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> US is not very popular anymore because it kept abusing it's unique position as the #1 military power, starting wars it had no business starting

Versus China (annexed Tibet), Russia (annexing Ukraine) and Iran (banana republics across the Middle East)?

People like to see themselves as edgy. It's edgy to be in the rich world and decry imperialism of America's system of allies.
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Ok let’s entertain this idea that the billionaires are the core of the problem. Total wealth of 800 billionaires is around $7T. The housing real estate market in the US (not counting commercial) is around $50T.

So I guess they play a role but even if we erased them we would still be in the same spot.
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Most NYT-sized companies won't let you deploy a bugfix without a documented rationale and a second person's signoff. It's far from an unreasonable requirement for firing someone.
I read it, but I’m no wiser. This made zero sense to me.
The downside of that is screenreaders can't read them out.
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Always wondered what happens to housing in countries that rapidly depopulate. Like, Latvia losing 1/3 of its population, or Japan losing 4 million in 10 years. So they now have much fewer people for the same housing supply? Does it all just get abandoned?
The rate in the UK is that just over 4% of estates attract Inheritance Tax (IHT).[0]

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/inheritance-tax-lia...
For you maybe. For 99% of the US population, it does absolutely nothing.

> Just over 7,100 estate tax returns will be filed for people who die in 2023, of which only about 4,000 will be taxable—less than 0.2 percent of the 2.8 million people expected to die in the year.

Source: https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-many-people-pa...
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Jeff Bezos owning 10% of Amazon really has nothing to do with the massive issue of entrenched institutional NIMBYism.

San Francisco built 74 new units of housing last year. Not 74,000. Seventy four. We could kill all billionaires and housing would not get cheaper in a world like that.
Honestly I thought the US is one of the easiest places in the developed world to become a homeowner (even if you have average income), provided you're willing to not live in one of the super expensive places.

The US is relatively sparsely populated, while typical wooden homes take less labor and material to build.
You should read that article carefully.

Some Go core team members don't agree with you: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/66156
Pictures of Orion concepts have been widely distributed for decades, but not this one. Going into space with an air-breathing nuclear bomb powered jet engine. That is truly weird. How fast was it supposed to be going in atmosphere, I wonder. Did it carry reaction mass for vacuum so it could keep going out of the atmosphere?

The trouble with nuclear rockets is that although you have plenty of energy, you still need to carry reaction mass - air, or water, or something - and a lot of it. That becomes the limit on delta-V.

(The great frustration of rockets: not only do rockets need something to push against, they have to carry it with them.)
Endless wiki spam nonsense aside, I think the biggest contrast between Kane Pixels' stuff and most other Backrooms-derived content is that he leans hard into the weird cosmic horror aspect and surrounding interactions with the world (and black comedy absurdity/tragedy to go with it, like a government contractor proposal to retrofit the Backrooms as an infinite housing complex), rather than just 'spooky endless office with squiggly monsters'.
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I do financial coaching as a side business and I can tell you the main two reason why most people in their 30s can't afford a home is because they have no idea how to budget and they carry too much debt spent on things they don't need.

On average people spend about 30% of their income paying off non mortgage debts like credit cards, car loans, and student loans.

I teach my clients how to budget, cut back on unnecessary expenses, pay off their debts, and save up for their goals. On average, after 2 years they are debt free and can save up for a down payment on a home.

Image how much quicker you could come up with a down payment if you could free up 30% of your income plus cut out all the unnecessary spending that's holding you back from achieving your goals.
I wondered why tail call optimization isn’t on by default. Found this in an article linked from the submission:

> There was some talk of enabling tail call optimization by default around the time that Ruby 2.0 was released, however this hasn't come to be for a number of reasons: Primary concerns were that tail call optimization makes it difficult to implement set_trace_func and also causes backtrace weirdness due to the absence of a new stack frame.

http://blog.tdg5.com/tail-call-optimization-in-ruby-backgrou...
That's being too generous to politicians, assuming you're implying incompetence
We don’t have to talk in hypotheticals here. Booting time benchmarks from the time systemd was released are everywhere and showed shorter boot times. It was discussed ad nauseam at the time.
Wow https://youtu.be/Osqf4oIK0E8?si=Tr3037fBi8OaKFKC
I think that this, and C4 style diagrams are about as advanced as it is possible to get for the “diagram I need to add to my docs”.

The problem is that a picture really is worth a 1,000 words.

If the picture is going to be worth including, then the picture is probably worth a KB of typing. That’s a lot and can go horribly wrong - esp for what is basically a whiteboard diagram

Don’t get me wrong - graphviz for showing relationships between modules in a project, matplotlib for pretty much anything and “real maths graphs” - that’s all vital but is a different skill set and different intention to this kind of whiteboard but in code.

I think sometimes we have to admit, just draw the darn thing and take a photo.
My understanding is that japanese houses are fundamentally different in that they are designed to be expendable in the long term, similar to cars. You don't buy a high quality house that you maintain, you buy or build a new house and then tear it down a few decades later.
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Among me and my peers we used arj.exe
I see how that isn't a pocket money amount of cash. However, that's still a price I would be willing to pay to have a single shot try at the event. I might actually try it this month.
Have you created any benchmarks to demonstrate this?
This is what boomers actually believe in.
I worked at a tech company with 30k+ people for 3+ years. We avoided all these issues by trusting department leadership. Our department had 50-60 people and everyone knew everyone else just as you describe. Our VP would look over our numbers and ask some questions about outliers and of course give us our share of the budget but we pretty much operated as you described for a smaller company. This probably only worked because our product existed somewhat in isolation. Seems like an approach though that should still work for many organizations.
At that point you’re more likely to just go straight to the database though, it sort of defeats the purpose.
But no reflow.
>when elections were decided relatively quickly,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore

I wonder how people who seem to care so much about politics don't spend any time reading about politics beyond rage bait headlines.

The NYT burning to the ground doesn't seem like a bad outcome if it will force people to use wikipedia which still has hyperlinks.
Same. Went with a bunch of people when it came out. We all left after about half an hour.
The seed is computed using the last 4 tokens, but to get the predictive distribution they should still need the full history?
Have you tired KOreader[0]? It supports multiple ebook formats, including epub and cbz. You'll need to jailbreak[1] your Kindle though.

[0] http://koreader.rocks/
[1] https://github.com/notmarek/LanguageBreak
The population in Tokyo and other desirable cities is rising, not falling. The population is falling in small towns and rural areas where no one wants to live any more.
Yes mostly the small villages get abandoned and life concentrated in the cities.

So it does not help the housing problem all that much - sure there are now houses available in the countryside but no one wants to move there.
You don’t have clients who are barristers/teachers/cooks etc in SF or NY.

It is literally impossible to own even if you save 200% of your income.
Literally every Docker image you've ever downloaded comes from a build that only worked (essentially) "by accident."

If Docker builds were as deterministic as Nix, then all that would need to be distributed would be Dockerfiles and perhaps a cache of base images somewhere.

Looking at a build as a pure function where each dependency (including any compiler(s), plus the environment), are "input arguments" to it, was a revelation (since I already realized the advantages of pure functions while working in functional languages).

Running a Dockerfile and hoping to get a working image out of it is like running a function which checks the time when it runs and errors when the seconds end in 0 due to a bug.

> every little issue turns into a 2-day marathon that's eventually solved with a 1-line fix

There is spotty education in the space. Did you ever take this (very cool) Nix tutorial? Not actually understanding Nix is going to make any troubleshooting of Nix much harder. https://nixcloud.io/tour/

> I really started to feel like I needed a sacrificial chicken.

Have you looked at Guix? A lot of people think it's "Nix without the warts." Plus it uses a Lisp, which some people prefer, or can at least grok better than the Nix language. https://guix.gnu.org/
> basically an enlarged 5.25" disk

Those 8 inch disks were not enlarged 5¼-inch disks. The 5¼-inch ones were shrunk 8 inch disks.

They were a fairly inconvenient form factor, the main benefit was the much reduced density, which made them super resistant to wear-and-tear. A lot of 8 inch floppies written in the 1980s still work just fine: last time I checked, BART used them.

I'm not sure they were ever commercially available in high density configurations.
It's increasingly recursive, usually low-quality fanfiction of the original one-off post describing the Backrooms as a setting as a spooky endless office interior with undetailed monsters in it.
There are hacks and there are hacks. This is a bad hack, one that might fix a problem, but only by causing a worse problem.

On the positive side, on proper clients it will approximately do nothing.
It is. The "56" in the headline is skewed because of repeat buyers. Average age of first time buyers is 38, and that's skewed because of inflation/high interest rates of the last four years. It had been very steady around 30 for the last 50 years. Also, the 30 year fixed mortgage which is not as common abroad helps, but moreso when rates are low.
The gallon milk jug we get in the USA, does that need to be pasteurized too? I'd assume they're already pasteurized.
It's gonna be 16 years in February that I've been a financial coach and I've helped literally hundreds of people at all income levels and backgrounds achieve their financial goals. What I said is the truth and my clients can attest to that.
> So you're thinking about more and more corner cases, that require the stars to be just right for the size of systemd to matter.

These weren't corner cases, they were everyday reality. We had to intentionally slim down the firmware size to get it to fit comfortably since we added quite a bit of application code. Like I said before, we got a recovery firmware down to ~3MB, and the normal firmware (without our application) was ~8MB. Every megabyte counts at that point, so having a 1MB init system would be a non-starter. We were buying commodity hardware, so we did lots of shopping and there were still plenty of 16MB APs on the market 10 years ago.

You're right its not a problem if you buy new hardware, but OpenWRT is used to support older devices with limited hardware specs. Its one of the reasons people install it, to give new life to old hardware (rather than being forced to buy a new device).

By the way, I use and like systemd on full size computers. I actually know of a product that runs a full rpm based distro (with systemd) on an embedded device and it works great. But systemd isn't one size fits all.
> it often doesn't go well

Plenty of people changes systemd configuration all the time and it just goes fine. You live in fantasy.

Even op is basically saying: “my issue with systemd is that I dislike the timeout configuration of some services but I stubbornly refuse to change these configurable timeout durations because it would show that the problem was myself and I prefer blaming systemd.”

It takes no time whatsoever to get a boot graph with each services name and starting time. That’s an actual feature documented in the manual of systemd which solves OP issue. But of course it would require actually understanding something new and everything new is bad, isn’t it?
Nomad cannot orchestrate what, exactly? https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/tutorials/plugins/plug...
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>Different from the UK where you own the home, but lease the land etc.

In general it's only flats (apartments) that are leasehold, the majority of houses are freehold.
People in Japan don't feel the need to own their own homes that much. Apartment rents are generally reasonable, and there's constantly new apartments being built so there's lots of competition. Tenant protection law is also pretty strong so landlords can't mistreat tenants as badly as in other places.

>There are a ton of homes that are not claimed

Those are in rural places with dwindling populations, where no one wants to live any more.
I don't work in those states but I've had plenty of clients who live in high cost of living areas and the solution is to move somewhere you can actually afford. It's not benefiting you in any way to work in a place you can't afford.
Yeah, that's also how my long journey with induction cooktops started.
My main grief with the induction cooktops was the ergonomics: Most touch surfaces on those cooktops require at least 2 touches: select the flame, then adjust the power. I don't know, that completely breaks the interaction for me. I want something to directly adjust the heat on every single one of the flames, especially when something starts to boil over or fries too fast. In addition, touch often wouldn't register on those, so I have to press longer or harder, both of which is even more inconvenient. No, even more: it outright sucks.

Well, and after years of searching, friends recommended me the AEG models, like IKE64450XB (here in Europe). And honestly, I was happy with the touch surface ever after: It reacts quickly enough and I can modify every flame at an instant.
I don't even get a penny for this, I'm just satisfied. So, yeah, touch can be good, like on a smartphone, even on household devices.

On the other side, it's really hit or miss with these touch UIs: I also have an combined washing machine + dryer from the same brand and there I need to press each touch surface for at least half a second, and not touch the metal case of the machine, otherwise the touch wouldn't register. Then, the UI would sometimes hang, but still register touches, playing them back once it has caught up.
Zip drives got killed by the click of death scandal
Bold strategy.

Engaging in, and admitting to, an illegal scam in the hope that Trump wins and he'll get away with anything.
Modular and Chris Lattner wants to do this though - beat hardware vendors on their own hardware.

I think it is going to be difficult, especially for Nvidia GPUs
They purposely purchased a tainted domain, seems a bit disingenuous to a) claim sec expertise and then b) complain that a previously maliciously used DNS name is blacklisted which c) is a spelling variant of a well known large corp and d) which you are hosting deceptive ad content on. And it is deceptive because unlike the title suggests there is no "challenge" mentioned in the article yet the wording strongly suggest some sort of rewarded hackathon.

If you buy a previous well own scam URL, cry me a river about being blacklisted. If you get the cheapest IPv4 don't come complaining that all you email gets classified as spam. _Especially_ if you claim to be an expert.
Alt texts are a thing on epubs. I would hope Amazon's format can do them as well.
Yeah it really isn't anonymous at all.
Regarding Java, since early 2000 to be more precisely, although it required paying for commercial JDKs like Excelsior JET.

Nowadays besides the more well known GraalVM, there is OpenJ9 and its cousin Android since version 5.

PTC and Aicas remain as two well known commercial Java vendors, with AOT toolchains, alongside bare metal and real time GC support, although their focus is embedded deployments.
Lifetime access is a promise you cannot keep. Just don't.

And 40$ bucks for a project that looks like it is the result of a PHP tutorial, where I can get the same thing as an android/iOS app for much less? No thank you.
s/Political b/B/

Isn't it kind of the definition of bias?
Exactly: the billionaires aren't the problem here, it's the middle-class NIMBY homeowners who refuse to allow any new construction near them.
I've never seen the main loop of an ea be written recursively before, so got a bit surprised when I came to that part.

Also came for ea, and also wrote my thesis (master's) on it (check my profile), so have a soft spot for it. I like how it can be used for all kinds of problems. We actually also use these traditional optimizations processes/algorithms quite a lot at work, even more than ML that's quite hyped, as it's just more in line with the problems we actually face.

Cool article, OP, I like the esthetics of the final image.
Fortunately there is only one San Francisco and countless other Not San Fanciscos. That is a highly unique, cherry-picked case.
this is such an awful truth to even say aloud lol but... yeah.

which is why you gotta find your peeps that believe in the better world and are thus believing it into existence. (OT: reminds me of this song title: https://soundcloud.com/anjunabeats/mat-zo-see-it-when-i-beli...)
It's been a long time, so maybe I'm misremembering things, but I seem to remember ARJ being the "cool" replacement for ZIP, but then when RAR came along, ARJ quickly died out.
For good reason. The domain has nothing to do with British Airways.
Especially with par files for those pesky corrupt disks.
> People just straight-up don’t want to learn. (...) but IME the majority of people in tech are incurious. They want to do their job, and get paid. Reading man pages is sadly not in that list.

I don't think you know what you're talking about. Just because you know people who do not want to waste their time on a set of unproductive chores you arbitrarily singled out, that does not mean they are against learning.

Your take is particularly absurd considering the topic: engineers working on distributed services.

Do you actually believe that you build up enough knowledge on this topic to become a professional in the field if you "straight-up don't want to learn"? There is not a single developer in the field who, at least to some degree, is not self-taught.

> They want to do their job, and get paid.

Everyone wants to get paid. Do you know anyone who works non-profit?

What you're failing to understand is the "do their job" part. Software developers are trained to solve the problems they face, and not waste time with the problems they do not have. Time is precious, and they invest it where it has the largest return on investment.

> Reading man pages is sadly not in that list.

Man pages are notoriously a colossal waste of time. In general they are poorly thought out, they are incomplete, they were written with complete disregard for user experience, and more often than not they are way out of date.

Why do you think sites like Stack overflow is so popular? Because all those "incurious" people in tech feels the need to ask questions and dig through answers on how to solve problems?

I think you're just picking a very personal definition of competence which conveniently boils down to "do the things I do, and do not do the things I don't". Except the bulk of the people in the field is smart, and some have already solved problems that you aren't aware exist, such as wasting precious time deciphering unreadable documents that are systematically out of date.
the goal of a logo is to be memorable, not just "look good"
I tried something related many years ago; to evolve a image format that should be tiny:

https://medium.com/@JuliusHuijnk/experiment-in-evolving-the-...

To be honest I haven't yet read the original article, since it's huge. It seems to aim for something compareable.
I think it may be more complicated than this. They may have had a lot of evidence that the would-be perpetrator was involved in other serious hate crimes and they decided to ramp up charges by doing this. That said, it’s not necessarily clean and yes, it may merely be a case of entrapment.
If that's true then it means the statistics include people that sell their home to buy a new one. Not sure what lesson we should draw from it but perhaps it's not just that young people don't buy homes anymore (if that's what you wanted to observe then find statistics that show the age of first home buyers)
When I looked at it, I encountered some problem that unfortunately slips my mind now.