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I was speaking of relatively high inflation (>10%). The fed has been extremely good at keeping inflation stable so we have not seen this in a long time.

This is not a criticism of current fed policy with respect to its relatively low inflation targets. While the effects I mentioned still occur, they are vastly outweighed by other concerns at low inflation levels.

It would make sense if it handled gnarly Unicode issues. It appears this does not however.

Paradoxically if that is in the tank it means the water coming out must be purer than cold since the contaminats are left in the tank - on average.

Inflation does hurt the underlying companies, and thus stocks are not immune.

Except in cases with extremely high inflation most contracts are not inflation adjusted. By the time a company is paid the merchandise sold is worth significantly more in fiat terms. In high inflation an entity is loathe to trade assets for dollars and so the economy will slow.

Never lead a sales pitch with the price tag, always with the benefit.

The conversation shouldn’t be about it costing 20 days to remove something. It should be about the net savings from doing so.

“Removing rarely used feature XYZ will open up 780 man-days of schedule time this year for new features by improving our efficiency”

You haven’t communicated the cost. To the business manager it’s essentially free to leave it in - so why not keep the optionality.

If you could estimate “keeping feature X costs $200,000 per year in added development time” it would be an easy decision. Through this process of cost estimating you may find that while annoying it only costs $10,000. Any ill will generated from removing it would cost more than that so it should be left alone.

Even in C with its tiny standard library you don’t see this kind of explosion. There has to be more to it than that.

China has developing nation status at the WTO. Thus China has an unfair advantage under WTO rules (in the direct sense - they literally get special treatment).

Until that is rectified expect the WTO to not hold much sway over US trade policy.

As a C++ developer I can’t imagine 1700 dependencies in a relatively new code base. What are all those libraries doing?

The poor don’t have savings. If you spend as much or more than you make inflation benefits you by devaluing the debt you owe.

If you have a large 401k on the other hand it deflates the value of your retirement savings. You may have to work in old age.

It was always that way. The only difference is before the machines were so primitive that it wasn't an explicit decision on the designers part.

The mental overhead of this is much higher than the concept of “I’m logged in to this remote machine - all actions happen there”.

That’s why I can guarantee Remote Desktop has more usage than these remote rpc calls for ad-hoc work. Powershell is quite powerful but it’s features are more for programmers than users.

Because of its complexity RPC is not a replacement for ssh where you are typing commands directly to the remote machine.

Windows had this problem much earlier with every employee getting a PC on their desk. They solved it with Group Policy and domains. That still works well.

SSH and Remote Desktop solve a different problem. It may not be the one you have - but some of us just need to log into the machine because we have needs that don’t fit into some predefined workflow. Or we have so few boxes it’s not worth it.

Consider SSHing into a large build machine for compiling as an example.

They already had group policy for structured administration. What Windows was missing specifically was a non-GUI way for that unstructured "get in there and fix the problem" work flow. Structured workflows may well be better for you, but quick and dirty has a lot of appeal.

Sometimes you just have to give people the candy they want - even if its not good for them.

The speed of navigating the code base. Ctags existed but people using SlickEdit or Source Insight were able to navigate the code base dramatically faster. As a new hire I wasn't going to get code annotations emitted as part of the build, so an editor with a proper parser was key.

Really had nothing to do with the size of the file.

They understood the GUI couldn’t be everything but NIH was definitely in full swing at that time. It was enforced from the top: If you wanted to use an external product and MSFT had a competitor you needed VP approval. Same went for Open Source. Only the most senior people would even attempt it, and it was understood they were spending political capital.

The one place this didn’t apply was your choice of code editor. You could use whatever you wanted and that had long been tradition. I spent a lot of effort getting VIM to work only to realize it didn’t scale well to multi-million LOC code bases.

They started on this in the late 2000s when I was an intern there. But there was a lot to untangle. It’s the biggest refactoring job you can imagine. A decade long effort.

Back then they didn’t really understand the point of ssh though. They had a vision of remote management via .net RPC and powershell.

I used to work there and could step into windows source when a win32 function wasn't acting how I expected. The bug was almost always in my own code of course, but seeing exactly what was causing the error was extremely helpful in fixing the problem.

Open sourcing (or at least public sourcing) the windows userland would make development on the platform a lot easier.

When a work is popular and heavily critiqued the authority of the author is no longer necessary. Surely the volume of critical analysis provides you sufficient information that you no longer need such a noisy signal as the author's identity.

Project Crush and Intel inside are simply brilliant. It’s extremely rare for a component manufacturer to capture mindshare from the OEM.

Given they’ve led the charge technologically in CPUs for decades this is extremely high praise. I think people are taking this as suggesting Intel does not innovate technologically which is not the case.

The video provides evidence of the tech being nice but not required. They openly admit their CPU was “a dog” and all the software people hated it. Yet their strategy of going around them to management worked perfectly.

People forget how awful segmented 16-bit was. And other CPUs like the 68000 and Alpha were faster at various points in time.

See this panel about Intel’s “project crush” and the defeat of the 68000 [1]. Intel inside was yet another brilliant marketing campaign to take pricing power from the OEMs.

Intel at its core is a marketing company. If they also happen to have the best tech that is nice too but not a necessity.

[1] https://youtu.be/xvCzdeDoPzg

The ink is a lot cheaper than toner.

It’s a nice thought, and gives a sense the world is fair. But it doesn’t ring true to me.

Some people are hot, and they know it. They do not feel ugly. Ditto for intelligence.

They capitulated in the end. It was extremely humiliating and not strongly covered in the west.

This is not what standing up for freedom of expression looks like:

“The Norwegian Government reiterates its commitment to the one China policy, fully respects China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, attaches high importance to China’s core interests and major concerns, will not support actions that undermine them, and will do its best to avoid any future damage to the bilateral relations.”

I get that, but given its the first time this has happened in 75 years its still quite a dramatic milestone, even if its unlikely to reoccur next week.

> If you take climate change, which is a serious issue, it’s been co-opted by pessimistic baby-boomers and turned into a dark nightmarish scenario

I hear this much more from millenials than baby-boomers. If anything baby-boomers are pretty laissez-faire about the whole thing which only feeds further into the millenial distrust.

If your in frontline management isn't that basically your job? To translate company goals to on the ground action?

I suppose its a little surprising to hear upper management is not spouting BS, but I now also wonder how much of that is frontline management simply not acting on the vision.

The processor may be fast but the DRAM has not kept pace. So it does take a long time to zero pages. The CPU is mostly idle waiting on its write queue - but from the OS perspective is not available for other work just as if it were factoring primes.

I always thought x86 could benefit from block memmove/memset hardware external from the CPU.

Yes. Your comments shows up just fine.

Also your account is a few years old. I've seen the mods practically beg older accounts to stop so they wouldn't have to ban them. In Thucy's case his/her first posts were in a contentious thread and there was no history. I don't think you should worry about being silently shadow banned.

I highly recommend enabling showdead, it answers a lot of questions about moderation on the site.

Yes, showdead showed the comment and I wondered why it was dead because it was not too controversial.

Are you sure you can't vouch? Click on the time at the top of the comment and it should show on the page that loads. Its intentionally "hidden".