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If humans live another thousand years and avoid a major dark age which drags our tech level below a point from which we cannot bring it back up again, then we’ll probably still be hammering nails into our walls.
> ... the risk of collision between the two satellites was 1 in 1,000--ten times higher than the threshold that requires a collision avoidance maneuver. ....

> As to why SpaceX refused to move their satellite and has avoided comment since, is not entirely clear, the report said.

I'll go out on a limb and say that SpaceX refused to move their satellite because it wouldn't be cost effective to perform avoidance procedures at those odds when you have thousands of micro-satellites. SpaceX understands that everybody's risk tolerance will need go up considerably.

That's self-serving, but it's the direction things will need to go for any large deployments. At least SpaceX would be able to send up your replacement satellite, and do it for free if necessary.

I imagine you do perform avoidance maneuvers at 1:10000 odds because the err bars are so large. If so, it might be more cost effective long-term to improve detection and prediction. By being the obnoxious guy who refuses to budge, SpaceX can induce demand for better technology.
Thanks, the Derek Sivers piece rings a bell now (and maybe was going into my thinking on this), and the other two will go into my notes to avoid having to repeat myself the next time this one inevitably comes up on the office Slack...
There are some python scripts that will go through and scrub your contents. Not that it really matters, all the big guys backup reddit everyday for future reference, you're just probably protecting yourself from low level doxers and not state actors. Then again state actors can always go down to the hardware store and buy a $5 dollar wrench or rubber hose and beat it out of you
There's no way that hardware firmware on the CPU(?!) is what's holding back Android updates.
But how will I know if it's wifi 2x2 gen 2 superspeed?
With a mix of capabilities, it may not be as simple as "doesn't work". Imagine a cable that 95% of reviewers say work just fine, but 5% say doesn't work at all. Maintains a 4.7 star rating or whatever.

I'm suggesting that they could mostly do fine with lying blatantly about capabilities in hardware. It would take very close analysis to find that it only had some of the capabilities advertised.
Why "random chance"? Instead, Uber could encourage more people to be "on the clock" at high demand times by increasing hourly wages during those times. It feels like you are making mountains out of molehills.
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CVE writers make me cry sometimes. The original advisory is incredibly light on details, like, what software actually has the bug. The CVEs themselves also fail to adequately describe what is vulnerable. E.g., CVE-2019-9516 “0-Length Headers Leak”, the CVE implicates "Ubuntu". Ubuntu (probably) can't be vulnerable to this CVE, some piece of software on Ubuntu must be; and indeed clicking through to the USN shows that it's nginx. But then, why only single out Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora? Surely the others are equally vulnerable?

It was the same way w/ the recent VLC vuln. where the researcher just kinda dumped an ASan output into a bug tracker and "I has a working exploit" and no additional details.
Which car runs on a gas?
Why would the bill eliminate this niche market?

The bill does NOT say, Uber drivers need to change the way they work.

The bill does say, the way Uber drivers work is considered employment with respect to the law.

It changes the definition of employment to include the type of flexible work Uber drivers are currently doing.

In other words, Uber (or any similar gig-economy business) could keep working with their employees as they always have, it's just that they'll now have to provide those employees with a bunch of benefits they currently do not provide and pay a number of taxes they currently do not pay.

The idea that "employee" means particular way of scheduling hours is false. The bill doesn't say that. The law doesn't say that. There's nothing that requires that. These newly defined employees could keep all the flexibility they've had. If Uber reduces that flexibility, that's Uber's decision.
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I've searched extensively for the environmental damage from lithium batteries, and find very little except vagueness. Can you point out why you think they are not green?

I can find much more about humanitarian concerns for the non-lithium metals in the batteries.
I appreciate the meme and get it as a response to everything being "serverless" recently. But I noticed some people started repeating it unironically, like cgi-bin was actually equivalent. I wish this project at least acknowledged it's a meme reaction. Maybe people these days don't remember anymore what cgi-bin really worked like? (or never worked with it?)
good point.

Kind of realising how much of my daily work could use bytes as the main numeric type
Yes, who are these people eating fresh/wet mushrooms?
The point is that mob justice is bad, not that those things are good.
Try finding a USB-C hub that actually works. The USB ecosystem is a complete nightmare. As a consumer this is completely infuriating.
> 4)ports are different, protocol mismatch : won't work. Adapters might exist but those won't work either.

Why would adapters necessarily not work in this case? It looks like you're claiming that translating one protocol to another is always impossible, but that can't actually be the idea... right?
There are times of the year where renewable energy is free right now, and production is curtailed.

There are also some places where prices go slightly negative because the producers' tax credit schemes give them revenue in excess of the negative price.
Do they seriously think this will lead to anything except Uber and Lyft leaving California, putting hundreds of thousands of drivers out of work?
> rust is arguably supplanting go

Two very different languages with very different goals. Neither want nor ever will suplant the other.
I want to hear more about the bit mentioned at the end:

> At the meeting, Thomas Rayder, a graduate student at Boston College, reported building on the idea. He encapsulated a pair of enzymelike catalysts in a zirconium-based MOF to drive a series of reactions that convert gaseous CO2 to methanol, a liquid fuel.

> When they were unprotected by the MOFs, Rayder found, the two catalysts didn’t produce any methanol because they were quickly deactivated, likely by reacting with each other. But safely ensconced in the MOFs, they could make methanol at temperatures and pressures far below those used in existing methanol plants, offering a potentially cheaper and greener way to make the fuel.
"a feedback loop where you can explore things that are adjacent to something you like" - I dabbled with this idea for a bit a few years back and ended up with logocaster.com as an early demo of the idea (desktop only). If you see a logo you like you can lock in the color scheme, font/font category and (basic) style.

I wish I had the time to get some icons in there and a better UI, but it's tough to compete with the awesome free logo generators out there, so I put it on hold.
Are they indentured servants?
So that's two people. We're gonna replace those logos in a couple of days. Thanks.
Funny, reminds me of the whole cloud-to-butt thing.

On a different note, the whole serverless thing seemed weird to me until I looked into it an realized that it kind of is cgi-bin all over again.

I love it, someone else can manage and patch the server and worry about scaling. I just deploy my workload as a self-contained app or set of apps. Scale is only limited by the bank account.
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Considering how PC advocates doxxes people holding other political views, and the backfire that caused today's Trump situation, this should be dreaded!
Do you just throw away your old phone? Mine become hand-me-downs.

Until her birthday this year, my mother-in-law was using my old iPhone 5S, a 6-year-old phone which still runs the latest iOS. Now she got my wife's old iPhone 6S (4 years old), and my wife has my old iPhone X (3 years old).

Throwing away a phone after 2 years is incredibly wasteful.
You have shifted the discussion from ability of DB engine to optimize queries to the ability of a developer to write fast queries.

But in any case, we are not discussing some abstract ORM whose "idea is to hide complexity", but SQL Alchemy whose idea (one of them, at least) is to allow you to write composable queries yet still retain full power of SQL.
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"If you are an hourly-paid employee, you can't just choose the times that suit you"

Why not?

Or more specifically: the law doesn't require this, so why would it have to change?

The bill merely states, "hey, this flexible way you've been working, that's not independent contracting, that's employment and the employer have to abide by all these other regulations." Those regulations in no way require Uber to make workers work for specific hours, pay them hourly, or schedule their work differently. In fact, it just says, "the way you're already working, that's employment." So why do you think they'd have to change how they work?
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They still sold a 80487, of course. It was a '486 without the FPU being fused off, and when you plugged it into the "math co-processor" socket, it disabled the original CPU and took over both duties.
Well, why would Google need to publicly shame themselves (e.g. 90 day ultimatum) to motivate a bug fix?

They can just fix the bug once they know about the vulnerability.
I believe it's simply a matter of colder air increasing in density so there's less space for the water vapor. When the air heats up, it expands and can hold more vapor in the increased volume.
Presumably they will obsolete use of USB4 over non-Type-C cabling since the older 3.x compatible connectors are hacks. That means, moving forward, everything from 1.1, 2.0, 3.x, and 4 will run on the same cabling.

Intermediate hubs will downgrade bandwidth if they can't support the same speed as their upstream host so there will be an element of mystery there without clear markings.
Just because I don't think the second amendment confers either rights or restrictions on individual gun ownership doesn't mean I'm against gun ownership.

Also degrees punishment or lack thereof for crimes differing by offender, is the easiest way to determine class, not whether consumers can acquire a specific class of objects.
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Transport != store. I can transmit, assuming there's a sink on the other end (though loss is an issue over distance). Considering there is neither enough lithium nor enough cobalt to make a Tesla for every American, battery tech will be a huge bottleneck.
Why, in the second example with RANK(), does the values for 1/2 go from rank 12 to 15 and then 6, 7?

Am I missing something obvious?
i would find it very surprising if more than 2 or 3% of firefox users have ever used about:config at all
Google says they're working to fix an issue related to this:

From https://support.google.com/calendar/thread/13429505?hl=en :

> We're aware of the spam occurring in Calendar and are working diligently to resolve this issue. We'll post updates to this thread as they become available.
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Which require regular maintenance and the primary membrane, a wear item, isn't exactly cheap to replace.

Having more options is definitely welcome.
A lot of sci fi seems to have used this to explain why AI didn't take over and weirder technologies evolved. Pretty neat actually.
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I think you're the one mistaken, here. The interface for cgi-bin was that you created a process per web request. The interface for Serverless is that you create a process per web request.

The tooling is a lot better for Serverless, but I'd hesitate to call it 20 years better - I'd hesitate to call it 10 years better.
That doesn't have anything to do with what I'm talking about. I'm discussing data from TNC driver organizations like https://www.ridester.com/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make/
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Thanks -- it was just an interesting diversion with a trickle of traffic over the years, no ML under the hood (or anywhere close to it for that matter). I wish you and your team the best with your product, I especially would love to see custom drawn icons courtesy of your AI!
I think the Lynch movie could have done better with better writers and less wooden actors. Some of the scenes cut around like cheap spaghetti westerns. Really bad editing...
I'd say about a 5. We cared about getting it out there and getting as much feedback as possible from customers. We decided we didn't want to focus on perfecting the UI/UX or even features if it wasn't going to be valuable to our customers. So we'd rather get something janky out there and iterate than spend extra few weeks/months in a bubble.
I went to a Go meetup where I use Go as a complement to Ruby. The speaker and most of the others there were using it as a more expressive/easier C. The middle ground it has carved out seems to let everyone say that their language does something better, but there seems to be a good chance that Go does a reasonable job at what their language doesn't do well (and isn't too far off to learn).
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> Also, "Get security updates faster." is huge; this is effectively saying "no matter who makes your phone, you still get updates".

They say this with literally every release of Android ever. It's just posturing, I'll believe it when I see it.
We’ve taken the view that audit should be done in the database layer using, for example, triggers. Audit at the application layer is less resilient then at the SQL layer, IMO.

In fact, an important part of our transition away from ORM was to invert the ORM-centric relationship between the application and the database. We wanted our tech people to be able to manipulate the database natively via SQL, which is generally much easier and more efficient than writing and deploying Java code to do the same thing.

For us, this meant moving most data manipulation logic into the database using PL/PGSQL. Doing so has empowered a team of non Java admins, massively improved performance, and significantly reduced LOC. I’d say that we now have about 30% (1/3rd) of the LOC in PL/PGSQL than we had in Java+JPA. Obviously this means less bugs, but performance is literally 100x in some cases.

I think that if you take a Java-first view of your application then all the complexity of JPA is part and parcel of any solution, and that’s fine for you. But we’ve found that taking an SQL-first approach has been great for our use cases, and has had lots of ongoing benefits.

Of course, we needed to build a bunch of tools to help with this. For example, we built a gradle plugin that treats SQL code like Java code so we can write libraries in SQL with transitive dependencies. We also needed to build testing tools and tools to automate schema migrations for CD.

I do think the lack of tooling around managing large SQL-based projects is a blocker to wider adoption of our approach, but the benefits of going against the ORM grain have been very significant for us.
They’ve been saying the old extension model has been deprecated forever.

Kind of disappointing given the lack of a ublock replacement :(
Why would they want to pay people who aren't actually doing work? That's the point if they are forced to take full-time employees, those employees should be working all the time, instead of at their leisure the way it currently is. There is no requirement to take a ride if you don't want to right now, but if there's surge, drivers will be encouraged to work. If they are full-time employees, they just work for a flat rate and at the places and times that the employer requires them to be, in order for them to be maximally used.

Hiring people to just sit around and do nothing doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
What if I told you that just because I have a different opinion than you about people who don't identity with their biological gender doesn't mean I think some segment of the population is worthy of extermination?

Your post proves the OP's point. They implied that they have a different point of view on _something_, & you've attacked them for it

Do you believe all views you consider acceptable today will be correct in a decade? You can instead make the argument that our views are monotonically converging towards "the right view" but that's acting like something can never reemerge from being out of fashion

& consider this: acceptable is within your subculture. How are you going to interact with a different subculture that doesn't hold your views? Cultures need to avoid shouting down anyone who votes differently at the ballot box
Ridiculous analogy. It didn't take weeks or months to figure out answers in the 1980s. It just took a little more thinking. I would go so far as to say, programmers were smarter in those days because they had to be.
I think the whole purpose of ELI5, when done right, is to introduce you to the concept. Not help you master it. Similarly, analogies do help, especially for a non-native speaker.
It's because the query has an ORDER BY clause that orders it all by sale_date, whereas the RANK() is calculated from subtotal order.
We'll have it soon! Thanks for the best wishes, really appreciate it.
In my example code. Do you notice the string "auto"?

It means you can literally have the API do exactly what SQL does. Automatically specify the query plan. But you explicitly do it.

Meaning that sometimes the auto planner screws up. When it screws up, in those cases you explicitly make it use another algorithm rather then modify SQL to be slightly different and hope that it compiles into something more reasonable.

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Edit: not sure why the downvotes - because factually incorrect opinion or off-topic?I don't live far from here: https://www.christchurchdailyphoto.com/2011/09/29/black-swan...

Edit 2: looked up the metaphor, it really fails when I'm only surrounded by black swans. There are occasional white swans too - I have always presumed swans were migratory like plenty of the water foul over here!
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I want both. An imperative language makes it more able to be isomorphic to a web app api. You can have corresponding types and functions without something totally different.

Optimizer hints is a good idea. As far as I know this isn't a well known feature (if it even is a feature) for postgresql, which is the DB I have the most experience with.
Yes, and the grandparent's calculation can be accomplished by simply dividing the fuel volume by the "area" of the car's efficiency (or multiplying if using MPG, which is inverse area)

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> The interface for Serverless is that you create a process per web request.

That is not how it works in the most popular solutions. Both aws lambda and Google cloud functions will keep the server instance running after your first request and only dispatch function calls - you can cache data between requests in globals. That's also why the first cold request is so much slower (it actually loads the code for the first time).

Most serverless function environments are much closer to managed fastcgi, than old cgi-bin approach.

This is mentioned right in the service docs: https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/concepts/exec#functi...

Also, thanks for proving my point - some people don't understand it's a meme, not real equivalence.
USB already supports isochronous transfers for audio.
Well that was a frustratingly useless article.

They brought in an expert to answer the question and he didn't answer the question. I still don't know what was in the thermos or what to use to extinguish a tear gas canister.

This would have been more useful and interesting if PopMech had just bought a few canisters, tested the various theorie, and reported the results.
Kind of disappointing they didn't go more into detail about the dual offers touted in the title.