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> If you want to make a pedantic argument, then no, it's not difficult to make Common Lisp potentially as fast as C. This is because I can very easily drop down to a level of safety which is on the same level as C. This is, of course, unsafe and I would never recommend it.

That's stating the obvious, which I had already stated in advance if you care to read it. (Don't miss the extra "If you're masochistic enough"). What you're presenting is a Turing tarpit kind of argument - totally irrelevant to anybody with a sense for practicality.

> Better or more performant for some measure of performance? I mean, you can always read the UNIX hater's handbook if you're interested in qualities that UNIX did not possess decades ago.

From what I remember, the Unix hater's handbook is half satire (based on good understanding), and half wrong. Yes, UNIX is the worst useable OS, except all the alternatives.

> I don't understand why numerics performance is cherry-picking, but "systems programming" (what does that mean? OS dev. only?) is not.

Because most programs aren't numerics programs, but every software system needs "systems programming". And coincidentally, C was made for systems programming. Unlike Fortran, it was not made specifically for numerics / scientific programming.

> This would be a much simpler discussion if you concisely describe in a semi-formal manner why C has a larger potential to be fast than CL. If you did so, it probably would be a lot more difficult for me or anyone else to refute your claims.

I suggest actually reading my comments, because I've written all that I have to say. In one sentence, the other side's arguments are all either of the sufficiently-smart-compiler kind, or the performance equivalent of the Turing Tarpit fallacy.
> The argument against ORMs aren't that they are a leaky abstraction (although they most definitely are).

I'm not using an "OO" language these days, so I don't really have a horse in this race, but: isn't the problem you mention here completely explained by the leakiness?

Replace "ORM" with "compiler" and "SQL" with "assembly language", and this is exactly the argument I heard back in the 1980's about why not to use a compiler, or in the 1990's about why not to use a GC. Nobody I know is writing assembly language at all any more. It sucks at composition, so even though it's better at many tactical micro-optimizations, we've improved compilers to the point that we can use them all the time, because it helps productivity massively.

> and if you need something more complex, compose it from simpler ones

Composition is the killer feature in all of software building, and the fatal flaw of assembly, and SQL. We use higher-level languages for their composition abilities, even when they are less efficient. When their inefficiencies make them unusable, we make them smarter, even when it means designing new languages with 100+ keywords (ugh).

If the major complaint against ORMs is that they aren't good enough to make the value worth it in all cases, well, yeah, I've seen that phase of literally every other technology I'm using today. This, too, will pass.
Pickups are a bad example. They follow the medical/college model when it comes to sticker price vs actual price. There's 5k-10k of noise in your pricing data at any given time.
Don’t use one
Your sincerity is noted.

Doesn't change the truth of the central point.
Tech companies have seen worker protests, but they are still far from democratic
It's more important if you plan to involve computers in your workflow.

Knowing what a Fourier transform is and how music software applies it can help you avoid problems. Like "why is this song muddy when I add anything to it?" You don't need to know about it to know that two sounds can cancel out, but it helps.

You'll never be worse off for knowing a little about music theory or audio engineering.
Even measured per capita, they're about a third of a way from the top of the list. They have lots of high tech industry, nuclear weapons, etc. They can definitely afford to keep the rivers clean, it's a policy choice not an economic one. They are not poor in any meaningful sense of the word, being taken advantage of by the US and EU to dump our trash on.
ViennaRSS

https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss
You're begging the question. Whether Apple in fact controls the market is the key point of contention here. If the company is simply responding to market demand then there is no credible theory of harm. I don't have any hard data but anecdotal evidences indicate people want more curation of apps, not less.
> Perhaps we should ask ourselves what could make the promise of our salvation more credible.

Consistent, long-term, highly visible propaganda put everywhere. Paid ads, people proselytizing in the streets, billboards with posters repeating the same message over and over.

In general, to get popular, you either need to luck out and be at the right place at the right time, or you can force it with propaganda. I don't see any other way. Rational arguments are useless if no one is aware they exist. Plus, rational arguments tend to require thinking on the receiving end, which is hard for people who just glance at something in passing. Simple message hammered into people's heads over and over is the only thing that seems to work.

If I ever become a billionaire, I will fund such a campaign. It's so disheartening to see a great technology being left in the dust due to historical accidents and resistance to any change that's intrinsic in most people. We can't do anything about the AI Winter or Lisp-machines demise, but - as many successful ad campaigns show - we can convince people to change their ways. It's just incredibly expensive, time-consuming, and hard to do right - as many failed ad campaigns show.
What is “clean coal” other than nice sounding words?
Does this include deaths from oil wars?
> I suspect at some point in the future AMD will abandon their 'pro' proprietary stack entirely after realizing they should stick to being a hardware business.

John Bridgman of AMD confirmed it's their plan like 5+ years ago. The only reason they ever maintained proprietary stack on Linux is workstation users who need certified OpenGL implementation for various proprietary software.

By now the only proprietary parts of "pro" stack are OpenGL implementation and shader compiler for Vulkan / OpenCL. Everything else in "pro" package is open source already. There is still legacy OpenCL implementation, but I guess ROCm will be used for everything soon.
Is uranium mining included in these numbers?

Edit: it seems to be what mainly contributed to the nuclear numbers: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067360...

> The sources of the effects and indeed the effects themselves for the nuclear fuel cycle are very different from those for the fossil fuel cycles. They can arise from occupational effects (especially from mining), routine radiation during generation, decommissioning, reprocessing, low-level waste disposal, high-level waste disposal, and accidents.
Solar, wind, and water are all far more deadly than nuclear.

A more valid criticism might be to point out that radiation tends to kill slowly, while renewable deaths are fast (falls, drowning, construction accidents). The result is that nuclear accidents can be very disruptive without being directly deadly. (See the 160,000 people evacuated after Fukushima.)
For one, increased occurances of cancer leading to death.

For example the rate of leucemia among small children living near nuclear plants in Germany is twice as high as average (see https://www.bfs.de/DE/bfs/wissenschaft-forschung/ergebnisse/... )
Yes, put this in the hands of the same bureaucrats that allow this sort of thing to happen without penalty in the first place. That sounds like a fantastic idea.
Who are you working for?

Freelance doesn't necessarily mean you need to work for businesses without a budget.
Pegged to the main page for no reason at all.
When I hit a similar situation. I'd share it with someone else to verify that both outcomes are equally indeterminable. If that is the case, I often go with my gut feeling.
> I've worked in oil & gas, and the deaths come primarily from human error

The article says:

> Deaths related to
air pollution are dominant, typically accounting for greater than 99% of the total.

I understand that you are talking about a subset of the data the article are talking about. But if 99% is due to pollution then it sounds like your subset is not so relevant.
Tried gazillions of them, NewsBlur is the best (unless you need some fancy pants features like tiles or whatever).

Killer feature for me is the ability to group your feeds then making them availale via separate rss channels.

The mobile client is also pretty damn good.
The endings didn't take into account any of the choices you'd made up until that point. The endings were also a bit brief before the ending patch. I think those were people's biggest complaints, I could be misremembering.

Highly recommend the trilogy! Great story, amazing characters, pretty great gameplay (especially after #1), and overall an immersive journey. I wasn't bothered at all by the ending, personally.
> bit syntax which in Erlang is used for strings

In Elixir, maybe, but in Erlang many strings are still charlists. Especially important is the fact that the Erlang stdlib’s Leex (lexer) and Yecc (parser) modules operate in terms of charlists, and both the Erlang and Elixir compilers use those modules. So compilation won’t be getting any faster from this optimization.
My personal concern is the waste that we have no way of properly handling and no real plans for.

Give me a proper plan and I'd be fully behind nuclear (well - if it was self funding - currently hugely subsidised and still one of the most expensive ways to make power).

That said - my alternative isn't 'more coal' - it is a combination of renewables and trying to reduce our energy usage. But I know that both of these won't be the breakthrough that we need without cheap storage.
Deaths from solar and wind are almost entirely due to falls during installation and service. I looked into this a few years ago while writing my thesis and death rate per TWhr for different energy sources was: coal (29), oil (18), natural gas (2.8), biofuel/biomass (4.6), hydro (1.4), solar (0.11), wind (0.06), and nuclear (0.052).
Because solutions in the form of alternate materials developed to meet Western regulations can then be implemented across the entire world.
No, one couldn't. Chernobyl was a perfect storm of negligence and incompetence and still killed less than 60 people, including fallout cancer deaths. Nuclear reactors are not bombs.
Punitive damages to deter similar conduct have less effect when the company has just been sold to Bayer. Bayer is not a saint, but it seems it will have to pay for all the evil of mosanto.
Is that true though? I just cancelled an order with Walmart after I noticed it was a 3rd party seller; I have no idea if I would have received a knockoff or not.
Air pollution causes 4.2 million deaths a year.[1]

From the data in this link, we can infer that historically this adds up to 467 times nuclear.

[1] https://www.who.int/gho/phe/outdoor_air_pollution/burden_tex...
In no way do I mean to diminish your hunting and marksmanship skills, however I think we should acknowledge how hard it is to get a head shot on a moving target.
Make something people want and charge them for it.
Or the "How was I supposed to know the car I sold would be used to run over a crowd of people?" defence
I keep seeing this complains about dealers. What exactly is so difficult in buying a car from a dealership. I bought and leased 9 cars in last 5 years, it never took me more than 30 minutes after I picked the car to drive away with it. What exactly is so difficult about it?
And yet, people did all of those things just fine before cellphones were ubiquitous. What I'm saying is that all of this stress of modern life is artificial and unnecessary.
There are plans for it, use a next generation reactor that uses waste as fuel. That may take a few decades but it seems the most capitalistic way, and thus the most likely way.
>One could imagine a nuclear accident where millions die.

I can't. Care to share?
I bought the 3a on friday. Basically got the phone for free when I traded in my s8. Love it so far.
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> Q: Why didn't NASA ever select you to become an astronaut? A: They knew I didn't want to wipe the monkey crap off the seat before I sat down

Edit:
https://twitter.com/genchuckyeager/status/918320874947715074...
Do you have some example prices for comparison? Most of us have no idea what generic drugs cost outside of the US.
What model is that?
Even if you understand the data model perfectly, git still has terrible UX. reset can do 3 different things, a "remote" can mean 3 different things depending on context... I could go on all day. Just the fact that there are parodies of git man pages should drive the point home. (Disclaimer: I love git). Oh and what the hell is 'git rerere' anyway?
It's not a concocted scenario, the cli command in question explicitly has a property that defaults to preventing it from doing what it should do, unless you override the property. Explicitly because it's so destructive when you do it by mistake.
They don't need next day delivery. They need a search that works, reviews that aren't fake, and a way to get products that aren't counterfeits half the time.

Amazon has skated way out onto very thin ice and is ready for disruption.
Diagrams are very general and can be extrapolated from quantum field theory to deep learning, see: https://medium.com/@pmigdal/in-the-topic-of-diagrams-i-did-w...

"In particle physics, people use Feynman diagrams a lot. And these are nothing more or less than a graphical representation of summations and integrations over many variables. Also, as an ex-quantum physicist, I am a big fan of tensor diagrams [...]. You can think about it as the Einstein summation convention with no dummy indices (see Einsum in PyTorch)."
What would you propose that is better? In any measure they're above the median in wealth. Poorer than the most advanced Western nations, yes. Too poor to keep their rivers clean? Hardly.
This is the exception, not the rule.
Yes, nuclear power stations are safe. But they can lead to nuclear weapons proliferation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_proliferation

> Many UN and US agencies warn that building more nuclear reactors unavoidably increases nuclear proliferation risks.

> Canada sold India the reactor on the condition that the reactor and any by-products would be "employed for peaceful purposes only.". Similarly, the United States sold India heavy water for use in the reactor "only... in connection with research into and the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes". India, in violation of these agreements, used the Canadian-supplied reactor and American-supplied heavy water to produce plutonium for their first nuclear explosion, Smiling Buddha.
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Would be more interesting to know what the actual damage from these different sources are, rather than just is one cherry-picked statistic.

And where are wind and solar?
1. I think hydro doesn't score so good after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

2. Wind is not without issues either: http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/AccidentStatistics.htm

3. And even more moralities with people falling down their rooftop installing solar panels.
You can only talk about preservation if you actually can pull the content out. It's not like Google doesn't shut down a handful of projects early - at some point they might decide to wipe unprofitable videos as well and we might end up with no preservation whatsoever.
It's not "universal healthcare" it is "insurance" which is fundamentally a mechanism that makes people may more than they would otherwise.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/medical-industrial-complex_sta...
It's hard to square your anecdotal experience with Tesla's actual marketing data and strategy. If people "don't care in the slightest what the price of the car is", then I doubt Tesla would be headlining major announcements with the price, e.g. "$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now" [0] (there's even an exclamation mark in the first sentence). Having people unnecessarily fixate on a price like $35K seems counterproductive for Tesla, given its desire to upsell features, and natural fluctuations due to changes in tariffs and subsidies.

[0] https://www.tesla.com/blog/35000-tesla-model-3-available-now
Even if you take the most pessimistic estimate of the worst nuclear accident we experienced (Chernobyl) you top at <100k related death [0]. A far cry from the annual 4+ million death due to outdoor air quality [1].

Outside of direct exposure to radioactive material there isn't much going to kill you.

The very big difference is that a functioning nuclear plant doesn't kill people whereas the oil/gas industry kills by default even in the best case scenario.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...

[1] https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/
Evidently.
"Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont...
So the public doesn't have to absorb other externalities like landfills, cleaning storm drains, emissions from manufacture and extraction, etc.

I agree that supporting developing countries develop better waste management practices would be money well spent, like efforts to support their health systems. Poverty, weak governance and lack of prioritization, in that order, are probably the main impediments.
Is there any genetic modification that can be performed on a plant to make it a perennial?
Mindfulness type exercises / learning internal silence was the only effective strategy i found. I can still get carried away in my thoughts but there's a learned recurring return into silence that also gives room for meta cognitions of various sorts. The more I "practice" the more subconscious those silent moments appear, the higher their frequency and the easier it is to maintain longer stretches of them - and the more enjoyable it is to entertain them, in the beginning it can feel like a pointless bore.
Hi, sorry I didn't want to come out as obnoxious; I was on my way out, and wrote in a hurry. I ended up sounding like an idiot anyway.

I think that your project is an incredible one. Any project that goes "We did this with $5 instead of $5000" is totally worth it, from whatever point of view you want to see it.

There's an interesting and IMO relevant trend I see in technology these days, where coupling open technologies with smart people like you ends up allowing what's considered "extreme high tech" to be available to the "normal" people.

I just wanted to point out that may be you're not showing up the full capabilities of what you did.

I take it that if the strobe light is fast enough, you could get the different cameras to fecth frames from different flashes, thus creating a "real" bullet time sequence?
Can we not use code formatting for non code? It makes comments tedious to read on mobile.
This chapter of the Googles SRE book gives you a good overview.

https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/monitoring-...

But I think it is less abut what specific tool to use, but more to just get started with one and learn how to understand your production system behavior and dependencies from metrics and graphs.

An easy way to get going for monitoring an application is using a hosted solution like newrelic.com
Their free version should be sufficient for a very long time.

If you want to run it yourself there are opensource solutions like prometheus.io or riemann.io among many others.
People without connections got made examples either for actual misconduct or as a pretense for felony interference with a business model, the connected got away with literal murder, but no matter how harsh the punishment didn't deter the desperate masses of aspirants from trying to make it big fast through dodgy means. See China and CEO misconduct for an example.
The referenced hydro accident is the Banqiao Dam failure, which Wikipedia says resulted in between 171,000 and 230,000 deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
Hydro is missing too.

Hydro has a pretty terrible track record with regard to safety, most of it because of a single accident: the Banqiao Reservoir Dam failure, which caused 230000 deaths. And even if much less dramatic, dam failure still happen regularly, costing deaths, property and environmental damage.

And while I tend to think of hydro as the ideal energy source (renewable, on demand, with built-in storage), safety is not one of its strong points. Or at least, not with the way it is managed now.
you can disprove this by induction.
monthly payment is $500

raising the payment by a penny causes 0 people to change their choice.

monthly payment is $500.01

raising the payment by a penny causes 0 people to change their choice.

repeat

thus we can conclude the monthly payment may be infinite and people will still buy the car.
Does YouTube have any incentive to “preserve” anything once it costs them more money than it brings in? If not, maybe it's a little early to say they are actually preserving anything. (The article does kind of acknowledge this.) Maybe its real role is as a link in a chain that leads to /r/datahoarders
I generally keep the more complex stuff in the application layer, where it's often easier to capture and change. If all the logic goes into the DB, it can be a real pain to update and maintain (especially if you're running a cluster of sharded databases, say).

Some might suggest that you take a performance hit by not using stored procs etc, but in reality it's never been a problem for my apps (the largest one has over 150k active users - https://usebx.com).
It's a jQuery plugin for building web content (ContentBuilder.js). In the new update, we made it generic for generally 12 columns grid systems.
I'm guessing you don't want to share your niche. Broadly, is this how you find clients?

1. Find businesses in your niche with not-so-great websites
2. Find their contact details
3. Contact them with specific action items that can improve their SEO, sales funnels, conversions etc

That still doesn't explain how you can find clients with poor in-house tools, unless they are talking about it publicly?

Thank you for answering, this sounds like a lot of work - no wonder prospects are willing to talk to you!
It wouldn't need to be UBI, monthly tickets for public transportation aren't that expensive, and you can certainly limit it to the residents of the town where it's implemented.

> If you give a nudge that changes the behavior of many people, you can reach states that individual incentives can't reach.

Sure, but you don't even know if people want that "nudge". I'm quite happy riding my bike, for example, which this would punish me for by raising my taxes which I have to pay on top of bike repairs etc.

> Those same questions related to issues of what government should do and not to do.

"Provide free & ubiquitous public transportation" is quite far along on the "nothing <=> everything" axis on what should be provided/decided/enforced by the government, I'm not so sure that there's a majority that agrees in most countries.
Death is unlikely, but permanent contamination with resulting shortened lifespan and nasty conditions is the risk. Especially birth defects. Doesn't fit neatly into a headline number.
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