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"Men are judged by utility."

I didn't realize this until recently. Rude awakening. Even the most close relationships turn out to be quite transactional.


"Only women, children and dogs are loved unconditionally" - Chris Rock.

It's not as transactional as to be loveless. It's conditional love.


I'd like to push back on this. I feel my friends & SO love me essentially unconditionally, but are simply ill-equipped to express that in a supportive way.


I think that this is technically true in most cases, but love isn't technical.


Is Chris Rock a comedian?


Between the two genders, men also disproportionately take the lion’s share of the spoils of war/relationship/employment/power/clout.

So here when men are judged by utility, it is essentially competition between the males of the species themselves.

It isn’t dissimilar to ape societies or lions. The alpha wars are happening due to testosterone. There is most certainly an evolutionary and biological reasoning for this.

This has nothing to do with women. Please leave us out of this.


The problem with services like Airalo is that they almost never give you a local phone number. In many countries getting a phone number involves showing a physical id.


Problem? This seems like a huge win, the sooner we get rid of phone numbers the better.


How does one make outgoing calls without a voice-enabled number?


Airalo is data-only plan, so you have to either use another SIM card for making phone calls, or use VoIP/Skype/Viber/etc.


Just top up a VOIP service with $10 and never run out of credit because nobody makes regular phone calls in 2022?


Tesla/PG&E are also building 182.5MW/730MWh presumably at the same site? https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-megapack-moss-landing-instal...


That XYZ Energy Corp. of Delaware is building a storage facility, and that Tesla is selling battery packs in the same place, does not really imply two different projects. Could be the same project.


Not really. Look at google maps sat view. These are two different projects.


Also ICE engines themselves are pretty heavy compared to electric motors and require heavy gearboxes and shafts.


My back of the envelope calcs say that if batteries energy density increases by 30-50% the weight penalty for electric cars disappears. It's a fuzzy line because it depends on the cars range.

Difference between electric and gasoline cars. With a gas car the marginal cost of extra range is low. With electric it's high. With gas cars the marginal cost of extra HP is high where with electric it's low.


You can go to a public school but if you want it to be a quality one your rent of a house will not be a 3k.


Not in SV. $400k gets you to the lower middle class. That is you probably have a tiny chance of buying some real estate in your lifetime. House and expenses related to maintaining it is a huge chunk of change.


According to [1] average income in SV is $140k, and median house price is $1.2M.

$400k income would put you into upper middle class territory.

[1] https://sf.curbed.com/2019/2/19/18229922/silicon-valley-inde...


140k is believable, but I think they mean it's per person. If you rent, it's very unlikely you'd be able to buy a 1.2M house on 140k if you started with 0 in savings.

EDIT: To clarify my previous post - I was talking about the household income.


$140k is household income:

https://siliconvalleyindicators.org/data/economy/income/hous...

I agree that it might be tough to buy a median house with median income in some areas, however you can easily afford to buy a decent house almost anywhere with $400k income.


Don't kid yourself. Even here in the Bay Area, $400K a year is still upper middle class. You'd be in the top 3% of earners across the nine bay area counties.


Prop 13 distorts that a lot. If you bought a house 25 years ago and now are earning 400k, yeah, you're an upper middle class.


Again, you're kidding yourself. Even if you bought a new house today with no existing equity, you could easily afford $11K a month in mortgage. That's a house that's over $2M. And still have $10K a month left for other expenses.


Forget about buying a house part. Say the person can buy a house in texas and retire there. Would you still say it's lower middle class?


The definition of the middle class would surely depend on the cost of living in the particular area. You can make $30k and live like royalty in the 99% of the world.


There are a lot of nonlinearities. Taxes, healthcare, eligibility for the financial aid when the kids go to college, etc.


No, compressed oops mode doesn't change at runtime. That's pretty hard to pull off. You'd need to change object layout dynamically and unless you want to reformat the whole heap you'd need tags or regions with different pointer rules. Any of these techniques would have a very substantial runtime overhead.


AOT implementation in the JDK, that we call the "HotSpot AOT" implements tiered compilation (look for $JAVA_HOME/bin/jaotc). It is also based on Graal, but with a different set of plugins. You get reasonably good startup and re-JITing afterwards. Of course it doesn't give you compactness on the SVM, but it supports regular java code with class loading, reflection, etc.

A talk about HotSpot AOT: https://youtu.be/n5DCg6M2MDM


JVM is pretty much running half of the internet.


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