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> In the future, which may be 10, 50 years from now, there won't be a driver

@1997

21 years are gone.

> You'll be able to read the newspaper on your way to work.

Yeah. About that...
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No offense, but what you just said makes zero sense.

An "ftp style install" is not typical at any company I've been at. Most (good) exploits are executable code in the database, and not even visible (unless you know where to look). That also applies to Javascript/Python/C/etc that would survive docker containers and horizontally scaled servers.

The exploits in WordPress (mostly) come from people installing poorly written plugins without validating the quality of the code, professionals don't let their company do that. The same could be said about other dependencies in code everywhere. Always validate your dependencies if you need to ensure quality and security. It doesn't matter what language you're using.
Red blood cells do. Leukocytes are nucleated.
This is awesome!

There’s a bug in the deobfuscated version — sizeof(letters) should be 60 or sizeof(letters)-1 (that version reads past the end of the buffer otherwise).
No, really? Got a link?
Devils advocate: Solving this kind of puzzles is the usual demo for showing Prolog's strengths. Are there any more-real-world-like demonstrations which problems can be solved with Prolog?
I like Polya's method as well:

1. Understand the problem

2. Devise a plan

3. Execute said plan

4. Review and reflect

This is a nice framework to attack any problem with. It won't necessarily give you a solution but it provides a nice springboard.
6 years of Raspberry Pi
Maybe lower your carb intake or incorporate a daily intermittent fasting regime. What does your usual day look like food-wise?
Writing. I still might.
Do you think the only purpose of feminism is to achieve gender parity in STEM? What do you think feminists believe the purpose of feminism is?
How do people end up finding friends online? I spend 90% of my time online, I post on forums, but I didn't end up making even one lasting online relationship. It seems like a fun thing to do though, how does that usually happen?
What happens to the telomeres?
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You'll need to pump a huge amount of energy to do this.
Sounds like you just know Matlab better then, I think python, and especially notebooks, are also very good for data exploration and manipulation. I've recently switched over from doing everything in Matlab to everything in python. Although I do occasionally fall back to Matlab for things like 3D plotting.

Also, if you like Matlab/know it well, you might want to look into the deep learning toolbox (if you have access to it). I found I was able to do all the stuff I was doing in keras with Matlab. Haven't learned to recreate all the stuff I was doing with tensor flow there, but it might be possible.
the bitcoin footnote there is fascinating
It’s mostly a question of cost. High pressure systems are only economic if they transport far more material than they leak, but some minor leaks are fairly trivial. If you talking coarse aka 7,600 micron aka 7.6 torr aka 1% atmospheric pressure you gain most of the value moving a train through an evacuated tube while still being able to use cheap and very fast pump systems to deal is lots of slow leaks. Making that kind of a vaccum tube even easier to maintain.

The LHC however deals with high vacuume becase they need particles to travel hundreds of miles without encountering any atmospheric particles. That would let trains reach orbital velocity without issue, but would be horrifically expensive.

Basicly 100% to 1% vacuume is considered rough/coarse and it cheap. 1% to 1 micron is the middle ground which is increasingly difficult but still not that bad. Under 1 micron aka High vacuume is expensive and mostly the realm of science experiments.

https://www.hydraulicspneumatics.com/200/TechZone/Vacuum/Art...
Then you also lead people to theocracy.

There are positions one can take between "all religions are peaceful, good, and true", and "kill the religious"
I’m struggling to see why this should be an or. Use circuit breakers to prevent overloading or abusing individual instances and use retries, or backup requests to prevent customer impacts.
When can I inject this and fix my stroke? Hurry please. :)
> Assuming the technology is there

This is a rather large assumption to make, considering we can’t even control the environment of our own planet currently.
I come back to this idea every year
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It takes something to realize you may have over generalized. Thank you for the apology. I appreciate interactions like these on the internet as opposed to animosity.
My own small thing is my personal keyboard. I have both a mechanical and non-mechanical personal keyboard, mind you. They cost me a pretty penny ($100+ for each), and I wouldn't expect an employer to spend that easily. So I can just provide my own.

I have really long arms overall and normal keyboards force me to both put my wrists at really weird angles and turn and twist my elbows to get my hands to fit there. Something like the Microsoft Natural was a decent-ish width, but the Kinesis advantage or the Ergodox are just amazing. It's funny to watch too - people are kinda scared to touch a Kinesis advantage "because it's split and weird", but they start touch-typing quickly and start arranging the keyboard parts as it is comfortable in small steps as well. You just nudge the keyboard part instinctively with your thumb or your pinky to make it more comfortable.
Yep, I didn’t have that piece of information handy from the post’s link, sorry :(
Oh that’s cool!

I had read about simulated annealing being used to optimize FPGA logic unit layouts.

I assumed something similar was used to optimize gate layouts but never thought about actually optimizing the transistor layouts independent of NAND. That sounds like a great idea!
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It feels joy to connect with another Gujju on HN.
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I’ve started down that path somewhat. Having spent the past few years in an advisory/post-sales/consulting role, my interest in using computers has been stifled by idiosyncratic takes on enterprise architecture, and I just want to do stuff that matters to me.

As a start, I’m turning to creative hobbies that let me use computers in a creative way:

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2018/12/22/2258
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Plus if I want to watch current TV or more recent shows alongside originals it’s available on Hulu. Netflix has lost a lot of the more bingeable shows and it really doesn’t have any current content.

I get that Netflix is a different beast than Hulu in many ways. But for cord cutters Hulu feels more like the total package.
Fair enough. I am a bit fed up of hearing "all religions are equal and peaceful", something which is objectively false.

I have been flagged once and can be banned for "religious flamewar". I didn't know hackernews has blasphemy laws. So I won't comment anymore.
> "Just asking, but didn't the company falsely accusing him of copyright infringement slander him?"

Probably, but who is he supposed to sue over it? It's far from clear who the 'company' is. He could sue John Doe and then get youtube to reveal what they know, but he may very likely discover that the 'company' is just some guy with hardly any assets in a country that doesn't give a shit about him or his plight.
He even dared including some pictures in the article, ridiculous.
Reminds me of the old trick of inserting the EICAR test string into logfiles so that attacker actions get erased by antivirus
I always find it hilarious that they test drive autonomous vehicles in Arizona. Never in Tokyo or Amsterdam.
Or plug in something small like a raspberry pi with an external USB hard drive.
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Why? If they don't work in Arizona, they won't work anywhere else.

If AV doesn't work in Tokyo, they may still work in many places.
my ears almost hurt reading this:

> The British ship Norham Castle was 40 miles from Krakatoa at the time of the explosion. The ship’s captain wrote in his log, “So violent are the explosions that the ear-drums of over half my crew have been shattered. My last thoughts are with my dear wife. I am convinced that the Day of Judgement has come.”
Sounds like a side plot from The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
They really just don't want to put in any extra engineering or QA effort
That’s a great reference!
I legit didn't know NetBeans still existed. I've been on IntelliJ for most of the last decade.

Any NetBeans users feel like explaining why they've stuck with it?
Driverless cars are directly coming out of DARPA funding ex: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge. Google for example can trace it’s program directly back to DARPA.

Companies are more willing to fund after the basic proof of physical possibility shows up. Vs the kind of this might be possible in 30 years projects DARPA gets off the ground.

PS: It’s often just as much about people getting experience working on these problems as it is any specific technology.
Shawn is a cyberstalker but he does provide decent company. You really should talk to him, you have nothing to lose.

Alternatively, or additionally, you can join us at the Cyantific Cat Cafe: Official Invite Link: https://discord.gg/v3tHe4q

I would be happy to jump in voicechat and talk about your issues. I am a pretty good diagnoser and have experience with a multitude of drugs and natural herbs. Graduated with a Premed degree cum laude.

Anyhow, best of luck. Merry Christmas. (even you Shawn.)
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In that setup entr only watches files that existed when systemd service was first started. So new files won't trigger backup. Something like this should work:

while true; do find $ORG_DIR | entr -d -r rclone sync -v $ORG_DIR $REMOTE:org; done
They’ve literally just launched a library that adds conventions to Swashbuckle. Not saying it’s not useful, just that serving static files probably ought to be higher on their priority list.
The problem is a lack of other options, driven by the incentives and actions of payment processors like Mastercard. This isn't just theoretical; those who tried switching to Subscribestar after the Sargon incident immediately lost their income again as PayPal cut ties with Subscribestar. The whole "it's a free market, build your own platform" excuse for deplatforming gets increasingly weak as the deplatforming moves upstream towards regulated oligopolies like the international payments system.
Well good luck to you. Reach out if you actually pursue this. Happy to help.
Yeah, I occasionally would encounter errors decoding zip files along the lines of "the file name was too long"
This guy has been annoying me at stores for years now. I'm glad someone is finally taking responsibility for his containment. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1933
While my ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession have been ignored for some time, Debian-based distros seem to use ~/.xsessionrc these days.
I think when Klathmon said "online friends", they meant friends who only communicate online. That's the scenario my reply addressed.

You haven't exactly made it clear what kind of relationships you are talking about, but it sounds like you might be thinking of predominantly IRL relationships that just happen to have started online. That is a totally different ballgame.
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Is this something that occurs naturally? As in, are there normal pathways by which cells change their types in beneficial ways?
I loved NB, but moved away from it when Python support was first thrown out to a separate extension, then made more and more difficult to install. I wonder if this is something this distribution aims to solve? That said, I'm mostly happy with vscode and am not switching back anyway.
I would do my SSC and become a strength coach.
> Your handwriting would be faster and easier to decipher, out of necessity.

Maybe it would. Or maybe it wouldn’t and he’d just get left behind and withdraw from academic pursuits. It’s not like that doesn’t happen all the time.
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It does go both ways. That’s true.
For anyone else having trouble loading the image: https://web.archive.org/web/20160920032328/https://www.cs.cm...

That's pretty incredible - they let it run unsupervised? Or did the jogger just faint for a very short time period?
I'm saying that such a NAT can exist by itself without a true firewall.
Yeah, I managed to grab the last pair off eBay.
If I have a shared dropbox folder with someone, as soon as they put the file in, I get a copy. There is no way to get a notification that would provide a similar experience without the real dropbox client, afaik.
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That doesn't make sense to me
as in real life most of our reasoning comes from syllogisms for practical reasons. And if something is consistently demonstrated to be true, chances are it will continue to be so, so we take our chances with that. It isn't lossy anything, it is life.
Based on this and my own investigation of the tech, I predict Spatial OS is going to tank. Hard.
Can I throw some floo powder in their to access TRAMP?
I think I watched that video 15 times ... at 4.4km / 2.7miles away those must be larger-than-house sized chunks of rock falling ! (clearly visible to the left of the explosion).
This is very helpful. Thanks
Shit like this is what wikileaks had promised us.

Those businesses should learn the hard way why it should be cheaper to do it correctly.
The author answers that question in the introduction:

"I find mental models are useful to try to make sense of things and to help generate ideas."
visiting familiy and playing video games in the evening :) nothing better than people not celebrating Christmas covering the oncall.
You don't lead people to theocracy by warning against killing for dogma. On the other hand, creating dogmas about religion being the source of all evil can have pretty awful consequences.

There isn't a simple road between the two positions you gave, there is an entire territory.
As a side note, it's always kind of funny to see hackers/computer types try and frame discussions in terms of things which are familiar to them, and these comments are often highly upvoted because of the explanation. In this instance, "lossy compression". But few people ever seem to question whether the domain of such categorisations is at all applicable to real human situations, and even if it's possible to make such categorisations. Is the method of the natural sciences or mathematics applicable identically to the social sciences? Often hackers assume this to be the case.

I think there's also an element that hackers want to feel as though using the concepts they've developed which are very powerful in computer science should therefore be key to understanding the world as a whole. It's partially being eager to apply one's knowledge and partly hubris and unwillingness to defer to philosophy, sociology or critical theory which they view as less rigorous (and therefore bad).
Also: The Atari ST was often referred to as "The Jackintosh" after both Jack Tramiel and the Macintosh it copied much from....
In my case IRC, I started hanging around a programming channel related to a particular framework, over time we all pretty much moved off that framework for various reasons but a core group of us just spun a new IRC channel and moved over there.

It's now my digital watercooler (I'm the only dev at work), interestingly many of the other regulars are sole devs or small company devs where they are the lead dev.
Merry Christmas from Slovakia. Veselé Vianoce!
That's not the way it's gone with smokes...
> main() is the one symbol that cannot be obfuscated since it is called by libc's _start function

Who needs libc ;)
I cannot make meaning from what you said, likely because I don't understand your references.

First off, I am a feminist. I don't feel destroyed. I don't even know how a single live television interview could "destroy" feminism. That is, I've seen debates between professional Young Earth Creationists advocates and professional biologists who are untrained in debate, and the YECs seem to "destroy" evolution ... until you figure out that the YECs are telling lie upon lie and science isn't built upon face-to-face debates - and especially not against outright liars - so it's a worthless forum to decide such things.

Second off, as a feminist, the obvious questions are, why don't men have the same options as women, and why can't we change that?

Eg, men don't usually have the option to take time off of work to raise the kids, among other things because of the expectation that that's what women are supposed to do, and because (for perhaps sexist history) men tend to make more money than women.

So, why not generous paid time off for both parents? And high quality, highly subsidized, day care starting at 18 months or so, so both parents can get back to their careers?

Third off, I think that "focus on how to be an adult in society" is the feminist view. Focus on how to be a 'man or women' in society would be the non-feminist view, first because it implies there are different gender roles, and second because it implies that there are only two gender roles.

Getting back to the referenced NYT link, why does it seem like the anti-feminists are also disproportionately more likely to use, for example, "the N-word and anti-gay language"? That's the content you are glad Patreon bans, yes?
Given the username, I’m assuming this is tongue-in-cheek because rsync.net is pretty much that.
Definitely. I dabbled in Ruby but kept coming back to Groovy because it had all the nice syntax of Ruby but all the advantages of the JVM, solid Java ecosystem / libraries and optional strong / static typing to apply when valuable (eg: defining interfaces or data types).
Maybe, but I guess the guy has some assets now.

I mean if it is a guy with hardly any assets in a country that doesn't give a shit I don't think that suit will drag on that long and probably wouldn't be too expensive to litigate. It's only if the guy has assets in a country that does give a shit that will want to fight, and if that's the case they're probably screwed.
This fellow makes Economics seem understandable. Truly gifted. I wish we there were some way to clone him.
Ah ok thanks, that makes more sense. Turns out you didn't mean and don't believe those things you said - it was meant to represent very commonly-held attitudes/beliefs in jazz academia that you think are ridiculous, insane etc. But you didn't introduce those "Period" lines by saying that, you just said them. Of course people reading it will think that's what you think, why wouldn't they. It's not much use saying "I'm just stating facts" if you forgot to introduce them with "This is what some people believe". I don't think it's a matter of 'tone'. Saying I'm 'ignoring the context' is just rude, saying I'm deliberately misunderstanding/misinterpreting. There was nothing 'gentle' about your manner, let's be real here. You were coming across like jazz police..because you don't like jazz police, it seems you're saying. And well, you don't mean 'using standards' as a barometer, but using being able to play them in any key as a barometer, if I understand you.

Sure, I get the paragraph about sitting in in a club. That sounds fair enough. That would only happen with singers, right? With just instrumentalists, how often would you get asked to play a standard in a non-standard key? (Unless it's a thing to call Stella in E, which it may well be, given what you say.)

p.s. Funny story: Herbie Hancock was sitting in at a jam in a coastal town somewhere south of Sydney once in the 1980s, and he called Green Dolphin St in Eb. The bass player said "No, it's in C!" haha. [Real names withheld]

edit: I just read your other long post on this page. I have so many problems with what you say there also that I don't think it's worth engaging further. I've found this very unpleasant. Good luck!
They even target local mystic movements such as falun gong.
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How old are you? Like, serious question: if is a generally reported experience that people start to suck at randomly making friends as they approach 30.
> if by limited we mean full ecosystem compatibility with jvm and javascript, then yes, Clojure is limited.

I don't think that was he meant. Probably he meant that Clojure took a bunch of things from Lisp, but there is a lot in Lisp, which is not in Clojure - for example because of the limitations of the JVM eco-system (for example creating an executable image in SBCL of a running Lisp is an easy task, whereas in Clojure it involves a complex & slow machinery like GraalVM) or design limitations imposed by its developers (like a compiler written in Java and no interpreter) - plus it seems not to be an open language design - more or less the language is driven by a single company listening to its community and sometimes not.
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I don't think that's what "equally well" means!
And then trying to placate everybody with the promise to listen to feedback when the feedback directly goes against what the company is trying to do
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Yes, if you start with this hilariously implausible premise and cherry-pick the conclusion that suits your narrative. In reality the major disruption to electricity markets would be far more consequential to >99% of humans on this planet.

Choice quotes:

"Short answer not much would happen. There just is not enough of them and even in the worst case breakdown they don't release that much radiation."

"Even if every single reactor in the US 'failed' today, I doubt there would be significant radiation leakage ... without a 40 foot tsunami, I think this is more like Three Mile Island."

"The problem is that there is a great deal of exaggeration in the public's idea of radiation - the "Omigawd, it's radioactive! We're all gonna DIE!" effect."
I was watching First Man recently, the movie about the first moon landing.

I'm wondering how much the popularity of computers changed how SpaceX was able to develop its software and properly analyze the data. I guess it made things easier, but to be honest I have no idea how hard NASA worked its computers and systems to use data in the 60.
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> TLS

Not the clearest abbreviation ;)
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For better or worse, Vim Fireplace is a clojure development extension:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace

When I saw the title of the post, I was wondering for a bit if this was a port to emacs.
I heard the same story about the jogger being hit by the autonomous Humvee at CMU. I ended up going somewhere other than CMU, but the onsite interview process included a tour, and that tour mentioned this jogger being 'hit'.
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I'd caution against randomly re-wiring chunks of your CNS. There's probably a very good reason why we don't naturally do that.
> dying alone

I don't think it's unreasonable to have a partner and eat differently to them. It's pretty common where someone has a dietary requirement.
I wouldn't worry too much, neurons don't divide indefinitely.
It will probably not be very long anymore before we can use tools for instant translation between major languages. See for example: https://www.skype.com/en/features/skype-translator/
It might not be perfect, but learning Chinese perfectly will be very hard as well.
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