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In working on my Book III (basically, the early 90s), I've done a ton of research on handheld devices and the money pit they were. Newton is not going to be any more than a footnote.

Jerry Kaplan's book Startup tells the story about how Sculley stabbed GO in the back with Newton -- actually, both GO and General Magic. They got a lot of press and flopped miserably. And of course, let's not forget Momenta (as easy as that would be, given that they failed so fast).

Meantime, Palm finally figured out something people would buy and use, by scaling back expectations and building a device that did something valuable.
A couple of episodes of 30 Rock as well.
That's sad. That internet black box plot line is one of the best known and most beloved about the series.
Your second and third paragraphs contradict.
Post the dot-com crash, a lot of people (both techies and non-techies) felt that tech was not a stable career. However, when Facebook didn't want to collude with big tech companies about salaries, salaries have become skyrocketed (as a secondary consequence, Bay Area home prices have gone through the roof). When new grads can make $250K a year, that's when many felt that tech is a great career--be it a software engineer, program manager, strategy, etc. Top tier Ivies used to go to Consulting, IB, PE and VC. Now, Big tech also takes a chunk of people from top Ivies. That tells you that getting a PM role at Google is as good as joining as an analyst at JPMC/GS.

Maybe, layoffs during this cycle will prick that bubble that tech career is stable and leads to high payouts.
When I was 23, I misdosed myself and took 110mg of 4-AcO-DMT. The experience was EXTREMELY traumatic and I believed I was dying. At one point I was so overstimulated I just lay on my kitchen floor convulsing uncontrollably.

The next few days I didn't know what to do. My body would just shake, I couldn't sleep and I stayed up until I passed out for an hour, and then my shaking would wake up myself up again. I was overwhelmed with dread and thought I had completely fucked my brain forever and all my potential was gone.

But I went to therapy, got better, and my life is completely normal now. I have HPPD and see visual snow, but that's about it.

This blog doesn't want to give platitudes like "it gets better" and I can see how they're not really helpful when you're in crisis mode. The one piece of advice that has helped me is the thinking that "I'm not the first one to ever go through this, and I won't be the last." No matter if you're fucked in the head, going bankrupt, getting divorced - whatever - you aren't alone and you can either find a solution or find acceptance.
True, though I question how effectively a cartel on rents can be formed in practice.

I believe that specific piece of software is already being investigated by the Government for anti-competitive, price fixing like behavior
> Other auth standards do not support a challenge-response exchange

And why is a challenge required? Shouldn't the decision on which level of protection to use be left to the client? The business should be able to say "thanks but no thanks I like my email server just the way it is".

> MFA namely, it requires an interactive process

Assuming that an interactive process is required (even if that's moving the goalpost), again, that's something that can totally be done in the plugin (show a prompt, and pass that to the server along with the rest of the information stored). It could even be automatized by saving the seed (often shown as a QR code) in the plugin.

> MS is perfectly cable of doing the same but why?

They don't even have to. All I ask is to not take steps to actively destroy software. With a profit motive (replacing Office 2010 by 365 with a yearly fee) "Negligence" is no longer an excuse. I see "Malice" as way more probable.

> old software has a HUGE security risk

A client should never cause a security risk to the server.
So if you mean outlook.com, no: if Outlook 2010 can cause a security risk to outlook.com when it connects to outlook.com, then you've done the server part seriously wrong (like how SQL injections means a lack of input sanitation).

If you mean on my own computer, I'm sorry but I run what the hell I want however I want - first sale doctrine and all that.

So if I want to run Windows 7, I will.

> personally I think it should be built into office that once EOL date is reached it simply bricks

OMG what did I just read?

If that's what you seriously believe 1) I'm so glad you're not in charge of the products I use, because 2) you have a great future in sales or as a manager to increase the revenue streams, users be damned.

> People running old software are a risk to EVERYONE online

I'm sorry my freedom is a negative externality to you? Actually, no: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither"
> - California bans non-competes and it is essentially the fastest growing economy in the western world.

Source? From cursory Googling, it doesn't even seem to crack the top 10 US states, let alone Western world economies...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/economy/gro...
I’m curious what refactoring tools are missing? I don’t use many other IDEs so would be interested to hear about them. I’ve used Xcode’s existing refactoring tools quite a bit, but haven’t felt I was missing anything, probably because I don’t really know what else is available. (They were terrible for many years, supporting only Objective-C, but they now support C, C++ and Swift as well.)
I dunno about the mega back door Roth part… unless you truly have tons of excess, I don’t wanna be old till I can enjoy my money
A congressional investigation on any scientific or technical matter is political theatre for which the answer is known in advance. I can’t see how performance art helps matters.

The likelihood of a bipartisan, non-performative committee is basically nil.
I'd like you to also consider the variation of "end all sentient existence instantly, preventing it from ever restarting"

One concern is wild animal suffering - https://wildanimalsuffering.org/
Usually these kinds of things are just about selling a service. Most pitches on this is are like that just rehashed versions of the same sales pitches
Is it really different to .NET Framework vs .NET Core and what came after (.NET 5+).
IBM research has had multiple positive effects on its business (and industry). Just a few off the top of my head…

* Giant Magnetoresistance (gigabyte hard drives)

* Financial Swaps

* Silicon on Insulator Technology

* DRAM

* Fortran

* Copper metallization on silicon dies
I won't let my kids use YTKids anymore. Besides the app issues, people have figured out how to game their algorithm, and you end up on either an unboxing video or some gore-scare in the middle of a kids video.

My kids only get to use curated experiences where a human has actually picked the content (ie. pretty much every other Kids video app).
Most won’t. The assisted living centers will, and the workers at the facilities.

Assisted living is a money pit, and most boomers aren’t sitting on massive amounts of wealth.
I wish there is something like this for Kotlin and Android development. One of these I might Android development just because of the shit its development and build environment is — Android Studio, Gradle etc. What a glorious mess!
I strongly suggest that if DVDs are important to you, that you find some convenient mechanic to rip them.

DVDs are durable, but not immortal. I have several that have failed.

I appreciate the ask. Ripping DVDs is just a lot of work, time, storage, and fiddling. I don’t wish ripping 15 seasons of ER on anyone.

But, the truth is, the things break down.
Divorce is not an option, I will consult a lawyer specialized in this.
That’s much more work though than just keeping the DVDs in the basement.
Outsiders just don't understand how ML contributes to Google's profits, because Google doesn't directly sell the ML to customers (like IBM's idiotic Watson product). But ML is plugged in everywhere: BERT (or its secret descendants) in Search, whatever unnamed inference system stands behind their Smart Reply and Smart Compose, the image segmenting and classification thing that makes searching Google Photos so easy. They even have a thing in Google Sheets that predicts what formula you are about to type. Their physical infrastructure from water pumps to cooling fans right down to CPU clock speed is controlled by machine-learned algorithms. They have a machine-learned compiler optimization pass that inserts explicit memory prefetches in key latency-critical function. ML is everywhere.
Agreed. We have small number of movies and TV shows which is growing.

Pro tip: thrift store DVDs and "friends of the library" sales.

I got every season of ST:TNG for about $40 ($1/disk)
Interesting. You might be the first computational chemist I know who actually uses Rust. I know a lot of computational chemists!

Python is the big one, all of the aforementioned chemists are either intermediate or advanced in that. The runner-up seems to be Julia, which I personally have no experience with. The big guys are Fortran and C++. I prefer C for tasks of this nature, but I also shill Scheme so don't listen to my opinions on programming languages.

Best of luck on your computational chemistry endeavours!
I just own a camper van. In current state of affairs, heat is a solved problem with diesel. Air conditioning still does not have a viable solution, aside from shore power. You can't practically use electric for heating or anything really beyond powering the lights and the heater fan.

Most vans max out around 3kWth. I have seen people use a used Tesla battery, but only have seen one report.
At this point I think the content is just an annoying leftover thing, like an appendix, that often gets in the way of Engagement and Brand Building and Reader Lifetime Value.

One day soon the article text will be generated on the fly by ChatGPT based on whatever data it can infer about you, and only enough will be created to get you to sign up for the newsletter so you can be spammed with more personalized content that drives greater engagement.

The AI alignment folks were on to something with paper clip maximizes, but the real thing is turning out to be engagement maximizers.
Thanks,I will consult a lawyer
I kept waiting for "I got fired" or "I killed somebody in a DUI and am going to jail" but there doesn't appear anything in his life that actually.. you know... ruined it?
Need a browser plugin that tells you if the page you are viewing is above or below the current average page size in use on the Internet.
Then stigmatise those who are over average size and somehow reward those who are below it.
Serious comment bloat crisis here.
Why do people still use email as a way of subscribing to content?

There are many better and more efficient ways to solve this problem rather than having your subscription mail go straight to junk mail.
How much money and time was spent, collectively, updating projects, OS packages, and broken dependencies due to this transition? My guess is about $2B.
I checked my PC for this update and saw that it had already been applied three days before the article was posted. I suspect most people who have enabled automatic updates will have this experience.

Just for fun I tried running Microsoft's Show or Hide Updates troubleshooter like the article suggested and got "An error occurred while troubleshooting. Error code 0x80070483." Sigh. No wonder everyone bashes Microsoft.
What? This paper is written for cryptographers, and is now often required reading in cryptography courses.
> there is no housing shortage.

you are factually inaccurate there, for most US metropolitan areas on the East and West coasts. In particular, the San Francisco Bay Area for sustained decade+, had several hundred thousand more available jobs than available places to live.

source: professional Urban Planners in California
Playing on phone. No music. Cool game. Nice physics.
Coming from the usual languages: pascal, modula-2, objective c, c, lisp, miranda, ruby, python. Another thing I don’t like about Swift are the named parameters which was an objective C thing. I find it makes reading code difficult because you don’t start parsing a function call until the first ‘(‘, you have to read the args too to determine which function is being called. I also don’t like the integration of swiftui syntax into swift. Plus you read some of the stuff going on in swift evolution and it seems they are hell bent on adding everything to the language.
-- article gives no good advice on what to do when you ruined your life - so maybe hackernews has some good advice? --
Just in terms of percentage, I think Pol Pot must be up there. What was it, 30% of the entire population of the country? Astonishing.
It’s funny you mention HN. With comments and voting and no js.
> It actually is the more impactful number which was relevant to my original point (people are staying in the dating pool for a longer % of their life)

You may have had that point in your mind, but by choosing to only mention the numbers for women, the point you made was “women are staying in the dating pool for a longer % of their life”.
When did Linux get so complicated?
Good engineers relative to what? You're conflating averages within a company, to averages in general to software engineers in the market. And you're basing this on the failures of a product without using some baseline.

I agree that FAANG engineers aren't necessarily the geniuses they hype themselves out to be, but making broad assertions needs some baseline aside from personal experience as my personal experience with FAANG engineers has been mostly positive. That's not to say non-FAANG engineers aren't competent either, as I have worked with non-FAANG engineers as well and they were perfectly fine.

The intent of the OP was simply to dismiss anyone working at FAANG and insinuate they were all subpar and average. He thinks you can just say "from my experience" and that just absolves him from any criticism of his statements. It's completely disingenous.
Even after all these years, people still have this misconception about TTD. No idea where it came from.
I wrote this seven years ago and haven't studied the issue much in the interim. Can people who are up to speed on modern web design comment on what's changed (for the better or worse) in the interim? Do the tools and frameworks still change every few months, or have things settled down a bit?
So much more than an Algol origins story: includes references to Mass Spec machines, vacuum tubes, early computer IP battles, Barton, and Knuth.
Netflix and Alphabet engineers on par with each other, because it’s a revolving doors situation in Silicon Valley. There are under currents that move employees into different companies that have nothing to do with talent or meritocracy it’s just people hiring people they know from their past jobs.
Next time something like this happens, something like Chat GPT will make it much more seamless. "Chat GPT, please rewrite this program to be Python 4 compatible"
Don’t read too much into the DSM definitions. There’s an (often explicit) caveat that they apply iff the condition distresses the patient or seriously affects their life.

It’s healthy to hang onto a few ratty t-shirts because you might need them to mow the lawn or because they remind you of good times; you can even be a bit bummed when you eventually do throw them out. It’s compulsive hoarding when you do it even though it seriously bothers you or turns your place into a death trap.
Tell that to perl, or php.
Not even just that, but half of the content is just distracting GIFs. I can’t focus well on reading content when there are videos playing on the same screen. This is also a trend that needs to stop.
My employer is supportive too, I was able to take long leave and also last minute days-offs. I will think though this and thanks!
Virtually everyone is trying to copy AirTable... and failing.

Microsoft is trying with Lists (https://lists.live.com). They released the public preview a year ago, missing key features, and failed to release final version.

Amazon tried with Honeycode (https://www.honeycode.aws/). They are no longer trying to build a spreadsheet-like interface to database.

Google tried with Tables (https://tables.area120.google.com/). They were supposed to release GA in 2022, didn't happen.

AirTable remains the king of the hill.
Regardless, the stethoscope has (for better or worse) already been replaced for a while, at least for in-hospital care at larger US/Canadian community/academic settings, by chest x-ray and/or the increasing straight jump to CT pulmonary angiography.

In hospitals, sure, but GPs don't have access to those. At least in my experience "is this a bad cold or is it bronchitis" gets answered with a stethoscope.
They mind it about as much as we do, judging by how hard they try to avoid it. It's silly to assume we're so different from animals that we're the only ones who don't like pain and death.
This seems to be dependent on Saudi Arabia selling oil, for how much longer will oil be the corner stone.
He probably both flew well and was very lucky! He mentions the Soviets also flew well but made mistakes. It's not outside the realm of possibility that they simply were as unlucky as he was lucky.
Note that "total housing units / working age population" is the wrong metric. Many baby boomers are choosing to stay in their houses long after they have retired, and retirement lasts longer because life expectancy is now ~15 years past retirement (more in many of the blue states that are the most housing constrained).

The proper metric would be "population entering peak home-buying & child-rearing years / (deaths + population entering senior homes + new home construction)". I'm pretty sure that metric is pretty bleak just looking at the U.S. population pyramid:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/
If you'd do anything differently, you're living wrong.
Q: is this a website about Isaac Newton, the city of Newton, MA, or fig cookies?
A: No, none of those things.
Are there methods with similar reach as email though?
This is silly. Just rip them and give them away. You'll spend less on mirrored hard drives than storage for the disks. And you can always BitTorrent movies you already own on DVD/BluRay guilt free.

The only reason I still have my stack of disks is because I haven't had time to rip them and their special features yet. That and we keep the disks for kids movies because the van doesn't have streaming support or AppleTV yet. :)
I heard from a talk by Cleve Moler that hardware/engineering companies are the big customers (the likes of Honda).
There is that part near the end of 'Der Untergang' (which I think is a fantastic movie for many reasons, and which obviously has nothing to do with Pol Pot) where you can see the ease with which the power hungry were absolutely willing to sacrifice their entire population if it meant that they would hold out a few days longer. The inhumanity of what was happening while at the same time being concerned with their own every day little normal bits of life was such an incredible contrast.
Then it’s no problem if that safety and effectiveness is checked scientifically, as many times as people want.
Author here if you have questions about the Globus or other space hardware.
Yeah I avoid python for any project I have control over.
I would be repeating myself.
This is one issue monolithic kernels have unfortunately. Even if you moved the drivers out of tree, you have the issue of the constantly changing kernel API.
> From my experience, Microsoft wants you to move to a Microsoft 365 subscription

Yes, they want the money.

> So there is a clock ticking if you are using those versions of Office.

My solution is Office 2007 (for 32 bit) or 2010 (for 64 bit), either running on Wine or baremetal, and replacing Outlook.com by Gmail.com to which old versions of Office connect perfectly well thanks to Google Workspace Sync.
Also a former Cap1 employee here, the 3 people managing a team of 3 engineers is quite common.

My last team before leaving had 3 engineers: tech lead, me, and a junior dev. It had 4 non-engineers managing us: a product owner, a head Agile Delivery Lead, a more junior agile Delivery Lead, and our manager.
Aren't scrum masters usually individual contributors on the team as well?
Effective enough to elicit government investigation. There is a huge industry of data aggregators and managers for which this cartel like emergent behavior is the primary value offering. My current rent is managed by it and I can presume at least 10% rent hike every year. The entrenched money benefits from this status quo so without an establishment threatening crisis I doubt much would be done about it.
Some Office features that came after 2010:

- Latex math formulas

- SVG graphics

- Opening PDFs in Word

- Alignment guides for images and other objects

and these are just the ones I noticed with my limited MS Office use.
Wow 110mg is an enormous amount. Glad to hear you’re doing better.
If you don’t find one – maybe make one?
> Therefore anyone caring about privacy, including what files are on their machine, will not run Windows, period.

I agree, but I do run Windows. I do it for only one purpose: to ensure my software works there.

If my software works on Windows, and people adopt it, it's yet another piece of software that they could bring to Linux or another better platform. Think of it like using "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" against Microsoft.
They realized it wasn't enough and massively ramped up production after 1975.
In the face of all this complexity, I think it is not "obvious that you'd want to set this differently for different crimes." It is clear the perfect certainty would be ideal, if possible. It is not clear to me that variable standards are desirable from a practical standpoint.

The relevance of a Blackstone number is it basically sets all this aside and looks at an ideal circumstance, and you can adjust from there, if you want to take peculiarites into account.
Agreed. This is the rough equivalent of saying 'I take responsibility' while laughing all the way to the bank over the backs of those that made the money in the first place. Absolutely revolting.
I said the minimum threshold required to get hired is "~average talent and willingness to grind". This is a fact.

This statement says nothing about the average skill of a FAANG engineer. The bizarre extrapolation of statement A to fabricated statement B is quite astounding. Truly.
Why not use AirTable? That's what they are trying to copy.
Couldn't handle his buzz.
There is a Magisk module that gives FDroid the permissions to do this. I get updates automatically on my phone. Or you can use ROM that already has it built in, like Lineage+microg.
> I think it's still perfectly possible to do that with React

Browsers don't share cache between sites any more.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/http-cache-partitioning/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/firefox-v85-will-imp...
Disagree. Profitability is a trailing indicator. That objective measure would say to cut all R&D.

And there are plenty of objective measures: gross margin, EBITDA, ROA, ROE, lots more. And those are just financial measures! Installed base, CLV, NPS, there are many many objective measures.
You can always start a blog.
Reminds me of a software team having one surgeon and the others are support staff--in no way denigrating, but equally essential with their skillsets, to execute on the (skunkworks?) project.

This idea of a surgeon team is also from Brooks.
Yes, this is true (or nearly) for simplicial complexes. A cycle on (X, A) is the same as a cycle on (X/A, A/A) = (X/A, single point), and this is a useful point of view, since X/A can be much simpler to visualize.