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I'm not defending VCs in any way (and I kind of agree with your sentiment here), it's just that you don't need to have any relationship with the central bank to do that: the central bank sets the interest rate, it affects the entire money market all at once so anyone with access to this market will benefit from cheap credit.
Happy to see the link to Hiddens. Sometimes I hide the wrong one and there was no way out.
What happened when you told them, “I’m all set without a demo, please just ring me up ?” Did they refuse?
I really wish that bill Clinton could have brokered a deal with china (right before NK got nukes) which would have done a two-pronged invasion with the assurances that China would control all of NK as a direct puppet state.

A Chinese direct puppet state would be far superior to the current situation.
Hacker news removed the / in the post haha sorry
I was initially very interested in digger, because I need something like atlantis but the thought of a web-accesible server with owner-level access to my project seemed scary. Having everything in cicd seemed like a great solution. However, when I read the digger docs, I discovered that it too has a publicly accessible server, that gets autodeployed when you first run digger.

1. I don't like the idea of the tool creating resources I didn't explicitly tell it to create

2. I don't like the idea of a public endpoint for someone to pwn and get owner-level access of all my stuff.

It would be nice if the docs explained what the serverless backend thing does (besides the vague comment about handling webhooks), and it would be nice if there was an option that didn't require the public backend even if it means slightly degraded functionality. (github actions can be triggered by PR opened, PR updated, comment created, comment edited, merge to main, and many other things. Seems to me like that should be enough?)

https://docs.digger.dev/readme/how-it-works
> Communist theory may not imply those things

Then just don't mix up the words, I guess? Otherwise you end up saying nonsense like this:

> I have a theory that if you jump of a tall building and wave your hands really hard, you can fly. This theory does not imply you falling to your death. And if you do, it just means you weren't really following my method.
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Supply chain scuttlebutt is that the display technology is so constrained[^1] that Apple expects to only _manufacture_ 400,000 headsets next year.

It's possible that this product will flop, but I can't see it being anything other than sold out everywhere for most of 2024. Heck, you can make a reasonable case for there only being 10k-30k SKUs in channel inventory at launch, and Apple has 275 retail locations which require multiple demo units in addition to launch stock.

[^1]: https://www.ft.com/content/b6f06bde-17b0-4886-b465-b561212c9..., https://www.ft.com/content/632b4ffa-3637-4972-a525-0ddbcd50b.... Tl;dr: each device needs 2 displays (so 800k displays leads to 400k headsets), the displays are new and complex (which is why they account for 50% of the manufacturing cost of the entire device) which means it's expensive to ramp up production lines for suppliers (who are unsure of demand) _and_ production yields are low.
> They need to go back and read the Newton’s postmortem. With every new detail about this devices release - it’s becoming clearer and clearer this device just is not ready.

Neither was the Mac that sold abysmally for years and Apple was propped up by the Apple // series

And neither was the iPod. They sold less than 1 million in the first two years.

Or the Apple iPhone that barely captured 1% market share tte first year (Jobs stated goal)

Or the Apple Watch which was slow, with bad battery life and a horrible SDK. It took years for Apple to have a coherent focus.
Wow.

"Oh Pascal!" was a fantastic book, both for the content (going from beginner to a bit intermediate (1), in a single, not too thick book) and for the fun and engaging writing style, and with very good production values too, meaning the book's appearance.

IIRC, it was written by one or two US postgraduate college students or professors. My uncle, who was himself a college professor in the States, brought it for me on one of his visits to us, as a present, because he knew I was learning computers.

And during that visit, I wrote a small scientific program for him in Turbo Pascal, to use in his lab.

(1) Why I said "a bit intermediate" is because it had, near the end of the book, a program to do text concordances, and maybe one or two other non-trivial ones too.
What does this look like controlling for what industry they're in? Is it skewed by most employees being retail and service industry?

It does seem like a lot of people really do want to work from home and have their own business, even if I don't really get it.
Nonsense. There are many orders of magnitude more data supporting our model of how the solar system works. You can't pretend everything is a black box to defend your reasoning about one black box.
People love to wield power over those they oppose and don't care if the system they implement is abused until they're the targets of the abuse.

For example: most people love the police when they coercing wealth from strangers to fund their projects but hate when the same police step on their chest until they stop breathing during a traffic stop.
If they have solved this, it would be worth it (ROI) for some creative professionals.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Atlantis yet. Running bare terraform in CI is a bad idea (to the extent that running an 'expect' script for an interactive tool is a bad idea), and when you consider the impact it can have (both on resources and on escalation) it should be out-of-band anyway.
As a some-time lifter, the idea of totally optimizing plate changes begins to feel a bit like taking the escalators up to the gym entrance where there are stairs right there[1]. After a couple of years of attempting what the author does here, it finally occurred to me that moving around heavy weights was the whole point of the exercise, and plate-switching was just a different move. Efficiency didn't matter, I was using my body and building strength. Shout out to people who are pressed for time and want to get their workout done in a small window: You do you, just don't hog all the weights and not put them back on the racks.

1 https://medium.com/@nessasaurus/only-in-america-fe7d2d5d461e also, I understand there are legitimately people going to gyms to exercise who may not have full use of their legs.
I like that specific loment of learning when you are using your usual tool but at one point you ask yourself "is this tool really neccesary? I think I'm using it because habit more than real utility"
You shouldn't trust any old certificate more than it looking shiny. But if a third party that you recognise and trust happens to recognise the jewelry or the jeweler themselves, and goes so far as to issue a certificate attesting to that, that becomes another piece of evidence to consider in your decision to purchase.
It's not really the fault of the transit agencies. For decades the US has lived with the Automobile Culture and advertising-driving associations of cars with status and luxury. That dovetailed into the white-flight suburbs and far-flung roads and streets that necessitated a car. Malls built with cars in mind, out of walking distance from where people lived. Over the decades, especially since the 60s, one could equate 'hardship' and 'low social status' with being non-white and living in multi-family housing.

NYC and a couple of other cities in the US are the exceptions. Compare with LA, SF, Dallas, and most of Florida.
No, a signature will not guarantee anything about if the model is trained with correct data or with fake data. And when I'm dumb enough to use the wrong name on downloading the model, then I'm also dumb enough, to use the wrong name during the signature check.
It is not necessarily best to learn them in that order though. I think you need to model the domain before the data at the very least.
I say the above out of nostalgia for my past, when I was working in the Romanian and Russian speaking markets. In those days, charging people for software was a no go as you would just invite warz people to break them but infrastructure and business services were valid as were assisting companies who wanted to enter the markets for whatever reason. The goal was to make a self-profitable company and build it from the ground up which is how the Eastern tech hubs grew.

I believe this is a better model than chasing after VC money a la San Francisco, especially when the VC pipelines have dried up even in those areas.
Yep. I did seven years of Slog, and quitting was very freeing, after years of angst and disappointment.
I'm not the most educated in this area, however this episode of darknet diaries (which seems to be well researched of the many I have listened to) paints a similar picture to OP https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DsGyzP9fYQ9LM6YiT5NS7?si=L... and includes interviews from several defectors.

It seems disingenuous to try and brush off the well documented brutality that is the way of life in North Korea, as being something made up by US / South Korea..
Efficient Algorithm for Determining Tic Tac Toe Game Over
> Van Halen bought the body and maple neck (which was a factory reject) for $130 [...]. Van Halen was able to purchase the factory second body at a discount price of $50 due to a knot in the wood. The $80 neck had jumbo fret wire, and its truss rod was adjustable at the heel.

That seems to be pretty cheap. I agree he didn't do it to save money though.
>Jack White was famous for using inexpensive guitars

Which is pretty good evidence that generally professionals don't use cheap/shitty guitars. You don't usually become famous for doing the completely normal thing.
Schengen countries do not need long stay or work visas. That’s huge to attract talents.

See https://visaguide.world/europe/switzerland-visa/long-stay/
Same here. I assumed flagging was something that required a certain amount of reputation. I've never even purposefully tried to see how to flag something, and I have 4 submissions flagged.
It’s a shame that the eye trackers are not suitable to understand the shape of the eye, so the image could be adapted for it.

I feel you on this topic. I wear glasses. Wearing a really old pair from 20 years back is painful, but I can slip comfortably into a prescription from 6 years ago, I don’t know what your experience is with that, though.

I wish there were more information about this. Should I get an updated Rx and put in a pre-order for lenses? Who knows!?! I’m astigmatic, near sighted I guess, but a close up VR lens doesn’t change focal length at all, so lenses are a must for me.

Waiting and “seeing” ;)
> What is a bright kid supposed to do when their parents have a third grade education?

What do they do in the current system? Get stuck in a class that can’t move faster than the average student?
The term has been around for a while, and in its original usage, I'd agree with you. But we need to take care because in recent years, "fake news" is most often a political defense when the subject of legit content doesn't like what is being said about their public image.
Apparently, I just did it the "correct" way, without even knowing my whole life.

A problem that I have more often is that I cannot untie my shoes anymore. What happens is that during the day the loose end slips through the loop. So when I try to pull on the opposite loose end to open the tie it gets stuck and can be very hard to open.
People who are priced out of an iPhone Pro are not going to take out a loan to pay for a headset they'll use like a game console. If they're not replacing their iPhone with it, there's no point in buying it. It's a product that inherently relies on an ecosystem (albeit a strong one) to survive. Much like the iPad and the Apple Watch, if the iPhone and it's app ecosystem didn't exist it would be DOA.

So... assuming you're right, who is this headset for? People inside the ecosystem, who want to spend more money on Apple products but don't need it for anything particularly useful? I wager more iPhone users will own Quest headsets than Apple-branded ones by 2025.
If you are a long term investor, dividend growth rate is an important metric when evaluating the aristocrats. At a 7.2% growth rate, your absolute payout will double in ten years regardless of the stock value appreciation. That may or may not be a good stategy for many inestors, but may be smarter than chasing yield.
I don't disagree. Java as an object-oriented strongly-typed JVM-based language may be beautiful as theory.

But in practice "FactoryFactoryFactory" (*) is commonplace across codebases, frameworks, libraries, etc.

Java in the real world doesn't happen in vacuum.

(*) I know it's an extreme example, just kind of trying to make a point succinctly
> hypersensitive to people overreaching with theory

What’s left of the scientific method if people don’t? I think reproducibility and inertia („science progresses one death at a time“) are problems, but I hadn’t thought that induction could be one.
Reminds me of a friend who always goes overboard. $400 in drills and levels to hang a couple pictures in the living room. Doubt he's touched any of it since.

He also spent $1,200 on an DAC, amp, and headphone combo, then bought a $150 pair so he doesn't wear the nice ones out.
Capitalism is literally evil based on first principles [0]. The fact that you have swallowed the "capitalism is the only thing that is good in this world pill" is the result of 500 years of propaganda.

> Sounds like a good thing! More people getting their needs met.

And less of everything else getting their needs met. It seems like you have a very dualistic view that humans are somehow outside the realm of ecology. Infinite growth is literally impossible in a finite system. And is a core tenet of capitalism. I really don't know what else to tell you at this point.

You are basing all of your arguments on capitalism being the solution to itself, which is the problem.

> As it turns out, people do value nature etc but only after their basic needs are fulfilled.

The problem with capitalism is that once basic needs are met, companies need won't be met - the growth imperative. Profit means taking more than what you give. It is the sole idea of what capitalism is built on. And it has appropriated nature as a means to this end. So what happens then? Artificial scarcity, more manipulation, more marketing all to sell people what they don't need.

It seems to me that you have latched onto an idea, and you will argue anything to fit that narrative. I have no idea where these arguments are coming from that degrowth means that people are not getting their needs met. Do you have sources to back up any of what you are saying? It just seems so synthetic to me.

Degrowth is removing the profit motive for the sole benefit of reinvestment and accumulation to continue growing. It does not mean that the market economy goes away. It does not mean that people do not have their needs met. It means that capitalism as a religion is finally put to an end. That we are able to subsist on finite resources instead of eliminating everything that we depend on for survival. And to use your beloved's terminology, a (positive) market externality would allow species to thrive without the material extraction of their habitat that you have placed a positive value on for some reason (eg. "Sounds like a good thing!").

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_capitalism#Enclosur...
I guess it would've been more honest to say "sorry to seem pedantic," because for me the comment was not mere pedantry (which I think of as hairsplitting for the sake of hairsplitting) but rather a matter of a fundamental distinction in moral philosophy (consequentialist vs. deontological ethics).

I mean, philosophy has a reputation for just that kind of hairsplitting but this seems to bear pretty directly on the basic ethical question of "What should I do?", one of the most important questions for humans to ask imo
You do realize that reducing inequalities is not exactly equivalent to "pure communism theory", which is again not exactly equivalent to "USSR"? Or is that all the same to you?
Why would you think that URL would prove them wrong, when the only image it has on that page is of 2d screens floating in 3d space?
That link reaffirms that masks reduce particulates by some amount and offers no evidence this impacts the spread of respiratory illnesses.
True, but at a certain point you're just selling a shitty product with no longevity and justifying with behavioral manipulation for profit. Same with the 16gb iPad or meager iCloud drive storage tiers. They were fine I guess when they first came out, whatever, but the legitimacy of that tier shouldn't have lasted more than a small number of years
> Anything short of that is not enough.

I like that in spirit, but not as a practical standard. A major function of government is to prevent abuses of power. So I'm more inclined to shoot for overall minimization of abuse.
> Minor vs. patch releases are absolutely distinguishable because authors did say so, but changes are not---unless you actually try to use new features.

I'm not understanding, sorry. There are changes that fit in minor that don't in patch - they're not equivalent. I think we have crossed wires somewhere on this point.

> Semver's unclear distinction between minor vs. patch versions is also visible from the coexistence of "caret" requirements and "tilde" requirements in many semver-enabled systems. The former can upgrade to any minor versions, while the latter won't if the required version is specified in the full three-part form. Which one should I use? Depends on packages? Is that any different from having a different versioning scheme per package?

Tilde is "this patch and above don't go to a new minor version". Caret is the same but allows minor upgrades.

Which you use depends on your project and testing, and yeah you can base it on what the maintainer is like. Some projects break all the time and you don't want even patch releases. I'm not really sure why they added those tbh I'd prefer just ranges. They're just shorthand for ranges anyway.

Again, it's about communication. Some people being bad at communicating or maintaining software doesn't make communication pointless.

It brings the problem down to one versioning scheme, which you can rely on to different degrees. The overrides are then significantly more contained than having scores of various different things with formats that require different parsing despite looking identical. You instead have one thing and if you're unlucky you have a misbehaving package in your dependencies.

> Deprecations are not breaking changes, so it shouldn't matter anyway.

Yes, which is why it isn't a major change. This is all about the maintainer communicating with you that this is more than a patch

> Also, consider the case where x.y.0 has introduced a new feature I need and also a new shiny bug. Obviously I can't no longer downgrade and semver offers no other solution.

Semver doesn't fix bugs no, but I don't understand the problem you're describing. That would be followed by a patch release with the same minor versions number right?

How does semver make any claims to prevent bugs being introduced?

If it's a local change you make would you have a distinct package? If you want to have the same package name just make a patch number yourself and mark it pre-release. That's literally what it is right - a patch that's not yet released.
EU citizens can also settle in those countries without a visa, which they can not anymore in the UK. It makes it more attractive for candidates, and easier for employers.
I think mastery is a game of maximizing nuance/compromise and finding solutions in the middle. When you can take something that already kind of works and make it work 10% better, that is important. It is rare to find people who can consistently add incremental value to the same thing over and over. Even if you are "good" at something doesn't mean you are able to deliver it in a professional setting.

I've seen lack of nuance result in the most incredible architectures. I think the #1 offender still is: "It can NEVER EVER go down". This is the definition of amateur hour in my book. Usually results in a system that goes down far more often than a single node cave man approach.

I'd hesitate to imply that pros aren't interested in shiny new tools. The primary difference is that the pros usually go get new tools once every few years and typically wait for market sentiment to shake down first. The amateurs are shopping at Home Depot every weekend.

We are just now looking at building a cloud-native stack in 2023. I made us wait a solid ~decade (lambda launched in 2014) before I was willing to go beyond the safety of our vendor-agnostic VM bubbles. So yeah, we are using some shiny new FaaS/serverless tools, but we are using them in a really dumb & conservative way (i.e. serving old-school SSR HTML forms, etc).

The tooling change is really only to serve our operational convenience and improve compliance/audit stance. Not because it's fun/new/what everyone else is doing/etc. How many developers do you know will go out of their way on points like those? "I picked this technology primarily to make our audits and compliance conversations easier as we scale". Who does that? This is another example of mastery. Paying attention to and caring about all of the auxiliary things around the software/problem/tools.
My inclination is that it is just a larger dumpster fire when performed by the larger companies. Poor tools don’t scale.
Apparently this isn't the first go-around for this; Davidson and Jacobs proposed something much weaker last year[0], though I can't tell if it made it to the final bill. Their amendment last year merely required law enforcement to disclose when they purchase user data from a third party, and only applied to the feds, not to state and local law enforcement.

It's a little hard to believe that Congress is in a better position to pass privacy-related legislation (regardless of what bill it's attached to) this year than it was last year.

But I'd love to be proven wrong! It seems even Breitbart is reporting on this year's proposed amendment in a more-or-less positive way. That's... something.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/department-defense-sho...
Facebook Automatic Comment Maker
Hello there, does anyone nees a Facebook bot-software that automatically comments posts of the groups it has joined?
A Fediverse Update
It is not uncharted. The Vikings were doing agriculture in Greenland, the Romans grew wine in England as far north as Lincolnshire, bison were roaming at altitudes that cannot be found at today.

There were periods in the past warmer than it is today. Climatologists once knew this, it was uncontroversial. But when they realized they could raise the importance of their field by predicting disaster, this history became problematic and was erased.

https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?Id=BFE4...

I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period."

The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was a time of unusually warm weather that began around 1000 AD and persisted until a cold period known as the "Little Ice Age" took hold in the 14th century. Warmer climate brought a remarkable flowering of prosperity, knowledge, and art to Europe during the High Middle Ages.

The existence of the MWP had been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. But now it was a major embarrassment to those maintaining that the 20th century warming was truly anomalous. It had to be "gotten rid of."