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Personally, Nim fits a sweet spot for me. It has most of the items you listed, and makes a lot of projects interesting to me much more fun to program. It makes writing CLI utils and quick data migration scripts easy and fun. I use it for embedded software for the great balance of productivity vs performance.

I’ve been working to build more libraries and community for embedded software. It’s been slow going but a couple of companies are using it in shipping products. Nim leverages existing C code very well though.

Though Nim does have its downsides, primarily a smaller community. It’s small but active and not going away anytime soon. I think the ecosystem is slowly building a solid foundation of core libraries since the language reached 1.0 and found its feature set. But it doesn’t have a “killer” feature or single library to drive it. So hopefully the slow and steady buildup can keep going. For example, one big investor in Nim ecosystem for example just hired someone to work full time on the language server / tooling. There’s more work going on with numerical processing too (eg native graphing libraries, etc).

For me in many areas the language more than makes up for the smaller community. I can wrap C/C++ libraries quickly and I don’t need to do borrow checker. Though I would say it sounds like Go or Swift might fit some of your preferences too. Rust is great in many ways but I am more productive with “compile time duck typing” while Rust favors traits and fixed predefined abstractions.
>Similarly, if AI applications become democratized and accessible to all enterprises, not just the hyperscalers, then it is Nvidia who will be positioned to pick up the entirety of the long tail.

How does this square with Cloud providers themselves being hyperscalers ? What's to stop Google/AWS/Microsoft's hardware divisions from outpacing Nvidia since those businesses themselves may need the hardware and can then provide it to end users of their cloud platforms.
I have a theory about why that exists, in particular.

1. The trope of the 'Depraved Homosexual' has a long established history in pop culture and cinema. Anal beads as the choice for cheating would fall, comfortably, into that trope. [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepravedHomosexu...]

2. Chess is full of VERY smart people. One of the most common ways to insult a smart person is to call into question their sexuality; hence why we have to have entire movements related to calling out anti-lgbtq+ statements like "that's so gay". [https://welcomingschools.org/resources/stop-thats-so-gay-ant...]

Anyway, combine those two things, and you get your answer. It's because the world hasn't really evolved at all in the last 30-40 years, outside of what we have been forced to do by law. It's easy and socially acceptable to call a man gay as an insult, so in a roundabout way, that's what we're getting with the anal beads talk.

I sort of laser focused on this last week when I heard this theory for the first time. It just struck me as so. . . odd. Why would that be a thing? That's what I came up with.
He wasn't GM at 16. He was awarded the GM title last year. Why make up stuff?
(Nhost)

Sorry for not answering everyone individually, but I see some confusion duo to the lack of context about what we do as a company.

First things first, Nhost falls into the category of backend-as-a-service. We provision and operate infrastructure at scale, and we also provide and run the necessary services for features such as user authentication and file storage, for users creating applications and businesses. A project/backend is comprised of a Postgres Database and the aforementioned services, none of it is shared. You get your own GraphQL engine, your own auth service, etc. We also provide the means to interface with the backend through our official SDKs.

Some points I see mentioned below that are worth exploring:

- One RDS instance per tenant is prohibited from a cost perspective, obviously. RDS is expensive and we have a very generous free tier.

- We run the infrastructure for thousands of projects/backends which we have absolutely no control over what they are used for. Users might be building a simple job board, or the next Facebook (please don't). This means we have no idea what the workloads and access patterns will look like.

- RDS is mature and a great product, AWS is a billion dolar company, etc - that is all true. But is it also true that we do not control if a user's project is missing an index and the fact that RDS does not provide any means to limit CPU/memory usage per database/tenant.

- We had a couple of discussions with folks at AWS and for the reasons already mentioned, there was no obvious solution to our problem. Let me reiterate this, the folks that own the service didn't have a solution to our problem given our constraints.

- Yes, this is a DIY scenario, but this is part of our core business.

I hope this clarifies some of the doubts. And I expect to have a more detailed and technical blog post about our experience soon.

By the way, we are hiring. If you think what we're doing is interesting and you have experience operating Postgres at scale, please write me an email at nuno@nhost.io. And don't forget to star us at https://github.com/nhost/nhost.
You don't have to compile every file with the same flags. You can vary them with each invocation of the compiler, so trivially get what you want at the translation unit level.
You think the fraud tech on ATMs is bad already? Wait until you see what people would do with those computers :)
I would argue not trusting MS is even sillier. Like it or not, they run most desktops around the world. Even if you only run the purest NetBSD at home, nearly everything someone knows about you will touch Windows at some point. In terms of secureboot et al, MS hasn't done any of the shenanigans people were worried about. You can still turn off SB on every x86 desktop. What is the actual risk here? At the end of the day, MS isn't the government.

Raptor Systems is right there for the truly paranoid.
In a production data base why are people executing long running queries on the primary. They should be using a DB replica.
Within the probation period, you dont need a reason, its fire-at-will. After those 6 months, it will be almost impossible to fire anyone for "performance reasons" (or any other reason). Have you ever heard of a large german Software company that makes quality software? There is your reason :)
There is a difference between a subject that changes with observation and a subject that changes adversarially with your statistical methods. A qualitative difference.
I’m sorry - I was grumpy when I wrote my previous comment. There are certainly worse ways to spend one’s time than to write about AGI. I have nothing against your proposal (I haven’t read it) and I wish you good luck in building whatever it is you want to build, or finding collaborators.
I believe you don't see the problem. How can I help you see it?
"random redditors say it!"
Because Apple prioritises the best user experience.
Wild to see file based routing come back, it was cool in 2002, then it was lame in 2012 and now it's cool again.
> You cannot escape latency (without inventing another universe in which physics do not apply). And latency is detrimental to performance.

This. So few people distinguish between bandwidth and latency. One can be increased arbitrarily and fairly easily with new encoding techniques (which generally only improves edge cases), and the other has a floor that is hard-coded into our universe. I've gotten into debates with folks who think a 10GB connection from the EU to Texas should be as fast as a connection from Texas to the Midwest, or to speed up the EU-TX connection they just need to spend more on bandwidth.
In our company, we have people who are with us for 7 to 11 years now. Our Mid to Senior Devs are with us for at least 6 years on average.

Culture plays an important role in keeping the people, it's not always about the money.
People say they're pissed, but open their wallets all the same. I wouldn't correlate internet outrage to anything real. Same as every time people say they're going to boycott anything online.
I've been toying with adding a new generator to Derw (currently targets JS, TS, Elm, English and Derw itself for formatting) that would support Go-based output. It will probably be an experimental branch later this year. Go's performance and distribution makes it an appealing target to hopefully get a faster runtime (particularly interested in making the compiler faster once self-bootstrapping is finished)
I play chess casually and wanted to note that 2600 is pretty darn good. I'll never reach that number but will never stress over it either.
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No ads on iOS w/ Firefox Focus as content blocker
Short answer: yes. Despite the doomsayers and the fact that you might not know anyone that works in manufacturing, the US is still a manufacturing powerhouse.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-manufacturing-scor...
At 18% of global manufacturing output already, "a net gain of 67,000 workers above prepandemic levels" is not going to move the needle.
That’s because the platform is actually changing.
> My second CTO was very technical an up to date the first wasn’t. The only difference between the two day to day was with the second one , I could use terms without defining them first. They both deferred to my technical judgement and I worked with the understanding of how to align my initiatives with the company’s.

> I work with CxOs all the time in consulting now. I have no problem getting my ideas through CxOs or architecture review boards.

Something to consider: there is probably not much difference between technical and non-technical when their reports are good.

But a technical CTO can stand up to reports that want to go down an obviously bad road, whereas a non-technical CTO would have as much defense as I would at jiffy lube when the tech asks me if I want my fluids flushed. It kind of sounds like a scam, but I really don't know.
It does sound like you are thinking about it too much like phone battery degradation. EV battery degradation is nothing like that, and trying to analogize from phones makes battery degradation seem like a much bigger deal than reality says it actually is.

A giant factor here is that modern phones use passive heat management (they rely a lot on air resistance for cooling rather than finding room/space for fans and coolant) and most EVs use active heat management of one sort or another (they have room for fans/coolant/heaters/etc; and need them for cabin and passenger HVAC anyway). Heat is the biggest impact on degradation. A car does not degrade in the same way that a phone does.

Current statistics are that outside of EV models with known bad heat management (many Leafs, early Teslas), degradation is rarely to never a problem and is "always" in single digit percentages of maximum range after 10 to 15 years. (A loss of 7% of a 350 mile range over 10 years is barely 25 miles it drives less per charge, and almost imperceptible a shift at roughly 2.5 miles change per year.)

You can argue that current statistics may still be "too early" for statistical significance, especially given that huge caveat that there are entire models that need to be tossed as outliers. But that's also its own indication that early adopters have helped iron out R&D kinks in EV battery heat management and industry standards are only getting better. I know statisticians that think that single digit percentages may even be too big and too pessimistic and that there are a few more outlier car models to toss that haven't been already and that we'll see even better statistical model in a few more years.

(ETA: It's also important to note that of the statistical outliers, few have seen battery replacements even post-degradation. There are some Leaf owners that have replaced their batteries, but the vast majority of Leafs still have their first battery in whatever "degraded" state they are in.)
The transformation at 0:39 is also incredible.
Being extremely competitive is not being a sore loser, and he is playful and spirited in trash-talk. But he ultimately always shows respect towards his opponent, even when he's extremely disappointed in himself.

Being upset at a loss, which you'll see in a few videos, is much different than disrespecting the person who beat him.
What makes you think AMD's chips are that much less complex? They hold up well in benchmarks.

And add price to the comparison (since we are commenting on price/performance), and AMD already comes out ahead of Nvidia. Here's an article [1] that basically reproduces AMD's on PR on this, but other sites corroborate this.

[1] https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-claims-to-offer-better-perfo...
what would it give that evolution of the .NET runtime and tooling isn't likely to offer?
Yes, I can watch a TikTok but I can’t just swipe them endlessly.

The speed is like 5kB/s, maybe, the speed tester is not loading so I don’t know. And last time I downloaded something I don’t remember.

I am on my iPhone now so I use Safari on my laptop I use FF. Everything is slow ofcourse. But sites like HN is fast and even FB is quite fast.

We connect to ship’s wifi hotspot, each crew member has a login/passw. Now it is unlimited (16h per day is not really a limit) but before we had to survive on 250MB per month. You could buy 100MB for 10Eur but rarely somebody used this option. As you would need to spend a lot of money to feed your apetite, might aswell stay on the 250MB.

I hear some ship’s don’t have internet at all, it depends on the owner/manager. Master ofcourse has but not the crew.
When near land or in port, we use our mobile bandwidth. EU has a united plan so I use that alot. If in Africa, Indonesia, whatever local ‘businessmen’ sell you local sim cards. :)

I don’t have many apps where there is an web alternative but for reddit I use i.reddit.com, it is habit from the 250MB time but it loads faster than the regular web or the app.

For content download, I have only had offline wikipedia. And since older times we prepare at home with videos, music, books, games etc.
We have problems with the internet pretty much everyday. The internet can shut down for a few hours due to “RADIUS server not responding”, the ship’s heading might not be favourable for the connection etc
While the US is banning Girl Coding books: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/26/pennsylvania...
Because it's sensational.

The key takeaway is that if you have someone assisting you (entering the information into the computer) they only need a very simple way of sending a signal - which could be a "do something unexpected" or "this move is crucial". And you'd only need a time or two in a game to get the edge, assuming you're already skilled at the game.
> We are mostly made of water. Luna definitely has an effect on our bodies and our moods

I accept that the moon has effects in the tides. As for the rest...

I have heard that before, but every time it was by someone who standed to gain something from me believing that - that when Moon is on the 7th House and Jupiter Aligns With Mars then Peace will Guide the Planets and Love Will Steer me to open my wallet and register to this self-help course.

Do you have any reference to a credible source that can prove that the Moon has those other effects you mention? Something like a test with a significant enough number of people involve, and a control group.

> Why isn’t it a good thing to understand the ecosystems around us that is time and space..and the ecosystem with us that is mind and body?

I strive very hard to understand the ecosystems around us (And beyond - from the most distant galaxies to how the atoms and sub-atomic particles make us work how we work). But I use Science for that.
He hasn't cheated in a FIDE event as far as FIDE knows. Banning him for cheating at 12 and 16 in an unrelated to them place (and not even OTB) without anything else would just be bizarre. Even more so, when players who have actually cheated in actual FIDE OTB games as adults start off with a temporary rather than permanent ban.
If you are doing things you like, it's not wasted :)
Data exchange is integral to every business partnership. Yet data exchange practices today are highly manual, prone to data leaks, difficult to validate, inherently impossible to monitor, and costly to audit. We're building General Folders to enable secure, secure, and auditable data exchange.
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The genre he works in is often described as hyper-realism.
I was CTO long time ago. Rose to position from being a programmer in small company. As the company grew bigger I kept moving up. Was still pretty technical though. I still coded a little in order not to loose sanity but most of my time was spent doing high level design, architecture, getting into some strategic technical partnerships and so on for some giant projects in telecom and other enterprise software areas and making sure it was correctly interpreted down the line.

Then one day new owners came and after talking to them a little I said fuck it and went on my own. Consequence of being close to burnout. Now 20+ years later even though I did not become rich I have my own one company where I design and create products. Some I own, some are done for numerous clients. I mostly work alone but hire subcontractors on on need basis and am happy like a clam.
The cheating technique could be ingenious in itself. I remember what students were coming up in high-school, back in the day, without modern technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv6V1yHvJyo
Left the fanbase to stew about it for weeks. Ridiculous. This just makes things worse.
> Yes, space is an issue if you think of it in terms of the customer's attention span.

By that argument they should also get rid of most old music, old books, old movies.
This is just wrong. Some older APIs are simply insecure or inefficient for example, and of course there are things that apps must now ask permission for where they didn’t in the past.

Apple can’t make these things compatible, nor should they try.
You are hung up on the wrong thing. Parent writes: "[clear consensus that] there was absolutely nothing unusual about it", I quote one of the greats saying the game is "more than impressive", which, at least we should agree, is the exact opposite of claiming there is "nothing unusual about this game". Onus is on parent to come up with a list of grandmasters claiming the game was "usual", at least I provided one refutation but there are many.
The rampant doping got so bad they had a highly publicized congressional hearing about it. I doubt it ever stopped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_baseball#Congression...
Go has nice libraries for networking on Linux.
Yeah this is interesting … she shows that Hans had many tournaments where he shows record setting move accuracy as measured by correlation to Stockfish 15, and that 6 of these tournaments occurred in a row. She also shows that for those tournaments even by Reagans model, Hans results would be like a 1/70000 chance if legit.
It's important to note that "sleeping while inactive" is not quite paying for what you use. These Dynos will start up to serve a request, and stay active constantly until they receive no traffic for 30 minutes.

This means, if you want to run a small cron job once an hour, you'll still pay for half a month of usage. Similarly, a very small amount of traffic spread evenly will still use up these hours quickly. It also doesn't come with any Postgres, that's another $5.

$5-10 a month isn't a lot, but it's very different to Free, and if you're going to pay it might be worth considering hobbyist-friendly alternatives. A $5 VM goes a long way for services with a little traffic or a bunch of hourly cron jobs.
As a parent of a now 13 year old - it is not reasonable for a 12 year old to play a for money tournament. 12 year olds may "know right from wrong" in some sense, but they do not have adult brains. Expecting them to make decisions like an adult, or understand "right and wrong" the same way an adult does, is ludicrous.

This is equally true of a 19 year old.
> When was this?

About 10 years ago, at the time the minimum wage was around $9/hr to $10/hr or so. Adjusted for inflation it'd be around $13.78 in today's money.

> As an aside - what leads to a talented individual doing dev for $11/hr CAD? I'm not able to conjure up a scenario where that is the case other than they were working for their own startup ... ?

They were freshly graduated, with low cost of living at that time. But like many new graduates, were having difficulty getting that first job, which caused a measure of desperation. Throw in the fact that the problem domain we were working on at the time was genuinely interesting, and it's not too difficult to convince yourself that kind of money isn't so bad. At least for a while.
Outside, like where?

Hans has performed well in tournaments where there was no live broadcast. What's the explanation?
You know what I meant..
> to ensure correct lifetimes

Refcounted pointers don't make that guarantee. They just guarantee that if they are incorrect they will not deallocate (== will leave garbage) and thus never result in a use-after-deletion.

Most of the time they are fine but they can't handle circular structures. This is why C++ has the weak_ptr.
I have a home office. Laptop & internet, sure, but also my quite decent home lab. Logic analyzer. Spectrum analyzer. Oscilloscope. Multimeters. Soldering station (including hot air rework). Power supplies (some are actually my employer's). DC Load. Multiple monitors, mechanical keyboard, decent mouse. All laid out the way I want them, in a way that it's easy for me to use them all. And it's in a quiet (when my birds aren't shouting) dedicated space, so I don't have to wear noise-cancelling headphones all day.

Also I have birds. It's a lot easier to interact with them as much as they need when working from home than it is when working from an office.
Here's the European director of the IMF talking about petrodollar recycling (directly labeling it as petrodollar recycling). https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/53/sp0323...

This isn't some kind of conspiracy
True, but IMO doping is much less of an existential threat to the game than computer-assisted cheating is for chess.
Hans?
I was a bit bored in 2021 and going out a lot less than normal, so I had time to experiment with an Android phone using all open source privacy respecting apps. I managed to make it work, but it took quite a lot of my time and resources and definitely meant sacrificing some conveniences. Eventually, when I started going out and being more socially active again, it got to be too inconvenient for me, and I decided to switch to Apple and be less strict about it. While I did pick up some more careful privacy practices, I have no doubt that my location could easily be tracked by multiple parties. To be honest, it could probably have been tracked much of the time when I was going all out to avoid it too. If nothing else, cellular network operators can determine my position by which towers my SIM card is connecting to, and I have no illusions about that data being private. I'm sure that being tracked by Wifi networks, bluetooth and payment terminals is also happening all the time. I don't like that everyone is so trackable in the modern world. But avoiding it basically means opting out of all of these trackable technologies and living like a monk: no cell phones, no cars, no cashless payments, etc. How many people really want to make those sacrifices?
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