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> I bought my first iPhone in 2008, the iPhone 3G, whose 16GB variant cost me $299 on a two-year contract.

While the author acknowledges the two year contract, he seems not to actually do a TCO analysis of the phone + monthly service. Given how much cheaper cell service is these days (perhaps 1/3 of what it cost during the early days of the subsidized iPhone), you could spend an extra $500 on a phone and still end up spending less. And if you kept it for 3 years instead of 2 (which is much easier now that the rate of innovation has slowed), you could spend even more upfront.
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I applied on Wellfound, have emailed couple of times but no one responds on the email mentioned. Could you please look into this?
I really wish the New York Times would stop this anti-market, anti-labor spin. An article about a talent 'shortage' that mentions workers being compelled to work long hours deep into the night for modest wages. There are no shortages in a free market - just cheapskates.
if you can eat them raw!

cooking them looses most of their benefits
The home in question is very near Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. I do a two mile walk through campus every day, schedule permitting.

I did not drop any zeros. Salary.com rated this as one of the least expensive places to live in the U.S. a few times.

I drive over the Mississippi twice a day, to and from work.

We have the second largest airport in Illinois, but lost our budget airline (Airtran), so I use O'Hare or Midway now.
The ChatGPT API is actually already set up for chat dialogs, so rather than pasting the user input into the same text stream, you write your prompt as a "system message", then the user input as a "user message". and the system responds with a third one. See: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat/introduction
I feel like we live on a time now where the A-level premium electronics are fantastic while the B-level pieces are 90% as good but a tenth of the price. My $20 wireless earbuds aren’t gonna win any sonic quality awards, but they’re still pretty amazing, work remarkably well.
The "effective" population will equalize much faster. SK has extremely high longevity, which is a success, but it means that 9 million of those are already de-facto out of the workforce and are a liability, not an (economic or military) asset.

North Korea has really low longevity, which is bad, but it means that more of those 25 million are young.
Imo mysql is decent enough for many years, and PG has relatively major outstanding architecture problem (see my Other comment in this thread)

I don’t think either DB is bad, but the whole MySQL is dead and needs serious work idea doesn’t make sense to me. What problem does MySQL still have that needs fixing in your opinion?
You know the movie is intended for kids right? And they loved it?
The proposal has two parts, one is to change the semantic of "for-range" loops, the other is to change the semantic of traditional c-like "for;;" loops.

The first part is good and will fix your problem. However the second part will produce some surprises to many people.
Unfortunately in today’s day and age any mental illness is a scarlet letter on your record when it comes to anything government related. Firearm licenses in antigun states are probably the most egregious.

It’s especially troubling with the hype surrounding “mental illness” or “neurodiversity” and popularization of it amongst the youth. It seems to be creating a nation of prohibited persons and second class citizens.
Steven Wolfram talks about related concepts a lot in the frame of his "computational irreducibility" concept. It's interesting to think that there could be systems composed of comparatively simple rules but computing that first proof of False could take longer than the universe.

It's interesting, and Wolfram explains it well. You do need to ignore the ego though.
These posts are a pretty far throw from "religious," or even Christian in the basic nondenominational sense that most Americans use the word.

I don't mean this in a judgemental way: if you're like most people (and you, like me, probably are), then you don't have the ability to "seal off" parts of your personality. Whatever part of you drives you to write posts like this is almost certainly also on display when you undergo medical exams.
What is the the chip depicted on System Information’s icon?
And I am thinking of retiring to Latin America to escape both winter and taxation.
If P=NP then there is no encryption and no secure digital signature algorithms whatsoever. No post-quantum variants, I mean there's nothing at all. Also, if P=NP quantum computers are probably not useful at all, perhaps they're a bit cheaper, that's all.

There's a lot of NP-hard problems that you'd love to solve if you could, but you avoid them because you immediately know it's not possible. For example, you could create optimal neural networks that might be 10x? 100x? more powerful for the same size/cost as GPT-4 is.

This stuff is likely so beyond the reach of today's knowledge that it would be like talking about quantum mechanics and integrated circuits running at GHz speed to Euclides. It's like when Paul Erdős talked about the Collatz conjecture: "Mathematics may not be ready for such problems."
> It's more explicit than MySQL, so in that way it's better.

It sounds like you're under the impression that MySQL just makes everything case-insensitive and is silent about this? That's decidedly not the case.

MySQL 8 ships with 41 different character sets, supporting a total of 286 different collations. Collation names explicitly include "ci" (case-insensitive) vs "cs" (case-sensitive), as well as "ai" (accent-insensitive) vs "as" (accent-sensitive), and also the language/region conventions used for sorting purposes.

You can choose collation at the column-level granularity, as well as setting defaults at the table, schema, and server levels. It's completely explicit and very configurable.
Superconductivity can be achieved at room temperature using pulses of electricity and vibration.
I don’t get the point of this article other than “buy cheap phones”.

I’ve bought cheap phones before. My first was a Samsung galaxy. I think it cost about 400usd at the time. Can’t remember. It was ok.

Lasted me for about 2 years before I got an htc phone for about 200usd. The Samsung shattered, so I needed a new one. Decided to go cheap because, why spend the money on glass?

Turns out that HTC is as sooooo bad. Could barely type a sentence. Reception was bad, and it was slow just to use Line app.

Ended up getting a iPhone 6s.

I’m typing this comment now on that very same 6s. My wife is using my iPhone 12 since hers broke.

Conclusion? Buy an expensive phone (within reason) and use it for five years. Or longer.

Too bad androids don’t receive security updates past two or three years.
Sounds interesting, I honestly think that’s one the things I’ll be going for.

That would be great if you found them.

If you want to contact me at my email it’s my username plus varela at the mail from the big search engine.

Thank you very much!
The proposed bans on face recognition in public spaces and predictive policing are big things. I'd expect a lot of pushback from certain countries and stakeholders in the forthcoming trilogues.
I know someone going through flight school right now who largely reached the same conclusion: that soon, we'll have next to no inbound new pilots, because Gen Z and Alpha are diagnosed with various mental conditions at high enough rates (in hopes of getting treated, which we should be encouraging) that FAA medicals will become less and less likely.

The FAA needs to get its stuff together in this regard, and quickly.
This.

It's funny, in Illinois they altered the judge's plea script a couple of years back. They used to say "has anyone made you any promises in regards to this plea?", but now they say "except for the prosecutor, has anyone made any promises.."

It is hard, because if you are innocent you have to make a tough choice. Two weeks after my arrest I was offered a plea to be released the next day. I refused and it took nine and a half years in pretrial custody to actually get my case heard.
(Full disclosure, I work for Oracle)

Anyone who says no investment has been into MySQL I suspect never took the time to read the features/release notes for MySQL 8

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html
the same website that tells you that a $700 handheld PC console is "cheap"

These companies make billions in profit each year, something tells me that the price of their toys is overly inflated

https://www.theverge.com/23700094/asus-rog-ally-price-amd-z1...
Yes it’s a race.

USA doesn’t want quantum computer pirate baying our secrets and breaking encryption. There is a strategic need to be first from quantum computing alone, ignoring all other quantum fields, like quantum gravity.
This hypothetical project gets a lot of revenue from people with 10 year old computers to justify a decrease in productivity for 0.56% higher potential reach
Python is "stupid dynamic"; it exposes implementation details which can't work work well under compilation, like accessing a caller's local variables.
People should doubt everything an LLM outputs, ergo, why use it in the first place if the desired output is objective fact? LLMs hallucinate, that's what they do. When it's wrong, you likely won't notice that it's wrong, but over time, your world view is going to become more and more distorted.
The local and corporate view of environmentally safe practices seems to be out of sync. EV demand is fueling the need for this nickel immediately but the environmental and political consequences of this demand may be underestimated and under-reported.
Life is expensive. Kids are even more expensive. With both partners working, having a kid is one hell of a pandora's box regarding costs, care etc. People have a high expectation of what is a reasonable standard of living for their kids, which pushes the age when they try (if ever) further and further as well.

It sure as hell is a money issue. Just not a cheap one.
Proposed decisions by Wikipedia's Arbcom on the Holocaust distortion scandal
Yes, I misinterpreted.
In Washington I tend to have a simpler way to memorize which one I'm in: have I passed a sign that said "national X" and see mostly stumps from logging operations? Forest. Otherwise, park (and there's almost certainly a fee booth ahead).
One day, you might even discover ePub.
And Kolmogorov complexity is used by Shane Legg (DeepMind founder) and Marcus Hutter (Hutter prize etc) in their paper "A Formal Measure of Machine Intelligence"

http://www.vetta.org/documents/legg-hutter-2006-formal-measu...
The FAA will want to make it very unattractive for copycat YouTubers. “No bro, did you hear about that guy?” is what they want prospective YouTube aircraft ditchers to hear from their friends.
JWST Galaxies at Z>10 Consistent with Cosmological Simulations
You think the FAA isn't doing background checks and internet searches, finding out everything they can about applicants?

If I apply for a part-time job at McDonald's, they're at the very least going to Google my first and last name.
Right. I guess your SSD has zero checksum errors and your RAM passes memtest for a couple of days too.
That’s not new:

Religious fanatics preaching the end of the world versus those building up progress is as old as recorded history.

Removing the religious trappings doesn’t change the behavior.
Only type hints. They help a linter/IDE bitch about types but they don't have any enforcement beyond that. They're great for self documenting methods but don't remove any dynamic typing from the language itself.
Yes, this is the point I was making about developers not getting much of a share of the increased profits from the productivity boost. That's been the story for workers (at least in the US) since the 70s.
Swappa – Welcome to the safest marketplace for newish tech
In a developed country low birth rates are the norm. The exception is certain religious subgroups within these countries. Notably Mormons with 50% higher fertility rates than average in most counties surveyed:

https://rsc.byu.edu/latter-day-saint-social-life/religious-i...

And Orthodox Jews with over triple the birth rate of secular Jewish women:

https://en.idi.org.il/haredi/2020/?chapter=34272

These two groups also have high defection rates of around 50%, but if current trends continue (always a big if in demographic studies) most people in the future developed world will either belong to strongly religious groups or be former members of such groups.

I myself am secular, strongly so. My wife is just as strongly religious and her fertility rate is over three times our national average at her insistence which I voluntarily agreed to. I’m concerned that us secularists have no good answer to why anyone should have children and as I result I can see secularism dying out long term, which I consider a philosophical tragedy. If anyone has any answers I’d love to hear them, unless the only answer is, oddly enough Augustine’s religious and Schopenhauer’s secular retort that the voluntary extinction of humanity would be the most supreme achievement of the will:

https://theconversation.com/amp/solve-suffering-by-blowing-u...

Regardless of the validity of such arguments, in my mind they fail the Darwinian test and will be eliminated by the ruthless and indifferent force of biological evolution.
To be fair, if you don't click the button in the corner and you're not airgapped, what two words better capture my response to the liability of supporting you?
"which will be filled by shady loan sharks"

You are replacing friendly-looking loan sharks with door-to-door salesmen with clearly illegal loansharks.

For the same reason you don't want cocaine sold near "fun toys for kids"
In this day an age, are workstation backups really necessary? I can't think of anything important I do on my work machine that would need it. Maybe a days worth of code edits that haven't been pushed to GitHub.
Did you implement table partitioning with Postgres or consider that before moving?
Windows 8 and 8.1 is already EOL. No regular consumer should still be on it.
Okay.

But what's wrong with having these beliefs?

And I am Christian, but not nondenominational. I have very specific beliefs. Besides, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is still a major church.

To argue that just because I don't believe the same things that most Christians do is a reason to deny me flight is bigoted.

And that wasn't even the reason I was denied. All of the people examining me recommended that I receive a medical. Obviously, this personality of mine was no problem.
Could you give a good example of functional programming that does not follow that method? I am very interested.
A side effect of ads (and something that ad blockers mask, giving websites a normal appearance) is that ad supported websites have the wrong incentive.

When you browse a website with no ads, you are the public. Content is provided for your use, and that's all.

When you visit an ad supported website, you are only the means to achieve an end, which is to have you in the site as much as possible, clicking on as much ads as possible. That usually had the effect of making the website content bloated.

Not all sites begin like that, but they all end like that. And ad blocking hides that ugly truth under a layer of normalcy.
don't believe the lies, FANG was crying to the government and journalists daily that the US didn't have enough software engineers for the better part of two decades. Then they laid off 50,000 people despite being immensely profitable.
In the cases mentioned specifically, the buyer has broken a law already (at least two are fraud) or the contract is invalid (lack of mental capacity).

This isn't really a story per se. People are doing illegal stuff or stuff that won't hold up in court if challenged. We have a system for it - it works ok, not fantastically. We don't need new regulation for cases like this, we just need better execution on the existing system. Better execution costs more money, and as a society we get to some balance of more taxes v more stuff slipping through.
Charities asking for money use images of desperate and needy women and children in there advertising campaigns kind of discourages the will to bring more into this world. Having two handfuls of children used to get gov. handouts equal to an exec's pay but I don't know if times have changed and those social programs are gone.
The point is that people will click it and be exposed to ads. It's The Verge.

Google Pixel gets 5 years of security updates, mate.
I was able to immigrate to Vietnam and set myself up without bribery. I've been here 10 years.

Mainly it was a matter of learning how to do the paperwork properly. Some people here pay bribes, others refuse to. I won't claim everything here is magically ideal, but as a general rule if you don't put yourself in situations where you need to pay bribes, you won't have to pay them. Mostly simple things like getting a driver's license if you're going to drive, maintaining your vehicle, and registering your current address.

Foreign residents here do have a bit of a reputation for poor compliance on stuff like this and doing everything the shadiest, laziest, and most fragile way possible.

This situation has improved in recent years -- I currently know maybe 4 or 5 other legal immigrants. We are a minority -- your assumptions about the behavior of the average person who moves here from North America are not entirely without merit, it's just not a universal truth.

Anyway I don't mean to argue with you -- just provide a hopefully interesting slice of life from a different part of the world.
Oh true, fair nuff. Will post as a reply to the other guy
Facebook maintains a patch-set, not a full fork. They still track Oracle's releases and apply their patches on top.

Facebook definitely has the resources to migrate to Postgres, if there was any motivating reason to do so. Indeed, Facebook developed their own LSM-based key-value store (RocksDB) and MySQL storage engine based on it (MyRocks) and then migrated the majority of their db fleet to that. In total that's massively more work than migrating to Postgres would have been.

Part of the reason was that MyRocks provides better compression than pretty much any other possible choice, and that adds up to an astronomical amount of cost savings at Facebook's scale. In contrast, what would Facebook have gained from moving to Postgres instead?
On chat.openai.com below text box there is a link to ChatGPT release notes. Current link text is "ChatGPT May 3 Version". The link leads to https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-...
> at the last minute* they drop their offer significantly, in the region of 20-30%, and try to really screw you.

I feel like doing this consistently as a tactic shoyld amount to fraud and misrepresentation
I Buy HMD Global (Nokia) phones. They last me 2-3 years (parts wear out), but I like how fast they feel and the new sustainability direction they are going.
Often two people want to do a transaction without anyone else knowing about it. The US is, to a large extent, built on the idea the idea of individual freedom etc etc.
This is a fascinating study on the impact of context windows on language models. It's interesting to see how smaller context windows can lead to more efficient and accurate language models, even when dealing with complex natural language tasks like question answering. I think this research could have important implications for a wide range of applications, from chatbots and virtual assistants to machine translation and text summarization. I'm looking forward to seeing how these findings are further developed and applied in real-world scenarios.
> Russia is rather socially conservative

They used to be communist. Communism generally gave women much more equality than most traditional societies. While Russia may be more conservative now, I think the effects take at least one or two generations to permeate through a society.
Yes, I believe that they didn't because they told my AME the exact reason they wouldn't let me fly: they actually would if I would jump through some more hoops that I considered too costly to my marriage.

They actually would have given me a medical if I had jumped through those hoops.

I won't say what those hoops are just in case it would not be good for me to say, but the FAA was willing to let me fly.
The United States is feigning being behind the race via its various press outlets which are connected with intelligence agencies. They are secretly ahead and pretending to be behind.

They don’t want an EXACT Oppenheimer, to which only a few years the secrets of the bomb were leaked. So attracting attention and saying “look how far advanced we are” is not in the US ‘s strategic interest
Not true. Lots of National Forest land has campgrounds, maintained trails, wildlife protection areas, etc. There is also lumber harvesting. It's for many different kinds of use.
Oh, I do believe tech itself is also a factor. From the physical conditions (sitting, screens - and the ridiculous office spaces) to the intellectual churn (constantly having to learn, and feign excitement about new technologies that, paradoxically, end up making everything buggier, more complex and often slower in real terms, despite vast improvements in the underlying platforms).

But yes, by and large it's the "culture", the ideology - and the rampant pettiness and toxicity throughout the people stack.
The Dart certainly looks more hefty than modern cars from a design perspective. And I'll also readily admit that the cars that most people want - big cars - have gotten very pricey, especially since the pandemic.
Funny to be so blind, no one mentionned how the Heatwave analytics engine of MySQL is 10 years ahead of what PostgreSQL can do, oh but that's because of Oracle so it doesn't count right?

Mixing OLTP and blazing fast analytic queries on the same database, at the very same time, removing ETL needs...
Shockingly, two different authors don't need to share the same groupthink just because they write for x publication. It is possible to have conflicting viewpoints under the same brand to maximize readership and alleviate biases by showing a broad selection of content.

Don't think too hard, the business model is showing you ads with clickbait.
It's not that humans don't write such large programs, it's that the kind of pattern that causes the exponential behavior doesn't naturally occur in long chains in any kind of written code. You can provide the pathological inputs yourself and quickly freeze e.g. OCaml's typechecker, they just don't ever naturally occur to the point of becoming a problem.

Here's an example of the pathological pattern in OCaml: https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/6617/concise-example-...
List of companies that use onprem heavily
why do my friends always tell me there's another romance brewing up,
with yet another kid in mind? How many kids does Elon have so far?
First time I just spent it all on crazy shit until I was broke. I made my first million selling Beanie Babies on eBay in 1997-1998. I knew it was a fad, but like a sports star I decided not to put any aside and just shit it all away.

Second time I made the money through a torrent tracker I built for TV shows. Then I went to jail for an unrelated charge and everything I had was gone when I got out.
Good grief, it's like something out of a role-playing game.
I don't disagree that it's consistent! Consistency and weirdness are separate dimensions; it's possible to be consistently weird, and IMO Go's pattern of returning local-looking-but-actually-heap addresses is pretty weird, especially when you consider that they could have made return-by-value a transparently optimized move instead.
Samsung and Google offer 5-6 years of security support for their recently released phones.
For no reason in particular, here are the Unix Koans, presented in static single-page HTML:

https://prirai.github.io/books/unix-koans.html
Didn't 8 ship 5 years ago?
Care to point out the errors in my grammar?