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No. It is not changing faster than any time in history. The end of the ice age regularly saw temperature swings of 8-12C in global average temps in as little as a few decades. See Dansgaard-Oesger events, the Younger Dryas, etc. Also look into the early Holocene, where temps were markedly warmer than modern temps for more than 5000 years. This coincided with the advent of agriculture. But if you want to talk about post Bronze age climate events there's the Minoan Warm period, the Roman Warm period and the Medieval Warm period...all warmer than modern temps (all associated with boom times by the way). And then of course there's the sometimes dramatic cooling events in between, which are associated with droughts, disease and bad times for humanity.

Moderate heat does not increase odds of wildfires. The heat is a side effect of drought, which is the actual catalyst for wildfires. The wet tropics (rainforest) rarely experience wildfires unless induced by slash and burn techniques caused by humans. It is very hard to burn wet wood. I advise you to try it. Meanwhile it is very easy to burn dry wood in even the coldest regions of the earth, which is why burning wood has been used to keep humanity warm since the early stone age.

H2O is by far the strongest greenhouse gas and it not only can influence the climate in its gaseous water vapor form but it also exists naturally in the form of ice and liquid in massive quantities (the oceans). These oceans have Multi-decadal and multi-centennial oscillations that have dramatic influences on both temperatures and rainfall patterns around the world. Some of the most well documented ones are the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation but they are by no means the only way that oceans influence climate.

Warmer air can store more moisture in the air. Sure, it's called humidity, what of it? Rain falls from way up in the atmosphere where it is much, much cooler than surface temperatures on land.

Your assertion that increased humidity causes more droughts and reduced rainfall is dubious and not backed up by the existence of rainforests in humid tropical regions.
This.

I moved on to a company that was paying me a lot and i couldnt say no. Instead of 2 week notice i offered my former employer this option.

I fully disclosed to my prospective employer this relationship. I even carved out a clause that lets me leave the office once per month to be working elsewhere.

I also converted a job recruiting attempt into a contractual arrangement.

I dont have more time for anything anymore.

A few tips.

Former employers are a balancing act. If you were working full time for them, and doing good work, that is effectively their expectation. It will be hard to change it. Learn to manage it. Make sure the contract specifically states what you will do and what you wont.

Make sure you clearly state who you will be reporting too. Contracts can go sideways quickly if your expertise is no longer trusted by way of new hire with something to prove. This is mostly true for new contracting engagements. Former employers know your depth of expertise, new guys do not.

Don't take additional problems at your new FT employer until you know you can manage all the work across all co's.

Particularly, be choosy with your clients. Do not take startups for cheap unless there is significant upside. Your time is valuable and it should be paid well. Taking a job below market rate for your experience is a quick way to utterly destroy your motivation in doing a good job. Unless you are bored, the project is interesting, or unemployed.... Do not do it.

I am not a developer. I cant even write SQL. I work in a rather mundane field. However i am an expert in scaling that field with a good tech stack, and I can speak semi intelligently about tech infrastructure. I can even read a SQL query and immediately understand what it is doing.
Thanks Lars! For Gnus and for Gmane! For your code, your time, and the (donated because of you) news and web servers.

Don’t beat yourself up over the loss of the domain name. You have given more to your community than most people ever will. Your (structured [0]) procrastination likely lead to your contributions in the first place. So if they lead to some hiccoughs as well, then we, the beneficiaries, can take the bad with the good.

This downtime that seems significant now, may not be. Users of a free service I co-run came back in droves after our similar lack of attention led to an “unexpected” 32bit ID roll-over that took months of downtime to resolve. Our users came back in droves (and though never back to the same level as before) with nothing but thanks after having tried the alternatives. Gmane was a breath of fresh air when you released it, and I suspect nothing compares still today. It may not warrant as much of your time today as it once did. So it goes.

Also, allow someone to help. I never could have handled our failures on my own.

[0] http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
The point being made is that doubling the number of pixels is quite significant. Calling it incremental is a little short-sighted IMO.
From a slightly more nerdy perspective:

Because these credit card companies have thousands of _their_ machines, in _their_ locations, running _their_ software, to meet _their_ standards.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin is run god knows where, for god knows who (as rightfully intended of course), on god knows what software.

Sadly speed is just naturally part of the tradeoff in this scenario.
Put it further away from you - it's good for your eyes to focus further out.
You have a very understanding kid then, I'm jealous.

We let ours decide what to watch / play out of a handful of things we've hand-picked as OK (such as Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood or Super Simple Songs), and iOS's guided access mode has been a godsend for this.

Super Simple Songs is on YouTube and has great content for kids, but I refuse to use YouTube Kids as we tried it once and couldn't control it well enough—weird videos started creeping in almost immediately. So, we use regular YouTube and disable autoplay, which we have to manually check every single time, because YouTube has randomly re-enabled it for us a couple times which led to the weird videos again).

We do limit her screen time (and consequently, ours), but trying to keep her away from them 100% of the time? That's honestly not realistic, nor fair.
>I always wondered if the animal rights type of vegetarians eat this stuff, I would suppose they consider it a grotesque display or a mockery to dress up plant matter as animal murder.

Well, yes, your wondering is exactly right. Long-time vegan here. (I think most "animal rights type of vegetarians" are vegan–what's done to cows in the dairy industry isn't pretty.) Butchers, ads for eating lambs etc start to seem horrific. I'm not at all interested in fake meat. Yes, the very idea seems grotesque. There's plenty of delicious vegetarian cuisine from around the world without needing or wanting fake meat, fake cheese etc. I haven't missed, wanted or craved meat once in..uh..gee, almost 30 years.
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> I would suppose they consider it a grotesque display or a mockery to dress up plant matter as animal murder.

Upvoting this for the pure surreality of this one point
It is not. Intel gave away the TB3 standard to the USB IF who made USB 4 out of it and that is the way of the future. It came out in '19 August, the differences are small but important: where the TB3 bus only carried PCI Express and DisplayPort signals the USB 4 Gen 3 bus also carries USB signals. Previously the USB ports on a TB3 dock / enclosure were implemented using the hotplug USB root hub in the TB3 controller in the TB3 device and it often resulted in a less than satisfactory experience (in other words, it sucked so badly some manufacturers used two TB3 controllers to make it better).

TB3 enclosures will be usable by USB 4 hosts.
All of the organizations that have outgrown git will have such incredibly specific requirements meaning nothing but a custom built tool will work for them.
This is the growth angle for pretty much all of the IDAAS (Identity as a Service) players in the market that are not AD. Will be interesting to see how it evolves.
its a bit excessive in the prosumer market but these will make great cheap home lab machines.
I asked Ann Nelson (look her up) this when I audited her cosmology class in grad school, thinking I'd come up with a great new idea. She said yes, it's equivalent to the speed of light changing, and then moved on.
Bear in mind that time is not universal. For the speed of light to change over time, it would change at different rates for observers in different reference frames, and this difference would be measurable.

As to the previous question about relative size. If the universe doubled in size, the objects within it such as atoms don’t also double in size. Gravity and the atomic forces don’t change, so eg the size of stable electron orbits or planetary orbits don’t double in size.
I'm not a troll, I'm a well educated individual and fully capable of engaging in a rational and intelligent discussion, assuming you have rational and intelligent arguments to make and not ad hominen attacks.
GPUs are surprisingly flexible. GPUs are a full on turing machine.

The thing is, GPUs have horrible latency characteristics compared to CPUs. Whenever a GPU "has to wait" for RAM, it only switches to another thread. In contrast, CPUs will search your thread for out-of-order work, speculative work, and even prefetch memory ("guessing" what memory needs to be fetched) to help speed up the thread.

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Consider speculative execution. Lets say there is a 50% chance that an if-statement is actually executed. Should your hardware execute the if-statement speculatively?

Since CPUs are latency optimized, of course CPUs should speculate.

GPUs however, are bandwidth optimized. Instead of speculating on the if-statement, the GPU will task switch and operate on another thread. GPUs have 8x to 10x SMT, many many threads waiting to be run.

As such, GPUs would rather "make progress on another thread" rather than speculate to make a particular thread faster.

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What problems can be represented in terms of a ton-of-threads ? Well, many simple image processing algorithms operate on 1920 x 1080 pixel entries, which immediately provides 2,073,600 pixels... or ~2-million items that often can be processed in parallel.

When you have ~2-million items of work (aka: "CUDA Threads") waiting, the GPU is the superior architecture. Its better to make progress on "waiting threads" than to execute speculatively.

But if you're a CPU with latency-optimized characteristics, programmers would rather have that if-statement speculated. The 50% chance of saving latency is worth more to a CPU programmer.
The compression is a property of the table and done on the fly, transparently to the user. If the difference was compressing/decompressing as part of the user task, I'd agree. But this is something that comes for free by a few extra characters in the schema.
Good point about the pool.

In my case, the friend was someone I play basketball with. I was his only tech friend before he got his job, so I'm not sure how much that helped.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7q2Ry-pC6Rw

Here are my kids making vegan mac and cheese.
Depends on how much money you need / how much sensible things you have to spend it on.

If you think you can do something tangible with the 10 million right now sure, if it results in a lot of PR people, over-expensive office space and a bloated workforce then the money can be a resource curse. Doesn't exactly seem to be a popular attitude these days but I've always been a fan of seeing how far you can go with as little as possible. Keeps the bs out.
My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?

--Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (1999)
Keep in mind this is a concept car. Most companies never do anything with their concepts, and if they do it never looks anything like what they showed. Recently Dyson sadly announced they gave up on their EV attempts.

However, I hope I'll be wrong. There is room for more players in the EV market.
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> I don't have the level of contempt for my fellow Americans that you have

I was going to ignore this as an obvious troll, but I'll take a stab at it. Rural Americans aren't the problem, America is the problem, but some of that is made up for by the cities.

Rural America has the same terrible public transit, the same grotesque healthcare problems, generally appalling internet and cellphone, the same incredible incarceration rate, the same terrible problem with opioids, the same terrifyingly divisive politics, the same endemic racial divide, the same problem with gun violence as the rest of the US, except that some of the cities have made some headway with these problems.

If y'all lost New York, LA and the Bay Area, GDP would fall by ~25%, and you'd be just another upper-middle-income country. America's greatness comes from the cities.
You were thinking out loud.
Because nano has free transactions, a big concern was indeed spamming the network because transanctions are free (as in you pay no nano). But since each wallet has to calculate their own blockchain, the prosessing power is purely on the client side and so not free in that sense, which limits the spamming to the processing power you have.
Wow, yeah, that's a bit off. And incorrect. It should end up being equivalent to:

SBC = A - V - 1 + C

Thanks. I'll fix this up :)
It's not rocket science, no. I wanted something that could be done rather quickly, that would generate a fair amount of code, that wouldn't require any recursive tricks or discrete math. From there, I can usually look at their code and make a determination.
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Is your metaphor about Windows since XP or about Zig?
All this talk of Git-sympathetic code review tools and nobody has mentioned Gerrit, which seems at least somewhat close to what is being described. Each patchset of each review is its own Git ref and is often referenced in the final commit.

Separately, I know many including myself who would love for code review comments to more seamlessly be integrated into the code browsing experience.
Where did you get that idea? Milk is one of the 2-3 most nutritious foods on Earth. In fact, milk has been designed by evolution over millions of years to be precisely what a mammal needs to thrive.
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Which is honestly a great way to do it. Treating it as a religion will only make people "fail" and feel bad and quit. I'm doing (vegetarianism) for environmental reasons so 80%ing it is a big improvement. It'll be much easier to convince most people to replace meat with an alternative half the time than converting people to full true-believer veganism.
That’s not the status quo at all. You can buy a raspberry pi 4, a 1TB SSD, and have a perfectly functional bitcoin node, and lightning node and BTCPAY server all in one for close to $200.

Secondly, Lightning isn’t “additional complexity” fir bitcoin— it’s taking complexity and putting it where it belongs— at the platform layer.

TCP/IP doesn’t get faster by making packets bigger. Same with bitcoin. And the application layer should be kept separate from the transport layer.
I’ve only ever cooked the store bought beyond burgers and prefer grilling them. minor adjustments in cooking technique can produce both red-in-the-middle and well done versions. I don’t care for the pan fryed version as it crusts and sometimes burns a little if left on one side too long.
Is there a best way to go the other way, that is, from speech voice to text?

I’ve found the transcription tools tools to have difficulty with at least the stock computer voices.
Koalas probably won't ever go extinct, they may do so in the wild but they'll be plenty in zoos.
But at no point did OP claim it was a scam? They even ask if this is normal for American franchises, instead of accusing 7-11 of predatory behavior.
OTOH we'd rather have seen the single-core perf keep improving. What's the average performance speedup (vs 1 core) that the Sun customers got, or the AMD users get, on the average software they use? The progress in programming language technology hasn't been very kind to multiprocessing[1].

[1] GPUs are another kettle of fish of course, but have their own wellknown problems that prevent widespread use outside graphics
Some humans have the necessary genes to digest milk, some do not. Can't lump all mammals together.

> Milk contains a type of sugar called lactose, which is distinct from the sugars found in fruit and other sweet foods. When we are babies, our bodies make a special enzyme called lactase that allows us to digest the lactose in our mother’s milk. But after we are weaned in early childhood, for many people this stops. Without lactase, we cannot properly digest the lactose in milk. As a result, if an adult drinks a lot of milk they may experience flatulence, painful cramps and even diarrhoea. (It’s worth noting that in other mammals, there aren’t any lactase-persistent adults – adult cows don’t have active lactase, and neither do cats or dogs, for example).

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190218-when-did-humans-...
ENS is built on smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, meaning it doesn't suffer from the insecurity of the DNS system. You can be confident names you enter work the way their owner intended.

Hahaa.. Because smart contracts have no flaws and its not like the arbitrators don't have m-of-n override to force function things out.

Competing claims of security. DNSSEC exists.

If they are truly DOMAIN names, then there are scoping consequences which vest from the underlying concept of a domain, and what it means to be inside another domain. If they're just names on a chain, that don't have scope, thats different of course. I guess I'm just whining that DNS here means something, and its like the surplus -gate in bushgate back-applied to watergate-gate...
>but damn is it frustrating to see so many vulnerable students saddle themselves with so much debt in pursuit of making a stable living.

It sounds like you're talking about traditional American colleges with this criticism, not Lambda school. I'm confused.
I just think you're damaging your kids by not giving them milk, which is the most nutritious thing you can feed a kid. Also, your kids may be lactose intolerant due to other stuff in their diet, like gluten or other toxins in plant-based foods that lead to a leaky gut.
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If you read the bitcoin core release notes going back at least the past 5 years, and look at the road map, every release and every planned addition has improved scalability— many of them very significant improvements.

The “bitcoin doesn’t scale” trope is a claim made by people who tried to take over bitcoin (Eg Roger Ver, Craig Wright, the S2X cabal) generally with their own personal benefit as the motive.

Unfortunately, even here in HN, most commenters gave t been reading the release notes.

But you should. Core is very accessible, and the release notes of bitcoin are the developer equivalent of Warren Buffett’s letters to shareholders.
"- Exceptionally few opinions have any value. Very likely most of the people you know, they're not experts at what you're working on, they probably do not know better than you, their advice is likely worthless; do not take their advice, do not seek their advice as it pertains to the specifics of your area of work. Seeking their advice on broader life-business things or generic business issues, sure, that might make sense. Only seek advice from people that are experts - or as close to it as you can get - on the thing you're seeking advice on. Everyone has an opinion, so if you ask someone, the odds are they'll give it to you, even if they shouldn't due to their own ignorance. People are typically terrible at self-censoring when it comes to throwing around advice about subjects they know little about."

Yup this is my opinion too. Took me way too long to realize it.
I'm not sure you're using the terminology zero-sum correctly. Yes bad investments can be zero-sum, but as a whole, the economy is positive-sum. Positive sum doesn't mean "Everybody gets paid the same", it means that the value output from a closed system exceeds the input (e.g. greater than the sum of its parts)

If you're referring to derivitives, you could technically refer to it as zero sum, since speculating on a contract between two parties doesn't necessarily create value. But there's an argument to be made that options actually help liquidity, and the act of being able to purchase insurance contracts on investments reduces risk, meaning more people are likely to invest, which does, in the end, actually create value.
It's not quite as simple as you've laid out, but sometimes it can be, depending on everyone's moods. Sometimes she's perfectly fine playing in her play kitchen while we watch a 20 minute show, other times she wants to watch a nursery rhyme and sing and dance along, or watch Lucas the Spider while she cuddles her stuffed version of him.

You don't realize just how much free time you really have until a toddler demands it all away from you. Meanwhile, dinner needs to get cooked, dishes need to be done, laundry has to be washed and folded, the house needs to get cleaned, etc. And your kid wants / needs attention every few minutes (at least ours does—she can only colour or paint or play with toys for so long by herself before she wants to play with you).
Oh! Thank you, that's brilliant. (Hate Sperm here)
And also lots of evidence for the contrary.
Is the select semantically different than something like this?

bool TryWrite(T)

How does go handle cancellation with the select syntax? I guess you have a cancel channel and select across both the cancel and the read channels? Is Go smart enough to sleep and not busy wait in that case?
>> Cerebras has 9.6 Petabytes

More accurately, Cerebras has 9.6 "bullshitobytes" per second. If you can't verify this, it doesn't exist. You could claim insane "bandwidth" by considering your register file to be your "memory". But that doesn't make it so.