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>Even ignoring that this is a very old article, what sort of feedback do you expect people to give?

Something higher quality than the most common bike shedding comment in history. Names are important but not tue end all be all.

It's also useless feedback becsuse as you said: it's a very old article and the author already acknowledged 7 years ago that the name and genre it got assumedly stuck into didn't help. It's not only not useful feedback, it shows people did not read the article.
Unlocked version of the article for any having difficulty with archive.is https://www.wsj.com/articles/svb-customers-who-lost-their-de...
Slayer had 4 albums before Reign in Blood: Show No Mercy (LP), Haunting the Chapel (EP), Live Undead (Live), Hell Awaits (LP).

However, the production difference between the pre-Rubin albums and the Rubin albums is stark, and the value of Rubin's help is really noticeable.
So sorry for your loss. I was roughly your age when I lost my father and had to travel across the world to attend his funeral. Your comment resonated with me so much that I'm pretty much done for today wrt to work, I can't think of anything else. Thank you for sharing.
Time will tell on that one.
He probably did code, but he may not have met whatever arbitrary bar you’ve set for what you consider a programmer.
>> Because reactionaries successfully channeled discontent about declining material conditions into a reductive scapegoating of the EU and faced no meaningful opposition

Yes. From the Left as well as the Right. Jeremy Corbyn is an example of the former.

>> ... from what is now a center-right Labor Party, post Blair.

Labour Party.

It seems traditional party politics were not the primary factor. There were Leavers on both Left and Right. Centrists were less likely to be Leavers than those on the wings of their party.

Demographic factors were more determining of a Leave vote than political affiliation: Age (older vs younger), region (England/Wales vs Scotland/N.Ireland), population density (rural vs urban), income (low earning vs high earning)
Stallman and the FSF are solely focused on the ideology and not on how to create a practical economy based on the ideology. RMS has not advocated and materially supported software, such as GCC, that implements Free Software principles while he is eager to take credit for and fundraise on the success of those communities.

RMS specifically has prevented GCC from being innovative in ways that would complicate the enforcement of the GPL until the new feature is required to be competitive. First, that is not freedom. Second, that policy may have been viable when GCC was the only viable challenger to proprietary compilers, but not when Open Source compilers with more commercially friendly licenses exist.

The FSF is fighting the last war and believes that corporations are trying to tear down the FSF and the GNU Project software. It's a fantasy to convince themselves that they are relevant.

Richard was a great visionary and is useful to expand the Overton window, but the FSF has not evolved to advocate for a pragmatic approach. If RMS and the FSF wishes to advocate for a purist ideology, that's fine, but they need to accept that it severely limits their appeal and ability to shape policy, even if they are "right".
> and can reason enough to synthesize information from what is given

That's a qualitative leap from what it does now, and there's no clear basis for believing the current trajectory of these systems can make that leap.
It's a fundamental problem with almost anything to do with the state (in the general sense), including budgets. Anything that is discretionary will eventually be raided by an opportunistic politician and binding future policy makers is very difficult, if not downright impossible.

As long as the general rule of law is strong with robust property rights, however, creating a new private organization like a trust with a strict charter that limits its future stakeholders is a lot easier.
Randomized according to fixed rules. Now imagine not needing to write those rules / not being bound by them. Consider generative ML coming up with whole new categories of monsters. Consider a Nethack variant that was never told to include a candelabrum or Amulet of Yendor.
Electronics (and machines in general are weird).

My car dies in a month if I don’t start it because of parasitic drain.

My 1969 deuce and a half fired up after two years with zero problem at all.

I have ancient computers that work fine and much much newer ones dead by capacitor.
I guess the added benefit here is you also weed out AIs that can't perform quickly.
Heikki is far from the only "senior" postgres contributor thinking that this is the right direction in the long term.

> You're just defending your hero who has gone rogue.

That doesn't sound like judging an idea on its merit, it sounds like judging a person for something you haven't analyzed yourself.
> (IIRC, the trick is that most breakers have two independent trip mechanisms: a thermal one which has a built-in heat-dependent delay, and a magnetic one which is instant.)

precisely it. the magnetic one uses the fact that ac makes an electromagnet and they tune it so it snaps away quickly if there's a short.
Indeed, and to add on to this, I suspect that they had their own plans about where to take the client space in general, which involved more avx512 (which a couple of generations prior to alderlake supported!), but depended on their having a near-monopoly. The competitiveness of zen forced them to pivot, and avx512 fell to the wayside, largely because of its lack of users (which in turn is in large part because no one really cares about performance on clients).
Yes, of course. Take a look at the Wildlands Conservancy's website to learn more. In my previous comment on this thread I also linked to this reference: https://www.calandtrusts.org/map-ca-land-trusts/

These sorts of public/private land trusts are by far the most popular way in California of ensuring wildlands are not developed and remain open for public access. It makes sense for the state to contribute to them, too, because they provide QoS guarantees - and financing largely supported through philanthropy - the state would never be able to ensure.
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IMO (biochemist) the clinical relevance of these findings, when considered along with the rest of the medical literature, are vastly understated.
Lucky you, then.
What if your bank doesn't have a branch in colorado? Many people use regional banks. They're not going to let you pull 18k at an out of state bank.
I think the indirection is important in that it obscures who is ultimately responsible, but I don't think it actually diminishes the responsibility. It's less that the stain is spread out, so much as the darkest part of it doesn't look as bad in contrast to those around it.

That is, if I hold a gun to your head and tell you to kill your family or else I'll kill you, you are not absolved of guilt if you do so, but you're also not the most evil person in the room. Put another way, its worth asking (in this strawman I've constructed) "would you have killed your family if I hadn't made you?".

The brilliance of strongmen is that they engineer this culture where everyone around them depends on the strongman for protection from worse evils. I've read repeatedly that in Russia, everybody knows that the propaganda issued by the Putin regime is just that, but they are also convinced that every bit of news they hear from the outside world is also propaganda, so its a question of the devil you know vs. the devil you don't. Basically, "if you think Russian oligarchs are bad, let me tell you about American oligarchs..."
from the other side, a real number product of mean, average etc. is .. a number. You can do lots of math with numbers, and you will get consistent results in a number sense.. but the model is not the creation
Looks like "Call us for pricing":

> Free for non-commercial use.

> For commercial use, the runtime fee is based on volume and type of embedded system.
Ah, that makes sense, thank you for the extra information!
Military submarines also have a towed communications buoy that they can use to communicate with satellites. But that thing is connected to the submersible via a cable.
It's just wordpress
Intel is spreading their capital investment around to the US and other friendly countries. They also recently announced a Fab in Germany.
Especially since he owned a lot of Apple stock, haha
The odds are exceptionally good that he wasn't trying to maximize profits with the sale. Additionally, the valuation of the land as an open space preserve is far different than it might be if it were estimated for development.
Their PE is “only” 65 atm, which isn’t THAT crazy. At one point it was 1000 lol. It’s been falling since 2020 when they started being profitable.
Ah… yes, well I don’t know anything about corporate banking. I was thinking about personal banking practices.
There are typically compressed air cylinders that can expel the water in case of emergency. At least on military submarines that go down to 300m, it may not work 4km down where the pressure is ridiculous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_main_ballast_tank_bl...
Despite the occasionally cringe lyrics and snare drum sound on St. Anger, the songs overall are much better and more memorable on St. Anger than on Death Magnetic, which was mostly unmemorable and sounded derivative. I'm sure hanging out with Rubin is way cooler than hanging out with Bob Rock, but just in terms of song composition the popularly maligned St. Anger is a good album.
human linter :)
You can look at salary ranges on levels.fyi to get some indication of what pay is in different companies and cities in the US. For top level companies you can be looking at starting salaries around $150k for Bay Area.
> On June 8, 2021, cameras captured Dunn, Webb and other employees moving black trash bags out of the secure area of the airport, according to prosecutors. Later that day, Dunn and Webb were robbed at gunpoint in the SFO employee parking lot near their vehicles. The pair reported the robbery to law enforcement but did not mention marijuana to the police.

Seems like a real circus. The SFO United Staff steal majijuana from the checked bags, and they themselves are later held up at gunpoint in the parking lot and stolen from.
The big difference here is to understand the program with Algebraic effects you now need to know _where the code was called from_.

If you ask for an effect to come from higher up the call stack, does that mean part of the function signature needs to include that the call stack must be able to handle the effect?

And if that's part of the call stack, why not just make that an explicit function?
For OpenStep/NeXTSTEP style MVC, which is very similar to the original MVC, is well explained in the book "OpenStep for Enterprises", https://www.amazon.com/OpenStep-Enterprises-Nancy-Knolle-Cra... . I just cannot understand why the author says it's different from ST80 style MVC.
How do they know which DNS a client is using?
I think you confuse winning on merit with winning by regulatory mandate.

I prefer the former, you prefer the latter. Let’s agree to disagree. We clearly don’t have much intellectual common ground here.
In that case, poor Bickus Dickus
People love to say this kind of thing about extremely successful people, but you can’t just bullshit your way to creating beloved companies/products.
At the same time, most people aren't saying "he's singing off key", they say "he's a hack, can't sing, and is a bad person".

At some point the criticism isn't just useless, it's spiteful and just an excuse to get in your own soapbox. That's why the stereotypical Karen isn't exactly praised for their "criticisms". If they left it at "this steak is done and I wanted medium rare", such stereotypes wouldn't exist.
Apparently he's on the sub. That is probably the one place where he could be that he won't end up being sued out of existence for gross negligence.
The idea that the cost of housing is relative to the number of people per sq mile is absurd and easy to falsify.

https://www.russellsage.org/sites/default/files/inflation-ad...

Inflation adjusted housing prices were basically steady from 1950 to 2000. Yet the US population went from 150 million to 300 million.

It is surprising that for most of the 20th century housing was very affordable and then something changed in the late 20th century that culminated in two housing disasters in the 21st (the first is the housing crash and now a housing market that basically excludes all but the rich).
You can do that but you'll spend a lot of money breaking things. If you're in a non-safety critical field then that is a possibility. But, you really need good engineers, or to make them through these mistakes, to figure out what is really going wrong.
I won't pretend to know about this stuff. What I can tell you is that, since covid and the advent of remote work, so many countries have been rushing to launch some sort of "digital nomad" visa, precisely to attract this new type of worker. So clearly they've determined the model to be a net positive for the economy.
Yes, in this example `beta.recruitmentgenius.com` is a CNAME to `rgproxy-prod.azurewebsites.net` [1]

But it doesn’t matter if you set any domain as a CNAME for a *.azurewebsites.net resource in azure. Azure will not connect the 2 together until you take an extra step of going to the `rgproxy-prod` Resource in azure and explicitly set `beta.recruitmentgenius.com` as a domain for it. And when you try, azure will reject it and give you a random looking hash asking you to set a TXT record on your domain first, then come back and try [2]. You can cruise GitHub to see how many terraform and automated setup workflows this breaks. It was one of the more frustrating parts that always tricks up new developers in my org. They are confused because they setup DNS correctly, they ran the deployment script, but azure refused to setup the custom domain to their app. I don’t actually know what the random TXT hash is based on. I just know that I notice it’s always the same for a given subscription. So developers who share subscriptions don’t need to do it because someone would have done it before. Developers who get their own new subscription need to do it manually.

[1] https://www.digwebinterface.com/?hostnames=beta.recruitmentg...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/app-serv...
The language docs are OK: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/

Zig taught me to read stdlib source, which I do at my $dayjob now too.

It is perfectly fine to read stdlib source. Start with lib/std/mem.zig after reading the docs about the language.

It is much more readable than the C "docs" ISO/IEC 9899:2011. I am so productive now. :)
it is very real indeed. I've heard tale of this kind of thing being used in the wild one time, and there must be use of this kind of exploit in the wild that has not been detected.

read the paper, it will scare you at least a little if you understand what it lays out.

we really do rely on the hope that our compilers are pure, and we have very few tools to detect a bad compiler if our tools are also compiled with a malicious compiler. even if we compile the compiler from source, we can't know, because the compiler itself could be "in on it."
> And I’m sure some person in some suitably technical job somewhere is going to claim that FTP will never die because there will always be a specialized use case for it somewhere. Sure, whatever. But for the vast majority of people, when Chrome disconnects FTP from the browser, they likely won’t find a reason to reconnect.

I'm some person in a suitable technical job somewhere. Yeah, FTP will be around for a long, long time. Will it be around forever? Not likely. Will it "soon disappear from the internet"? Even less likely.

Hooray for clickbait.
It’s not necessarily the perceived brightness that I am worried about. Illuminated surroundings outdoors on a sunny day are obviously perceived to be brighter than any screen… But here we have a flickering light source that is microscopically very heterogeneous. LED emission spectra (even for very expensive ones) are extremely non-uniform and “peaky” at narrow bands of wavelengths.

I’m not as worried about it as I am of lasers, but it’s a similar idea, maybe (very loosely speaking).
ChatGPT already does really good adventure games.

"Let's play an adventure game, you be the DM. I want it set on a spaceship arriving at a planet after 10,000 year journey. It should have a sense of mystery and a slight sense of foreboding and dread. It must have at least 20 locations. The objective of the game is to find 10 colonists in the ship and get them safely to the surface of the planet. Make it play in the style of an Infocomm adventure. Don't tell me all the locations in advance, make discovery part of the adventure."
> That said, many of these things are solvable without a full switch to a threaded model (eg. by having pooling built-in and session-state-aware).

The thing is that that's a lot easier with threads. Much of the session state lives in process private memory (prepared statements etc), and it can't be statically sized ahead of time. If you move all that state into dynamically allocated shared memory, you've basically paid all the price for threading already, except you can't use any tooling for threads.
In the old days there was just MVC. Then Microsoft announced successor to Windows Forms... a new technology called WPF. WPF uses MVVM which automated more of the work that a developer has to do: it automatically updates the UI when data objects change, and it automatically updates data objects when the user inputs something through the UI. Sounds cool, right? The problem is that in large projects it becomes hard to understand how data is flowing. Because of excessive automation things are happening behind the scenes. Developers began to understand that this is not as cool as it initially looked. React re-introduced one-way data binding, which updates the screen when data objects change, but not the other direction. People found that they are significantly more productive with this technology even though it does less on behalf of the developer. Now it is widely acknowledged that one-way data binding is better.
How exactly do you do that ?
This is almost comical. Have you listened to any interview he did? He is not a bullshit artist at all.
100% this.

Here's the lesson I want people to take away from this: only when the government gives money to ordinary people is it somehow a moral hazard. The wealthy will never say no to government money. Worse, they will expect it and lobby for it.

It's why student loan forgiveness is somehow a moral hazard but forgiving PPP loans isn't.

So here you have a bunch of rich people who wanted to avoid paying any US taxes and being outside the protections the US financial system offers. And they may well get burned. It won't stop puff pieces like this from the WSJ to somehow paint the problems of a Cayman Islands hedge fund manager being a slippery slope to the government seizing Iowa farms.

Sucks to suck.
We really need to call it Model-View-Controller-Service-Repository and be done with it. That is actually what happens 99% of the time.

Logic is done within services and where the complex dependency graphs live. Repositories do the data retrieval. The controller is a traffic cop. The model is a data transfer object with maybe some calculated fields. The view makes things pretty.
I've also moved it, but rarely disassemble. Drawers out, sure, but otherwise just move intact. Can almost always Tetris stuff together so it doesn't really save any space.

Adding wood glue to any places with dowels or even any joints is a pretty cheap, low-effort way to get a 2-3x life multiplier on that type of furniture. As long as you don't want to disassemble again, of course.
Sure, and not many people are seriously trying to suggest that one should hire an AI instead of a software engineer _at this point_, assuming you have a real budget.

But, especially with GPT-4, it is entirely feasible to create a convenient and relatively fast user experience for building a specific type of application that doesn't stray too far from the norm. AI can call the boilerplate generator and even add some custom code using a particular API that you feed it.

So many people are trying to build that type of thing (including me). As more of these become available, many people who don't have thousands of dollars to pay a programmer will hire an AI for a few tens or hundreds of dollars instead.

The other point is that this is the current state of generative AI at the present moment. It gets better every few months.

Project the current rate of progress forward by 5-10 years. One can imagine that if we are selling something at that point, it's not our own labour. Maybe it would be an AI that we have tuned with skills, knowledge, face, voice, and personality that we think will be saleable. Possibly using some of our own knowledge and skills to improve that recipe. Although there will likely be marketplaces where you can easily select the abilities or characteristics you want.
> Or maybe a jackhammer to just hammer through whatever glass is there for observation purposes.

I'm now wondering if a jackhammer applies more force than the ocean at titanic depths. I suppose less uniform force at least.
I'm guessing they were robbed by the people they were selling it to. They probably would have gotten away with it if they had been smart enough to not report the robbery. But I'm guessing they weren't too smart.
Measuring developer productivity is trivial because everyone already knows who the productive engineers are. They're the ones who can fix critical incidents quickly, can implement any feature, can fix any bug, and everyone goes to them with questions. The problem is that nobody wants to act on this information because it implies radical changes that no large organization is willing to make.
Good point. I kinda assume startups that have neither experienced managers/leaders nor self sustaining engineers gotta fail fast and we don't hear much about them.

I've mostly seen a mixed of both, with either senior staff supporting a youngish business team, or an experienced leader team pulling in youngish staff. The most intersting one was 4 old farts in the office next to us executing on their ideas like they'd play a jazz piece, there was clear tension, they were pretty loud, and the manager guy appeared more like riding a rodeo that playing the HR drone. But they looked crazy efficient.
I have come across several businesses that do conversions. Batteries are by far the biggest issue. ICE cars can't easily accommodate sufficient batteries. All the conversions I have looked at connect the electric motor to the gearbox with rear wheel drive cars. The range is only 200-300 mile at best. Getting cars roadworthy and certified after a conversion is a substantial exercise.

Unless you are converting a rust free, mechanically sound classic car, the typical conversion cost is just too much to be a realistic option.
First, "epistemological taste" is an oxymoron.

Second, believing something with overwhelming evidence is not 'rubber stamping mere authority'.

Third, if someone wanted to not 'rubber stamp authority' why would they start with the earth being round? That's almost like not believing in gravity. There are so many fights to pick where conventional wisdom might be wrong or actual authorities could be lying or omitting the truth, why pick something with no evidence?
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I feel ya. It's definitely difficult to find work. I've started to focus a lot more on my own elixir projects than my current employment since they have zero interest.