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Even if only 2% of projects have an irrational hatred of MS and are scrambling to migrate away, that's still a huge influx to Gitea/Gitlab/etc in a short space of time.
Well that's a Holy Fuck moment for me.

I thought the parent here had made a off-by-orders of magnitude error - how can a liter of petrol (which itself is only a kg) produce 2.31kg of CO2 ... i mean work it out, all the carbon would have to attach to 2x oxygen ... ok that might just ... err ...

see this reference for a walk through of the calculation -
http://ecoscore.be/en/info/ecoscore/co2

Every time I pour petrol into my tank I am basically pouring twice that weight of CO2 into the atmosphere.

I may be very dumb but I never thought if it like that before. I always assumed CO2 was a minor byproduct ... but like breathing.

oh dear.
If he’s spending $2K on a bike then he’s not living a “modest” life.
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i found it very funny when i saw some people be a part '#deletefacebook' movement and go on to post on Instagram.
Why move though ? Just curious.
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keeping track of what former colleagues are up to was my main use for it
The mere fact that you are looking at real estate as an investment rather than as a place to live indicates that you have far more financial resources than a typical person. For a typical person it is not a realistic option to discard their entire social network and move halfway across the country just to get some more favorable mortgage laws.
Remembering the EFF's recent EFAIL alarmist campaign against GPG, it's worrying how they seem to have recently gotten so many things wrong. It sadly destroys one's credibility in a debate when the opponent can paint you as someone simply misinformed.
> This is true about a lot of regulations

Managing how the regulatory burden falls is a core part of lawmaking. GDPR fails in this respect.

Complain-investigate regimes (where complaints frequently trigger a regulatory interaction) are effective. They're also among the most-onerous forms of oversight. (Second to mandatory licensing and auditing.)

Add to that the power of each of the EU's twenty-eight national data regulators to interpret the rules. Result? A law that's great for Facebook and Google and terrible for almost anyone else. To wit, Facebook and Google's shares of EU advertising has risen since GDPR went into effect.
In the grand scheme of things likely not, it's just a vocal minority that can dominate the perspective on social media and places like Reddit, talking about exodus and betrayal and who knows what. Sadly, it works...and it twists the narrative.

The reports from Gitlab that they've had a significant uptick in signups can't be ignored though. Probably people in search of a new underdog since Atlassian and Bitbucket are out of the equation there.
A little careless and embarrassing to admit on my part... but I migrated away because the Microsoft purchase reminded me I was paying for a service I no long used. GitLab has free private repos. GitHub does not.
There are more people employed as solar installers in West Virginia than as coal miners in West Virginia.
I don't think it's fair to compare an L2 system to an L5 system, though. My sense is that a very good ADAS (L2) system will reduce overall fatalities, while causing a small number of additional ones through human misuse of the system. This accident seems like the latter case.
Oh, you can deal without colors, but you're intentionally depriving yourself of data, as you now have Safety Gray, Danger Gray, Warning Gray and Traffic Gray. Not to worry, those colors probably didn't mean anything important anyway.
If I was building this, I would upload millions of hours of data from actual Tesla drivers, and I would have autopilot releases step through data and flag the variances from the behavior of the actual drivers. I'd run this in a massively parallel fashion.

For every release, I'd expect the score to improve. With a system like this, I would think you'd detect the "drive towards traffic barrier" behavior.
Sure, but not from fact-check. I'm sure I could also dig up more if I spent more than a minute searching:

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> can sports journalists recognize 540 athletes?

Well... I don't know if that's a fair comparison. Members of Congress don't generally walk around with their names embroidered on their shirts (but, hey, that might be a good idea!)
"Performance" in a text editor means latency, and it's not going to matter there when the text editor also has to edit the text, update the display, etc.

"Performance" in a server also means throughput. There's a reason why protobufs exist and it is all about performance (and type safety which is related) and there's no way JSON serialize/deserialize overhead, in both directions every time, is going to be a good choice here.
> Every locality thinks that everyone else should relieve the burden of housing because they are already "crowded" and new residents mean more money needed for services, which is a hard ask in a place like CA where raising local taxes is fiendishly difficult.

The localities have a point. Why should existing residents pay for new infrastructure, to accommodate housing for 10,000 new residents (All because large tech firms keep building offices in the valley?)

In a proper world, either the tech giant, or those new employees should pay for those infrastructure improvements.

Traditionally, this has been done through high re-zoning and subdivision fees.
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> Safety-critical field has done that with both C++ and Java for some time now.

Every company/project uses a subset of C++ for a variety of reasons. The problem is, all those subsets are different, and as a result, if you want to rely on the ecosystem, you eventually have to deal with the entire language. Maybe you avoid exceptions/pointers/new&delete/template-meta-programming/the-coprocessor, but the libraries you need don't.

This is visible already in Nim, where the GC is optional, but most libraries (and most of the standard library) does depend on it.

It works well without GC, but you lose out on most of the existing libraries and many parts of the ecosystem.

> Regarding that, does Nim allow one to turn off GC, mess with pointers, and twiddle bits like in C?

It lets you twiddle bits without having to turn off the GC - it has GC-tracked pointers ("ref"s) and non-GC ones ("ptr"s). the GC is per-thread, with time limits but it can also be turned off.

> Or improve with macros, type-safe wrappers, and so on?

Nim macros are not quite at the Lisp level, but they are extremely powerful.

There are various features for type safety that DON'T require wrappers, e.g. you could define "meters" and "yards" as two distinct 64-bit double types, which means you can't add them or assign one to a variable of the other kind, even though they are still essentially a C-style typedef. This is a much more elegant solution than the C++/Python/SmallTalk/Java/C# crowd, where you have to define a class with a lot of methods, which is still clunky, and hope that the compiler will be able to optimize it back down to a plain old double.
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The idea that solar panels take more energy to produce than they are able to output would make solar panels economically unviable as the energy cost must be recovered to at least break even. That may have been true several decades ago but the solar panels of today are competing economically just fine.
In any case, let a third party control the actual updating, so that we know when and how often cars are updated. Require at least X months of time between code submission and deployment to cars. We don't want a culture of "quick fixes".
Wait, you start in Rome or England?? History lessons in western society better start in Ancient Greece, don't you think?
GitHub's permission system is quite brittle here: Anyone with write access to a repository can silently swap out binaries on the releases page, which are then still listed as "Verified" if the commit is signed. It's a complex problem, but the current approach feels subpar.
I assume "here" is USA, but you could be converting to dollars from local currency?
An alternative motive, which makes slightly more sense to me, is that oil and gas companies have a vested interest in developing this kind of technology because that's the only way their business will survive in the long run. Fooling people (including the editors of peer-reviewed scientific journals) with spurious research into CO2 recapture methods seems about as hard, and still not as effective, as actually developing those methods.

Plus, if they successfully develop the technology, they get to run two complementary businesses instead of just one, kind of like owning a bar with a pay toilet.
I’m curious about that as well. The wiki showed that kerogen looks very similar to chlorophyll. So how is it not safe to conclude it was made by life? Are there any non living sources of it?
The GP is saying that a regulation’s unintended or higher-order effects can create a net negative impact on society. Why “should” such regulations exist?
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> When California lab inspectors visited Theranos, they physically blocked off the door leading to a floor that had the Siemens equipment, presumably to hide the fact that they were not conducting tests on their own proprietary machines.

No, it was the other way around: the inspectors only got to see the STANDARD equipment, not the proprietary machines.
It's a really simple explanation to refute deniers, not a scientific paper
You don't need something like gitfiti.

Just use the date parameter of the git commit command: git commit --date "Foo Jan 1 00:00:01 CEST 2011" -m "What".
I think one of the biggest problems is having to start (almost) from scratch. You can run pretty much any software you want in a container - even if you just have the binary. With a unikernel, you'd have to write the software specifically for the unikernel.
The earth will be fine. Life will be fine, though it may not include humanity or many of the species we recognise or use for food and comfort.

> Human beings have been releasing CO2 for a lot longer than the Otto cycle has been around

When there were a lot fewer human beings and each individual released far less CO2. Industrialisation has brought leverage to our use of carbon, and the rate of change has become unprecedented.

> The Earth had far higher CO2 concentrations in the past

...and has also had sea levels a hundred feet or more higher than today. Which would do what to our major cities?

Do we wait for our cities to start being lost and the outside air to feel stuffy all the time before we take this remotely seriously? Or perhaps just wait until there's immediate and catastrophic danger? (ie when it's too late to do anything about)

> human behavior is not the only possible cause of net changes in atmospheric composition

I don't believe anyone would seriously claim that, but that humanity has added to the numerous existing sources. There are now enough humans using enough carbon through vehicles, heat, light, consumer goods and all the other things of development that the ecosystem can't simply squelch the results of human activity any more. We're seeing it in a whole range of areas outside of CO2, like loss of habitats and species etc.
Think how much tax payer money those bureacrats wasted. Unbelievable
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During the last ice age there is evidence that suggests the Earth's temperature rose 10-15 degrees in less than 10 years. In fact, during the last 110k years represented in the Greenland Ice Sheet Project the climate shifted dramatically multiple times over periods of a few years to maybe a couple of dozen years. During the last 110k years the most stable has been the last 11k years, which is kind of just dumb good luck for us living today.

Current anthropomorphic climate change models suggest we might see 2-3 degree changes in 100 years. I believe the science is likely accurate here. I support moving towards renewables and just about anything else generally supported by the climate change crowd. However, I think the panic button has been pushed a little too hard on this issue. I think things like overfishing the ocean and even plastics in the ocean are going to be bigger problems in the short run than human caused climate change.

Generally speaking this kind of nuance isn't allowed. The kind of response that says "If water rises a few feet, move a few feet inland, you've got a century of notice. If you have to farm over there instead of over here, then farm over there instead." is sacrilegious. To many, I would be considered a "climate denier."
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Yeah, that’s the thing. As programmers we often forget that we only exist to support the business. Code comes and goes, but we wouldn’t have jobs if the business didn’t exist.
Those other countries have developing economies and populations. It won't be long before the other large countries stop seeing the US as significant -- they'll be trading with each other where appropriate.

Isolationist policies result in the obvious: isolation.
Presumably, Zeno's Paradox will be hard at work. We don't have to remove it all in one go. We just have to remove it faster and faster and faster, as we get closer to the limit (whatever that limit is).

This isn't my field, but so many human endeavors go like that. Just buy a little time so we can figure out how to do better, which then buys time to figure out how to do even better.
>> it's not the media's fault that billion dollar titans of industry lie to the media for profit, especially because the media lacks the necessary access to verify the claims, so all they can do is report the claim as stated (which is what they did)

I fail to see the relevance of assigning blame here. If you grant what he suggests then you can apportion blame in a variety of plausible ways.

>>... or are you suggesting they just never report on industry claims?

I'm not sure there is any reasonable solution here. Industry claims, especially projections, can be quite dubious at times. It's difficult to explain why when you are trying to appeal to a wide audience, however. The media just isn't in a good position to verify or discredit claims like that.

>> Where is the strawman? What you've stated here is literally my argument, that is, it's not the media's fault that billion dollar titans of industry lie to the media for profit, especially because the media lacks the necessary access to verify the claims, so all they can do is report the claim as stated (which is what they did)... or are you suggesting they just never report on industry claims?

You just said his argument was "don't trust this story or the media in general." His claim was that in certain circumstances the surface implication of the media's reporting of PR numbers is very misleading. That's it. It's quite a simple statement that in no way implies what you have repeatedly suggested he claims.

>> He actually did make that claim farther down this thread, however, I never accused him of suggesting that, all I said was that he is suggesting we "don't trust this story or the media in general".

I'll take your word for it; he must have deleted it or it is hidden although I can't find it on the thread. I would be surprised if he did that because it is quite a ridiculous statement that would expose him to ridicule and is logically unnecessary for his argument.
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This likely means that you work on systems whose needs are very different from the average needs.

Applications absolutely need to be debugged in production, debugging does not only happen upstream before deployments. Unexpected things happen so you might need to list the current TCP connections, view the socket buffer sizes, produce a core dump, view metrics you didn't anticipate at development - even attach a debugger directly on a very bad day. (Please don't get hung up on these specific examples though - the point is more that the last decades have allowed us great system introspection into a production environment running on a traditional OS).

The perfect world where all that would be unnecessary for most people is not even close yet. People are largely not yet willing to give up on being able to ssh into their server and use the available tools to do troubleshooting
, nor are they willing to change the development practice where that could largely be avoided.
I think he means American History vs French history. World History is going to world history no matter where you take it.
I agree with this point, it seems most people don't get the fact that most of the debugging is happening in the development phase (before building an unikernel) and when you need to debug in production I think that's certainly not as difficult as it seems.

There's no issue with logging through network as opposed to logging to a file that you need to pull to see the contents (containers).

It's also common to have a debugging interface over network that you can use to inspect program state (eg. Clojure nREPL, node.js inspector protocol, and this can be built into any environment), I'm pretty sure even Rust can have networked REPL that can satisfy most debugging needs.
I'm converting because earlier messages used dollars as well. I doubt that taxes that high exist anywhere in the US (1 USD/litre being almost 4 USD/gallon after all).
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The thing is, if the OS-level utility replicated that with quarter-track increments so that the same data is read back, it would be fooled. The consumer Apple II Drive (Disk II) has only quarter track increments; it cannot follow a smooth spiral. If a copy protection is based on a smooth spiral, it has to somehow depend on detecting the quantization errors due to the track skew, the absence of which reveals that there is a quantized, piece-wise spiral. If the skew didn't cause any issues with reading, then the software couldn't tell the difference between the smooth spiral and the fake staircased one.
You are making the big assumption this article is accurate and scalable. I’m not so sure.

You’re also assuming that capturing everything scales linearly from capturing something.
All content will have to go through "filters" - that means it is the end of end to end encrypted services.
On top of the fact that this probably doesn’t scale up to geo-engineering scales linearly even if you assume the article is correct in the costs it gives.
I disagree with the conclusion. Article has some critiques on DRL, but I don't think those invalidate the field as a whole. Even the article has a section for "When could Deep RL work for me?"
>but our current welfare system is better than nothing.

I feel like you're trying to have it both ways. On one hand you say that our current welfare system simply subsidizes shareholders. You seem to believe that if we phased out welfare that the poor would wind up in the same place they are today because they would demand higher wages. In other words, it provides no benefit to the well-being of the poor. And yet you say it's better than nothing. How can that be?
The diehard AGW "skeptic" needs just two simple maneuvers to counter any high-profile messenger warning about climate risks:

1) If the messenger has not invested their own money into efforts to reduce emissions, say "they won't put their money where their mouth is."

2) If the messenger has invested their own money into efforts to reduce emissions, say "they're just scaring people about climate to profit from their investments."
~70% participation rate in $1M angel round for serial founder with strong network doesn't strike me as an extreme outlier. Nor the "ask" set of 40+.

Bootstrapping the first company as a nobody may be the more interesting tale here ;)

But thanks for sharing, rand! Am also currently researching Carta, CapShares, TrueEquity, etc. and this is insightful.
> There is zero reason whatsoever that employers cannot allow people breaks.

I agree with you here, completely, but it's the world some people live in. And, I don't think telling people that the behavior they are forced to engage in frequently, as a result of the bankrupt power structures they have to operate in, is degrading, is going to help them at all.

> everything in your post sounds horrible.

To you, and i'm sure to many others, as well, maybe even most. That doesn't mean it translates to the folks who live these lives.

> There is absolutely no justification for it, none.

Other than objective reality, sure.
Those who lose those obsolete jobs have a higher probability of dying than you do. The stress literally kills people, even if they don't commit suicide or wind up addicted to opioids.
Most of the comments seem to be about the page design, for a page that was probably created in the 90s. Nevertheless, Emerald the language is pretty fascinating, and way ahead of its time (it was developed in the mid to late 80s). They had strong static typing, including getting co-/contravariance right a decade before Java got it wrong! It was the first object-oriented language that I know of to have a statically-typed structural type system. In fact, the technique that Go uses to implement dynamic dispatch was independently invented 20 years earlier in Emerald. And its objects were mobile, which very few languages even today attempt.
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I agree with everything you say, and would like to note this:

You have just written a simple and alternative specification for "government" :)
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I would expect the opposite. If carbon sequestration is cheap, then it's not a big deal to demand that businesses purchase offsets to be carbon neutral.

But, I'm still skeptical because these sorts of breakthroughs are always overhyped. If it's real, the proof is in the pudding.
Eventually, but for now it's a 50% reduction over coal.
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Clojure (Luminus) on the backend, ClojureScript / Reagent / Re-Frame on the front-end.
Until Microsoft does anything shady I'm staying put with both personal and business projects. I rather give them the opportunity to improve an already good service.

Try justifying to management moving to gitlab because Microsoft...
Coal prices vary, but can be as low as $50/ton. If you set the price for carbon burial much higher than that, it enables a business model you might not want to encourage.
I'd argue Ruby and Clojure are an order of magnitude more expressive and much more complete languages. Python has a lot of cruft such as crippled lambdas, __dunder__, self everywhere, add-on regexes, method/function confusion, no :? ternary, quoted string dict keys and no switch/case, to name a few.