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> But if I bought an iPhone, I have no option to use a charger I already own. The extra purchase is absolutely required to make the device work. It's not the same charger as the other Apple devices I've owned. If your last phone wasn't also an iPhone, it's a required purchase.

Of course you do. I've not seen a cable-bonded phone charger in over a decade now.

You just need a lightning cable, all chargers will have either an USB-A or USB-C female plug.
No, I'd rather spend my time doing something useful than looking for replacements for words.
If you are a starting out, you don't have to use terraform, use the console. Nothing stops you from using the managed services in a heroku box either. Need a queue for your API Heroku->SQS. Need storage, Heroku->S3. The industry always talks about best practices but rarely mentions maturity models which this article gets close to brining up but stops short.
Pure FUD.

It's obvious that MS don't mind selling you a subscription to their software if it fits your needs --- and it may for a significant number of people. But the truth is, these same people are probably not candidates for stand alone Linux either.

At the same time, it is equally obvious that making a subscription the only available option would be disasterous for them.
> But if I bought an iPhone, I have no option to use a charger I already own.

Why? I have multiple chargers around my house, and only one of them is an Apple charger. The rest are Anker USB-C chargers. My phone came with a USB-C to Lightning cable, and it works fine with any of those chargers.
Came here looking for Termination Shock references, was not disappointed :)
This! The altimeters with issues are not operating to their design specs. No one noticed until 5g apparently but imo it’s on the altimeters, and not 5g, if they aren’t properly rejecting out of band noise/energy.
These megacorps likely have IT which is not mega enough to justify owning a massive datacenter.

The right scale is Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft. Likely much fewer than a hundred companies in the entire world.
“A Plea for Lean Software” by Prof. Niklaus Wirth (Non-PDF Version)
In breach of what?

No employment contract or agreement I've ever seen has prohibited someone from holding two W2 positions. Competing, sure. Sharing trade secrets is already illegal. Double-billing hours (e.g. on invoices or hourly work) is already illegal.

You're falling into a number of traps, not the least of which is thinking anyone who does contracting would ever agree to 50h/wk for a single client. "I'd be right more than I'd be wrong" is not sufficient justification to put additional requirements on a contract that almost certainly were not there to begin with.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/30/rupert-russ...

An absurd example you note that highlights the role algorithms play in unhinging prices from reality is Anne Hathaway’s connection to Berkshire Hathaway’s stock value. Bad news for the actor gets translated into bad news for the company just because they share a name!

Speculators I spoke with said if you really want to understand how markets work, you’ve got to understand how Berkshire Hathaway is correlated to Anne Hathaway’s film career.

Whenever an Anne Hathaway films come out, Berkshire’s Hathaway stock gets a bump. And when bad things happen to Anne Hathaway, like when she got into a car accident, Berkshire Hathaway’s stock goes down.

What they’re saying is they have algorithms that are reading headlines – think Reuters, Bloomberg stories – that are fed into the computer and can detect whether it’s a negative or positive story and trade accordingly.
> Unless you hire a good (read: expensive) devops person to look after your infrastructure, clickops-ing your way through the AWS console will likely leave behind a pile of unused instances and components that will eat into your budget.

While this is true-ish (finding lost resources or just not creating them in the first place is not that complex), when the day comes that you will need/want to move to one of the cloud providers you will need a good devops to handle that hybrid cloud environment and making the transfer as painless as possible.
cross cloud routing, DB migrations and not to mention setting up secure access for all of it is less complex in my POV then cost managing your cloud account
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Many good suggestions on the thread already. Talk to your boss if things are really automated. Gather your support contact methods including how to escalate with Epicor. When issues arrive, then document bugs super well including steps to reproduce if you can (speeds things up). Have an open bug list and triage with the support team. Communicate frequently, and cleanly with all stakeholders. Also, it will be ok! You got it!
Perhaps instead we could train an ML model to find these use-after-free bugs?
There is a middle way, just set your boundaries on which AWS services you want to use. 1 x EC2 server + 1 x application load balancer and a few S3 buckets works well for my hobby projects (ALB is just for multiple domain SSL and reverse proxy). You can run docker on the EC2 and deploy containers. Yes there is a small amount of setting things up in the AWS UI and some bash scripting for deployment, but then you'd have to configure your DNS and firewall somewhere with a VPS anyway.
I think this section is worth emphasizing - mental disorders are as unlikely to be due primarily to underlying genetic issues as getting an infectious disease is:

> "The oft-cited claim, for example, that schizophrenia has a genetic basis has failed to pass scientific muster. As Scull discusses, after failing to find a Mendelian set of genes that could explain schizophrenia, researchers in the 2000s pinned their hopes on new genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that could investigate hundreds of thousands of base pairs in the search for genetic linkages to psychiatric disorders. But GWAS studies have not revealed a clear genetic basis for schizophrenia (or bipolar disorder, for that matter). While combining hundreds of genetic sites can help explain, at best, 8 percent of the observed variance of schizophrenia, it is still possible for an individual to have many of these genetic variations without developing the disease."

There might be some influence - for example, someone born with genetic immunological defects is likely to be more susceptible to various infectious diseases, and there might be some kind of brain development issue that means that some people are less able to cope with high levels of stress, disappointment, trauma and so on - but the claim that this outcome is somehow ordained at birth is nonsensical.

All in all, the science of mental disorders today could be compared to the science of infectious disease in say, 1890 - they didn't have much in the way of understanding of core mechanisms, even if some approaches (surgical sterilization, rigorous post-operative hygiene, etc.) were being shown to reduce mortality.

Probably the most promising tools in this regard are the use of psychedelics under controlled settings to improve outcomes, but even here, the research is basically in its infancy due to the socio-governmental paranoia over these substances.
That makes sense. I could do something like that.

[UPDATE] I ended up doing something even simpler. I have issues with running scripts during the build process, unless really necessary (I have done it, and will, again).

Since this is Xcode, I simply needed to store the file in a directory (still with the global ignored name) far out of my dev tree, and dragged the file into the IDE.
OP is an intern, at most companies promotions and job offers are literally impossible. Of course they might be able to swing a permanent job, but I'm not convinced this place would be great for learning or for career.
Activists with JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
You can choose sys-net to be a disposable during the install. It's not the default. You can also make it a disposable manually: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/disposable-customization/#using...

Beware that your WiFi password will be forgotten every VM reboot (but there is a workaround on the forums).
If I remember correctly (I don't own an iPhone so to me this is kind all hearsay) what happened is Apple stopped shipping charges around the time chargers became USB-C, while their older ones used USB-A on the brick.

So the iPhone package would come with the phone itself, and a USBC-lightning cable, but the USB-C brick wasn't included and was ludicrously expensive, and nobody had one since it was new.
While science fiction, the Safehold series by David Weber gets into this. As the series opens, everything is made by its own guild/foundry to the point of cannon balls for one ship wouldn't work on another because of the lack of standardization. Guns (muskets) where such that if a part broke you needed a gunsmith to craft a new part for it... which might have slightly different dimensions so it was best if it didn't break in the first place.

As part of the foundations for rapid technological advancement, standard weights and lengths were put into place by the crown... and that then allowed the foundries and factories which made the parts to specialize instead of needing a master gunsmith to craft each part for each gun, you could have many lightly trained people making the parts and then the gunsmiths only needed to assemble it.

At a point later in the series, one of the characters on the other side of the war demonstrates this by taking three rifles and disassembles them, and then reassembles a working rifle with parts randomly selected from the different three disassembled rifles and asks his leadership if that was something that they would be able to do (it wasn't).

This in turn allowed for tighter tolerances for the weapons of war which then in turn meant more powerful weapons and being able to out produce larger nations even with a smaller industrial base.

Consider the question then of "at what point in the history of the world could you take three rifles made by the same maker and swap parts and still have it be perfectly serviceable?"
I am currently in the middle of setting up AWS and that decision graph made me chuckle because it resonates quite deeply.

I need to do GPU inference but I don't want to run the machine 24x7. I may use it for about 4 hours per day at best. Lambda doesn't offer GPUs and neither does ECS+Fargate.

It seems like I could setup an endpoint using Sagemaker and then destroy it when no longer needed, and automate all of this but it feels quite messy.

The other route is perhaps I can launch an instance every day with ECS and then get rid of it.

All these routes seem quite inefficient. There seems to be something called Elastic inference where I can provision the right amount of GPU resources - but it seems like I'll need a spare EC2 instance to do that if I'm not mistaken, which is not ideal either.

I guess all this stems from the fact that there is no straightforward virtualization for GPU workloads and so they have to provision them 1:1 which currently they are not equipped to do.

Has anyone run into a similar problem and found a more elegant solution? All of the above are very messy. Is there some obvious choice I am missing?
See The meaning of the phrase "well-regulated" in the 2nd amendment[1].

[1]: https://www.constitution.org/1-Constitution/cons/wellregu.ht...
It would've been helpful to tell everyone 9000 BRL is about 1705 USD, since they probably don't know the conversion rate off the top of their heads...

and 20000 BRL is 3788.84 USD.
right and i read back my post and i leave out some context and do not mean to disparage my boss or the company i work for. and i think you may be right, instead of being afraid and, lack of a better term, paranoid about this situation i could instead embrace the challenge, and communicate better what i do know and what i don't know.

you had me at "pay raise" hehe..
Hey, coincidentally I am about to start a role in "Application Modernization" as Cloud Solution Architect at MSFT (though I only have experience with AWS).
Do you mind if I ask u some further questions via the email in your profile?
> Even a train, it's possible that nobody were seeing clearly "why" it could be useful, do you really need to go so far with that amount of people?

Railways predate steam locomotives by about 250 years [1], or 200 years if you only count overland railways (as opposed to their use in mines). They were mainly used for transporting coal. You could argue that replacing the horses with steam engines was a very straightforward idea as soon as it was technologically feasible.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagonway
Yes I’m in complete remission. I intend to get around to publishing extensively on the matter at some point.

I had a few false starts before I figured out that most of the strategies typically proposed are superfluous. It was hard to sustain multiple habits (CFS itself makes it much more difficult) and I suspect that’s a common failure mode in recovery.

So, I pared back my approach to just 4 things that I regarded as essential: visualizations during the day as needed and as described, walking outside 3-4 times per week, meditation in the mornings (used the Waking Up app), and intense sleep hygiene (including using visualizations and other techniques to become deeply relaxed right before falling asleep).

The sleep part was critical for me personally and I suspect would be for most people with CFS. At one point in my journey, I did a polysomnography and discovered that my sleep architecture is highly disordered (no surprise in CFS). In particular, the study showed I had an astounding zero percent deep sleep. My theory is that chronic nervous system activation prevents brain waves from slowing down to a low enough frequency to enter the deepest (and most restorative) stages of sleep. If you’ve ever had a random ‘good day’, then you’ve observed the difference and probably wondered why you suddenly felt so much better and how you might sustain that. In fact, you can look at r/CFS and you’ll see countless stories of people frustrated at suddenly feeling better and not understanding why. The answer, in my view, lies in how relaxed you happen to be while sleeping.

I didn’t have to modify my diet or do anything else to get better. Took about 2 months to start breaking out of the CFS state and 2 more months to become consistently stable. Things keep improving, as you maintain what you’re doing. And you’ll recover roughly in step with how much you do to target the nervous system (and inflammation) and how often you do it. A good model for what you need to do is weaken and override neural patterns that have been reinforced for a long time. It doesn’t happen all at once.

I would also advise limiting activity that causes overactivation of your nervous system. You shouldn’t need to go out of your way to create situations to practice what I call ‘counter-relaxation’. You’ll also very naturally want to do much more as you start to get better, so you can expand your activity slowly as you regain energy.
We've been doing iPhones & iPads in our family for a number of years now, so we have lots of USB-A bricks, but we also have a number of USB-A to Lightning cables. They don't charge as fast as the USB-C version, but it's still fine, and we're not throwing away the USB-A bricks just yet. Through attrition they will eventually all be replaced.
Most of the time the app really is fast. These old cobol apps have character limits per a screen for the amount of code you can use. Imagine each screen being like 200 lines of code with some raw storage behind the scenes. I had to performance tune a 3270 (mainframe) emulator once in c# and it took 2-3 weeks to get the c# app on a xeon processor to have to start waiting on the mainframe. Also nothing, ever, ever, timed out, ever.
I don't follow UK politics very closely but the actions of him and Truss seem so tone deaf and incompetent (BoE trying to fight inflation and raise rates, so you announce a huge debt-funded tax cut?). I'm always confused by this because they have smart people around them right? Are people at this level surrounded only by sycophants and so never get to hear these criticisms until after its announced to public? How do people at such a high level fuck up like this?
BiggerBio creator here:) I really appreciate you getting the word out on https://Bigger.Bio . Fee free to link to BiggerBio from the users profile page on Zedtopia and give them that option.

To answer your question. At the moment, we are just trying to be cooler, have a sexier UI and easier to use, watch this space though we will be adding lots of really cool features.
hahaha thanks for the laugh, i needed it...

and i think you are right. i need to remember my place/position.
> Would I have risked jail for saying that in Turkey, had this law been in place, a year ago?

If it is against a government narrative, sure.
A passenger tampering with the flight controls of a 747 is also insane, but if there are no pilots and the plane is in an uncontrolled dive, then it's still not necessarily a bad idea.
It's not OK to let kids drink coffee – so why do we do it?
My experience was that implementing/modifying an existing (basic) fpga ethernet stack is pretty doable, since you quickly get an indication that something works and there are very distinct layers.

The colorlight 5a-75b together with Litex is a great way to get started for cheap.

If you want something even more basic, https://github.com/kingyoPiyo/Pico-10BASE-T is very simple.

Layout for most consumer standards is pretty lax, almost anything will probably work.
The airline industry is very keen on pilots reporting safety incidents. Over the years it has moved more and more towards being a no-blame environment: as long as an incident is immediately reported and wasn't due to gross negligence, you will not be punished.

If pilots are not afraid to report incidents, they will report them more often. This in turn means that hidden issues are more easily discovered, which in turn could save lives.
I can not fathom the kind of testing rig that's required to validate that such an incredible mechanism works correctly.
Agree, we bootstrapped a business from cents a month to $4 or $5 now, there's no maintenance, and I know if we get mentioned on Oprah - we'll be able to cope with a blip thousands of signups a second. I know how I'd run the system on our own hardware but can put off that decision to when (or if) we need it.
The aim is to suppress journalists from spreading corruption scandals and silence whistleblowers and leaks. Basically if you tweet I found this on wikileaks, you'll get jailed first then you will await your trial. Or if you like a whistleblower's tweet, you'll get jailed.

The public elections are around the corner, the governing party is losing votes. The economy is in ruins. Corruption scandals pop up everywhere.

For example just last week we heard that the address registration system used for voting somehow added unknown foreign persons as residences to people's homes. Or there are tweets of people that they somehow got registered to the governing party as members against their will without any application. This is only visible if you login to e-government and check.

The governing party does everything in its power to win the elections. In the last election, they even counted votes without seals to win. In the election before that the opposition won, Erdogan lost. Guess what happened, bombs went off, chaos insued, there was a re-election and Erdogan was elected again.

It is a mess really. Wish us luck.
>Can't imagine what kind of crazy magnetic field action is going on in ultra-hot gas giants who are so close to their host star that their orbital period is 1-2 days.

Vaguely connected to this statement. Can anyone recommend any stories (preferably hard sci-fi, although I'm assuming anything tackling this sort of thing would automatically filter into that genre) regarding exotic elements, extreme conditions in space, or those sorts of things?

Like Neutron Star or Cannonball Express by Larry Niven. That sort of thing.
Another call for censorship...

Do you people never get tired of deciding what others can or can't say?
I did some FPGA stuff at university, I'm more comfortable there for sure, but only on a dev board someone else has made - I'd have the same problem getting started with designing an FPGA board as I described for USB/HDMI/etc. above.
> "use heroku until you have 100k users"

Thing is that for most/many startups 100k users is not a lot. Rejiggling your basic infra just as your growth is starting to accelerate is a non-trivial task, a risk, and something that doesn't fundamentally move the needle.
I haven't heard of anyone spending 20-60 hours in interviews. Most onsites are remote these days, and the entire interview loop is probably at most 6 hours including phone screen or coding assessment.

I find interviewing to be pretty frictionless for the most part. The hardest part is setting some time aside for for leetcode prep.
Canonical displays controversial 'ad' in shell update prog
It’s the people using it “purely for benevolence” that you have to be the most worried about!
> Windows application don't need to bundle system libraries like the libc

That might be a bad example, because Windows applications are expected to bundle their own libc (MSVCRT). I'm not sure if modern Windows even ships with a copy -- it definitely doesn't ship with copies of all the versions that applications might depend on.

Linux follows the Windows model, where the stable interface is the kernel (Linux's syscalls, Windows's ntdll). This in turn implies that libc is a non-system runtime dependency, and a Linux application that wants to be portable across more than one release of Ubuntu (or whatever) should bundle its own copy.

Complaints of Linux ABI stability is mostly a story of old-timers trying to imitate how Unix worked in the '80s and '90s, with libc baked into the OS. Younger developers are more likely to use static linking or Docker/Flatpak/Snap.
Can we have an election already?

This chancellor was in the job for 3 weeks, carrying out the policy of the pm.

Truss is the person the party chose as the best person for the job, and by any metric they are performing poorly. Any attempt to limp on, with or without truss is just putting party before country. Noone has faith in her, I doubt that will change with a replacement. Any mp of any stripe has to accept, for the good of the country that an election needs to be held.
Some of this advice is good, some of it is bizarre:

> I prefer to travel to a city the time of year its most uncomfortable. So like Montreal in the winter, or New Delhi in the summer. I want to see a place when it’s at the apogee of its essence, not when it’s the most comfortable. A kinda, if you are going to do X really do X thing. It’s also when it’s a lot cheaper.

No, sorry, if you visit New Delhi in May, Tokyo in August or Montreal in February, you're going to have a pretty miserable time.
US Government's new export controls are wreaking havoc on China's chip industry
I spent a few evenings going the ECS route and the complexity and cost of just a single api available to the internet and a database kept ballooning to way more than what I wanted to pay for and deal with.

Fargate, image repo, NAT gateway, I don't even remember all the nonsense at this point but it was ridiculous.

I took a look at a few alternatives and DigitalOcean's App service was night and day easier, faster, and cheaper to deal with.
I liked Termination Shock a lot, but I actually preferred "The Ministry For The Future" (the NGO callout), which is more a political thriller and addresses notions of dealing with climate change from many angles, not just geoengineering. (The need to clamp down on financial flows who are still betting on fossil fuels, for example, or the people who will short initiatives to mitigate or reverse climate change.)