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Although I broadly agree that other programming languages probably shouldn't follow Inform 7's example, I think Inform 7's similarity to English can be fun to play around with [1], so I'm glad it exists.

Perhaps after it's open sourced, someone will look into grammar improvements?

[1] http://slesinsky.org/brian/code/i7_poetry.html
That could cause a regional outage but this isn't being described as such, seems global.
It's by one of the authors of HtDP: https://www.htdp.org/
> I quit EVE after it became "legal" to buy subscription passes and sell them for in-game currency.

I was a very active world of Warcraft player up until wrath of the lich King. At the time I was leveling my alts blacksmithing by traveling around the world and mining minerals just to increase some arbitrary numbers on my skills and professions panel.

Then I thought to myself: I keep hearing about people using bots for that: let's try this!

So I set it up... After it ran for a few hours I came back with a full inventory of minerals and for the first time in my life realized what I've been doing for the last years... Exactly nothing.

I deleted the game a few weeks later, couldn't find the energy in myself to keep raiding.

I sometimes get back to it for a month or three. But it just cannot keep me interested any longer.

I think there are a lot of reasons to actually lose the touch with MMO games and suddenly you realized that the time spent isn't actually achieving anything... For you, it might've been the game time tokens, but I'm sure you would've realized it in some other way if they didn't do that.

I actually think that these tokens help players that just want to play a little without wasting their entire lives away quite a bit.

For example the last time I played world of Warcraft I did some mythic+ runs... I just bought a token and could buy all the required consumables for the whole three month I played.

I wouldn't have had the patience to get these the normal way and as such would never have been able to experienced any higher dungeons.
> the fact that Tesla is well ahead of any of these players in terms of both deployed hardware and data collection.

This is far from being obvious given that the competition is collecting data with much more advanced sensors.
It is cheaper than fossil fuel but reliable intermittent electricity is still polluting way too much to efficiently curb green house gases.
Putting the age of Earth into an understandable perspective
I just installed a 5kW system in NY, and after incentives it was about $6700.
Included in Apple News+ FWIW
For websites in general yes but I do not want an e-mail client that, unbeknownst to me, manipulates data in transit. Time to pgp-sign the attachments on mails, too? :/
I do wonder how much political influence fringe religious groups really have.
Tesla is ahead in many regards but they are too debt laden for a buyout at this point. A larger player would be smart to wait until the economy turns and Tesla can no longer meet debt obligations, then buy them out of bankruptcy.
10 years is more than enough time to learn all the CS you missed out on in school, and then some. And architecure is learned more on the job than in school anyway.

I went to a bootcamp and it doesn't seem to be holding me back too much. Still moving up the ranks in FANG just like everyone else. I don't feel academically inferior to my colleagues, most of them have gradually forgotten most of what they learned in college anyway. And teaching yourself computer science is challenging but it can be done.

(Incidentally I do have a degree, but I didn't study CS.)
"that is in fact behaving as most people expect"

Pretty subjective, what's your sample size? Oh, one? Look ,this is me being equally as dismissive and contrarian, it's not too fun is it.
Given the stimulating nature of smartphone usage the proper drug analogy would be coke or amphs and not a sedating opioid.
Where is the anti trust investigation into these two ICE competitors teaming up to compete against Tesla?
Sounds interesting. We’re looking into Cordova right now. Do you have a page which explains the benefits of this vs. Cordova?
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Recently there was a number of articles like [1], saying that a a lot of good engineers stays away from working for FB, having misgivings about its practices.

So maybe people who agree to do such things are a result of a (long) selection process.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/17/facebook-...
That makes sense if you seriously can't handle the tiny adversity of not being able to engage in every single topic at the water cooler because of some social phobia.

But I don't find that very convincing otherwise.

I reinvoke my comparison to deciding you need to own every Magic The Gathering card for whatever reason you want to use. This is more obviously silly because how normalized and socially-acceptable TV obsession is in our culture, but I still don't buy that it's something remotely necessary in your life. And it seems like a popular but toxic self-limiting belief.

Just like if you were to tell me you think the reason you can't make friends is because you can't talk football at the water cooler, so you study the sport every night so that you can spout trivia at work. I would suspect some sort of social disability if you did that.
I could be a lot happier if they gave me access to the analytics data (which they most definitely do log). It would let me freak out if there's an unexpected amount of traffic or any referrers from crawlers/reddit/social media.

But otherwise, this seems like another story about how nontechnical people are being surprised by underlying details behind technology. In the sense of "omg we are being tracked" except in this instance it's just realizing that even if you have an unguessable url, someone can access it if you accidentally give it out... big whoop.
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Netflix has not been an independent content distributor for years. Here are their productions and co-productions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_dist....
Gas cooking is probably my #1 primary source of CO2 emissions. I ought to switch to electric. Burning that gas at a weaker plant and sending it to me over the wires is still cleaner at a mg-CO2/joule than burning it at the point of use.

("primary" means I directly cause it; if I drove a car that would probably be my #1).
Why is everybody talking about the cloud?
they never been on the moon,all fake , research it,
You might want to check the DAWN benchmark, it does just that:

[1] https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/benchmark/index.html#imagenet-t...
A denial of service doesn't improve security. All you do is get users to mash whatever knobs they can find until it starts working again regardless of the implications, or disable updates so they can keep using the old version that works instead of the new version that doesn't.

You need to fix the things that are broken instead of breaking the things that are working.
I run. A voip app for call centers. You can't imagine the pain.
Majorly agree.

Overcooked 2 is our current fave. Also Diablo 3 is a classic.
This is the problem I have with a lot of Netflix content. It plays as social commentary written by a college freshman. Painfully cliche and heavy handed.

Most of it is awful quality and would've died on the vine on a network channel, and their bar is pretty low. The rest of the library is getting pretty thin as well. I don't think Netflix has a very bright future and will probably be remembered like Myspace, one of the first big players in a space they will cease to be relevant in.
Funny... because it's true.
How many capacitors have you seen rated for over 100 MV (megavolts)? I think a dielectric that can survive a field with that much tension is called unobtanium. Lightning is causing dielectric breakdown of the air (a great insulator already) over thousands of meters.

https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1998/MathieuLo.shtml
It’s interesting technically. I just think the scale is really telling. Three missions returned a combined 300g. By comparison the Apollo missions collected 382,000g while also returning with several people etc.

Apollo missions where IMO the most massive projects without direct benefit beyond basic research throughout human history. In aggregate the Internet for example is a larger investment, but there is direct utility and ROI. Honestly, only the ISS really compares.
> The major browsers I've tested — Safari, Chrome, Firefox — all allow web pages to send requests not only to localhost but also to any IP address on your Local Area Network! Can you believe that? I'm both astonished and horrified.

Wait, what? Is this sarcasm? This is by definition how networking operates.
That's very true.

As in my nearby comment, I only allow network access on VMs that don't contain any sensitive data. Once I've fully updated, I create clones to actually work on, and disable the Internet uplink entirely. When it's time to update again, I start with a virgin clone. And then transfer data to it, after disabling the Internet uplink.
Why? What makes a bootcamp graduate any less qualified than a university graduate?

After 10 years experience gained in the field would vastly surpass any differences in fundamentals in my experience.
> UC is determined to operate under an alternative model, in which researchers pay to have their papers published but not for subscriptions.

Yep, slowly but surely OpenAccess is beginning to take hold.

The UK publisher I work for has had a couple projects going for a few years now, looking into ways to rejig their revenue stream.
Can we stop with PGP please? It has served its purpose.
I haven't owned a TV for years. It does fairly effectively cut you out of a lot of conversations.

Historically, people lived in little villages, knew all the same people, etc. These days, TV shows and movies get used to establish a common frame of social reference between people who really don't know each other well.

A hundred years ago, you would have commented on a mutual acquaintance or an event you both attended to bond and to facilitate communication. Now, we routinely use popular media references for the same purpose.

I mostly don't care that I'm "missing out." But, yeah, there is a real social cost involved.
The American shuttle also had a few things that needed to be done by hand, like deploying the landing gear and the air data probes. These were actions that are irreversible (once the Shuttle drops its gear, they can't be raised without outside help) and would lead to destruction if they happened too early.

During the early Shuttle program, there was a worry about these events happening due to a software problem, so the decision was made to isolate them from the computer.

Post-Columbia, cables were made that allowed the shuttles to be re-wired to allow these events to occur under the control of the computer, to allow a damaged shuttle to attempt a return without crew, or to dispose of itself safely.
It's a cell tower. It needs cables anyway. And being a cell tower, it also likely needs to be fairly close to actual humans anyway, so the cables it needs likely aren't even that long.

Not to mention the one-off R&D investment you'd be making, along with all the specialty hardware (and its up-front costs), training, etc. involved in capturing lightning. The savings just isn't even remotely worth it.
I have to agree with you. Moreover, you also go through plenty of pain to make the app work well on both platforms, with surprisingly much platform specific code.
Graphviz is fine, specially for small graphs, but probably not what is required here. Plain pdf could be less painful if your graph program choose automatically reorder the data as it wants to optimize shorter paths (mixing nodes in second and fifth floor and then drawing first floor above the others for example is not what you could want).

It depends on what is really needed there. If is interactive or not and how complex. To draw a very complex building, something that will not place nodes and move lines around by itself (Autocad, etc) could be easily the weapon of choice here.
eve is not a job - it's a life. you work a second job to afford to live it!
Every time I read about the incredibly exploitative scientific publishing industry, I can’t help but think: can we just make scientific papers not copyrightable?

Researchers and their institutions don’t benefit from the copyright protection; they barely make any money from their work.

Sure, someone can take your work and claim it as their own, but we already handle them as plagiarism rather than copyright infringement.

Currently all the works by the federal government are not subject to copyright, and many are scholarly work by NASA, Congressional Research Service, etc, and we never hear problem about it.

It is also not that far fetched. Copyright protects expression of ideas rather than ideas themselves, and I would argue for most papers, the expression is the less interesting part of it.
I disagree; extrapolating the Pareto principle and arbitrarily defining needs/wants ratio on privacy, by drawing a relation between either being savvy or ambivalent and justifying the value of free content, is a non-sequitur. There are absolutely no excuses for any of these ultra shady practices to exist and equally, had the incumbents been stopped from weaponising and/or deploying their aggressive and insidious plans in the first instance, it would have dissuaded others to use their platform for similar purposes.

These practices are going to take an even more twisted turn with deep-nudes/fakes, GPT2 etc. and related trends. If we are to learn from our experiences, it is now important to fight and push back, rather than just roll-over and pretend to be dead or to accept current practices and seek a (non-existent) compromise, as you suggest.
You can't go back and just say "Oh, this period and that period". That is hindsight bias. It is psychologically comforting but provides no guide to the future.

It is particularly foolhardy to place the ending point at 1941. If you didn't know, the period directly after this saw high equity returns because the savings of almost everyone was funnelled by the govt into govt bonds.

If you look at how companies were being priced, it is clear why value outperformed.You had profitable companies with $10 of cash trading for $5. You have companies buying back stock at $10 whilst earning $10. Is this comparable to today?

It is kind of surprising that someone taking the cycle view of history (this is the "hardcore" historian approach) appears to have not looked at any contemporaneous evidence. A theory has been created in hindsight, no evidence from the period has been produced. This is history at its worst, and investment research at its worst. This post should be called: all the things you don't learn in the CFA program.
>nullable types are converted into their default value in golang

This just seems...wrong. Why would the column be nullable if you don’t actually care if it’s NULL?
When Moores law is finally dead and buried (e.g. 5nm), new architectures will be all that's left. Seems like a great time to start down the new architecture path.
What aspect of two competitors cooperating to compete against a third in a market where there are no clear winners yet, merits an antitrust investigation?
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The reason why that person said "learn to code" to the journalist was because when coal miners were losing their jobs, many articles were written condescendly implying that miners should "learn to code" and abandon the profession they've spent their entire lives in. Some examples [1]. It's less of an insensitive position and more of a reminder that what goes around comes around, that writing articles isn't any more secure of a profession than mining coal, and to not expect sympathy when you didn't show it to others who were previously in the same situation. I'm not saying that this writer was insensitive towards coal miners, but this is the sentiment behind the phrase.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyC-qmDWkAAKJvU?format=jpg&name=...
>the phrase 'dont shoot the messenger' exists for a reason

And I've just argued why the reason is faulty, and we shouldn't hold it as true for modern media. I'd expect a counter-argument on that, not a reminder that it exists for a reason (as if I hadn't already considered it).

>the messenger has always shaped the message, even when it was a runner man

It's a matter of degree: the degree with which TV at the time of McLuhan, and now social media shape the message, is nothing like the degree previous "messengers" did it...
Well they asume the scenario to get all the land lightning strikes ... and say it is too expensive to build so many towers and not worth it. Surely true, but I thought the main reason is, that it is just too difficult. The lightning will just melt anything where you want to store it and probably take not the intented path to those capacitors or batteries and just burn something else.

And maybe with effort you could build something lightning proof, but the gain is probably way too low.
Still, if I would have the funds avaiable, it would be an awesome project ...
Yeah I can't tell what the harm is from the metadata and would appreciate someone actually explaining, rather than seeing some metadata and immediately jumping to the conclusion that there's definite harm and "tracking" going on.
It's not "prestige." Framing it that way makes it sound like Elsevier is in the vanity business, and academics are vain.

In actual fact, Elsevier is a gatekeeper to obtaining funding and making a living in research. Elsevier is rent-collecting, not selling an intangible feeling.
They do charge $3000 for some of their journals (although the flagship is $1600 as you say). The waiver is probably the more important bit here.

It's not hard for me to imagine that a professional high-quality academic hosting service costs something like what PLoS charges. Their budget is probably publicly auditable. I work in enterprise software, though, so I've become kind of inured to seemingly absurd costs for technical solutions.

I used to work in academia, where I became inured to PIs spending crazy amounts (millions per year) on equipment and lab services, which makes me think $1600 for a publication really isn't that big a deal for most developed-world STEM labs. Although I'd rather they spend it on making post-doc salaries livable.
Does Fabrice Bellard knows any other language other than 'c' ?. Looks all his works are in 'c'. Just trying to look if there is a correlation among the 100x programmers and the number of languages they know. Because being extremely proficient in a language is important to be highly productive.
This video by Veritasium covers the entanglement concept at a non-expert level:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvK-od647c
> suddenly you realized that the time spent isn't actually achieving anything

then you've missed the whole point of an MMO game - you're meant to make meaningful human connections, and find online friends who may even outlast the game.

EVE is one of those games that almost require such friend-making for it to be fun (playing PvE in EVE is boring, unlike WOW).
Any good alternatives?
What google is doing now is not too far off from that.

The URL contains a long string which is the shared secret (functionally equivalent to a decryption key), and each person you share that URL with may view it without needing any special software.

Anyone you don't distribute that URL to can't view it.
So Disney's jaw dropped when Netflix refused to renew the contracts for the Marvel properties, but they have enough disposable income to prop up this living dead corpse of a organization and overall money pit whose accomplishments include incompetency, copyright infringement, and piracy.
The savings just isn't even remotely worth it.

Except it would be new technology, could be patented etc.

It's mostly in fiction that fixing X for one person or situation doesn't proliferate into a new way to handle X altogether, and that's done in fiction so the storyline can save the day and then keep pretending we totally live in the same universe as actual reality.
11,898 Solar Eclipses in 5,000 Years
I can answer partially for the South African context.

Our state owned entity Eskom pushes the prices up every year and in theory this should make solar power both residential and large scale more attractive.

First off, battery theft in SA is a USD 100m business [1] and secondly, our utility infrastructure allows about 10–15% renewables [2] before drastic infrastructure changes are needed. Thirdly, the policital scene is quite a hotpot and most foreign businesses don't want to own non-movable assets here.

Despite these challenges, your observation seems to still be correct and I know of two large scale solar installations in the Northern Cape. We don't see a lot of people installing their own solar panels (despite all the load shedding) and I suspect that this is due to both the stalling economy and theft/procurement/etc issues.

I think that if that 10%–15% limitations can be overcome and if the political situation stabilises, solar power would explode here and we would rival Spain in homegrown solar technology. But I also think that air-to-fuel solutions (if not a pie in the sky) would take off very quickly.

[1] An unnamed engineer that builds large commercial buildings in SA.
[2] A talk by the Stellenbosch solar research group. I don't understand fully how this works, but the intermittent supply of renewables and current infrastructure layout does play a roll. Interestingly, a virtual square of land in the Northern Cape that is less than 5% of the province area IIRC could power the whole country.
FORTH was (I think?) one of the first concatenative languages, if not the first.

Interestingly, PostScript is also concatenative.

If you've ever used an RPN calculator, you almost understand how concatenative languages work!
This is a non-issue. The URLs are way to unique to guess (you'd have an easier time guessing an email/pass/2FA). And ones ability to access the URL at all is the same as their ability to access the bytes of the image. Once accessed, they could capture and share either.

This would be an issue if it were mutable data.
Thanks, I've seen dawnbench, and it's definitely better than this presentation.

Unfortunately, their cost numbers aren't actual cost, as they don't allow using AWS spot instance pricing (which is what fast.ai does).

https://www.fast.ai/2018/04/30/dawnbench-fastai/
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