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I don't think centralization automatically becomes the status quo.

The reason why we have the current centralization of amazon, facebook, github etc is because the web as we are currently using it has centralization built in: A browser always connect to a fixed server. But that is not god-given, we created it that way 25 years ago, and we could allow additional other ways. A browser could instead also be connecting to a generalized service for selling, communicating etc.

Another way how this could be changed: We could bypass centralization by ensuring that a webpage on ones device can aggregate many services, by emulating visiting other websites in the background, and we make sure that those sites will not be able to find out that are are not being called directly as the main address, but will only be giving out their data. For that, we would have to remove current Cross-domain requests restrictions.
I think people aren't as aware of how power intensive showers are as maybe they should be. It takes roughly 10kw to provide a decent instant hot water shower. That's roughly the output of 40 domestic solar panels at 100% capacity. Of course you can buffer this with a battery bank but getting 10kw worth of inverter is non-trivial and the hit that a battery bank would take from providing that power would be challenging.

Taken another way it's the same amount of energy as it required to propel a scooter or small motorcycle along at 50mph.

How many people start their showers several minutes before the are actually ready to step into them?
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I love the idea, being aware that long showers are detrimental to our planet and all!

However, IMHO, there are things we could do that would impact energy savings on a 100x scale compared to showering with a mist shower. First thing that comes to mind, those hundreds of big offices in every city, that keep their lights on, on every floor (!!), every single night.
That's more of a memory bottleneck though.
You've approached this as if you're concerned that someone will take away your shower. You could also view this article as saying "hey, look at this low-cost and low-resource-intensity way to make luxurious daily showers accessible to more people!"

There's a huge number of people around the world who want better lives, the true challenge of the environmental crisis is how that can be delivered without trashing nature (and maybe inadvertently destroying our own civilisation).
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Sadly, I'm afraid you're right.

I love my 1920X for making a modern desktop snappy. I hate Discord, chrome et. al for needing one.
I would say it is the first 16-core "consumer chip", since every other 16-core chip has either been HEDT-class or server-grade, both requiring expensive motherboards. I would be happy to try plopping this into my B450 motherboard from my 2700X. I'm happy with my current NVMe storage, which is just about the only thing that takes advantage of the extra bandwidth. Graphics cards aren't there yet.
The best book I had to read in college was called "Madumo: A Man Bewitched". It's by an anthropologist who befriended a man in South Africa named Madumo. Madumo was a young man from a very poor family living in Suweto and he was working on going to college when the author met him.

At some point Madumo became "cursed" according to a local shaman and all of this misfortune started to befall him. All of his friends and family believed that the curse was real. He believed that the curse was real. A series of shamans took his money and prescribed him increasingly outrageous cures for the curse, not unlike the treatments described in this article.

The author's main question was, is the magic real? Isn't it real if everyone believes in it, and if everybody's actions are constrained by it? How can we honestly call something like that "not real"?

My question is, do we really believe that we in the west are immune to this kind of behavior? Have we really escaped the clutches of witch magic and shamanism just because we have high-technology things like the internet, particle colliders, atom bombs?

Maybe this is a part of human nature that will never go away. Maybe people will always snort rhinocerous horns for stronger erections and drink essential oils to get rid of their cancer. We think we're super modern but is it true? No matter how much "science education" spread by the likes of Niell DeGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye, is it possibly that we will we always find ourselves possessed by curses, demons, aliens, parasites?

If you're interested in this kind of thing I also recommend the book "Techgnosis" by Erik Davis, which brilliantly explores techno-magic and shamanism.
The alternatives I’d consider are a line chart and a bump chart.

https://observablehq.com/@d3/multi-line-chart
https://observablehq.com/@jonsadka/scatterplot

A bar chart race is in many ways “worse” than a static chart. The bar chart race forces you to wait for the animation to finish, whereas a static chart shows you everything simultaneously, and lets you look forward or backward in time by just moving your eyes. This can be generalized to say that a well-designed static chart is often better than an interactive or animated chart, since in the static chart, everything is visible up-front.

But in the same way that a good visual hierarchy directs the reader’s attention and simplifies a complex interface, bar chart races (and animations more generally) are effective at getting the viewer to watch the race as it originally played out, from start to finish. Time in the data is represented as real time, so you’re only able to see a single moment in time.

So bar chart races are probably worse for most perceptual tasks, but as a storytelling device, they are (seemingly) quite effective.
That trend toward centralization and aggregation is mirrored in wealth, influence, and matter. Barring outside intervention, returns on capital will outpace returns on industry, businesses will monopolize, and water will flow downhill.

Because it is so natural, those who would oppose these forces are motivated to do unnatural things like blog, protest, legislate, regulate... Governments redistribute wealth, hold antitrust hearings, and people write blog posts like this one. I agree with you, unless we find a way to fundamentally alter incentives, effort spent toward decentralizing is effort spent swimming upstream. Of course even in streams that eventually end up in the sea, there's a lot of activity in eddies.
Yeah, since about 14nm the nanometer number has become kind of like CPU speed (mhz/ghz) became in the early-mid 1990s and for the same reason.

Long ago you could say e.g. a 600mhz CPU was faster than a 500mhz CPU. Then things like instruction level parallelism and other significant optimizations started and you had lower-core-speed CPUs that would in practice be quite a bit faster than higher-core-speed CPUs. Today a 1.6ghz mobile chip is far faster than a 2.4ghz earlier generation Pentium-4 for example, at least for most workloads.

My understanding is that chip fab processes have developed similar numbers of devils in details. It's not just about the smallest feature size but lots of other things like materials, transistor types, layout, power density, etc. I've heard that Intel's 14nm processes are comparable to other fabs' 10nm processes for instance.

Still this 7nm node is better than what Intel is currently shipping.
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I don't understand the obsession with sending civilization back to the stone age for the sake of "sustainability". I like hot showers. I would rather focus on new technology that makes producing fresh hot water in abundance nearly free and with minimal impact to the environment.
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Does Google actually fabricate these somewhere in-house or is it more of a Google designs the chips and then outsources the production to company x?
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> They plan to get around data caps through degrading the game assets

What could Google do in this case, avoid degrading the game assets and let the user go over their data caps?

They're simply doing what they can to avoid being blamed for overage fees, which isn't really their fault but the ISPs.
It could be a long time. Bluetooth has been around for a good while and still has tons of "growing pains."
We already have negative interest rates in practice for savers in the USA
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That's not true. The spec allows it but currently, there's no chip that supports it.
Lackluster compared to Disney's expectations.

I think it's somewhat absurd too, but part of the point being made in the conversation around this article is that Disney isn't taking risks or making decisions based on creative output -- they're very, very aggressively following market trends. Their first Star Wars release was one of their highest grossing films in something like a decade, but one bad showing from Solo and suddenly Disney is cutting back on yearly releases.

They want movies that are safe and predictable. They want to know before they even start production not just that the film will break even, but that it will make a LOT of money. Clearly based on their own statements, they don't feel that confident about a yearly Star Wars release.
I hope this isn't a bad sign for the future of 1Password. I've been a customer as a consumer for about ten years, and my team has been using it for four years.

The nice thing about them is that they have always had a great consumer product (and the teams product has also been excellent). Since they didn't need to take on the funding, I wonder if having a fund on board will result in focussing on the wrong things (e.g. growth-at-all-costs).
To summarize, centralization allows certain efficiencies that are not permitted in decentralized systems, and those efficiencies have value. Of course, decentralization itself also has value, so the question in any given circumstance is, "what balance between efficiency and decentralized robustness do I need?"
I admire the passion the author has for mist shower tech, but the "carbon footprint" is a tough argument, especially since we spend so much water "showering" our lawns/yards.[0] That "rain showers" faucet looks pretty slick and I think I might upgrade to that.

[0] Landscaping is the second largest component of water consumption in California at 9% of total use. https://priceonomics.com/california-lawn-watering-economics/
Peers of the field can consider the correct motivation an important requirement as you hypothesize with the pursuit of truth. Also the quantity of work can be important to some, i.e. how much do you have to sing until you're a singer? Not clear at all, especially when considering all the actors in Hollywood who dream of being successful. People might say they suck, but I haven't encountered criticism that wants to strip them of the title actor.

Overall I think it comes down to popular opinion, which can be fuzzy and doesn't apply the same rules to everyone. If enough people say someone is a dancer, then they are a dancer, even if they suck and don't dance that much. This applies to basically all titles that cross institution boundaries. Another great example is countries. Popular opinion determines which organizations are countries, not a strict definition. For example the EU vs places like Iceland or San Marino. [1]

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lj127TKu4Q
How exactly does it have little to do with it? They aren't just doing this because they feel like it, they are doing it because it is immensely profitable, especially in the advertising industry. It is a feature of capitalism that where there exists demand for something and a profitable way of doing it is discovered, industry will arise to reap those profits.
There is no evidence (and actually evidence to the contrary) that a plant based diet can provide all essential nutrients.

Sounds like you watched Game Changers on Netflix and now that's your knowledge. None of that was scientific at all and full of inaccuracies.

All the athletes mentioned saw their performance go down after adopting a plant based diet.

There are virtual no athletes at the top of their sport who got there on a plant based diet (plenty who started on animal and then moved to plant, but you will see their performance drop).

Animals are needed to fight climate change. Without them the soils would have no nutrients. It's a symbiotic relationship. They eat plant matter we can't. Grown on areas that we couldn't grow stuff. So they are vital to supplement our food. Going plant based would be a huge ecological disaster.
> the sysadmin doesn't need to learn how the container was built just to manage services or deploy new instances

I disagree on that point.

Just taking a docker image from a developer and deploying that to production does not work to well in my experience, and guess who gets the support calls when things break?

If a sysadmin gets a say in how the container images are configured, it usually works out much better.

Also partitioning the filesystem to avoid dependency clashes used to be more important when I used rack mounted servers. Now it's easy enough to deploy separate cloud instances to partition things. And it's a real VM with real tools on it so I can diagnose problems if they arise.
bioavailability of nutrients is a very neglected topic when people discuss nutrition.

Most Dr. I've spoken to aren't even aware that iron from animal sources is far more available than from plants (the consequence being that my wife was able to avoid the iron containing pre-natal vitamin, which causes her nausea, after blood work confirmed her iron levels were great)
Increased comfort in exchange for increased risk of fatal lung disease sounds like a bad trade-off to me. I think I'll stick with the Navy shower technique, which is already comfortable enough so long as the shower room isn't too cold.
I quickly looked over your GH pages for examples and didn’t see anything beyond the link to your personal blog, which you note hasn’t been updated in a year and a half.

Maybe making a post on that blog about how you use your own software would make more people interested in your project? Plus it can act as documentation.

It would greatly reduce the friction people have trying out something new to see it being actively used.
Some random thoughts on centralization vs decentralization. In theory, IPv6 allows every human, pet, alien and robot to have an address. Each address can host let's say the following services

1. info - dns

2. data transfer - ftp/http/p2p/...

3. communication - email/voip/...

4. entertainment - game server/media server/...

Right now the biggest problems with decentralisation are

1. ownership of hardware

2. assigning of address and interfacing with the network.

3. configuration and setup of services

4. scalability of the service

5. using decentralized stuff for illegal activities

I think 2 and 3 is the biggest win improving decentralized services and getting rid of facebook and the like. Why are two and 3 still hard? This will also make decentralized services appealing to normal folks. The biggest challenge to making decentralized services mainstream is 5.

Hardware is manufactured by a few monopolies and they impose some restrictions and tracking abilities. The assigning of an address is done by the telecom and they have some rules, regulations and tracking abilities. Each country right now is setting up new rules and regulations for the data that comes into it. As configuring and the setting up of stuff is hard we once again have a few major services. The illegal activity makes decentralized services seem like the wild west and centralized services seem like stable societies. The spirit of legality is to ensure fairness but when that doesn't happen people turn to decentralized mediums to express themselves.
I'm broke so it makes things a lot easier.
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I'd say it should be designed for being able to put a phone in your pocket while connected to a charger and engaging in sports. That sounds like a perfectly normal consumer-friendly feature, and consumers will do it anyway. Putting it in a backpack means you cannot easily look at it.

The solution is fairly simple -- the /housing/ around the plug needs to be standardized and have a snug fit into the housing of the phone. That would relieve strain on the connector or contact.

I really don't understand why people are downvoting me here. I thought downvoting was to deal with trolls and abusers. When did people start downvoting people they disagree with? That discourages meaningful discussion.
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Nice. I've tried searching for it before but clearly didn't get the right combination of keywords. Mostly I've found people using the waste water to pre-heat the supply (which itself is a good idea but doesn't solve the water capacity problem).
The only link I could find was from Cher Scarlett[1] who got banned from Lunduke's Patreon comments and got mined for gold here on HN in a different comment.

So Charles Wood was defending John with a liberal pro-speech "see where he's coming from" attitude. From what little I've seen, John seems like an outright inflammatory troll against cancel culture and SJWs.

It's clear then that Charles is against cancel culture and SJWs, and he is willing to be in a foxhole with someone like John. He does not make a good case for his position for failing to understand what that cancel crowd is taking offense to.

This whole situation also segued all the way from someone mocking semantics HTML, which prompted a conversation about the toxicity in programming where an unrelated person commented in a very naive manner that made black people upset that their experiences seemed like they were being marginalized. (One of them brought up the anecdote of a Nigerian programmer who didn't complain about walking 5 miles for water to the point where his fingers were too numb for typing.)

This whole phenomenon is a clusterfk that's spiraled out of control between differing philosophical perspectives getting reciprocal fuel for their flame wars. It seems like cable news tier of conversations where people ultimately argue around the core issue of a broken society and economic system that disregards social justice and fairness for profit.

As a side note, I'm not a fan of Lunduke either. I appreciated his Why Linux Sucks talks, but I quickly unsubscribed from his channel when he drags me into these culture war stuff I don't want to get dragged into when I want to learn about Linux.

[1] https://medium.com/@cherp/propaganda-other-lies-we-tell-4325...
Password managers are still very clunky, and only part of a broader personal cyber security landscape.

I hope they are working towards a more holistic approach for personal security (encrypted drives, cloud backup, monitoring, most things are still very difficult for anyone but prosumer to manager).
It makes sense that there's a filter you have to change, but I don't see a lot of information on what the filter is other than an offer to get on a six month subscription service for it, presuming it's a disposable. Hopefully it's not some locked-in proprietary thing, at any rate.

Love the design, though— could definitely picture installing this or something like it in a future bathroom reno.
There's a lot of things wrong with raising a kid in Vancouver, but as a Canadian living in less benign parts of the country, what do you need a coat for in Vancouver??
It's just a question of regulation. I was under the impression, correct me if I'm wrong, that USB-C is the result of regulation as well.
I miss being able to reach the upper half of my phone's screen with one hand. We've normalized it a lot now, but compared to older smartphone generations it is downright awkward to hold a phone today.

But I don't really miss flip phones per se. Just smaller smartphones. The galaxy s4 was around the upper limit of how big I'd like my phone to be.
I got one of these for just the 2 DisplayPort outputs:

https://smile.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Thunderbolt-DisplayPo...

Then bought one of these from a coworker for $40 to drive all the other ports. I've been pretty lucky. (all being driven by a 2018 macbook pro)

https://smile.amazon.com/Docking-Station-Laptop-Power-Delive...

The first dongle is driving 2 Dell 23" 1080 screens, my 27" 4K screen is driven directly by a thunderbolt to displayport cable, and all my USB stuff goes through the second dongle. It works really well so far, and I have an upgrade path for 2 more 4K screens with the Cable Matters dongle.

Yours is an all-in-one that really looks nice though. How warm does it get?
I had 24 core workstation 5 years ago for price of this single chip. Refurbished server...
That's fair - looks like you need LGA 2066 for the Intel chips with those core counts, which aren't terribly expensive ($150+) but it's hard to find exactly which motherboards support something like the i9-9960X.

Running a 2700X in an X470 but this is 3x the price of that chip, and personally, I won't get the necessary benefit. Still pleased to see exploding CPU power in the past few years!
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> How do you suppose that electricity is to be generated?

Without use of oil, which would make that electricity cheaper. Wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, geothermal...
I do not think that this works.
I imagine that all the little mist ports would almost immediately clog with lime scale, and the shower would quickly be reduced to utter uselessness.
My personal "Aha!" moment about this was in front of an old Zuse Z5 in a museum with a block diagram of the CPU hanging next to it. That diagram showed which bits toggled which functional unit within the CPU. The comtrol panel on the operator desk had the same bit labels on the data input buttons. This early machine had no modern instruction decoder at all. Each bit in an instruction word was used directly.

This becomes wasteful when the number of functional units grows and not all bit combinations are reasonable. So the next reasonable thing to do is to introduce a lookup table from shorter coded instructions to the actual control bit patterns.

The CPU in this video adds an internal step counter that allows splitting an instruction over multiple cycles with a different control word for each cycle.

Modern CPUs are probably conceptually similar, but much more complex. Optimizations like pipelining and multiple ALUs make the whole decoding and checking process more complex and more dynamic.
It’s always impressive to watch how good my dog is at anticipating the position of the ball way ahead of time.

If I decide to kick it, he reads my body language scarily well to figure out what direction it will probably go, and will adjust his position way ahead of time. If I throw it at a wall he will run to where the angle will put the ball after it bounces. If I throw it high in the air he knows where to run almost immediately (again using my body language to know where I might be trying to throw it.). He’s very hard to fool, too, and will learn quickly to not commit to a particular direction too quickly if it looks like I’m faking a throw.

I always feel like he’d make a great soccer goalie if he had a human body.
Yet another sustainable and useful business that'll be undone by Venture Capital. They've had sustainable growth with the support of paying customers who truly love the product, and now they'll be on the path to 100x and/or bust in <5 years.

I hope they'll re-release the standalone version before the last person out switches off the servers.