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OT but: If you're interested in first contact stories, you might check out Peter Cawdron. For a quick writer of pop-sci-fi, he's pretty good. He's taken on first-contact from 20+ d…

I agree that it could get fairly complicated but these seem like the two propositions to me: Un-normalized: $6T + interpretation + understanding + doubt that it's really $6T. Norma…

Putting aside the good-plane/bad-plane discussion, this program is the poster child for one of my pet wishes: that the costs of government programs would be expressed in $/tax-paye…

This will probably get buried but... --- https://www.debian.org/donations --- I run Debian Testing as my main OS and have for years. Laptops, desktops, 5000 Pis, 500+ servers, anyw…

I think I agree but with the point "Isn't this a solved problem?" I'm not sure if the first library should be written in C, Rust, C++, etc but it seems as though very similar libra…

Sure but you can't shebang all of the deps... Unless your `normal executable` embeds a Python dependency-manager.

Just in case someone RTFA and gets worried: this is breathless FUD and could be handled much more usefully in some other fashion that invites discussion of pros/cons (such as is ha…

I'm baffled that any developer uses a Mac. I know, I know... BSD, 3-finger swipe, but-they-wrote-the-ux-guide. But I've been running Debian Testing for 15 years now with nary a pro…

This is a good, balanced article. I've been of a similar mind for over a year now. The chances of the CCP releasing a self-harming bioweapon in order to harm the US seems silly. Bu…

This looks a bit like the old (2000s) work of Leopard Logic or Tensilica. Exciting stuff. One important note (based on some comments here): generally, these in-CPU FPGAs have very …

Okay. I just bought Bucatini off of Amazon ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YQ7CYWU (only 1 left, blah, blah)). I'm not much of a pasta eater but, damn, that was a fun read..…

I wouldn't have shorted the market based on that but I've not been sanguine about the US economy since then. Financial engineering, not productivity[1], has really been the driver …

"Instead of drawing down our gold reserves, however, we gradually draw down our domestic manufacturing base and it gets replaced piece-by-piece in foreign countries." To me, this i…

Finally. I made a very similar suggestion to the ECS product manager about 5 years ago. We were moving from Mesos to ECS and I was losing the ability to manage Docker containers on…

Technical debt is like credit card debt: it's high interest; it's not a huge issue if you use it wisely; and you have to track its usage and level against your total code/assets. L…

Commenters are arguing about U-3 versus U-x but the question is really: how should our population think our economy is doing? The rhetoric on the news since 2008 has been: oooh, lo…

[OG] Based on discussion over in another thread, I checked out code.gov. Interesting stuff. Lots of challenges, hassles, etc, but why not try to use or contribute to Gov stuff? May…

I'm not sure about the hater-ade in this article (old, dead languages?). I've built infrastructure for multiple companies on top of AWS Lambda. Usually bog-standard REST endpoints …

Putting aside is-this-right-or-wrong?: this is unsurprising: lawyers (many in my family), police, doctors, sales people, etc represent mechanisms to reduce more problematic ineffic…

Hadn't noticed that but that's a good point. "Way higher": I would have guessed the same as you but, upon further thought, I guess I'm not surprised: creating a crawler is 100 line…

Random: just don't use Bookshelf (ORM, based on Knex) unless you evaluate it well: when we used it, it did individual SELECTs for any included, related rows...

Agreed with sibling. References would be great (I'd love to view them).

From TFA: "Democratic regression is particularly visible among the G-20 countries". This is the money-shot. I went back after I speculated that the big deal would be if existing , …

sql"SOME SQL"; This looks to be a "tagged template": https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript/future-javascript/temp... . I'm a TS user but hadn't seen that feature before. AFAICT, th…