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If your target is absolutely zero emissions, you also have to ban volcanos, limestone erosion, permafrost melting, cows, humans, and really all animal life on earth. There are plenty of natural processes that result in CO2 being released into the air, not least of which is breathing.

Grandparent post has a "perfect is the enemy of the good" fallacy. Banning all emissions is simply not possible. That doesn't mean that efforts to limit emissions aren't worthwhile. And that's what cap & trade programs do; the government sets a cap on carbon emissions based on the best available science for what the planet can tolerate before we get unacceptable levels of warming, and then companies can trade carbon credits amongst themselves to allocate who reduces their emissions and who pays other people to reduce their emissions.
Does anyone know why they don't update the built-in apps more frequently? Paint, Notepad, Wordpad and others are pretty much remnants from the Win95 days. On some controlled machines it would be a godsend if Windows had a better built-in editor.

Updating these apps can't be that hard compared to all the other stuff they are doing.
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a couple versions ago they added "snip & sketch" which does. When they released it they said they were getting rid of the snipping tool but they don't seem to have done that yet.
> But I've had candidates that try to make up language features, and that doesn't fly with me.

This piqued my curiosity. Can you give an example?
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that's far from intuitive
That seems like you could easily circumvent by claiming the underpriced service is a loss leader, routing customers towards more profitable upsells at other points in the relationship. Printers and toner, handles and razors, banks and toasters.
They said during the presentation they had a 100W limit. The previous Nvidia hardware is ~50W and this new hardware is ~72W (36W per chip).

So, 500W is going to be well beyond that and wouldn't fit their requirements.
Are the action items achievable and will completing them actually improve the situation?
> It would be great if we could have one big union that fights for the rights of all workers, and if you think so too you should look into joining the IWW.

Given how often the interests of various workers can and do conflict, this strikes me as an idea possessed of a wonderful opportunity to come into greater alignment with reality. As are those who advocate it.

I always ask would-be tech union organizers the same question: what's in it for me? Rarely do I get good answers back.

Unions aren't about moralizing. They're about self-interest. Show me that you're going to advance mine, and we can talk.
Only if you opted in before (e.g. by your legal guardian at the time)
Once you've invested the time into getting familiar with Gimp it's not terribly hard, but it's more effort to learn than paint which is dead simple out of the box.

Plus Gimp still takes 20+ seconds to start before it's fully useable (even on SSD!), vs paint being ready to go on less than a second
> Legally speaking, city could have easily argued that parking space is not a private property and therefore they can easily enforce an agreement to be chalked.

They could perhaps enforce such an agreement, if the agreement existed.

> I wouldn't like this but the thing is that 4AM cannot be applied if you willingly relocated your private property in to a place that is not owned by you.

No, the fourth Amendment doesn't go away on public property, generally.

> This is the principle (I think) behind government able to search in whatever way they deem fit at airport because airport is not your private property.

It's not. A variety of administrative search criteria together with the “grave and urgent” need to prevent hijackings is, and it's not unlimited.

https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F2/482/482.F2d...
Should be titled "How to Ace the Technical Interview in the Bay Area". Even absolute shithole bottom tier companies or unknown startups are asking these questions. Write perfect code on the whiteboard or get rejected. You have to put in A LOT of time into preparation even if you don't want to work at Google, which is ridiculous.
I definitely miss my G1 - I loved the slide-out keyboard, and the "trackball" pointer device. If I could have those two things in a modern phone, perhaps slightly thicker with a larger battery, that would be almost perfect.

But what perfection would actually look like to me would also being able to use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and (somehow) outputting the video to a real monitor. At that point, it would be a suitable on-the-go replacement for most laptop needs.
Doesn't sound like a defense as much as balancing. I think it's this over sympathizing/feeling sorry for women that I can get exhausted with. The op was feeling bad for women because they menstruate and cleanup isn't somehow free. Well duh, and why shouldn't it be? We all responsible for our hygiene and have to pay it with our own money.

And if it shouldn't be free then why don't men get an extra check for consuming extra calories? The question is to demonstrate how ridiculous the idea is. The levels that people go to in order to sympathize with women are quite high and seem to be for the purpose of giving men a sense that they should feel bad or sorry for the condition of being a woman when really, if you want equality, you treat women like you treat men. You assume they are strong and they can handle the problem. Yes $7 a box by 9 boxes a year is definitely extra cost of living. But are we really going to make this one thing free or tax free just because it only affects women? It's such an oversensitivity to women and it should be considered offensive to them that anybody even considers that kind of special treatment.
I understand your advocacy, but their art loses it's charm when I think of the nastiness that their lawyers are wreaking. It's not like they are in a survival or scarcity environment. They are a large, multinational, multibillion dollar company. And they are loosing their million dollar lawyers on some guy for possibly damaging an incredibly small portion of their income. It's just so dirty; the more I think about it, the less happy I am playing their games. So I'd say the forest is already tarnished and dying in my eyes, unfortunately.
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Yes, definitely source+build instructions should be uploaded rather than binaries.

You can still support proprietary software by just uploading the binaries as source (and maybe doing some build-process to adapt it to the packaging format)
The 'measuring something disturbs it' idea described above is called the observer effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)

The observer effect is a real thing, and even has interesting effects in quantum mechanics, e.g. the quantum zeno effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Zeno_effect

Yet the observer effect is not the reason why we can't know an object's position and velocity at the same time. There are two ways we can see that this supposed explanation is a red herring:

- We don't need to interact with (e.g. 'bounce a photon off') a quantum system in order to observe it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction-free_measurement ). I particularly like the "quantum bomb detector" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80%93Vaidman_bomb_t... ), which can tells us whether a photon detector connected to a bomb is working or not, without hitting it with a photon and hence triggering the bomb (50% of the time, at least).

- The actual reason, the uncertainty principle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle ), doesn't require any notion of observation at all, let alone interaction. It's a simple property of waves (the relationship between duration and frequency). 3blue1brown did a nice video on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBnnXbOM5S4
Right, much of the actual hard work in chip design would be outsourced. They pull in enormous amounts of templated chip design ("IP"), and clearly hired top talent to keep the whole thing going. They'd need simulators and labs for testing, but maybe outsource PCB layout. And I believe Elon even stated out loud that the fab itself is in Texas. Nobody makes chips on their own except perhaps Intel or Samsung. Even with all that industry support it's still a remarkable piece of work in a tight time line, but given the funding and the people, entirely reasonable.
I don't really care that much since I rarely use paint or paint 3d. I just find it odd that MS devoted any time to paint3d. I remember when they announced it they went on and on about all these great 3d things you could do. And no one cared. Did enough people in charge really believe that people would be into the 3d stuff or was it just trying to convince people that they wouldn't really need Pain any more?
> If the got it by "unfairly" taking it from their neighbor at gunpoint, can we morally justify taking it from them at gunpoint - perhaps in order to return it to that neighbor?

We call those people robbers and do just that. Any one who takes money at gunpoint is such. I'm not sure if you were trying to make a different point, but we're pretty good at arresting violent criminals and punishing them.
Going to use Elon’s own words here, which I find pretty funny -

“But, you are driving that fraud :-)”
It does, think twice about the CPU flow.
There are many who would argue that removing those features from PHP would be a massive improvement.
I do not dispute that the languages that you've listed are serious attempts. They do not remain in the same niche, however. I would define that niche as "capable of replacing C even in free-standing implementation".

For D and Go, having a GC immediately puts them outside of that niche. For Go, I would also add all the FFI weirdness due to its weird stack discipline, which means that it is non-zero-overhead when interacting with non-Go code - a fatal omission for any contender for a low-level systems language.

Swift is much closer to the metal, and I would consider it a serious contender if it was pushed on all platforms. But it seems that Apple is not interested in its use outside of their ecosystem, which constrains its effective niche to be much narrower than C++ or Rust, ironically.

And yes, of course C++ is always going to have better backwards compatibility. If it didn't, it wouldn't be C++. But its ability to fix issues is directly correlated with that compatibility - it's a dial where you can have more of one and less of the other, as you choose, but you can't have both. Rust (and Swift) can fix more problems, or can fix problems in better ways, because they are not so constrained.

Conversely, if C++ were to introduce safe-by-default, and require explicit opt-in into unsafe - with all present code being considered unsafe - then what you have is a new language that just happens to embed C++ for compatibility reasons. At that point you might as well fix the syntax warts etc as well in that new safe language, since it breaks everything anyway.
according to the article, if the company is operate at loss and it benefit customers, it is fine!

"Both of these outcomes reflect consumers failing to share in Amazon’s bounty, which is key for current antitrust law. Right now, anti-competitive conduct like predatory pricing is judged under the “consumer welfare standard,” which has been interpreted to mean simply whether a market dominated by a single company results in higher or lower prices. But even though prices are the same on Amazon, consumers are arguably missing out, Sussman explains, because they’re not benefiting from Amazon’s soaring profits. “It’s illegal and even the most conservative neoclassical thinker would agree,” he says."
Seems more practical in Los Angeles than it would be in San Francisco. Though I suppose it's not impossible to imagine building down in a one car garage (though in a state with lots of earthquakes, that would be expensive, and not everyone will want to sleep in a batcave).
> The redundant Tesla setup by comparison pulls 100 watts total. [2]

Hmm... I recalled him saying 72w in the presentation compared to 54w in the previous hardware. Then he said this was within the allotted power envelope and wouldn't impact range.
Even if the Great British Empire was "better" than the early US (I'm sure some of their former colonies would say otherwise), it bears no relevance to the discussion of whether the American Constitution was a success or failure. The US isn't Great Britain, so it can't be compared as such. I also don't understand why you would hold the founding fathers responsible for things that happened several decades in the future.
I think the challenge is a bit misunderstood online. The challenging part by far with forming something like a trade union is to gain the influence, not how to wield it. It is having a high participation rate, a strong organisation, institutions and a war chest is the hard part. Actual influence will then be largely automatic just by existing. In general only weak organizations need "activist activities". A strong union's activities would be ongoing negotiations, legal cases, education, conferences, media production etc. That would form the culture more than any sort of code.
I didn't say the person should stop fighting or that fighting is futile. I was saying they are being naive if they think Facebook has no data on them.
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Maybe. But the fact that Uber and Lyft are actively competing (both with taxis and each other) using that model would be a pretty strong argument to the contrary.

At the end of the day, antitrust legislation exists to protect consumers and markets, not established businesses. Prices under cost, in isolation, pretty much can't be antitrust violations by definition. They have to be used to effect a harm to the market in other ways.
I once passed a whiteboard interview just calling random made-up operations on generic java arrays, like Array.flatten().

I was relatively new to programming and had been practicing in Java but didn't know how to execute a lot of map/filter/reduce operations off the top of my head like that. I did, however, know that my interviewer was a Python programmer that probably didn't know much about Java language features.
Or RSM
Birth control can fail. Depending on the kind of birth control more or less unexpectedly...
It seems like the comic strip is for a specific start-up. The jokes don’t seem universal to all start ups.
Wow thanks for the completeness of the answer.

I found myself nodding on all the conceptual limits and features you added, I'm sold, gonna try Cadence asap :)

The tooling around SWF (web console and ability to get insights about tasks, failures, etc.) is definitely a big one from an operational perspective. The SWF console is indeed absolutely terrible (with basic bugs not fixed for years, like broken pagination), so we ended up developing our own here at Botify, along with a python based client lib that mimics most of RubyFlow principles. I'm curious if all this can be integrated with Cadence, will have a look. I can keep you informed if you feel it's valuable for the Cadence project.
The metric?
I only jest because I did see John speak and give a presentation about his OKR system while I was working at Airware (now defunct).

I was just fresh from LinkedIn, where OKR’s had recently been implemented. I got to see how they systematically eliminated some of the best employees in favor of those who were willing to game the system and create fake goals for themselves.

As I sat in the audience, I thought to myself, “Finally I’m meeting the fabled creator of OKR’s.”

Airware went out of business a few years later.
It's quite apparent to anyone who has lived there for a while and talked to people. Some large scale anonymous surveys done by not particularly sympathetic outsiders also confirm it (e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/0...).
That depends on your expectations.
But that isn’t the only problem. The part of the screen behind the hinge is exposed. It’s easy for junk to get between the screen and hinge. Then, when opening and closing the dirt presses against the screen and damages it. Once damaged the screen seems to quickly fail.
My bedroom in LA was like this. 10x20 ft, so a distinctly "long" room. It actually worked really well. My bed was in one end, then there was a tall paper divider, then a loveseat, coffee table, and desk in the remainder. Basically a room that divided in thirds for bed, living, and study.
Perhaps they were aiming for 1 and they got 3 or 4? I remember a colleague a few years back had that 'problem' (planned 1 turned to 3) and he got a very generous raise that year.
A 50% margin on food service is unheard of. That McDonalds is making 5-9% a year most likely, which is in line with food trucks generally.
I bring up remote Emacs frames (from existing sessions, using emacsclient) over ssh forwarded X11 all the time. I prefer this method over tty-only because of the better keyboard support (tty can't pass through all the modifiers or even all the ctrl combinations), image support and clipboard integration. (better colors used to be another reason but less so now that we have 24 bit color support in tty Emacs)

With the fast networks we have nowadays performance is quite good.

I dread the time (if it ever comes) when Wayland takes over to the point that X11 won't be practical to use. And I would use EXWM too which would be even more painful.
Can you please refer me to that thread?
> However, I'm still not sure why we need ultra-low-latency.

Simply for passive viewing probably not. For live streaming in which the viewer is also using actuators, e.g., gamepads, wheel, etc., for controlling the stream capture device, then yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophilia
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Gilbert Strang MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7DDD91010BC51F8

Essence of Linear Algebra https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...
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>>As your quote is presented as a response to mine, the argument you are making here is that if the software has a less than 100% success rate, then trying to treat people equally is pointless.

You misunderstand. I am saying that a less than 100% success rate is an indication of people being treated equally, by definition. Anyone for whom the software is not working has an unequal experience.

Reducing the error rate reduces inequality. Focusing on the error rate for the whole of the population is a more efficient way of reducing said inequality than focusing on reducing the error rate for a subset of the population.

>>To give an example, you write "the objective should be to maximize the number of lives that are saved with the resources available", but your position only goes so far as to do nothing about this particular case, and has not been extended to its logical conclusion, which is to redirect all expenditure on facial recognition to more cost-effective lifesaving measures.

The rest is implied. It goes without saying. Seeing it as conveying otherwise is an ungenerous, bad faith reading.

>>Repeating yourself does not somehow nullify my response to its first appearance,

I'm repeating a rebuttal to your point, which you have not responded to.

>>which was to point out that there is good evidence for bias in the case of ethnicity, race and gender, but we are seeing no evidence whatsoever for the sort of confounding problems that you make up in your so-called "thought experiment".

I've already addressed the logical shortcoming of your argument, repeatedly. You're simply ignoring the point and repeating what's been rebutted.

>>Let's consider some examples of how your point of view would play out. For example, there was recent fatal crash that revealed a corner case in Tesla's vision system, and other crashes that have revealed problems with Boeing's MCAS system.

Tesla/Boeing do not have a measurable rate of catastrophic error that can be reduced. These corner cases are the entirety of the measurable fatal errors found in the system. That's unlike facial recognition software, which has a measurable "catastrophic" (as catastrophic as errors in facial recognition software care be) error rate that can be reduced.
Details: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2019/04/carbana...
Paint.NET is probably the best option, but Microsoft would probably have to fork it as the UI has novelties (floating panels and so forth, which non-technical users might struggle with). The hard thing about Paint is that it fills a similar niche to Notepad or Nano.

> hinders the development of other open source apps for the platform.

Filling the same niche as Paint is hardly improving the world. As soon as your Paint clone does anything innovative it fails to fall inside the constraints of Paint.

As a simpler example, any Notepad clone that added, say, tabs would instantly fail to be a Notepad replacement. I'd seriously question how much value OSS competition (consisting of a native textbox and menu bar) is adding to the world. Edit: Just because OSS can compete doesn't mean it should.
For my part, I'm just not interested in working at facebook or google or certain other companies because I disagree with their practices. Luckily, I'm far enough along in my career that I don't need to take just any job, even if it is limiting to be a privacy conscious data scientist.

I do worry that people like me just staying out of these places leads to an echo chamber, and change from within is great. I wonder whether my individual impact on social good is greater trying to be moral at a moral company, or trying to be moral at an immoral company.

Luckily I don't have to twist my logic around to justify staying and vesting.
Practically speaking there is no power limit. The traction motors on Tesla's cars themselves will pull two orders of magnitude more power than these chips will.
Parking clocks solves the problem easily.

http://www.ericandleandra.com/2014/07/28/memory-monday-parki...
I brought up some similar ideas more than three years ago. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/320

In case anyone is interested in any of that discussion.
Customers might be willing to use Mate X with sleeves / folio cases.
Why? I'm not seeing the benefit of this.
Besides the UI Cadence provides a CLI that supports most of the API features.

The core API is almost the same, so porting an existing python client should not be a very large task.
Yeah they're already doing that in Santa Cruz and it sucks across the board.

Evidence: I live there and I like to go to open houses just to gloat at how badly people have f*ed up otherwise perfectly workable floor plans to make a little extra cash.

OTOH reducing the cost of in-law unit permits to zero across the board would work wonders.
We use Cadence to run low-latency workflows for routing customer support tickets. It handles our use case very well. https://eng.uber.com/customer-obsession-ticket-routing-workf...
industries serving the sports industry / creating products related to sports will be very interested... not your average consumer though...
Big if true.

If not though, nearly a million out of 17.6 million bitcoins seems like a huge number to be out of circulation, and that's a lower bound (other bitcoin owners have almost certainly died without being able to pass them on). I know that the rate at which bitcoins are awarded slows over time, so it seems like eventually the rate at which bitcoins are lost due to owner death should exceed the rate at which they are created.

How is the long-term state of bitcoin not just a bunch of unrecoverable keys held by dead people?
“such as being ignored because of their sex”

this doesn’t quite fit into most people’s definition of sexual harassment
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