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The question about views on climate change is a common red herring tossed into these discussions, but let me answer it this way: If Tesla turns out to be the second and much bigger coming of Solyndra, as I think it will, it cause a huge wave of public skepticism toward investment in clean energy technology. As far as personal premium/luxury BEVs themselves are concerned, they're a piss-poor, horrendously expensive way to reduce carbon emissions, mostly sold to people of means who want to believe we can consume our way out of the carbon crisis with flashy greenwashing gestures like buying a new car every couple of years and slapping an HOV lane sticker on it. There's a reason Musk reacts with such vitriol every time someone suggests that mass transit infrastructure (or any one of a number of other public initiatives) would be a better use of the money that has gone to EV subsidies.

With the essential help of enormous government subsidies, Musk succeeded in creating a cult brand around EVs and little else. It's an achievement of celebrity and branding, not engineering or manufacturing. Which is not to take away from it necessarily, he has proved the EV concept, but he has yet to show that EVs can be financially sustainable over the long run without constant public money injections.

Meanwhile, his application of Silicon Valley management techniques to industrial manufacturing is a total disaster of scrapped alien dreadnought plans and cars being taped and zip-tied together in a tent. The machine-learning-on-wheels he calls "Autopilot" is dangerous and undercooked, and could be easily rolled out by any of Tesla's competitors if not for the fact that they have at least some scruples about beta testing their software on public roads. His impact on home solar generation has probably been net negative as Solar City was a debacle which had to be bailed out by Tesla shareholders and has been in a tailspin ever since, despite massive subsidies forked over to build the Buffalo Gigafactory by the state of New York.

If the whole point is to build a green energy future, why has Musk used Tesla as a piggy-bank to prop up his celebrity billionaire lifestyle by borrowing enormous sums against the value of his Tesla stock? It has created perverse incentives harmful to the long run health of Tesla itself. A restructuring to shed debts and shore up its balance sheet would be the best possible move they could make if the goal is to remain a viable entity replacing ICE vehicles with EVs into the indefinite future. But Musk will never do this voluntarily, because his goal is to keep the stock price propped up.
One of the hilarious things about 5th generation computers is how certain people were about all this.

More like painful. I went through Stanford in the mid-1980s, about when it was clear that expert systems were only marginally useful and strong AI was not around the corner. Many faculty were in serious denial about this. You can write rules for an expert system, and what you get out is pretty much what you put in. Too many rules, and you're likely to have contradictions and the inference system gets confused. The logicians were trying hard to fix that, which generated a lot of papers with obscure notations.

Eventually we did get massive parallelism, but it doesn't look anything like the Thinking Machines or LISP machine approach.
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A possible explanation for what you've experienced can be found in the just-world hypothesis [0], or in the belief that we live in a meritocracy. It is simply a foundational part of many people's worldview and nothing sort of experiencing similar traumas will make them reconsider.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
I think its not that crazy an idea. The biggest issue ( based on my very limited knowledge reading online articles ), is that the transmission without a physical medium leaves a lot to be desired. Secondly, waste heat disposal is enough of a problem in space, but when your craft is designed to accept as much radiation as possible, it becomes even more so.

I do think that its certainly going to be one of the ways humanity powers themselves going into the future. As our power needs increase, we will inevitably look to more efficently use the power eminating from our star and one of the first steps in doing that is by harnessing it without the atmospheric effects.
Indeed. The templating just reinforces the critique, too.
This is just like when motion pictures were first invented, and all people could think of to do was to point a camera at a stage and record a play in one continuous shot.
Languages don't die; people do. Languages are tools for communication, but communication always happen between two people.

There's a great book called Language in Thought and Action, by S. I. Hayakawa, where he discuss topics like this. I've put together some notes on that book if you happen to be interested: http://alvaroduran.com/language-in-though-and-action
So when they say "[...] this radioactive decay only lasted for the first 70 million years of the solar system", when is the start of the solar system calculated from?
My thoughts exactly. Are they expecting investors to look past this obvious fact? I assume their business model will start working once batteries become significantly cheaper in the next 2-3 years (optimistic).
Don't look East to Africa, look Latin America for examples of American imperialism:

The CIA orchestrated the coup in 1954 in Guatemala, under the orders of the United Fruit Company.

The USA aided the 1964 Coup in Brazil to overthrow a left-wing leader who was getting a little too cozy with the communists.

In 1970, the USA engaged in economic warfare against Chile, and assisted in the subsequent coup in 1973, then stood by watching as they started throwing dissidents out of helicopters.

The 1976 Argentine coup was supported and encouraged by the USA, who knew of the plan months before they overthrew the democratically elected government. 20,000 people went missing, raped, tortured, thrown out of planes, having their children stolen from them. The USA was completely complacent in these atrocities.

That's just a few examples of American interference in Latin America. They've meddles in the affairs of practically every single Latin American country.
Honestly, I might start saving for a few years and actually do it. It sounds like a thing that would be awesome to do and more so, a good experience in general.

Would there be any restrictions for people not living in the USA?
Now the question is how they are linked. Does the business become successful because you make your employees happy, OR can you afford to make them happy by having a business that runs well?
How is the court ruling on that different from the LI situation?
The United States government and "unconventional" approaches to labor for building military equipment is not new.

One of the most interesting stories to me is how the Mafia helped break some bones of laborers during WW2 to ensure the USA was victorious. They knew they couldn't operate without a free society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmMcD96bHak

Lots of other ways that the Mafia helped in Italy.

https://smile.amazon.com/Mafia-Allies-Americas-Secret-Allian...
That's why education is so important. If as kinds those people would analyze the evidences of both - flat and sphere earth they would be immune to flat-earth nonsense.

After kinds lose their natural curiosity and gain political views it's nearly impossible to convince them to something different than they believe.
I answered no to a lot of these... not exactly an eye-opener, as I'm looking for a new job. Still, I'm not super unhappy with my current role, but this does help put into perspective why I want a change.

The ones that stand out most to me are 6 and 11. My old manager definitely encouraged development and would talk about progress. Company's shuffled around a lot and now it just seems like everyone's kind of going through the motions, just trying not to screw up or get let go. No one's discussed advancement, opportunities, growth, etc. for a while now, and that coincided with my decision to leave.
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I automatically cringe and walk away when I see tcp over tcp. I’ve been bitten by it too many times. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s fundamentally incorrect and is pretty much guaranteed to devolve into pathological cases.
Chipping away at open standards one piece at a time.
From Amazon of course!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/1908-Sears-Roebuck-Catalogue-Schroe...

There’s also a copy on the Internet Archive, I’ve yet to find the portable forge:

https://archive.org/details/catalogueno11200sear/
>You cant build a scalable (planned 4000 cars a year) business around digging rare parts out of the trash

No, but it should bootstrap you enough capital to be able to do your own R&D and develop your own battery pack, or at the very least enter into talks with manufacturers to lease existing battery packs for your business.

Also, Tesla is making ~5,000 cars a week. Of those 5,000, 77 have to crash and be written off (1.5%) for there to be enough battery packs for 4,000 cars a year. Not considering the 100,000+ Teslas on the road already.
Sony is out innovating them on every level. Faster releases, better features etc. Honestly as an enthusiast they deserve to tank. They’ve done nothing exciting in the space.
fucking cloud computing

they should provide a cloud on which you can use Metal compute
> Accessible toilets are never less than 50% of all toilets in the building.

Of hundreds of buildings I've been to, I have never seen a single place where that is even close to being true. Including hospitals. Do you mean accessible? With double drop handles, Wide enough to put a wheelchair next to the seat? Accessible handbasins (low, easy to reach the taps)?

I find it very hard to believe that more than 50% are.
Calling it that could be parsed in a way that would be technically true, but it would be intentionally obtuse, in the same way that a cowboy who rides off on a horse named Tuesday could be described as having "left on Tuesday," or a malware author fond of white fedoras might be described as a "white hat hacker."

"Open source" has been understood to mean "freely redistributable and modifiable" source for a couple of decades now, and if you used it to mean something else without clarifying, you should expect that they will misunderstand you.
OTA works fine but you can't have a water cooler conversation about PBS the same way you can about boobs-and-dragons.

If you want to talk about dragons-and-boobs you have to pay somebody to let you see 'em.
3 source files, amazing. This is a great opportunity for folks to learn more about implementing a VPN.

I'm planning to re-implement it in rust (to learn from) and then contribute to Wireguards rust effort.
SOCKS seems okay.
I think the question should not be "Why are there so many poor in USA", but "Why does it suck so much to be poor in USA". I believe that the urban layout and exorbitant healthcare costs are the main issues. If poor neighborhoods were walkable and had cheap supermarkets with fresh produce then you wouldn't need a car, and the density would mean that you have plenty of potential friends within walking distance so you wont be bored. If healthcare was cheap like in Europe then it could have been government funded so that poor people wouldn't have to worry about getting sick more than anyone else. Also with free healthcare and no car there are basically no big large random expenditures, so you don't have to worry about anything on the economic front.

That style of life is not a dream, that is how most poor people live in Europe and I assume also in Japan. There are therefore a lot of people who could pull themselves out of poverty, but they don't since they are fine with doing a simpler job or work less for less pay since it doesn't suck to be poor. I am one of them, I have lived below the poverty line most of my life. I didn't chase money, but I happened to get a good job and started making loads of it. But I still continued that lifestyle even when I began making lots of money. I see no reason to spend more, I wasn't unhappy when I didn't have money so all it would result in is me having to work more years before I can retire.

Sometimes I wonder if Americans want it to suck to be poor just to ensure that people like me work harder. Neither the left nor the right seems to want to fix this.
Interestingly that sounds like almost exactly the same points the book The Progress Principle brings up (which is based on one of the largest qualitative diary based research projects on company success.)
not just walking, negotiating with the Taliban ( what happened to "we don't negotitate with terrorists" )
This is correct, I am unaware of any way to bring GVT-g to Windows. It is probably not impossible but the groundwork isn’t there yet. I suspect Microsoft will have its answer in the form of GPU-P and SR-IOV, though it is currently unclear if that’ll work with consumer hardware or not.

Simple VT-d is supported in the form of DDA in Hyper-V - I have not attempted to use this for a GPU and I’m not sure what limitations it may have versus KVM’s PCI passthrough.
> You're assuming...

You are assuming absolutes. The universe does not have any guarantees.

I'm being relative. In relative terms debt-based currency is more than you get from something far more arbitrary, like gold. Of course, here the argument depends on how fixed and static you see the basis of the mass-psychology based "value" of gold.

If humans stop cooperating, the very basis of human society, you've got bigger issues than a currency standard. If they only stop valuing gold there is no problem at all really, except of course for those who relied on it somehow magically remaining "valuable" (based purely on psychological reasons).
Robert Reich's latest video shows what's wrong... too much spending on whiz-bang military toys while cutting Social Security and Medicare. https://youtu.be/BGIJxNPFpAQ
Those are compelling policy handwaves, but they really aren't going to the heart of the issue; which is someone in the broader conversation is basically misrepresenting reality to an astounding degree. The OECD reports that the US already spends more on healthcare per capita than any other nation by a substantial margin [0].

If it were believed that the ambitious left were going to implement free healthcare by bringing actual costs down into line with the rest of the world they could probably muster bipartisan support in a few years. But I bet their plans don't do that - eliminating means testing and more handouts are are just avoiding the real issues.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Maybe for substantive interactions, but merely going on patrol and ringing doorbell/greeting elderly who have opted in to the service wouldn't require very much. If they are literally without things to do, this would be one of the least destructive things they could do.
I mute my TV when navigating through Netflix because of auto previews. I bet that doesn’t show up in their analytics!
If we grant partial personhood based on our knowledge of 'complexity or maturity of consciousness', we are setting ourselves up to a) see ourselves as qualified to do so, and even to 'act as god' in some circumstances, b) creating an expensive, difficult challenge for ourselves, and c) declaring that there is an appropriate hierarchy - arguably comparable of a caste system (Which is scary).
Not granting any personhood/ rights at all (our current state) is a subset of this, and the most extreme example of heirarchical positioning based on 'right to be there'.

On the other hand, granting equal rights to all means treating a squirrel as reverently as a human, which society does not seem to agree with.

One of the biggest conversations for the 21st century.

Perhaps the former is a means to an end, and the answer is to slowly assimilate other species into coverage of legislation, with the end game of protecting all live equally.
It feels as if future societies would look back and judge us for not immediately siding with the latter.
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You didn't post any details about your setup, so I just wanted to make sure you're not buying new hardware just because you have the wrong drivers.
Yeap. If you cede the doing to consultants, they will extract more money. Especially when you cede the management of the doing entirely.
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Regarding the Bedtime Bulb, I see the graph of wavelength vs ... the vertical axis isn't labeled, but I assume it's roughly "amount of light at that wavelength": https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59c9469ae5dd5bc276433...

Two things come to mind, looking at it:

1. The total area under each different bulb looks wildly different. I think normal user behavior would be to get enough of the bulbs to light up a room to roughly a certain brightness; therefore, it's the ratio of blue/green light to other light that matters, and a proper comparison would normalize the total brightness of each bulb. (Otherwise, if bulb A was the same as bulb B except half the brightness, the line on the graph would show bulb A producing impressively less blue light than B.) Is there a reason this normalization wasn't done?

2. The levels of green and blue light, while lower than the comparison 2700K LED, are still far higher than zero. Why not make them zero or near-zero? Is this difficult? Is there research showing that "somewhat less blue" is significantly better? My impression is that humans' perception of brightness is mostly logarithmic, which means 0.5x is a lot closer to x than to, say, 0.1x or 0.01x; I don't know if this carries over to the effect on melatonin production, but my prior hypothesis would lean in that direction.
My wife is disabled. We don't get checks for 17k instead we get 10k+ in premiums + medical expenses + 3k in taxes out of what might be 34k gross 21K net.

You can be in fact disabled but not disabled enough to receive much in the way of help.

You can easily be poor but not poor enough to have your medical needs paid for and be poorer than if you were barely working and sponging off the system.
It's a relay-based computer. Basically as long as relays continue to be made (which is probably close to forever), it can still be serviced.

Yes. And even then, the relays can be repaired. The NYC subway system has a shop that refurbishes the relays of their signaling system.

I restore old Teletype machines. The ones from the 1920s and 1930s are the easiest to restore. They're mostly all steel and cast iron. Once you clean, oil, and adjust them, they usually work, unless the machine was seriously damaged. I have five running Teletype machines.

The post-WWII machines are harder, but still repairable. The ones from the 1960s and 1970s are really hard, and some of the plastic parts have to be fabricated. The last Teletype, the Teletype Model 40 (1979-1984) appears to be hopeless. The print chain deteriorates over time, and making a new print chain, with all the little character slugs, would be a huge job.

Restoring current electronics, with SOIC chips, will be hopeless after the ICs wear out.
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High grade wagon scales is my favourite find to date:

https://archive.org/details/catalogueno11200sear/page/760

(Scales is singular, isn’t it?)
I want to live in your world, where benevolent megacorps don’t cheat on emissions tests, or self-validate relaxed stability planes that require additional features to avoid crashing, or turn a blind eye to overseas suicide factories.

And where the only bad person is Elon Musk.
> WireGuard doesn't work over TCP

Can somebody well versed explain what the difference between TCP and UDP in this case? I obviously know what these are, I just don't understand why it's such a debatable choice applied to VPNs.
Wine does tend to clutter the file associations a bit :( It’s probably possible to work around that but understandable that you don’t want to.

Steam Proton is great since it doesn’t do that and is mostly automatic. I was surprised to see Direct3D 11 titles running just fine at 60 FPS and maxed out settings, very cool.

And yeah, GPU passthrough is kind of the holy grail for desktop VMs. It’s definitely a little tricky, but once you have a good setup going it’s hard to beat. There’s a lot of guides. NixOS really shines here because your entire configuration can be declaratively configured, making your setup easily reproducible and surfacing all of the configuration in one place, but it’s obviously not distro dependent in any way and will work fine on Debian or Ubuntu.

Some downsides:

- Not all machines can VT-d, some can but are not stable. This is better today than ever.

- Your VM GPU needs to be in its own IOMMU group. Modern motherboards tend to do this basically automatically it seems, though its not guaranteed and if not your only workaround is a patch that lets you “split” the groups in an unsafe way that breaks isolation.

- Audio is tricky. Looking Glass does not forward SPICE audio today, so most folks configure qemu to output directly to PulseAudio. If you are using a physical display this approach obviously still works. You can also attempt to forward a USB audio device, or use audio over HDMI/DisplayPort.

edit: I hopped on my desktop. Here's my former NixOS configuration for GPU passthrough, to give you an idea of what kinds of system level configuration is needed:

# IOMMU configuration
boot.kernelParams = [ "amd_iommu=on" "pcie_aspm=off" ];
boot.kernelModules = [ "kvm-amd" "vfio_virqfd" "vfio_pci" "vfio_iommu_type1" "vfio" ];
boot.extraModprobeConfig = ''
options vfio-pci ids=10de:13c2,10de:0fbb
options kvm ignore_msrs=1
'';

boot.postBootCommands = ''
# Enable VFIO on secondary GPU
for DEV in "0000:0a:00.0" "0000:0a:00.1"; do
echo "vfio-pci" > /sys/bus/pci/devices/$DEV/driver_override
done
modprobe -i vfio-pci

# Setup Looking Glass shared memory object
touch /dev/shm/looking-glass
chown john:kvm /dev/shm/looking-glass
chmod 660 /dev/shm/looking-glass
'';

virtualisation = {
libvirtd = {
qemuOvmf = true;
# To make the PULSE Qemu audio driver work.
qemuVerbatimConfig = ''
namespaces = []
nographics_allow_host_audio = 1
user = "john"
group = "kvm"
'';
};
};

The virtual machine itself also needs some configuration. It will need to use UEFI with a properly-equipped TianoCore image to initialize the GPU. Also, to set the audio driver to something other than SPICE. Finally you need to add the PCI devices, this can be done trivially through the UI as long as you know the PCI IDs of your card.
or email to/from/cc in ios mail, where only the person's name is shown. clicking on the name displays a contact card. for people with multiple addresses, there's no way to tell which address is being used.
Where does this "Europe is awesome place to live" come from?

I live in Germany, I got ear wax, the doctor waiting line was more than a week, so I developed tinnitus problem in a couple of days because of the wax (I don't use any headphone, I don't work in any noisy place so they don't have any effect). Insurance didn't cover medicine cost, so I paid it in cash while I was a student. Then the doctor said, it's too late and now I have to deal with a permanent tinnitus disorder for rest of my life.

Do you see how awesome social security is in Europe? #StopSpreadingBullshit
Interesting idea. What would you use this for?
I think it’s more fair to say R and matlab are domain specific language for scientific computing as the core of the languages makes assumptions about your data structures (you can only have vectors and matrices. There are no scalars - only arrays of scalars)

Julia’s community focus on scientific computing, but I’m sure in five years time, nobody is gonna bat an eye when a Julia ship do their infrastructure scripting in Julia (while we’ll still bat an eye at R shops doing that in R)