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The US constitution was written specifically to limit the power of government.

Basically giving the government the absolute minimum amount of power to be functional. With crazy restrictions on making changes so that it’s hard for the government to grab more power.

An armed population helps keep the government from going too crazy like what China is doing to people over Covid.

Hard to weld doors shut on peoples homes if they have shotguns.
Are investors victims of scams?

Seems like
I would argue you're not budgeting well if your budget doesn't have any buffer room for mistakes or emergencies. I would think this would be fairly obvious.
Talking to Sam Bankman Fried
This is perhaps scientifically interesting, but doing this to someone without their knowledge and consent is wildly unethical.
WAT

I always use -f then cancel out when I think I see what I want, I really need to read man pages for things I use
That feels a lot of ‘old man telling skies’.

What is main(), where did it come from? Who calls it? What is argc and argv? Who puts that stuff there.
"If you are part of the Birds being impacted you will receive a notification within 15 minutes to your MessageBird and private email."

Who the fuck does this?

Let's announce a layoff on our fucking blog before we tell our employees that we have to let them go. It's heartless, glib and mean.
I have no idea what you are talking about, can you elaborate please?
> that their students union refuses to host for political or moral reasons

Weird, I figured it would be the opposite. I get if students wanted to host someone then the University can't tell them no, but when would the opposite happen. What University is that bad at reading the room? Who are they expecting the audience to be?
I really don’t get this argument at all. The USA introduced all this extra cash via fiscal policy. We spent that extra money, but supply didn’t increase.

We saw increases in products such as lumber, delays in deliveries, and other things. These are all indicators to show increased demand without increased supply.

If companies are selling goods and services, and more money is chasing those goods and services, why wouldn’t companies make record profits?

Here’s the kicker, these companies have made record profits from a number perspective, but the currency is devalued. So in Real value, these companies have made much less profit than they think.
How did you get started programming?
And a later Mac, the IIfx, introduced I/O coprocessors to run the IWM, among other things. All part of the glorious wheel of reincarnation. [0]

[0] https://www.computer-dictionary-online.org/definitions-c/cyc...
I wrote my own “proper” programming language
I think of the edge as a fancy term for services where minimizing I/O is one of the main goals. Which is sometimes, but not always the case with microservices. (Disclaimer: I'm not associated with this project in any way)
Benevolent dictatorships do seem by far the best system of government. Until his kid takes over and turns out to not be quite so benevolent, at least.
Or better yet (than Truck), check out "Mountains Beyond Mountains", about Paul Farmer's quest to defeat infectious disease where it's needed most and available least around the world.
I'm pretty sure this is the email they sent their employees. The blog probably got posted once everything was finished.

>For those of you leaving: I’m very sorry to be taking this step and I take full responsibility for the decisions leading up to it

I HATE when people start saying "I take full responsibility." Okay, if you do, then how are you being held accountable? Are you losing your bonus? Are you losing shares? Or is it just the social media equivalent of saying "Oh, my bad!"

I want concrete examples of how you are holding yourself responsible, not just lip service.
> So the target market for these products is people that want to eat real meat

No!!!

The target market is habitual meat eaters. People who grab a hot dog as a snack. Eat a burger for lunch. Make pasta bolognese for dinner. Get chicken nuggets for the kids.

The vast majority of meat consumption is done without a strong craving for meat. People are just buying and eating dishes they like. Asking that all of these people consciously substitute those meals with vegetarian meals is not going to happen in a million years.

But if the cheapest hot dog is fake meat, and taste the same, they'll switch. If the cheapest burger is fake meat, and taste the same, they'll switch.

These products will never replace a steak dinner.
Very little verification of UBO registers ever actually occurs. Which is why "oligarchs" have nominees and having to lie on another government form doesn't make a difference.
There's a reason I still primarily use Word 2003 instead of the newer versions.

Having normal toolbars instead of dealing with the takes-twice-as-many-clicks Ribbon is another benefit.
I'm probably lacking social intelligence, but it sounds to me that you're saying "non-tech folks" are full of shit and don't like to be told so.
It’s very simple.

does a politician push for smaller and more restrictions on government.

Or do they push for bigger government.
OMG this is why I currently can't use Linux. If your device can accept the "platform" mode of webauthn, I can go back to Linux. I currently have to use an app that only allows "platform" authentication.

I look around every couple of months to see if there is something that'll work, but I haven't seen anything.
Surely you can administer the network connection those devices use when they are in your home?
Mayors have real power in some cities, ceremonial power in others.
> (the US spends $38 billion in subsidies - about $114 per person)

I think that number is basically made up. It comes from a chain of references by activists and lobbyists (against meat and dairy subsidies) who are basically playing a game of broken telephone with statistics.

AIER cites a Columbia SIPA article, which cites the book Meatonomics. Meatonomics is written by a lawyer who advocates against meat and dairy and seems to have synthesized the number by adding numbers from several sources. He cites an article by an anti-meat/dairy law firm which estimates dairy subsidies at $19 billion. (Meatononics includes dairy subsidies in the $38 billion figure.)

But those dairy subsidies aren't from payments to dairy farmers. They're looking at indirect subsidies, the largest of which is food stamps and other nutritional assistance programs. They estimate that Americans spend about 11% of their food budget on dairy products and based on that they estimate the amount of food stamp money that goes to dairy farmers.

tl;dr: The number is a rough estimate based largely on the government giving poor people food stamps and people choosing to spend some of that on meat and dairy. The numbers are also from advocacy groups, not peer reviewed journals.
The absurdity is that often it's simplest to share via network for Windows and Mac. Paragon works pretty well but you need to have control of the local system.
Yeah exactly! Just once (every x hours) but always required for anything sudo, and it's really buggy, too. Restarting stuff, installing some stuff with brew sucks especially, even updating some apps all require sudo. I've resulted to stack the prompts in my lower right corner until I have to do to
Bryan Cantrill (of Oxide Computer) and co did a podcast a couple of months ago recommending books of a similar vein[1].

I’m not sure if it was mentioned in that episode, but they did another one on the book Losing the Signal about the ride and fall of Blackberry[2] which is worth checking out.

[1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/book-in-the...
[2] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/losing-the-...
sry for late reply.
I am glad that you are raising these topics regularly tbh. If more people stop write only coding and ask themselves questions you have asked it will be already big step forward.
If they ask what profiling tools they should use it will be great.
I did had a look into your article and I can not recommend limiting to tools you have used.

I come from gamedev low level coding and performance analysis so I understand that my point of view is not normal xD
There's definitely a noticeable input lag in vscode.

I basically nerfed the vscode language features which make it more manageable.

But sublime still feels far more responsive.
X11 supports all of this with user configurability but the cool kids threw all of it away.
It's only a problem if they're closed source. We should be working on that.
That is a fantastic image. Thanks!
Nicely said, although Dubliners was different enough that the editor didn't want to publish it. The complexity of Ulysses is like Dante's Comedia, and both demonstrate the individual's creative personality in response to a strong ideology. Borges is similar in that regard.
Can not recommend the podcast series "Rabbit Hole" (2020) from the NYT enough.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/podcasts/rabbit-hole-prol...
People do not start companies in Dubai instead of the EU because of paperwork, Dubai is particularly paperwork heavy (especially if you need a local bank account).
Yes, exactly! And I think most people fall into the second group for a majority of their meals.
What to do when your Code is due in 30 Minutes and you were Procrastinating
For me Tailwind is sort of a shortcut to learning best practices. If I had to research and figure out best practices on my own it would take ages. Instead I can just see what Tailwind does. E.g. when to use em vs px. That kind of stuff.
Is every CEO trying to emulate Gavin Belson nowadays?

Also, if they're laying off 31%, how come "We're hiring!" is still next to their careers link in the footer?
There should be a rule like: if you work for a private company, you can have a union, but if you work for a government, you cannot have a union. Maybe adjust the details as necessary, but the idea is that there should be no police unions etc.

The reason is that when a union in a private company goes too far, that company can be replaced by a competitor. But if you cannot similarly replace a police force, nothing prevents a police union from going too far.
[citation needed]

There's been a lot of speculation about this, but I haven't seen any damning evidence yet.
> Your compiler giving you a type check error is saying that the program is meaningless.

The TypeScript compiler will absolutely give you errors for well-formed programs that are guaranteed* do the right thing with respect to what the author intended and that anyone else can see is correct but that the TypeScript compiler itself doesn't reason about correctly. In instances where this happens, it's very useful to be able to ignore them—just like you might ignore the protests of a misinformed team member who insists that such-and-such won't work, even though it provably will. (Although the alternative of just not using the TypeScript compiler can be a worthwhile decision as well.)

* not to be confused with undefined behavior in C where it might just happen to work with one known compiler/platform combo but break horribly for other valid targets
Well, it was slower due to a hardware problem. Basically, the hardware serial device had a bug which required a bit bang comms channel to the disk drive. Doing that amidst the sometimes aggressive video DMA is what caused all the slowdowns.

Back in the day I owned machines that did it both ways, but not a C64. My Atari computer also had a smart disk drive. Worked over something Atari called SIO, which is an early ancestor of modern USB. Back then, the Atari machine was device independent and that turned out to be great engineering!

Today we have Fuji Net devices that basically put Atari and other computers on the Internet, even to the point of being able to write BASIC programs that do meaningful things online.

The C64 approach was not much different, working via RS-232. But for a bug, it would have performed nicely.

Now, my other machine was an Apple ][, and that disk was all software. And it was fast! And being all software meant people did all sorts of crazy stuff on those disk drives ranging from more capacity to crazy copy protection.

But... That machine could do nothing else during disk access.

The Atari and C64 machines could do stuff and access their disks.

Today, that Fuji Net device works via the SIO on the Atari, with the Internet being the N: device! On the Apple, it works via the SmartPort, which worked with disk drives that contained? Wait for it!!

A CPU :)

Seriously, your point is valid. But, it's not really valid in the sense you intended.
Yes, if you want to hold "dollars" you probably actually buy US bonds with your dollars.
It's quite obvious that it means "running in the browser engine" rather than "has the technology implemented in a native language". But sure, you're technically correct.
> No, it would solidify that persons' belief that the people were bad people

Stop giving a shit about other peoples opinions. Responding aggressively to a threat from someone is perfectly valid, and if that impacts their opinion of you, that's their issue.
> already here

Just unevenly distributed.
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This is a nice article:

https://aperiodical.com/2022/03/now-im-calculating-with-cons...
I'll sell you the NFT of one.
Also Coffeezilla's take on the interview with more context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rL35_WV3lE
As a GenX'r myself who's first video gaming experience at a young age was a little console (no idea what it was, it wasn't a famous brand) that played Pong, it was enormous fun and 5(?) year old me was always bugging my Dad to get the "special TV" out and tune it into the console... years later one of my favourite public domain games on my Amiga was PowerPong
The problem is that there’s no disincentive to creating laws that are eventually found unconstitutional — a malicious actor is capable of producing ill-formed laws faster, cheaper and with less effort than it takes to identify and remove them. So responsibility isn’t really the issue — the problem is that you can simply overwhelm the other party to make them impotent, and impossible to execute on that responsibility (because if they double their resources, you produce 4X the garbage).

Ideally you would have lawmakers incentivized to produce laws, that upon review, are constitutional, but it remains the supreme court’s jurisdiction to determine that constitutionality.

Like try spamming the FDA drugs unlikely to pass scrutiny — they’ll just shut you out — so you’re incentivized to try to submit something reasonably likely to pass.
Because they're stewarding private resources that would otherwise be public (such as land) and therefore the public has an interest in them.
Sure, but unless you're coordinating with other adversaries it shouldn't be hard for them to filter out the deviant responses.
Agreed. Don't say how upset you are, show it by offering generous severance packages (including health insurance!), job placement help, and anything else that can make the transition less painful for people.
Running a company is pretty much a public activity. Why protect the privacy of the rich and powerful (relatively to those who don't run any companies) few while compromising anti-corruption measures.
Do you think everything in this world should be doable as a mom and pop business? I don't. For example, I wouldn't want a moon-lighter handling my medical records, or my money accounts and credit cards. We have many examples where limiting who can work in certain spaces has become reasonable.
Interesting! I should do the same!
> We live in unprecedented times and I am convinced that 2023 will see most of the global economy falling into recession

Doesn't laying people off sort of contribute to a recession becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy?
The Integrated Woz Machine was the custom single-chip version of the Apple II floppy controller.
Honest question: is this an example of "fake it til you make it"?
I was surprised this was only 6 episodes. Felt like it could have been an on-going series.
http://web.archive.org/web/20221129195502/https://www.nytime...
The 1541 was slow because the c64’s serial bus was slow. Data was clocked over the bus 1 bit at a time. Various fastloaders sped up the data rate by reusing the clock line itself as a data line (2 bits at a time), later HW adapters adder parallel port or even usb to overcome the serial bus bottleneck.

Basically commodore was gonna use an ieee-488 bus for the drive and then decided it was too expensive late in the design and switched to this hacks serial bus that bottlenecked everything.
I want to see the company where the HTML and CSS are handled by separate teams.
Eh. Y'all are both shouting past each other with zero nuance.

We cannot say housing/Airbnb is not an issue entirely. On most nights, I have three houses within 100ft of me that are empty because they are short rentals near the city center. I wonder if there are a few people who would like to live in those homes if they could?

But yes too, many are mentally ill and some need more than just a bed.
How well did sunlight work during Brexit?
how about Hacker News?
This isn't something you need to defend. Millions of people ride daily without a helmet (including kids learning) and are fien.

Yes, teaching bike safety is important, but it's also not that big a deal.
Amazon logistics, at least in my area, pays significantly more than competitors. They had to, in order to accomplish the insane growth they've undergone over recent years. However, they've also had to reduce their hiring standards to somewhere around "can you fog a mirror".

It is really not possible to understate how insane their hiring growth is. I think the only organizations in history to grow their headcount faster are militaries under periods of conscription. And currently, the only two organizations with a larger total headcount... are the worlds' two largest militaries.
They are not bound to exchange information according to FATCA/CRS about owners for companies registered in the Free zone.
Current EV owner demographics overlap a lot with those who own a house with plenty of space, but if EVs ever become the standard this problem will get much worse.

A large percent of car owners don't garage park and won't have easy access to charging at night. I couldn't find a precise stat for this, but it's likely a majority of car owners fall in this group. Half of drivers needing to spend 30+ minutes at a charging station each week is a huge ownership burden and will strain even a large charging network.

Sure a few progressive urban areas will add charging to work and apartment spaces, but I can't imagine that being the norm and it still won't help areas with street parking. It would require huge spending from most landlords; a group that's not exactly known for happily taking on large discretionary expenses.
The way to do it would be a deposit-style setup. Each basket is charged to you as a dollar, and you return it and get the dollar back, or something.

But the reality is cardboard is too cheap and easy to use - even major companies like Walmart use cardboard boxes (that do have a "please return this, it costed us a dollar" on it) instead of plastic or metal.
_hyperscript and htmx are both really cool technologies.

I literally built an entire app on it using PHP that feels faster and smoother than the same thing written in React, especially on a low-end device.
Why is it any more of a public activity than working for a company?
Interesting to see that it has JavaScript support built in. It seems to be based on QuickJS which will work for some things but as they acknowledge quite slow.

> In the end, running v8 in a cloud-native environment often requires a full stack of software tools consisting of "Linux container + guest OS + node or deno + v8", which makes it much heavier and slower than a simple WasmEdge + QuickJS container runtime.

https://wasmedge.org/book/en/write_wasm/js.html#a-note-on-v8

Whether it's faster or not really depends on the complexity of what's being run. After reading about wasmtime 1.0's super fast 5 microsecond snapshot restore time (https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-1-0-fast-safe...) I did some experiments with QuickJS and Javy which runs QuickJS in wasmtime. Rendering a moderately complex web page with React renderToString production 30kB of html on my MacBook Air M1 took:

- Deno first iteration: 12-20ms

- Deno subsequent iterations: 2-4ms

- qjs native: 18-24ms

- javy (qjs wasmtime): 40-60ms

I've not tried WasmEdge but it's JS performance would presumably fall somewhere between that of qjs native and under wasmtime.

Firecracker claims a ~3ms snapshot restore time on ARM so might be the best way to go currently for such workloads but there is certainly a large subset of problems for which the current performance is adequate.

There has been talk of AOT compilation for SpiderMonkey.wasm (https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/making-javascript-run-...) which I hope this will some day happen since it should close the gap substantially. I recently asked on the ByteCode Alliance Zulip but there hasn't yet been any progress and it requires a substantial amount of work.
As a former Twilio employee, this is what we used to say, especially back when I started in 2011 when there really weren't many other options, and most of the few other options were not easy to get started on as a solo developer.

I think it's reasonable to say that if you do all of those quoted things, probably some of the texts you've gotten have gone through MessageBird, but certainly not all of them.

Then again, the wording of that is ambiguous enough.. that's what it could have meant, even though it's worded to sound more expansive.
The Mancini Touch
Some people just prefer their public persona to be in the form of an avatar instead of their real face. They want to have something there to represent themselves instead of just streaming a screen and nothing else, but they would rather that representation be an avatar or character rather than their physical selves.
This ^^. You will be out of a job.
Intent is a necessary element for that charge, at least on the US Federal level. But in any case, completely accidental possession is a defense, meaning, if you have something in your possession without even knowing that it's in your possession, that can be presented as a defense to charges. That would likely be the same when it comes to being an unwitting distributor of copyrighted material via a stealth torrent. Similarly we don't prosecute individuals whose computers are infected with viruses that propagate (and thus illegally access and trespass onto other systems) without the person's knowledge.
i think a big part of it is people simply don't value good food and don't see it as impacting health. Crazy as it sounds, i've had otherwise intelligent people tell me they don't think the food they eat has any impact on their health. That was a big eye opener for me, in terms of what other people think.

When cookies were removed from schools, some parents even protested (literally protested, as in with signs and petitioning outside of the school marching back and forth -> i saw it on the news) for the cookies to be put back in !!!! My jaw nearly dropped to the floor and rolled out the door. It's just clear, that there's a lot of really really misinformed people in the world.

Also, not all healthy food is expensive. Organic Beans are super low cost and make an excellent staple. Personally, I also love oat meal. both are super high in nutrients, fiber and protein and very low cost.