The Fed will always fix it as _thats what the fed does_. Debt, spending, interest payments are all treasury- The stability of the system is the fed. They often work together but I'm willing to bet the fed is very unhappy with the level of debt and unable to do anything about it. Fed just controls the money supply and interest rates in an extremely technocratic way, divorced from the government or policy making.
> Cumulative inflation of 66.3% over the last 20 years (based on CPI, it's probably actually worse).
While this is bad, if you check the cumulative inflation from 1999-2019 where inflation had essentially been "missing" in the 1-2% range the cumulative inflation is 55%. Regardless though looking at inflation numbers is only half the picture, if you look wage growth in the same period, comes out to several percentage points above inflation/price growth. Even with all the big numbers we are doing pretty well!
Its the moderating effect of the Mediterranean! Its wild to see the temperature differences of Wisconsin, Montana, Dakota(s) compared to France & Spain. All that water helps insulate Europe even those its at a northern latitude.
It's actually primarily from the AMOC which is bringing warm water up to the Northern Atlantic from the gulf [0].
Fun fact: a possible consequence of climate change is the near term collapse of the AMOC which would cause drastic cooling in Europe (it also has more severe long-term consequences like leading to an anoxic ocean that emits hydrogen-sulfide instead of oxygen, such events have happened multiple times in Earth's past and played a part in major extinction events [1]).
Man, unless its dramatically improved in the last 5 years Sydney and Melbourne were around the same level as hell as LAX/SFO are. Sydney was particularly bad the 3 times I had to move through it haha. My average LAX traversal is much smoother than Sydney ever was.
Dont go by the price tag. Thats just MIL complex accounting called "Cost plus" which means price = cost + whatever they feel like. Cuz Govt cant go anywhere else to buy this stuff.
I think the growth of Discord partially explains it- They needed a _lot_ more SRE/Scale engineers, which causes growth in HR/Management layers.
They also added a bunch of monetization stuff (discord nitro) and attempted to get more "community" based features like custom emotes/badges/profiles per server/watch party stuff.
The core experience is the same, I think they've done a great job ensuring that doesnt change! They have also done the usual software stuff, improving core outskirts like stability/performance/login methods/slash options. Its the same core product but better.
I'm sure their userbase grew in a big big way during the pandemic, but honestly, by the beginning of 2020 Discord was already a massive operation. How much more headcount could pure scaling explain?
I think you're more on the money with the miscellaneous other projects. They were even trying to sell games through Discord at one point.
nope, that's essentially the problem. Snap is curated and controlled by Canonical and they are forcing the issue.
The issues that both share are slow starts, larger package sizes, lack of safe ways to interact with the rest of the OS, etc.
Base concept is actually really good- Separating out dependencies and "containerizing/sandboxing" userspace applications is just a no brainier from a security and maintenance point of view. Its so nice to be able to easily install several versions side by side and know you arent fucking up system dependencies. Once they (flatpack, snap, some future competitor/iteration) iron out the kinks it'll 100% be the way systems are managed.
I think its kinda great its on the front page, I only work in backend so this looks quite appealing like ALL tech demos do. Love to see it pulled apart in comments with explanations I understand haha
"championing" it? probably not, but I'm a huge fan of the goal. Flatpack/Snap both try to take an application and isolate it from the system. Its like docker but for userspace application rather than services. Package managers like apt/yum modify the system at a root level, a bad package here (or a bad library) can cause problems if its a mistake, or compromise if malicious. You should only use them for stuff that needs root hardware access or root permissions at some point- everything else should be sandboxed and isolated from that critical portion of your system.
[Shutteworth makes a pretty good argument for snap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z3yusiCOCk) (and by proxy, flatpack) and the why we need virtual machines/docker/LXD/(snap/flatpack)/package managers.
So I wouldn't say I'm championing snap, but I do believe the concept should be used everywhere. Flatpack? snap? Something new? Dont really care, I just want the containerization benefits at the userspace level.
Thanks for the link - watching it now. I guess I was referring to complaints about Snap specifically. My distro of choice (Pop!_OS) and many others have specifically excluded Snap in favour of Flatpak and I hardly ever hear complaints about Flatpak.
lmao right? My new hires spent the first week in corporate/domain training, then a few days getting situated, setup and stuff. Probably 2 weeks before I
"expect" a PR but even then the first few tasks are a gentle introduction.
I use Tcl daily for work and personally love it! Its syntax is weird but when it clicks things just make sense in a zen way. Much like getting into the groove in lisp or something, it _feels_ correct in that minute.
The main problem is just tooling. There are some insanely cool language features like Expect (still the best implementation) or starpacks/starkits, yet there is no basic package manager. You are stuck installing via yum/apt or building from source if you are lucky to find what you need. Most of the time you can just assume there isn't something you can rely on, and you'll have to patch source tcllib (the batteries included library).
> Cumulative inflation of 66.3% over the last 20 years (based on CPI, it's probably actually worse).
While this is bad, if you check the cumulative inflation from 1999-2019 where inflation had essentially been "missing" in the 1-2% range the cumulative inflation is 55%. Regardless though looking at inflation numbers is only half the picture, if you look wage growth in the same period, comes out to several percentage points above inflation/price growth. Even with all the big numbers we are doing pretty well!