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It's been years since the last one I read, so it's a bit hard to recall. But the stories that have really stuck in my mind are the results of Egan tweaking some physical law, constructing a universe that might reasonably arise under those physical conditions, and then writing a plausible adventure within that universe.

Dichronauts (2 spacial and 2 time-like dimensions instead of our 3 and 1) and the Orthogonal trilogy (Riemannian spacetime instead of our "Lorentzian") come to mind. I just really like the care he puts into constructing these universes, from how planets form (the worlds in Dichronauts are infinite hyperboloids instead of spheres), to how scientific discovery progresses (as a result of the physics in Orthogonal, light of different frequencies travel at different speeds and visually separate as a common matter of course, which leads to a much earlier understanding of relativity by a fairly primitive civilization). It feels like he's building universes from first principles and taking care to consider every little consequence and detail, which leads to a lot of "Ohhhhh" moments when you encounter something counter-intuitive but then realize it directly follows as a consequence of the initial physics tweak.
Agreed on PagerDuty
It doesn't really do a lot, administrating it is fairly finicky, and most shops barely use half the functionality it has anyway.

To me its whole schedule interface is atrocious for its price, given from an SRE/dev perspective, that's literally its purpose - scheduled escalations.
To me, all this feels like recreating "Hollywood UIs" that were designed for the benefit of the audience watching and not an actual user.
Thanks for the post. The obvious comparison is feedgnuplot: https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot/

That works similarly in that it plots standard input. The backend is gnuplot, which is a double-edged sword: it's far more full-featured than brplot, but almost certainly is much slower also. I'll try out brplot to see if it would be a good replacement for cases where speed is important. Thanks!
Sorry I did not understand that. What do you mean?
This more or less sums up my experience. There’s a reason the market moved on. Not everything is a disposable razor conspiracy.
Why are you touting that as some kind of good? It would have been appropriate to decommission that dam, and there are other energy intensive industries that would have brought some prosperity to the region.
Not a downside to me. Each team maintains their own DB and pays for their own choices.

In the kitchen sink model all teams are tied together for performance and scalability, and some bad apple applications can ruin the party for everyone.

Seen this countless times doing due diligence on startups. The universal kitchen sink DB is almost always one of the major tech debt items.
I was thinking more of the electric carbon capture methods, building the machinery is a huge job that takes lots of material, at the scale needed to actually make a contribution that matters, we'll have to make so much energy and build, transport and maintain so much machinery that we'll change the face of the planet, causing its own huge negative effects.

This volcanic rock thing doesn't sound like it is capturing enough to matter anyway as some people have already calculated.
Yeah, sorry for the lack of context. I assumed that terminology made sense outside of my little Twittersphere.
A counter argument is that they paid his salary for all those years, they paid for his lab, for his machines etc. They don't owe him a job.
Just what sort of school did either of you go to and when? It sounds like something from a biography from someone who went to school a 100 year ago.
Yep, sorry for the lack of context on this.
I'm not particularly susceptible to jump scares in movies or anything shocking really, but, this movie had me on the edge of my seat.

Good movie, much better than expected. Watch some of the making of features too, they filmed it all "real" (up on a 50ft tower or something) and it shows in the acting.
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Not to mention the fact that in recent memory, they've already had to contend with the threat of a mass exodus of users due to unhappiness with how the site was run. Whether or not it ended up making any sort of impact in the long run, I have to imagine that their management has no desire to risk that sort of controversy again.
Without some sort of background on cost or scale it is hard to judge any of these decisions.
Are you saying, government with tax payer money acts responsibly?
> Most large SaaS companies can run off of $5k / m or cheaper RDS

Hard disagree. An r6i.12xl Multi-AZ with 7500 IOPS / 500 GiB io1 books at $10K/month on its own. Add a read replica, even Single-AZ at a smaller size, and you’re half that again. And this is without the infra required to run a load balancer / connection pooler.

I don’t know what your definition of “large” is, but the described would be adequate at best at the ~100K QPS level.

RDS is expensive as hell, because they know most people don’t want to take the time to read docs and understand how to implement a solid backup strategy. That, and they’ve somehow convinced everyone that you don’t have to tune RDS.
Why would it be that way and not "we will charge you more for the privilege of not tracking anything about you as a consumer since that data can be sold to aggregator companies"? Both feel equally reasonable to me.
Sorry, I meant specifically the post-mitigations aspect. It really does change the calculus.
Honestly, I’ve often considered chunking all those libs into a single big one to eliminate 50% of my npm dependency chain.
Less so now. I’m pretty adamant about not giving my kids juice except as a special treat, and that seems to be the norm with many other parents I know.
Revolutions have traditionally been how we achieve major societal change, and standing on soapboxes yelling is one way to help that along. How else do you engage the humans that we have? Hope that they silently come up with the same plan you have? No, like any politician you yell at them from a soapbox to get enough support for you to act.
this is incorrect on a number of levels.

there are well established criteria under which we will remove a gallbladder and a number of times where stones are found and we won't. If someone has an episode of Cholecystitis then the evidence clearly shows that the best thing for the patient is to have it taken out, because they're highly predisposed to get recurrent episodes which, despite being very painful and an acute danger to life, also leads to significant inflammation and scarring which makes eventually removing it down the line carry a higher burden of morbidity.
Attempting to dissolve really only works on small stones but you have to ask people, if you're getting them now and you're predisposed to get them (either through genetics or diet) then do you want to go through repeated admissions and presentations and all the disruption to life just to keep your gallbladder for a while longer, when the data shows most of these patients will ultimately end up going through a cholecystectomy anyway?

For mild appendicitis, the burden of evidence in the past 10 years has swung significantly towards managing mild appendicitis (whether confirmed on imaging or clinically diagnosed) with antibiotics which has a low but meaningful rate of repeat presentation of around 20%
That's how I would do it without remote cutters, a small shaped charge, or thermite. Fall direction will be completely out of control, so it would be worth being close to the tower to reach a safe area.
I was hoping to see dark outlines and a light interior.

https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/why-are-coffee-stai...
Just wished ConfigureAwait was not true by default
>It's absurd to not understand that Apple et al could easily (from a technical sense) eliminate cell phone theft.

I think the option to make the lost iphone make noise is there in the "find my" menu. So if you have another Apple device like a mac, watch, ipad etc. you can locate it using the airtag network (ie. not requiring cell service), have it make noise, or remote wipe it.
It's a quibble - the base position here in common law is that the people of this state have a right to weapons .. much later the people of this state first agreed that the body they employ to debate common rules would be allowed to argue the regulation of firearms and delegate enforcement of any agreeed regulations to those tasked with the enforcement of policy - the Act grants that right to our employees, the politicians and the police.

After Regulations were agreed upon, these were codified.

The base right as that citizens of the state can have weapons, the agreed regulations (that can be overturned) are citizens with violent criminal records, domestic assault allegations, unqualified in handling, not willing|able to safely store cannot have weapons - these are our background conditions.

The US also has background checks for sale and possesion - they're just weak on enforcement.

The US is an oddity is they felt after the fact of constitution that they had to whack on an ammendment to spell out common law for firearms - but not for explosives, poisons, motor vehicles, etc.
Both are important. Controlling for calories demonstrates yet again that sugar is not uniquely bad (the claim that it is is very prevalent in the health and fitness online space). Ad libitum studies demonstrate that the foods we eat have differential effects on appetite, satiety, etc.
What's weird is that eating the fruit is healthy. Something about the fiber cancels out the effects of the sugar. I've never seen a good explanation for the mechanism of how that works.
as opposed to all polish and latvian people lining up at Austrain and French border… :)
I mean they kind of have to when they're part of a species that's curious enough that they'll hear 'babies can swim' and throw babies in a pool en masse to see if it is be true.
Are you implying that because "the market" (with the laws that govern it) ends up in a situation where some people get that kind of salary, then I must be wrong in thinking that no human being deserves that kind of compensation?

Because if that's the case, I think it is completely stupid. You don't get to make up rules and then say that I am objectively wrong because your made-up rules disagree with me.
Congress makes the laws. The Executive enforces them. Separation of Powers precludes Congress from delegating lawmaking authority to the other branches.
I've done some programming on the AVP. It... feels weird, 'cause you're basically just working on a big screen while still in the mouse/keyboard monitor paradigm. Just so happens your monitor is a little easier to move around and adjust, but that's not really something I feel like I've needed.

AFAIK (and would love input if people know more about this), there hasn't been much concentration on programming in these kind of 3d immersive environments, outside of languages like ProtoFlux in the Resonite virtual world (which is an update of Logix from Neos). Even that is really just a dataflow language where your spaghetti can work on 3 axes instead of 2. It feels like we need some considerations of how these immersive environments could benefit an IDE. Possibly some input from what projects like Dynamicland have learned?
It's a Kodak moment.

This praise comes from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that does not support alternatives to reliance on the oil industry.
The Internet is mostly fine from a technical perspective. The oldest hardware in common use runs everything pretty much acceptably. The 20MB JavaScript doesn't matter when it's all cached because there are only 15 sites anyone visits.

I'm not even sure personal sites are the answer, hosted platforms like neocities seem to have all the benefits with few of the hassles.

What's ruining the internet is that we use it too much, endless scrolling, social platforms that don't prominently feature the actual user avatar and name near the content, algorithmic curation, etc.

Decentralization would be nice to have, but federation isn't really decentralized, and it doesn't matter if the content and community is so awful nobody wants to use it.

Most "Let's fix the internet" proposals are actively part of the problem which is that the internet has very little real world to reflect anymore. They're just putting the focus more on the tech itself.

90s internet tech was awful. Tech in general was worse in almost every way compared to now. I don't think I own any gadgets I'd like to replace with the old version... but we did seriously amazing things with it all, because the focus was on doing cool stuff, solving real problems, making art, etc, not making more tech and vaguely handwaving about what we might use it for.

People never do anything but scroll, so there's nothing to write about, and no familiar reference points outside the internet to allow any understanding.

Even the world's most major political issues are thought of in terms of memes these days.
I wish we could do what Linus did and start a lean walled garden ruled with an iron fist. How nice would everything be if it was written like Apollo mission software but ran on today's hardware! Sigh
Huh, not sure how I've never found that option before. Thanks for the lesson, I'll need to rtfm a bit more closely!
I think most people who’ve never experienced native NVMe for a DB are also unaware of just how blindingly fast it is. Even io2 Block Express isn’t the same.
That is what I meant. Thanks. I updated my comment.
When you remove the fiber from fruit you pull the pin from the fructose bomb within.
+1 TinyWhoop

It's a company, but also the name of that whole style of drones. Anything in the 65, 75, or 85 mm range can whoop, maybe more, idk.

I'd start with a 75mm brushless if I were to do things over again.
I've had the same issue with an apartment complex, the AC it could never properly maintain <80F during a summer day.

The issue was that builders didn't properly size the AC unit for the amount of heat it needed to reject in a 5th floor apartment when it was 100F outside.

> or maintain cooling in the summer

Here's the key phrase.

This isn't an issue with a heat pump. They just undersized the unit.
The smoothness is night and day for me; seconds after picking up a ballpoint pen I want to reach for my FP, because with ballpoints you have to apply pressure, and even then the flow doesn’t match a fountain pen.
Also try a fast drying ink, limits your ink choices a lot but they can’t smear.

IIRC works via a reaction with cellulose in the paper or something.
I am sorry to say this but most developers either don’t have the ability to think for themselves or can’t be bothered.

You might disagree with this statement of course but that is truly my experience (30+ years of working professionally in software development).

Try this: Next time a developer confidently suggests that you should use tech X, ask them that the pros/cons are compared with using tech Y/Z. Ask about performance/failover/latency/team skills required etc. Most developers in my experience completely fail to give an intelligent answer. They are just loudspeakers confidently copying the opinions of somebody else. Usually somebody who benefits financially from developers using tech X.
While if didn’t hook me as quickly as Antimemetics or Ra, I also thoroughly enjoyed Fine Structure: https://qntm.org/structure
I’m starting to think this is somehow like the Bayesian vs Frequentist debate among people who study statistics.

My hastily assembled reading from googling “calorie in calorie out myth” mostly seems to discuss that changes in basal metabolic rate happen as you are trick calories (so, account for that in the equation) and that people eating hyper palatable foods tend to eat more of them (so, now you know to avoid those to make it easier to keep the calorie count under control). Also control for thermic effect of food. I’m not saying model the body as a gasoline engine. You need the complexity for the equation to balance.

Calorie in calorie out is not a strategy - of course there’s a wide variety of ways to make a healthy diet and the best strategy for one person might not be the same for another. I’m not a calorie counting advocate. But I struggle to understand the alternate to calorie in calorie out - like, where else will mass/energy come from or go to in the system? Mass is summoned magically by genetics from zero point energy?

Anyways, this is why I mostly look at studies that have calorie equated groups and their weight - because such a study takes into account all the little details happening inside the body, and we’re going to average the different groups to control for personal genetic and diet differences.
I always understood "parse don't validate" a bit differently. If you are doing the validation inside of a constructor, you are still doing validation instead of parsing. It is safer to do the validation in one place you know the execution will go through, of course, but not the idea I understand "parse don't validate" to mean. I understand it to mean: "write an actual parser, whatever passes the parser can be used in the rest of the program", where a parser is a set of grammar rules for example, or PEG.
We’re on the same page.

You’re acknowledging that the safety record is just a proxy for safety. That’s what I’m saying too.

I would argue that using the number of incidents as a proxy for safety ignores the trend.
The quality of life is Eastern Europe (and some countries) in North of Europe is great (and even greater than France and many places), but the risk of war spreading among these European countries is a real issue :/
What are you saying isn’t the same? This is a very hostile, dismissive response when I was simply pointing out Python had a similar concept in the hopes it might help the person understand something they said confused them.

As far as I can tell all three languages, Python, Elixir, Ruby, have pattern matching and the matching can set variables. Python’s has a “match” keyword. I’m not as familiar with Ruby, but I know it uses “case”.

I like Elixir’s the best because it’s not just what I would call a fancy switch statement. You can use it on single lines and in function definitions. Someone else might like a different form of pattern matching better. It’s just an opinion.
>It's highly paid simply because there aren't that many expert COBOL programmers around anymore.

They're highly paid not because they're part of a short supply of COLOB devs, but because they have COBOL experience and the battle scars to know how to solve production issues that those new to Cobol might not know about, but which the old timers saw several times already in their careers and know how to fix

If you start learning Cobol now to cash in on the this market, as a Cobol junior you won't be remotely as valuable as those Cobol graybeards with battle scars, which is why nobody's pivoting to Cobol.
which is cool and all that until stephan wants to sends a tightrope to another thread.
Another vote for SST!
I like Rhodia dot grid paper for general use, works well for both writing and doodling and visually structured stuff in tables or boxes
The real issue isn't grains imo, it's grains that had all the fibre removed.

White bread is terrible for you. Brown bread is good for you, good for cholesterol(due to soluble fiber), has a low glycemic index(due to insoluble fiber), and has much more protein, vitamins and minerals than white bread.

I honestly believe white flour is much more responsible for lifestyle related health issues in the US than anything else.

Turns out, stripping the nutrients out of your food is bad.
They're betting on solid state batteries for their EVs and offer hybrids until they are able to start making them.

Not sure how the solid state bet is going to play out but so far their hybrid strategy is working quite well. Their hybrids are selling out before they even leave the factory. It makes sense because they have a huge reputation for reliability and are sometimes the only hybrid offering in some segments like minivans and large three row SUVs.

Other manufacturers have bet on developing platforms using current battery tech but sales of current gen EVs seem to have stalled.

Customers are thinking rationally. You can either buy a current gen EV and deal with the depreciation or buy a hybrid and keep it until EVs mature and it's time to switch.
Yeah, but the cost of my ticket is governed by supply and demand of tickets at my price.

Your theory was that selling someone else an expensive ticket would decrease the cost of mine. But I think your logic is flawed.
Doesn't seem unreasonable, as long as it's a soft target and at a large level. When every manager needs to fire one employee every year or two or get fired, it Uber sucks.

Any time a manager needs to fire a performing employee, the company dies a little. You start destroying cooperation, and selecting sociopaths as managers.
> Also PG has no true clustered indexes all tables are heaps which is something most use all the time in MSSQL, usually your primary key is also set as the clustered index so that the table IS the index and any lookup on the key has no indirection.

This is true, but I believe if you have an index-organised table then subsequent indexes would have to reference the primary key. With PostgreSQL, indexes can effectively point to the record in the heap by using the block number and item pointer in the block. This should mean, in theory, index lookups are faster in PostgreSQL than non-clustered index lookups in SQL Server.

I was wondering, is there a concept of Bitmap Index Scans in SQL Server?

PostgreSQL is able to effectively "bitwise" AND and bitwise OR bitmap index scan results from multiple indexes to obtain the subset of tuple identifier (ctids) or blocks (in lossy mode) that should be scanned in the heap. Effectively, that allows indexes on a single column to be used when the query has a condition with an equality condition on multiple columns which are indexed individually. Does SQL Server allow this for heap tables? In theory, supporting both allows DBAs to choose, but I wonder how well each is optimised. It may lead to surprises if certain query plan shapes are no longer possible when someone switches to an IOT.
Wow, I had the completely opposite interpretation. The only reason this thing got created was because one rich person bet $3 million dollars on this researcher. There would have been zero chance of this research ever getting funded outside of capitalism.
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So a daily, single serving of 100% fruit juice results is a small-but-measurable increase in child BMI (0.01-0.05, roughly 1 ounce), and little to no measurable effect in adults. Given the middling results, i'm surprised how strongly other commenters here are taking this.

> "studies that did adjust for energy intake (-0.08 kg; 95% CI, -0.11 to -0.05 kg; P for meta-regression <.001)"

> "in adults, studies that did not adjust for energy showed greater body weight gain (0.21 kg; 95% CI, 0.15-0.27 kg)"

> "Among cohort studies in children, each additional serving per day of 100% fruit juice was associated with a 0.03 (95% CI, 0.01-0.05) higher BMI"
I mean everyone talks about 0% percent interest rates.

Effectively, why didn't businesses just borrow a boat load of cash - any sane person could posit that it wouldn't last forever, after all - and build up hoards of cash independent of revenue for the future, as to deploy it when everything craters, there by making things like hiring and acquisitions cheap?

That seems like it would have been a good use of money, what everyone effectively is saying (talking head media wise) is that businesses were able to get money at "little to no cost". It seems likely then, that borrowing enormous amounts of cash, investing it in relatively safe growth securities, and waiting for your competitors to eventually crater because they are living high on borrowed time would have been a viable strategy for some businesses.