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The crucial difference is that (IIRC) in ballistic descent you don't angle the craft to gain altitude and prolong reentry.

Normally you'd slightly angle the craft downwards or upwards to alter the trajectory in the air, during reentry this allows you to stay longer at high altitudes and burn off more speed before you burn it at lower altitudes (literally).

The shape of the craft not being a wing is largely irrelevant, with sufficient speed even a brick can fly.
I don't know enough on this topic, so kindly pardon my ignorance, but while I'm aware that neutrino detectors can pick up particles punching through the ground, that's a few dozen meters of ground tops, is it not?

For a particle to survive tens of thousands of miles through dense rock and come out the other side and register with the detector makes me ask:

1. Just how many particles are discharged by the event and/or passing through the earth at the time of the reading?

2. What's so special about the composition of the detector that it's able to pick up particles that have not been stopped by the entirety of the Earth?

I'm not asking these questions dismissively. I'm keen to learn. I'm also aware I'm making many assumptions here. Please question or contradict all of my assumptions if possible.
>>As one of the few programmers who has worked in CL commercially in this century

As some one new, but with active interest in Lisp, I'm genuinely curious to know the projects you've worked on.
Most of what Lanier has to say isn't predictive - it's description and prescriptive. In other words he's not guessing at some ghastly future, he's describing the ways that social networks are manipulating behaviour right now, and some of the affects that's having. Similarly his analysis of AI is about reframing whats actually going on as digital sharecropping, rather than laying out a future course of developing.

Also - should hardly need pointing out, but philosophy has never had a project to 'predict the future'. That's futurology, which I agree is largely hooey.
This product seems to be more about sending a file to another FAX machine that accepts files, presumably so you didn't have to own a MODEM.

They got this wrong.

In the days when FAX was used for things like sending purchase orders, what was needed was a means of putting a file on a floppy, walking to the FAX machine, then sending off a 'PDF' from there, removing the need to print out the form first.

Faxes were still sent a decade ago for this type of task, however, in a big office you had just the one physical FAX machine rather than everyone having a MODEM at their desk. It would take a little while to get things printed and shoved through the FAX machine, saving to disk would have cut down on the paper and enabled clearer documents to be sent.
How does that even work? Does Windows not have proper hard/soft links? Don't you maybe have to do some weird things to get around them?
Absolutely nothing wrong, I agree, I'm just saying that there's still a computer somewhere along the way.
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The USA has 7.1 fatalities per billion km driven.

Thats 1 fatality per ~100M miles on average.

So presumably Waymo would have to drive a few hundred million miles without a fatality to conclusively be able to say 'we are safer'.
There are some indications that relative inequality creates vocal anger and unrest, however, it generally takes quite low levels of actual living standards (or physical security) before masses of people become willing to actually risk their lives in violent overthrows of the regime.

Historically, "Bread and circuses" is sufficient to keep disgruntled poor masses just disgruntled but not revolting; regimes get overthrown either when the rulers can't provide bread anymore, when they do unbearable physical harm (e.g. disappearances, torture, etc), or when an external force comes in. And currently it's not a big burden on the economy to just provide lots of cheap food and entertainment for everyone to pacify them, that can be done with just a few percent of GDP.
Dragonflies is where its at. These guys supposedly have one of the best eye vision of all species. Now compare that thing with flying camera drones. Anything we can build is so much inferior to what a Dragonfly can do.
It's clear what the author meant, yeah, but the fact that they blithely throw around big numbers while clearly not understanding what they mean does affect their overall credibility.
> as people we generally hate going to work, but at the same time we also fear losing our incomes
Be specific. Which statements are attacking CRDTs?
That piqued my interest and I found this delightful video from 1969 on youtube: https://youtu.be/MkxBmviMy_E covering the launch of the B6500. It has some surprisingly interesting technical details.
I believe that means you're more or less using it as intended. Protobuffers are intended for serialization. In go, serialization is often handled at a separate layer from the business logic.
That’s how Long the lambda runs executes a single invocation for. Not how Long the lambda runs.
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I've seen multiple reports that the crew's first indication of a problem was that they felt weightless and that objects in the cabin were floating. Maybe there was also an instrumentation-based warning for the crew or ground, but it's odd that nobody is mentioning it.
Maybe just fix that bug instead of deleting user data? Just a thought.
The banana dying is my favorite trope. It's true, but it's been dying for a long time and we've known it's been in trouble for a long time. What with all plants being clones, no genetic diversity and having to jump from one variety to the next every time a disease or fungus gets the current variety's number.

Cavendish, like Gros Michel before it is definitely doomed. Maybe we can mix and match for a few more generations. Maybe GMO bananas will be the only answer. In which case anti-GMO people will have to decide which they like more, bananas or fear mongering.

Or maybe if we're doing gene editing, we can bring the Gros Michel back, you know, since Cavendish was thought of as a second rate banana.
Also note that there actually is a team hard at work improving the console, so fixes will probably come. See the last two entries in this blog: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/tag/console/
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I like this one more https://lisp-lang.org
I left Google after three years as an SDE because I had really really had enough of my bosses, I wasn't promoted when I figured I deserved it, and a project that meant a lot to me wasn't getting the staffing it needed to succeed.

I left for a more senior position at a smaller, less prestigious software company, though I've moved again since. Right now I'm working remotely from Toronto for a Silicon Valley start-up.

Ultimately, I wish I had approached working for Google a bit differently. I thought it was sort of an overgrown startup, and you were supposed to look for something that needed doing and do it. No. Google is a large highly structured company with a distinctly process-oriented culture. It's a place where you do what you are told. That famous proverb about Japanese nails absolutely applies. I eventually figured that out, but by then it was too late.
This really makes me excited, there is no reason why we cannot implement a thorough type-system like qi and shen on top of common-lisp for massive teams, the repl experience is still unparalleled, and I for one would love more libraries popping up, so maybe more people can make a business case for it. Machine learning in python is nice, but I would definitely enjoy common lisp for it too!
Some good discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056

Bottom line is that at least in California, employees theoretically have the right to IP developed in their own time on their own hardware, but in practice, there are numerous caveats, and litigation can be extremely risky.

One of the caveats is that the invention should not overlap with a company's "existing or anticipated line of business", and with the FAANGs being such behemoths, that can cover almost any form of software development.
SBCL [0] is a fork of CMU CL [1], and both are actively maintained projects.

[0] https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/cmucl/cmucl

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/sbcl/sbcl/ci/master/tree/
ooh thanks for the tip, haven't tried them before :)
> Allegro CL or Franz Lisp.

Same thing. Franz is the company. Allegro Lisp is the product. Like "Apple Macintosh computer."

> But why is it 'high performant' compared to other implementations? Like say CMU CL(now SBCL).

Somewhat better compiler, but mainly lots of extra features (better debugging, graphics, better libraries).

> why would one use Clozure CL instead of SBCL?

I use CCL because 1) I like the IDE and 2) its compiler is fast so you can always compile everything essentially for free. In other CLs you have to choose between running in compiled or interpreted mode, and that can sometimes cause problems. CCL doesn't have an interpreter at all. It always compiles everything and that makes it easier to use.
Upvote for mentioning Jenkins's biography.
I’m still here! I wish people would try more crazy stuff. I’d even help brainstorm the crazy!
Has that ever been tested in court? Sounds a bit too draconian to me (but then IANAL).
It's incredibly vague about where you actually are when you're using redirected known folders vs accessing the original folder.
I don’t really agree with this.

Modern neural translation techniques don’t impose a 1:1 mapping on translations, and this works reasonably well between major European languages (English/German/French/Spainish/Italian) where there are large cross language corpas and large monolingual corpa available. In these languages you’ll often get single words translated to short phrases.

It’s true that this doesn’t solve the Japanese examples you give below, but these seems a question of degree rather than seeming impossible.
I like the concept but I don't believe the diploma it grants "counts" in France for applying to e.g. master's and PhD programmes and most French smart people I knew had little interest in stopping with undergrad. In French culture "number of years of schooling" is actually a pretty important metric so I feel like a university that does not leave you a chance to go beyond the 3 years is going to only get the people who are really committed to the formula as well as those who don't have good alternatives.

What do people in Silicon Valley think of their US version vs coding bootcamps or other private universities? It seems it could gain a bigger following there?
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With lld, that single-file rebuild+relink drops from 1.6 seconds (with gold) to 1.2 seconds.

lld spits out a bunch of warnings that neither ld nor gold cared about, about finding local symbols in the global symbol table of some of the third-party .so libraries I link against. Not sure to what extent I should care about that; the final build product does run the same as always.

And just so that nobody else needs to go searching; looks like ccache added support for split dwarf debugging data in its version 3.2.3, about three years ago. (although I haven't actually tried it to confirm, yet)
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The abbreviation 'MSM' is very much not neutral, yes. I haven't done a survey, but I do not think it's controversial that it's a term used by certain online subcultures (just like many others from all sides, again I am not picking sides here, it's just that this abbreviation started this whole sub-thread). Feel free to disagree, but I've seen it used in parody/stereotype mocking of such groups enough to know that I'm not the only one who would see it like that.

Likewise, it is not controversial or even assuming to state that explicit tribalism and signaling of affiliation does not make for 'good' or 'high quality' (if you prefer those terms over 'intelligent') discussion. Sophistry is not 'intelligent' discussion. It may require high intelligence to pull off well, but it's not 'intelligent discussion'. I'm not saying which topics are 'intelligent' or not, or what position in those topics is, just that some forms of having any discussion are 'better' than others. It's a 'meta-judgement', if you will. 'Intelligent discussion' doesn't just mean 'discussion between two people who are intelligent and well informed on the subject'.
Why do they scan anything on folder-open anyway? Shouldn't it just do that on file creation/modification events?
Yes, but there is a difference between being tested and being used. On paper the Crew Dragon launch abort system is slightly better since it doesn't rely on an escape tower for launch pad abort but in reality it's not clear how much better and safer for the crew the whole thing would be.
> That famous proverb about Japanese nails absolutely applies.

"The nail that sticks out gets hammered down."
Here's the key sentence: "concrete implementations of CRDT in co-editors revealed key missing steps in CRDT literature." This paper may be correct for academic CRDTs but it is very wrong when looking at industry implementations.

My hunch is that because CRDTs are so much easier to grok than OT, engineers are empowered to make use case-specific improvements that aren't reflected in academic literature.

For example, the Logoot/LSEQ CRDTs have issues with concurrent insert interleaving; however, this can be solved by dedicating a bit-space in each ID solely for followup inserts. The "Inconsistent-Position-Integer-Ordering" problem is solved by comparing ids level-by-level instead of in one shot.

Fundamentally, CRDTs have strong strategic advantages over OT. Given a document size N and a document edit history H:

* CRDT size is O(N) where OT is O(H)

* CRDT updates are O(log N) where OT is O(H^2)

In any nontrivial document, H ≫ N. This means CRDTs have much better perf than OT. Additionally, the best CRDTs (like Logoot/LSEQ) don't require tombstones, garbage collection, or "quiescence." The complexity burden is far lower.

To top it off, CRDTs are offline-capable by default.
Windows/NTFS has links, but they aren't used for this (and software support for them is ... iffy, which can be an issue with backup tools etc, for which they aren't just transparent). These "known folders" are roughly implemented as environmental variables containing paths to the configured folder.
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There's been significant things done to stop nuclear war.

There are huge nonproliferation and counter-proliferation efforts going on.
I agree, the writing seems quite hostile. Everything get politicized immediately nowadays which is quite sad.
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If all fields are required, how do you add a new required field without breaking all of the clients that were using the previous protobuffer version?
I am not sure about what particles you are specifically asking, but the neutrino flux on Earth for example is on the order of billions per square centimeter and second. And there is nothing really special about the detector material, they just detect the tiny fraction of particles that happens to interact by pure chance within the detector while most particles just pass through the entire detector unnoticed.
I expect openBSD to continue to do this anyway though because there is the possibility that someone can reboot the system to a new OS (presumably designed just for this purpose) and read whatever was in RAM. Of course programs that deal with encryption zero memory before returning it (It is hard to make sure the compiler doesn't optimize this otherwise useless work out), but most other programs that deal with secrets are not so well written and will live sensitive information around.
> but I guess MS considers it acceptable to do anything to a user's system after they convinced everyone to take forced updates as being acceptable too.

This. Once you get in the mindset that you know better than the user, it's not a big jump to "I know these directories should be empty, any content is leftover garbage, let's remove them".
I wish there was still hope for Ted Nelson's concept of Hypertext.

Up until some time in the mid 90's people were thinking of the internet as something intrinsically decentralized. The idea was that we, as individuals, would participate in new forms of discourse and creation through the "media" of hypertext _without_ intermediaries other than (perhaps) agents we would create for ourselves on an individual basis (like your own personal "max headroom").

Instead what we got are giant "media" companies acting as middle-men, cattle-herders or disinterested extractive entities that are pursing goals totally unrelated to the actual services they provide to the people who use "their media".

Why do we need colossal-scale datacenters for social media anyway? Could there be a totally decentralized solution consisting of just the people and their devices? Or is that just a pipe-dream or sitcom plot like "Pied-piper" on the Silicon Valley TV show?
Not from what I researched. But then again, would you like to go to court against Google lawyers? I wouldn't.
I believe you've also reinvented optional fields in a more generalizable way. Generalizability can be good or bad, depending on how much complexity it adds.
Might be a little hostile but none of it is inaccurate. American space experts have bemoaned the fact that we have had to rely on Russia to send people to Space since retiring the Shuttle, and have discussed its impact on national security, the economy, and just our plain old scientific knowledge.
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Everyone is not a rocket scientist nor an avid reader of space industry magazines and thus it kind of makes sense to gove the reader a bit of insigh in the general direction of the industry.
What resources would you recommend one read to understand more about debugging facilities in Common Lisp?
"most other OT solutions ... do not require a central server to do (any part of) the OT work, but only require the use of an external causal-order-preserving communication service (the same as most CRDT solutions). "

CRDTs don't require an external causal-order-preserving communication service. That's kind of the whole point of CRDTs. At the same time this is what imposes certain limitations on how they can be used. But so is automatic conflict resolution in collaborative editing.
If a hangnail is that bad, the local supermarket or pharmacy seems a more sensible source for the remedy than Amazon, no?
The only way I could think of to interpret this, is to take the content in 1 hour of video and figure out how many words it takes to give you that same knowledge. This will vary based on the type of contents (nature documentary, vs a thriller move, etc). But to start with, assuming watching a regular drama. An 80,000 word novel can turn into a 2 hour movie, so each our of video is worth 40,000 words. But a lot is left out when making a novel into a movie, so you may need to take the Reader's Digest version, which gives you 20,000 words per hour. That means that people take in about 5 hours worth of video content a day.

Note, these numbers are my best guess, would like to see better numbers filled in.
That was a long paragraph, but I agree with the general premise that a lot of books are tripe worse than TV shows and video games, so we shouldn't put them on a pedestal.
> You don't know much corporate environment, at least you give off such an impression.

Based on one post, where I point out TCO is not significantly driven by hardware purchase price? Ok then.

Anyway, the argument of lower TCO cited by the GP comes from (not exclusively) IBM, who I’d say know their own business, also used WSUS/SCCM and claimed they were better off with Apple and Jamf.
This reminds me of what apple did with scheduler in macOS Mavericks https://www.apple.com/media/us/osx/2013/docs/OSX_Power_Effic...
Much in the same way a disaster is often called an "off-nominal aviation event".
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>If you have a patch, and others know how to make it better, why would you forgo that chance to learn something?

Maybe because there is not much to learn from people who cannot give you feedback about your patch without calling you an idiot, or making sure that they show that they are above your level.

Because in toxic projects, they are not about teaching you something. And because the only thing you learn is to never contribute to a toxic project again.

Also, why don't you try to create a github account, where you disguising yourself anything but a white guy, and start to contribute. Or just ask any female developer about their experiences.

>You submitting patches has nothing to do with the community.

If you seriously believe this is true, you have no idea about software development.
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I think you're more likely to recession proof yourself with a side business rather than another job.

Business owners rarely fire themselves.
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