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When making sophisticated big projects, usually weighting many considerations, not just architecture.

Even more, some considerations could have more weight then architecture for particular case.

Examples are good compiler/libs/frameworks, some specific software, good support, experience on similar contracts, big number of professionals with military clearance.

That's why some long time IBM won most govt contracts on supercomputers.

But once IBM decided, govt is not interest enough client and after that moment, most contracts won by Intel.
I was excited about Orange Pi ARM but they made an idiotic boot loader that always uses the SD when any SD is present. I think that's unacceptable for an "embedded" thing. This board also has a USB port where plugging in something it doesn't like takes down that entire bus until a reboot.

It's cool to see RISC-V, but I'd go with a different company.
> and then forgotten about the whys&hows of those updates that the same issues will not be introduced in the Rust version.

Ideally that's what test suites are for, although I'm sure some deviations/gaps will be caught by users. For uutils they are preserving all the edge cases, replicating the original behaviour.

There are benefits to rewrites (far less often in my experience), like doas replacing sudo in BSD distros and culling previous unused and insecure behaviour.
Well people are also betting on themselves in sport betting so if we account for ignoring the rules, I don't see why the qualfiier that betting on yourself is allowed would be needed.
I'm just not quite sure why "speed" is what be js bundlers are selling themselves on. We have a number of fast bundlers already, so that's not what's taking my time. DevEx is the real selling point for me, and that didn't talk about any of their differentiators there
I work with young developers (twenty-somethings) that really don't like going through the books and documentation when dealing with something new. They much rather go hands-on from the getgo and deal with doubts as they arise.

They're pretty fast like that and I admire the hacker spirit. But I think they miss important nuance that a proper training (even self-) would give them.
I like it but I have to agree with the other commenter, the name is horrible.

edit: entire site died now. 521: Web server is down
Recent NYT piece of interest:

Coffee Prices Are at a 50-Year High. Producers Aren’t Celebrating.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/business/coffee-prices-cl...
There was some debate whether or not to remove the rule requiring a 60% vote to end filibusters in the Senate. Because this rule still stands, most laws cannot pass without 60 Senators' votes. Budget reconciliation bills, however, can be advanced with only a simple majority of the Senate. Though this is not a recent rules change, much recent legislation has gone through the reconciliation process to avoid the supermajority requirement.
“Our best ally is Russia” is a nightmare scenario; ask anyone else in the CSTO how responsive Russia is to allies’ needs.
You could find a lot of them with your favorite search engine. But you chose to post an inflamatory comment instead.
If Ukraine is corrupt why didn't Putin just bribe them?
(Jumping to assume what the original commenter meant:)

China is pushing RISC V aggressively, and might be a lot more likely to succeed in making competitively powerful cores than €240M pounds spent in Europe, where money won’t go nearly as far.

I imagine one of the biggest constraints on success here is just expertise. If Apple’s hardware team, or Qualcomm’s Oryon team were tasked with making a high performance RISC V CPU, I’m sure they could crank out something incredible pretty quick. But I have a feeling practical expertise on this sort of cutting edge hardware design is a rare thing. Frankly no idea how this human capital compares between Europe and China, but I’ll be excited to see progress and genuine competition on open architectures like this
Other readers' cursors. You can turn that off with the 'quiet mode' toggle in the upper right.
> Government employment is 95% the time completely divorced from reality

This is a pretty big claim to make without any evidence to support it.

The government, whether it be state, local, county federal etc. does in have a different pace and certainly like with any big organizations can have issues such as waste, but to say it’s completely divorced from reality, especially in context of somehow private (as in not government or NGO) companies don’t also act completely divorced from reality is a really big claim
I just opened Edge, first thing it did was ask me to become default browser:

https://i.imgur.com/u2Nby1b.png
Suicide rates are more a cultural artifact than a sign of national happiness level. The rates in an number of Arab countries are particularly low, even though people there seem to be deeply unhappy to the extent of trying to escape to Europe.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/suicide-r...
Do you have an ad blocker running? Are you also on mobile safari? I had banners, an "email us or else we sell your data", and two full screen popovers (with non standard close behavior) back to back. All of this was in a few seconds since I left after that.

You simply trying to invalidate my experience or calling me a liar isn't constructive or useful.

Also, it being the guardian or not isn't a strong argument for or against if it has lots of ads.
Just my two cents how we do it in most of our projects at this point (~70 services in Go):

>routing, middleware

ogen (OpenAPI code generator), or a similar library

>database connections

from Go's stdlib mostly

>an ORM

sqlx (a lightweight wrapper around Go's stdlib which allows to hydrate results into structs)

>authentication, sessions

homegrown stuff, due to existing complex legacy stuff

>job queues

RabbitMQ's official Go wrapper (rabbitmq/amqp091-go)

>email sending

we delegate to a few separate VMs which already have postfix installed (and have good reputation)

>dependency injection

manual construction, works fine if split correctly

>logging

sirupsen/logrus (structured logger)

>view template rendering

React

>metrics

official Go wrappers for Prometheus

Some of this stuff is already IMHO industry-standard (the default libs people reach to). To streamline creation of new services, we have a tool which can scaffold your project with all these dependencies already set up.
Is Rust (llvm?) supported on all platforms Linux targets?
I don't know if you saw this last year but looks like they're rolling out about 45k of the "duck" trucks:

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2024/1030-...

It does note "another 21,000 commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) battery electric vehicles" though, so that could be the opening for Tesla...
Their vscode experience is also really good. Super fast turnaround for Rust ESP32 development and testing.
I think it's possible that the majority of tech workers aren't hoppers, but the majority of applicants are. This just stands to reason, since hoppers aren't doing much applying and interviewing. This would tend to make interviewers think that this is a dominant strategy even if it isn't really.

It's also the case that the "everything is transactional, fuck your coworkers, leave your job the minute you can plausibly say you learned something and move on, chase impact at any cost because you only have one career" live-to-work contingent is just much louder online, especially here. After all, these are people that are investing a lot in their career, while IME most of my coworkers, even managers (though I don't personally know very many VP-and-up managers) are work-to-live people, mostly interested in their families and hobbies, and seem to rarely post on forums like this.

In any case, I'm fairly certain that there are (or were until recently) Labor Department researchers who have figured this all out empirically and could give us an answer if we knew where to look.
Poland says it may need alternative to Musk’s Starlink in Ukraine
I've been using the rewritten coreutils as a reference in implementing human-utils[0].

The amount of complexity, even with pretty high-level Rust std, is still super high. So rewriting them in Rust is no small feat.

For the file-system management ones: I appreciate the value of everyone knowing these tools, but they do have some terrible defaults, and I wish there was an alternative between using a GUI/TUI file manager and carefully not stabbing myself in the foot. That's why I started building human-utils (alas it's very much unfinished).

https://github.com/xixixao/human-utils
The whole case of Richard Moore is confusing to me.

He apparently killed in self-defense, three jurors requested his sentenced be changed, and he was considered harmless and rehabilitated in prison. Mentoring inmates and helping guards keep peace.

What good came from his death?

https://apnews.com/article/south-carolina-execution-richard-...
It could be over, but it won't be over, because he can't be trusted, changes position on important issues every night, and this does not create environment welcoming to investors. Nobody sane will commit to longterm investment. No investment, no growth.

> US imports and exports will decrease over time.

So prices will rise and and government expenditures will fall. Where exactly will that growth come from?
I have seen the argument that very little code is novel but I find it inherently unsatisfying and lacking in nuance? I think what bugs me about is that if you squint hard enough, all programming reduces to "take some data, do something to it." That "something" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the argument that "something" is or isn't novel.

Heck, if we think about it from the programming language perspective, all code is "simply" using already existing language functions to cobble together a solution to some specific set of requirements. Is no program novel?

There is probably a consideration here that maybe boils down to the idea of engineering vs artisanal craftsmanship and where a specific project falls in that spectrum . . .
Er, no.

In this sense IPFS is just a transport protocol. Hosting illegal metarial over it is not inherently safer than doing the same over e.g. Bittorrent.

It's enough to go after the endpoints. Which is actually easier than with HTTP or Bittorrent because it is really hard to properly proxy and run IPFS without inadvertently leaking metadata. Being able to run IPFS anonymously over e.g. Tor has in the past been referred to as an anti-goal by maintainers[0].

In practice today even that's probably not necessary, just go after the top 5 or so public http bridges like dweb.link and cf...

[0]: Anyone aware of alternative implementations or forks with a different stance on this?
And you think a 1T EUR will move the needle significantly to maybe deter this?
I'm betting on LaTeX significantly outlasting both Typst and VS Code, per the Lindy effect.
It really really isn't
The author had caffeine "90% of the time", see this comment: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/theanine/comment/98488776
English is ambiguous. Your statement can be interpreted as "I thought the guy we elected (a specific individual to whom I refer coyly, not by name) would destroy everything" or "I thought it would take electing a certain type of person to destroy everything".
That's a lot of effort for something that's really just a matter of style. The Internet would be full, if we went after every stylistic trick that videographers use, to signal various tropes (like the "dizzy spell," or the "moving car").

Props for featuring Top Secret as the headliner, though...
Your Phone Needs a Burner Number
"Jiggle one leg". This is hilarious and very well done.
And Turkey buys from both. But India and Turkey have a degree of independence that small European nations do not have. The latter are entirely reliant on NATO for their security, and until recently this meant being friends with the USA.
> The myth of how much harm "leftists" can do/are doing in the US

Every single bit of the right is projection. "The left hates America" = we (the right) will dismantle and destroy this 250 year experiment
iirc most of these type of things come preloaded with all of the games up to GBA or so, the entire library is tiny by today's standards, I download ML models bigger than like... all games made prior to 2000 on a regular basis
Even before the pandemic, he was slated to significantly increase the deficit. The CBO had predicted $2T in 2017 but even by 2018 they had updated the deficit predictions by several trillion dollars because the Republican spending increases were paired with lower growth in revenue.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53651

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/12/trump-vow...

This time around, they’re looking at additional tax cuts which would only increase the deficit rate. We don’t have a final plan yet but there’s no sign of willingness needed to restore tax rates to anything like previous levels, which is the only way to make the math work:

https://apnews.com/article/cbo-budget-outlook-treasury-26b1f...

> Trump’s proposed extension of his 2017 tax cuts that are set to expire after this year along with new cuts could easily exceed $4 trillion
The endgame isn't for the USA, it's for Trump. I don't really know what it is, but I'm pretty certain that to understand his actions, you have to rid yourself of the idea that he's doing it for anybody or anything else than for himself.
You seem to be unsure if checking the code is likely to lead to better outcomes.
https://archive.ph/fySiZ
RISC-V's vector extension ("V") is markedly "Cray"-like.
The EU certainly called for the Romania elections to be annulled and almost certainly interfered with the democratic process by pressuring the court. See these comments by Thierry Breton who was until recently a high ranking EU leader:

“We have to prevent interferences and make our laws apply,” Breton said, referring to the alleged Russian involvement before admitting actual EU interference. “We did it in Romania, and we will obviously have to do it in Germany, if necessary.”

Source:
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/former-censor...
Many larger do companies behave as if revenue is unlimited.

Too many times, I’ve seen layoffs followed by acquisitions of 10x the cost reduction from the layoffs — often even in the same quarter. And when parent company has a track record of driving acquisitions into the ground from mismanagement, where is the profit?
That is not my website, it's a link aggregator thing and I had the wrong link. Fixed it.

https://kur.ee/cpursley
> if true

There's no doubt it's true. There's no mention of any "backdoor" in the original presentation slides, it all came from twisted reporting which falls apart as soon as you actually look at the supposed "backdoor". No extensive Bluetooth knowledge required, just some basic computer literacy.

If there's a backdoor there, it hasn't been found yet ;)
>failing to speak clearly about our moral choices is a dangerous, dangerous road.

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes By Stephen Colbert about Christianity and the US:

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it."
Obama's 100% correct point was that Russia was incredibly weak economically. Obama never said we should disengage "with the rest of the world military." Bush, Clinton, W. Bush also tried to normalize with Russia. Everyone hoped Putin was sane. Obama strengthened our alliances. And he has been proven right. Ukraine has depleted Russias military stockpiles and their National Wealth Fund. Russia was weaker than people thought.
That is a great example of what I was talking about.

Another example is the changing nature of the contracts people are hired under. I'm a scientist, and a lot of positions are inherently term-limited. You end up with a lot of organizations with two different groups of employees: employers who have worked there for decades, and employers who are temporary and work there for a few years hoping to be converted to permanent. Just like in the situation you describe, if you end up on a project that just isn't working out, that does not bode well for your own prospects. That has nothing to do with your own capabilities or how hard you worked on the project. And just like you mention, a lot of the "permanent" people have survivorship bias and do not really understand that they ultimately got lucky and timed the market well.

(Or many of the permanent people were hired as permanent staff originally and do not understand the conditions under which new staff are hired.)
Automated architecture diagrams. Who doesn't love architecture diagrams
Russia didn't pivot its policy in 2008, it did so a decade earlier, when the second Yugoslavian war was carried out without buy-in from it (the first one was, to an extent, a joint NATO-Russian operation).

And then the coalition of the willing invaded Iraq[1], again, against Russia's protests, and by that point, that's like two countries attacked (one invaded and occupied) by NATO/most of its members, and you'd have to be an idiot to look at that and not notice that it shifted from a purely defensive alliance to an offensive one. [2]

Putin isn't an idiot, he looks at this and starts surrounding himself with buffer states, through both soft and hard power. Unfortunately, soft power isn't working out great in this, for various reasons.

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[1] It's weird how when you mention Iraq in isolation, people think it's indefensible, but when you mention it in the context of Russian anxieties, all of a sudden, we are all bending over backwards to explain how it was perfectly justified, and it wasn't unprovoked aggression against an uninvolved country.

[2] It's been 14 years since NATO attacked a country, though (Libya in 2011 - if you squint hard enough, Syria might not count), so I guess we could once again reframe it as a defensive alliance. [3]

[3] It the US continues on it's insane trajectory and withdraws, it will definitely become a defensive alliance, simply because it will lack the ability to project power.
It's a chicken and egg problem. If people feel they could have a meaningful career in a given place, they would stay longer. When you see your teammates getting laid off one after the other - including people with 5-10 years of seniority and history of good performance, you start to wonder whether you should have any sense of loyalty to the company.

I joined my company with the naive hope there would be some sentiment of family/community and that I'd do a big chunk of my career there. But after seeing how they treat employees, I'm looking for the way out.
TV series warehouse 13, which houses all the world’s “odd” artifacts. The warehouse was always in the strongest empire through history, it moved itself when world order changes - warehouse 12 was in the U.K. up until the 20th century for example.

The finale had it trying to love itself to China and becoming warehouse 14, but that eventually stopped and American Superiority won over.

Those days seem at an end. The actions Trump had made over the last two months will reverberate for the next two decades at least.
"Everyone" these days tells me that the situation with relatively undifferentiated junior devs is a real mess.
You have to have Windows with region set to a European country during the initial installation. If you chose US during the original installation, even if you live in the EU and now have your region set to one, that won't work. But you can install Windows from scratch (it has to be on a formatted partition, if you restore from a previous installation it doesn't work) with the right region choice, and the option is simply there.
So you’re not _interviewing_ them, you’re having them complete expensive work-sample tests. And your evaluation metric is “completes lots of steps in a small time box.”
Google AI summary says:

> As of December 2024, Meta Platforms had 74,067 full-time employees. This is down from 67,317 in 2023

lol. At least Gemini doesn’t make the same mistake for its makers:

> As of 2024, Alphabet, Google's parent company, has 183,323 full-time employees

Of course that’s total headcount, I couldn’t find figures for just US based SWEs.

And in the US alone there are something like 200-400k SWE+IT job openings and 7M openings across all sectors.

Verdict: after the dust settles, it would be a net benefit for everyone to get those bright minds working on real problems.
When chatting, do you perceive ChatGPT as male, female, or never considered?
Coffee YouTuber James Hoffman makes a pretty convincing argument that we are living in the golden age of coffee. Lots of excellent coffee and it’s pretty affordable. But he thinks it could end soon.

Everybody knows that climate change could be a problem, but he says an even bigger problem is urbanization. The average coffee farmer’s age is 50-something and their kids don’t want to take over the farm, they want to move to the city. The people who are willing to work the farms, want to be paid a lot more, so there’s upward pressure on prices.

Right now cafes can charge $4-$6 for a coffee drink and people seem to be willing to pay it. As coffee gets more expensive, how many people are willing to pay $6-$8? For a lot of cafes, it won’t take much of a drop in business to kill them.
Is your plan really to just let Russia have new territory whenever they want it? Why do you think this would save money or lives?
> Employees feelings don't matter on a Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement. There is not a "Employee's Feelings" column on the ledger.

Sure they do. Just in the sense that employees feelings need to be controlled and made to fear any collective action or sense of agency.
The best medium range missile usable from a Gripen is the Meteor, which is a European product. Of course the issue is that production isn’t high enough.
It is a great way for a few to excel and a terrible way to build a brand around the value of your diploma.
Maybe there’s a good reason for that. For example, NVDA’s performance has been highly erratic since their initial AI-fueled bump.
How green is greenland? Emerald green, arsenic green,uranium green, majory tailor green, just unbelievable green!
> In one day (and $20), I essentially had recreated claude-code.

Not sure it’s a narrow reading. This is my point, if it’s a basic or rudimentary version people should be explicit about that. Otherwise these posts read like hype and only lead to dissatisfaction and disappointment for others.
From NL, both devices uncastable. Any explanation from Google? Or is this covered in the terms of use?
There are still ARM offices in the US in which their work, IP, etc would be subject to export restrictions.
I believe the difference is that Typst is effectively a scripting language, not much different than many popular ones like Javascript and Python. If you already known the basics of some programming languages this allows you transfer them very easily and start writing your own scripts very quickly. You also don't need to fully understand the language to do this, the basics will mostly be enough.

In comparison Latex has a very particular way of doing computations that you will have to learn from scratch, and even then it won't be as easy or intuitive. The fact that Latex relies so much on packages for many things also means that you will have to learn their details and intricacies when trying to do interoperate with them, which makes this even more complex.
Get a grip, mate.