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Super cool hack! The author uses defunctionalised continuations to build an abstract machine directly as a CTE. I guess the fixed point of the transition function is returned by the CTE ... He also alludes to using the Y combinator to build recursion in the toy language being constructed. Ace abuse of SQL.
I tried to get Zsh running on macOS when I got my first Mac 2 years ago. Had the impression the OS was mostly like Linux with a few quirks, but couldn't get it running smoothly everywhere.

Good to hear that it's becoming the standard now :)
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the customers spending billions on the big cloud providers are entitled to much more rigorous and detailed reporting (incl historical data) for end-user-visible performance... I would much rather see the graphs in the article than a green check box (especially when things aren't actually very "green").
You are right, broadcasting is not a good strategy. I did not really explain the event sharing part in the paper, but as long as everyone multicasts the logical clocks, things should be scalable.
How is that a privacy concern? You can also hide the stories if you don't want to see them.
If it's 10 minutes, it goes into ~60 hours/year territory, which is about how much time you get off for a week long vacation.
Could the essential aspects of a reactor design be patented so that value can be captured despite innovation being created in the open?
The FCC tracks this (well, they track availability, not market share). [1]

98% of census blocks have multiple ISPs offering 10Mbps+

82% of census blocks have multiple ISPs offering 25Mbps+

(This doesn't count wireless offerings.)

[1] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-355166A1.pdf
I think you're being hyperbolic, but then again, that's probably the misconception most people have when they hear of carbon tax. If Canada is any indication, you probably wouldn't even notice it at 4.4 c/L to start up to 11c (or 16c/gal -> 41c/gal).

https://theconversation.com/heres-what-the-carbon-tax-means-...
>If you want to compete with Amazon, do something Amazon cannot do.

That doesn't sound like competing
If the engines are over-wing you know it’s nonsense.
Advanced backup restore is definitely blocked, but they do provide a `cockroach dump` utility, if that helps.
I’m still not sure why people open source great products then get outraged that someone else would simply resell the product and make money off of it, possibly even more than them.

When I put something out as open source, I’m doing it fully aware that I am leaving money on the table, but it will be worth it if a community of maintainers springs up around the project and ends up making it far better and more useful than I ever could alone. Then I could use that same project perhaps to do other things, which may lead to better money making opportunities.
Relatedly, it seems Apple is planning to make 'Sign in with Apple' mandatory for every iOS developer using any third party sign in: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/3/18651344/wwdc-2019-apple-f...
He is not parsing SQL, he has written a Lisp interpreter in SQL.
Yeah, they made the same promises for the 747 as well.
I have an idea for a build, hereby up for grabs for Matthias or anyone. Inspired by your copy carver. Thanks for all the great videos! You started my interest in woodworking :-D

3D 'Tracing at Scale' with light

Apparatus is two rotationally-locked turntables and a can light (fairly directional), all mounted in a line. A model is placed on the center table, working material is placed on the table further from the light. The light and model are aligned so a shadow of model is cast on the working material. Remove everything that is illuminated, rotate, repeat, until you've created a copy of all (convex) curves of the model. Because the tables are rotationally locked, you can reliably reproduce the corresponding shadow for any rotation - can work your way around multiple times or easily come back to tricky angles. Distance between light and model can be adjusted to change scale resulting shadow.

Could be fun way to guide yourself with modeling additive materials like clay as well as woods and such.
FYI this is mainly about Tono-Bungay, which you can download here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/718

Because of the name, I classed it among the Pacific adventure books like Mardi and Typee and so on. Apparently it's very different from what I thought.

I also enjoyed The Food of the Gods, which takes an interesting and unexpected turn about halfway through. The First Men in the Moon is quite strange but a fun read.
The internal update order shouldn't really matter, as long as you send the right logical clock to other nodes. Communication depends on the system. Imagine the bloom clock a timestmap for your messages. Whenever you send a message, you will send the timestamp with it.
Turbotax support is still lying about its Free File program
Global Oil Production by Country (1965-2017)
I dont think most people give a second thought to decentralized protocols and standards vs institutional monopolies. (Not necessarily in those technical terms, but just the concepts in general.)

It's second nature to expect an ATT phone to call a Verizon phone. It's an automatic assumption that outlook and gmail email are cross compatible, along with any other correctly configured email server. But it doesnt even cross peoples minds that they cant order an Uber from Lyft and vice versa. Needing to be on the same closed platform is part of how the internet evolved. Its faster for large companies to release proprietary products than to push industry standardization.
This is true and insightful. However the phrase your parent responded to was "he and he alone" which they were also correct to object to.
Good job neglecting everything else I mentioned. TorGuard is still 30$ a year which is vastly cheaper than PIA which doesnt offer discount codes. And no I'm referencing the current 2019 speeds comparing both reviews.
Not the parent, but yes on modern x86 L1/L2 is private. The key difference though is that the L1 is smaller and actually a physical part of the core, whereas the L2 is bigger and sits next to the core (read: further away from the execution engine).
The TrueOS folks have shifted their focus toward more server-oriented stuff, and work on a graphical development has shifted to project Trident[0].

[0]https://project-trident.org/
CPUs are pipelined though so you can easily imagine many slots being operated on at once. Perhaps a better metric is the relative cost of the slot assignment against the the cost of the read/write operation. Not to mention the fact that elements may be in L1, in which case the penalty of additional cycles may actually be felt.
This is a big "dangit!" from me. I LOVED using this app on my recent trips. Any replacements?
John Rockefeller was an old man by the time the antitrust suit came - the gouging phase never came with him at the helm. Further, his peak market share occurred long before. At the time of the anti trust he had 65% share, vs the 85% at Standard Oil's peak 30 years prior.

Its quite possible his successors might have followed the standard playbook. But Rockefeller himself is not an example of this consumer harming tactic. This is why his biggest critic was the daughter of another oil man, not a harmed consumer.

If you take anything away from the Rockefeller story it should be that the consumers need not be currently harmed for a successful prosecution. The standard and false "common knowledge" actually defangs the law quite a bit.
Seems like they're in for a treat then :

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-04/firefox-f...
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Because people are more likely to just cook at home, if delivery weren't an option?
Except tying is one of the few antitrust things that is still per-se illegal, so it won't matter.

(IE it's illegal regardless of reason).

If it got to SCOTUS, it would probably end up under rule of reason as with anything else, but i'd also suspect Apple would lose in that circumstance.

Their goal for consumers could be achieved without the tying - issue guidelines as to what you will require in terms of privacy for any third party identity service used in IOS apps.

Offer Apple sign-in as just one thing that meets those requirements.`

Either facebook and google change to meet your requirements, which achieves your consumer goal.

or people move to Apple sign-in, which also achieves your consumer goal.

Tada, no direct tying.

This is just one example, but it's hard to see a path for them to win on that one in court. Their best hope is really a good definition of their market and finding of no market power.
If a court finds otherwise, their odds of winning here seem ... low.
I think the best part about this is that you can buy one of their generators at auction next week, along with what looks to be any spare parts or miscellaneous things needed to make your own if your are so inclined and your skills are up to it.

https://www.cagp.com/events/dc-solar-auction/
> So the solution is to design a product which suits to the elderly but seems like its designed for young generation.

And thus, "Where did the soda go?"...
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It’s the newest-ish airframe until the carbon 777 flies.
Well it’s throwing good money after bad.

I believe it was Einstein who defined insanity as performing the same task over and over and expecting different results.

If you invested/bought Kik because you wanted a “position” to make money on it, then it fits the definition of a security, so by throwing more money to fight the SEC to claim it’s not a security is a losing battle by your own “position”.

The real irony is that the Kik token probably was structured as a non-security utility token, it’s only the CEO statements/marketing of the token as something that will become extremely valueable to investors that will come back and haunt them.
What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”?
To be fair, they're forbidding only one specific form of competition- managed hosting. Forking, embedding, etc., are all still permitted.
I build and fly flying wings that don't have computers
So this is why they setup their "Defend Crypto" fund last week:

https://www.defendcrypto.org/
Never heard of this before... Links, facts, examples perhaps?
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Hmm, I think I’m missing the point you’re trying to make. That those 10 minutes every day will add up to the week long vacation if you skip flossing?
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Yeah, but census blocks are too big. Also, if one person in a census block has that level of access, the entire block is counted. The ISPs know this and game it. They will make their service available to one house in all the blocks that neighbor a block they actually serve, so they can get five blocks instead of one.
So, realistically, it's going to mean that ground-based telescopes become less productive. Some won't be affected much at all (narrow FoV), while others may have to fundamentally shift how they operate (wide FoV). More exposures will need to be made to overwrite any satellites that pass through the field. This is already done due to existing satellites, so it's simply a question of rates.

The radio astronomy issue is potentially more significant, but then I don't understand why these issues weren't raised when the spectrum was being allocated.
>Why do profit margins matter at all here? It's only a signal that there is a problem if margins are very high because there is no guarantee that an entrenched monopolistic company will be efficient or make a strong profit.

If they were really wasting ~20% of their revenue someone would buy them or do a hostile takeover.
I have had a lot of smaller company experience (LI in profile in case you want to verify :) ). I got into large companies two times (and then left later, but that's not relevant).

Both times it was as a contractor. The first time I was employed by a body shop as just simple staff augmentation. This was in the 2000s, but I believe they are still around. I think if I'd wanted to convert to full time it would have been a process, but I definitely got to meet employees and managers from the bigco (and connect to them on linkedin).

The second time was in the mid 2010s when a friend was at a big company (his startup had been acquired and then acquired again). The friend was able to intro me directly to the hiring manager's manager. We had a friendly conversation, I had a quick tech screen and they brought me in. That would have been no trouble at all to convert to FTE (in fact they had a conversation with me that began with, paraphrasing: "how much do you like money?").

I think the best way into a larger company as a generalist beyond the early stage of their career is an acquihire, but the second best is as a contractor. Risk is lower all around (well, except for you).
So they're taking their product proprietary. They're not the first to try this move. They won't be the last. It never works.

This change guarantees one of two outcomes: 1) CockroachDB becomes irrelevant, as cloud providers stop providing it, or 2) a FOSS implementation of CockroachDB's API (perhaps based on the last FOSS CockroachDB release) becomes dominant.
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Closed ecosystem technology service conglomerate is a better way to say it. The word monopoly gets used interchangeably within antitrust conversations all the time to mean abusive market position and behavior.

Apple is forcing anyone that uses Sign in With Facebook or Google to also support Sign in With Apple, or they will be removed from the app store. Quite a power play. (hence the title of the article)

Can you make the argument that they are abusing their position as one of two mobile operating systems to force unnatural adoption of their service, at the expense of their competition, Google and Facebook.
Can Airfox and Earthfox be far behind?
I'm not aware of any general work. I initially tried to directly port Paul Graham's interpreter into SQL. I immediately ran into problems because it wasn't possible to map the recursive function calls into SQL. After thinking about it in the background for a day, I figured out I could use the CTE +_stack approach instead of recursion. Once I figured that out, it only took me a few hours to port the interpreter.
Have you looked into an ESP32? It has on board WiFi and Bluetooth.
I think you have made a cogent point. Food is common and an essential part of how every human culture defines itself. I think you have raised a wise question about how disruptable food really is.

It might be worth considering that human history - recent and otherwise - might provide an answer. Human food culture is definitely a thing that can be disrupted like any other man-made industry. Restaurants, delivery, central kitchens, self-service grocery stores, relgious food rituals, and more were all at some point major disruptions. It's perhaps possible that the critical and unique centrality of food to culture you correctly point to might not inure it to disruption.

You're absolutely right that there is a discussion to be had here. Might it be better understood as a discussion explicitly about social rituals, oral traditions, and uniting humans across generations?
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Over in PostgreSQLand ... Tom Lane is an important member of the PostgreSQL core team and also was involved in the PNG image format (and other graphics related efforts).
>Immediately after the site launched, users had created death pools — or assassination markets — on famous people.

>Augur's user numbers dropped off sharply after launch in 2018: from 265 daily users in early July, to 37 on 8 August.

Maybe not a scam, but this does not convince me of the value of ICO-backed projects
The interesting thing is that, some of AWS products have weird name (hard to remember, strange or new), while it's actually built from OSS.
P2 was actually trying to get the nose down. The pilot flying was quite determined to keep the aircraft pitched up. They knew they were fighting on the controls, there was a voice announcement whenever it happened. The root problem was that they were not communicating with each other in an effective way. If P2 actually felt that strongly, he should of assertively stated that he wanted control (which he eventually got BTW) rather than trying to steal control. If he really felt strongly enough to mutiny against the authority structure, he should of whacked the pilot flying with the fire axe.

In a working cockpit, there should never be a question as to who is actually flying the plane...
I'm not going to go through and analyze the undoubtedly dense original research, but if the click-baitey headline is correct, this does seem like a huge jump in our grasp on reality.

From how long have we thought that quantum particle's "leaps" were random, and part of the inherent unpredictability of quantum reality? How long has popular culture around "quantum randomness" been ingrained in our inner imaginations of how the world worked?

This could be the start of something new.
I wonder if this is the mechanism used by the new Shortcuts time triggers.
Whimsical [1] is an amazing tool for creating system designs and sequence diagrams.

[1] - https://whimsical.com
There are two implementations described in this blog post and one of them is specifically designed to run on microcontrollers.
The mouse could just back away, oscillating back and forth across the radial line from the cat (forcing the cat to keep changing directions) until it gets to "dash" distance.
Because "Regulatory Capture" (google it) and because they have better lobbyists and have been greasing politicians for a much longer time.
Genius! Very clear line!

I wish you all the luck on this endeavour, I really believe the time has come to move a bit away from strict open-source.
I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that 30-year-old me was wondering why I'd never heard of the Nacarima before. Until I read your comment, I didn't realize it was "America" spelled backwards.

> No matter how ill the supplicant or how grave the emergency, the guardians of many temples will not admit a client if he cannot give a rich gift to the custodian. Even after one has gained and survived the ceremonies, the guardians will not permit the neophyte to leave until he makes still another gift.

Ouch.
Possibly, as long as participants can still be motivated to working within the open effort.

Frankly, effective reduction to practice is required 1000x more than traditional "innovation" in nuclear. Every bright mind in the 1950s was dreaming up whacky and incredible reactor designs, and everything I've ever thought of, from spinning vortex/whirlpool fuel to giant uranium gaseous pistons already has 50-page publications from back then sitting on OSTI. What's needed is to figure out how to get nuclear technology into a practical rapid iteration process where we can shake down good ideas vs. bad ideas, and put some rigor behind cost and schedule estimates.

Otherwise it's just a game of who can get investors/government most excited about their particular reactor concept, which, without actually understanding, adjusting, and improving upon what's happened in the past, will struggle mightily.
Does that mean we shouldn't revisit our decisions and all your decisions should be set in stone?

CockroachDB tried something. It seems to not be working- so they are changing. It's not as if they are doing it retroactively.
Sure, I'll go move out into the country. And others like me will do the same. And then soon people will start whining about how expensive it is to join us, because of the low population density, and how we ought to replace our houses with apartments...
Maybe there is region differances here. Here in Sweden most RC-Wings, actually all, I have seen have been self made and do not use any active controller.

What kind of observations do you have to support your statement?

Ps.
Most of them I have seen, and built, has been to play a game where you put a string on your tail and try to cut each others with the propeller. They were airodynamic stable.
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