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> Beam doesn't have anything to do with supervisors that's an OTP thing

Are you aware Erlang was designed to be a VM(the BEAM), a language for that VM(Erlang) and a comprehensive set of patterns and infrastructure for fault tolerance(OTP)?

All these as a whole are Erlang and the whole reason it has such reputation. I recommend reading https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

> But they aren't core to how the BEAM handles concurrent processing.

They are, unless you want to reduce it to "it's just a pre-emptive scheduler with greentrheads".

> In my experience I think my statement still stands.

They're similar in that both have (mostly)pre-emptive schedulers, that's about it.
I wish I would have had this special driver for the 16-color CGA mode (!) on the Amstrad PC1512 back then:

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=75497
Does anyone else have a solution for the satellite layer? I was using MapLibre [0] then needed direct-on-the-ground images which made me convert to Google Maps.

[0] https://maplibre.org/
If they could simply "pass that cost to their renters" why wouldn't they just raise rents to that level now, absent any tax increase?

The point of this progressively increasing tax would be to raise the landlord's costs to the point where the market actually cannot bear a rent increase--which would disincentivize using the property as an investment.
So, it's both an effective entry point for beginners, and powerful enough to be a utility language for experienced programmers.
> Microsoft really needs to take a real hard look at Windows and figure out what its place is in the world.

I wish it would just quietly die in a corner.

As a developer Windows has brought us such highlights as:

* backslash instead of forward slash

* magic paths with drive letters, spaces, and tildas (for you kids, that 8.3 DOS compatible path names)

* its own custom C/C++ project format rather than make, that accidentally gave birth to CMake

* VBA, and all associated viruses

* exclusive file locks

I can't be bothered to go on, but the man-hours/years/decades/centuries spent on making code work on Linux and Windows is spectacular.
Worth looking at a Samsung Z Flip folding phone. My wife has one as its the smallest phone she could find, at least when its folded.
That's amazing to hear. Thank you!
What's interesting is that road wear is proportional to the FOURTH POWER (!!) of axle weight[1]. If it were taxed accordingly the taxes would be extremely different for personal cars versus 18-wheelers.

1: https://pavementinteractive.org/reference-desk/design/design...
I was expecting a tale of how the author managed to overwrite whatever part of the monitor's firmware was responsible for spitting out the EDID. While interesting, the title is a bit misleading: it's an ugly but effective hack to inject a custom EDID.
Western in the early 18th century referred generally to the cultural reaction of (mostly Western) Europe to the enlightenment that was happening at the time. Russia did not have that movement, so Peter the Great attempted to "Westernize" by bringing some of the ideas into Russia via St. Petersburg, while still maintaining the traditional non-Western Russian Tsarism (I don't know of a better word than non-Western because Eastern doesn't really correspond to a broad culture similar to Westernism as thought of in Western Europe)

This is the internal conflict of the "Russian soul"
Ever heard of the World of Faith Fellowship?

They’ve had decades of child and adult abuse and they continue to operate pretty much in the open in the USA and hardly anyone has even heard of them.

https://apnews.com/article/nc-state-wire-north-carolina-ap-t...

The idea that something like what the GP is describing could not happen halfway across the world because it would be so well covered is probably highly mistaken.
The documentation is quite not clear and not provided sample or example.

What is the difference between other scripts C# like Nake (https://github.com/yevhen/Nake) or Cake (https://cakebuild.net/docs/running-builds/runners/dotnet-too...) ?
> A contract does not contravene federal or state law

It does in this case. If you do not follow McDonald's instructions and/or contract, they will terminate your franchise.

As much as you believe a franchisee has a right to use whatever machine they want, and repair it with whatever parts they want, that's just not how franchises work.

They are franchises, not individual restaurants. They do not get a choice over how long to cook the burgers, what size fries to offer, what grills to use, and what soft serve machine to use and it's sanitization standards.

There's an approved parts and vendor list for everything in a McDonald's restaurant. Franchisees basically get a catalog of approved things they can use.

McDonald's sells consistency above basically anything else. They have clearly decided having machines be inoperable is better than risking getting someone sick. The machine's are designed for inattentive employees with little to no training to operate effectively and safely. If the machine says "no go", then that's final. McDonald's wants that safety and consistency across all stores, and that is their right as the brand owner.

No Right to Repair law will change the terms of franchise agreements. Franchises that refuse to honor their agreement will simply be terminated. That's McDonald's right.

Honestly... as far as fast food franchises go, McDonald's is perhaps the most clean and consistent - given their massive size (double their next closest direct competitor). It's a marvel things are as safe as they are, given the varying quality and level of caring each franchise owner can have.

People cut corners when things get tough. A franchisee with autonomy over things like deep cleaning of the soft serve machine will choose not to do it if they can sell more (quite literally what people are advocating for in this very thread). It's not their reputation and brand at risk, it's McDonalds'.

Frankly, it's a good thing McDonald's exerts this level of control.
That's the time frame I'm talking about. Everyone got bent out of shape over Perl's sigils and built-in variables, but if you memorized the 20 most useful ones they save an enormous amount of time. If you name your subroutines appropriately and keep them short, code will be readable no matter what. Modern node is far worse than Perl ever was:

const foo = async () => {}
https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...

> The fourth power law (also known as the fourth power rule) states that the greater the axle load of a vehicle, the stress on the road caused by the motor vehicle increases in proportion to the fourth power of the axle load.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

tl;dr vehicles with higher axle loading do significantly more damage to roads, scaling with the 4th power.

Meaning the vast majority of standard wear and tear on our roads is going to be from heavy trucks, not passenger cars. It makes sense to scale usage taxes in a similar way.
> developer support was pretty awesome

It was truly amazing. MSDN on CDs.
Are you kidding me? Those are modest investments for how far behind they are and it is nothing compared to every other OEM's EV (re)investment.

That one joint venture battery plant for instance will at some point do 40GWH output a year while Tesla's Reno plan does 100 GWH a year -- right now.
Heavy commercial trucks account for nearly all road wear. Until they transition away from diesel, almost all particulates and other pollutants, too. They should pay the most tax that goes to road maintenance.
Answering your technical question: Some companies let you deploy their "building blocks" onto multiple clouds (you typically choose the exact region/availability zone), and then also allow you to build proper multi-cloud deployments. There is usually no switch to flip, but these deployments (if properly setup) should tolerate if one region/cloud goes down.

Two examples from the top of my head:

Confluent Kafka: https://developer.confluent.io/courses/hybrid-cloud/intro/
MongoDB Atlas: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/cluster-config/multi-clou...

For higher level services, I can't think of an example. For the examples above, you're still thinking at VM level, whereas you typically don't do that if you purchase a higher level service.
Calling people nazis is ok though?
Depends on what you Google. If you search for mundane stuff like recipes, how-to guides, or product suggestions then you just get SEO spam. Google is still fairly good for very technical stuff, but anything of monetary value has been captured by professional advertisers and their affiliate link filled content farms.
This makes sense if the tax is used to cover the costs of road maintenance, since heavier vehicles cause more road damage. It's also a somewhat progressive tax since heavier cars may be more expensive.

A regressive aspect is that this also means that public transportation pay more taxes, and poor people rely more on public transportation. Also, trucks pay more taxes and trucks are used to transport food, so this has an impact on food prices, affecting the poor disproportionately. Likewise diesel vehicles pay more tax, and public transportation & commercial transport usually runs on diesel (and will thus make this stuff more expensive)

So I think that it makes sense for taxes to separate personal vehicles from the rest.
I guess get ready to pay $10 for milk instead of $5
People will always be willing to pay a premium to live near the ocean. There are some places where that premium will be too high except the very very wealthy - living on a barrier island - for example.

In order to enjoy living in places where nature exact a larger toll - near the ocean, on a mountain that gets dry and doesn't have a fire station nearby - homeowners will need to invest in hardening their homes, invest in buying more expensive insurance and will need to make sure they have the financial buffer to rebuild if their home is damaged by the weather.

As the ocean rises, we will need to move more inland.
Some other structures that exist:

- Vehicle Value based

- Vehicle class based (I believe this is what the US uses?)

- Engine size based (this was the old one in my home country, basically being used as a proxy for emissions)

- Emissions based (this is the current one in my country. Full electric cars are taxed at the lowest rate)

I guess vehicle weight accounts for a compartmentalized externality, that of wear on the roads, but I think most of Europe has or is moving to emissions based to focus on larger externalities, at least until petrol cars are a novelty, then they might look at wear on the rounds as a factor to consider again.
Love the concept, and might even consider getting one.
But please, please let me have my scrollbar when browsing your website.
It takes time and it has cascading effects.
I was thinking the same thing, then I realized they don't even need this. They could simply grab the addresses via /proc/kallsysms and poke them into the driver using a custom helper to load the kernel module.
Ah, that makes slightly more sense. Would be very interested if the affect can be measured in humans. Appreciate the explanation!

Until then, I'll enjoy my occasional diet coke.
> It's a uniquely North American phenomenon

I don't think that's an entirely accurate assessment. There's a significant userbase in Europe as well, on the same order of magnitude as North America.
I think this is premature. Google is still a huge force in tech. Google search, GMail, DeepMind and more are huge and aren't going anywhere. I have the same experience as PurpleRamen, I truely don't see the decrease in search quality. I think people just expect perfection every time. That's how high the bar is.
We need a volume and weight tax. Something needs to reduce these massive vehicles in the US.
The other thing I don't understand is the idea that Search is somehow becoming less accurate over time.

Google tracks analytics on the quality of its search results, simply by observing which results users click on, how long it takes them, or whether they don't click on anything at all.

The idea that Search is somehow worsening doesn't make any sense.

What has maybe happened is that Search has improved for the population as whole, but gotten worse for certain subsets of users -- but still a net gain overall. Or alternatively, that the web itself has changed -- that Search is doing better than ever, but some users just don't like what the web offers in response. (E.g. nobody writes straight-up recipes without tons of intro anymore -- but that's also so they have tons of space to insert ads, it's not about SEO. It's nothing to do with Google.)
Ummm.. hate to play the devil's advocate here, I am sure you must have 2FA setup and all, but in the off chance that you loose access to your google account(for the sake of argument lets say for an "alleged" violation of ToS).

How do you plan to regain access?
Sorry, that was a typing error, you obviously can do that with a PIN. Which was the point I was trying to make.

I meant you can't reasonably change or revoke your fingerprints!

Changing your actual fingerprints, while possible, is usually painful and done accidentally.

(The best you can do is change from which fingers the prints will accepted. And at best, you only have a couple of handfuls of options there.)
I still remember the day when I read the Slashdot article announcing this new incredible search engine called Google. I was an AltaVista user at the time, along with most IT professionals, and for those who don't know, it essentially had its own search query language. The claim was Google returned back even better results WITHOUT having to specify all those query parameters.

I tried it - it was unbelievable! A simple search box, type in your keyword(s) you're interested in, no query syntax and - voila! Good, relevant results! It was simply amazing! AltaVista essentially died overnight.

But really, Google's biggest technology was AdSense. It's how they make their money. It's why all their other services, save for gmail and google docs, have come and gone. Search has become less and less relevant in today's world. But there was a time when it seemed magical!
Just to add a data point, the HP ElitBooks have been my replacement for ThinkPads. I find the to be a good replacement. I've been running Redhat on an HP elitebook 840 g6, which Ive had for about a year now, and I've been very happy with it. The trackpad is mostly good, not great, but I'm more of a nub guy and that works perfectly.
Think about your interactions with Google, and the question becomes less clear.
several states (HI, CA, OR off the top of my head) have trialed mileage-based fees.

The problem becomes convincing anyone there's political credit to be gained by implementing/overhauling those systems. I suspect it will take as-long-as-it-possibly-can for those and bureaucratic reasons (contracts/pilots/implementation of those systems).
You're assuming the market will bear the higher rents. If that is true, why aren't rents already at that higher level? Not all costs can simply be "passed on to customers" if they won't bear the increase.
File Attachments: Databases can now store files and images
He was arrested for a Covid joke. It was free speech, court rules
Microsoft was one of the most hated companies by both IT people and users in the 80s - 90s. About the only thing people liked was the developer support (which I give them credit for; Visual Studio is great). Computers running their software needed daily reboots and quarterly re-installs. Every single thing they did was to force people to get locked-in to them. They single-handedly slowed web progress by close to a decade (IE11). Anti-competitive that eventually resulted in government prosecution.

The only thing that was ever revered about them was Bill Gates, who was more loved by business schools as a case study in how to run an extremely aggressive company.
Call it whatever you want, if freely trading with liberal democracies is protectionism then I am a big fan.
Why is this reply written like a teenager was sending a text message?
I think you’re on the wrong track. Let the blame where it belongs… management. Sundar, Ruth, and Thomas are simply corporate ghouls working to enrich themselves. Sundar is a billionaire… all that money came as an employee of Google.

They don’t understand branding or trust, or if they do, they simply don’t care. The reputation for cancelling products to the point of untrustworthiness demonstrates this.

Google is a classic case of the fish rotting from the head down.
But then we would actually transfer goods via rail instead of tiny amounts via trucks, and then what would happen to the cultural icon of the american trucker and his incredibly loud, unsafe at all conditions vehicle.
There's a list of obvious tax code changes that would immensely improve the current housing, transportation and climate situation:

- Land Value Tax
- Carbon Tax
- Space and weight tax on personal vehicles

Of course any of those mean challenging entrenched interests so are deeply unpopular. Hell, even environmentalists hate the carbon tax even though it's THE most effective climate policy.

As well as removing the obviously terrible carveouts (light duty truck carveouts to start).
An electric F-150 is about the worst personal vehicle imaginable for road wear. We need to encourage people to only use a vehicle of a size they actually need.
Many states are now adding fixed registration taxes for EVs, usually in the ballpark of $200/year. I pay this, and it costs significantly more than if I had paid gas tax on an ICE car of a similar weight for the miles I drive.

Also fun was that this remained full price during the year that my state suspended its gas tax for economic relief due to high gas prices.

Weight and mileage based taxation absolutely makes sense, since road damage increases with the 4th power of axle load. But matching those taxes to damage caused means heavy trucks will pay the vast majority of tax, since they do the vast majority of damage. This may be unpopular with Amazon.
You are off by a factor of 10 on your lower bound. A server capable of running Jitsi can be had for around 10$/month: https://www.kimsufi.com/en-gb/vps/.
> A regressive aspect is that this also means that public transportation pay more taxes, and poor people rely more on public transportation. Also, trucks pay more taxes and trucks are used to transport food, so this has an impact on food prices, affecting the poor disproportionately. Likewise diesel vehicles pay more tax, and public transportation & commercial transport usually runs on diesel (and will thus make this stuff more expensive)

In all these cases, the operating costs of the vehicles are distributed across a number of payers, quite unlike personal vehicles.
ESC research hasn't always existed, but the whole time it has, it has always been problematic.

Thomas predates ESC research by centuries--quite a few of them, actually.

ESC research has always been problematic.
MegaHAL: A Learning Chatbot (1998)
> I'm pretty sure I'd see multiple cases where the function would return different types depending on a code path.

Quite commonly by design, or, “why union (and sum) types are a thing”.

Something returning type “Foo | nil” is very often going to return Foo on one branch and nil on another.
John Rawls suggests imagining that you don't know which person in society you will be. You might be a victim, a defendant, a juror, a family member of a victim or defendant, somebody poor or rich, somebody who lives in a rural or urban area, somebody who lives in a high-crime or low-crime neighborhood. You might be any age, any race, with any sexual orientation or gender identity. If you were about to be dropped into a society and did not know what situation you would find yourself in, what rules and norms would you want society to have?
Then name some. (And I mean people relevant to the discussion, no fair saying Vladimir Putin.)
Get honest readings by having them read at the annual vehicle test in states that do it, and self reported in other states. Then have police report it whenever they pull you over for any reason.

You don't need to get perfect readings from everyone. If you tax 99% of people, that's fine.
It is not hard at all to fully utilize a GPU with a problem that maps well onto that type of architecture. It's impossible to fully utilize a GPU with a problem that does not.

A barrel processor would make branching more efficient than on a GPU, at the cost of throughput. The set of problems that are economically interesting and that would strongly profit from that is rather small, hence these processors remain niche. Conversely, the incentive to have problems that map well to a GPU is higher, because they are cheap and ubiquitous.
iOS Safari with extension as well. It's often instant, sometimes a few seconds, rarely up to 10 seconds.
I think you're close, but shouldn't it be weight * miles?

A really naive scheme[1] would be scales at the pump that affect gas price. Weight-class based pricing would also work. It's possible to enforce with the surveillance state apparatus and microparticle-tagged fuel products.

1. Without taking into account the incentives nor human nature
"decoupling" tends to be how it's described in media, but every day people know exactly what it is which is "protectionism" (as if that's necessarily a bad word).

I'm also unsure about your comment about Southeast Asia competing with rich countries on industrial goods. It seems to me it's more specifically about China and not so much other countries in Southeast Asia.

I wouldn't disagree with your offhand comment about the 90s and such and the US, EU, and Japan. But I'm not really sure what the point of it is given that countries such as China (not the only one) have maintained protectionist policies. Since many didn't go along with the idea of free trade and the theory that free trade would open up global markets and raise everyone's living standard (which was probably just marketing from those who stood to profit) you can't then blame the US, EU, Japan, or others for reverting back to more protectionist policies to be in line with how most other countries tend to operate.

Hey we should all do this thing that stands to benefit everyone, but we all have to do it

Starts doing it

Hey we all have to do it or it won't work

No change

Ok fine we're not going to do it then

Repercussions/results/etc.
We have this in NL. There are some modifiers though: LNG users pay much more, as do diesel users. Electric cars pay nothing even though the vehicles as a rule are much, much heavier than the equivalent cars in their petrol version.
I guess I was trying to claim that in a lot of places there isn't such a person.

yeah - if an application company runs up against a poorly designed OS interface - they usually aren't aware, or just back away slowly. they don't have the scope or mandate to pursue it.

that kind of behavior often extends to library dependencies, and even internal interfaces that the company should ostensibly own.

its not so much an administrative problem as a desire to limit spending and time on software and do a kind of agile mvp glue job over an unbounded number of external dependencies. that often leads to an unmaintainable hairball. but if the alternative is to hire a bunch of really experienced developers and let them 'do the right thing' for 5 years...

even if you do, there is a still a good chance that the output isn't gonna be that great. software people lost a lot of credibility with that model. we've probably swung too far in the other direction
Alright - what if I take Stable Diffusion and further train it on my own art, and then use that to generate things?

Or what if I don’t do that, but generate several images and spend hours making a composite? What if I start with my own photograph and generate things to use in a composite on top of that?

It’s not so clear cut.
Billionaire CEO of Palantir Advocates for AI Weapons
I hope GVT will comeup with better regulations