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Science fiction is my favorite genre and have enjoyed a lot of Stephenson. I think that Snow Crash could be great as an HBO production and when it does well we can see Cryptonomicon, the Diamond Age, and others follow.

I can't wait to see the Raven character..
People love to hate David Foster Wallace. The irony is palpable when reading critics of his writing; they at times perfectly channel Wallace in their very critique of him. Heck, I was accosted (well, maybe the recipient of a snide remark) on the subway in Boston while I was reading a DFW novel on my commute. The person said that only coddled, white suburban men read his work -- when I am none of those things and sitting right on front of the person. I immediately forgave the cynic, though, once I caught a peek of their Boston University sweater hidden inside the crevasse of a parka's open zipper. :)

David Foster Wallace is the embodiment of a particular 20th and 21st century zeitgeist, and one that if you read between the lines, predicts all the ailments we will be facing in the decades ahead.
TypeErrors are just not a problem that I need a compiler to solve for me.
The middle class makes up most of the tax payer population. You can't tax income at the top and expect much unless you added 20%.
There's a Johnny Mnemonic movie, but unfortunately it's not very good.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was quite effective until its leadership were unlawfully replaced with partisan hacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protection_...

One big federal problem with antitrust and other corporate–related law is that we have now had an unbroken half century of “conservative” domination of the US Supreme Court. Over that time consumer, worker, citizen, and small-business friendly interpretations of a wide variety of laws have been steadily replaced by interpretations friendly to wealthy/corporate interests.

That control should have been broken after Scalia died but the GOP-controlled Senate broke with any pretense of good faith or respect for norms or precedent and refused to allow even a moderate compromise candidate to come to a Senate confirmation vote. After regaining control of the presidency the Senate then eliminated the filibuster so it could force radical GOP ideologues through onto the bench.

> I'm not sure it's even possible anymore for the government to be functional at any deeper level.

This is absurd. The US civil service is full of highly competent experts without whom we would all be exposed to grave risks every day. They do their work conscientiously and seriously, largely out of the spotlight.

Let me recommend you read Michael Lewis’s book The Fifth Risk, or at least listen to one of these interviews about it:

https://www.scpr.org/programs/fresh-air/2018/10/02/65410/

https://cafe.com/stay-tuned-what-is-the-fifth-risk-with-mich...
Yes and no.

ITER will be first device to produce more heat energy than put in, but it won't be generating any electricity. [1]
It will instead be used to make research on, so we can plan the next project, codenamed DEMO.

DEMO will produce net energy, but still be experimental, for designing final version of a commercial fusion power plant.
And that commercial plant is aimed to be working by 2050. [2]

ITER is rather looked upon as risk-free and certain way to fusion, whereas startups... are startups.
IMHO, we need both approaches.

Also there are many more fusion startups than General Fusion, here are some to follow:

- Tokamak Energy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuSlFJbBUIj1zfJLRnGXSow
- LPP Fusion: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiBditpj7sdROMYz02qoCMQ
- TAE Technologies: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-LHpK7z8vjMq2-pt4wG4ug
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems: https://cfs.energy
- First Light Fusion: https://firstlightfusion.com

1: https://www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines
2: https://www.iter.org/mag/3/22
I always loved that about them. Not all sci-fi needs to crawl into its own navel and reveal the condition of Man. Sometimes it can just create and explore a fantastic universe.
You're very optimistic, thinking it's an era and not a deeply human and permanent aspect of society.
I think it's more like "fuck sitting on the train for 40 minutes next to someone who is laying across a row of seats literally covered in their own waste." If you ever get onto a crowded BART and see a conspicuously unoccupied area, don't be tempted to venture near it.

It's certainly not a judgment of that person. It's just not how you want to spend your commute. Clearly that person is not healthy, and the entire situation is not healthy for anyone.
For me its infrequent and unpredictable bus timings, limited bus stops, long travel times. If I took buses to work it would take 1-1.5 hours to reach my work. When I drive, it takes 30-45min. And the bus is available only once an hour during peak hours.
Your third point doesn't seem that hilarious to me. What is wrong with a UI that is constantly trying to predict what is best for you? It doesn't necessarily mean that the flux will be chaotic or unwanted. I can imagine a UI which changes slightly based on how difficult it is for me to find what I am looking for. Not one which changes so often that it is it's own problem, but one which changes often enough to reduce some of the pain points in my workflows.
'Clean Meat' is my preferred nomenclature when describing it to people. They seem more open to it than anything else.
At the very least he could have worked on his delivery since this process repeated itself for years.
Really? I first read it on a Kindle and it was totally infuriating. The jumping is not very convenient, certainly not anywhere near as fast as two bookmarks.
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IIRC, she was calling Hiro from a public Metaverse terminal. Later in the book, it was a huge for him when he had a big enough line of credit to afford the equivalent of a cell phone along with his motorcycle.
Microsoft products get supported basically forever. But they're not cool/trendy.
Yes, everyone could and will go down at one point or another. Are you saying that your in-house team can manage infrastructure equally well or better than these big public Cloud vendors?
They have thousands of site reliability engineers, don't they?

The crux of this is how do you compare in managing site reliability. Perhaps you have a world class team you could do that better than yes my point there is moot. But 99% of the time, it's not.
I thought it worked better in shorter formats though. (And I was a huge Niven fan.)
To the contrary, I think that bringing it up along with references that demonstrate why its false helps inoculate people against it.
I think it's pretty common to refer to a single body of water in plural form. Probably because it's so massive or maybe just due to the nature of liquid. For example: sailing the waters; a ship got caught in the stormy seas; etc.
Also, a user may conceivably want to convert diesel equipment to be electric.
"Government manipulation"
So are some marriages
> but they are now pivoting more for virtual meetings and business use it looks.

I feel like they tried that before and a room full of literal flying penises ended that experiment just as quickly as it started.
Labor market participation rate is not a great measure. Look at the breakdown of changes in labor market participation by age: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-particip...

From 1998 to 2018 participation dropped just 2 points for those age 25-54. That is projected to stay stable through 2028. It went up for those 55+. The only place it dropped significantly was 16-24. I.e. our society is richer and we can afford to have more young adults spend their early 20s binge drinking instead of working.

As to disability—it’s hard to tell whether increasing numbers of people on disability is good or bad. If the government has simply gotten more generous and allowing more people with real problems to draw disability, that’s not a bad thing.
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Isn’t the problem that all of our mutual funds just keep buying Boeing stock no matter what bad things happen?
Dr. Brizendine's books are hyperbolic pseudoscience.

I stopped taking "The Female Brain" seriously when I read the stuff about how young men think about sex once a minute and young women think about it once every couple of days. Both those numbers are pretty ridiculous :^)

And indeed, none of the papers she cited contain any evidence to support that statement. Source: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003668.h...
Good! I like Southwest and would hate to have them off the table as an option for some of my travel.
My Amazon delivery was pretty strange. I had an unknown number call my phone 2-3 times in a row (dumped to voicemail) then a few minutes later a frantic knocking on my door. It's two guys who were out of breath, they handed the package to me, and then jogged away down the apartment hallway.

I think I ordered socks or something... I couldn't care less. It was jarring, just leave the package in the lobby and send me a delivery notification... geez. Prefer FedEx over that experience.
Actually Ontrac is the worst.
Modern day razors are very safe and the worst that could happen is a clipped ear or a scratched scalp. Messy yes but hardly deadly. Just remember to restrict the movement state space of the arm so it can never be in front you (don't want it near eyes).
I think our best hope is a multi-pronged approach that includes reusing the output (as you suggest), as well as reducing the output. This has a dramatically better chance of overall success than any single-pronged approach.

As such, I heartily endorse your 'how do we make use of that?' attitude, but I also will never agree with your assertion that our best hope is to accept it as a new norm, or to accept it's a losing battle.

It's just like how in business you want to get new customers, but you also want to reduce costs. Any company that chooses to care about only one of those things is doomed in the long-run.
I've been hearing it called "Shmeat" since almost 2008. Appears that word has been given a new definition since then.
But when people's health and safety are immediately threatened I find it difficult to argue that people who are able to shouldn't avoid the threats.
Blogspam of https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/14/snow-crash-tv-series-hbo... which is itself blogspam of https://deadline.com/2019/12/snow-crash-sci-fi-drama-series-...
> I'm pretty curious what would satisfy you in terms of a modern day business model for aircraft manufacturers and airlines, so if you would care to write out your thoughts I would definitely be grateful.

A little competition would go a long way. This market is wholley owned by two company oligopoly that employs the sons and daughters and sons-in-laws and daughters-in-laws of the senators and chairmen and vice-chairmen and acting-deputy-vice-chairpersons directly or indirectly through their boards and law firms and non-profit chairmanships and god knows what else, so the regulatory capture you mention is a metaphysical certitude. I know of two remaining solutions; a GULAG system or competition. The former is worse than the problem so I dream of the latter. War use to serve as a means to break these ice jams, but that's pretty much obviated today given nukes.

BTW, this view applies to far more than aircraft manufacturers and operators. Pretty much every damn 'problem' you can name in the modern world is a consequence of the same structural dysfunction.

That's the best I can afford to do with my time.
Your comment is true about most languages, but false about Lisp.

Lisp has no compile time vs run time distinction. It only has lists. What is done with a list depends on what the first thing in the list is determined to be:

1. Function - evaluate the arguments then pass it to the function.

2. Macro - manipulate the list according to the macro and then get another list.

3. Special Form - follow the special rules for the special form. (The list of special forms varies from Lisp to Lisp, and are the elementary building blocks from which the language was built.)

In Lisp, macros are advertised as code operating on itself, because that is exactly what they are. And yes, they are exactly that cool.
That would penalize the national statistics for the dysfunctional laws and policies of a handful of localities.
You have to be more pacific.
Thanks! That is helpful.

Yes, in my case its test equipment (tools, lab equipment, scientific instruments, all of that). I know that tiny torque wrench is in the lab somewhere and I know it needs to be calibrated. Now if I could only find the damn thing...

I want to walk around the lab and get alerts for things that are out of calibration, or will be out of cal within 30 days. Most of our items need calibration every year, a battery in your device that lasts more than a year would be a necessity for me.
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Amazon's last mile delivery is a significantly worse experience than FedEx, DHL, or UPS. I put their service about on-par with USPS, which is to say: full of people lying about attempted deliveries.

With both USPS and Amazon I get notified of successful delivery hours or days before the package actually shows up, or attempted delivery when I was home and nobody used the callbox. They're making a huge mistake by not prioritizing the delivery experience; it is eroding customer confidence and loyalty.
omg..this part:
"Here’s where it got interesting. Each of these mule recruitment sites had the same security weakness: Anyone could register, and after logging in any user could view messages sent to and from all other users simply by changing a number in the browser’s address bar. As a result, it was trivial to automate the retrieval of messages sent to every money mule registered across dozens of these fake company sites."

Amazing....

And the picture of the Russian tool in question, with his cat and his clothes. Could he be anymore more stereotypical Russian Goon looking?! He looks like the evil character in an Austin Power's movie...
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the ethical bit is a small part to me. Hopefully this meat can be more nutritious, standardized, bacteria/infections/antibiotic free and overall a lot more economical as methods are improved.
Thanks, that's pretty much my perspective.

Although I'd likely opt out of androgen suppressants. In my experience, life without testosterone was unpleasant. My arthritis was worse, and I was prone to tendonitis. I lost muscle mass, and got fatter. I became borderline diabetic. My acne got much worse. And I lost all interest in sex.

Testosterone supplementation reversed all of that.
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Economists are the Wizards/Shamans of today, both pretend to have special insight and knowledge of how future outcomes will unfold only difference is instead of cutting off the head of a chicken and seeing where it lands, they have "models".
We've traded replies here on HN a couple of times. We have a lot of interest areas in common — theorem proving, software synthesis, that kind of thing.
I'd hazard a guess that zero is very bad
> What a lot of those same people don't understand, is that taxes pay for the road systems.

I don't think those people are failing to understand anything. They're just people who use the road systems and don't use public transit.
Unfortunately many of the applications in this space basically operate by placing the "database" on a file share that people have access to. This also involves heavy use of OpLocks, causing you to be required to neglect security advise to disable SMBv1. Even without without malware gaining RCE on the server, the end result is encrypted server data.
> Now the FAA has had the final updated software for something like a month and a half and just started certification testing. This smacks of some incompetence on behalf of the FAA

Up to the second accident FAA left much of the certification process up to Boeing(!) alone. No wonder that they discovered now that they need more time:

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2019/12/11/faa-...

They also demonstrated to the whole world that they aren't serious about safety after the rest of the world grounded the planes but they still just repeated whatever Boeing told them.

The current weakness of FAA is of Boeing's making:

https://www.economist.com/business/2019/03/23/regulatory-cap...

"Since 2001 [Boeing] has lobbied vigorously to perform more of its own safety tests. In 2005 the FAA began to allow Boeing to do more self-certification. “It’s like putting children in charge of the sweet shop,” says a former Boeing adviser. An investigation by the transportation department in 2012 found that the FAA had not done enough to “hold Boeing accountable”. It quoted FAA employees who had reported retaliation for speaking up about problems with Boeing’s previous designs."
Doesn't look scarry in the video at all. Smooth and careful.

Yet, since the time savings are part of the advertized convenience, I wonder if a robot would be able to trim/shave as fast as a human stylist. The usual neck fuzz job is 10 sec at most for even student barber.

Sure, you could save booking/wating time, but the actual service time may still be bottlenecked by safety and
precision requirements. So subjectively this could feel as dreadful, unless you'd mix in some interaction to mask the time flow.

Good luck!
The problem is when it changes in ways that are unpredictable. All UIs change in certain ways as we interact with them, but users are constantly trying to create their own internal model of the interface's behavior so they know how to do different tasks repeatedly. We learn rules about how dropdown menus work, for example, or which nav links go to which screens (and how to get to other screens from there).

It's problematic when that underlying model is too obscured (not communicated well enough) through visual cues. It would be actively consternating to constantly shift it underneath someone who's trying to wrap their head around it.
No, because it's the techies who make all the money in Seattle.
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Yes and no. It's "like Graal" in that there is a Kotlin/Native runtime which is built into the binary. It's "not like Graal" in that it is not building in the entire JVM, and K/N code provides things like manual memory management APIs which are not available in e.g. a Java->Graal context.
The Witcher series was very much not my type of game (I didn't like the Elder Scrolls series either), so I'm unlikely to try Cyberpunk 2077. I think it has a good chance for success though because while cyberpunk is not necessarily big right now, it is a subgenre of dystopian SF, which seems to be on the upswing.

However, while HBO's Watchmen is well timed because of the huge popularity of the MCU, there's not currently any similarly well-known cyberpunk body of fiction right now.

It will be interesting to see how they adapt it though. It's probably one of the more "ready for screen" books that Stephenson has written, but even there it relies heavily on internal-monologue and brute writing style more than it does on great plotting.

Of course if you are going by my theory of dystopian SF being the thing right now, The Diamond Age is probably a better fit, plus it's already populated with a few orgy scenes, which seems to be a plus for HBO. I suppose there are casting issues with the plot centering so much around a young girl though.
Every reference on Lisp macros says that they are executed at compile-time.
I think that has changed now, at least for 737 MAX. We people who did not care before are now hyper alert about which aircraft we are going to be on.
I'm reminded of the slums currently surrounding Paris which are almost as bad as LA's skid row, but less visible simply because they're further from the people in power.

Or what about Britain's history of horrific poverty that formed the basis for nearly all of Dickens' work. Germany's far more recent history, especially for those on the East side of the wall. Russia's treatment of its poor during and after Communism. The way that people just ignore the poor, and even dying around them in China, and India, without even taking a few seconds to call emergency services.

Which country has contributed personnel to every major UN mission? Which is the only country to have provided medical assistance, food, and logistics support after every major terrorist act or natural disaster through January 2017? Which country sends more volunteers around the world to house the poor, feed the hungry, and teach the children than nearly every other nation combined? (Hint: the answer to all of these is the US.)

But sure, only Americans only think of themselves...
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A quick google says Boeing is the 28th largest US company by both revenue and market cap (interesting that they line up exactly), sitting next to "pillars" like the Home Depot and PepsiCo.

We'll be fine.
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Hopefully with some better allocation of resources.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/seattle-taxpayers-fund-t...
The issue there is that you're missing the app ecosystem. Without it, why not just use a "dumb" phone?
> Last time I tried pygame it turns out it like just doesn’t work on Macs or something? None of the examples worked, just got blank boxes

PyGame seems to work if you install the official Python 3 binary from python.org and install PyGame with the pip package manager included with the Python installation. (Last time I've checked Conda Python and the version from Homebrew have some problems when installing PyGame.)
>I suspect that Amazon does not want to put additional cognitive load on the purchaser right at the most critical point of the conversion funnel.

They can do it off the side, like how you can select an amazon locker to ship to (but still have your default mailing address set to something else). They could easily use the same flow: just add a "pick your shipper" section similar to how some small time retailers too it and have separate pricing for each (if you're not on prime).
.. or to conform to Wadsworth Law:

> For EVERY youtube video, I always open the video and then immediately punch the slider bar to about 30 percent.

> For example, in this video [referenced video of length 1:42], it should have just started at :40. Everything before :40 was a waste. This holds true for nearly every video in the universe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/kxfxy/and_so_ends_20_...
> FTPS is also placed in a DMZ as it is internet facing and you can use any layer 4 reverse proxy for it.

Not if you use passive FTPS, which most clients require.

> The whole point of a DMZ is to have another layer keeping your data as far as possible from the Internet.

That layer has to actually do something though. Adding 10,000 feet of copper wire between you and the internet doesn't make you safer; it makes you slower and poorer.
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If the French can stop you from calling your chemically identical sparkling white wine “Champagne”, I see no reason why meat farmers shouldn’t be able to stop you from calling your industrially-grown bovine cell culture “meat”.
But a great proxy for value.
There are tons of note taking solution, why another one?

For me, I like to take quick note in text editor (Atom currently). Plain text work great for me, but it just work in local and cannot access on mobile.

So I make this which aim at:

Main:

1. Resemble text editor experience but with note management.

2. Online, can access anywhere

Secondary:

1. Sometimes, i would like to have better formatting (with WYSIWYG markdown)

2. Syntax highlight and auto indent for easily reviewing debug log and code snippet

Maybe it is just niche habit, but I would love to hear you guys feedbacks
That may be what the poster meant by "well managed break up".