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The fact that we’re having these discussions shows to me how immature our industry still is. Say, people figured out pretty well by now how to design, build, maintain and use aircrafts. Not so much spacecrafts, though. Yes, hardware is improving faster than anything, but I wouldn’t say the same about software, unfortunately. I’m still puzzled what CS education does – those graduates seem incapable of doing real coding jobs. And the camps phenomena is a different story all together. As a result, we keep on guessing and experimenting on every project, everywhere. Just imagine the same in the airspace industry (not that they don’t experiment, just in a completely different manner). I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but it seems everything I built or coded wasn’t great: under-engineered, over-engineered, took too long, used wrong platforms, etc. There are certain minimums below which the software is crap, but we never know what they are, and there are no standards that last long enough, as they lack value and have to be rewritten. The big software companies don’t lead, and they are actively opposed by the general industry public; the Open Source community sounds great, but I think that the Every Man for Himself state of the industry is till predominant. So, lots of things to work on and improve – got to sound positive at the end.
> Really makes me wonder why Firefox even bothers with a Reader mode when we have high quality web design like this!

Perhaps someone will make a 'medium' plugin for FF to make the plain reader mode behave more like medium? ;)
Researchers Use Biomimicry and 3D Printing to Develop Robotic Fish
I guess this in response to the passing / maybe passing of it's author, Terry Davis. It's still not fully clear to me if that's a rumor or if it's real.

Regardless, it's clear that Terry is both a tremendously talented and deeply troubled person. But, his personal troubles have nothing to do with the technical merits of what he created - it's impressive, to say the least. These accomplishments, however, don't in any way excuse his egregious behavior. He's a complicated figure.
There is no catch in your example. I thought the point was that in C++, preserving the stack trace when having caught an exception is rather non-trivial.

Exceptions that don't get caught usually allow you to get the stack trace through a crash report/core dump/whatever, but then there's not much difference between an uncaught exception and a plain abort().
DPC & PDC. Digital-Physical Converter, Physical-Digital Converter. Sounds like a good choice of terminology for a new Sci-Fi book.
Didn't Terry just die recently?
I personally enjoyed (and was certainly impacted by) many of the books that I was forced to read during high school. The most memorable ones for me all fell into the "modern classics" category - To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, The Diary of Anne Frank, and so on.
The first company I worked for in Silicon Valley during the dot com boom gave stock options to their receptionist, and after IPO she had enough money to quit and buy a vineyard.
The more I read about TempleOS, the more fascinated I am. I read articles like this one and have trouble imagining how it can possibly work, but I know that's just my Windows/Unix-centric mindset limiting my thinking.

I should really spark up a VM and try it out. It sounds like some quality time with this would expand my view of how a computing environment can work.
Depends on whether it was provably intentional or an accidental omission. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

If the current government has it's way, we may soon find out anyway and that will be an interesting day.

Unfortunately, it means I'm also inconsistent in how the right of free speech is applied. I don't like the idea of people being denied access to abortions. At the same time, I despise and detest anyone who tries to hide behind the color of religion to deny services to people in need of abortion services or even just denying services to LGBTQ people who just want a damn cake.

I haven't worked out a consistent framework of thought except to say "I hate assholes, people who are intentionally assholes and to hell with the people who support them."
Hard state soft state confusion
Well, I’ll playing the devils advocate here.
In case you are thinking it was a complete failure, I would like to cite one example where one unscrupulous builder went out of business.
His name is DS Kulkarni and he ran a shadow bank of his own. Collected money from people promising huge returns on FD’s.
Post demonetization, he couldn’t return their money, and now, he and his entire family is in prison.
I love the idea of space elevators, but I agree that it probably won't be practical on earth for a long time if ever.

> It needs to never get struck by lightning. It is a particularly attractive lightning rod.

Haven't buildings solved this problem with lightning rods?

On another note, I am personally fascinated by space elevators which is why I am somewhat interested in going back to the moon where we can build a space elevator with today's tech, avoid all of these problems, and have a large body of resources to build/fuel spaceships with.
further -> farther
Yes. It's convenience and cost vs risk.
Not minimizing the Lagrangian, but finding the extrema.
No one seems to know for sure. There was a rumor but no proof.
Alt-C is another feature I like. Fuzzy find directories to cd into. I'm a bit of a fanboy at this point.
Reader mode is about:reader, which is protected from modifications by extensions. (This annoys me, because I’d like an actual black on white theme in reader mode, and I can’t do that without, if I recall correctly, userContent.css modifications, which you can’t do on mobile.)
Too much chance to scratch the phone or watch if it’s also kept there.
> Here is an interesting exercise - name 5 silicon valley conservative stalwarts.

Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Palmer Luckey, Tom Perkins, David Sacks.... and for extra credit: Jeremy Tunnel, Curtis Yarvin, Brendan Eich, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Ted Dzuiba...
Keeping them in lots of separate places just magnifies the probability of the public not being able to view them.
For me, your answer started picking steam from 4th point onwards.
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Actually the cable will extend well beoynd that point. 36Mm is the altitide where the elevator would be travelig at orbital speed. Jump out any lower and you will drop back to earth. Unless you jump very hard (using rockets or something).
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It's an anecdotal silver lining thats far outweighed by the negatives.
I've yet to see any evidence of "dog-whistles" having any basis in reality.
I don't think the news articles are biased, in fact it properly reflects the current state in India.

I was a strong supporter of Modi during the elections and through the demonetization process. But as I see the rich who had tonnes of cash were able to exchange most of the cash without lot of issues. I am sure there were long lines, it was inconvenient, it was stressful - but most of the cash got exchanged. I heard about a lot of people who used the 2 lakh tax-free income limit to deposit the cash and get it back (basically if I have 1 crore in black money, all I have to do is find 50 poor people and deposit 2 lakhs each into their accounts. Once deposited the rich person can get the money back in new bills and they pay the poor guy some cash for his trouble - trust me it's not hard to find poor people who are willing to take this trouble). The government can't question the poor guy because he's within his 2 lakh limit and need to have to show any proof where it came from. The rich is happy and the poor guy is also happy.

Now, people lost trust in the banking system, there are limits on withdrawals, ATMs out of cash, no one wants to deposit the money back - everyone wants to hold on to their cash. If people don't deposit cash, banks can't lend (btw, banks are writing off crores of money as NPAs already, that's another problem) and ultimately the economy will stagnate.

Personally I think this experiment was done with good intention to curb all black money and move over everyone into banking system - but not thoroughly thought out and it's a failure.
Sounds like replicators in Star Trek
Gone to sleep for the final time.

Ash to ... And dust to dust.
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I think the idea might be to sell souvenirs to support the cause, not bulk plastic.
Lab-grown brain bits open windows to the mind
That’s the same guy!
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I used to believe the same as you and wrote quite a few web apps with dedicated backends and frontends. The overhead and amount of redundancy doesn’t seem worth it to me anymore though and I’ve turned to hybrid apps. Development time has dramatically improved and I’ve lost literally nothing.
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The slightly counter intuitive point is that you only have to transport wall material.

An inflatable "house" is conceptually completely possible.

Airplanes have to be small because of air resistance. Space stations have no such constraints.
> The Attorneys General and Interior Ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand affirm the following principles in relation to encryption.

It has full support of the right people for this to be a statement made by the international cooperation that is the Five Eyes alliance.
Selling real estate for half in cash and half in bank deposits (wire transfer or whatever) is just a lot more convenient than half in bank deposits and half in commodities that aren't nearly as liquid.

You can then take that cash with you to your next real estate purchase, or maybe break it up over time -- maybe take less cash out when you deposit your paychecks, maybe buy larger small items with cash, maybe pay for part of your car with cash, etc.
The point being made is that, in order to promote the divisiveness that yields more ad revenue (through increased "watch time"), the YouTube algorithms disproportionately promote positions that are morally wrong, factually incorrect, or both.

Brexit may not be the best example, because (perhaps, arguably) there could be legitimate arguments for the pro-Brexit stance.

Vaccination might be a better illustration.

Promulgating the view that "vaccines are a hoax, and vaccinating your child will cause autism, or let the government achieve mind control" is both incorrect (scientifically, factually) and wrong (morally). Those convinced by this view put their child and other children around their child at grave risk.

A system that promotes this view over the established, normative, scientifically validated consensus view that we should vaccinate our children, to the point that it changes opinions and behavior, is harmful to public discourse (and harmful to children).

This is true whether automated/algorithmic, or intentionally devised and operated by people with malevolent intent.

At scale, these phonomena become harmful to democracy itself. Democracies are diminished when their subjects believe false information, especially objectively harmful false information whose belief causes disease, stuctural collapse of infrastructure, etc.

Since we are now observing this happening to various extents in various areas of society, we should use our power as democratic citizens to compel operators such as YouTube to provide real data on what their algorithms are selecting, so that we can understand the effect on our society.

At least, that's what I got out of his tweet.
Serious question: How do you even convert Bolivars to Bitcoin anyway? Who is selling Bitcoin for Bolivars?

Anyway even counterfeit dollars would probably hold their value better than the Bolivar. It's hard enough to print counterfeit money (unless you have the resources of a state) that the supply is probably significantly more constrained than the Bolivar even if a significant portion of the dollars in Venuzuela were counterfeit. Until there's someone pumping out convincing fake dollars as fast as Bolivars are printed you still might be better off holding onto possibly-fake dollars. Even if 70% of your $5k is fake, the remainder won't inflate away like Bolivars will.

I'll grant that Bitcoin are probably better than fake dollars though.
Probably the same way the Vietnamese defeated a nuclear power. Or Cuba. Or the English Navy against the Invincible Armada. Or any other number of times an underpowered force beat a superior one.
Power glitching has been known for a long time to defeat microcontroller copy protection, and so is the use of EMP; but the trick is to not induce latchup, which will cause permanent physical damage.
In Asimov's Foundation book series, after ten thousands years Humanity loses all memories of Earth, even its location, after it was abandoned because it became radioactive. The theme of History volatility is recurring: some key events in the multi-century plot get also forgotten. The loss causes a feeling of sadness, but at the same time --and I guess this was his intention-- remarks that human spirit, the ideas of freedom and fraternity, is the important thing and what deserves to endure.

I'm sorry to hear the news but let me keep this bit: "As of writing, no deaths or injuries have been reported."
I would argue that in the case of file-sharing that it's Trolling when the plaintiff is going after an individual who, when removed from the system of distribution, would have no real effect on the rate or availability of the copyrighted work. Someone just downloading a copy would always fit this definition, and while BitTorrent always involves some amount of "distribution" by the legal definition, they don't represent a distributor in a meaningful way.

Going after this individual does not protect the the monetization of the copyrighted work. The individual's actions only represent the loss of motorization for the single copy they might have purchased. The only possible argument for this protecting monetization of the copyrighted work would be some kind of "chilling effect" on others sharing, but given the prevalence of file sharing after decades of such legal cases, this seems like a extremely weak argument.

Given that, then only reasonable conclusion is that the they are attempting to make money using the law itself, rather then using it to protect the monetization of the copyrighted work.
Why do I need a concrete box with a leather cradle for this? My phone has a feature - conveniently also called “airplane mode” - that does this.
Black coffee breaks your fasting cycle.
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China bans Australia's public broadcaster (ABC), claims internet 'fully open'
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>evangelism (convert to christianity for money)

Is that ... really common in India?
I think that I’m just uncovering a personal tacit assumption. I grew up in a household with a lot of 60s and 70s sci-fi books and magazines, so that was where my mind immediately went. I also need to have my arm twisted to admit that star wars is sci-fi. I suspect someone could write an amazing series of coffee table books threading all this together, comics, magazines, games, tv, movies. It would be glorious
Traditionally, bypassing security protection and extracting secret from physical devices requires decapsulation of the chip package, and using UV rays, laser beams, ion beams, microprobes, electronic microscopes to interference with and modify the circuity. This requires a high budget of ~10,000+ dollars, and usually prohibitively expensive enough to stop most attackers.

Improvements of practical side-channel attacks and non-invasive fault-injection attacks is really disturbing. In the end, there is nothing to keep my private key from being extracted out of the smartcard...
That’s exactly what the article talks about.
Thanks, this is super helpful terminology to know.
Its most likely we are heading for 4 degree warming, I have very little faith that this type of collective action problem will be solved in time.

Best way to protect yourself is to invest in real estate up north and in inland parts of the world.

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The time horizon is too long though, I wish 4 degree warming happened much quicker so that I can reap the rewards of my investment earlier. /s.

]
I think, for all that Terry has done with TempleOS, I'm sure he could have done a lot lot more if he didn't have his mental health issues holding him back. I really hope that one day if he could get a bit better he could do some really wonderful things. If it is true that he has passed away, that is sad – not just sad in the sense that it is always sad when someone dies, but sad that this possibility would then be forever foreclosed.
Then you've been trying to avoid it. It's easy to signal a racial worldview without making it explicit. Your comment, for example, does precisely that.
my understanding is that keep code modular, if it repeats 3 times then 'maybe' abstract it, and no matter what you do .. in time you'd have to rewrite from scratch if not all but parts of it.

there is no future proofing as there is no way to predict or time to put effort in predicting how business needs are going to change, how apis you talk are going to change, and how technologies you use are going to change.

it's easier to just write simple functions, that you can come to later and see what they do quickly and change them.

Only on going problem I do have is dependency, that I've to check every thing that used the said function, does it continue to work
If you take them once a quarter/year, they are fine. But if you have load patterns where you want to pay for what you use and not over provision the DB significantly then you can't rely on maintenance windows. I think we will get there eventually with even RDBMS getting solutions like Aurora Serverless but right now most of them don't work well.
Sometimes people are motivated are pay a premium if they feel the cause is good (it can be marketed on the product). In this case, how much would the difference be?
These accomplishments, however, don't in any way excuse his egregious behavior.

Every time TempleOS comes up, someone chimes in with a remark like this. Can't we just focus on the technical aspects?
China is definitely not stagnating. In fact some parts of China may have started to eat SV lunch.

China is already the hardware capital of the world. If they play their cards right, they could make a big dent in software as well. It’s a huge market, speaking the same language on the same currency.

That’s exactly why YC wants to enter China.
I've been under the impression that hopping from CS academia to startups is incredibly common, to the extent that such a transition is pretty destigmatized relative to other fields. This may be me speaking from the SV bubble, however.
> understand that if you do a PULL only CDN, you're not going to gain big benefits.

This statement makes no sense. A CDN edge node is just a cache; its size and your access patterns determine the hit ratio.

At $dayjob we get Nginx cache hit ratios on our edge in excess of 99% for “an origin fetch” setup. That is a very large benefit.

Cloudflare works entirely on origin fetch. They seem to be doing okay.
Imagine the force required to make governments do their share to prevent >2 degree shift.

There is a cost to compliance. There is a point where the damage is so incalcuable that you are compelled to force compliance on all other governments.
> Most people who cry against demo are those who do it, just because they dislike Modi as a person

No not really, people are crying because messing with money happens in banana republics, I thought India was better.

> They would not be able to substantiate how they were personally impacted.

I personally lost 10,000 Rs because I dont want to go to India to exchange the notes, who is going to reimburse me when the govt steals my hard earned money?
Each form of medicine has its advantages and disadvantages one should not be dismissive of other forms treatments just based on popular opinions also One should not put all their faith on alternative forms of medicine too and be aware of when there are proven treatments or hype created by dubious practitioners or marketed online. Sometimes the treatments may not work as each medical problem uses body's own healing powers to support those treatments.
I have three recent experiences to share
1. 3 years back my father who was 67 then suffered from severe pain in lower back due to which he could not stand or walk after 10 min.on investigation it was found out the pain was due to one the spinal discs in back was pushing against the nerves and would need to be operated upon this was the opinion of multiple doctors and as per them it was a routine procedure. But we had heard of lot of horror stories with regards of spine surgeries. So my father refused,him being a diabetic and a heart patient he said better be in pain than being in bed for rest of his life. Well he was recommended a acupuncture doctor by friends and he decided to try him out. After 3-5 month his condition improved and now he can go for morning walks every day for 2-3 kms.
2. I met my neighbors who I had seen after an year on enquiry the lady who is 82 years told me she had suffered severe spine related issue with one of her discs leaking fluids and was bedridden. The consulting doctors told her surgery in her case was very risky due her age and other health problems and gave her medication for pain management when her situation did not improve he himself suggested the family to try our Ayurveda based treatment which includes massages and natural medication at one of the good hospitals south india. She was treated as inpatient for three month and later physical therapy at home. Now she is no longer bed ridden and does light household work like cooking and walk slowly.
3. I suffer from chronic kidney stone problem recently I had 6-8 mm stone which I was not able to pass and was suffering sharp pains doctor suggested simple surgery. Instead I followed standard homeopathic medication quite common in India along with natural remedy and I passed the stone 2-3 days later.
He might have just been arrested. https://oilcitywyo.com/crime/2018/08/30/recent-arrests-8-30-...

Someone else said he wasn't in wy though.
It's a little more thought out than you give them credit. Imagine a pair of lawnchairs made from "ocean cleanup plastic", the idea is that people would pay a large premium for this. It's like a brand that saves the world.

I don't think that such a bad idea actually.
Have you tried Org mode tables? They have some spreadsheet functionality, but I'm not sure how big the overlap is.
Another common trick is clock glitching.
Millions of priceless artifacts destroyed due to negligence by Brazil and all of the museums that loaned artifacts to a museum that didn't care to protect them.