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> As a note, Ric Edelman, when he had a radio show, went over the IRA to Roth conversion. Several times. According to him, it's a wash. Pay tax before you invest or when you withdraw, but either way the net effect is almost identical.

It depends on where the tax rates are when you deposit and when you withdrawal. Some of that is politics, and some of that is where you fit in the tax brackets.

There's some amount of unknown and unknowable there, but if you're early in your career and not making a lot of money, Roth contributions might make a lot of sense --- might as well pay taxes upfront while they're low. Once you start making more money, traditional contributions start making more sense, as you're likely to have lower income as a retiree than while employed.

If you have some years later in life where you aren't earning much (by choice or not), roth conversions can make sense then, although that gets real complex if the reported income will interfere with benefit programs you would otherwise qualify for.
They have literally run “native ads” for a decade which are ads specifically designed to appear to be content from New Yorker writers.

https://www.marketingdive.com/news/the-new-yorker-jumps-into...
You have made so many mistakes in your reading that I would urge you next time to carefully re-read people's posts before responding to them. Also never quote someone without using their actual words. For example, it was not explicitly said that any engineering book would contain those references, it was a general statement not a categorical statement.

>Again, you and the original poster seem to have this understanding that scientists and engineers from the mid 1800s to early 1900s are not to be trusted.

No, once again that's not what was said. The concept being communicated is that the scientific method works over long periods of time, not short ones. Over long periods of time, such as 200 years, the work that survives peer review and remains significant today are things like Maxwell's work on electromagnetism as opposed to Dr. Franz Mesmer's work on animal magnetism.

You are taking little bits and pieces of what people are saying, misconstruing them and reinterpreting them, and then forming an argument that is not a genuine representation of the original comment.
Teacher wages lots of places probably need a 20% bump, or more, to stop the bleeding. Regardless of the total being spent, not enough’s going to comp for teachers. The whole thing’s worst in states that were already paying sub-par COL-adjusted wages (obviously) so states that weren’t screwing up quite so bad to begin with might not need so drastic a change.
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Small addition because I didn't realise how LiveSvelte works. The backend pushes updated svelte component props to the client instead. You still often have to communicate the client-side changes to the server.
>There are companies getting 8-10 figures a year to fail

I read some article about how the federal retirement system is about up to $500m over the last 20 years on a failed outsourcing the digitization of their paper system. They are apparently not much closer to having a digital version than they were when they started something like 3-4 contractors ago. Specifically the storage hub in West Virginia.

There has to be some sort of grift in that kinda waste. How do that many companies not move the needle and get to keep the money?
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go to smaller pubs. They don’t have the footfall to justify the exorbitant commercial sports license fees and so don’t have screens. Fancier pubs and gastropubs also tend not to have screens
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I read the paper. Superhuman is a metric they defined in the paper which has to do with how long it takes a human to do certain tasks.
53/42 is 26%, not 10%.
There's also https://themes.svn.wordpress.org. I started cloning them on my laptop, then realized I didn't have the free terabytes they likely would take.
>Time to create something modern.

The track record of "modern" would suggest Wordpress is the second coming of Jesus, so no thanks. Wordpress is fine compared to "modern" software.
>You can make houses by hand out of beautiful hardwood with complex joinery.

We've logged an enormous amount of the old-growth hardwood forests the planet had doing this (and also shipbuilding). We literally don't have access to the same materials anymore.
> asserts that an entity in the ecosystem is a leech

By that definition, TinyMCE should be able to disable all textareas in Wordpress, since the product has used it freely for years without contributing anything.

And Lodash should be able to disable TinyMCE.

And QUnit should be able to disable Lodash.

It's open source. Should every Linux user be -required- to contribute? I'd bet the OS quality would degrade if that were so.

I am left with the question: why, after 13 years of WP Engine doing the exact same thing, is Matt now willing to burn down the house?
I have implemented the server-side of OIDC to support the single sign-on for AWS account management. It was a breeze, around 200 lines of Go code.

I tried that with SAML (back then, it didn't require kludgy X.509 thumbprint management in AWS), and I ran away crying after a couple of days trying to understand why it fails.
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> to provide any service to WP Engine and its users?

WordPress hard codes their own URLs in their software. They don't have published pricing. There's no criteria for who should have to pay unless they're WPE.

By the argument you're making, what makes it okay for anyone to run WordPress on a server without the host of that server paying a fee to WordPress? There's nothing that sets WPE apart from any other service out there that hosts WordPress except that Matt M decided he's on a crusade.
“So this post might be a lot of things, but I can assure you it’s not me defending my old company just because I used to work for them. I’ve got literally no reason to do that.”

by all means this guy is not the best one to call removal of Matt. this also reminds me those VC that got rid of the founders because founders have some flaws, and VC forgot that,without those flawed founders there will be nothing to start with.
Let me guess, you are a web programmer?

Because for those of us that are not, WordPress is a pretty easy and pretty capable way to self host something. Without it, lots more stuff would be centralized with Big Tech.
> if you’re obese already, you’ll have much more difficulty with lots of cardio exercise than someone who is much lighter.

I enjoyed cycling, but once I crossed the 95kg threshold, it became unbearable, due to the rashes I got. Cycling shorts do little to ameliorate it.
3D rendering engine benchmarks suggest what you're saying is nonsense.
I’m curious what you think it means to be "open source compatible"
I don't really think so. CEOs are still people. Eventually they're going to mess up and since they are constantly scrutinized it will be blown up.
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According to his recent interview on Primeagen, he argues that WPEngine operations incur high costs to his company, due to the millions of installations consuming resources from Wordpress.org. And despite being a very large player, they contribute nothing back to the ecosystem. He argues that they even illegally modified code attributions (stripe plugin) which diverts millions from Automattic. The fact that it took, apparently, so long for him to take some action can be interpreted in his favor, because he tolerated a lot along the years. Add the fact that they had somewhat good relations before WPEngine being taken over by private equity. So this is not about trademark, trademark is the best weapon he has to fight back against a very bad neighbor. And being the sole trademark holder, Automattic can enforce it arbitrarily, as it sees fit. Taking side with WPEngine I think is not only rationally baseless, but also immoral, since they put nothing and only take, which is in the very opposite of what Matt represents, whether or not you like Wordpress.
That 2011 snapshot actually makes the opposite point: the WordPress logo is prominently displayed next to the "WP Engine" title on the screenshot!

It does look like they fixed just a few months later, though: https://web.archive.org/web/20111001085943/http://wpengine.c...

(How fun to see the selling point "Digg-Proof Scalability")
That's not the same story, but it leaves a clue:

> Character.AI co-founder Daniel De Freitas is also joining Google with some other employees from the startup. Dominic Perella, Character.AI’s General Counsel, is becoming an interim CEO at the startup.

This story that I shared completes the picture: Character.AI was effectively acquired by Google for $2.7B. Nobody needs to know though you're right, just hide this article and delete any critical replies.
SA and HPWL are most definitely used as of today for the chips that power the GPUs used for "ML 101". But frankly this has the same value as saying "some sort algorithm is used somewhere" -- they're well entrenched basics of the field. To claim that SA produces "bad congestion" is like claiming that using steel pans produces bad cooking -- needs a shitton of context and qualification since you cannot generalize this way.
I love airports. The people watching there is just phenomenal.
I always get to my flight like 4 hours ahead of time just to sit in the busy concourse and watch the people. They're fascinating.
“MASLIAH, 65, TRAINED in medicine and neuropathology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), earning his medical degree in 1982 and completing a residency in pathology in 1986. He married a U.S. resident who also studied medicine at UNAM. They relocated to San Diego after Masliah’s training.”

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Most Nordic countries also have a state monopoly on alcohol, and these are as first-world as it gets.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinmonopolet

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BAsdrekkas%C3%B8la_Land...
I think the numbers in that article (the CAS latency) are the latency numbers "within" the DRAM module itself, not the end to end latency between the processor and the RAM.

You could read the article on the latest AMD top of the line desktop chip to compare: https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/14/amds-ryzen-9950x-zen-5... (although that's a desktop chip, the original article compares the Intel performance to 128 ns of DRAM latency for AMD's mobile platform Strix Point)
Also not good, but also not at all like freelancing. Freelancers are paid. Advertisers pay for placement.
The quick-start guide in the repo that said you don't have to pre-train for the sample test case, meaning that you can validate your setup without pre-training. That does not mean you don't need to pre-train! Again, the paper talks at length about the importance of pre-training.
> The main cause of climate change is people not doing anything about it.

Ok so other than voting for candidates/laws that assist with it and maybe driving an EV what can an individual do? How does ruined art factor into that?

> Building awareness and stimulating action is fundamental to any change.

If everyone has already heard about it everyday from the media and various internet people, how does a ruined art piece stimulate additional change?
How do you just pulled this up on a whim is crazy to me
We took a trip to North Carolina with our at the time 5 year old. The only things we took for entertainment was one of those pens with 4 different inks and a pad of paper.

Kept him occupied for the 16 hours.
The NSA Utah data center cost $1.5B-$2B to build and then another ~$2B of electronics to stock inside it.

It also had hundreds of contractors and employs 200+ full time employees. It consumes $40M worth of electricity each year and uses 1.7 million gallons of water each day for cooling.

So it sure doesn't seem like it unless we want to get into a debate around how much perceived useful data and value the NSA gets out of spying on Americans and foreign countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
Yeah. The author starts by giving all the reasons he is biased. And still expects us to take their argument at face value? Come on…
It really does feel like Matt is saying "how dare you question me"
It's interesting to compare a European perspective with an American one.

In the US, the train stations I've seen range from unremarkable to downright filthy. The one station I found interesting was New York Penn Station, which I would favorably rate as on par with an average airport.
Not at all, no petty theft is deterred by the criminal thinking, “oh no, what if it’s locked!”

They aren’t making a wage at all. They are doing something else.
Tbh if you've never done either, I can absolutely see why getting on and riding a machine 1000x your size is a bigger deal than seeing various animals from a distance.
I would have assumed it would take many years longer than that to scale something like this up, based on how long it takes traditional CPU manufacturers to design state of the art chips and manufacturing processes.
The word 'press' in wordpress suddenly got another meaning, what a mattfia....
It was certainly a great introduction but the end result was certainly underwhelming.
Also note that the author doesn’t disclaim any financial stake in the company he used to work for

It would hardly be shocking if he had some stock or whatever, given how prevalent that is for tech workers' comp.

However, if it were me, and I did have a financial stake in WPE, I would not/could not write either of these sentences from TFA under my personal view of honesty:

I really don’t have any reason to be a WP Engine cheerleader.

I can assure you it’s not me defending my old company just because I used to work for them. I’ve got literally no reason to do that.
In case this is relevant to your reasons for posting … every time I see one of the fact free posts the slam Python to promote Julia it pushes me further from considering Julia for anything.
Giving Matt the benefit of the doubt, the answer to “Why now?” is that enough is enough. Why does Matt deserve the benefit of the doubt? Because his companies have been contributing to WordPress while WP Engine has not.

Matt claims he has been privately discussing with WP Engine for ~18 months about their level of contribution. Automatic contributes the equivalent of 75 full time employees to WordPress and WP Engine contributes 1, despite the companies being comparable in size.

Matt’s actions may have been bad for optics, but I do not fault him for using the resources at his disposal to correct what he sees as injustice.
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i think the point of TFA was that those allegations are a gross distortion of the record, and MM’s ultimate actions are grossly inappropriate and harm the community he is pretending to stand up for.
Nursing boards are extremely capricious. I'm a doctor, I've heard it too often. Shitty nurses who shirk doing work but do everything required according to protocol are fine. Great nurses who make one tragic and understandable mistake to try to help a patient get their license pulled.

The US needs to adopt one particular British slang that hasn't made it across the pond: jobsworth. As in, that's more that my job's worth. Sitting there and doing nothing gets them left alone; trying to intervene without following a long and detailed protocol gets them screwed.

I protect the nurses that I work with (and they don't work for me, they work for the hospital, and I don't) as best I can if they are doing the right thing. I can't be there all the time. I need to be able to trust them, and they need to be able to trust me.

I was part of a bad patient interaction in the hospital a long, long time ago, when I was a resident. Nothing bad happened, ultimately. But I was harsh to a patient who was being verbally and physically abusive to the nurses. The patient complained a few days later. It was an emergency situation, and we will leave it at that (it didn't happen in the ER). And I was summoned to explain myself some days later. I said that I would not let that patient behave that way toward "my" nurses. And that was the end of it.

I don't think all of them liked me before or even after, but after that, they never bothered me about trivial things because they knew I would defend them and their actions done in good faith and without idiocy.

Medicine and the military are very similar in terms of command structure: doctors and officers issue orders, nurses and NCO's make them happen, and a doctor or officer who defends their nurses or NCO's for doing the right thing in the moment regardless of the rules will find their path much easier.
> The one I live and work in is full of over confident devs that have no actual IT education and mostly just copy and modify what they find on the internet.

Too many get into the field solely due to promises of large paychecks, not due to the intellectual curiosity that drives real devs.
> He argues that they even illegally modified code attributions (stripe plugin) which diverts millions from Automattic.

Which turned out to be blatantly false, quelle surprise

I'm currently asking @photomatt elsewhere what his plans are to help others lift the load from wp.org by way of supporting alternate plugin/theme repositories. I'll keep you posted.
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> he argues that WPEngine operations incur high costs to his company

To the foundation? Ok, then work with them to create a mirror and share the load. Even publicly shamed them into doing so.

Do what's good for the community and product rather than engaging in this embarrassing spat.
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My problem has been that the older I have got and even the more sports I do I crave everything so much I will eat and drink all the calories and more that I have lost during sports. Human nature is hard...

Clearly I can't lose the calories I consume from all this crap food by doing sports. The addiction to consume calories is just so strong, it's actively painful not to do it, and the cravings only get stronger the more healthy I try to eat.

I used to be skinny as a teenager, now I can't imagine how it must be for obese people, because I can still run 10+ miles, but I am definitely overweight so it will have effect on my bones like potential stress factures, etc.

I think from exercise the main gains are the happiness hormones, keeping your body healthy and any sort of confidence. It is a basic necessity.

But to actually lose weight and fat, it's still about being able to constrain what you consume.
>I’ve always passively seen Matt as one of the insightful grandfathers of the blogging era.

I've always felt he was an asshole but could never ground that to a concrete observation. Now I'm certain of it.
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I think people should generally be allowed to own weapons and general purpose computers, I don't think anyone has a right to build a doomsday device in their garage. If it is impossible to reconcile these, then freedom will be impossible. The only long-term solution is to develop "anti-doomsday" technology.

If you have a massive warehouse to train an AI that, IDK folds proteins to develop a bioweapon or something, then you should not expect everyone else to sit on their hands while you plan to hold the entire world hostage.

Stuxnet was a program that targeted specifically SCADA controllers used in uranium enrichment facilities. It is not a doomsday device, it is a targeted counter-doomsday device. And while the USA has an imperfect track record with respect to "WMD"s/Proliferation, stuxnet is something that I approve of as an american.
I also noticed in his list of disclaimers he did not say whether he has a financial stake in either party. I assume he does own stock in his old employer, WP Engine, given that his company was acquired.
The author goes to pretty great lengths to be transparent about his background and employment history.

More to the point, he lays out a ton of specifics about how Matt acted like a Grade A Asshat. If you have any issue with those specifics, you can and should state your objections.

But your comment here is just nebulous BS. Saying "This reads like part of the smear campaign predicted by Matt in his interview with Michael Paulson" sounds exactly to me like when Elizabeth Holmes gave her now infamous retort "first they think you're crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world". Both are equally vacuous statements that don't address the specific criticisms put forth.
Actually no, trademark is a “use it or lose it” state, waiting so long will not be in their favor
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His wife wife or his unofficial wife?
I think the author is being open with their conflicts of interest.

Which is a bit of a contrast to what Matt is doing.
> Matt’s actions may have been bad for optics, but I do not fault him for using the resources at his disposal to correct what he sees as injustice.

Of course, there are consequences to using said resources inappropriately.
Exactly. Statute of limitations is a factor here
I partially agree with you that this could be a slippery slope, but there is a difference here. TinyMCE is not burning through API and CDN resources of the dependencies it is using.

Matt mentioned it's costing them millions per year to provide them with automatic updates and other services they provide.

And he also mentioned that they can host these services on their own, since the code is GPL2. They don't do this because they don't want to pay these costs themselves.
and still not funny
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Good point, although I wasn't the first to complain on this submission so I don't think I contributed to your count.
Same goes for art. No longer can you see art on social media, press like and maybe leave a nice comment, you need to fricking pixel peep for artifacts as it's becoming less obvious.
He's not an asshole, he's just "post-economic"
I don't think that's really going to work. People won't list all their incentives, because some of them are implicit and others are embarrassing or "creepy". Others will absolutely judge you for what incentivizes your actions, therefore hiding them is the status quo.

If you say that your incentive for working out is to look good and be popular with the ladies then people will judge you for it, even if it's exactly the truth. If you say that you work out "for health" everyone will applaud you for what you're doing. And yet the outcome is going to be the same.
> macro placement was done manually by human engineers in any production setting

To quote certain popular TV series .... Sorry, are you from the past? Do your "production" chips only have a couple dozen macros or what?
> Would love to hear OpenAI's explanation behind this line of thinking.

Think the Matrix, only the futuristic artificial intelligence isn't harvesting human brainpower/heat -- instead most people work at power plants.
Would you mind elaborating your criticism into a substantial argument?
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A wiki specifically on the topic written by non-lawyers is interesting; but I don’t see why it should be considered an unbiased list of ideas. Sometimes the status quo is imperfect but okay.