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> And yet at no point do they seriously address why people might have good reasons for adopting the allegedly inferior solution.

With an emphasis on "allegedly" sometimes. For example, C is hugely superior to Python in terms of machine efficiency. Does C support faster development cycles? That's right, you can write code that's practically as fast as tightly-optimized machine code! Does C prevent potentially catastrophic errors? That's right, you can write code that's practically as fast as tightly-optimized machine code! A lot of the True Zealots aren't quite as monomaniacal on a single narrow point, but the lack of ability to see a total solution is diagnostic.

So was ITS better than Unix? Not if you prioritize usability, support for application software, or ability to run on more than a single family of very expensive mainframe computers the world had begun to abandon by the time Unix hit its big growth phase. You can say similar things about LispMs, although they were more usable.
Hi! I work on Firefox! Would you be open to share your experience and file bugs on issues you encountered?

I'd love to help with the CJK support in Firefox!
My (incomplete) understanding is that current lithography relies heavily on multipatterning, which takes a long time. With EUV, you can have very small features with fewer lithography steps which improves factory throughput.

That's more of an economic benefit for chip manufacturers than a tangible benefit for a user of the end product, but it means being able to buy cheaper chips with more gates (in addition to any power or performance improvements that can still be had these days).
crypto is a method, that being a payment system algorithm, supported by u.s. banks, that is helpful for people to get non u.s. assets into a liquid u.s. denominated unit of account.

bitcoins worth comes from its speculative value as a dollar priced risk asset, and for that alone, due to it's 10 year positive return, has made it an attractive payment system. if tether makes bitcoin safer from a currency exchagne perspective, tether, with its implied valuee to the bitcoin crypto currency world, has made bitcoin more valuable, and of course is itself a derivative of bitcoin both in its foundational conception and in its ongoing desireability by users of crypt who primarily do deal in bitcoin.

bitcoin is one of the most effective payment system, cheapere and faster and easier than paypal for secreting away your money into dollars or euro.

that is, for people who cannot get or transport physical u.s. dollars or euro. is it easieer to launder digital cash than physical? no , it is not. is it harder? yes , yes it is. far more of a digital paper trail to erase.

the use case is capital flight.

it doesn't matter whether bitcoin was created by the nsa or cia. and satoshi is a spook code name. it matters what bitcoin and crypto have primarily become. and this is what they have become whether you liek it or not.

born as a speculative claim on a payment system that scaled a metcalf type power law in value. proved it could work, then offered itself as a capital flight mechanism to dollars.

simple. it is better than paypal. it doeesn't havee to conquer the world. it just has to compete succesfully with paypal and other similar money service providers.
I had horrible pain in the muscles of the neck. Went to several doctors, had kinetheraphy and nothing changed.

I then correlated it to a lack of sleep and now see it as a pattern.

In order to avoid confirmation bias, I tested my theory over a few years in various mental states (work, vacation, happy, sad, sporty, couch potato,...). The link was and is always there.
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They simply made a typo: “now”, not “not”.
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You need a catalytic converter that meets a special requirement in CA. There are in fact cars with catalytic converters sold in other states that will not pass smog test in CA without upgrading the catalytic converter. They’re not all the same.
You model every state that your program is expected to handle. How else will the computer know what to do?

If the state is modeled in numeric terms then you can represent the intermediate state as a range of integers. You need to do this whether or not your program is typed.

Without types you're allowing the program to fall into a state that it doesn't know how to handle. This works because the program doesn't try to handle these intermediate invalid states. What happens when it eventually does try to handle that state? That's when bugs happen.

Static type systems are a brute force way to eliminate a certain class of bug. A dynamic language appears simpler because it doesn't even attempt to capture those errors. It's like saying your payment validation is "simpler" because it doesn't do CCV checks.
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Yes, you're correct.

But at the same time hierarchical assignment allows organization, including route summarization, it undermines the argument that there are too many addresses to exhaust. Addresses can easily be (in fact, are guaranteed to be) exhausted by the organizational system without ever being in use. The goals are in conflict.
Lidar has no problem with snow, only when its _snowing_. However, if visibility is reduced, a pure visual approach is going to be even worse.

Musk made a mistake, and he's spending billions to prove that he never made it.

snow makes HD maps somewhat less useful, as the terrain changes shape. But then, you need a map that evolves. Sadly for musky, the only company that can do that using purely visual data is Scape Technologies. Not even lyft can do that.
I graduated high school in 1996. I really wanted a computer. This was around the time where there were Power Computing clones that were licensed from Apple.

But my buddy just started college at the University of Oregon. They had a computing center that was this tiny little store that was on the second floor above all the big rack-mounted computers. I thought it was beautiful. I still love seeing walls of servers.

But Apple used to give massive discounts to University students. I was not one, but my friend was. So I gave him $1,400 in cash for a Performa 6214, a Apple Multiple Scan 14 Display, and a StyleWriter 1200. It was around a 50% discount for being a student at the university. I spent two months gutting and rebuilding my friends parents RV for the money.

I hate cryptocurrencies.. For some meandering reason my point is this.

Computers were expensive in 1996. Some internet providers still charged by the hour.. I got a 14.4 connection using my friends dial-up info from the university. I paid 200 dollars for my modem.

So the barrier to entry to the internet was steep back then. So ordering pizza was a novelty. Computers were wildly expensive, internet was by the hour, and slow.

So might as well just pick up the phone and be done with it in two minutes.

Back to Bitcoin.. Don't say it is just like the internet. The internet was hard in 1996. I can drop a five on Coinbase and get Bitcoin, but I don't want to because it is stupid.
Dynamic languages aren't untyped. BCPL was untyped. Python will complain loudly about type errors.
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Your musings here are legitimate, so long as you recognize your feelings as a single datapoint and don't mistake them for a general trend, or extrapolate them to the wider population.

As a counterpoint, I don't know of any friends or close acquaintances who would consider feminism or femininity a dirty word. To me, it's a fairly straightforward proposition:

Q: Are you pro- women having equal rights to men w.r.t. social structures, family responsibilities, economic opportunities, etc.?

A: Yes?

Q: And are you willing to take a second look at your social and professional conduct to make sure it doesn't put your female peers in difficult, awkward or uncomfortable positions?

A: Sure, why wouldn't I.

Hooray! you might be a feminist, it's not that hard.

Also, personally don't see what's wrong with unisex products, and I think it may be possible companies might possibly occasionally find the odd not-shitty cause they can back because their employees collectively believe in the positive message and that also aligns well with their goals, and not solely because of a small group of cynical PR managers running focus groups.
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> I think it would have been better to have every body just learn english as their second (computer usage) language.

Hmm... it might not be well known to the western world, but AFAIK most parts of the world learns English as their second language.
At least East Asia learns English pervasively throughout your life. We start learning English when we're five.

But still, English is not the only language, and we want to communicate with other people.
Just that people can use English doesn't mean they prefer English & Latin characters to communicate.
You can't just er... force people use Latin characters for the sake of programmers' comfort.
Will you use your terminal if the terminal demands you to press space & backspace everytime when you're typing in English characters?
> :why

> Because Devdas uses vimperator with Google?? I don't think they mix well. Devdas, you should try this instead.

I'm not sure this was ever intended to be more than just a quick project. It breaks because parsing has a lot of edge cases, and this was done quickly.
In most cases like this, the affiliation is that of former user with fond memories.
Whatever device you typed that on is just as much of a polluter as some cars.
Right, but would those people want to own it if they didn't also expect the value to increase?
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I’m afraid I have to agree. Cool technology, but it seems like the sort of thing that would keep you second guessing yourself and promote the mediocrities of bikeshedding and design by committee.
Our brains don't solely work on neurons. There was a neuroscience video with 3-4 prominent people in the field dispensing of the idea that brains are computers. They squirt fluids around, it is an unknown. There are plenty of things about existence that physics does not capture.

Frankly I'm not saying ml is programmed in, only the initial conditions are, which is where the meaning is. We have hired a lot of low income earners to classify images for image recognition, which is the outsourcing of discerning meaning from the CPU to the he human. These kind of broad discussions don't go anywhere here, I should go somewhere more philosophical.
It sucks so much! I tried typing but apparently was typing too fast and more than half of the letters didn't appear on the screen?
I've programmed dynamically typed langs (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, JS) and statically typed langs (C, Java, Dart). I've worked on teams for projects that grew and matured, and my experience has been that strong typing and static analysis help prevent code defects that are common in dynamic langs. The tradeoffs can be well worth it for some kinds of larger team based projects.
Look, "autopilot" works on highways, where there is a median. Everything goes the same direction, and there is a minimal amount of clutter.

Its about as easy as driving gets. This is why a level 2 "autopilot" can parade around the place as something that is both innovate and safe.

None of the data compares what happens at junctions, which is where the majority of crashes happen.

It cannot work in suburban sprawl, It can't cope with poor weather, it can only drive on highways.
Really appreciate this post. But I’ve gotta admit that I CTRL-Fed it for ligatures in bidirectional text and Czech accents and found no result...and couldn’t figure out whether I was happy or sad about that.
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Kaitai Looks interesting and rich. Thou I don’t get the license gpl3 for the compiler and MIT for the runtime, you can use the runtime without the compiler ? Why split them up licensing wise
Yes I find myself doing this unofficially like over lunch or just randomly bringing something up and discussing as they are normally sitting in close proximity.
I haven’t tried this yet, but I’m excited to see it! I used to use SoundFlower to route audio between applications, but it was not working when I last tried it a year or so ago. This looks like A 1:1 replacement.
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Yes definitely. I was involved in a project where we used Postgrest on top of a layered database. Postgrest served an api-schema consisting only of views where some had instead-of triggers needed for updates and inserts of data. Some functions and procedures were also present in the api-schema. The tables were kept in a separate data-schema and considered a private implementation detail in the same way one would do it with a more traditional architecture. During development we used tools like https://sqitch.org/ and https://pgtap.org/ to do schema-evolution and unit-testing.

The reason for these architectural choices was that we had a need to connect database-only clients such as https://qgis.org/ as well as web-front ends and wanted to route all requests and updates through the same logic. I think it worked out quite well. We were able to do quite heavy https://postgis.net/ lifting in the views with good performance.

Of course the tooling feels rather primitive during editing, but the round-trip and deployment is fast. Unit tests run faster than you might expect even with rollbacks and loading of test data between each test.
This is what I do too.
However if you look at some of Fitbit's competitors the battery life is an order of magnitude better. Wondering what Fitbit is doing to make it drop so much in comparison. Lots of more features?
How do you tip the delivery guy then?
It's easy for me to write something in Russian, I just hire a Russian translator for me.

That is, "convert time into time in seconds since the epoch" is the hard part. All you've done is make it someone else's problem, while the question Skeet answered asked specifically about the time difference between 1927-12-31 23:54:08 and 1927-12-31 23:54:09 in Singapore.
That’s not taking time zones into consideration, so might be off by an arbitrary amount of hours/minutes.
SourceHuts design can be described as utilitarian. It's there to serve a purpose but it incredibly boring and emotionless. For a source code hosting platform this is fine but utilitarian is not what you want every UI to be.
The title is actively wrong. The tweet linked, and the news article it links to, both finger PG&E's voluntary power shutoff as the reason the cell towers are down. They are not down because of fire, they're down because PG&E decided they shouldn't be up.

> Of the 874 outages, 702 were blamed on loss of power to the cell tower site.

> A few, about 60, were down due to wind or fire damage to the sites themselves.
Good to see improvement, but is this controlled for the fact that autopilot is mostly on highways? I'm not sure what the crash rate per mile is on the highway vs driving in a city.
I disagree. It needs to be absolutely perfect, not just safer than the average driver.
In that case surely you'd agree that there are hardly any compilers in wide use these days - more often than not the first step of a modern compiler is translation into a similar but less expressive intermediate language.

Or does it only count as "transpilation" if the intermediate representation is an already existing language, thus making the distincion purely based on the history of a language, not the implementation?
Wait, static snow on old TV is cosmic microwave background radiation?
And just months ago California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection decided:
"However, with constantly changing technological advances, there is no longer the same benefit to State as previously provided. Therefore, the Department no longer financially supports HAM operators [sic] radios or tenancy. If you desire to enter into a formal agreement to operate and maintain said equipment, you must complete and submit attached collocation application along with fee as outlined on page one of application. There is cost associated with getting an agreement in place.”

So basically pay up or move out.

How exactly is the word supposed to get out in dangerous dry windy conditions if the power is out, the cells are out, and the hams move out?
This happened to me recently as well... but it's not surprising(given FB's actions with their subsidiary apps)

Good thing I deleted anything Facebook related a while back.
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> I use macOS & Linux, and while the default text handling system called Cocoa Text System in macOS handles input methods well, almost all applications that implement it’s own, like big apps like Eclipse and Firefox, don’t get this right.

What specific IME problems do you have with Firefox on Mac?

> On Linux, it’s terrifying; I’ve never seen any app that allows input systems to work naturally, and after a week of use you get used to pressing space & backspace after finishing every Hangul word.

Do you mean you have to press space twice and erase the second space? With IBus?
Or, as we've seen in many benchmarks, AMD's SMT implementation gets much higher gains than Intel's.
Oh god that's both hilarious and sad at the same time. Maybe Apple should contract Microsoft to write their own documentation for them?
https://oeis.org/A028444 would grow faster right?

does it make sense to compare the growth rates of non-computable functions?
Nice does it support piping results to firefox?
Usually you pay the memory locality price twice too, once for the index and once for the actual data, especially in OO languages. Thankfully fitting in main ram has never been an issue for me, but I've seen the results when some of those fetches are in a database or external memory cache.
it allows people who can not get a bank account with reasonable terms to make monetary transfers.

This is really pretty much a solved issue since 2007, at least in big parts of Africa. And with none of the bad whiff and dodginess, which inevitable comes with just about any crypto currency scheme.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
> How exactly is the word supposed to get out in dangerous dry windy conditions if the power is out, the cells are out, and the hams move out?

Smoke signals
While it sounds nice to me too (and neither am I a native English speaker), apparently there was a bit of misunderstanding in another comment, and possibly here too: I rather wonder about a hypothetical more efficient (and computing-oriented) writing system, not just/necessarily/only using monospace latin characters. It doesn't seem very realistic that something like that would happen (judging by the mess that are date formats and units of measurement, which seem much easier to fix), but observing the complexity that doesn't come from fundamental constraints, it's hard to not wonder about that.
For decades I've been saying that all text input should go through OS-level IMEs (input method editors). For more complex scripts, the need is obvious, but even writing in English, we can get great benefits from a system that expands abbreviations, replaces easy-to-type sequences with proper Unicode chars, runs little scripts and inserts the output, gives you quick dictionary/thesaurus lookups, gives you emmet-style powers, etc., whenever you're writing and in any app.

Of course, everyone's preferences will be different, so you'll get default IMEs with default configs, but with the idea that you can reconfigure or replace them entirely with systems that work the way you want to work everywhere you input text. There have been utilities that do this sort of things for decades, but they've always been treated as clever hacks rather than standard text input.

In other words, instead of powerful text input methods being the exception, they would be the rule, and apps that didn't use them would be the exception.
I know that many parts of the world including Asia learn english, thats why I think it should be used as the langua franca, and thats why I said, that I don't care which language it is, as long as it doesn't have weird ligatures or a large amount of characters.
For what it's worth I'd remove all characters that are not from that "computer language" including the german ones.

This is more than programmer convenience, this is about system simplicity, absolute correctness (too many bugs because of unicode and complex layouting) and above all about _forcing_ people to use said lingua franca to become comfortable speaking it.

If you want your own writing system, fine, but put the effort in and build it yourself apart from the common bug free code base that the world shares, it should be less buggy overall anyways, than a system which tries to speak every language and support every writing system.
Well.. there is the AGPL.
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It's not that your browser doesn't support JS, it's that loading an entire js framework and running mountains of code is so slow. So now we are all bogged down with slow websites for something that could be lightning fast
> I don't want a private owned platform that as far as today plays a huge role in being a place for the public discourse to regulate speech.

You also have to remember that part of speech is the fact that I won't be using a platform that deliberately enabled dis/mis-information.

There's also a clear case to make against allowing explicitly false things being run as ads.

If something is provably false I have no problem with them blocking it. There are not free speech arguments to be made here. There's no benefit to allowing it.
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Wow what a reliable source blaming checks notes spending on green energy for a company choosing to not maintain its completely unrelated equipment and leading to these failures.
>even if the failure rate is on average /better/

Which has not been true thus far. That's the problem.

> The driverless bar for safety is way higher than very clever driver assistance or even rocket science.

Why shouldn't it be higher? Why shouldn't it be on the level of airline travel?
Yeah, I could draw this same analogy about gun control or anything else. That's a very narrow action-reaction paradigm though.

I'd argue the outcome is because we don't directly see the effect of the poor who lose their home (and if we do see poor people "it was probably their own fault"). If you could observe the outcome directly (which would require one to dive into the specific subject), I'd wager you'd have either compassion, or you'd be among the exceptional 1% of psychopaths in the world.

By keeping it abstract and non-personal, we are able to cope with such tragedy.
> (experienced people leaving)

This has me curious on how much of the Management style of Andy Grove is still alive inside intel. Do they change the company culture and _want_ these people to leave or was it mismanagement?
The math just isn't close to a 40% per-core lead in literally any single test let alone that being representative across the board.

Real-world, AMD is still losing in per-core performance on average. Close, sometimes tying, sometimes leading, but not leading by 40%.

Again: we already know what Zen2 performance looks like.
Cascade Lake-X is basically Skylake-X+, a new stepping with some tweaks and (much) higher clocks. These are not new products when it comes to expected performance.

It's straightforward to see that 40% per-core lead is purely wishful thinking from the AMD set here. Don't get your hopes up, you'll just crash the hype train yet again.

I don't know why the hype train is such a thing for the AMD crowd, this spring it was supposed 5.1 GHz and 6C12T for $99 and that crashed into the brick wall of reality hard too.