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No, but late last year Elon Musk was caught tunneling funds from SpaceX to Boring Company and putting SpaceX employees to work on BoringCo projects. He had to give SpaceX shareholders a stake in Boring to smooth things over.
You appear to be conflating CertainTeed with GAF. CertainTeed sits flush with the surrounding tiles because it replaces normal tiles (see https://www.certainteed.com/solar/products/apollo-ii/; the solar tiles are installed directly onto the roof sheathing, i.e., the same layer that normal shingles would be installed onto.) They can be installed over the entire roof, but CertainTeed doesn't recommend that (see their brochure; it must be something they get asked about frequently due to Tesla).

GAF's panels (the 2nd picture) sit on top of the normal roof.
This looks like a very complicated pump and dump case.
Interesting. If we can manufacture rocket fuel and forge these 'space alloys' on Mars (or in LMO, low mars orbit), the transport cost to get those alloys to Earth could be theoretically much lower once you have a stable, relatively automated Mars base.
How do you tell that a comment was upvoted? "Not downvoted" is the most that you can tell (unless you know something I don't).

> So I haven't really bothered with this account, hence spewing ideology.

You just told us to ignore anything you say.
This is literally the argument J&J made as their defense. It should be noted as such.
"... the words science and scientific ought to be replaced by the more accurate designators scientism and scientistic. Scientism is an ideology that, in its fundamental epistemology, shrinks truth down to what can be demonstrated by the experimental method. Scientism, which provides technocracy with its basic tenets, invariably expresses itself as a materialistic outlook that rejects everything connected with religion and the transcendental."

Then I suppose "science" is no longer about what can be proved, but what the most number of people believe?

Also, "Nevala-Lee himself treats of that selfishness, banality, and prurience rather indifferently, as though it neither shocked nor repelled him." I don't think the book reviewer intended that as praise, but it surely sounds like a positive aspect of a biography to me. I must be one of the evil technocrats.
It's perhaps worth noting that in your examples also (hams, cheeses, whisky, etc.) the very best stuff is far more likely to be small batch and eschews many of the "industry standard" approaches for larger producers.

The reasons may well be similar to bread.
Ferdinand Piech, architect of VW's global expansion, dies aged 82
On a distro like debian you can even use it to build-and-run userspace binaries for an unrelated architecture (some chroot magic was required last time I checked).
Pure Mathematics for Beginners by Steve Warner runs through the (very) introductory elements of major branches of math [0]. If you want even more leisurely intro to math intuition without worrying about elements of topology/abstract algebra or whatever, Book of Proof by Hammack is great and free [1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Mathematics-Beginners-Rigorous-I...

[1] https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/
Classifying him as a con artist based on his tendency to overpromise and underdeliver is a stretch when taking the colloquial definition of "con artist". Is he telling a lie? Yes. Does his audience, in general, feel "conned" when they realize he overpromised? No.
Give Rust twenty years, and there will be plenty that's crap compared to the new hotness. C++ tuples will be no worse than they are, and possibly a little better.
Thanks! Hope you've enjoyed reading Interrupt, let me know if there's a topic you'd like us to write about.
Isn't the whole genre of CRM kinda useless without access to your emails though?
App Level Security (ALS) for a More Secure Web and Bitcoinz [slides]
So what does it offer that Feedbin itself doesn't provide?

I especially ask because I never found a compatible mobile app that was even as good as Feedbin's web UI. Being better than Feedbin on a desktop browser strikes me as difficult.
lol i love seeing all the replies to comments on this that start with "No."
Lots of different materials and techniques have been tried, but nothing so far seems to have really stuck. As an observer I think there are two main factors:

1) The types of steel used coincidentally have nearly identical coefficients of thermal expansion as the concrete used.

2) Everybody in the construction industry and the entire supply chain is familiar with and habituated to steel rebar. The inertia is tremendous.

That's a very high bar to meet to gain a foothold with new materials or new techniques as the entire system has evolved to fit the pros and cons of steel rebar. Anything that departs from standard practice becomes very costly, very quickly, for a gazillion reasons.
As you say, investors should do their research but, I don't think that absolves Musk from making false or misleading statements.

If someone claims to be a Nigerian prince who just needs a few hundred dollars to give away their fortune, the potential customers/marks should certainly do their research and can easily learn that the offer is a scam, but the scammer is still in the wrong both legally and ethically.
No, I asked on the IRC channel and forums as well as a friend who does embedded. The answer was basically "because clippy doesn't know the target arch it has to be a conservative-guess" which I agree with.

My friend also explained how it's a REALLY tricky question to answer properly especially given specific embedded architectures and setups where the answer is very hard.
Only if J&J gets no further judgments after this one.
> CPUs don't behave at all like C's defined virtual machine

What "virtual machine" are you referring to?
The state-of-the-art analyzers and fuzzers are also really good. Especially the ones setup for no false positives. Bar is lower than ever.
I am not convinced by this. Amazon does not at any point convey a copy of the written work to the customer. At no point does such a copy exist, nor can it conceivably be constructed from the technology Amazon are supplying to their customers.

This is not (if I understand correctly) a PDF document they can download and read, it's a technology that allows the words that are currently being spoken to be seen in written text.

At no time does a legally significant quantity of the written work get conveyed to the customer. Amazon will just ask the publishers to show where this alleged copy of the textual work resides in their system. They won't be able to do so, as it doesn't exist there.

This does seem to be what they are in fact arguing. And I think they will prevail. I would not expect them to prevail if they offered a pdf of the book or if their software actually contained a copy of the original text that was being conveyed to the customer.
> I'm generally afraid of a future where this phenomenon becomes better understood and weaponized.

This phenomena was weaponized over a century ago. The Spanish-American war was largely instigated by propaganda so that William Randolph Hearst could sell more papers ("You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war"). Mass communications and mass advertising was critical to developing the mass markets of the early 20th century. Propaganda played a huge part in both World Wars, and was critical to Hitler's rise to head of the Nazi Germany. Orwell's 1984 wasn't speculation about a hypothetical future 35 years off; it was a thinly-veiled allegory of his actual experience writing cultural broadcasts for the BBC during WW2.

The history of modernity is literally the history of getting large bodies of people to think alike, to buy into particular models of reality, and to subsume their individual, family, or tribal interests under broader national interests. That's how we distinguish the "modern" world from "pre-modern" civilizations that we have largely enslaved or exterminated.

On a broader level propaganda and weaponized information dates back to the ancient Romans and Greeks, but the invention of movable type, radio, and TV dramatically accelerated it. Arguably the Internet is reversing that trend by giving a large plurality of voices an audience, but those of us who grew up in the modern era have brains so conditioned to a monopoly of worldviews that we have trouble making sense of it all.
because you can have the event without the scheduled talks. of course the event was going to be cancelled if main speakers don't attend
Most of these are similar manifestations of the same root evil (not specific to Microsoft): Users don’t want Feature X but Company wants users to want Feature X. They release Feature X to the world. It’s a failure—nobody uses it. The PM or developers who invested in that feature need to justify the investment. So they make Feature X enabled by default. Users disable it. So they remove the disable option. Users ignore it. They add flashing notifications begging users to use it. They’re ignored too. They give Feature X a prominent, always on button right on the main screen. They add more keyboard and mouse shortcuts so there are more ways to invoke Feature X. They add dedicate hardware keys/buttons to invoke Feature X. They add full-screen reminders to remind users Feature X is so cool! They even make it so it’s easy to invoke Feature X by accident. While these things may slightly juice Feature X’s usage metrics, it just never takes off because users fundamentally don’t want it and nobody wants to admit failure.

Look at the software your company makes and I bet you can quickly find an example of this. It’s everywhere and it’s shameful.
A big part of the problem with coated steel rebar is that rebar is treated very roughly on construction sites, and any nick or failure of the coating is really bad news when the chemical isolation provided by the concrete fails. Instead of the corrosion happening relatively uniformly at a slow rate across the entire length of the reinforcing bar, it'll happen at a few select sites at a significantly higher rate.
While I do love me some privacy.com, unfortunately they only allow you to tie payments to bank accounts, not credit cards.

So, it's a virtual debit card, not a virtual credit card.

Now, they do let you set transaction limits, and daily/weekly/monthly limits, as well as either locking the card to the first merchant to use it or to make it a "burner" one-time only card.

So, there's lots of additional controls there.

They don't give you a good way to export any of that financial information, so if you want to use a budgeting program to try to help you track what is going where, then privacy.com doesn't help you there.

Overall, I like privacy.com very much. I do want to be able to tie in multiple back-end payment sources, including credit cards, and I'd be fine taking the 2% or whatever fee on my end. And I do want more transparency in terms of being able to easily export my data where I want to use it. But those are both relatively minor problems, compared to the ones they do help you solve.
Steve Jobs Journey and How He Turn Failures into Success
"The road to a world powered by renewable energy is littered with unintended consequences"

Yes, entirely unlike a world powered buy fossil fuels, which has provided no surprises whatsoever and continues to go off without a hitch.
> Guy who literally made his career on fear mongering in fiction ...

Can you expand on that? I presume you're talking about his book, "State of Fear". I guess "Andromeda Strain" could be in that category. I found most of his books interesting, educational and often insightful.
> my main home machine is an in-place upgrade from its original install of Debian 0.93r6 back in 1996 or so.

That's absolutely marvellous.
Bonan voĉon :)

Kiam oni finas frazon kun " ?", la ilo eraras, ekzemple: "testing in english?" funkcias, sed "testing in english ?" malfunkcias.

(When you end a phrase with a space then a question mark, the tool gives an error, "failed to fetch").
What's the problem with addicts getting opioids from their doctor? If the doctor thinks they should be prescribed opioids for addiction shouldn't the doctor's prescription be honored in the same way a prescription for chemotherapy would? The chemo prescription is much more dangerous. Or should the doctor face 25 years in prison for doing what he thinks is best (our current system) while the addict goes out and robs someone to get drugs that would cost $5 with a prescription? Which way do you think is better for society and the patient?
So very constructive, thanks for the input.
How do you justify anyone owning anything and not using it to it’s ‘potential’?

More importantly who do you think should decide what the ‘potential’ is for what you own?
V.I. Arnold on Teaching Mathematics (1997)
I don't think so. It takes weeks for this cement to heal itself, whereas the sort of temperature swings that would cause very long pieces to crack happen in hours. You'd have frequent cracking and re-cracking without enough time to heal.

I think this is better suited for damage from infrequent events (earthquakes, temperature swings from 10-year storms, human accident, etc.).
This article reads like the quotes in https://www.wired.com/1995/02/chess/ about how computers would never beat people at chess. Winning at chess required "fantasy" and "creativity" and here baking requires "passion" and "magic".

https://www.cnet.com/news/bread-making-robot-makes-everyone-... is a fully-automated bakery, although it doesn't produce baguettes, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zfb456YrsM is half-automated from dough to finish; maybe we'll get a IBM Watson-style "robot bread" entry in the competition sometime.
Restricting the supply isn't intended to help the addicts, it's to prevent new ones.
Holy fuck, the entire fucking middle of the african continent is on fire right now?!?
I'm not sure when single-quoted strings became the default (at least in Python/Ruby/similar languages), but it's almost entirely about fashion rather than functionality. Double-quoted strings were the norm for literally decades until recently. There is no strong argument for favoring one over the other. So long as everyone uses the same thing (at least within a given project, but ideally within an entire language's work), everything is fine. It's still hard for me to break the double-quote habit because single-quoted strings were unheard of in my entire career until about ten years ago.
The book is very readable, and has quite a lot of artificial life simulation analysis and mathematical proof. While it is written by well known members of the ID crowd, the book does not advance any claims about intelligent design. The book analyzes why these simulations work, and clearly presents all its claims, so it is quite accessible for the reader to pick apart and check their validity.
As for arrays, I frequently find implementations of hash maps and linked lists that come with macros for iteration, appending, etc. libnih is the first to come to mind (GPLv2 only), but I also know that the LXC project has some similar code floating around in there... probably LGPLv2+.
lol point proven...

> You just told us to ignore anything you say.

And you've shown you value your exploited wealth and material gain over the basic survival of the poor and global south, so the fuck do I care?

(I'm ready for my ban deng <3)
Keeping Tesla Roadsters Alive Is Serious Work
The UAE is a pretty ruthless police state. Perhaps it's just that the CIA assessed the risk as too high.
Internationalization in a React Application
I would expect a vectorized implementation to perform better than this one.
If they were only doing the latter, then their packaging would be much more straightforward. You can find other commentators in this set of comments that see the social agenda I'm identifying, although they are in favor of it.
As a programmer, I've noticed that while the media is often wrong about technical details, they are also often ahead of me in terms of the social impacts of technology. I thought since they didn't know how FB and Twitter work under the hood they would also be wrong about the social devastation it would cause. Turns out I know more computers. They know more about people.
Chris Lonsdale gave a TED talk in 2013 about language learning, and asserts "in 6 months I was fluent in Chinese": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0
Microsoft did 3 very smart things that elevated Excel from 0% to 100% market share:

1) Early versions were (or felt) Windows-native. Due to the Mac roots, Excel felt integrated with Windows 3 and GUI right when people and companies were switching from MS-DOS to Windows. Lotus 123 never really got that feel right, its early Windows versions just seemed inferior to the old DOS versions, it just felt out of place on Windows.

2) 1-2-3 compatible keystrokes. Made it easy for people to switch.

3) Bundling with Office. In the 80s you bought WordPerfect, and 1-2-3, and maybe FoxPro or something for simple databases. Office gave you everything in one inexpensive box. In fact, Word vs WordPerfect was even a bigger contrast than Excel vs 1-2-3, since Word had a WYSIWYG interface that simply blew WordPerfect out of the water.
Nitpick: I understand your point in general, but it's not actually true that you need to calculate the n-1 and n-2 values first for Fibonacci.

You can use Binet's formula or matrix exponentiation to calculate it without such a dependency.
On that note, I miss the time when descriptions were, you know, actual descriptions of the video and not a dumping ground for the exact same trash on every video that nobody cares about like social media, Discord, etc (those things should go in the channel's about page as they are not specific to a single video).
Men paying for access to women. Not that unusual, I'd say.
> it might get a lot more difficult for people who suffer from pain that needs opioids to actually get them

I've had severe chronic pain for over a decade from an auto accident. It's well documented as are the injuries. I've never been offered opioids and have been told by multiple doctors that surgery would be pointless and counterproductive. If I was offered opioids I'd turn them down since I understand the potential for abuse.

However it would have been nice to be asked. Fact is no doctor I've seen will prescribe them to any other than people with stage 4 cancer, people actually in the hospital following surgery, or the like.

Yet every two bit junkie creep and criminal in the area has an unending forever supply that originated in legal sources made by reputable pharma corps and sold by honest pharmacists having received a legit script.

How is this? Pain clinics. Pain clinics are prescribing these things. Not regular doctors who for over a decade have been scared to hell of prescribing them no matter how bad off a legit patient is.

So will it "get a lot more difficult for people who suffer from pain that needs opioids to actually get them"? I say no, because those people aren't getting them right now anyone. Excepting cancer, people in the hospital, and some other specific cases.

But it's OK. Because those of us with severe incurable chronic pain need to just learn to live with it. Opioids provide short term cures, rapidly develop tolerance and addiction. They are not good choices for chronic pain. Nor is anything else apparently. The field of medicine is in the medieval period, as far as how most people experience it. Propaganda about genetic cures and Star Trek like technology is fiction, mostly pushed by lying companies and speculators.

Most cancers your choice is to die without treatment since your insurance if you have it isn't going to pay for much and you'll go bankrupt on the copays. Then you die same date as you would have otherwise, probably earlier because the therapy weakens you and makes you sick and miserable. You'll also experience utter misery and horror during your last few months. Choosing to reject modern medical miracles is the best choice for most people with serious problems. Or go after stuff that at least does no physical harm, like alternative treatments, faith healing, or other quakery that's at least cheaper and less miserable. Yet the medical field peddles false hope to the overwhelming majority of people with this problem. Same goes for chronic pain. Surgery will make you worse and pills will ruin your health and may turn you into a criminal addict. Mountebanks selling such false hope really are dealers in misery and horror.
There was an article I probably saw here on HN a couple of years ago. The problem is that rents can't lower to what the market will bear, because that would lower the property value. The loan that was used to buy the property is based on that value, and if the value drops the owner may suddenly need to come up with a pile of cash to make up the difference. It makes more financial sense to leave it unrented at a high price than to rent it out lower.
Everyone cares about speed first, or they would be using a more convenient slow language.

The challenge of Rust is, how nice can we make a language without noticeably giving up any performance to C++? Pretty nice, it turns out.

C++ still has an edge on both performance and ability to code powerful libraries that are not a PITA to use. The performance margin definitely will close up. The library margin could, too, but it will require unpleasant choices.

Anyway both are faster than almost anything else, and will stay that way, for von Neumann machines. Those might get less important, soon.
Yes, it's "bullshit on the front page of the Times".

Now, I happen to agree that tariffs may cause prices to increase. I've been educated in economics and study it as a hobby; I can explain my point-of-view from the concrete facts to the high level theory. The most definitive statement I would ever be willing to say on the subject is that tariffs always harm the economic, moral, and political interests of the citizens of the country imposing them.

If someone tells you, without further qualification (as is nearly always the case for TV and newspaper pundits), that a tariff of x% will cause a price change of y%, they are either incompetent or they are lying to your face in order to advance a hidden agenda. It is a vastly complicated question that requires detailed analysis of financial flows, specific industries, interacting policies of many nations, and geography.

And it matters a whole helluva lot.

The improper speculation about the consequences of current tariffs are precisely what give Trump and his cabinet the intellectual cover to make outlandish claims like "our tariffs are being paid for by China."
Wow, ad hominem much?
I find it really ironic that atheists are so obsessed with the idea that we live in a simulation.

If we live in a simulation, then someone made the simulation. Now you have a Creator, or Creators.

That Creator might have something like a debugger that they could attach to the simulation. They could use the debugger to change data inside the simulation. When they do, it really changes in the simulation, for no cause that can be discerned from within the simulation. Now you have miracles.

The Creator could even plausibly communicate with entities within the simulation. Now you have divine revelation.

I can see why a theist or deist could believe this. But why do atheists buy it? Don't they see that they're going right back to a (virtual) deism?
Journalism Is an Action
Developer roles are so much better setup to work well in an remote environment. The built in task list organization helps people not only stay on track but demonstrate their output regardless if they're on site or remote.

The problem is many non-engineering related roles follow similar organization around sprints and backlogs/task lists. Because of that I think there's a natural suspicion around productivity for people you don't get a chance to see everyday.

In other words work organization still sucks for non-engineering related remote work (sales excluded actually).

And then internal relationship building i think is also a challenge which impacts collaboration 100% - that still sucks.