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I find this topic fascinating. As a defensive measure these could have immense value. I'm sceptical of any present long range value however.

The ballistic nature of artillery, missiles, and other projectiles allows hitting targets beyond the horizon. Lasers are uni-directional so whilst they would be great against targets in line of sight, I doubt you'll see laser weapon systems employed as long range weapons for a very long time.

Of course, you could deploy them from a platform like a satellite, or aircraft, but the power requirements are immense and any current day aircraft would probably be so large as to be a sitting duck. I recall they've carried out testing of this nature using a 747 as a test platform. Until they can make planes of that size more survivable, I guess we're stuck with defensive applications.
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It's over your budget.
While I can't say anything definitive or give a timeline we do want to support research groups like yours. Ideally we'd be able to have our paid offering for companies using Nextjournal in private subsidize our open science/source offering.

We also definitely want to open source parts of our product but we haven't figured out what parts (or everything) and under what license.

Our priority is currently on providing a useful hosted product and become sustainable. It's certainly also interesting to see how e.g. metabase is doing it the other way around, open source first without a hosted product but I guess I'm a bit scared of not being ready for developing Nextjournal in the open at this point in terms of bandwidth and keeping things backwards compatible.
It started a while ago, it just took off slowly. Powershell shipped in 2006, for example, and from there all products gradually started integrating with it for admin tasks. Windows Server 2012 already had a command-line-only mode.
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How is the energy stored?

Presumably as jet fuel, and the laser is charged by the plane's engines.
Sure, but one can argue that a EV could be designed/optimized for faster battery replacement. While it would still need at least a forklift to move the batteries, I believe the time needed for battery swapping could be greatly reduced with a proper design.
I strongly disagree; creative formatting like this means that as a reader, you have to squint and readjust to this new style to see what is going on.

I mean, this whole thread reads like a holy war about code style - something the Go developers EXPLICITLY want to avoid because discussions about code style are a waste of time.

Everyone reading the above segment of code will have a different opinion on how to format it, while the real question should be "What does this code do". I mean this is highlighted in the preface of the presentation: "When you or I say that a foreign codebase is unreadable, what I think what we really mean is, I don’t understand it."

When I read this code I don't understand it, and it's not because of the formatting per se. Playing with the formatting does not make the purpose of the code clearer.

This whole thread where people argue about how to best format a structure is missing the point of the article completely.
No tabs though (deliberately). You'll need to add a tabbing window manager to add them.
1. I get that short and simple code snippets are important in order to understand the fundamentals of a framework, but people with little experience will just copy the code in your documentation 1:1. I believe that semantic and accessible code snippets are very important. The way you constructed some elements[1] also suggests that there are no labels necessary.

2. & 3. There seems to be a general misunderstanding with a lot of frameworks about what needs to be customized. Native browser elements are always to be preferred - they are known by the users, accessible, and just work. Custom elements often are a lot more about design than usability and not wanting to "break" the designer's creation. A server-sided validation is of course necessary in both cases nevertheless. Custom client-sided validation can be useful in complex forms though.

3. You’re right, there are examples of both custom and native select elements.

4. Cool, thanks!

[1] e.g. https://oatw.github.io/luda/0.1.x/elements/form#select-field
Sounds like the ubeam "works for very tiny numbers, everything else is a scaling problem" con.
You can type / and it works in Powershell.

I've been using Unix for 20 years, switch to pwsh 2 years ago, never typed backslash ever.
From a passenger point of view the A220 (Bombardier C100 / C300) is a fantastic experience.

Big windows, very comfy seats, which are broader than even in a wide body and with only one middle seat per row, large overhead bins and an overall really pleasant flying experience. At least on short - and medium-haul flights.

I'm lucky enough to fly it rather often, since Swiss was launch customer and ZRH my home base.

edit : changed redundant word
> and uses Google search suggestions (so sends all typed in text to Google)

This is not true. Firefox explicitly asks you the first time you start typing a search in the location bar whether to allow search suggestions. It is opt-in.

Firefox also allows you to keep the location/search bar separate so that you can have search suggestions without sending every URL you type to Google.
But they already have some windows version running on ARM right? I can't check right now but Microsoft offers something that runs on Raspberry Pi if I remember correctly.
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To be honest, I don't have it all worked out but I doubt there will be any profit here. The value I see is mostly the learning from working with a real customer and having the product build partially subsidised.
>I also think this innovation has a larger impact if it were used to bring existing generators of emissions closer to being carbon neutral. It also reduces the burden of being cost efficient on Day 1 since the carbon intensity of large emission generators is already a cost they'd be glad to mitigate or get rid of

I can't follow this argument. What exactly are you proposing? His process still has a ~50% efficiency-loss, so even using all energy generated from fossil generators would only mitigate a maximum of 50% emissions (even ignoring all other efficiency losses here). And that obviously would be stupid. That energy is generated for a purpose.

The whole point of his process is to use solar/renewable/carbonfree energy to reverse carbon emissions. It would always be more efficient to just use less electricity/energy in other situations.
There are few things that couldn't possibly be done without plastic, but most of things do benefit from being plastic to various degree. People mention various material properties crucial to medical use, but I'd mention a simple other one: mass. If you tried to replace plastics with metals and glass in consumer products while retaining similar material properties, you'd end up with a lot heavier products. Think e.g. plastic bottle vs. glass bottle for an obvious example. All that mass increases fuel used whenever you have to move it.

This alone doesn't justify use of plastics everywhere, but it does matter at scale and over lifecycles of some products, so it's worth remembering.
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XED is fairly accurate. prefer to use capstone, but i suppose it's what you're used to... i feel XED has more potential because it's from the vendor. at least for intel brand cpus.
No. Deprecate hours and minutes altogether, change to Greewitch Meridian degrees and minutes. This will help with leaving the old system and makes more sense semantically, even though it's essentially an equivalent system.

- What time is it now?
- It's 258 degrees and 15 minutes. (5:18pm)
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Hi there,

Lately (a few days) i‘ve been having issues with accessing SharePoint using Firefox. Other browsers work just fine.
However, when i change my user agent to be that of chrome or chromium, it works just fine. Is anybody else experiencing this issue? Could this be the first signs of Microsoft trying to force certain browsers?
What? The implication of interviews are worthless for finding the best senior engineers is not to hire random people off the street. It's to hire people based on their previous work, reputation and recommendations.
Perhaps the catch being that if you have LOS to half the planet then half the planet has LOS to you and presumably its a lot easier to build and operate a high energy laser on the ground rather than in high orbit.
Expected some interface to an Altair computer and blinking lights.

People don't care anymore how they name their projects. :-(
And then what would happen? What is the effect of this?
Very deep an interesting thoughts.
You'd have to separate pump and store it, when electricity is expensive.

I suspect the advantage of this system is that is doesn't need pure co2 to work
Hyper, Terminus, Alacritty, and Fluent Terminal are all excellent.

Also Powershell is a shell not a terminal and it's awesome.
> We waste so much energy that we could capture and put back to use.

The biggest current waste of energy is residential heating. We take high quality energy in the form of natural gas and fuel oil and use it to produce low quality heat.

Co-gen systems burn fuel to generate electricity and use the waste heat for heating buildings.
Eh, they'll die off. Tokypop used to try and license Korean manhwa here a while back ago, among other publishers. If you remember the movie the Priest, that was about as famous as it got here. I used to read it, usually it was the same problem a lot of Korean stuff has..it's an okay copy, but there isn't really an original spark to it that makes it come alive like manga does.
There are tons of SQL clients for Windows.

Dbeaver, sqlyog (free edition) are a few more free ones that come to mind.
> It is not possible for a C program to be faster than the C++ version.

That is simply not true and easily demonstrably false: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> Compile the C program with a C++ compiler, and they are exactly the same.

Why would I compile a C program with a C++ compiler? But in any case the above link both used gcc and shared most of the compiler backend.

> If you knew C++ I could go into more detail, but if you knew C++ we would not need to have this conversation.

Your assumptions is wrong on multiple levels, I know C++ (admittedly rusty though) and it is not self evident, the opposite in fact.
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The conflict long predates Windows.

Ctrl+C to interrupt was inherited from TOPS (via DOS and CP/M).

Ctrl+C to copy selected text was introduced on Xerox PARC, the granddaddy of all modern UIs. In DOS, some text-mode UI apps were already using it, although IBM CUA was more common.
for reference: https://nextjournal.com/r3tex/loss-landscape is the article he's talking about.
It really is a balance, and it's very hard to get it "just right". I mean I can appreciate a succinct oneliner (which is why I really like functional programming, doing a .map() instead of a for loop for example; it's a lot more compact without losing expressiveness, however, you do need to learn the lingo at first).

When I first went from Java to Scala, I found that while you can perform the same logic in 10 times less lines of code, each line is also 10 times as powerful and complex. A random example I found in code from back then:

private def fetchDevices = (for (device <- devices.find()) yield device.getAs[String]("deviceId").get).toList

Super concise but at the same time the code doesn't actually do much as far as I can decode now, it's a lot of type wrangling.
I'm not OP, but I don't know what you mean... Googling it leads me to Supplier in Java 8, which is probably not what you meant?
We already rely on machines to tell us what time it is, I don't see much difference to using a computer.
Remember, that plastic is not just cheaper -- it's also often lighter. We could do a lot of stuff with metal, wood or good old granite, but emissions from manufacturing transporting all those heavier goods would spike and we don't want that as long as manufacturing and transporting are dependent on fossil fuels.

Plastic is fine. It has it's uses, and we won't get rid of it anytime soon. We need to get rid of the bulk of the one-time use stuff though, and focus on re-usable items if we want to change something.
There is a mistake in the presentation. This compiles, even without a return after the if/else block.

func comp(a, b int) int {
if a < b {
return -1
} else if a > b {
return 1
} else {
return 0
}
}
From what I remember of the difficulties of the Star Wars program - ICBMs are most vulnerable and easiest to spot during their boost phase - which tends to happen, rather inconveniently, over your enemies territory.

The RVs themselves are small, hardened and move incredibly quickly and are also surrounded by a plasma shield during reentry which may interfere with targetting with a directed energy weapon.
Food, clothing, health care, TVs, computers, pretty much everything. Maybe housing is an exception, but it may also depend on where you live. At least building is probably also cheaper (more efficient methods).
Python has its version of the ternary operator as well. It may look unusual due to the different order of the operands, but it works quite nicely, in my opinion:

x = (-1 if a < b else
1 if a > b else
0)

This emphasizes the possible values that x may be assigned to.
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I think mostly faster training time. If you can work out connections that don't matter early in the process you could start ignoring them.
I'm assuming that the main reason why the old terminal can't do this is because console apps can, in fact, handle right clicks. Far Manager is one example that does so for file selection, or alternatively to display its own (TUI) context menus.

The terminal still has the menu commands, by the way. They're tucked away in the window system menu (the one with Minimize, Close etc, that you can open by clicking on the app icon in the title bar - it's all under Edit there).
What do you mean by "ignoring binding"? That doesn't sound right. Binding is one of the things I think about the most when building DSLs in Common Lisp.
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Because if the structure is different from what you're 'used' to, you spend ten times as much time reading (or as the original presentation coins, "decoding") that one line to understand what it means.

You don't read ten lines, you decode them. If it's ten simple lines, decoding them is easy. If it's a nested ternary, it's a lot more cognitive load - unless you're used to nested ternary expressions.

However, I'd say it's a fair assertion to make that most people aren't used to reading nested ternaries.

And I think that's what Go (and this presentation) is about; you shouldn't need to get used to a certain code style to be able to decode it. You should be able to open up a file and not be surprised. If I were to come across a nested ternary, my first reaction is a raised eyebrow and a "wtf?". The wtfs / hour is one of the metrics that Go language is based on.
I really wonder if anyone ever really does anything for themselves anymore. Every experience, even the most intimate and introspective ones, seem to be telegraphed and advertised as a part of your "branded identity"
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Ask Ford/KUKA/FANUC/every other company as well. Just because something did analytics on worker schedules doesn't make it different than a poring HR rep with hidden black boxes.
> Consistency is a hobgoblin.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The whole quote is important. Cutting parts out changes the meaning of the whole thing.
One of the particular insights I gained reading SICP long time ago is that local variables are equivalent to function parameters. That is (using CL syntax):

(let ((a 3)
(b 2))
(some code using a b))

Is equivalent to:

(funcall (lambda (a b)
(some code using a b))
3
2)

This is the basis of translating imperative loops into tail recursions.
You are certainly aware of this, but synthetic fuel is perfect for military applications and for backup generators and such, because there is no biofouling or degradation. Also wasn't the USAF testing bio jet fuel? Your product is superior on all technical points and just as good if not better on the environment.
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exactly!
"We will continue to both service and support .NET Framework, which includes bug–, reliability– and security fixes."
True, but that second part kind of falls flat when we continue your analogy.

We ask questions with ? but we don't offer alternative answer to the question with :. If anything, maybe it should be ; or even .?
There's actually a link to the paper in the article's right sidebar: https://openreview.net/forum?id=rJl-b3RcF7 (the reviews here are also an interesting read)
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Best video about this with proofs
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I don't think you understand how trust works. Rating agencies have failed so many times, with bad consequences mainly for common folks instead of higher management (I mean long prison terms for whole C-suite/senior mgmt + all personal assets lost) that they need to bring some seriously good performance, over long time (say at least 2 economy cycles) to gain back at least some portion of trust.

Sharp suites and clever talk only won't impress anyone anymore.
yep! this blog post is more clear about future releases: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-core-is-the-future...

"We will continue to both service and support .NET Framework, which includes bug–, reliability– and security fixes."
So now we will have buggy systems that defend themselfs, what ever could go wrong here?
What's next? giving laserguns to psychopaths?
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I think there's a Hegelian-esque pendulum to it.

Discretionary uses of mind-altering drugs, especially those that have been prominent in youth culture, pop culture and party culture face massive resistance. Look how long cannabis is taking to reach legalization. Look at the barriers to medical scientists who want to study psychedelics.

In that sort of environment, it's near inevitable that the remaining "torch bearers" lean to the true-believer/fanatic end of the spectrum. The mild-mannered actors just won't put up with that sort of resistance. So, reserved scientists and practitioners who avoid hyperbole are under-represented.

Ultimately everything boils down to use. The details of therapeutic use, spiritual use and such. On the therapeutic end, I think there's room to be hopeful. It's just a good fit for a "talk therapy" approach that the discipline values already, and that many of the "one-a-day" prescriptions are not.

On the spiritual end, most living traditions are highly culturally mitigated. If/When it comes to the modern, apartment-dweller world, there aren't any social institutions that can fill that role (well, churches, religions, but that's unlikely to happen at scale). In tandem with the earlier point (the true believer advocates promoting psychodelics despite resistence), this probably adds up to a lot of quackery.

This is more worrying, or at least it points in the direction of purely "recreational" use.
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Mojave has been rock solid for me.

Early versions of OS/X were dire, I remember being able to consistently crash a machine just by unplugging a USB stick.

It would be nice if the unix tools were updated but you need to blame GPL 3 for that rather than Apple.
Is health care really cheaper? It's obviously much better, more effective and leads to much better outcomes. However most of these medicines and procedures that gave us these better outcomes are very expensive.
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But note that chemical lasers appears to have been a deadend.
For starters, do this:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10s...
> Or did my brief scan pick up the wrong idea?

I believe so. To quote: "The purpose of Instart Logic technology is to disguise 3rd-party requests as 1st-party requests"

The net result of this is also that third-party javascript will get loaded as if it is first-party. Third-party content will look like first-party content in it's entirety. This subverts any potential security features that rely on being able to distinguish a first party from a third party.

Edit: As an example you can read https://www.w3.org/Security/wiki/Same_Origin_Policy
> Think about the Linux kernel. How to we "talk" to it? Through libraries like glibc which provides an interface for C to make calls to the kernel.

No. We "talk" to the kernel through an ABI, not an API. Maintaining ABI compatibility is important because you can move a binary from one kernel version to another without recompiling and relinking your app.
Rust does (still) have the advantages of a clean slate. Default const, default pass by move, move that can't fail are nice things C++ can never have because they can only be in there from the start.

The future will identify other features, in other languages, that Rust can never have, for the same reasons. Rust is very quickly accumulating unfortunate accidents that will make is seem less shiny as it matures. That is just a natural progression.

Will Rust ever be mainstream? It is still possible. In five years it either will be, or will be fading and something else capturing attention it commanded. Only time can tell.
How would sender authentication solve the problem? A large amount of spam is sent from throwaway domains with SPF and DKIM in place, and another large part of it is sent through hijacked web sites and email accounts.