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According to that Wikipedia page the binary representation of UUID 1 is big endian. It's the date-time and MAC address version.
Duffy did testify against FTX’s proposal in Congress back in May: https://www.cmegroup.com/content/dam/cmegroup/media-room/spe...

It’s pretty strongly worded:

> FTX’s Proposal is glaringly deficient and poses significant risk to market stability and market participants.

Granted, he didn’t publicly call the guy a fraud. Avoiding libel lawsuits is probably a good habit for a risk manager.
It’s easy to think it’s bloat at a steady state. When something important goes down and nobody knows how to fix it, it looks different.
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> Software companies have to hire many people because it needs to report growth to investors, headcount is one of the measurement of growth.

I don't think you have a good understanding on how those companies are growing and scaling out. Don't take growth for the granted. "Right product" or "Right technology" won't give you that. It only comes from solving thousands of very specific, never-ending customer problems. If you do B2B, you need to spend most of your time on very specific requests from priority customers. And they are not one, but hundreds of them if you targets $xB business. It's just physically impossible to keep up with a small team even with a very aggressive prioritization.

Still not convinced? Google has a notoriously bad reputation for their customer supports and it's primarily because of their tendency of keeping "inessential headcounts" low as possible. And think about how many cloud customers they lost to AWS and Azure. TK came to GCP and his first work was adding an army of sales and account managers. This almost immediately yielded a rapid acceleration of the platform, although it's too late to catch up.
There are convincing cases one can make in favour of half-open intervals (at least in certain circumstances), but this isn’t it.

This is just a rambling, absolutist mess.
If we’re thinking of the same clip with Matt Levine, I think your characterization is a bit misleading. IIRC Matt Levine was definetly not calling FTX a Ponzi scheme, but yield farming. SBF and FTX (or maybe Alameda?) participated in yield farming, but that has little to do with the aspect of FTX that actually ended up falling apart.

For those interested I think the clip is in an episode of the Odd Lots podcast with both SBF and Matt Levine.
> My understanding is that NZ is the usual gateway for South African emigrants

Historically the top destinations have been Australia, UK, US, and New Zealand - in that order [0].

Anecdotally, many of our friends are also moving to The Netherlands, so I suspect that a more recent survey would reflect that.

And within South Africa, there is also large scale "semigration" taking place from folks outside the Western Cape province to inside it (because the aforementioned province is arguably the best run in the country).

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180202090200/https://businesst...
I don't give my son the means to buy things within Fortnite, but he talks about it frequently, and about peers that are buying things. It can build a bit of resentment that needlessly complicates already-challenging parenting.
> An attacker controlled string may very will be missing the 0 byte

Entirely possible, especially if the attacker is local. But when we're dealing with something coming in over the network, I think even the old arpa headers get you a null byte at the end, regardless of if one was sent.

Unless we aren't dealing with tcp/ip, in which case I'm way out of my depth.
The quality of her writing is wonderful, clear, to the point, funny and of course all the technical details are well explained. For a non native English reader like me (I am French), a real pleasure to read. You can congratulate her!
Ruby used to have the $SAFE feature for sandboxing, but it was removed because it was buggy, added a lot of complexity, and wasn't actually that useful. Linux has all the various isolation features that make Docker work, but people still recommend not running untrusted code in Docker containers because of the potential for oversights/"bugs" in Linux's API. I suspect that programming languages / VMs don't include these features because they are very hard to get right and add a disproportionate amount of complexity for their utility.
"Since before the bankruptcy proceedings, Mr. Bankman and Ms. Fried have been seeking to return the deed to the company and are awaiting further instructions,"

Why would you want to do that?
It’s just statistical probability. The number of employees left is small and the amount of code is huge. It’s not a huge leap to say that a bug is unlikely to be in the area of expertise of the folks that are left. I would say it’s the probability is greater than 50%. You should notice the probability is not proportional to the employees still remaining. That is because I am guessing some good folks are still there.
Imagine thinking grinding leetcode makes somebody a good software engineer.

Many poor performers at my startup ended up at Google and Facebook
>History of European Stool Inspections, Henry O.R. Scrap

Nominal determinism.
You're thinking of https://twitter.com/MosquitoCapital/status/15935411779656785.... Remember, on Twitter your likes and follower counts are completely independent of your actual skill area and level. Most of that list reminded me of 2009-era site operations, nothing like what operating a high-traffic site is like in 2023.
Twitter is a global company.

Many jurisdictions take an even harsher line when it comes to being complicit in intellectual property abuse. We saw this famously with The Pirate Bay, Napster etc.
Actually be probably can't. Musk's wealth is largely on paper, as Tesla stock. Which is enormously overvalued and has been plummeting since he bought Twitter. If Twitter needs cash injections, he has to sell more Tesla, which will depress the price further.
I just installed Authy on my other Android phone and I need to login with my "phone number".... WTF...?
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The difference is Cortana was an inferior product!
Empirically speaking, it seems more like rich languages are the past, present and future of programming. Rich as in, has a strong standard library. Python, go, etc.

The only "little" languages I can think of that I'd reasonably ask people to use at work are lua, make(~), awk, and (ba)sh.
I want to create my own version using these concepts also starting from a small foundation
> Bicycles aren’t very useful vehicles compared to cars

I find this point of view amusing because it is so contradictory to my personal experience. In my case, I started commuting by bike after years of being tired to spend an unpredictable amount of time stuck on traffic, looking through the window at cyclists merrily passing by. Since becoming one of these cyclists, I feel a bit of pity every time that I see people stuck in their useless cars.

I concede that cars can be more useful than bicycles in some circumstances. There are also people like you who legitimately seem to love using cars, and there's nothing wrong with that. But at least in my country:

- there are more bikes than cars

- there are more people who can drive bikes than cars

- every year, more bikes are sold than cars

- most car trips are less than 10km

- most of those cars only carry a single person

- most people would prefer to take the bike than the car if they could

Why do most people still use cars, then? Because there is no safe infrastructure for cycling, and that is the main problem. Improving cycling infrastructure would be a net benefit for everybody, especially for car lovers who would then find their streets liberated of other drivers who just hate being there.

Another problem with cars is that they are ridiculously space-inefficient. Especially when they carry a single person, which is most of the time. A street with 20 people in 20 cars is crowded in dense traffic. The same 20 people cycling or walking are almost invisible, low density occupation of the same space.
Wasn’t the analog output crippled in someway? (Digitally downsampled to 720 maybe?)
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
He stayed silent, by meeting with government regulators and lawmakers, and guaranteeing he was going to sue them if they made SBFs proposed changes?

Does it only count if he puts out a really mean tweet in your book?
It's not a dead horse if this keeps happening. If anything, it's an unfortunately overly healthy and alive horse. The fact that it's nothing new for the tournament should lead to more condemnation of it, not less.
I know it became a meme but did people actually think it would just crash overnight? Aren't a lot of people on hacker news in tech?
When I need inspiration I always look at Kagi's documentation... https://help.kagi.com/kagi/welcome.html
There's also tons of resources online from serious people: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qatar+human+rights+abuse
Always wondered why British car plates say GB instead of UK. Or indeed, why we say "British", and not "UK-ians". What do Northern Irish plates say?
Yeah, but that's not what's happening here, is it? Musk is pretty obviously looking for a corporate culture shift, not turning the company into a cash cow - and for this to work, entropy needs only to work slower than half a year. Which this article argues pretty convincingly is going to happen.
Software never goes stale, it's the environment around it which stales.

Something from the 70s works perfectly fine, except it can't run on anything bare any longer, and the hard drives etc. have all long since failed or their PSU capacitors have blown....so Twitter will absolutely rot, how fast depends on several factors.

I personally suspect the infrastructure used to build Twitter will rot faster than Twitter itself, and of course the largest most dramatic source of rot is the power required to run it - several large communities have abandoned it already, making it less much less relevant, meaning the funding for it will also dry up, meaning more wasted cpu cycles and the like.

Thats of course assuming its left in some sort of limbo, it doesnt sound like thats the case with the current management, its only a matter of time before it topples over from shitty low-rate contractor code. Honestly, the app worked like so much hot garbage already, I could see it falling over itself and imploding with a couple poorly placed loops...
not whitewashing hard enough
My favorite attraction in the Los Angeles area - "the La Brea Tar Pits" which translates to "the the tar tar pits".
I encourage you to follow up on the schema language plus a code generator. It’s a powerful technique that can make your implementation more agile as you develop new strategies.
Real tip is always in the comments.
Scaling back up is really hard though. We had a de facto freeze on hiring (not exactly hiring freeze; more of a headcount cap) just shy of a decade ago to focus on our product. During that time, some of our best recruiters left because they basically had nothing to do anymore.

The freeze worked: we got rid of some products that weren't getting traction and were able to improve the products that did have traction. But the cost of the freeze lingered for at least a year; it reset the hiring pipeline, we couldn't grow fast when we needed to because the limited number of recruiters we had were already overworked, and the limited number of engineers had to balance interviewing needs with their real work. This all happened when my employer was <10% of its current size and pre-IPO, and we didn't even take a headcount reduction.

Twitter is simply at a different scale. 7500 -> 2500 employees is a 66% reduction. Going 2500 -> 7500 is a 200% increase. Recruiting is likely totally gutted, and the current 2500 employees have to support systems previously maintained by a 7500-person company. If they decide they need to grow, it'll have to restart at a snail's pace, and they'll have to make sacrifices on feature development or stability along the way.

Edit: for what it's worth, the fastest way to regrow back 200% is to rehire the people laid off. But, given that I happened to interview earlier today an ex-Twitter candidate who didn't make it through the Elon snap, that route is rapidly closing up.
> He proved over and over again.

[Narrator voice] He did not.
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My concern is I'm an Android dev. and I'm trying to use best practices because I don't know what can come up.

If prod goes down for a few days it's mostly OK since I have only one alpha user. But some idea of bad things™ might happen is holding me back from developing the app. I'm not feeling confident about my prod env if I find some customers.

> Where do you store your state on the server?
I don't understand what you mean. I guess we're talking about the database. DB also is deployed as the part of the docker compose stack, volume bound to a local dir.

> What can kubernetes do that you can't do by hand assuming you are available to do it?
Automating the process of deployments are easier than doing it by hand. Since code needs to be compiled I cannot use the old but gold ftp method. Even if I manage it, it's too much of a hassle. Instead I'm using Github Actions to build my image using Spring's container image builder magic. k8s would allow me to put all of my "stuff" to same place (a cluster)

Two of the servers costs in total 5 Euros now :D
Argh. "It works now, so it will work until forever."

It takes _effort_ to make it work this smoothly now, _and in the future_.

SRE is about _preventing_ issues. Not mopping up after them.

To me, the article read like every succesfull sysadmin story: there's no fires, so sysadmin must be bloat.
Yes, I also focused on single games at times, but like you it was for a month or two. He's played almost nothing but Fortnite for two years. He only plays Minecraft or Goat Simulator because I don't let his younger siblings play/watch Fortnite, and he only played a Star Wars flightsim game because I occasionally say he's allowed to play games but only if it's not Fortnite.

Meanwhile, I can recall dozens of really memorable games I played while growing up. And into adulthood, there have been fantastic games with storylines comparable to all-time classic movies. Imagine missing GTA V, Last of Us, Red Dead, HZD and so on because you only ever played multiplayer CoD for years on end; huge shame, IMO.

And yes, I know that video - we tried to use that thinking with a game we developed. I was thinking of juicing beyond visual gameplay. Chests that act like gambling scratchies, etc.
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Isn't Valve known for letting employees work on whatever they want? I'd imagine they already had a bone to pick with MS and wanted to be able to play games on Linux. Before that, things like the controller also seemed like "scratch your own itch" projects. They're good at making pieces that naturally fall into place.
If you consider n players and an n-sided die, you'll see this isn't true in that case. The first player has an exactly equal chance to be first, second, ..., last.
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I have an old project I gave up on - haven't touched it, done any code changes or maintenance in... almost a decade? At least a stubborn client is still using it, successfully. And it's not an old guy in a living room, but an honest small sized company that has this software as the core of its operations.

So yeah, I totally agree with you. No code changes = long life.
Corporate propagandist is the truth. As most far left "comedians" on mainstream TV. They really don't do comedy but far left propaganda.
Yes, sorry I should have been less terse: never heard of antidotedb but I figured there is probably a bunch of these projects mature already. I was asking, not stating.
Why would twitter go down due to staff layoffs? The stuff I build would keep running for years without my involvement. Do you mean that other systems are hand cranked?
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I downloaded the PayPal app from the Aurora Store, on a brand new phone, and the app tried stealing money from me. Worked fine with small amounts, but once I got my tax return, it changed. Will not go into specifics in an open post with strangers, so it can be replicated.
Yeah, network scaling bugs are the most fun. The one I liked the most was when after expanding a pool of servers, they started to lose connectivity for a few minutes and then come back a minute or so later as if nothing happened.

Turns out we accidentally stretched one server VLAN too wide, to roughly 600 devices within one VLAN within one switch. The servers had more-or-less all-to-all traffic, and that was enough to generate so many ARP requests and replies that the switch's supervisor policer started dropping them at random, and after ten failed retries for one server the switch just gave up and dropped it from the ARP table.

Of course the control plane policer is global for the switch, so every device connected to the switch was susceptible, not just the ones in the overextended VLAN.
> Why? What's driving that response?

Experience.

Many of us have worked at companies where there is a lot of duct tape holding things together and when you let go of entire teams (not just a large percentage) then it isn't unreasonable to be pessimistic. Especially when you know that in order to fix problem A you need to take B, D, E, C corrective actions in that order. And you learnt that through years of things going wrong.

More so at companies like Twitter where they never really reach a steady state. You constantly have large fluctuations in system stress e.g. World Cup, Trump rejoining etc.
Yep, my understanding is that cronyism between the executive and the board is a huge issue driving CEO pay. (Boards can also just be out to lunch.)

One way to fix this is to make corporate takeovers easier. This sort of cronyism ends up being a con on the shareholders (and the con is especially easy to pull off if the "shareholders" are passive index funds that don't pay much attention to their holdings).

By removing legal protection on corporate raiding, the board+CEO have to worry about activist investors who ask inconvenient questions like "why are you paying yourself $30M a year instead of giving shareholders a dividend?"

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/01/enable-raiders.html
Check out Holochain[0] and the some of the projects in that space. They have some horrendous marketing and, unfortunately, the word "chain" in the title but they are also making some funky/radical P2P stuff.

Basically, according to my understanding, every "agent" gets their own immutable blockchain (a la solid[1] pod) that's stored on a DHT and hApps (an assemblage of personal smart-contract like functions) running in a WASM runtime on your local machine modify and interact with this chain. There's also some scheme in place to make your peers do validation and punish bad agents. And most interestingly, no tokens in sight. (in the core at least. they're using those for some adjacent projects...I think).

[0]: https://www.holochain.org/
[1]: https://solidproject.org/
Good point.

However, supporting all the 'partner devices' comes with associated cost in terms of engg' development and support (somewhat like what Android must be dealing with. Android division in Google would not be a low cost division I'm sure).
> I can create them all with one round trip rather than multiple.

I see. I'd lean towards using common table expressions. The first insert statement returns the primary key and other inserts can depend on the key. I do understand it's not a panacea and composing queries can be problematic.

> a sequence generator for PKs, it becomes a resource around which there is contention

As I understand, Postgres sequences don't block which leads to a different problem [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27843084
Yeah, I realize it isn't a government thing, guess I phrased that poorly. What I'm saying is that it's something that one would expect to be a government thing: a unique corporate identifier than can be shared with third parties. In Canada that's the "business number". But in the US everyone uses this thing created by a random company instead. (Presumably because the IRS doesn't provide some kind of verification system attached to the EIN.)
Can we just let this idea die already? Your collector has to be just as big as a solar array if power density is low enough to be harmless, you're using enough energy for months of backup just to launch it, losses over tens of thousands of km mean there's not really any net power benefit, so it comes down to whether space launch, the shorter life due to radiation and meteors, paying extra for ultra light panels and having to maintain it in space is cheaper than a battery.
It’s also really not comfortable. I am sure you could live on it indefinitely as a kind of ascetic performance but people who actually need that to survive are usually very keen on getting other sources of income. Some of it undeclared and evading taxes, but that’s another problem.

Overall I think there’s a decent compromise to be found there. I am happy for the society to ensure that as many people as possible have a guaranteed bare minimum to survive, which provides opportunities to find better. If some people are content with surviving, well. More power to them. They are not in big enough numbers to matter anyway (the sums involved are dwarfed by companies’ tax fraud).
I don't recall stadia of previous tournaments being built almost entirely by migrant workers. And said migrants working under such poor conditions. Can you name a few you consider comparable?
I agree, they are the same! regex is an example of an eDSL that most general-purpose languages support. The king of eDSL:s is of course Haskell. I recommend looking up parser combinators for anyone who has ever struggled with an understanding way to complex regex expressions.
Please accept my apologies. As you correctly noted, the paper linked here is

"Presence or absence of stabilizing Earth system feedbacks on different time scales"

The correct link for the post title, as cge commented previously is

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01769-8

Thanks to cge's correction, the comments here are on the correct article.

I am so sorry for the mistake!
The past 3 weeks are the strongest argument you will ever find against the first sentence of your post.
It seems to be satire.
Why are entire paragraphs repeated twice in that post?
There is Vaporum which I myself actually liked better then Grimrock itself.
On computer is generally a _much_ easier case to design for since it can be assumed that the computer is available most of the time to receive messages. Mobile is significantly harder because most of the time it's not available to receive. This ends up in a situation where caching servers are a required necessity, but have to be built to be private. From that, computers become a derivative case for an increasingly niche minority of users/use cases
Are there comprehensive websites dedicated to industrial tourism? I've been on a lot of excellent factory tours but rarely think to look for more when I'm in an area.

I remember photographing inside a potato processing plant that had a multimillion dollar automated grading line that was quite amazing to see in action. Workers there seemed shocked when I said that there'd be people who would pay decent money to go behind the scenes. Even the non-automated lines were interesting enough!
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Somehow, some folks are now saying this is bad.