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Ultimately all approaches convert to heat with 100% efficiency. However the in between stages and what you do with the heat are in question.

A Generator is 80-90% efficient in general, then you have battery charging losses (which I do not know), then battery discharge losses, finally, you have power transmission losses to get the electric around. All of the above losses are not captured. They are claiming that because everything is converted directly to heat near where it is used their total losses are less. (they assume insulation here)

The losses in their system are gears (some of which exist in most generator systems), and tank losses over time.

It is plausible they are right. However it all depends on local install factors which can be manipulated either way.
It's reached a point where I actually want outages, because I just don't fucking care anymore.

Burn everything to the ground. None of the perpetual availability is actually productive. Most of these websites are bullshit. If an outage occurs, five nines out of ten, the lost money is hypothetical, not yours, and founded on a dubious hypothosis of how advertising hypotizes and subliminally influences all the mindless simpletons we presume our users to be.
Or, perhaps the added stress (both to them and home life) was more than they wanted and they decided to stop running and go for a nice easy walk in the park.
Wages would go lower but goods will be higher. If an immigrant worker produces more than he consumes, the whole is richer, no way to cut that into an unfavorable calculation.
Experience the same, have water fasted 5 days before and doing it twice a year. Three options here

1. Accept you will seemingly need less sleep and go to bed later, use any sleepless time in bed as an opportunity to read and meditate.

2. Be extra careful with sleep hygiene.

3. Use hot then ice cold showers before bed, and possibly sleep aids spanning from 1 mg melatonin to 7.5 mg doxylamine (very safe, but gives you a hangover due to long half-life, maybe not so bad if you feel too wired) to benzodiazepines or hypnotics like ambien (shorter half-lifes, more effective, ideally with assistance from a doctor).

Some argue that sleeping less is a good stress during a fast, but I haven't seen any good evidence to support that.
It sounds like you are saying "The in-flight requests fail" to me.

I really don't like the idea of saying that it's simply okay to give random users a bad user experience like that when you are actually killing servers yourself all the time.
Bring up a good point on downstream effects of an oil spill. Really a better legal unit in this instance would be watersheds (which includes the lake and all its upstream rivers and lands that contribute to the lake), but people are less knowledgeable about what a watershed is.
> A pv at 25% efficiency attached to a heat pump with a COP above 4 is still above 100%...

Could you name the particular brands and models of PVs you are using that produce 25% in the field? 15% under ideal conditions is more typical and your 25% is above current state of the art available for home installation. Also interested in your heat pumps above 3. Are these geothermal? If not, who makes them?

Normal set up is going to be 15% max on the PV and 3 on the heatpump, for 45% max, but more typically 25% as the PV is seldom set up to capture ideally.
how about you do pending updates and set your work time? I think planning is still allowed for real work yes? This is why I don't believe that all these complaints come from super productive future steven spielberg level content producers because people like that wouldn't even need to think about planning around such an utter triviality.
Higher tariffs would make it possible to reduce other taxes, and that would help the economy. With lower taxes and more jobs, US consumers buy more, consumer confidence rises, etc.
Fair point. I haven't seen it much, but I don't doubt that it happens.

I just wanted to emphasize the point, which wasn't clear, that ThreadPools aren't bad, but rather that bad uses of them are bad.
If you can't send DNS packets directly to a remote resolver, do not expect bandwidth or stability for normal applications like a web browser. Use it for something like IMAP/SMTP, or browsing with lynx/links/w3m, or one-shot ssh commands, rsync, git, etc.
IMHO we got here because we chose the design-by-committee philosophy of organizations like the W3C over more of a waterfall approach built from first principles.

I would like to see a core HTML/CSS/Javascript spec that is a union of features proven to be available and work consistently across all browsers. The spec should incorporate ideas that are obvious in hindsight, such as the DOM diffing optimizations in frameworks like React, or running each tab in its own process.

I think that it should also take a broad perspective approach on things like padding and margin. For example, use simpler abstractions from layout engines like Qt or the layout-as-a-matrix-solver math behind iOS's Auto Layout constraints.

Find the commonalities to give us a high-level abstraction over all the div/span/table concepts of the web, then show a mapping from the abstraction to the quirks of how a div flows, for example. Maybe we could allow one transpiler to go from the solvable/predictable rules to the quirks of say HTML5.

The steps in this process could be relatively tiny and easy to test. It should render the DOM at > 60 fps on a Pentium 100 or equivalent, since games used to do that before they even had OpenGL.

I don't see any step of this process that is intractable. Once we had that, it should be relatively straightforward to build an open source browser as a base spec implementation. This is the sort of thing I fantasized about working on before I got so burned out.
Why does an unprofitable 1person tiny business get a bankrupting (identical) fine as a profitable 1000 employee firm with $500m in turnover?
Let me clarify: average-case does not just mean "over the uniform distribution", though that is of course one distribution of inputs we can study (mostly with applications to cryptography). Average-case complexity can be studied over any family of distributions.

Finding ways to characterize hardness and easiness in terms of underlying structure to those input distributions is exactly what average-case complexity tries to accomplish. The "holy grail" is to classify problems over efficient distribution of inputs. That is, first make the fairly reasonable assumption that the family of formulas you actually run (say) SAT-solvers on came from an efficient computation ("nature", or people coming up with problems). Then, identify properties of those distributions that you can measure and "blame" intractability on.

For example, there's a huge amount of work on these types of parameters for SAT instances. See: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rrw/backdoors.pdf

This type of work could, eventually, directly inform practice.

And of course I think it is okay for some researchers to work on purely theoretical or worst-case problems. Insights from worst-case complexity are often useful in solving the more difficult problems of average-case complexity; it is useful to know where and how the theories diverge.

Reconsidering, I guess I just don't understand the article at all. Maybe he's arguing that TCS doesn't have this problem because we have a hierarchy of theories, where worst-case complexity inspires average-case complexity inspires parameterized average-case complexity which could someday be used in the real world. Over very long timescales (think, centuries) I think complexity theory will produce practical insights.
TIL. This should be taught to all transport designers, landscape and other architects.

Not that these desire-paths are always optimal or appropriate, but it feels like an awful lot of times in open public spaces, they could be respected or at least understood.
Interactive map of Cohen's testimony to congress
Is this actually exploitable with the current set of browsers?

Looking at the documentation of the API [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ServiceWork...]

and it says in a yellow note at the top of the docs
This feature was mentioned as an idea in the SW explainer at some point, but as yet has not been implemented anywhere.

My guess is that is only an experimental feature currently
It looks like the GP possibly misread your comment and missed the extra 'e' on 'franchisee' in the first sentence.
This has been available for Python going waay back to PyCuda, and also numba has support for jit compiling to a GPU target. You can do similar things with Cython as well.
> but that's not what you said (I'm not trying to be antagonistic) - you called using a specific part of the browser an anti-pattern and poorly designed.

You're right. Where do you think the statements contradict each other? I don't think they do.

> and alternately, the ed editor also works perfectly fine: it edited files, and is 57k (likely more than it needs to be). but for some reason most people don't use it very often, instead opting for vim, emacs, atom, or even eclipse.

As a matter of fact, I use vim a lot.

> needing new things isn't an anti-pattern, it's simply the growth of the environment.

From what problem did this need arise?
Solving problems like this is one of the motivators for my nascent BubbleOS project — we need a stable software base that isn't upgraded every couple of years to replace known security holes with unknown ones, also introducing unknown incompatibilities. Executable code is clearly the best representation for many kinds of knowledge, but our existing systems software isn't up to the task.
Yes it totally avoids the problem, because the hypothetical authority is made up of people, thus granted (some of) the legal rights of persons.
What you need to know before you join a startup
This not news and doesn't merit being called research.

This is a statistical effect that has always existed and is fairly well known. Yes, the average worker experiences more wage growth than the statistical value of "growth in average wages" because the average workers starts at the lowest salary in their and gradually progresses higher. That's how individuals experience things but that does not in any way mean that median wages and growth median wages is a flawed statistic. It's reminder for anyone looking multiple measures of income and wealth to look carefully (I've seen economic professors incompetent enough to ignore these but that's a different issue).
Firefox was incredibly slow by that time. It was having maintainability problems for a few years, with unfixed memory leaks, deadlocks and core instabilities. Mozilla had a large ongoing effort for fixing those things, but it took some time until they got results.

Javascript heavy sites were also very slow on every browser, except for Chrome that invested in a good JS interpreter.
I'm not sure about that.

I usually get about 125 gallons at a time. And since heating oil is just diesel with dye in it, we can just add deliver costs in gallons. Even assuming im the only delivery, I doubt it would take more than a gallon of gas to travel to my house. But to be safe lets say 5.

With the above assumption, the question is Could 130 gallons burned at a power plant generate more heat in my house via electricity. Than 125 gallons burned in my house directly.

I dont know enough to give an answer but my gut says no.
I can say the one reason I only buy from eBook stores that are not Amazon: If I buy an eBook, I expect it to be DRM-free. I am a pretty big patron of Informit for this reason, and I buy a lot of Humble Book Bundles as well.

I've noticed many publishers have DRM'd up versions on Amazon or other book stores, but often have DRM-free offerings on their own site. Simon and Schuster is another one that does this, particularly with Star Trek novels. Authors may be extremely hesitant to sell just through you because losing Amazon discoverability is painful, but you can definitely offer things that Amazon will not.
I agree in theory. In practice I would see this working like any other class action. Most of the money will go into the pockets of lawyers, with very little left to remedy the actual damages.
>They are never dumb, but upper-middle-class, pretty smart people that have grit and drive and creativity and vision and edge and a different way of thinking about the world. That is what I think I’m good at spotting, and that is what I think are good founders.

Pretty sure everyone on hacker news would identify with his description, but would be terrible founders. Like me!
Taking away XUL is not the problem. Leaving users with a crippled replacement is.
Ageism, disagreeableness, changes in motivation, etc.
They'll never do so but I would love it if Apple would add a physical sliding keyboard like the Pro 1. I really really dislike the virtual keyboard, always have. It's so inaccurate. Granted that's because I'm a touch-typer and probably move too fast.
Thank you for that info, I didn't realize it was a deliberate move by Microsoft! Luckily my Windows installation wasn't pirated; I never did figure out why the updates stopped working.
Fanatics.... Give the man some credit, for trying everything he could. But then again the man is flat earth'er https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYcnLj8suLw so I am a bit torn.
Signing up for selective service isn't military enrollment. It's preregistration for potential future compelled enrollment, for which no current legal authority even exists.

The US has no conscription, or even a legal framework for conscription. It has a vestigial legacy framework preserved so that it could, in principal, bring up a system of conscription slightly more quickly than starting from a standing start if it ever adopted law authorizing it again, along with nearly half a century of deliberately constructing the military in a way which does not rely on and is not particularly adaptable to conscript service.
Living on Mars in the next 100 years is already going to be hard enough emotionally, biochemically, and thermodynamically, without having a work schedule that changes by 37 minutes every day.

Everything about it, including the great distance, or perhaps especially the great distance says that Earthers will have to make the affordances. I expect anyone on Mars who didn't come through the ranks of the Armed Forces (and half of the ones who did), and any medical, psychological, or political scientist brought in as an advisor, are all going to give a big ol' "Fuck You" to anyone who suggests otherwise.
I'm not being glib, my current work involves security and privacy, and so I'm more sensitive / concerned about those issues than rendering performance. Current JITs like V8 even give me the willies in terms of attack surface area, such that I'm willing to stomach something like a WASM interpreter for my use cases.

I recognize that WebRender is a huge technique achievement and I absolutely love it when people achieve silky smooth 60fps renders, and if I was working on games or graphics or UX, I'd probably rank that over top of Site Isolation.

The original post mentioned process isolation and flash, so my comment was more a long the lines of 'it's still behind chrome (in isolation)'
Windows 10 does that for me as well...isn't that the whole point of the Timeline feature?
>Twitter’s statuses lookup API endpoint allows for a total of 1,200 API calls every 15 minutes. Each call allows the user to pass 100 ids for a total of 120,000 id requests every 15 minutes using both APP auth [...]

Use the secret consumer keys from Twitter to bypass these limits: https://gist.github.com/shobotch/5160017
> What happens if a user uses a known password / email from the data breaches?

We are currently implementing the "have I been pwned" API to prevent users from using one of those leaked passwords.

> Can a hacker then take their funds?

Nope. The way our system works is that a new Escrow contract is deployed for every project. The Client funds that Escrow contract by sending funds from say, Coinbase, or an exchange, or a wallet they control. The private key that is derived from their password can authorize release of those funds, but only to a pre-determined address (the address of the Freelancer who did the work for the project). This restriction is codified in the smart contract itself when the Client accepts the project proposal from the Freelancer.

> How does the destination wallet / key get generated?

When you say destination, do you mean the Escrow contract, or the Freelancer's wallet?

> How do I convert to actual money?

We only support USDC right now, which is a USD-pegged stablecoin created by Coinbase, to avoid volatility. So to get from USDC to USD, you have to use an exchange like Coinbase. USDC is an ERC20 token, and we plan to support more tokens in the future.

(edited to fix quotes)
There are no U.S. military bases on Taiwan or the Philippines. Nor Thailand, for that matter. Japan and South Korea are both north of the South China Sea.

China's game plan started with building a navy for the first time in half a millennium. Their geopolitical interests are complex, but I'm pretty sure the immediate focus of their naval power has been and will be securing resources in the South China Sea and reclaiming Taiwan. They're not bottled up, it's just where their interests lie.
For dementia, "deal with their illness" is the obvious way to frame it. But, on the other hand, many with physical limitations don't like being labeled as "disabled".

Given how our minds work, self-reinforcement is a major factor. Negative commentary (and self-commentary) is hugely disempowering. I suspect that, in many cases, dementia is iatrogenic. In a way, it's like bullying someone in order to keep them irrational, defensive, and self-defeating.

And yes, "lack of purpose" is a huge issue. Or rather, lack of a future worth living into. That's also a huge part of dementia.
Last year, I correctly predicted Jeff Bezos will divorce due to extra-marital affair.

Here are my prediction for the next 5-10 years.

1. Autonomous cars will be common, and they will have hive minds as AI progresses.
2. Governments around the world will look different, as AI will supplant politicians as representatives (probably in late decade).
3. Banking systems will crash and bartering will occur in the first half of the decade. It will change to adapt usage of cryptocurrency.
4. Blockchain will be part of the internet infrastructure. AI personas will exist as butlers for people, these personas are actual replica of their personalities.
5. Robotics will replace most jobs such as waiters and cashiers. Some of these robots will be monitored or operated by one or two persons. That job will require higher tech education/degrees.

(I have 5 more but it's not related to tech, lol).
Oh, I'm not saying distribution efficiencies necessarily outweigh transmission losses, just that if you weigh the cost of getting energy from the place to your house you should also make sure you consider the cost of getting fuel to each location.
How did Chrome have better privacy than Firefox at any point in the past?
Windows updates can be postponed and rescheduled. They don't just happen while you are using the computer--you have to affirmatively let them happen. (Though in some cases updates are mandatory when restarting or shutting down.)
idempotent requests, stateless services, etc are all parts of a fault tolerant system.

your service has a few ways to deal with a dependency going down -- maybe it's a retry, maybe it's opening a circuit breaker and returning a default payload instead of calling that service.

It really depends on what specifically the service is and what it's calling (so it's a very case by case issue).

One of the very neat features of istio is that you can do this tuning in real time -- spin up your services, simulate faults, and then test your service while tuning your retry logic to see what the best user experience is.
OneWeb launches mega-constellation pathfinder satellites
Ugly websites and how to fix them
While technically correct, this is the wrong way to look at it. The energy density of oil is large, so transmission losses per unit of energy is low. Any modern house furnace will be at least 80% efficient, and 96% isn't unheard of. The most fuel efficient power plants are around 60%, (combined cycle coal plants) but any plant running oil is probably less, plus you have all the transmission losses for electric (8%). In the end if you are burning fuel for heat it is both cheaper and a better use of energy to burn it locally.

Of course that isn't the full picture either. Electric can come from many sources (wind, PV), and scale means they can mix sources cheaper. (imagine a coal furnace, gas furnace, oil furnace, PV heat, and a windmill all at your house - it is obviously ridiculous, but large utilities have this)

You also don't have to burn for heat directly. Electric leaves open the option of a heat pump which can be >100% efficient when it isn't too cold.
"Any aliens advanced enough to hear our signals and have the realistic ability to contemplate a move against us can probably do the math: the likely threat of any alien civilization is from a practical perspective, zero, to them or us. The costs are too high, the barriers are too high, the risks are too remote, the rewards are too low."

This argument reminds me of economic theories that assume all humans are so-called "rational actors".

Even humans, which are in most ways like us and who we have some hope of understanding, do all sorts of things which most of use would consider "irrational", insane, self-destructive, and otherwise incomprehensible.

What justification could there be for assuming alien intelligences think in terms of costs, risks, or rewards? Or that they are in any way "practical" from some human's point of view?

Your argument also ignores the possibility that they have technologies or capabilities that might seem impossible (or even unimaginable) to humans of today (or perhaps of any time). Something that seems undoable to us, like FTL travel, might be possible or even easy for them. We don't know what we don't know.
What about long rendering? Every student and/or indie artist now need a very personal cluster?
How did u find the compilation process
The fundamental issue here is simple:

1) In 2019, in order to be secure, a computer needs some bare minimum of sysadmin.
2) Computers are like people -- herd immunity helps a lot. Unmaintained PCs are not merely a threat to their owners, but can be used as part of botnets for all sorts of things that jeopardize security for lots of people.
3) Most users are incapable of being their own sysadmin, and there are a lot of people who either don't understand that they even have such a need or suffer from a lot of Dunning-Kruger.

So, with the switch to Perpetual Windows, Microsoft has taken on a lot of things that people either ignored or did poorly before, and they want to know why they can't go back to ignoring them or doing them poorly. A not insubstantial part of the reputation Windows 10 has for being user-hostile is because of the difficulty of doing this at scale combined with the fact that some users act pretty hostile themselves, from a herd immunity perspective. Those are the Windows equivalent of anti-vax parents who complain about the school system being hostile to them just for bringing back measles.

Windows is never going to be as secure as Android/iOS, with their ability to bring a new security model to things. But Windows 10 is a lot more secure than any Windows before it, and a lot of the reasons people think Microsoft are "ruining" Windows are part of why it's getting more secure.
How many individual people are buying new franchises these days?

I can't say with certainty, but my impression is that most McDonald's (and other fast food chains, possibly other franchises as well) locations are then owned by semi-regional operators that run a number of franchises. Around here, I know most of the McDonald's are run by 1 corporation. Same with the Burger Kings. It was the same way where I lived previously.
Or, wind -> electricity -> heat pump (1:5) -> lots of heat?