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> I would say that the overall idea of performance being traded for programmer time is definitely happening despite the emergence of Rust.

In some sense Rust is in that same vain - reducing certain errors and the need for tools like Coverity, which in turn makes programmers more efficient.
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It is not a cure for the root cause of anything.

I like to think of it as a tool that helps you get out of writers block. You still have to write once you’re unblocked; it won’t be able to write for you.
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I don’t know much about the mechanics of such cameras, but wouldn’t they need to get custom lenses and custom film of that size? I would imagine it is prohibitively expensive to get one-off manufacturing done like that.
No, your conclusion is bullshit.

> First, any given trip alleviates depression for about a month or two. That makes sense to me in a sense that the word "trip" isn't a coincidence-- a really fun intense vacation in a foreign country also alleviates depression for a month or two. You swear that when you come back things will be different, but then you have to answer slack messages at 9pm, and your project is slipping at work, and your wife is flirting with strangers every time you go to a bar, and well... in a month or two you're back to feeling exactly the same way you did before (until you take the next vacation

Your problems are situational, and when you remove yourself from that situation (using mushrooms or not) your life gets better and when you come back it's worse. It's not the mushrooms fault your life is a mess. Why are you answering slack messages at 9PM? Quit your job or just don't do it. Get rid of your wife if she's making you unhappy.

Do you think that maybe you should be giving your wife your attention at 9PM, rather than slack? How is this not painfully obvious?!

Some people just love misery, it's like - you have identified all your problems but rather than solve them you'll just sit around and point fingers and complain.

What did you expect? You'd take a mushroom and your wife disappears? Or transforms into a princess? You take a mushroom and your slack messages start answering themselves at 9PM?

What did you actually expect from the mushrooms?
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Curious too. If they’re nearby maybe so but high up in the air they may not be too loud.
>Also, in places where the Constitution does not apply, does nothing matter?

You're free to move to places where the Constitution does not apply if you feel that will work out better for you. Here in the US, we take the Constitution seriously enough that a very large number of us would readily kill in its defense.

Yes. No one. If you can't get an audience, that means no one cares about your content. The only other option is that you have misrepresented your argument, and you, in fact, can get an audience. In which case there is no problem because you have no problem finding your audience.

Look man, there's an audience for rap. There's an audience for country. There's even an audience for heavy metal. But don't try to pawn that crap off on people who don't want to hear it. They have a right to turn the station, and the government must never constrict that right because "heavy metal can't find an audience".
I wish more old www sites were still up. YTMND suffered a server failure. fark.com seems up, but rather a shadow of its former self. Shock sites seem to have mostly gone away or devolved into a sea of ads.

(Your site gave a sudden surge of nostalgia, and for some reason those sites were the first to jump to mind.)

https://poo.com/ is another slice of old www style. It's not a shock site, just a chat site. But it has some funny functionality like a radio you can listen to, and customizing your avatar with various multicolor schemes and blinky text, myspace-style.
I'm waiting for the high pressure helium filled datacenter.
Exactly this. Made me unsubscribe to paper issue few months ago.

Also noticed that they often display clear unjustified political bias, which didn't happen before. Not sure if it is intentionally or not.

Nonetheless, it remains one of the best sources for me.
I was thinking the same thing as well. It’s very interesting that fireworks originated in china and in a way it’s now full circle
I'll focus on unexpected effects of climate change.

1. Insurance companies stop offering fire and hurricane insurance to forested/coastal area properties.

2. Major fires and hurricanes hit and millions of people lose everything (because they are now uninsured) and have no place to go.

3. Local governments are unable to support the citizen climate refugees, so FEMA is tasked to manage the new refugee camps. There's a massive unbudgeted cost to all of this in the hundreds of billions of dollar range that significantly increase the US deficit.

4. Fed continues to try to make money cheap by holding down interest rates, but China realizes now's their chance to crush the U.S. government and stops buying T-bills. Interest rates rise despite the Fed.

5. The rise in interest rates has a cascading effect across the entire U.S. economy which was taking way too much advantage of low interest rates. A major recession occurs. Inflation hits 10%+. Migration away from the dollar as the default world currency occurs.

6. We're fucked.
Doesn't sound qualitatively different from the way people have read a newspaper for decades - title, first paragraph, move on.
Event based systems -> which almost every microservice is nowadays.

Or chatapps

Or for IOT
> but isn't Catalina somewhat unusual as an airport?

pretty typical table-top style mountain airport. Anyone with a mountain checkout should be able to fly into there safely
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You seem to be confusing a strong culture with not embracing new ideas. Those aren’t intrinsically linked.

Encouraging immigrants to adopt Western values like gender equality, support for democratic ideas is a good thing, not a bad thing.
It doesn’t seem too impressive to be fake to be honest. I mean it is impressive with respect to the size but with enough care it is definitely doable.
It's a shame that these notebooks are extremely unperformant. It ruins the fast-feeback you are meant to get from the REPL-ness.
You've got to be kidding...

United States per-capita CO2 emmisions are 17.5 tons per year vs China's 6.18, and that's not even taking into account the fact that China emits a lot of CO2 producing cheap products to sell to the US.

https://cotap.org/per-capita-carbon-co2-emissions-by-country...
> If it's useful for you to be around and they find you useful to be around then you have a job.

I like how you separated those 2 points. At first glance, it seems redundant. However, like you say, it's not enough to be useful, you need to be perceived as useful, too.
Generally a good prior.
Just out of idle curiosity: Why don't they work?
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...that wasn't Signal leaking data, though, and unlike Twitter, which until last week allowed anyone to mass-check phone numbers, Signal doesn't publicly broadcast your number.

I don't use Signal, and won't as long as they force a phone number, but at least be accurate.
Maybe, but the point of mesh networks is that each AP only has to see one other AP to work, and a device only has to be in the range of one AP. Because mesh APs generally take efforts to not talk over each other, they usually end up less powerful than other routers, leading to mesh setups like this:

|--a------|

|---------|

|--a------|

|------j--|

|--a---i--|

where a are the mesh APs and i is the item you're trying to find. If i can only be seen by the third/bottom AP, it wouldn't be any more useful than a traditional router (because from the perspective of i, it is a traditional router). Even if it could be seen by two APs (like j, for example), you generally need three sources to accurately trilaterate things so unless you have a minimum of three APs covering every single point of your entire house (which will lead to slightly worse performance and way higher spending, probably around three times the price), this probably won't work very well.

Or you could buy mesh routers that can all be seen from anywhere in your house... which would kill the point of making your network mesh anyway because then you could just use a single AP from that setup to cover your whole house.
> Found the Kindle using the sniffing technique described below.

I read this and, having a puppy at home, I interpreted it as actual sniffing i.e. scent detection (since I've been thinking about training her in that). The only question in my mind was whether he had trained a dog to do it or did it himself Feynman-style.
It may also indicate that they think this will reduce their labor pool too much in some states.
I suppose that partly depends on exactly how novel the blockchain part is, but broadly speaking the world of efforts to combine some of electronic money, cryptography, proof of work and decentralisation was not a new one in the late 2000s. For example Ecash had been hot once https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash , while later on Hashcash got a fair bit of attention as a possible solution to the spam crisis. In 2007 (early 2010 is another story) it was definitely more of a deep cut than AI or cloud, though.
I think the new languages are about developer productivity, but in a different way. It allows you to make more robust software via a better typing system, or more robust multithreading via rust's borrow system. In the past, our machines couldn't handle such strict languages as well because they have a high compile time cost.

In overall total effort needed to make something robust, something like rust will beat something like ruby, because the dynamic language-ists compensate via a larger test suite.
> IE6 will hang around for a few years, but may die very rapidly in workplaces when some killer enterprise web application stops supporting it.

Turns out the “killer enterprise web application” was YouTube :)

https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6
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1.) As quantum computing advances, there will be at least one successful 51% attack on a major cryptocurrency.

2.) Tesla/SpaceX StarLink will become a major competitor in the ISP space. Most transmitted data throughout the world will touch a StarLink satellite.

3.) Financial downturn/semi-recession in mid-late decade primarily caused by excessive corporate stock buybacks artificially inflating stock prices. (Stock buybacks will be driven by executive compensation/bonuses continually being linked to earnings per share)

4.) Drone deliveries will become more common as drone automation tech improves. Airspace will become more regulated to facilitate this.

5.) It will be considered stylish and/or a power move to not own a cell phone.

6.) Solar/wind/hydro electricity generation will become much more commonplace on personal properties. As electricity prices turn negative and not enough cost effective battery capacity to efficiently store it, power plants will be built/redesigned to turn electricity into hydrogen fuel. This will lead to auto companies creating electric/hydrogen cell hybrid cars.

7.) In January 2030, people will comment on this post with their predictions for the following decade, not realizing this post is 10 years old.
Canada led the way in making smoking much less attractive, more so than the US. High taxes, large warnings - the govt had a strong incentive when it’s footing the bill.
> The world falls into war, inclusive of even the most pacifist, post-military states. On the upside, a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter moves anthropogenic global warming to the back burner and spawns a generation of Mad Max-style entrepreneurs among the ten-million or so human survivors. Surviving software engineers relish the opportunity to rebuild lost infrastructure "the right way this time"---including a transactional, secure, well-formed, rule-based, semantic world-wide-web---while the less-gifted turn to secondary issues like clean water, shelter, food, energy, medicine, and transportation.

> Internecine fighting erupts amongst the software clans over whether certain symbols are separating or terminating and whether or not the name of the god of modification is spelled with two letters or five. The dehumanized masses turn on the dithering software clans and their IT crowd supporters, demanding to have their souls restored from failed exchange, facebook, gmail, and twitter servers. A small nomadic clan clad in denim and mock turtlenecks seeks the legendary Cupertino Stone in the wasteland of New Gorgoroth (mostly between the 85 and the 280), but finds only the unpublished "Objectivist-C Manifesto" and shiny discs inscribed "Dylan DR1".
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>>Civil war in China

It takes a lot of hunger to create a civil war. Just saying.
And those are the reasons I use phone calls, sms and email. It is more than enough to keep contacts and to arange where you will meet in-person. For distant relations I prefer email, I always loved a well formed letter where sender has actually put some thought into it.

Yeah, I dont have 999 friends but those 10 good friends is all I need. And they DO call, sms, email me. For everyone else I dont care.
I was just going to write a similar QC prediction. I think it'll be much like the moon landings: a huge race between US and China, a "giant leap for mankind" when we have a single general-purpose QC with a few thousand qubits and ECC (which will be sooner than many expect), then a few more trips over the subsequent decade, and then finally the realization that we have no particular reason to be there given the cost.
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Look back at how fire fighting was when it was fully private. The whole thing seemed kind of stupid to everyone.

Multiple companies would show up at a house on fire, check insurance plaques, and then head home if they hadn't paid them.

If no one had paid them they'd let things burn, which sounds fine conceptually, but it's much cheaper to put out a fire early, and it has that awkward tendency to spread.
Surely you don't think they went through the trouble of having this diversity exercise in order to encourage discrimination? This is a case of someone who's trying to reduce bigotry being stupid, not unethical.
The constraints are market-created, not physical.
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My two cents:

Tech:

- WASM makes huge inroads. it just does.

- Agents and privacy / anti-data collection start to make real dents into FAANG dominance. Services will exist to not stop data being collected about you, but to use that data to help / guide you. Massive Open Online Psychology (moop) will measure your behaviour at home or work and suggest improvements (Therapist / life coach as a service)

- Government provided public private keys will be the new passports, but at least majority of people have secure online identities that are mostly consistent - being anonymous online becomes socially suspect. It also means bots become waaay harder to run on services like FAANG - and there is a corresponding point at which the pressure to turn off accounts that do not have a passport becomes irresistible and the 50% cut in user base for at least one of them causes share price collapse

- The flaws underlying Self driving car business model becomes obvious : cars are good enough for perfect conditions but never quite make the liability sweet spot - they kill enough people on shared roads that the manufacturer liabilities become impossible and the only solution is to have separate road networks. This new railway, has the same safety record as todays rail, but same costs (basically unaffordable without massive subsidies). Warehouses are built on this network and there is a huge industry in the last mile delivery problem - humans taking over trucks for driving through cities probably from central "mission control" areas like remote pilots

- construction industry moves dramatically to prefabricated models - this has huge impact in emerging markets but also produces new commuter enclaves - cheap housing outside normal urban areas, but with automated car access effectively free public transport from house to city entry points. The ability to remove car ownership creates a value virtuous circle.
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It is like the persitence method for weather prediction - you can predict tomorrow's weather is same as today and you would be right a good number of times :P
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I think the coolest part about many games from this time period is how vastly differently they were developed compared to modern games from modern game studios.

"...it is the original version built from 1989 to 1991 by then 21 years old Eric Chahi working alone in his bedroom."

Because he got royalties from an earlier game, and that paid enough for him to take on this project. And he did pretty much everything except the music: Programming, graphics, story, box art. One dude. One 21yo dude. In his bedroom. And he wrote a VM! He wrote his own bytecode! He wrote his own VM host in assembly!! And then he wrote the game in his own bytecode!!!

And then you have the people who ported games in this time period, who often got nothing to work with. No code, no comments, no assets. Disassemble the thing yourself on a platform you might know very little about, and re-write the thing on a platform you do know a lot about. You get a couple of months. Chop chop, the publisher is waiting.

And if you haven't read Jordan Mechner's journals of him writing Prince of Persia from the same era, you should. It's equally bananas. And impressive.
School timetabling is one of those areas which can become a rabbit-hole very quickly. Here in Australia, at least, you have to contend with student subject preferences -- so you end up having constraints around, for example, the number of teachers qualified to teach French at different levels, and the number of students who would like to do French (at different levels of preference and proficiency) and then generate classes.

Then you can also start adding in geographic information -- things like optimising classroom allocations not only for equipment but also for student and teacher transit times between sessions, and for accessibility for specific students and teachers.

And then you have to consider the quality-of-life characteristics of the timetables you generate -- for example, ensuring that a 0.8FTE teacher doesn't have a day where they come in for two sessions only, one first thing in the morning and one last thing in the afternoon.

Oh, and you need to ensure that students get the right number of minutes of instructions for each subject, accounting for exceptional days (like sports carnivals and assemblies) and public holidays. And it'd be good to keep students together a bit, but also mix them up between classes so that they socialise across the whole year level.

There are so many more constraints that can be added over time, with differing levels of importance and significance, that the problem space rapidly becomes huge. That's probably why there are only a handful of players in the market (at least here in Australia).
1. Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain

2. An eSports league brings in more revenue than MLS (Major League Soccer).

3. Still no Half Life 3

4. Self driving personal cars aren't a thing yet but, autonomous trucks on
highways is common with humans doing the last mile delivery.

5. A FAANG company is broken up due to anti-trust regulation, my guess is Google.

6. Britain ends the decade as part of the EU in some form

7. Quantum computing will become more accessible and people will be solving real business/global problems with it

8. All crypto currencies will be trending (if not already) toward $0

9. At least one global recession, similar to 2008 due to rising debt levels

10. Most in person payments in the US are contactless (Apple/Google Pay) instead of via swiping/inserting a card or paying in cash