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'I don't think there is any programming language that is "unditchable".'

There can not exist one perfect programming language for all uses. (Sometimes people don't like that statement but I think if you seriously sit down and work the math it's pretty obvious that, as a simple for instance, Rust is not going to replace all shell scripting and shell scripting is not going to replace all Rust, and that's just an example, the principle holds in numerous dimensions in the programming language space. [1])

There are always people making bad decisions, some of those bad decisions are about which programming language to adopt for a problem.

So, yes, you'll always be able to find companies dropping some language, but it isn't necessarily the language's "fault".

I don't say this on every such article in the comments because it's kinda kicking someone while they're down, but I would assess that the clear majority of the ever-present torrent of "We switched from X to Y and look how much better Y is!" are actually long and detailed explanations of how the company in question chose the wrong technology for their problem, not how bad X is. The two major exceptions are "our tech in X predates Y existing as a valid choice, and now that it does, it's a better choice" (can't blame them for existing before the right tech, I've made that move myself in my own career) and "We did our research and X really should have worked but we got into it only to discover that it really didn't for some reason we could not have reasonably anticipated". That latter is pretty rare, IMHO, but I've seen it a couple of times. (Generally it is when a closed-source stack has a fundamental problem and you can't fix it, because it's closed source.)

(I suppose there's also "X was a good choice initially but we outgrew it", but in my very opinionated opinion even these are often... dubious. It happens, yeah, but in my personal opinion it still means the language chosen was not able to scale the solution. Only people truly suprised by their growth, which does happen, should reach for this.)

[1]: And if that still bothers you, think small shell rather than large. I'm not going to write Rust for the equivalent of "awk '{ print $3 }' myfile | sort | gzip > sorted_names.gz". However broken shell legitimately is as a programming language, you simply can not argue with that kind of bang-for-the-buck.
This is not true https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... shows the middle of the pack julia implementations being over 10x faster than the fastest python implementations including startup and compile time.
I'm glad it wasn't Disney!
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This article has an image of the bridge (and the accident?): https://nbcnews.com/news/us-news/widow-man-died-driving-coll...

I assumed the bridge was much taller. The flipping of the car is very unfortunate.
Bugger. I was hoping for him to die in office, causing an executive power struggle and sending his media empire into calamitous decline.
It seems to be very shallow water, but it was pitch black, so maybe the husband just had a hard time orienting himself and getting out of the water
Absolutely, especially since RHEL never used the LTS Linux kernels.
/s
People always parrot "money laundering" when they see (what for them are) large amounts of money moving around.

Can you explain how does one launder money w/ NFTs? Because it's absolute nonsense.
Right now all VR headset sales are about 7% of laptop sales in the US, about 20 million units a year vs 280 million. You're in the uninterested 93% which is quite normal, but you can see that there's some demand.

The size of the premium headset market is a big question mark, but we know Apple's conservative order for 2024 is 300-400k units and they are planning an inconvenient sales process to slow demand.

Linux is around 1% of desktop market share so perhaps 1% of that 400k would want a premium Linux headset: 4k for Simula to serve. Then we'll find out if headsets grow as a market or they fade out like a fad or transition product category.
I always thought this was a disingenuous moment to bring up when discussing the topic in recent times. Your linked video clearly shows what he was looking at -- how is that remotely similar to anything like Dall-E or Midjourney? Miyazaki would love Stable Diffusion. His statement does not at all summarize his stance on AI generated animation because he saw an ugly, miserable representation of what it can do. Timelines regardless.
It gets me worked up.
I don't see the problem with wrapping each individual fruit with plastic. It's the same reason they wrap cucumbers. It's one of those things that seems insane but actually leads to way less spoilage.
> that huge American company powering a lot of hospital IT

Epic
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Reading TFA I actually was reminded of doing system design interviews. It has a pretty similar vibe. Although the interviewers here seemed a lot more lenient than ones I've experienced in tech (Tao saying he "barely passed" kinda confirms it).

Not something fun to go through, that's for sure!
And the upside can be enormous. There's a huge amount of very poor people in India. For example only a few years ago everyone finally got a toilet in their house. Stealing $500 from a slightly demented grandma that is afraid about her medical insurance "running out" can be a lot to them.
It's a problem because it's cooked incorrectly in the Western world. That's again not the problem of the food itself but of people not learning to cook it properly.
I seem to missing something during install -- Odin is not showing up in the list of Community Plugins.
I'm running locally via docker and have tried updating the Obsidian client + toggling restricted mode + restarting.
Very excited to try it out if I can get the install to work.
Could have easily been at night and/or during a heavy storm with very low visibility
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> I wonder if the author has ever heard of vis[0]

Yes.

https://github.com/martanne/vis/wiki/Differences-from-Kakoun...

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki#onboarding

> which imho fulfills far better each one of those premises

Not very motivated for such a harsh critic..
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I use obsidian for ttrpg world building so I can jump around via links when the party encounters a particular area (helps prevent on-the-rails campaigns.)

Your definition of what "actually matters" seems to be different than mine.
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Stuff like this annoys me even as an American. Their Florida example represents a large chunk (probably even a majority) of this country. People driving 5 ton pickup trucks to work and the grocery store. Hot humid climates cooled to frigid temperatures 24x7. Plastic wrapped in plastic wrapped in plastic. Dumping of sewage and pollutants into rivers and lakes on a daily basis. Plenty of states are now banning the inclusion of environmental science and talk about climate in school curriculums.

Meanwhile I live in a state where we are taxed to the teeth for energy use. Plastic straws are banned. We have to sort trash in 5 or 6 different ways. People refuse to acknowledge that their conservation efforts for a year are undone by some guy in Texas in five minutes, and would rather make their (and everyone else's) lives more inconvenient to score brownie points.
What's the reason? I assume this is a US thing?
He's eating all the mice up there from what I can tell, so I'll leave the fellow for now. Thanks for the advice. I've seen racoons fighting and they really fucked each other up good, so that's why I've been wary of them since.
> Opt-in sacrifices this

You're right. Opt-in results in a survey population that is self-selected, and therefore largely meaningless. But compulsory participation in surveys is deeply objectionable; just because it's easy doesn't make it OK.

So you can't have representative telemetry that is also optional (for the user). So firms should stop trying to use telemetry, unless they're OK with telemetry data from a narrow pool of users, e.g. users of Beta versions of software.
That definitely meshes with what I’ve seen with respect to gaming performance.

Any experience with Arc for GP-GPU using e.g. Intel’s DPC++?

Though certainly nVidia’s CUDA is by and far the major player in that domain.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/dpcpp-cpp-compi...
Common Lisp does in the form of DYNAMIC-EXTENT declaration. Some implementations honor that declaration (it's optional, as it's only an optimization in any case).

Now whether Common Lisp is truly a popular language these days ...
It is legitimately unethical to spend money in Florida right now
Probably a higher ratio have, yes. Less distracting things to fool around with when you use a pen, paper, and your brain.
YAML wasn't designed for configuration, and XML wasn't designed for data serialization.
The cost of labor is too low, and the prevalence of pirates too high, to justify this idea. You're also talking about serious intermodal requirements to handle these things when they get to the interface between open ocean and restricted waters, because safe navigation is a near impossibility with the tug configuration you're proposing, especially once navigational constraints (e.g. land or shoal water) come into the picture. A large merchant vessel takes several miles to stop on its own, before you consider any towing configuration. If you've never operated around them, you probably don't have the instinct that you can be in serious danger of a collision while still several miles away from another vessel, but what you're proposing is scary.

Even without the navigational problems, you're necessitating armed guards by having these ships operate internationally, because these ships would be huge pirate targets on a much more severe level than the scrap metal and parts theft that is present throughout the world. That gets... tricky, legally (see https://www.swedishclub.com/upload/Loss_Prev_Docs/Piracy/PIR...)

Also, cargo ships are already enormous. Trains pale in comparison. We don't need these headaches. Oceangoing shipping is miraculously cheap already.

Edit: I'll also point out that, regarding the sibling comment's link, oceangoing shipping was a much smaller club in 1963, so the navigational challenges would not have seemed so daunting. Containerized shipping didn't even exist until the mid-50s, and AIS and radar let us safely pack way more vessels into small spaces than they could have suspected.
maybe there was no neighborhood, just some abandoned area
I don’t think so…?

From the Nikkei article:

> The older Miyazaki, 82, and Suzuki, 75, have been discussing the succession process for a long time, according to the two companies. Miyazaki's son had rejected the role, saying it was difficult to operate Ghibli alone and that the company's future would be better left to others. Nippon TV, with which Ghibli had deep ties, became the natural candidate.
The device needs to support usb webcams. I don't know if any iphone does that.
If Google Maps sends people across a bridge that has not existed for almost a decade, I wonder why there have not been many more such incidents. Likewise with the signage and barricades.

Maybe this unfortunate story is a reminder that GPS navigation is just an assistant, and you should always pay attention to where it's telling you to go.
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IMO often this just reflects the priorities of the organization.

While it is the responsibility of devs, some system needs to be put in place to actually enforce it. Like, do not have an nfs shared volume, or incentivise anybody to report these, and give incentives for it. Otherwise "just be very careful" advice slows development to a halt.
What exactly does an SRE do (Software Reliability Engineer, right?)? I've heard the title before but don't quite understand it.
tutanota is great. I've been a happy, paying customer for about a year now.
Worked at a medium size enterprise and was trying to get some detailed performance metrics with a legacy tech stack that didn't have a drop-in APM soluion. This was in the age of graphite which was great for aggregating metrics cheap but not getting detail.

Splunk was used by a much larger product (easily 10x our scale) for monitoring events so there was no red tape to start using it.

After launching the detailed instrumentation (1 structured log event per HTTP request with a breakout of database/service activity) I was able to gain all of the insight needed and build a simple user/url lookup dashboard page to help other engineers see what was going on. We went from being mostly blind to almost full visibility in less than two weeks.

The downside was, we increased our billable Splunk usage by 50% since we were capturing so much more data per log event than the other product just consuming standard IIS/Apache logs.

That type of flexibility was totally worth it. Due to some acquisition shenanigans we broke off from that group and wound up on ELK stack which didn't perform quite as well, but was still usable with the same data. In today's day and age we could have just built an OpenTelemtry library.
> does he sees that a punishment?

No, that's what happens in nature when two different worlds collide. And you accept it, like Lady Eboshi does.
> You earn a handful of frequent flier miles this year after a couple of trips home to see Grandma? Nah, that's not taxable.

Those would never be taxable, as you paid for the miles. When a company sends you a rebate check for an item you bought for personal consumption or when you buy a gift card, it's also not taxable income as it's in exchange for [post-tax] money that you paid.

> But if you travel multiple times per week for work and accrue tens of thousands of dollars worth of flier miles that you get to keep? Not taxable income for some reason.

The IRS alludes in their policy statement to the complexity as being the reason to not treat it as income. If I flew for work for a decade and accrued a bunch of miles and redeemed them only later, in what year would they be taxable? If I mixed personal and business travel in earning miles, what portions would be taxable and when? If the miles are subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture, that would usually be treated the same as other possible future income which is still subject to a risk of forfeiture (which is to say: not be taxed until that risk has collapsed to zero).
Cybersyn is building a Company Index ("security master" for finance nerds) to support joining companies, subsidiaries, and their brands together in a hierarchy. This is a persistent problem across companies and a major missing join key. Our recent SEC Filings release on Snowflake Marketplace marks a first, small, step towards building a reference spine which we refer to as our Company Index.

We map our Company Index to public identifiers like CIKs or EINs, but also to the identifiers market data providers have made available (PermID, OpenFIGI).

To start, we're working with public companies but this will soon extend.
I’ll be needing email soon for what I’m building, I may try this. I’ve worked on emails at a past startup and would like to avoid the dread…

I will say I find the pricing quite concerning. Free until 1000, 50 / 5000, but then I have to contact you? Am I understanding correctly, 5000 subscribed users doesn’t seem like that much.

For what it’s worth I went to customer.io to compare pricing and found there’s so confusing I was lazy to figure it out…so I do appreciate the simplicity
Guardian has agenda for climate crisis as a major category heading, every single day.

Guardian likes Twitter.

Twitter used for govt overreach, COVID censorship, support of 'climate crisis' emergency, and expensive globalist top-down solutions.

Guardian loves Twitter.

Musk takes over Twitter.

Musk exposes rampant censorship and tries to remove it.

Guardian hates Twitter/X, hates Musk, posts many flimsy/fabricated stories against Musk/X.

Guardian posts scathing review of Musk biography, because it is not critical enough.

Govt brings many trivial, ridiculous and often contradictory law suits against Musk's businesses.

Guardian posts coverage of legal cases, with a strong bias to the side of the prosecution.

Guardian dredges up any possible negative link to Musk/X.
I've been watching the 4 part documentary '10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki' recently and found it interesting and enlightening. (https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/program/video/10...)

The extent to which Studio Ghibli is Hayao Miyazaki was not clear to me. Despite the hundreds of people involved the degree to which he is the origin of art, ideas, quality, and drive is astounding.
Could you please elaborate on how you have hit the glass ceiling? I don't know much about workplaces in Canada. I can speak about India: at least in software, class does not play much of a role. Factories and older domains have more rigid hierarchies. Government offices and family-owned businesses are are especially notorious for this. There are other glass ceilings which vary from office to office. For example, smokers or drinkers could form cliques where crucial workplace politics gets discussed. Thankfully, the software industry has been a good equalizer for two reasons. Quite a lot of the bosses have worked in Western environments that were not so obsequious. It's easier for a solo developer to prove himself, especially after the work-from-home trends began.
Sampling via just enabling it for some hosts/partitions is one solution (if you're producing 100M entries a day ... probably could just grab 1/100 of those for parsing).

Another solution is pre-processing (serial dupes are not forwarded).

Another solution is heavily reduced logging (ERR or higher only on prod hosts).

These can be used together and be very helpful.
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What kind of distributed systems work?

Usenet (servers) are as much of a distributed system as a Hadoop cluster.

The same can be said for e.g., DNS vs. Spark.
Sounds like something Oracle would love.
"Sustainability" means that something is economically profitable, ecologically viable and socially just.

If you don't make money, it's not sustainable.
If you use up ressources, it's not sustainable.
If you exploit people, it's not sustainable.
Ah, yeah, I think it's only if you install other apps. Sorry.
The thing is, no one says, "I use Windows, btw."
It's the same as your neighborhood, but without the maintenance being performed.

My little 15-unit private drive was a single homeowner's 25-acre plot in 1950. Someone built a house in the back, with a long driveway up to it. Then they sold three lots for others to build nearby, then in the 1970s they sold another dozen lots, including mine. In the 80s they pooled some money together and turned the gravel drive into a paved road, still private, we all just have an easement that allows us to drive on it. Now, 40 years later, that paved road needs repaving to the tune of $90,000, because tree roots are breaking it up and it's delaminating in spots from an inadequate repair job a decade ago.

But try convincing 10 retirees with limited funds, and 5 families with small children, to each dig in their pockets and come up with $6,000 for a new driveway. Most people have bigger priorities, which is why there's currently a few nasty potholes on the route Google will suggest for you (the only route to my house).

This is even worse, because a bridge like that probably costs a lot more than $90,000, and instead of 14 out of 15 people driving over it every day, most of the neighborhood residents don't need it.
He died via drowning, so survived but just couldn’t get out of the vehicle in time.
Is CUE only implemented in Go?
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Did the driver come from that side, or the other side, which doesn't look like it has any bushes?

The photo here has pretty clear barriers, but one of the articles posted elsewhere in the comments said that the barriers had been removed.
In europe -every upstart family, at some point tried to get the "von und zu","van", "de" only exemption from this is the english aristocracy.. were you glue a "lord" or "lady" in front of the name, instead of a addition bewetween name and surname.
I think the point is the disposable plastic waste is worse than the wasted fruit itself. Fruit is renewable, plastic isn't.

(I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, just pointing out the argument.)
Take a look at https://helix-editor.com/. It is basically a continuation of the ideas behind Kakoune but with a primary focus on modern day programming with a language-server. I use it for most of my programming today, because the language server support out of the box is just so much better than anything I managed do with Neovim.
Most of those are Government funded, and Government caused.

Want a NHS dentist? Ok, the Government finds another way to tax you to fund that. Now the Government taxes landlords on their rental income. Landlords exist the market en-masse. Rents go up, availability goes down.

Want somewhere to rent? Oh dear, the Government just taxed those "greedy" landlords out of the market.

Want "better" public transport? Let's introduce a top 50% rate on the most "mobile" and tax paying part of the electorate to fund that as well. Then they leave the UK or offshore their accounts etc., just like in the 70s. Maybe Australia will reintroduce the 10 Pound Poms again.

Want shorter NHS waiting times? Let's bring in more doctors and nurses, which of course is more of a cost to the NHS. So the NHS needs even more funding, which comes from... more tax. Of course fewer people would reduce NHS waiting times, but apparently we're not allowed to say that.

I honestly don't see taxation in the UK coming down for a generation at this rate.

This country currently has an addiction to wanting the Government to pay for everything, whilst blaming it for everything, because it is involved in everything. Maybe Thatcher was right about the State being small.
Under what circumstances is someone doing a startup in the US subject to this UK regulation?
Strong typing would not be an unwelcome addition to the Erlang space but compared to most dynamically typed languages I find Erlang/Elixer to be infinitely more usable. If you aren't using guards and specific type pattern matching you arguably are doing it wrong. And those things give you much of the type info you need while developing. No compile time help but it's a lot better than most other dynamic languages. I've built very large projects in Erlang and didn't find typing a real issue.
"Art world" is a term connected to "fine art" not "art" or "artists". That's where we disagree.
Some context[1] for the non-Bostonians

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
RED LINE
Ashmont/Braintree
4 current alerts

So it seems this line is pretty unreliable.

[1] https://www.mbta.com/schedules/Red/line
Why?

Gather together a big pile of food and let the kids know where it is with instructions to only take what they need for the next couple of days or so. Why go to the bother of sending the food out, when the kids are already there. Also, the parents/carers may feel insulted if they are thought to be receiving "charity", so it'd be a better idea to allow the kids to obtain extra food without involving the rest of the family.
It really reads like you wish Google Maps were OSM.

Why not contribute to an actually open database that benefits to everyone and takes your contributions seriously?

(I personally don't think that Google, of all organizations, needs to be helped by unpaid volunteers - and they can import OSM themselves anyway if they choose to)