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> Youngsters believe rewrites are for old people who didn’t get their code right.

Youngsters haven't yet seen the tyranny of managers and their always changing requirements.
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To give a contrary opinion, I didn’t have a problem understanding what this is. I know very little about Elixir, and haven’t done first class web-services in a few years.

Even so, the domain driven design aspect of this framework was instantly recognizable. Additionally, the name “Ash” has a clear phoenix connotation and I immediately assumed Elixir.

It’s possible my naïveté made this easy to understand, as I haven’t done very much web work in recent years.
Anybody ever floated the idea that it's all tax evasion?

Company sells ticket officially at 50, black market clears at 150 off the books.

Were I'm from it's the most popular take. Doesn't have to be done by the company itself, could be just some insiders doing it for their sole profit.
All components used by Apple are designed and manufactured in China. Apple just slaps their logo on it.
Following the same logic, you should never buy a phone used in case the previous owner installed a rootkit, and may also want to worry about rogue factory workers installing a rootkit before packaging the phone.

I think running a system restore should make the phone reasonably safe?
Lots of people seem to be misunderstanding this post. Apple is not asking for the posters password, they are asking for the poster to disable a function, which can be disabled online and offered a device to do this. They were not offering the device to capture the password in order to perform maintenance.

Poster is concerned about entering password on a device used by many. Poster could go home log on to iCloud on a device they own and disable Find my from there. No passcodes handed over. No access to device data, remains encrypted.
> The expected functionality prohibits access to the primary user data. Even if they were able to break from the sandboxed space somehow, the primary user data maintains an encrypted state

That was not my point.. just thinking if that would add resell value for the phone. Currently it is zero for iPhones.
Even the 122 year record is likely fake - https://yurideigin.medium.com/jaccuse-why-122-year-longevity...

Human bodies seem to pack up with age regardless of how much you spend on healthcare.

I suspect major change may come more from a merging with AI scenario rather than better healthcare.
A lot of factors, the cost of labor, the increasing cost of parts, unions, everything drives up costs
These are fair points so I'll rephrase: the comment may not be cynical, it's just absurd.
hey there. just checked with firefox and its working fine. are you using a phone? also what were you trying when this error happened
It's not only the heart that's at risk. The shots have been seen to cause diabetes or cause uncontrollable ketoacidosis in people who are already diabetic.

This isn't a surprise because diabetes is caused by the destruction of irreplaceable cells in the pancreas. The body can't regrow them and you are diabetic for life. So if those cells take up vaccine mRNA and express spike, the body will destroy them thinking they are infected with something (which they sort of are), and that will create new diabetics.

Originally we were told such cases were just coincidences, but that this can happen is obvious from the mechanism of action which is why they stressed so hard that the shots would stay in the arm muscles. Nowadays doctors recognize that the mRNA can spread through the body and cells can be destroyed anywhere. Example case report:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12020-022-03130-8

Even Moderna's own study of the shots on young children caused one of participants to get diabetes a month later and they admitted it was causal, but the case was only mentioned at the very end of the appendix (see page 62 here https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2209367/suppl_f...)
This was quite a good essay. It's always fun to read someone else who also had a lifelong interest in programming but decided to major in a different subject. I did electrical engineering in my case - later Haskell got me good enough into abstract algebra that I tacked on a math minor as well. I often worry whether the EE degree disqualifies me in the eyes of employers from being a "serious" programmer.

I'm mildly surprised that the Turkish university scene sounds tougher to break into the top university ranks of, than the United States's was. I wonder why that is the case.
I believe “they” are the European governments who would’ve otherwise received tax revenue from tariffs, versus “they” being the foreign car manufacturers.
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My iPhones have all been quite nice.

(I’m usually buying them one generation old on the used market, so I’m not even seeing them at their best.)
Australia is where nature makes "NO TRESPASSING" signs.
> You can't beat that model.

Sign up for a google apps account and send outbound cold sales spam via gmail. Seems to work exceedingly well judging by my inbox.
That's a specific choice you make -- let's be clear about that.

Your measurement of value is hardware efficiency, which is valid.

But I may have a favourite laptop that's just the right size with the perfect keyboard, or a gaming rig setup that's awesome for CS.

Ultimately what hardware we choose to keep in service is a personal choice.
> "Soon to be released" is a big thing to say.

Not really. They've shipped three iterations of their Intel laptop (11th, 12th, and 13th gen Intels). The Framework 13 AMD and Framework 16 AMD laptops are their first AMD products.

The Framework 13 AMD started production a couple of weeks ago:

https://frame.work/blog/now-available-in-taiwan

They'll start shipping them soon.

> Their shipping countries list is small.

Framework is still a small company. They'll add more countries as they grow.

The brief was "exotic". I delivered exotic.
> much better solutions like SWC

Which doesn't support const enum correctly and god knows what else without erroring.
I mean, just because there's an OR doesn't mean you have to throw out the rest of the conditions as soon as you get TRUE.
Foreign mRNA doesn't hurt us because it's recognized by the body as harmful and immediately destroyed by the immune system. This was one of the biggest challenges to developing mRNA based drugs and vaccines.

The mRNA used in the COVID shots isn't normal, of the type found in the wild. It's been created in such a way that the immune system doesn't recognize it, and then wrapped in artificial lipids. So you can't generalize from natural mRNA molecules to the artificial types, they are fundamentally different in both construction and effect.
It doesn't sound like that would end up with a particularly pleasant-to-use API. Do you know of any examples??
Dump g-mail. Get yourself a domain name, a third party mail provider and forward your gmails. Google sucks, they’re no longer the tech company there were 20 years ago.

They’re an advertisement business.
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Australia also seems to be a terrible place for privacy, at least policy-wise.
I'm sympathetic to your cause, but this is completely off topic.
Same goes for memory safety in programming languages, constant streamof RCE vulnerabilities in browsers, the ongoing climate disaster, etc. <10% of people mak a lot of noise and worry about stuff that is on fire, the silent majority is more yolo.
They haven’t asked for location data for me in iOS. It’s a different intent to proton mail. Most emails I send are not end to end encrypted as the other end wouldn’t accept it. For any E2E encryption needs I use proton or a messenger service.
A disadvantage of the ‘no function coloring’ in fibers is that it makes lockless programming harder. A nested function call can switch from under you without your knowledge, making it hard to know where the preemption points are and whether to take locks when making updates to shared state. With function coloring you immediately see whether a function might switch as there’s a different calling syntax.

I’ve programmed both fiber based systems and coroutines. I even created my own fiber libraries for Python (https://github.com/geertj/gruvi) and C++ (https://github.com/geertj/cgreenlet, mostly an experiment, and incorrectly named coroutines for C++ while it’s really fibers). In the Python version I experimented with some features to help you know whether a nested function might switch.

In the end, for me and for the problem domains I worked in, the explicit async/await co-routine style wins over fibers. It gives you most of the performance benefits of user mode switching, all of the memory benefits, while keeping your code mostly lock free.
I feel like the exception doesn't prove his point at all.
> Bit ironic, don't you think?

No, I don't.
OTOH, a redundant brain is more resilient. These things have been around since well before we decided to have bones (and brains) and that alone proves the worth of this approach.

I doubt we'll ever find a very smart jellyfish, but I hope no box jellyfish decides I am a threat. Or a treat.
Unsure why it’s unhelpful. Soy milk so heavily processed and is so disgusting by itself they add so much shit to make it taste semi decent that it literally becomes bad for you.

Just like skim/low fat milk is bad.
>it was exceedingly uncommon for PC's in the Pentium 4 era to ship with anything higher than a 200W PSU. Yet today it is not uncommon to hear of 850W PSU's

Exactly that. I just had to upgrade my 850W psu to 1000W because I'm upgrading my gpu to an rtx 3090.

This is why if you want the absolutely most power efficient NAS/home server and you don't need a lot of cpu/ram people use p4 era hardware. The lowest wattage I saw on a German user group about this was around 6W for an idling system.

I myself am currently running a p4 era 1u server (a Fujitsu primergy rx100 s7) with a 4 core Xeon (2.4ghz or so), 4gb ram, google's edge TPU accelerator(dual edge tpu on pcie) and two 1tb spinning disks in a mirror on as a CCTV server(the tpu does object recognition). This box runs at 20%~90% cpu utilisation all the time and it draws 35W on average at the wall. It can peak at 75W or go down to 25W (it never really idles). This server (excluding the tpu) cost me under $100. And if I want I can replace the disks with bigger ones or add 2 more external drives as there are 2 unused sata ports. Also this server comes with remote management card so I can login anytime using a separate network port and do a power down, set temperature alerts etc, see power usage or access the console/bios.

Good luck finding a similar option with similar features, low power consumption and price with modern hardware.

Yes, I'm a fan of retro hw. I have a commodore 64, a 386sx, a win98 and winxp pcs. Some have only sentimental value, but not all old hw is impractical to use seriously today.
Not the previous commenter, but I do a similar thing. I have a (promised to be) lifetime email address through my graduating university that I use as the domain registration. It's been good for over 20 yrs now.
Other people work was not the target of the remark. Stop not having a sense of humour...
I'm surprised no Chinese automaker has looked at the American market the way Japanese automakers did a few decades ago. Their cost advantage makes it a no-brainer and designing a car to meet American regulations shouldn't be that hard. It's easy to bypass trade restrictions by manufacturing in the US/Mexico if Chinese automakers think of the market in terms of a long-term investment.
You are thinking of CNAMEs, and no, it isn't related.
Context: Alpro is the soy products arm of a $17bn food corporation
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It also doesn't care too much about what's better when good enough is sufficient.
> and so Powershell’s benefits are nonexistent

A world where every program talks via the same IPC is utopia. Claiming that pwsh benefits are nonexistent because of that, is absurd.

Besides, there are ways to mitigate this problem. As an example, many tools now accept and return json output, which means they can be easily hooked to pwsh via ConvertTo/From-Json without any parsing whatsoever.
Why does anyone care? Are you using a browser from 1999?

I don’t get it.
Horrible web site. Is it even affiliated with dangerousprototypes.com?

No mention of bus pirate 5 there.
American cars may not be popular in Europe but they do sell in the Asia Pacific region.

The European consumer often looks after more compact, fuel efficient cars.
Joel published that post the same year that Microsoft announced their .NET framework.

I've said this in a different threads, but I think it's worth repeating here. I've seen many successful projects that started out as reverse engineered clones of older, well established ones, then go on to become better versions of their original model. Those are in effect rewrites, just not done by the same team. For a number of years now, it's been feasible to compete technically with an incumbent in matter of months. I see it as a trend indicating an increase in software production capability, be it because of better practices, better tools, or more developer availability.

So although I tend to agree with Joel's old post, and still lean toward refactoring as the likely more economical approach, I hold that advice less religiously.
Unhelpful for Alpro for sure
This article is a big nothing burger. Of course a foundation with the goal to "drive the transition to more healthful plant-based diets for human and planetary health. "[0] is against labeling highly-processed plant based food as "highly processed".

Quote:
> In an era of urgency to move populations towards more environmentally and nutritionally beneficial plant-based diets, making a simple switch to soya meat replacements and milk alternatives is a realistic and easy dietary change for most consumers to achieve

As far as I'm concerned, almost all highly-processed food "alternatives" consist of abundantly cheap ingredients (mostly based on soy, rice or corn), sold at a price of labor intense organic products. I think this is just profit driven greenwashing, nothing more.

[0] https://www.alprofoundation.org/about
Well I don't have insight into your adulting commitments so that's not a terribly useful measure for me. ;-)
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My son is allergic to soya - that was a catalyst for us looking into the supply chain of what we buy and eat and if there is one profound change above all is the fact soy is in -everything- and if not in the product itself then certain in the bulk of the food stuffs own food chain.

Can’t even buy bread now without it being bulked out with soya flour …
Except then your ISP could see what you download, which I doubt many would like.
Where did you get this from? Who told you that shell scripts must have a lifetime and can't be crucial for production?

There is no such a thing as serious programming vs baby shell programming. There are just tools, that are means to an end, simple as that. If the tool sufficiently and efficiently does the job, there is no need to replace it with an 'actual' programming language.
I give talks to IT teams on the importance of cleaning up transient auth records in DNS and, as the night follows the day, I don't do it on my own personal ones.
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You know you’re ancient when you find it odd to see a 1GB video card be labelled as “old”.
It’s 3pm and you buy a “one day” metro ticket, will it still be valid at 4am? The nychthemeron concept makes it clear.
Insurance or refund only to buyer fixes this.
That's a good point. But there are throughput considerations at the boundaries to the things that the brain wants to control. It makes most sense to centralize logic, and to delegate specialized control out to subsystems only where those specializations are relevant. Essentially making interfaces for control of appendages into APIs where the finer control logic is hidden from the main orchestrator. Exceptions exist where extra control at high levels is warranted (e.g. digits).
Fair point. I'm back to waiting for it to do a backup itself then
I couldn't care less who can buy what with how much effort in some market. but I really really love it when EU slaps some companies with hundreds of millions of fine. way to go EU! as long as your politicians are not corrupt, that is!
Ultra processed is the end result of mckinsification of our food chain.
While I can’t give the specifics, I can say that I have experienced this in the server space repeatedly.

Manufacturers were not able to design equivalent servers due to pressure from Intel, or need to delay equivalent or more powerful AMD platforms.

AMD is still has more PCIe lanes and better for high bandwidth requiring tasks like dense GPU computing.
You chose to pre-order a first generation product (their first AMD release) from a small company. There were always going to be problems and delays because there always are. The error you made was pre-ordering it a long way out.

You could always cancel your pre-order, get your deposit refunded, and just buy the Lenovo. You could also get a 13th gen Intel Framework 13 right now.

I've pre-ordered a Framework 13 AMD. I'm not as worried about it because I only placed the order recently and I'm across all of the issues.
Maybe it would be helpful to list what you can or cannot contribute to a startup…
It's not called AI grifting, but Trickle-down economics...
Standby tickets at the venue fixes this. Similar to airplane tickets, which can be oversold, standby tickets accommodate those who really need to use a ticketed service.
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It's far more accessible for screen readers than the standard HTML view. It's also more responsive, a lot of the time.
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> Or 'God morgen'

pronounced goo-morn in Danish, and written godmorgen :D
I think that’s because it seems like the OP misunderstood what was being asked of them. I think you’re 100% right here (having gone through this exact process and choosing, exactly as stated, to remove Activation Lock/Find My via my personal machine rather than a store machine) but OP seems to think they were asking for his phone passcode. That doesn’t make sense to me but it looks like that’s what he’s stating - phone passcode, not iCloud login - and I think that’s causing the misunderstanding.
Can highly recommend Migadu for those geeky enough to handle their own DNS setup. No affiliation with them except as a very satisfied customer.
Not enough people want to buy their food so they’ve blamed the truthful labeling of their food and want to be able to lie by omission on their labeling. They believe they should be allowed to lie because of a smaller energy cost.

It takes less energy for me to not pay my mortgage. Let’s see how that works out.
That’s where different languages have different concepts which one may or may not find useful from the outside. In other languages it doesn’t really matter whether the person was night inclusive or night exclusive, in Lithuanian you have to pick one word or the other.
> In isolation, that would be both a reasonable and commendably planned exchange. However, the context is important.

The context is that these requirements were put in place in an era when China had a large, cheap labor pool to offer, but was sorely lacking in technical know-how. Trading access to that labor pool for IP was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

As China has developed economically, it has reduced IP transfer requirements. Half of Tesla's production is now on China, but they completely own their own factory and don't have to transfer IP. The IP transfer requirements were a stepping stone on the way from an agricultural economy to a modern industrialized economy.

> Trading partners need to grow in the same direction.

Trading partners don't have to like one another. They just both have to gain from the transaction.

> China's tight control has their populace locked down from each other, and from the U.S.

Ironically, Chinese people generally know a lot more about the United States than Americans know about China. There is censorship in China, but a good chunk of the population speaks English at some basic level (whereas very few Americans speak Mandarin), American movies and TV shows are popular, and people can get around the censorship with a little bit of effort (installing a VPN).

> while anti U.S. rhetoric rises in China Party Statements.

Having experienced both Chinese coverage of the US and American coverage of China, I can tell you that American coverage of China is far more negative than vice versa. The level of hatred and vitriol in the US towards China is reaching astronomical levels. CCP rhetoric about the US is tame in comparison to what you'd hear on the floor of the US Congress - Chinese government statements come across as conciliatory, in comparison. In the US, even people who know nothing about China have strong opinions and profess hatred or fear of the country. It's been very alarming to see.
it was exceedingly uncommon for PC's in the Pentium 4 era to ship with anything higher than a 200W PSU. Yet today it is not uncommon to hear of 850W PSU's.

Sure, but today we're pushing absolutely crazy levels of performance. At the efficiency end of the spectrum, we have something like the Intel N100, which delivers something like 14x the performance of a Pentium 4 on a TDP of 6 watts. An i9-13900F might have twice the peak TDP of a Pentium 4, but it has 150x more throughput.

Big PSUs are mostly driven by GPU power consumption, but it's easy to forget just how insanely performant modern GPUs are. An RTX 4090 has a TGP of 450W, which is admittedly very high, but it delivers 73 TFLOPS at single precision without sparsity. That's the same level of performance as the fastest supercomputer in the world circa 2004. It's kind of goofy that we'll often use all that performance for playing video games, but we can also do important work with that power.

>A desktop computer emits 778 kgs of CO2e annually. Of this, 85% results from emissions during manufacture and shipping

I don't really buy this figure. Using standard methodologies, Dell cite a figure of 454kgCO2e for the full tower version of the Optiplex 7090, with 46.7% of those emissions created during use. For the micro form factor version, they state 267kgCO2e, with 30.8% of emissions created during use.

There's absolutely a valid case for extending beyond the usual 3-4 year lifecycle, there's absolutely a valid case for buying a refurbished computer if you don't need high performance, but at some point an old computer is just e-waste and the best fate for it is responsible recycling.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/corporate/social-impact/advanc...
Not rare, I do sometimes check my email in the airplane and can tell, although it’s usually per X time rather than the MB, but it still slow to load on the web UI. Better just to use an email client.
What is mckinsification?
Thanks @dotcoma, thought it may be useful for more people as a generic question instead of personally for me.
Uh? Not sure if you meant me (I submitted this instance) but my account is slightly older. I feel like a low-key but established member of this here bunch o' geeks.
They mention that "nearly all" alternatives are marked as ultraprocessed, which is kinda meaningful. Tofu and tempeh can be easily made in home environment, basic soy milk (water + soy) also, so alternatives that stay ultraprocessed are either modified in other ways (added sweeteners, etc) or are ready meals (like burgers and breaded cutlets). And difference in nutritional values between those categories is rather stark.
Distorted interest rates touch everything. If we're going to pick a handful of things that low interest rates effected that basket is too varied. The gig economy is a major employer, the others are not. And AI isn't being pushed by low interest rates, it is being pushed by things like AlphaGo or ChatGPT being somewhat magical.
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