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> This type of loss would most certainly have a permanent effect on prices. Given how bad inflation is currently, this would further drive inflation higher. This complicates the decision to strike when people are already having trouble affording basic necessities as it is.

Sure would. Sounds like the railroad should give sick days or be nationalized.
Right?

What world are people living in? On anything other than a 30% coinsurance PPO, you aren't getting anything done without insurance pre-approval. And that's an extra month or two wait on top of the three month wait to get in the door for a consult.
From the article:

>if such workers wish to recuperate from an illness or make time to see a doctor about a nagging complaint, they need to use vacation time, which must be requested days in advance. In other words, if a worker wants to take time off to recover from the flu, they need to notify their employer of this days before actually catching the virus.
Is a whole bunch of people calling someone a Nazi any different? It's a signal of social disapproval, even if it's distasteful.

I think you can meaningfully distinguish individuals expressing distasteful speech from coordinated campaigns and harassment, and spam falls under the latter.
Between the extremes of doing nothing to maintain the status quo and nationalizing an industry, there are countless options. Many of which would be more realistic, more palatable, and more beneficial. In fact, nationalization is so repulsive to most politicians voters that suggesting it is an effective tactic to squash efforts to create meaningful change. A beneficial suggestion would seek to address issues in a way that could be realistically achieved by balancing competing interests.
F = m * a

Even a thin case will greatly reduce the maximum force a phone will experience when dropped. Metal edged phones are great for flare, but terrible for drop absorbtion.
You posted this as a reply to cgrand saying they would need resources to go any faster. Yes it’s not ready yet so you’ll need to wait (or provide resources). Paraphrasing your memory of their prior time estimate on Slack seems a non sequitur - what is your intended point?
The artist(s) are normally cited. Just download any Stable Diffusion -made image and look at the PNG info / metadata and you'll see "Greg Rutkowski" (lol) in the prompt.
Acknowledged. I will try to change that in the next update. Though I should mention the data is scrubbed every 3-6 hours. So while the id keeps incrementing, the actual data (past a certain point) can't be scraped. See https://fontsplugin.com/google-fonts-checker/?test_id=999 for example.
Huh really. This is like with Hoover then, where the term became generic? I only ever heard ping-pong used as the name of the sport.

Another thing that confused me and lots of other British children: why do so many American program brand names begin with the apparently meaningless letters EZ? Eee-zed doesn't mean anything!
more like university press
> most rust projects will need it.

If you mean "writing unsafe in your codebase yourself," this isn't borne out by the numbers.

If you mean "depending on unsafe somewhere in your dependencies" then 100% of Rust code needs unsafe, just like any other language. Interacting with hardware, many operating systems' APIs, these aren't created in a way to guarantee it, and you need to interact with them to do anything.
> [...] committed various offences against Hellenic tastes, such as crossing their legs.

By Zeus! Kids these days...
Given that the majority (as in around 90%) of people are no longer agricultural serfs or slaves toiling in the fields, I'd say that automation has definitely led to better lives.

IIRC, the breakdown was typically around 1% lords and priests, 9+% soldiers to protect the lords and priests against other lords and priests, and 90% unfree agricultural labor of one form or another (being a serf was slightly better than being a slave, but only a bit).
My intent was not to advertise this as an alternative, and I do not see how you came to that conclusion. I was pointing out that this is not unique to the freight railroads to intimidate employees into coming to work on a regular basis.
Yes it's not that hard and different, but it can't really be done progressively.
Sounds like great material for a "Doing XY: What we've learned"-corporate blog post! Looking forward to that!
The title is inaccurate. "Compact camera" just takes a different shape. Most everyone has a compact camera these days.

On a less nitpicky note, I think the failure to deliver a compact camera at a reasonable price in the 2004-2008 time period did a lot of damage too. The low-end models were junk, and the good ones cost, I believe, at least $250.
Something not highlighted:

Trains got longer than the yards they are assembled in and that results in 10-12 extra hours. Now multiply that times the number of trains per Railroad. Result is the real reason why paid leave was not given. Not as a logic way to solve a problem but as a way to avoid solving the problem that would work as workers have the least amount of power in the economic equation.
When I was in NYC a few weeks ago I noticed a plethora of "COVID testing" tents around Manhattan, never did I see anyone actually getting a test there. I can't help but think the employees sitting around and the operators of the testing huts are leeching off government funds in the name of "public health and safety"
Defined benefit (DB) pensions are excessively expensive due to the advent of low cost broad market index funds.

With a DB pension, you have to add agency risk to the equation. There is no need for that now when you can get a Vanguard/Fidelity/Schwab 401k and pay the same 0.03% expense ratio to get the same investment performance that a pension fund manager would. And you never have to worry about the pension fund manager stealing from it, or the politician directing investments to their nephew’s real estate company.

I would rather have whatever normal cost the employer is contributing for DB pension given directly to me so I can drop it in VOO and cut out all the middlemen and reduce agency risk.

> The long-term cost of this is around 16-18% of payroll - 8-9% from my employer, 8-9% from me.

Assuming you work for the government in the US, this is false. Government entities in the US are allowed to use whatever nonsense assumptions they want to value liabilities, and obviously they undervalue them now and lay the extra cost on future taxpayers. Hence the underfunded DB pension and retiree healthcare crisis plaguing many taxpayers.

Finally, DB pensions and deferred benefits in general make it hard to compare compensation offers from different employers, which is also bad for workers trying to negotiate the highest price. Very few people are equipped to be able to properly price the value of a DB pension from one entity to another.
I would say HAProxy is a better load balancer, than a web server. I like to have a few NGINX instances as the actual web servers sitting behind a HAProxy instance that spreads load across them.
haproxy is awesome, I have a Raspberry Pi where it runs dedicated and never causes me issues. The best software can be forgotten.
This mentality is was created the Cold War and has cause immense international damage throughout history.

I’m no fan of the Russian federation, but they have legitimate security concerns regarding nato expansion.

We’ve been actively destabilizing the region for decades so they probably say the same thing about us.

Do we really want to go back to perpetual proxy wars with our adversaries?
I'm sure you can think of something better to do with your time than spend it on 'work'?
this is only true of shitty businesses built on scams and lies. company producing results don't need to.
Subject to the president in certain industries, as in this case
OK I read this as carbon-scrubbers which grow marijuana. I dunno, maybe it helps oxygenate the air. Or maybe I haven’t had coffee yet.
It's in absolutely everyone's interest to have ample and guaranteed paid sick leave... except for a minuscule and already-wealthy portion of the population who might stand to lose a smidgen of money over such policies. Because of that threat of becoming more wealthy at a slightly reduced pace, they will oppose federal action with everything they have. And they usually win.
> Sure, and America hasn't become a country of hate speech

Hate speech spewed by the likes of Tucker Carlson caused a mass shooting like a week ago...
And when they managed to build them, white people burned them to the ground out of spite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
And I thought smart phones are the compact camera market.
For videogames development. Engines is kinda synonymous with ecosystem.

Videogames use tons of third party libraries with various engine support either from library developers or third parties.
Alot of studios do not have the inhouse talent/money to support all the skills required for inhouse development, so they use a ton of libraries.
If you have to reimplement all the third party library support in your custom engine, well you are going to have a bad time.

I think this why unreal/unity consolidation is occurring and honestly not the worst approach for practical game development.

- I'm not in the videogame industry, but I'm interested in becoming a project manager in it after pseudo-retirement
Im surprised by all the folks who always pop into these threads saying theyve replaced their XXXX-expensive-dedicated-camera with their phone.
Outside of wide DoF, wide FoV, well lit shots I find my camera and iphone to be pretty incomparable.

If apple starts letting us swap the glass out one day we might be have a fight but currently I just dont see it being one at all.
No offense intended, but the best way to reduce any potential odors from your cat’s box is simply to pick it up regularly. Several times per day when my partner or I pass the box we scoop it and place the waste in a sealed bag in a sealed bucket. Takes 30 seconds. Never had issues with odors and the cats appreciate a clean box, just as any person appreciates a clean bathroom (more so for cats with their stronger sense of smell). And from time to time fully empty and wash down the box tray with soap. We’ve been shocked by how poorly many people maintain their cat boxes, which leads to the misconception that cats are smelly. They are incredibly clean animals, far cleaner than we humans. And we’ve been asked by some guests why our house doesn’t have that “pet/cat smell.” Empty the box regularly, you’ll be amazed by the results.
That's a deeper problem. Rule by fear and you will be surrounded by yes-men that only say the good stuff. Allow corruption and everyone, including your closest, will indulge as it becomes a way of life, and at worst, ingrained in culture (from my experience post-socialist Poland also had a lot of that sentiment that you have to pay up if you want to get things actually done, as it was rampant before).

Do both and you have what is happening, "surprise" after "surprise" when what you thought you had in equipment turns out to be actually bricks in someone's villa.
I was at the NeurIPS talk yesterday where he introduced this paper, and it made a bit more sense in the context of the entire work.

His argument is basically that this method is more amenable to analog implementation, and that eventually he believes that we will throw away the idea of separating hardware and software that's defined digital computation to date. Currently, we expect hardware will run the same software the same each time, but to make things more efficient he wants to "grow" the hardware and software together, to the point that you cannot have a piece of software that runs on a different device. The program has instead been learned to run specifically on that hardware and that hardware alone.

He also makes a point that this won't displace digital computers, and instead will be another class of computation hardware.
Although we now know Russia had spies infiltrating the Manhattan project, so the cat was out of the bag either way.
True story, as an american, most people I grew up with are not working corporate jobs. Of my cousins, probably 60% are willfully unemployed and refuse to work for anyone. They make money through odd jobs, day trading, selling online products. Anything to not have to work. The crazy thing is they are generally very happy and have had not trouble dating. Its the people day in and out in their 150k-300k a year corporate job that seem the most miserable to me.

For reference I'm white upper middle class, and all the people spoken about above are college educated.
What I find interesting of Von Neumann is that he's basically history's last true polymath, an individual able to excel at multiple loosely related fields.

After Von Neumann the world might have produced several other geniuses, but the amount of knowledge required to excel in so many different fields is now so huge that I can't think of any such person.
A business doesn't really care about an employee's takehome pay. It cares about the total cost of employing the person. That cost is the employee's salary plus benefits plus payroll taxes.

This means that if benefits are increased, one way or another, that comes out of the employee's paycheck.

Nothing comes for free. The so-called "employer's contribution" to Social Security is actually paid by the employee in the form of a reduced paycheck. The same for the "employer's paid sick leave benefit".
Except the questions are not distinct as long as you want to protect against MITM attacks. Having a secure connection is meaningless if you have no way of telling that its secure up until whoever you intend to talk to.

And if you do trust the connection to be free from active attackers then you don't need certificates at all, e.g. diffie helman key exchange would be enough to create a shared secret that in the presence of a passive adversary that can only observe.
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"Hands off my Medicare!" might be the prime example. Or farm subsidies. People who constantly argue that government is too expansive and always incompetent (or evil) literally seem to forget that programs benefiting them are in fact run by that same government.
>I don't think that's a persuasive argument. You are assuming a (by your own admission) hypothetical situation which is different from where we are now, and ask "But if our situation is different, would your position change?" Well, of course it will. Would you rather want people to keep their positions when the situation changes?

This is less of an argument for charter schools and more of a line of questioning to figure out the motivation behind people's stances. Are people against charter schools because they think other people's kids won't be taught the stuff they want, or do they believe the state should have supremacy over what can be taught using public dollars, regardless of the content?
Student loan forgiveness is not a one-off cost unless it's bundled with a reform that prevents the same debt from being accumulated again. I support the measure, but I wouldn't have supported it if it hadn't included the income-based repayment modifications that should limit the accumulation of unmanageable student debt in the future — I don't believe this goes far enough either, but that's a different topic. My point is that it's not possible for me to countenance supporting a reform that helps some people and "pulls up the ladder" not making it available to others in the future — generally derided as "borrowing against our children's futures".
Agreed. For one, the map has my zip code wrong. And two, I get very spotty reception at my house and get no reception at the local strip mall but both say I get 100% coverage.
Running a publication like future.com costs peanuts. If they are pinching pennies like this, a16z must be in big trouble?
Federal government employees already form unions. If the government took ownership of the railroads, nothing would change in that regard.
Why does it depend on each independent company, instead of just stating it by law? I mean, it seems that everybody across all industries should enjoy the same minimum sick days, not letting companies decide below that, because otherwise some (or most) will decide that number to be zero, as is the case.

Otherwise these people will strike to gain some decency in their labor conditions, but it will be "wasted" effort in the sense that other industries will still lag behind with similar problems. Wouldn't it be better to have a more general change that applies to everybody? Companies are greedy, they'll always try to get as much as possible from their workers, if law allows for it.

(note: not american. I'm just an observer from afar, in an european country where a lot of these worker rights are coded in the law; companies can offer perks above those rights, but never below)
So Intellij has been getting super smart with their IDE's. I wonder if they could just add a visual display over this. Every "if" statement could be displayed as "perchance" etc.
Austen, I bet it takes you a ton of time to write all this up and I want you to know it's appreciated. It's really insightful to see your perspective and insight on all these topics.

So thank you
> You’re just uncomfortable with a group of people that you’re a member of did something

Projection much? I'm not white and I feel the same way as gp
>What's happened is that the unions negotiated higher pay for worse benefits. Now some of them are leaning on friendly politicians to get the benefits they traded away back without having to give up the higher pay.

They didn't negotiate anything with the current contract being imposed on them. The contracts have been voted down by membership, hence the union does not agree with the terms.

The group who has "leaned on friendly politicians" is in fact management, who got Biden and the spineless Dems to impose this not-agreed-to contract via legislation.
"They make money through odd jobs, day trading, selling online products."

...Is this not working?
As it happens, gave a 5-min lightning talk on text-to-img yesterday, and from discussions with colleagues afterwards one thing that works well is 'Mr Blobby' in various situations.

Hmm, not on-topic for OP, but oh well.
Personally, I think the guy believes his own mythology - that he's a genius and his judgement is better than the judgement of everyone else. He's delusional.
Question: are any of these novel sorting algorithms being used in modern databases or tech stacks?
You know that "free healthcare" does not mean it magically costs nothing, and you know that others wouldn't believe that.
Tesla Semi unveiled with tri-motor setup, megawatt charging tech
Oh hell yeah I would have probably been super racist. I’m not no naive as to be believe that growing up in an environment where racism is the norm, pushed and supported by my community leaders, surrounded by everyone circulating stories of the evil scary black people to stroke fear, depicted in media, and backed by “science” wouldn’t have affected me.
I see what you’re saying but now huge portions of the country and it’s infrastructure are literal rubble atm.
Camera industry is dying. I don't see Nikon or Olympus being around in the consumer camera market much longer. Its just going to be Sony and Canon.

People just want pictures that look good. I don't want to shoot bracketed shots then combine them together in photoshop so I can get the same dynamic range as my phone. I don't want to take 20 pictures at a time of my kids hoping to get that one moment where they looked at the camera when my Iphone has live photo mode.

All r&d is being developed for the small sensor sizes. New stacked CMOS sensors will come to phones first because that is where the money is at. Phone cameras next year may surpass capabilities of mirrorless/dslr cameras in terms of dynamic range with a single picture.

I really don't understand why camera manufactures aren't investing in software. What they are doing now isn't working. I am planning to go on vacation for the winter holiday and this may be first year in a long time that i don't bring my dedicated camera(right now a Sony A7III) because my IPhone 14 just takes good pictures.
I dunno if this is as true for Aviation as it was 5 years ago. With Foreflight and the Stratux external GPS/ADS-B in boxes, it's becoming harder and harder to justify in panel GPS for light-sport/hobbyists/GA. I'm willing to bet that in the next 3-5 years we'll see a shift in general aviation to panel mounted "headless" GPSes that communicate with your iPad via GPS and are still coupled to a glass MFD/autopilot, but all the management would be done with an external device.
Yeah, that's an inter-family squabble about what to do with a "windfall" - the leaders should have collected various ideas and "combined" them in some way, a barbecue area that includes EV parking and (I have no idea what office workers see as perks, tbh).
I don't really care if it's internally some tax dodge or sales strategy if it serves as an opportunity to bring color back to a world dominated by monochromatic colors and brushed aluminum. The donation to a good cause is just an added bonus.
I’m not sure that’s true. Semafor reported that a16z's returns were 15x at the beginning of 2022 [1]. Obviously that’s probably lower now but the reason they were so high is that they got inside access to their companies’ tokens and dumped them on retail before the crash. Crypto has been an upward transfer of wealth on an unprecedented scale.

[1] https://www.semafor.com/article/11/16/2022/andreessen-passed...
This ad is some of my go to examples of deflation: getting more goods/services for the same amount of money.

That US$1600 Tandy 1600 runs a 286 CPU and has a 20MB hard drive, and supported 640×200×16 resolution (720×350 mode for monochrome monitors):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000#Tandy_1000_SL_and_T...

What kind of computer can you get nowadays for $1600?

Barry Ritholtz's take is also interesting:

> But Inflation is not inevitable. There are numerous countervailing forces that have been at work for much of the past 50 years. The three big Deflation drivers: 1) Technology, which creates massive economies of scale, especially in digital products (e.g., Software); 2) Robotics/Automation, which efficiently create more physical goods at lower prices; and 3) Globalization and Labor Arbitrage, which sends work to lower cost regions, making goods and services less expensive.

* https://ritholtz.com/2021/02/stop-stressing-about-inflation/
The idea that people would be free to make art when automation obsoleted menial labor was because art was viewed as something inherently pleasurable to do, not because it is needed. You could yell prompts into SD-9000 if you want, or you can paint it yourself, you can even choose to do nothing at all. It doesn't matter which, as long as you are pleased with the result.
Yes. I made an edit to my comment as a result of you pointing this out. I did not chose my words carefully in my last sentence. Thank you for pointing this out.
This is very biased because it's published by NGINX[1]:

"NGINX suffers virtually no latency at any percentile. The highest latency that any significant number of users might experience (at the 99.9999th percentile) is roughly 8ms.

What do these results tell us about user experience? As mentioned in the introduction, the metric that really matters is response time from the end‑user perspective, and not the service time of the system under test."

[1] https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-and-haproxy-testing-user-ex...