I found it interesting that the bettors who threatened the journalist accused him of being motivated to manipulate the market. The journalist was motivated to report honestly, the bettors were the one trying to manipulate the market by changing the reporting.
The prequel “Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State” makes the claim that highly scrutinized go codebases had just as many message passing bugs (using go channels) as shared memory bugs. But then this article claims the Erlang community has a record of higher quality and reliability largely through discipline and convention.
At another BigCo I am familiar with any external communications must go through a special review to make sure no secrets are being leaked, or exposes the company to legal or PR issues (for example the OP).
Likely it wouldn't get written at all. The most useful aspect of layered approval processes is people treat them like outright bans and don't blog at all unless it's part of the job description.
It raises an interesting point. Code review is as much about educating the author of the code as much as ensuring the quality of the code. Why invest time providing feedback to a brick wall? LLMs aren’t going to “learn” from your feedback.
It is a classic cooperation problem. Perhaps not prisoners dilemma. Perhaps not at individual scale. Probably tragedy of the commons.
Cooperation is not consuming fossil fuels. Defection is consuming fossil fuels.
If you cooperate and other defects you suffer climate impact and expensive energy (expensive everything, worse economic growth than others).
If you defect and other cooperates you suffer climate impact but at least you get cheap energy (cheap everything, more economic growth than others).
People, nations, corporations, etc don’t stop using fossil fuels because they incur a penalty against their competitors if they volunteer to and their competitors don’t.
The assumption here is that fossil fuels are actually cheaper. But an electric car pays back the higher upfront cost in fuel savings in significantly fewer miles than most cars will have put on them. Solar generates power at a lower cost per kWh than coal.
The fossil fuel industry has to be actively sustained through subsidies and government regulation hostile to alternatives. Maybe that wasn't true 50 years ago before the alternatives got viable and cheap, but if it's not true now then why did we stop subsidizing electric cars while we still subsidize oil companies?
Russia. They asked for a 'spheres of influence' world and forgot the USA's sphere of influence is the world's oceans (and South America).
Pressuring Russia's oil exports is the way the Trump admin is motivating Russia to come to the negotiating table. They apparently want the war wrapped up in time for the mid-terms.
That, and Trump likes being a strong king and wielding US might, right into the history books.
The US' days are numbered. Once the world rids itself of dollarisation, the US won't be able to export their inflation to the rest of the world. Maybe just to Europe and Japan, which in any case are vassal states.
Good luck finding more trustworthy and profitable economic systems.
The dedollarisation will hurt the US but since there aren't a lot of alternatives it'll be far less disruptive than anti-US groups would believe. There will be more of a spreading of risk than there is now.
It's the BBC. They're literally funded by the British regime using license fees.
To understand the connection between the British regime and Russophobia, refer to John Gleason's research captured in a book called "The Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain."
I think a lot of web services talk about reliability in terms of uptime (e.g. down for less than 5 minutes a year) but in reality operate on failure ratios (less than 0.001% of request to our service fail).
Can you share more about education in the USSR? My impression is that for all its faults, education is one area where the USSR excelled, with very high standards and outcomes.
TP is largely correct - there was no “advanced track” or any kind of differentiation at a normal school systemically. There were “gymnasiums” - a kind of specialized schools starting grade 8 or 9 and only in big cities and you could apply if you test well and/or your parents knew somebody who knew somebody
Your impression is correct. OP's fallen into the classic trap of equating the American "left" (which isn't left at all) with socialism, and that with the USSR. It's all nonsense free association of "things conservatives dislike", from the same mine that yielded gems like "cultural Marxism" (another nonsense).
The distinction in the article really is between calling malloc for every added node in your data structure (“pointer”) or using the pre-allocated memory in the next element of an array (“index”).
This is only one of the advantages discussed in TFA. The others are those due to using indices instead of pointers (like smaller size, cache locality, range checking, possibility of data exchange between systems with distinct address spaces).
