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Preservation is not a _public_ library's primary mission. However public libraries are a relatively new development. National libraries and many private libraries do exist to with the primary purpose of preserving information.

cf https://www.britannica.com/topic/library/School-libraries
the 90s web called and would like your tiling effect.
How golden is my parachute in this scenario?
Meat Beat Manifesto sampled that robot a lot for the Original Control releases. Seeing the name again, immediately puts the sample, “if you use me well, I can be your slave,” back in my mind.
No, in many countries you cannot buy USD directly. You also cannot store USD in a local bank account. And in various places it's explicitly forbidden to hold USD as savings because it would devalue local currency if everyone started transacting in USD instead.

So, the "C" makes USD exposure available to anyone worldwide, assuming you have e.g. an Ethereum wallet.
http://www.txl.ca/txl-index.html
this was a very amicable and fruitful discussion

it's been chaffing me a lot last couple of years that it is so hard to learn about making performant code. It was nice of Julia Evans to write that very approachable strace zine [1]. I wished there was more of that kind of stuff. So I am happy Casey is doing a whole course on this stuff [2].

[1] https://wizardzines.com/zines/strace/

[2] https://www.computerenhance.com/p/performance-aware-programm...
Clean code makes it easier to find high level optimisations which can improve the order of performance, not just shave off a few percent.
Are we travelling in two different countries?
I travel mostly in the south, mostly in sleeper class. I find that it is reasonably good (and cheap enough for my shoestring budget).
Some 10 years ago, yes they were terrible, but now, it is quite good, and affordable.

The target audience for the railways is less upper middle class, and more middle and lower classes.
I think with just the numbers presented it's hard to say if this is actually problematic. It's certainly a shift, but my teen half-sibling is hardly less social than I was at his age. He spends all of his time in discord with 'the boys', socializing on insta, or sending TikToks to girls he wants to flirt with from school. If anything I'd argue that style of teen life is hyper social compared to my time. And it's not like he can't meet physically with his friends or girls either, there's just not usually a reason to since with friends they have the most fun playing videogames and with girls there isn't much of a point unless it can be done outside parental supervision which happens but takes planning.
it's not old enough

it uses fancy text effects you wouldn't have used in the 90s, and assets way too heavy for the 90s

adjust those two things to the 90s and the site is pretty much perfect for what it does
Yeah, but that one solar farm that tried to game farming subsidies by letting goats roam with no change to the panels or racking had 3 panels damaged so that's impossible /s
> It is absolutely ridiculous for someone with more than a few million sitting in checking to, well, have it sitting in checking.

Suppose you have 500 engineers each making on average $200k (some make above, same make below). That is about about 17000 / month or 8500 biweekly. It takes time to transfer money. What options do you have for storing the money that is immediately payable. Stocks are volatile. Treasury bills or bonds could work, but it would be a good idea to have it such that the money is deposited a day or two early so you can make pay roll.

500 * 8500 = 4.25 million, so even a medium-size startup simply using SVB for their payroll checking (due today, so they should have had it in by yesterday, and recall ACH processing times of 2-3 days) could easily have a few million sitting in a checking account as part of weekly practice.
Honestly sounds like Stockholm syndrome…none of those issues have ever happened to me at my local credit union where I do all my banking. And I certainly wouldn’t come out with a favorable view of them if it did.

They signed you up for a credit card you didn’t ask for, but at least the terms were good - ok lol
Still counts as learning something
You said they didn't get greedy but the next sentence is the description of an extremely greedy act. They did not need to buy 10 year bonds. They could've bought 1 year bonds, or any other length shorter than 10 years. Or just less 10 year bonds.
Is this accurate? The lower levels have access to the higher levels (feel free to post the relevant optical/audio illusions).
In many countries it's hostile legislation to make it worse and increase soft costs. Australia was only recently allowed to include batteries on solar.
> And the non-insured amount will be available in branches tomorrow via the FDIC-operated DINB.

Why do you believe this? The FDIC said it will provide certificates that you had deposits. These certificates help you make claims in court proceedings as they liquidate.
I think his argument is that it is "gerrymandering" in the sense that the system is maintained the way it is, because that serves the political self-interest of the major parties. The boundaries themselves aren't gerrymandered, but the system according to which they exist is.

By that definition, one might say that Australia has a single layer of gerrymandering – gerrymandered at the systemic level but not at the district level – while the US has two layers of gerrymandering – gerrymandered districts in a gerrymandered system.
It's a dual mandate because it's impossible to accomplish both. They have to decide which to focus on.
Banks failing is pretty rare, not 30 times a year.

“Silicon Valley Bank is no more. It’s the first bank backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to fail since 2020.”

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/03/10/how-silicon-valley-ba...
You'd need to split across multiple banks.

This can be done manually, with some logistical challenges.

This can also be done automatically, e.g. via CDARS.
That's GPT3, not ChatGPT.
Bifacial panels are the default now. They're just better.
If you use Chrome, I forked @TheLastAirsickLowlander's extension [1] and tweaked a few colors to my preference, and keep it updated here [2]. I've been using it for years, and it's awesome.

[1] https://github.com/TheLastAirsickLowlander/DarkHacker

[2] https://github.com/guiambros/DarkHacker
Hard if you're in a country with currency exchange restrictions like Argentina (a big adopter).
Yep, this is indeed what is going on, and relates to concepts like "capitalism motivating nationalism, imperialism and colonialism" - it's the large scale expansion of the debt graph. It's something you can pull off profitably temporarily by coordinating your nation towards a stronger state bureaucracy, aggressive trade policies, industrialization, and destabilization or dehumanization of rivals. When we speak of "this is good for the nation", what's really at stake, materially speaking, is this kind of Machiavellian machination of debt, tempered only by whether it can be justified in terms of national myth, dominant ideology, party politics, etc.

It produces a grand, generational historical narrative, but it's also a form of pyramid scheme and guaranteed to run out of runway at some point when the graph, rather than expanding, finds ways to get by with different trade flows that ignore the center - and each time that happens, you get a massive economic crisis, elites vying for power and drumming up scapegoats to avoid heat, but also waves of material change(different lifestyles and work arrangements).

So there is downside to debt in that it can reinforce hierarchies, but also upsides in that the network itself is acting to transfer useful information about material needs. All things that, having becoming so much more digitally connected in the last 30 years, we can probably revise again to become more abstracted.
Very very good point & I didn't know that.. But I'm still not sure that actually really matches employee's motivations for writing these things.
I mostly agree.

> Money always has a counter-party [...]

That's mostly true for most forms of money. But not technically true for gold coins or bitcoin.

> For example, last year treasury announced sanctions after Ukraine conflict where they froze Russian USD assets. This is essentially the govt of United States deciding to not honour their commitment.

That's sort-of true. It's a bit simplified. The treasury isn't typically the counterparty for these commitments. What they did was ban other entities from honouring their own commitments.

So eg if a bank in Singapore didn't want to lose access to the USD ecosystem, they had to cease honouring their commitments to certain Russian entities.

That's independent of whether those commitments were specified in USD, Singapore dollars, Euros, British Pounds or pork bellies.
I’m pretty sure the code you linked is just simplified for publication. I think it’s interesting to read, I just don’t think it’s what they actually used to train and develop the algorithm.
You can have smart contracts off it. You can't have a smart contract off USD because USD is not a thing on the blockchain.
This is all you needed to know to short SVB a month ago: https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1634246217226919937
Current filibustering doesn't require any sacrifices. You just vote no and that's it. It effectively means it takes 60 votes to get stuff through the senate. The fictionalized filibuster where you had to stand at the pulpit and give speeches 24/7 went away quite a while ago.
A more legitimate use case. An Ethereum contract that converts ETH to USDC. Say you are selling something (an item, security, service or whatever). You can accept payment in any token (in your smart contract) and the token will be converted to USDC.
Do you write horror fiction for a living?
> I remember when de raadt and some others were making slides for conferences in MS comic sans just to "annoy design nerds" (not my wording IIRC) for a while

I'm pretty sure that's still a thing, and as somebody who nerds out on typography (my undergrad thesis used the Tufte LaTeX package), I fucking love it.
If the talking heads on the news were told how to react, then it is logical that they maintain the perception that everything is ok. A lot of economic factors are controlled by perception since we are debt based economy. If everyone in the US wanted their money in cash or gold/silver, banks and the entire system would collapse because it is not there. And in 2020 the Fed removed the 10% reserve requirement so I don't see that fairing well.
If you have significantly more than $250k, you should keep it in a sweep account, which spreads it across banks for you.

https://accountopening.fidelity.com/ftgw/aong/aongapp/fdicBa...
Going off on a tangent:

All publicly issued stocks in the US are technically owned by one obscure New York company. Your broker has a contractual relationship with them, and you have a contractual relationship with your broker.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cede_and_Company

Technically, you don't own any (public) shares.
Who is the guy?
There are LOTS of financial players looking for low credit risk long-term assets who can tolerate the associated interest rate risk. Pension funds and life insurance companies have highly predictable long-term cash outflows and often happily buy long-term bonds to match up inflows. They do not care that the market value of their holdings has been hammered by interest rate increases because the assets were selected to fund a future liquidity need.

Just because the tech community is just now discovering interest rate risk and maturity matching problems doesn't mean any of this is new to the rest of us.
Yubikeys can be backed up, using what they call export under wrap. It requires you initially created the key with exportable flag. The idea is you do this on first use to create an encrypted backup and then instantly remove the exportable flag from the key you carry around day to day.

As others already noted, having more than one key is a good idea anyway. If you are really serious, use ssh certificates so you don’t have to update every server with new keys. Just sign them with the root CA.
It's pure gold, so you'll go splat at the bottom, sandwiched between the cold hard earth and several tons of solid metal.
I wonder why people want something that isn't boring when it comes to some things like a bank in this case. I don't want hassle, I want something simple and boring that does exactly what it's always done. I don't want to think about it. If it's so boring I forget it exists but it enables my life then it's doing a fantastic job. Boring is quite good when it comes to banks.

Investments, maybe you want something that isn't so boring.
I mean we'll find out shortly enough. If they can't find a buyer for SVB, then it's likely insolvent. If they do then it's obviously solvent.
The next best option for that person doesn’t impact the morality of the people making massive profits off them working their life away. They may not have another option because apple needs to add another percentage point to their profit margins, not because that’s the natural state of the world.

So, no, they are definitely not wrong. But anybody who is profiting off their choice while living in comfort is wrong beyond belief.
Some gems from the discussion…

> Long ago he wrote a book entitled The Design of Everyday Things. It's well worth the read. Within those pages he stated the following rule of thumb: “If you think something is clever and sophisticated beware -- it is probably self-indulgence.”

> You also asked me "why...". To the extent that I have not answered that above, I'll simply turn the question around and point out that it is probably for the same reason that your video was solely focussed on the amplification of performance to the strident denigration of every other concern. To a performance hammer, everything looks like a nail. ;-)

Overall a very amicable and interesting read.

It’s so easy to preach high level architecture without specifics, but also so very easy to cherry-pick a specific example where generic advice doesn’t apply.

I think it’s interesting that there is an almost fundamental disconnect between “easy to understand” and “fast and efficient” …and I’m absolutely 100% with Uncle Bob that bounded contexts for complex code is the solution.

This is the approach rust takes with unsafe code and it has proved to be an extremely effective principle.
I don't think individual deposit holders technically have a legal contract with the FDIC. Are you sure? Do you have any sources on that?

You are right in practice that the FDIC guarantees small deposits.
Some of you may get annoyed with this, but python variables don't "hold" values as stated in this one-pager; they are just references to objects in memory. The same goes for dictionaries; they don't "hold" key-value pairs. They are references to hash-table objects in memory.
This guy claims that proportional representation is undemocratic and uses primary votes (first past the post, a truly undemocratic system that favors bigger parties) to prove his point. He then calls it gerrymandering against all known definitions of the word (boundaries are set by an independent commission).

He goes on to say an unconventional approach (no electoral boundaries) is better and the politicians are guilty of not adopting it out of self interest, even though no one has seriously proposed or considered it, and in Australia this would have essentially no support in the electorate (Australians having no problem with their system).

Anyone can make outrageous claims to promote their blog, why is this getting any attention.
Fully automated luxury gay space communism? Seems like a good a goal as any.
No I think more likely than not it's outright solvent if you look at current market value of the bonds. We'll find out by Monday whether it has been acquired or not.
My wife is a fan of these emotional baby toys called Slumberkins and she noticed that they appear to have this problem: https://www.instagram.com/p/CpopLR2OxRU
I’m not surprised to see that American Express is a large bank, but if you’d asked me to produce a list of large banks, I wouldn’t have included any credit card companies.

Of course, a credit card company having a bank attached is not very weird at all. I mean a bank sprouted out of GE that one time, which seems much less on-mission.
Except SVBs assets would eventually mature for more than liabilities but no one would bail them out because the opportunity cost meant the book was worth less than just buying 10 year treasury bonds.
Where can I learn more about these practical, important, or less thought about "soft skills" (like ZephyrBlu's interesting examples) more effectively? I feel like I've encountered these points (e.g. writing for a specific audience) through separate online posts at disparate times. But, is there a definitive, more comprehensive resource detailing all of these soft skills and more? I realize that I'm basically looking for a career panacea, so maybe it doesn't exist. Even if it existed, should I even spend my time reading it—as someone very early in their career—versus actually making the mistakes myself, learning from it, and internalizing it?
yeah you should be proud, they're great!

I don't know if you keep in touch with music production nowdays but algorithmic compositions are on the rise. From modular synths containing modules that generate pieces to external sequencers doing euclidean rhythms and the like. Great stuff.
This is false. Australia uses an "instant runoff" preferential voting system. You're comparing it to a single vote first past the post system.
I haven’t read any Ayn Rand so I’m not totally sure what that means but, as I said, the main reason Cloudflare has a blog like that is to attract new employees.

Of course, there are all sorts of others reasons such as giving our employees the satisfaction of having their work made public, helping them write better, hopefully making potential customers think we are cool and want to buy stuff, getting feedback from the outside world (I particularluly love the “why didn’t they do X” type comments because sometimes we learn something useful) and so on.
What are you going to do with MBS that aggregated averaged a yield of 1.5% when anyone can get a risk free bond returning over 3% now? Who’s going to buy your mortgages?
Tether has significant (if not most) of its reserves in US Treasury. I'm pretty sure they are trading in US markets/banks.
Tumblr hasn't added ActivityPub support yet.

I think more likely is that few people would really migrate in the first place. What killer feature would do such a thing? People just make accounts where their friends and interests are. I guess Facebook might promote it heavily and network effects will get new people on it, but this wouldn't really affect other instances, I think.
Some of us work at companies who did a rapid withdrawal, and are sure hoping that's enough that the company doesn't run out of money and do layoffs.
This is indeed a reasonable way to think about it. A dollar tomorrow is worth less than a dollar today.

You might enjoy this light reading: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/npv.asp
See my comment above. I agree about employee motivations. I was talking about Cloudflare’s motivation to have the blog and spend all the effort on it.
It is funny that all the Experts (TM) have been talking for years how the USSR was an unbeatable giant with colossal strength that can not be defeated and Americans need to seek friendship with them and learn to live alongside them and learn to respect the choice of people in all the communist countries. In fact, the Democrats went the further along this road, actually requesting help from Andropov to fight Reagan (yes, that happened, look it up). Until Reagan came and... the mighty USSR is no more. The Eastern Europe is free. Then The Experts shrugged and proclaimed that it collapsed by itself, through forces of nature that any learned man would easily predict and that they can easily explain, and nothing Reagan did has anything to do with it. Of course.
They could be brought in explicitly to fix the situation, and they could fail to do so for no fault of their own. I don't think there's enough public information to say one way or the other.
Tether has lots of experience in this field. They were "pioneer" and they went through a lot worse: Tons of FUD, the Bitfinex exchange hack, lawsuits, bank runs etc...

In short, they are battle and stress tested to the maximum.
Britain has endured a decade of early deaths. Why?
Nitpick: “Labor” not “Labour” in Australia
https://archive.ph/rOYHX
I’m surprised that such a thoughtful and civil conversation came out of this after the precipitating screed against Clean Code. Kudos to both sides for engaging constructively!
Thanks!

Following a link from there, I get to https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reserve-mainte... and this says:

> During each reserve maintenance period an institution must satisfy its reserve requirement in the form of vault cash or, if vault cash is insufficient to satisfy the requirement, in the form of a balance maintained with a Federal Reserve Bank. The portion of the reserve requirement not satisfied by vault cash is called the reserve balance requirement.

In any case, I'm still agreeing with you!
"project folder" which is oh so in line of single file utility scripts which you will run from all over the place.

will you have one dep dir on each place you run the script at?
What's different is how many large accounts SVB had. Most banks have a higher share of funds in smaller accounts. For people with less than $250k at the bank, there's less incentive to withdraw all your funds.
Have they, though, if marked to market? After the deposit outflows this week?
Does anyone know if there is an installable keyboard layout for windows that roughly corresponds to a space cadet layout? At least for the Greek and math characters
Looks like USDC dropped all the way down to $0.85 on some exchanges.
They are actually a recipe for slaughtering a capitalist economy.
A hacker who got into your laptop can’t simply copy your id_rsa file to get further access to all your servers, it’s physically stored in the usb dongle with no way to get it out and requires physically touching it each time key is used.
Currently around $0.92, now we’ll if stays there.
yeah. exactly because it download depencies. I want my distro owner to decide that.

most languages dont havea built in package manager.
Why do you think 28% vs 56% prevents insolvency when those assets took a 20% loss from rising interest rates?
I don't know who exactly made the decision to let the case get this far, but it's worth noting the judge explicitly credits crown counsel with suggesting an acquittal:

> [7] After Mr. Epstein testified in chief, in a tremendous display of professionalism and objectivity, Crown counsel declined to cross-examine him since, in her view, it was not in the public interest to do so. Instead, she humbly invited the Court to enter an acquittal. Having heard the evidence, I can unreservedly confirm that she made the right call. Counsel’s integrity was commendable.

One thing that I found in reading the judgement was that French/English tensions came into play (the accused was Anglophone, the complainant had taken exception to him speaking English) which is a political hot topic in Quebec right now. It's possible there were some political motivations in play.
Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative AI
Confusingly, the two banks you named are JP Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley. JP Morgan Chase is the biggest bank there is, but Morgan Stanley is far smaller (but still ginormious) and doesn't rank in the top 10 banks. The top 3 banks are JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup.

https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/largest-banks-u...