome/chromium then yes.

But most people who use ublock origin use firefox as it is the most effective browser for ublock.
I could say the same thing about reading fields I don't generally understand, and it can seem like "technobabble" because I don't understand the meaning of words they are using, since some things are written with a certain audience in mind that possesses the knowledge to understand the content, like many academic papers.

However, I don't regularly dismiss fields like that, but rather I understand that not everything is meant for me to understand without a deeper meaning. Not sure why anyone would treat the (technical) ecosystem of cryptocurrencies differently. Seems like a non-curious way of acting.

Just like I realize the problems pornography introduces to the world, but reading and speaking with engineers working at those companies are still a fruitful endeavour for me.
Have you seen the "Line goes up" summary by Dan Olson?
It puts the crypto sphere into context. From that many descisions and marketing practices start to make sense.
He didn’t say they weren’t cancelled, he said that their claim that you can’t have any disagreements with the party line or you get cancelled.

Anti vaxxers tend to not discuss nuanced details and instead come out with unsubstantiated claims like “vaccines cause autism” which is going to get most people to stop listening to them
I may be able to recommend other resources if you tell me what "kind" of docs you are looking for. Maybe an example from another field?
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800070.802212 Probabilistic Encryption &
How To Play Mental Poker Keeping Secret
All Partial Information

https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/gilad-algorand-... Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements
for Cryptocurrencies

http://people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/Selected%20Scientific%20P... A DIGITAL SIGNATURE SCHEME SECURE AGAINST
ADAPTIVE CHOSEN-MESSAGE ATTACKS*
the only way to judge whether a vaccine has merit is by evaluating population level statistics on its risks and benefits. You either match the profile or you don't. There's nothing any individual doctor can add, that's not how vaccinations work. On what basis is a physician supposed to reject a vaccine when it would be indicated by the data, they just feel like it?
I am going to add support for neurosky, waiting for device
So you know art when you see it, and there is no intersection between porn and art? Your definition is the generally and legally accepted definition? Is David art? The Rape of the Sabines?

The corpus is of art, not Art.
Why not 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 .... 0?

I'm sure you know why, so why ask?
You're right. In fact, most write-ups on Darwinism (and evolution in general) incorporate too much intentionality in their tone when there might be none.
Trolling is still unwelcome here.
For those interested in understanding the tech rather than the typical bashing things as beneath them, I wrote up a detailed technical explainer of how Ethereum PoS works: https://0xfoobar.substack.com/p/ethereum-proof-of-stake
MrsUtil: Performance Counter Reader
People are getting regularly re-infected and sustaining progressive damage with substantially increasing risks of cardiovascular damage.
Micron Breaks Ground on Its $15B EUV DRAM Fab in the U.S.
I'm pretty sure our 4 day old will react exactly the same way to this as he does when we put him into the next to me cot straight after a feed. Which is to say he'll sleep for 2-5 minutes, realise he's further away from the breast than he wanted to be and wake up.

What works for us and our previous child is cosleeping. After I saw both my partner and our eldest fall asleep simultaneously after finishing a feed I became a convert.