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This article doesn’t define onion layering, I am none the wiser from reading it. There are near identical sentences within it, it gave me the sense I was reading AI generated content, or at least heavily AI post-processed content.

Great article - thanks.

He worked as a conduit for Russian interests.

I think the idea this was HUMINT operation by a state sponsored intelligence service is more likely.

The twitter thread here was interesting.

https://x.com/thegrugq/status/1774392858101039419

Raging about these being inconsiderate people, when they were likely fictional personalities that were part of a long con seems to be a bit foolish to me.

Good luck!

I think these new drugs might be very effective intervention for a lot of people, and I really hope it helps you.

I don't know how they know that they'd they'd love a job programming a functional programming language, if they were not passionate enough about Haskell to self-learn (not hard, there are books).

It seems so paradoxical.

It's a bit like someone saying, I'd love to be a hairdresser, do you think it's worth studying to be a hairdresser? There's something which blows up my brain to read that. If you love it, do it.

Nothing makes sense here!

The IT employment industry has been growing steadily since 2008 also.

That graph which is shown above the fold is cumulative graph is, well, misleading.

"I'd love to work in Haskell - can you tell me if I should read a book on it?"

Sounds like a bad fit - find something new. Learn in a new place and experience. If the pattern follows you around, maybe start to look inwardly at whether your bringing the same problems from place to place.

You can’t escape yourself..,

Sounds extremely subjective. How do you measure it and where do you draw the line? All marketing is somewhat coercive.

How do you get economic and business growth (things which are good for people - jobs and employment) without marketing and advertising?

You can’t understand much about statistical inference without calculus.

It’s all integrals over pdf’s. A lot of integration by parts and other things in the core curriculum.

Zero. They boycotted international shipments due sales tax changes, before they built local fulfilment centres and a local website.

I agree with all the points you make here, we’ll said.

Software isn’t math.

Don’t agree with the patent system particularly, but I just object to this specific categorical statement.

First 60 second impression - this looks like powershell with not-insane syntax. Looks quite revolutionary, it breaks the traditional paradigm for UNIX shells and appears to artfully refine the good concepts in Powershell (which seem to be let down severely - in my opinion - by UX issues.)

Sounds like your experience is with small organisations. Management is required in large enterprises.

Tt was the CIA that infiltrated the communists in Italy for the exact purpose of shaping the politics of the continent to their design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Italy

See also:

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/11/13/how-the-cia-created-th...

You may think that this accordance of like-mind was spontaneous, but it has clearly been a half-century long project of the United States.

No wonder their disappointment when their main man inside the bloc, the UK, elected to leave.

The EU project has always been a project rather paternalistically cultivated by US foreign operations, including intelligence operations, so I believe.

It allowed them to remove a heap of troops from forward bases in the region.

I've worked all through many London investment banks, mainly front office tech, I have rarely seen traders working weekends, and I was not compelled to work many hours greatly exceeding 40-ish.

I don't know what these jobs are that they are talking about that are greater than 60 hours. I've seen a little of it maybe in the mergers and acquisitions side of things.

You are doing it wrong then. I was making 100k GBP a year in 1998 in London as a C++ developer, the jobs are out there if you have the talent.

Mongo is obviously not competitive with KDB though, if you are talking of timeseries data as you suggest.

I would think it is in fact very much the wrong tool for the job. Time series data screams structured storage, not unstructured.

If you hire a room full of developers at high salary and nobody is capable of acquiring "the correct understanding/skills" then maybe it's not such a straightforward technology.

It is reasonably straightforward to deal with relational databases in comparison, this is a well-known space.

I mean, don't love the macros - but that still looks like a load of typing to me - and it even reads less well than __LINE__ if you are looking at from a literate programming perspective.

It's tidier for the compiler though, but the change does not seem to make it easier for the reader of the code to comprehend.

It simplifies the expression of if/then/elsif/elsif/else, even if it's not total.

Why not steal it?

Sad that the Dark Crystal was cancelled - didn't know that. It did look awfully expensive to produce though, and it was not kid friendly at all (all that sucking the soul out of cute little puppets would scare the crap out of my young nieces and nephews!)

This kind of blog post is not the kind of blog post that gets you hired. It's the opposite... :)

Pareto's Principle arises everywhere.

There is a difference between producing reporting on the basis of a whistleblower of conscience, and conspiring to exfiltrate a top secret data dump in the hope of finding some embarrassing details to publish.

The front of any exponential curve will always feel like the time of most significance.

More generally, everything else is grist for the mill - now is all that counts. We are always at the "hinge of history", surely.

They seem to be pushing the barrier on innovation on GPU compute. It seems a little unfair to call that pathetic, whatever strategic reasons they have to find OpenCL unappetising (which simply enables their sole competitor in truth.)

Their decision making seems rational, of course it's not ideal if you're consumer. We would like the ability to bid off NVidia with AMD Radeon.

Convergence to a standard has to be driven by the market, but it's impossible to drive NVidia there because they are the dominant player and it is 100% not in their interests.

It doesn't mean they're a bad company. They are rational actors.