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Does that mean its time to bring back VRML?

https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/VRML/
I worked with Chris on Eve, which was the project he started after he hit a wall with Light Table, that wall being the limitations of programming languages you outline here. Eve did have strict no side effects requirements, and did have the ability to log and rewind programs. The bulk of our work was in nailing down a good set of semantics, and also in figuring out a good way to present those semantics to users (syntax, UI, etc.).

After writing countless programs in this style, which is very different from conventional programming, I have to say the Mario example is a nice demo, but in reality we didn't find time-travel useful in scenarios like that. What was infinitely useful though, was being able to trace the provenance of different values in your program for debugging. Since we kept information around that the compiler usually throws away, we could tell you exactly how a value or UI element was calculated, and give you tools for interacting with that history that just aren't possible in other languages. For instance, you could encounter a bug, pack up the state of your session, send that over to another dev, and he/she would see exactly the environment in which your code was executing.

You bring up the good point that not everything is written in this way, and so interacting with external code can be tricky. For example, you might have some code that sends out an email every time the system memory reaches a threshold. Now, you might get an e-mail you didn't expect, but you could go back and see exactly why that email was sent, and deduce the bug through the provenance tree.

As I said earlier, after writing programs in this style for 3 years, I'm utterly convinced we won't be programming in the future the way we program today. There were versions of Eve where we wrote very complex applications, from webapps to robotics, that didn't even feel like programming -- it felt more like forming a shape out of clay, where the clay in this case is a digital "material".

In the end, Eve couldn't get more funding because it wasn't a venture that was really set up to fit into the VC mold (and I'm still not sure how Chris and Rob convinced VCs to fund them in the first place), but I'm absolutely sure the current way of doing things will fade with time. It's going to take a lot more research and a lot more convincing, because there are a lot of people out there that for some reason don't want to see projects like this work, but as someone who went down the rabbit hole and gotten a glimpse of this future, I really just can't fathom how humans could be working with languages held back with so much baggage from the early days of computing in the year 2100 for example.

I'm curious though, why you suggest for a language to work like this you have to abandon Turing Completeness. This wasn't my experience at all, and we implemented a Turing Machine in Eve just to prove we were TC (http://incidentalcomplexity.com/2014/12/01/nov/).
Considered the same with my 4yo, but she was fast asleep since hours before. I'll be sure to show her tomorrow though! Not every day you see someone launch an astronaut in a car into space, then land two boosters next to eachother.

We already dig other nice videos on youtube with rocket launches and the like. "How it's made" and so on. Some manufacturing videos have, believe it or not, caught her attention for half an hour! I think it was especially a video from manufacturing the Mini (car), lots of robots and automation.
Cheaper CoL, that's why importing cheap goods from cheap countries and focusing on technology is the bet one should place. That way you have time and resources to spent developing the technology for automating everything. It's like a business, the butcher is not out in the field with the cows he just butchers, separation of concerns.
It also looked like it was falling sideways, but I didn't know the camera orientation so I had no idea
Are you seriously being difficult with someone who is suggesting that with HTML/JS, most of your work will already be done for you, even in the most niche cases?

Javascript is "libraries" the language, for better or worse. You're comparing a language which is the de-facto language of front-end design and increasingly popular on the back-end to UI toolkits that have been around forever and still have virtually no mindshare by comparison.

HTML and javascript are the time and energy wise choice for any sort of front end design. It's just that we have shit like electron that is beyond suboptimal at tackling the issue of "native" applications (although I'd argue still a sensible choice!). Ideally we have something like react-native for the desktop, or built in html/js runtimes with platform specific bindings.
I don't think its dishonest to increase your odds of taking a picture, and sorry if this sounds rude, but I don't believe you that baiting is mainstream/necessary/all that useful. We're just going in circles so there's no point in arguing. You have your opinion and I have mine.
It's much simpler:

$ cat >test.c
//usr/bin/gcc "$0" -o /tmp/out.exe || exit; exec /tmp/out.exe "$@"
#include <stdio.h>
void main(int argc, char **argv) {
printf("Hello, world!");
}
^D
$ chmod a+x test.c
$ ./test.c
Hello, world!
To play devil’s advocate for a moment: children are often coached by parents in cases like this. Remember “balloon boy,” who hid in the garage per his dad’s instruction so the family could get their 15 minutes of fame?

That said, kids like to make things up too, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what happened here.
AFrame is really pretty similar in spirit to VRML

https://aframe.io/
This is an amazing day for all humanity.
Compared to using a socket server, how many connections can this server maintain?
Then you might be fine, they don't limit it to americans arbitrarily (hell, Musk himself wasn't born in the US!), but limit it to those that are allowed under ITAR.

The wording on their job postings is:

>To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Still don't understand this waste of ressources. Waste of ressources to build this Tesla Roadster. And then the waste to kick it into space. It is not that we are littering our earth itself. We now do it in space as well.
CIA project Sun Streak (declassified)
Hmm, I think it's still in parking orbit around earth, no?
Nor Asimov. They mentioned a copy of The Foundation series was on board.
Netgear is spinning off its Arlo security camera business
Our goal is explicitly not to communicate via the Internet. Sure we'll promote online and use a Slack group to organize our mentors, but we're not taking on SO or IRC or Slack.

There's something to be said about coworking spaces and working remote from a cafe. We crave the company of other people.
Yeah, lots of people didn't try.
What it provided was a way to get over 90% utilization of the processors (every processor issuing useful instructions most every clock tick) without worrying about cache misses. So relatively simple code, useful tools, and high performance.
But if you didn't care about any of that, then it didn't provide much.
The landing pads were different in the preview, so it indeed looked like it was the same image. Also, no 3D/misalignment effect from cross-eyeing them.
There should be a body cam on every officer and their police powers and privileges should deactivate the moment its turned off deliberately or “accidentally”. A time delayed feed should be made public and an independent federal agency should randomly audit the recordings for civil rights abuses.

Police should be treated like other political officials and there should be a democratic mechanism for the public to remove them from their position.

There should be a national ban on psychological profiling during the police hiring process. Police departments should compensate their officers with substantially higher salaried instead of their current compensation: poor pay with perks like the chance to exert power, abuse people, steal things, and almost completely avoid prosecution.

Finally, police officers should be required to live in the areas they police. They should be provided with the same public housing the general public enjoys if they have trouble finding or affording a house.

Of course, these ideas are too sensible to be ever become real.
I reported a critical bug and now they started a police investigation on me
>2. Using a language for a large project without some kind of async/await notation seems painful

And yet most of the software we use, billions of lines of code, from Chrome to Linux, from Photoshop to bind, and from Nginx to Skype, has been created without such notation. Somehow we've managed.
Meaning it could have reached Mars, they just chose not to?
I spent many months withdrawing from medication while participating on a particular email list. During that time, I often said things in a less than stellar fashion and I repeatedly wrote sincere, heartfelt apologies and posted them publicly to the list.

The result: I became everyone's bitch. People could randomly start shit with me because they just felt like being an asshole that day and the entire list would go "There she goes again!" and blame it entirely on me and start some beat down.

This is the exact opposite of the result I would have expected. I would have thought it would prove I was a decent, respectful person who deserved respect in return etc. Nope.

I write a lot fewer apologies these days because most people are just assholes and I have no plans to volunteer to be their bitch.
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The target orbit will be a ellipse around the sun.

The closest point to the sun will be about 1AU (Earth-Sun distance). The furthest point from the sun will be something like 1.5AU (Mars-Sun distance).

This orbit will precess, meaning that it will slowly rotate its axis around the sun, rather than staying locked into the exact same path.
The sample size isn't by itself enough to conclude much.
> but lordy knows what the "preferred" method is now.

Who is this 'lordy', and why are they telling you what your preferences are? IRC is just a protocol. You can use the old clients you used to use[1], keep a command line client running in a screen session on some vps[2]some shiny web based client[3], or you can write your own in a couple of days if none of the other options appeal to you. I took the last option[4]

[1] https://hexchat.github.io/
[2] https://irssi.org/
[3] https://kiwiirc.com/
[4] https://eigenstate.org/software/ircmyr
I, for one, don’t really care if someone has written to me in the passive voice. Or is changing tense. The message is still received. If it will mean they are more secure that way, then I will allow it.
Does anyone know how long a book (paper) would last in space?
Musk has said there is no reason they can't attach two more in the future.
https://imgur.com/a/NJsIv
I think you're correct. At stage 2 cutoff, they were showing a speed of ~26,000 km/h, which is approximately orbital velocity, not escape velocity.
The main argument for Falcon Heavy over Ariane 5 is cost, not reliability. Ariane 5 remains the most reliable heavy launcher, so that's the launcher you want for JWST.
That's his point. With a web app, his experience tells him he can run the code within an environment that he's used to.

With PyQt, he needs to download and install PyQt. When ready to ship, he needs to figure out how to build it into an app that can be delivered to clients.

With web technologies, he knows how to get deliver code in ways it can be loaded in a web browser, and how he can deliver code to end users.

Though to use that web code with Electron, he needs to download and install electron and figure out how to build it into an app that can be delivered to clients.
They’re the same as far as I’m concerned. Whether you say “I’m sorry” or “oops. my bad” doesn’t matter as long as you acknowledge that you did something that may have fucked up someone’s morning/day/weekend.
The feed quality drops in a way that makes the shaking antennae explanation seem plausible. I doubt the announcers knew then (why not just say so unless there was some ambiguity?), but it must have been a distinct concern, hence their 'smile nervously' reaction.

It is a bit odd they haven't announced that it was lost yet, but I agree that seems very likely.
I'm not sure, whether this propaganda piece should come with some more warnings. The paragraphs starting with 'AV1 mythbusters' are unbelievable:

1. The MSU report ("performance mentioned by AOM sources") with known methodology has to be verified, but that one demo with hand picked scenes and undocumented codec settings are totally the definitive answer.

2. On the performance side, we don't know the complexity of the codec yet. And on the cost side, HEVC is going to be more expensive by definition, due to being an rent extraction scheme.

3. You can't compare reference WIP codec with optimized one. The premise of the entire paragraph is just wrong.
We've gotten a number of requests for mentors in NYC (and Boston) but no mentors yet. Please holler at us if you're on the east coast.
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This only shows that the practice is widespread, not that I should go around saying that things suffer, when in fact they cannot do that. This is especially insensitive in a context when there is real human suffering.
I am curious about final package size on various platforms when using this project. The download bundles for the related "fman" project vary considerably -- Win: 1MB; macOS: 23MB; Ubuntu: 39MB. The last number matches my experience with scripted Qt applications, at which point the size is comparable to a typical ~50-70 MB Electron app, at least for compressed downloads. Visual Studio Code is 44 MB on Windows and 65MB on Mac. Scriptable wrappers usually imply that the core Qt shared objects can't be pruned, and the wrappers themselves also add up, so that Windows number is impressive and intriguing!

I would also wonder about performance scaling. Are there good examples of "large" applications where CPython drives the main loop, as opposed to a scripting layer over a C++ core? CPython has a shallower optimization floor than Javascript+V8, and most larger Python GUI applications I've tried had noticeable lags (thinking of several visualization apps, and several Python-centric IDEs). I was similarly skeptical of Javascript-based desktop applications until recently, but Visual Studio Code has been very impressive.
Yes, I believe you are correct, I got slightly too excited. (: It's on a highly elliptical earth orbit at the moment. The second big test is doing a long stage 2 burn after passing through the Van Allen belt. I believe that will take place in 6 hours or so.
"ie, very slow and unreliable" Yea, right - Tesla can't afford a radio off shore. Sure.
When I saw the first successful booster landing I realized I was seeing history.

When I saw the first successful booster landing on a drone ship I realized I was again watching history.
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Presumably the exact same number. A TCP connection is a TCP connection.
Considering the historic significance of Musk's mission, a little extravagance is entirely deserved.
> Even when you screw up the HTML it will still load

And this is why we have the wasteland of browser incompatibility that we're (still!) in. If something is wrong, it shoudn't work. Why are our standards so low that mistyping "head" as "herd" is considered something that heuristics should fix, rather than causing an error?

I mean, really, though, any decent IDE should flag that error for you in-line, anyway.
>> [...] the rocket’s payload [...] will pass through the Van Allen belt — a zone of charged particles and extreme radiation surrounding Earth. Assuming it makes it through that radioactive beatdown [...]

What can happen ? Did a payload already exploded passing through the Van Allen belt ? Are batteries a problem ?
Honest apologies are good but I see a lot of people that apologize all the time but don't change their behavior. They probably think it's OK as long as they apologize.
Indeed, although I would posit that while every presidential; candidate is a narcissist, not every narcissist runs for President.
Declassified CIA Project Sun Streak
>So don't American workers deserve those same rights? [...] the only way for him to get work is to consent to a permanent report card which follows him wherever he goes?

Those rights are relevant to China's forced social credit but are not relevant to the decentralized ratings _owned_ by freelancers. Your doomsday scenario of "only way to get work is permanent ratings" is hyperbolic.

Consider a freelance camera man, or freelance carpenter. At the JohnDoeCameraMan.com webpage, he has:

+ customer testimonials

+ customer references

+ endorsements

+ portfolio of previous work from past customers (film credits, film stills, etc)

These 4 "ratings", are already decentralized and owned on his webpage. He also wants to own "platform" ratings as well.

Why are voluntary decentralized ratings a scary bogeyman that threatens other freelancers with joblessness? You say that some freelancers that use portable ratings to their advantage pressures other freelancers to carry ratings because that's the "only way to get work."

But people have been getting work without a history of customer testimonials, and without references, without endorsements, without AngiesList ratings, etc.

I'm not convinced that an optional portable rating system creates a defacto forced system. None of the previous social signals of past work history has created a defacto forced itemization of customer references & testimonials.

>tell me, doesn't this sound like Chinese Social Credit?

No, the China government controls the ratings by a central authority. It's very easy to see how it can be used as a tool for opppression.

I don't agree that there's a equivalent leap between freelancers owning their ratings to the China system.

>This is something that we need to push back against.

Who is "we"? Are you speaking for the freelancers who _want_ their portable ratings?

We seem to be coming at this from very different philosophical positions. Let me ask an honest question to get a baseline of your thinking...

Do you believe a carpenter should delete "customer testimonials and references" from his website because if he leaves it there, it makes it unfair for the other carpenters who don't have customer testimonials?

If yes, we are _way_ apart on seeing how society wants to naturally interact. We certainly wouldn't be able to bridge that massive canyon by exchanging HN comments.
But. We are making them!

I've almost lost hope around the end of the Space Shuttle program. I thought it will be only satellites, ISS and occasional science probe launches. SpaceX single-handedly restored my faith in the future of space activities again, and with other player on the scene, we now have realistic hope of seeing an actual industry in space within our lifetimes.
looks like you found it already. somewhere else it said also that compiled js is at lib/js. that's not true anymore (as i'm sure you know it's now at src/name.bs.js)
The last PySide release is from 2015 for Qt 4.8.
Lets say you do something reckless, and it hurts me in some way. Without an apology, how can I tell you have genuine remorse? That you regret what you did, and want to avoid it in the future? That you are committed to fix the damage you've done? For all I know, you don't care about me, you don't want to change, and you don't plan on fixing your mistakes. I have no reason to trust you, and every reason to oppose you. An apology convinces me that you're not a threat - just a person who made a mistake. It also reminds yourself that you are capable of mistakes, and that you must not succumb to hubris.

Of course, it shouldn't be an empty apology. For it to work, the feeling must be genuine, and it should be accompanied by action.
They certainly looked very similar (as they would from that height) but the thruster firings were not at all synchronised (I thought the same thing, until I saw that).
Not sure what you mean.

iPads command better resale prices.

iPads are usually faster than the competition (CPU/GPU wise for the money for equivalent high end models)

iPads usually get more OS updates than Android tablets get (tons of which are left with the same OS that they came out with).
> the Voyager record had the Vitruvian Man, this has an astronaut on a sports car and largely-irrelevant sci-fi stories

They were both done, principally, for fun. If practical value is constrained to the non-ET, I'll argue for the latter any day. It promotes an electric car; presents space as a fun--instead of austere--place; and gives everyone a laugh. Given the times, I think we need a laugh more than sober awe.
See also the other reply. https://imgur.com/a/NJsIv
Makes my day that much better. Giving approval to that kind of lightheartedness shows great confidence in the team's ability and makes overall morale palpable. Well done.
Ah thank you! I missed that. Here's a screenshot

https://i.imgur.com/LviKKdg.png
Assuming I have the source code (a big if), I will still need authorization from the vendor to modify the source. And even if I do get that, as an end user, all I want to do is double-click on the icon. I am not going to be writing any patches, or wanting to pay someone to write patches. I prefer to simply pay the $100 Microsoft tax when I purchase my PC and let MS worry about it.
Voyager went interstellar. The Tesla is still bound to the inner solar system.
It wasn't a lie; they just didn't know the result. There have been multiple cases in the past when contact was temporarily lost after drone ship landing.
That would be simply Kerbal.
ADVERTISING.

The amount of coverage both Tesla & SpaceX got from launching the Roadster equates to advertising costing considerably more than the cost of the car.
So mozilla wants to part of the new "Web of Things".

https://iot.mozilla.org/gateway/

https://iot.mozilla.org/wot/
In India, I got my iPhone serviced for a camera issue. They updated the device to the latest iOS before returning it to me. I was given no choice in the matter.

Wouldn’t be surprised if they do it for battery replacements as well.
Yes, that's why Wayland will support remote display via something like RDP or VNC, that was never out of question. What won't work is network transparency / SSH forwarding.
This is standard behavior for abusive people. It is so standard that it makes you wonder if it is Chapter One of some guidebook on How to be an Abusive Asshole.

It is another reason I am not fond of apologies. If all you do is apologize and you don't change and don't try to make things right, you can get the fuck out of my life.
Someone noticed there was a camera feed on the mission control wall that shows the Center Core's drone ship, after the smoke clears no ship can be seen:

https://twitter.com/Darkphibre/status/960990105581240321

9:00 into the feed, it's likely the core either missed or failed to land properly. Although the screen is partially out of view.
FWIW the drone ship feed has been lost in exactly the same way every time I’ve watched a landing.
Typically nobody apologizes for mistakes unless there are consequences for someone else.
It has just burned again to raise apogee, and will burn a third time to switch from earth orbit to a transfer orbit (edit: or perhaps the next orbit is the final Earth-Mars orbit?)
At this point in that video, some minutes after the loss of signal, you can hear on the countdown net https://youtu.be/-B_tWbjFIGI?t=42m21s - it's garbled but sounds like "Suspected loss of signal".
Presumably you'll eventually write something rather than lurking for hours and then it'll refresh.
Here's proof they were the same- coming in to the same pad

https://imgur.com/a/u6sLs