Relying solely on on-chip SRAM will never be economically viable for most use cases.

Could you elaborate on why? Isn't it more economically viable than purchasing separate memory?

Cost-per-bit

You're being purposely terse and obtuse so I must disregard your comments as undecipherable. The reality is that on-chip memory has a lower cost-per-bit than off-chip memory. It's lithographed into the silicon on the same layers as everything else, making it essentially free if you have room on the die. That's why integrated GPUs and SoCs are so popular.

Sounds like DEI hiring initiatives.

Unix was a commercial standard that's lost out to Linux

Isn't the third-party API access issue all about preventing Reddit from being overrun by AI/LLM robots? I suppose nothing is stopping them from using web interfaces but it does seem a bit harder than just using APIs

Not necessarily. The conversation with the Apollo dev was about the missed opportunity cost of having the user on the official platform. The $20m/year number was referring to opportunity cost, not the actual cost.

To me that unpacks to a mix of lost potential value on having the user on the official client for data harvesting + advertising purposes + having full control over user experience, and subtly trying to get rid of 3rd party clients without just shutting the APIs down.

You can't really be 100% postgres compatible without borrowing a lot of implementation

Query and storage layer are nicely separated in the Postgres codebase, you can absolutely rip out the complete backend if you really want it.

There is a Postgres interface to Spanner which probably did that.

I outfitted a 1982 steel bike frame with 2016 brand new components. No issues then other than bending the rear to take a 130mm axle rather than 126mm. Are 68mm english-threaded bottom brackets and cranks becoming unobtainium in new groups?

68mm is still common but there are plenty of old frames which used oddball BBs. 68mm will probably be around for a good while yet, there is a push for something else, only time will tell if something sticks but I don't see 68mm going away anytime soon. The old brakes are starting to thin out and the selection of side pulls and the like are not what they once were, which could become an issue but we still have some good options there. Derailers are generally not a huge deal even if you have a frame that wants something weird.

Then we have the various headsets, some of those can be troublesome.

Single piece cranks and BBs are just about dead, as are cottered. We still have some options there but the quality is getting terrible and I suspect the only reason they are still made is because the machines still work but once they die that will be the end.

They’re somewhat less common indeed. A lot of manufacturers now like some proprietary variation of various pressfit standards.

You can still find bsa frames. Surly, as an example.

I got Covid for the first time last month. Anecdotally I know at least a dozen more who also got it for the first time this past December/January.

Newsflash-- the "market" is becoming less constrained by geography.

Pointless snark aside, this is correct. But it is still constrained by geography and it's not all that surprising that employers would like to constrain it a bit more than it is. So this move makes total sense, and pretending that there is no correlation between your location and what you can command in salary is farcical.

Seemingly not if companies are moving back to in-person. Can't be in person at Amazon in Montana.

Right. So salary will trends towards rural Montana salary not SF or Seattle salary.

Once US employers give up on the idea of office work entirely and start looking into cheap east European developers, you‘ll be in for a world of hurt.

I can‘t deny their expertise and quality of work, and they‘re starting to constantly outbid anyone on work for hire platforms

Why would you think that puts upward rather than downward pressure on wages?

And how do you think that will affect SF and Seattle salaries?

I sent this article to a US Navy captain I know. He scoffed at it and said it was complete BS. The name of the supposed rusty ship is nowhere to be found in the article or Twitter post (or replies).

I think it is the labor market. Pandemic caused a lot of people to leave the labor market.

But we’re at full employment…

Labor force participation rate is lower than pre pandemic.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...

I assume it resumes overall downward trend simply due to aging population.

The people who “drop out” of the labor market (not working and don’t collect unemployment) basically are not counted. They are not considered part of the labor force. I know people who get burned out and live off their savings for long periods of time.

Interestingly, even though the labor participation rate hasn't returned to pre-covid levels, total civilian labor force levels have: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CLF16OV#0

Full employment of a smaller labor force, you need to look at the labor force participation rate [0] to get the whole picture.

Yes unemployment is at near record lows, but the percent of the population in the work force is the lower than its been since the 1970s.

0. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

> Full employment of a smaller labor force,

the civilian labor force is higher than ever. as of Sept 2022, 153M non-farm workers [1], 130M private employees [2].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USPRIV

I feel like I shouldn't have to explain the idea of participation rate but what you've posted is the numerator, you need to divide it by total working age population to get the rate.

you said "Full employment of a smaller labor force". its not a smaller labor force. its a larger labor force as the number of employees is at an all-time high.

Not sure what to make it of it, but statistics suggest that our per unit output of labour has dropped substantially. So, good employment rate or not, we’re producing less with our labour either way.

This is the case in the United States and Canada, at least. Not sure about the rest of the world.

Naively, you would expect a bit of a drop in productivity when going to full employment, as the least productive workers are generally hired last.

Total production, notably, is still increasing.

Which is a statement that doesn't gainsay what you commented on in any way. People leaving the labor market is not measured by the unemployment rate, it is measured by the labor participation rate.

Two things would improve Labor...

4 An immigration policy that allows new (eager to work for less) citizens a legal path to work within the country, and maybe even become full citizens in the future.

1 More housing so workers can afford to live near where the jobs are.