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If anything like the LHC, the tunnel will be much smaller in diameter. The LHC, designed to reuse the existing LEP tunnel, is just 3.8m in diameter.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2011...
http://atlasexperiment.org/photos/lhc.html
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> front end state management and backend CQRS perfectly marry up.

I am currently researching how to do this properly. What would you think would be the "boring but reliable" way to do it?
I feel like they missed a couple of critical takeaways: First, build on technologies you already understand, if possible. Don't build from scratch on something you know nothing about. And second, make sure you have some backend expertise on your team. He says up-front the three person team was heavy on design and front-end expertise. So it's not surprising at all to me that they had big problems managing and troubleshooting their poorly chosen backend tech.
Whipping it around a nearby unoccupied star would be an easy way to obscure its origins. Just their bad luck that Sol turned out to be occupied, by a primitive civilization that might be able to act on knowledge of its origin vector in a few centuries or millennia.

It looks slow to us, but it might be that whatever method it uses to skip big distances doesn't steer, so the only way to get pointed somewhere else is a close approach. And, of course, the method doesn't work in a gravity well, so it has to coast until it's a few hundred AU out.

Will enough records be preserved through the coming dark ages (after the ecosystem collapses) for the raccoons or macaques or whatever inherits the earth to act on them?
Office 365's $10/user/month plan does not come with email. Its essentially just Active Directory + Office.

You need to pay $15/user/month to add Exchange ($12.50/user/month with annual contract).
"Fascinating to refer to "loophole-filled licenses", while referencing a license with no legal history of enforcement. "

They might come up with something. License Zero author has done a remarkable job of focusing on root causes and simplicity to prevent that. When he worries about commercial use, he says commercial use triggers the requirement. When he wants changes released, his license says any change has to be released. Use, changes, and combining with other works in an app are about as all-encompassing as you can get in a simple license. Whereas, Open Source and Free Source focused on linking and distribution which have plenty of complexity that corporate imaginations might work around. Which they did to tune of billions of dollars and plenty unshared improvements.

"What rulings are you referring to that "worked against freedom"?"

Oracle's API ruling, risk of patent suits, and next string of problems lobbyists and lawyers invent. Stuff would've been worse if we didn't luck out with giants IBM and Google paying for the legal battle. With [F]OSS-centered lobbying, we might have even got better laws and protections on these issues. [F]OSS sends most of the money to the opposition, though, with their main licenses and strategies.

"hasn't been seen in every past "it's hard to make money on Open Source" argument. "

I said you can loose money if they patent sue you or pull some stuff about API. These are real things in real court cases. I said it isn't really open and free to distribute if that risk exists. So, we have to mitigate it. I don't believe you when you say it's what open source discussions have always involved if my comments are the only ones I've ever seen here bringing this stuff up. Most comments about money and open-source are about making it profitable to the developers, not funding work in Congress and courts to protect our freedoms.

"If you'd like to call your license open, go get OSI to call it open."

I call mine shared source or source available per your prior advice on that. (Thanks again btw.) Prosper is shared source. Parity is free with source-sharing with maximum copyleft and some patent-suit protection. Looking at OSD, Parity appears to meet every requirement except No 9. That one specifically facilitates proprietary software and walled gardens built on top of or alongside open source code. Since Parity has copyleft for bundles, it can't be open source under that definition. Debian has that same provision, too.

It does have the four freedoms in a mandatory way that kicks in on any change, not distribution models or other guesswork. So, it's Free as in Speech Software that forces all freedoms to happen on derivatives of and bundles with the software with some patent protection. More freedom-preserving than OSI licenses in more situations. So, you're right that it shouldn't be called open source since those are less free and allow more corporate damage than Parity.
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You might be interested in this, from just over a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18618193
The entire offering looks very compelling. Unfortunately I couldn't get a sense of operational efficiency or performance of ArangoDB in the wild. I couldn't convince our CTO if we adopted this product, would we be trading the extra development agility of the mixed models: graph, aql and kv for an overly complex babysitting problem.

Can anyone here speak about their experience using ArangoDb in a multi tenant SaaS product? How is it to manage your own cluster, backups, etc?
React can render static markup without additional frameworks. You can basically run your React code in Node.js and either cache the HTML to disk or have it run on request.

ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup();
When he loses all his money and then needs welfare or starts mugging people it becomes my business.
I have grand-fathered accounts for my custom domains from when it was free, but I still just forward and delegate to my free non GSuite personal gmail. If Google ever kills those I'm gonna just move the domains to a different mail provider and forward to my personal gmail the same way.
Singularity containers, my dev laptop is Linux, way less overhead than docker on mac. I'm simulating request load on a scheduler for compute jobs. In principle those jobs are not generally local, but it helps to stresstest the scheduler.
In some mobile browsers, doing this will result in the fixed-width font line getting cut off when viewing the resulting post.
I'll take a different approach in my answer as I expect most others are quite happy expecting brain teasers and puzzles in interviews. I'm very much the opposite.

I've failed in interviews for not using coding magic tricks. I use these tricks and puzzles as an opportunity to ask them about their processes in general and software development practices in particular. Got one job out of that "failure" but the rest I did it just to burn out brightly. Hearing a would-be future manager justify XOR and other tricks as production level code is always enlightening.

So to restate: Every piece of code they show you is an example of their production code and philosophy. They are deliberately showing you what they consider the best or worst. Judge them on it.

You are interviewing and testing them as much as they are testing you. A lot of interviewers fail to understand this.

Postscript: this is from a history of interviews and followup from accepted positions across multiple organisations. Every puzzler-heavy interview job I have foolishly accepted later ended up in management misadventures, culture defects or political issues. The interviews without the foolish puzzles have been indicators of future success. For me there is a clear correlation.
Was the gmail advantage ever in their web interface? For me it was always their spam handling that set them apart from everyone else.
>so what do I know.

More than they do, apparently
I don't have anything specific in mind, and obviously it's virtually impossible to just "try out" different systems in an established country.

My objection to refrains along the lines of "democracy is the best system" is that it tends to shut down thought about other possibilities. We were taught from the time we're young that democracy is the best. But in reality, there's been very little experimentation. I'd rather encourage people to think on how we can continue to evolve our forms of government, not just in the details, but all the way up to how we choose our leadership.

I don't know how we'd test them. Computer models? Trial runs in small communities?

I don't know if anyone will come up with anything better. But there are possibilities other than "everyone votes for a leader" or, "one leader has power for life".

Democracy can be damn scary sometimes. The Nazi party was democratically elected. Who's to say that in 20 years, the majority of Americans couldn't be bigoted against some minority?
It can be both "worth it" and "horribly overpriced" at the same time. That's just how cartels and monopolies work. They charge you vastly more than their cost, and use the profit to legalize measures that inflate the "market" price to their desired level.
It isn't? What states don't put that information in the property tax records?
Remember the movie Hackers when the DiVinci virus capsized those ships?
This isn't actually anything new.
In my experience staging environments only work in a few (very common) use cases. When I do big data work I certainly use a test environment but we can't just replicate all the data in two clusters because that would be absurdly expensive - and this makes testing performance basically only possible in prod. I'm sure basically any database system with a non-trivial amount of data has the exact same issue. But staging definitely works for something like a web server
I have heard stories of one bad employee account locked by Google make the whole domain being locked. It take days to contact unlock...
Yeah, can get to a situation where an ad platform would be making more out of a market segment than the retailers in that segment.

If I have a $20 margin, I am better off giving Google $15 and getting an incremental $5 profit than not advertising. Even worse if my customers have a lifetime value of $50 it may make sense to give Google $45 and not see a return from my spend until years down the road while Google gets the $45 right now.
more of this!
Imagine the options for fleets- you could have electrical outlets along the bed to let you plug in and use electric tools powered by your truck! That would be huge for maintenance vehicles.
Serious question: is a person always the same on every site? Can they be reached with the same message in different contexts? The argument for targeting says yes, but then why is porn ignored? Real people, doing, ahem, real things for significant time, but no advertiser (as a rounding error on total advertising spend worldwide) wants to advertise on porn sites.

I think a message's context matters - and this is almost self evident from examples like ads for airline tickets being shown on plane crash articles. I think targeting is great, I really do, but I think the value of trusted brands is likely just as, if not more, strong.

If context matters, and I think that argument was the entrenched idea pre-internet and has not been disproven, then where is the positioning of targeting? My hypothesis would be that targeting is likely best utilised when people stray from self selecting brands, e.g. NYTimes needs no targeting, but a smaller publication likely does, as people aren't there for the brand's known positioning, but because of their targetable interests, e.g. they ended up on a site about coding, or computer games, or knitting or whatever.
conflict

Nebraska has certain well-understood longstanding obligations with respect to water flowing into Kansas, but that is a normal thing and there haven't been arguments about it since 2002. Kansans learned not to initiate shooting wars with neighboring states back when we burned Lawrence.

Nebraska and Kansas have used different enforcement regimes, but a variety of regulatory approaches is one of the benefits of the federal system.

It seems unlikely that the aquifer will be restored within the next century, but slowing the rate of destruction is still desirable. IMHO attempting to do it all with well pumping enforcement won't work. A better approach would be to end all government subsidies for USA grain production. Grain farmers would complain, and some would go out of business, but the result would be less intensive irrigation.
Undefined on the global object has been read only since es3.1 I think.

However you can still declare variables named undefined that get their own storage and so can have any value. Originally “undefined” didn’t exist in the global scope so many sites had “var undefined” or function f(..., undefined){..} to get a reference to the value.
I personally know somebody who responded to a client in this way, but I don't know of any public documentation of this sort of response happening.
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I sympathize with your situation. Before you can get meaningful advice can you post how have you taken responsibility for the situation you are in?

My $0.02 - you should seek marriage counseling or help from a professional rather than a community that you irrationally feel close to but in reality does not know anything about your and more importantly your kids and wife’s situation. I think your wife and children deserve more than that for an outcome that could be life altering for everybody involved.
I burn it down and camp on the ashes.
Except Microsoft's Windows logo is merely an evolution of the previous, which keeps the brand identity but refreshes the look, this one is not. The new Microsoft logo builds off of their existing brand and brands. Same for Apple, same for basically every big brand, even Google. Slack...messed up.
Unless you are borrowing at the risk free rate (levering your bonds), I don’t think this is the best advice, unless you are open to holding junk bonds. Your Sharpe ratio is largely irrelevant [(returns - risk free rate) / std dev]. What you want is to optimize your Sortino ratio [loss / std dev]. Or, put another way, it’s more preferable that you make 100% returns one year, and lose 25% the next than to make 25% each year.

The bonds are going to really drag on your returns and since bonds don’t seem correlated with equities anymore, they might not even be an equity hedge. Risk parity portfolios are designed to solve this problem through leverage.
> Govt buildings have lens detectors.

Care to explain? If I point a camera at my local Fed building while walking on the nearby sidewalk, are you telling me that's detected somewhere?
I was watching a Joe Rogan podcast repeat with Theo Von last night and he literally mentioned this same this same thing halfway through .. That's some matrix sh*t right here... Hahaha.

Disclosure: I am replying to my own comment.
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Is it a good or a bad thing when multinational corporations step in and take the place of government?
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Standards could help too.

I recently started setting up a phpBB forum for a personal project. Because I wanted to respect people's privacy as much as possible, I removed certain fields like the birthday so that they can't be entered. I disabled private messages to avoid keeping unneeded nominally private data. To contact a specific user, I allowed only emails sent via a form to prevent leaking a user's email address. And I installed an extension to allow users to delete their accounts. I was pleasantly surprised with how easy disabling birthdays and other profile fields were, but somewhat disappointed that allowing users to delete their own accounts wasn't built in yet. Would be nice for forum softwares to have a standard set of features and default behaviors that respect privacy. I doubt many people change the configuration settings I did. (If you have any other ideas for forum admins to make their forum respect privacy better, I'm interested.)

I don't see why a forum should have a birthday field in particular. If COPPA compliance is a concern, just ask if the user is 13 or older at registration.
Thanks for the clarification!!
I get the impression you didn't actually read the article, as it addresses most of your questions.
I have a really worried feeling about this. Don't get me wrong, it needs to happen, but why start off the transition with commercial? It's the consumers who are concerned with buying gas, environmental, and politics. The elephant in the room is Tesla and of course every auto company will follow, further eating into the consumer sedan to SUV market. So why doesn't Ford start there, then work there way up to migrate its trusted largest asset F-Series? I worry Ford is about to look really stupid, sticking out like a sore thumb.
We're quite literally already seeing the problem start to occur. Island nations are already starting to sink underneath rising oceans. Miami is constantly having to pump its sewers. Seasonal storms (hurricanes, for instance) are already becoming worse, and the temperature's effects are noticeable if you look long term. It won't take 100 years for the problem to show up -- it's already starting.
I would have gone with markdown and/or some other markup language. It’s so much easier to leaverage other tooling (e.g Git), when your source text is a widely used text format.
I hope you're right, but I bought my current house with Homie and it was a nightmare. Their website is a pile of crap that is so riddled with bugs. I was a buyer but got several emails regarding the "sale" of my house (I wasn't selling a house). Their website was so broken that I couldn't even fill the forms out, and ended up making phone calls.

Then they face a basic blackout from the entrenched real estate mafia. No selling agents want to work with buyers from Homie because the buyers agents are supposed to show the house. But when you have no agent, it falls on the seller, and they flat out told me no several times unless I agreed to buy it through them. I can sympathize with this, but it sucks as the consumer. This is a problem they will need to overcome.

I love the idea of Homie, but if you're going to push the software/automation angle, you better have software that works. You also gotta figure out how to twist the arm of that cartel. I believe in their mission enough that I actually looked into applying there so I could fix those bugs, but I get the impression that they don't hire in-house engineers and possibly use contractors. I'm a senior engineer who worked as a real estate agent for a couple years, so I think I would have been pretty valuable hire for them. I'm also super passionate about disrupting that industry because I feel they've taken advantage of me in the past much. But, alas, what can you do.
That is what I meant, without any intention to disparage. Both Flying V and Explorer arrived in 1958 and promptly flopped until the age of metal. They are definitely icons of metal as the prototypical "pointy guitars". The classic Les Paul was discontinued around 1960 as tele-strat twang ruled that era, until revived around 1968 as heavier guitar sounds emerged.

Disclaimer: I'm an LP person, but I've an equal number of Strats and Teles. I love them each for their unique qualities.
Note that he said CO not CO2. Carbon monoxide is produced from incomplete combustion, which two stroke engines are notorious for. Leaf blowers lacking catalytic converters (which as the name suggests, catalyze the conversion of incomplete combustion byproducts like CO) only make this worse.
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Hey look, another interesting idea for blockchain based propagation that will be niche and forgotten in a few months. Cool tech, but ultimately fucking useless.
> Do we have any study or proof demonstrating that if we applied a 100% tax rate above $20M/year people would just stop working?

I would likely stop working. Pay me $20M + $1 and let's check...
Think fleet vehicles and you will get a lot of those numbers. https://www.fleet.ford.com/
I remember a similar story but from Kodak. I think the shareholder narrative and the race to the bottom started in the 70/80s has lead to the current situation. Short term mentality and spreadsheet driven management has taken a toll on the American dream. It seems like the last blue collar stronghold- drivers- is the one under siege right now and bound to collapse in the coming decade(s?). It does worry me to think about easily we are able to brush that aspect of technology to the back of our minds and pretend it’s not going to affect almost everybody in one way or another
Why is it people seem to want to take the worst ideas from dystopian science fiction and make them reality?
India's largest educational institution Hacked/Crashed – IIT Bombay
Affected URLs : All sub-domains with *.iitb.ac.in

Every server is unreachable. Including document hosting servers, hosting and mail servers.

I did the hack. 0x48piraj.
On the other hand, hotels are innovating on improving the customer experience too.

The Hilton App is easier to use than their actual website. I am able to check-in and check-out without talking to anyone. I can use a digital key on my phone. They send me receipts automagically.

And thanks to consistent corporate standards, I know what to expect in a Hampton Inn vs. Homewood Suites vs. Conrad.

Getting a hotel has become less of a hassle, has less friction, and is more convenient. Oh, and the technology helps the chain as well.

If you disrupt an industry, you better hope your moat is big enough to ward off the entrenched business. Ridesharing might indeed kill the taxi, but there's no way AirBnb is going to defeat the hotel industry.
One use case is to exclude extra lines of the file you don't want to commit. For example, I might have some debug print statements in my file that I want to keep in my local copy of the file while testing, but I don't want to include in the commit I push up for review.
Trailers are a huge pain in the ass, have you ever backed up with one? I've done my fair share of trailer towing and given the choice between a trailer and a pickup, I chose the pickup every time.

Trailers have a capacity advantage though. Sometimes the shit you're moving simply won't fit in a large pickup truck. In those cases though, having a truck with sufficient power to tow that trailer is still handy...
Bogle said in an interview that I cannot find but i's probably on YouTube that he saw nothing wrong with ETFs as an investment product, simply that they encouraged non-passive behavior for most investors, and he thought temptation to time the market or liquidate/buy at the wrong time were tremendous stumbling blocks or get hoodwinked by grandiose promises of some arcane sector, and ETFs made that easier to give in to. (I'm paraphrasing.)
There was a discussion over at Physics Forums regarding wakefield acceleration.

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/two-stage-electron-wak...

Note that mfb works as a physicist in the CMS detector team, Vanadium 50 and ZapperZ are current or have been high-energy physicists as well.

In summary, issue seems to be that the strong acceleration provided reduces beam quality, which kind of negates the gains you got from the higher energy. Though it doesn't seem to be a fundamental limitation, just a difficult engineering issue.
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I don’t remember where I saw it, so it could be apocryphal, but I saw an admission from an Ableton developer that the difficulty in implementing MPE support is down to the fact that MIDI implementation details are baked into a bunch of disparate components across levels of abstraction within Live, which seems pretty plausible to me. I don’t envy the effort involved in rectifying that, but it does have me looking at Bitwig more and more.