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In my opinion, it is not about overthrowing the government, it is about a right to self-defense. Not just from the government, but also from your average criminal.

It's true that a citizen or even a group of citizens is no match for the military. But the difference is between citizens being able to try defending themselves, and being completely defenseless.

It is the difference between soldiers being ordered to fire their own citizens, and the citizens being defenseless. It is the difference between individuals who swore to defend their countrymen having to reconcile killing them in battle. It is the difference between a confidence that you can do something and a feeling that you can be easily intimidated.

China, Russia, Iraq, Germany, in all of these places the general population was disarmed as one of the first steps towards totalitarianism. It is not a coincidence.
I feel the same way towards vegans. How dare someone have a different opinion than I!

(Except I’m talking about meat consumption obviously, not political preference. Also only 0.4% of the US population are vegan, vs the 46% of voters that swung for Trump.)
That is a lot less likely than the other way round, as the atmosphere of Earth and its greater proximity to the Sun makes it immensely more difficult to launch a rock from the surface all the way to Mars.

While a rock launched from the surface of Mars, once it has escaped the planet's gravity well without encountering significant drag from the atmosphere, can just "fall" to Earth.
I'm genuinely starting to think people should just lay down when working with a computer. That's what I do all day long anyway.
Not one mention of Sterling's "I'll believe in settling Mars when I see people settling the Gobi Desert" observation.

The author writes "I suggest that the natural starting point is a habitat at the lunar poles".

I disagree. The natural starting point is an independent ecosystem here on Earth. That reduces the variables (like gravity and radiation), is cheaper to build, and in the worst case of a system failure the abort mechanism is to open the doors and walk out.

We need only to look at Biosphere 2 to see an example of how hard such a thing might be.

A viable habitat would need to show that not only is it possible to be self-sustaining for those living it in, but that it's possible to raise kids and train them to be ecosystem engineers that can continue to maintain and develop the habitat.

We are nowhere close to demonstrating that it is possible.
Forking is perfectly doable. Rust project forks LLVM, adds patches, and forward ports them when upgrading LLVM version. It's manageable.
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bit sad in the era of 64 bit computing still every resource is at most about protected mode. osdev wiki has some info about long mode, but it's all fragmented. Been working now for ages to try to decipher amd and intel manuals about that :'). Still ,nice this page, always good to inspire people to write their own system softwares because i think it's to much 'magic' still where as it's doable even for 1 person to write an OS that is dedicated to for example a single task runnign in user mode. writing a multi-user / multi-purpose OS is maybe more work, but in those OSs a lot of problems exist today which is causing a need for people (imho) to step back and look at if this is really the way we want to go with computing... i don't see why a webserver or something with a single purpose like that needs to be on a multi-purpose OS. It just increases complexity and overhead and people have a world of trouble configuring an OS to do just 1 task good, have to stip our 90% of what comes with a basic install to reduce attack surface and get resource usage under control. I hope we will see more dedicated purpose OSes come up which handle 64 bit, and perhaps someday some resources for programming specifically that. I'm thinking of sharing some of my knowledge on the area sometime, but i dont know how much interest there is and seeing as i'm a bad writer and still pretty shit coder it will probarbly take me too much time now compared to how much use it would be (if i do it, compared to some veteran in the field!).
Recommended reading:

"The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind" by Julian Jaynes

"Left in the dark" by Graham Gynn and Tony Wright (and apparently, 2nd hand recommendation - "Return of the brain to eden" from the same authors)

Consider both science fiction rather than science; Jaynes is much more scientific and grounded, though it is still incomplete. Wright is much looser with facts and interpretations,

Still, both are thought provoking and worth reading in my opinion.
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Sure, with a consistent cross wind of course you'll have to spend energy fighting it, but if you don't fight it and halfway it changes, you'll end up at your destination in the same time as you would have otherwise, no?
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Neonrvm v0.1.0 and Python bindings is available (my First machine learning library)
> I do not understand the consistent assumption that life on other planets must take a chemical and physical form similar to our own.

I always pondered about this as well. I came to the conclusion that, given the sheer number of celestial bodies (e.g. planets) in the universe, restricting our gaze to only the ones that can sustain life as we know it (i.e. carbon-based bags-of-mostly-water) restricts the search space considerably.

I don't know whether that actually increases our likelihood of finding extraterrestrial life; I certainly do hope so.
> It is difficult to understand why so many junior programmers use a dozen boolean state variables instead of a state machine

It's not just juniors. The only times I've encountered state machines in the wild are almost exclusively games and virtual machines/interpreters.

The reason, to me at least, is pretty clear. In both games and VMs, you mostly know the rules ahead of time. You have a clear picture of the opcodes you want to implement (add, mul, call, jump, etc.) or the game rules you need.

But for most development, especially with multiple stakeholders or customers and multiple developers working independently, the rules aren't known at the start. In fact, the majority of requirements are brought up months or years after the first line of code is even written. It's like the parable of the blind men and the elephant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant). Each person, working separately, has a different idea of what this thing is that you're creating. Communication being an incredibly difficult thing, the requirements are never fully rendered coherent by the entire team at the moment where it would benefit them most (i.e. the beginning).
The Cretan Method (2015)
What's wrong with drawing the state machine diagram?
And generally, what's wrong with drawing your code structure?

You may be able to keep it all in your head when you write it the first time... try again when you're doing maintenance after 6 months of not touching it though.
Something similar and equally, if not more, interesting behavior is displayed by the self synchronizing fireflies.

http://ncase.me/fireflies/
You lose exhaustiveness checks if new weapons or classes were added though. May or may not be worth the trade-off.
A fun tidbit from the Plan 9 compilers only really able to be found by reading the source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.plan9/uMF7A4gk...
Even complex structures like fractals have a simple algorithm, perhaps can be stated in a single statement.

Also, the cobwebs require a pretty simple algorithm followed diligently.
>“FP” usually means ML-style FP

Only after sometime around 2010. Before that it was mostly Lisp and Scheme. Sometime around then, the trend around Haskell, purity, and co overtook them as what people mean when they talk about FP.
I feel like this article is pretty misleading in terms of the context and significance of the research. Inserting ancestral genes in extant organisms is a well-accepted approach to studying evolution. Evolution happens because of environmental pressure and random luck (mutations). There's no deterministic factor of evolution, and it's weird that the article tries to present it that way.
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Gödel's incompleteness theorems are really something. Ultimately (iirc) it boils down to this:

If an axiomatic system is complex enough, it cannot be both consistent and complete.

I.e. either you have statements that you can't prove despite them being true, or your system is inconsistent (i.e. you can prove false statements).

That is a simple description of the first incompleteness theorem. The 2nd incompleteness theorem goes along similar lines:

If an axiomatic system is complex enough and consistent, it can't prove it's own consistency.

I.e.: If a system can prove it's own consistency, it isn't consistent.

Regarding how complex an axiomatic system has to be: Simple arithmetic is enough.

(FYI: it has been a while since I've spent time with the incompleteness theorems. No guarantees on accuracy, and correcting comments are welcome :) )
I can't imagine defaulting to anything other than NFC.
The choice was between him and Clinton. She sure as hell would not be a better choice.
>I really don't like state machines because if you need to add a new event, each of the states need to be updated to handle that event. If you add a new state, you have to figure out how to handle each of the transitions from other states. So as your states grow, the maintenance on the developer's side grows faster than linear.

State machines have been designed to neatly capture and componentize exactly that.

Anything else is less explicit, and even more error prone.

That new even and those new transitions you've mentioned? You still need to handle them anyway -- only you do it in an informal manner without a SM.
Life _could_ exist anywhere, even in deep space, but apparently it doesn't. You could probably interpret some behaviours of neutron stars as life.

I admire the human drive to solve the cosmic puzzle, find something bigger and more meaningful than us, but so far it looks like there is only one place in the Universe that has life. And even planets with relatively favourable conditions like Mars are dry, lifeless husks devoid of any, even the simplest lifeforms.
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Do you mind explaining what the motivation might have been for that, as the books see it?
Exactly, today we call them survivalist skills, but really these are skills your grand parents skills had and got from their parents.
IMHO it is a matter of bridging a gap that span only a couple generations. My grand parents were growing food and covering 95% of the needs for a family of 12 with only animal traction. It was a life of much less comfort and convenience but it was sustainable and mostly a happy life.
This idea that it requires lots of flexibility to squat is actually a pernicious myth.

It is really about the angle of your feet and the width of your stance, most anyone without a debilitating injury can learn to squat in a few minutes when given correct instruction.
I think they'll call it the 2024 election cycle coverage.
Apart from gunicorn being easy to configure, i just happened to use gunicorn first. I'm sure the same Dockerfile can be applied with uwsgi. Are there any benefits to using uwsgi over gunicorn? Open to exploring.
>>to understand better how they all compare when having to decide between 5 people who all could do the job well.

Seems like a nice way to hire carpenters, not programmers.
You've made the exact mistake the article is talking about. You're weighting all blocks equally, but at any moment the current block is more likely to be one that was the current block for a long time.
If we’re not willing to escalate there’s no nuclear deterrence.
Actually, that is what happened in the years before EFI. The API for old style PC/AT and PC98 firmware is a patchwork mess of oftentimes-conflicting subsystems that grew over the years.
This was one of the first "non-obvious" optimizations I learned about w/ SQL DBs. Obviously, if you understand how the database works (and allows you to ALTER it quickly), you'll know padding always matters off the bat, but man, wouldn't it be nice if Postgres just optimized your CREATE TABLEs for you?
Yea you know its cute to be okay with people having opposing opinions.

But when one is supported by science, and the other by good will, and the possibility is life and death, I draw a harder line.
I had to use a js library for something today.

npm install downloaded 113 new packages. I'm not even a javascript programmer; I'm saddled with being "full-stack"

I'm supposed to read all that every time I need a new library? Or write it myself, when I have absolutely no idea how to build something that complicated, if I had time, negating the whole point of OSS in the first place?
Only if you're bad at writing organized code in the first place. Which isn't a problem with JS itself.
> German Kraut

Is there another kind? ;)

> There are even stools marketed for squatted position on western style toilets.

I've seen these -- of all places -- in Costco here in Japan. They seem moderately popular since they're sold out sometimes. Personally, I think it's a bit overkill and would rather just plop my feet on a pack of toilet paper. :)
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This is the 'crucial message' that the author is trying to promote:

> His rationale, according to a piece in the Wall Street Journal, is that the Valley is now a politically intolerant culture, left-leaning in the extreme and to the exclusion of any contrarian viewpoints

And it is bullshit. Who can be found shutting down democracy via gerrymandering? Republicans. Who can be found threatening the media from one of the most powerful pulpits in the land? Trump, who seems to have the unyeilding support of the Republican party. Who runs online harrassment campaigns with the explicity aim of silencing people? Gamergate and the red-pill brigade.

The left has made some mistakes and could do a lot of things better, but they can't hold a candle to the right when it comes to insular, parochial, and narrow worldviews marked by groupthink
Yeah that freaking blows. They keep it for compatibility with java. It's not idiomatic code though, you would use an Option.
Not only companies but people's wealth needs to be reset too. If you got rid of inheritance, then you might get closer to a meritocracy.
> there has been a near-100% shared liberal mentality, that has only exploded post-Trump

This is mainly because anyone who doesn't share that liberal mentality has learned to keep their mouths shut or risk their career.
That's not correct. That's the opposite of the correct reason.

Consider a simple (not-exactly-Poisson) set of blocks: 20x1minute intervals, plus 1x10minute interval. The average interval size is (20x1min + 1x10min)/21 = ~1.4min

A random moment in time is twice as likely to be in a fast blocks as in the slow blocks.

But average wait time (given a uniformly random start times) is (20min0.5min + 10min 10min)/30min = 110min^2/30min = ~3.6min.

That per-start-instant average wait time is longer NOT because you are more likely to be in a slow block, but because being in a slow block has a much longer average wait-time than being in any of the fast blocks.
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I do a massive amount of work with indie bands in Melbourne and Bandcamp/Physical Records/Merch is the only way a lot of them make money (other than the rare big show). Most tours lose money.
> bit sad in the era of 64 bit computing still every resource is at most about protected mode.

I've an interest in writing a hobbyist OS, and I completely agree. Also, (almost) everything focuses on BIOS, rather than UEFI. And again, (almost) everything focuses on calling things from C, with a minimal amount of assembly, rather than doing everything from assembly.

I'd like to see a resource which walks through an honest-to-goodness minimal UEFI application written in assembly. At the moment, I think that I'll need to write it myself …
Candidate? He's been the president while now.
Don't forget climate change denial.
The rise of TicketMaster's business in the age of touring has been interesting.

One of the very last interviews Charlie Rose broadcast before his disappearance was a fascinating interview with Live Nation's CEO: https://charlierose.com/guests/12447

hmm. his site is down along with his entire show archive. That is a loss for the Internet.

Rapino talked about how Live Nation has gotten into managing artists directly, buying venues, and doing promotion and logistics for a wide array of artists at a range of scales.

It's a big change now that artist's have a direct microphone to their entire fanbase through Twitter, Instagram, etc.
"That’s why there is and will be an even greater pushback against the idea that a small group of companies and executives can reap vast rewards, dictate the architecture of the online, cloud, AI, and robotic worlds and maintain an insular, parochial, and narrow worldview marked by groupthink."

Slightly strange from the author of 'Zero to One'..
Sure, also becoming a brain surgeon is not hard, just practice only with your friends & family and do not start selling your services to anybody else. Incompetent developers discredit the whole industry, also thanks to clueless managers, who cannot tell a good coder from a bad one and go for the one who can bullshit best (see also Dunning-Kruger vs Imposter Syndrome).
This is the key point IMO. Putting stuff in your code that developers don't understand is a RISK.
Just because evolution is governed by randomness doesn't mean you can't make educated predictions about how an organism will evolve (at least given a set of otherwise constant environmental pressures, which is far from assured in the article's E Coli experiment). This is the whole premise behind convergent evolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
Same here. Bandcamp is the best, but I’m afraid they’ll be ruined by big money at some point.
This is simply incorrect, and the (hypothetical) burden is on you to disprove the theoretical and empirical results that have been shown to prove the solution.

The conditional probability is equal to the unconditional probability, specifically because the Poisson model (which Bitcoin hashing approximates) is a model of fully independent events.
I don't want rhetorics, this is not a matter of winning an argument, I'd like to see your claim substianted to decide if they are valid and receivable.

Until now I've only see unsubstantiated bold claims, cherry picked provided evidence actually not supporting them when read and various logical fallacies attempts to get out of providing data supporting your point (You waiting for someone else to support their point is not proving yours, appealing to authority by linking to 1hour video debate, etc.)
I think they should put a twin bed in cubicles.

It might sound crazy, but if the person is productive who cares?

My left elbow, is larger than my right. I believe it's from my leaning on it, while working, and wasting time on the internet. My neck tightens up once a year, but it goes away within a day.

My point is I have congestive heart failure, or I just like working in bed? (I have no outward symptoms of heart failure.).

The desk, and chair never felt great for myself, even when I was a young buck.
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There is only one truth, there are many possible propagandas.

If the truth cannot be known, then we don’t have democracy, we have government by highest advertising budget.
> I have a load of N2O canisters stashed at home and will go full-balloonatic during festival season

Hahaha!

> There's no way I'd admit to these guys

This absolutely though.

Just to add... I've never used any drugs for performance enhancement, just occasional recreational use with no less than 2 months in between any single consumption, usually 4 times a year. But I'd never talk about this with anyone at work straight up. But we do talk about music, going out, parties, festivals.

So when a colleague name-drops they're going to an electronic music festival that lasts 10 hours into the night with glow-in-the-dark effects where >60% of the drinks that are sold are pure water, you basically have a 99% chance the other person either takes drugs or goes to parties full of people (with friends) who're on drugs, and is completely comfortable with it. And that's when you say went last year and talk about what candy you were on.

Most of these parties are obscure enough to be completely meaningless to people not in the know. The might as well be classical music concerts. Similarly, pictures on FB of colleagues wearing sunglasses and holding a water bottle at a festival can be pretty meaningless to someone who's never had friends using drugs or did it themselves.

There's definitely these little rituals going on that prevent people from knowing if they're not into it themselves.
The point made is to read code to become a better programmer. That doesn't mean you have to read all code you ever use.
Right, you can go backwards, but not with mutability. Weak refs have some of the same problems.[1] You don't get the ability to mutate doubly linked lists this way. Navigate trees, yes; mutate them from below, no.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3csud3/how_do_rust_we...
None of your examples are in the valley though.

I do agree online debate is extremely toxic and partisan on both sides, to the detriment of everyone and leading to groupthink. But that is not what's discussed here.
But how do the ants "dismantle" the bridge?

How do the last ants cross the gap? When and why do they start to break the bridge apart?

Or are the last ants simply left alone to find another way to catch up with the colony?
Read this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16436487

You can do software on a GPU, but you cannot have good guarantees.