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> You cannot pass functions, promises, or other non-serializable objects

Functions are serializable. And deserializable. You can absolutely take one defined on one machine, kick it over the wire, then execute it on another one. Likewise closures, you serialise the associated state as well.

Promises are the same thing - a distributed language runtime should be exactly the sort of graph execution system which lets you pass promises between machines and have things work out.

Further, they don't say what other "non-serializable" things are. Is a DAG serialisable without spuriously unrolling it into a tree and failing to fold back into a DAG at the other end? How about a graph? Given that all things are serializable it is difficult to guess what things they haven't implemented.

So by "they've got the implementation wrong", I'm saying they haven't implemented the tricky part of serialisation, only the copy ints over wires part. And by "wrong", I'm saying that a language runtime dedicated to transparently running typescript functions on other machines should be able to run those functions on other machines even if they have closed over state.
I wish this internal website existed at my company. This would help throw crazy requests from the business out the window more easily
When I explored this question a few months back, I initially thought it was to extract rent. It seems though that it comes from concerns of malfunctioning ONUs, ones that perform poorly, or those that color outside the lines of the specs causing problems on the entire PON node. It seems these concerns were originally well-founded, so the advice has been to match OLT and ONU manufacturers. Now XG-PON ONUs that you can buy are all standards-compliant, so this isn’t really a concern. However, organizations that have been burned by something in the past develop scar tissue over certain topics (“policy”), and say “never again.” I believe that’s probably what is happening here.
The Chevy Volt definitely proved that GM could build a best-of-breed reliable hybrid!
An interesting parallel to be sure, but for many people smart phones were a luxury rather than a necessity. For people outside of well-covered public transit cities (and even many people inside of those) cars are a necessity.

Also when I think about this personally, I was 5x or more faster at typing on my old blackberry than I have ever been on modern phones. When thinking luxury v. necessity, things like that I think will matter a lot more than they did for phones.
AT&T effectively has two levels of "business line", largely based on the local infra deployment. In a commercial building you'll often be able to just get a fiber drop you can plug into your own SFP, set your IP info, and go. If you do "business line" in a residential area, it's practically the same service as residential Internet with their 802.1x-locked gateways just with static IPs as an option and an actual SLA. Unless you want them to run a fiber from their business service area all the way to your home, but be prepared to spend many thousands more.
>free education
School?
Divorced.

Beheaded.

Died.

Divorced.

Beheaded.

Survived.
> The situation for Arab Israeli citizens, fraught as it may be, is not comparable to that of Black Africans under Apartheid, or that of Black Americans in the 1950s. There are Arab Israelis in the Knesset.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and William Dawson were in the US congress in the 1940s and 1950s.
That’s awesome! I hope you have fun too :)
Free education and laptops alone aren't enough for that.
And most people also aren’t running synthetic benchmarks, which is practically the only way you’re going to hit these limits short of parallel compilation of a large project. If that is you, by all means, buy the Pro (or a desktop); as the article states, this is about the Air throttling, not the Pro.
> costs of fixed assets

Minor quibble unrelated to the main content of the post: the measures are not fixed costs of assets, but a blend of depreciation and the operating cost of power usage for those assets. Sort of a regular snapshot of an average daily accounting cost, so to speak (which is reasonable). And this was cost to Google, not taking into account what Google could make by charging Cloud customers for the use of those assets (opportunity cost).

My understanding is that the main use of this tool was actually for engineers to give reasonable-ish impact statements for their performance work. I hadn't heard of anyone using it to make serious trade-offs in project planning, since at the level where that matters, the capacity planning teams had more precise costs related to their actual budgets, as well as short term goals like "RAM has a supply chain shock so we can't get any more than X for the next quarter."
The Not Rocket Science Rule of Software Engineering (2014)
One point of correction...

> In networking terms it's "Level 1"

What, I think, you mean to say is "Layer 1" of the OSI model, which is still incorrect. An active device, even when "dumb" is a "Layer 2" (Data Link) device. Ultimately a "bridge" networking device. The device is doing local media conversion which can't be accomplished by physical media interconnects alone. Even if the data link protocol is the same on both sides bridging the media types often requires a conversion. But in the case of ONT it's not going to be Ethernet on the WAN / carrier side. Not sure of the setup here but the PON is usually a very "dumb" last mile as it's often some sort of DWDM driven headend that's splitting out wavelengths for downstream consumption by the PON via the OLT and then broken out to Ethernet on the CPE, which is an ONU in this case.
Isn't there a website where you can view the trades by day of executives at large companies and see what moves they're making?

I used to have it bookmarked
> No overly animated content.

> No scroll jacking.

> No excessive storytelling.

Fine to call me cynical on this, I don't think this is a gallery of simple sites in the 'appreciative' sense. There are many, many websites which would fit these criteria listed and none are listed.

Looking through the featured sites, it appears to be a curated list of promotional content under the guise of something else. You can tell because most of them are what digital designers link to from their CVs, to stand out (and ironically they look very similar to each other).

Most of the remaining ones are ads for products, pretty much.

The other main giveaway is the ?ref as you follow the links.

IMO this is a linkfarm without actually interesting content.
It could be that it is actually not low entropy, and there are some other processes that explain a recution in entropy at some scale. That is, maybe the second law of thermodynamics is not that universal.
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This is an excellent summary and expresses many things I've thought about when these topics come up. I entered industry in 1998 and didn't understand as well what was happening while it was happening, but came to similar conclusions looking back on it.

> I'm a developer used to simply clicking a button in Visual Studio to have it instantly bulk-generate entire API client libraries from a WSDL XML API schema, documentation and all. So when I hear REST people talk about how much simpler JSON is, I have no idea what they're talking about.

One issue with that was a lot of developers never had any understanding of what was actually happening when they used wsdl.exe or the Visual Studio GUI to do that. Funny story: a partner we work with now gave us a SOAP API to consume that just about had to have been developed by one of these idiots. Most of the payload was XML content that fit different schemas depending on the transaction type. They didn't know how to model this properly so they just had a content node whose contents were a string that contained escaped XML; exactly what would happen if you were told to make content dynamic and didn't know anything about XML but only how to use the serialized objects in C#: you have an object with a content property that is a string, and you just put arbitrary XML into that string.

So you'd get these API responses that were clearly formatted SOAP envelope and then Bespoke Envelope and then unreadable gibberish littered with &gt; &lt; etc.
Generally, Toyota buyers don't like to stick out in a crowd. They do have a new, reasonably priced Land Cruiser coming out, which is styled after their older, very popular Land Cruisers.

I would'nt be surprised if they come out with a 2-door version of such to fill the long vacated slot left by the FJ Cruiser.
I would love to have the option of running the machine at full speed with the tradeoff of sizzling hot surfaces. Cool when on the go, full power when laptop is sitting at desk well ventilated.
I bough a new Sienna recently and cash was definitely an option for people with that kind of savings (not me unfortunately haha).
When a critical part of a security system is defeated, saying “that’s okay we have other layers of security so they probably can’t do much” would be IMHO pretty horrible security practice. Taking the laptops away is horrible, but from a security perspective it’s not over reacting.
A bit of a typo, I meant to write that I used to have dozens of 60W light bulbs; all the lights in my house are LEDs now.

I’ve been debating trying to find a smaller, low power computer to reduce energy; it’s hard to find a small one that have 10GbE or that would take a pcie card. Maybe I can find a Thunderbolt one.
OP is directly asking me to modify my speech with some ridiculous link to Obama. And then you said it signals one side of "the culture war" and you're just completely vague about what war you're talking about and which side it signals. You do mention "folx" which I have only rarely encountered and I figured was one of those dumb socially engineered unhuman words that nobody (particularly the people it refers to) actually uses such as "latinx". But the title of the post doesn't even use "folx".
How can I find this out on a given model?

From what I've seen only the i3 actually simplified this way, but I haven't gone in depth on it since then and that discussion doesn't refer to any specific models.
They are cornering the hybrid market in the gap years between ICE and pure BEV. The only problem with this strategy is they will be seriously behind on pure BEV (4th and 5th generation). When Tesla or anyone finally delivers a cheap 1000km EV, it's game over for hybrid sales. Maybe a hybrid diesel truck would still be appropriate then. Maybe not.
> For you younger folks, this is a weird thing we lived through

Such an odd feeling to realize that such intense, shared experiences become completely foreign to more and more people as time goes on. It's weird how all of us are so fixed in the context of the year we were born. For example, I was born in the mid seventies, and to me the moon landing seemed like ancient history as a kid, even though it was only a couple years prior!

Guess I'm just commenting on the feeling that, as I age, things feel more and more ephemeral. Like when you're young it feels a bit like "this is how the world has been and should always be", anything that has happened before is just "history", but as you get older it just feels more like I'm just a speck in the timeline of the universe. Don't know if that's a good or bad feeling.
I wonder why not clickhouse. Cloudflare has already deployed a lot of analytics services based on CH. Would have been nice if they could provide more details on that.
>> Apple continues to employ a fan-less cooling design for 13-inch and 15-inch M3 MacBook Air models, and while that means users will be pleased about the completely silent operation, they will lose out on a ton of performance. <<

Without scientific data I only guess that overwhelming amount of users will not give a damn loosing out on tons of performance in an ultraportable consumer device having thousands of tons of performance already much below the peak performance lost, unused.

Of course, most want to buy a cheaper model when they are unable to use the performance of supercomputers decades ago in browsing or text editing, or just reading. Which is true for decades concerning products aimed at everyday people. The fallacy of performance and other specification battle is meaningless for lots of consumers and chased by specialty users mostly, apart from the attention seeking marketing folks.
Iteration speed is crucial for shipping code fast. It can mean the difference between spending a day understanding and fixing a bug to spending 15 minutes doing the same thing.

Although I suspect that as your domain knowledge of the software improves, the effect flattens out.
Agree, I think countries already run their simulations, and when they believe they are on the winning side, they invade. Doesn't matter if the simulation is rolling a dice.

If you don't invade, you haven't taken control.

Or putting it from other perspective, you could run the simulation between 2 parties, be the winner and "impose" your will. But I don't think that the other side will now leave their houses and leave their own city voluntarily, at that point you need to invade anyways.
They probably aren't talking about anything affordable by hobbyists.

Have a look at these though!
https://atlas-scientific.com/
Probably so they couldnt take it apart and hide stuff in it lol
Chevy volt kind of disproved that. The car was solid, affordable, and had no reliability issues. Build quality at par with a Toyota.
Tesla started the Supercharger network over a decade ago as a rather small company. A non-tesla charging network is absolutely feasible if automakers would agree on a standard and make a coordinated effort to build one.
We are talking about the MacBook Air, not MBP.

Oh now I see you edited your post. Do you have any reference that this is affecting the pro series? I just got an M3 Max-based MBP for work and everything seems to work great so far.
What I came to say exactly. I bought a Sienna recently and they only make a hybrid Sienna now.
Ah ok, in the UK our only widespread DOCSIS network strictly forbids 3rd party modems for the same reasons I mentioned.
“One kg of hydrogen contains about the same energy as a gallon of gasoline. Today a fuel-cell electric vehicle with 1 kg of hydrogen can drive approximately 60 miles, compared to conventional vehicles, which get about 25 miles on a gallon of gasoline.”

Source: https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/hydrogens-role...
> Now I'm just holding out for a 27" or larger iMac.

I don’t think that’s going to happen, unfortunately. It was a great machine with great price/performance ratio. You could even upgrade its RAM without an engineering degree. But Apple seems to think the solution is Studio + external display, for this decade.
> I see forced purchases of insurance for people with nothing to insure as similar to debtor's prison

That's probably because you're looking at it entirely wrong.

The third-party cover in insurance is not for you (the driver), it's for the poor sod that you turn into a pavement stain.

If you kill them, their family has had someone taken away from them - would you be happy with $50K for the loss of a spouse?

If you don't kill them, but inflict life-changing injuries, the resulting lifetime healthcare costs could easily be more than $50K.

When you take to the road, you do incur some risk, but on average you pose more of a risk to others, particularly if you've chosen to drive a car that you can't see in front of properly.

The UK introduced compulsory third-party cover in 1988. Even back then, the cap was £250,000 - it's not led to any societal problems (although, the accident rate in the UK is far, far lower than in the US so policies probably are going to be cheaper).

I do agree, though, that 10 mil is definitely pushing it a bit far.
Also for people who travel a lot (obviously there's some overlap there). You really start to notice the difference around the third or fourth airport TSA line. :-)

I've been buying MBAs since they first came out because I want my portable computer to be portable and am willing to give up a certain amount in furtherance of that goal.

At home/office you can plug it into a full-sized monitor and keyboard (if you want) without losing the portability factor when you're on the road.
The lack of a transmission, not needing to go to a gas station, and no exhaust (particular the highly targeted catalytic convertor) has become invaluable to me. After buying an all electric vehicle, the only reason I'd ever touch a non-fully electric vehicle is for cross-country road trips up to Colorado.
On the flip side, XML is by far the superior choice for documents people will have to read. Paired with XSD it makes it a lot easier to created valid, well-formed documents that conform to expected input. Ideal for anything that isn't required to be transmitted over the wire frequently. Like config files. I feel like we could save the world thousands of hours of head-scratching if things like web server config or deployment descriptors were done in rigorously-defined XML formats instead of made-up formats like Dockerfile.
There is nothing new or dystopian about this, a tradeoff between capital expenditure and labour has existed since ... forever.

Do I buy expensive tool X or get buy with cheap ones that make the work take longer or be less precise? Do I buy fancy machine Y or pay 10 people to do it manually?

The only new development with AI is that this was traditionally limited to relatively manual or repetitive processes, but is now expanding to knowledge work as well.

In the medium term the question will be do I just pay for people, or do I spend resources on collecting data and training a model?
The website design is also neat.
The article quotes the manufacturer as saying that even with the password there's basically no risk of the devices being misused:

> The man who made the devices said there’s little someone inside could actually do with a hacked Securebook. They’d need to fashion a USB port, be able to install another operating system, and get access to a docking station, said Jeremy Schwartz, Justice Tech president. Even when the devices are docked, they’re not connected to the wider internet.

It sounds like one very valid option they had was to just change the password as part of the regular maintenance and replacement schedule on the very reasonable assumption that no one would be able to attach a USB port to their laptop within the confines of the prison.
Except that this isn’t the original headline and was provided by the HN submitter.
> I’ve done all of this on an M2 with zero problem whatsoever.
Thanks, that's not bad at all!
Not everyone wants to drive around a baby blue monstrosity with the turning radius of the Titanic. Even if it's $6k.
> if we want a habitable planet

And what do you expect from the billions of people in developing countries that aren't going to give a rat's tail about future habitability because they are mostly focused on current survival? Is EV or hybrids and better power and charging infrastructure are the answer there?

I think the only long term solution to a habitable planet is a technical solution that gives us a scalable way to fix the problems emissions cause. I'm not saying to not try and stem the tide where it's possible. But we are not going to stem that tide globally.

I don't have the answer but I hope there are really smart people who see this writing on the wall and are dedicated to finding that long term global solution.
This is an interesting question and I wonder if you could feed the whole dump into an LLM like ChatGPT and have it give you a valid answer to your question. I’m gonna try it later. If anyone does have a manual or automated answer let us know!
From a performance point of view there's almost no point in the article. You want to do long running intensive work, get something with active cooling.

Except... isn't 114 C a bit much for something that sits in your lap? How about on bed sheets? Could it melt some plastic-y table cover?
This one brings joy. Thanks.

Not that the internet should lack creativity and animation, but sometimes it distracts from the goal.
> That's right in the middle of the "boring windows enterprise" segment, and it sells a ton of hardware.

The devices that are sold in this market are as expensive as MacBooks or sometimes even more expensive. So I don't think this is an issue.

Also if the MacBook Air ran Windows it would be the perfect device for most workloads in this market. Because the workload common there is running a Browser, Outlook, Word, Excel and SAP (or any other ERP and CRM of your choice).
True I guess, although one would perhaps expect a fibre network to be more reliable and stable than a cellular network.

Why would a large ISP allow customers to bring their own ONT if it means higher chance of problems on the PON? It doesn't seem worth the reputational risk. Allowing customers to bring their own router doesn't affect other customers.
That's not really the correct metric. It seems bold by today's standards, but is it something Columbus would have likely thought at the time? It doesn't seem that far off to me given the prevailing mindsets of the time.
Thank you, but I would love to read the article.
Which could have been handled gracefully over time without disturbance if the person would have responsibly just contacted the IT of the prisons, instead of publishing the method and password in the wild.
> even affecting the Pro series

Care to give any examples? My work M1 Pro gets moderately hot only when IntelliJ starts indexing multimillion line codebase.
What you call crippling is what makes JSON easy to work with and universally adopted.
And even then, I no longer believe that "removes as much friction as possible compared to local functions" is a desirable goal in the first place.

Over the course of my short 20-year career, I've encountered far too many applications that accumulated terrible performance or reliability problems that were directly attributable to their authors feeling a bit too comfortable about getting chatty with the slow, unreliable remote procedure calls.

By contrast, the most successful microservices shop I ever worked at was very conscientious about doing nothing to hide the messiness of RPC. (Ease the implementation, yes, but not hide the messiness.) And that seemed to foster a culture of being much more thoughtful about interaction patterns and data flows and how they might contribute to or detract from the overall performance and stability of the system.
Must be specific to your circumstances ('media producer') since my M1 Air performs brilliant still and will for long time, much better than the 2012 Air it replaced (that still works, but not well enough). A 2012 Air is doing better than an M1 Air? I am sorry, but I do not believe this...
Even the router I still use fios Quantum because I suspect fios configures it from time to time. Am I wrong? I'd prefer to have my own but it works well enough.
> with a typical software engineer workload.

So yours are probably MBPros not Airs. Those have a fan.
My wife has a MacBook Air, broken touchpad, yellow screen.
in the Java world? I've seen a couple XMLs on newer software but all from Java ecosystem, where there are substantial libraries in existence and the authors are already super familiar with it to the point where it's basically "free"

Everything else is YAML, JSON, or TOML (especially in the rust world)