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I'd be careful about giving too much credit to the original ARM design. In retrospect, like many early RISC designs, it was over-optimised for its original application. Most of the unique/novel features of the original ARM architecture turned out to be bad ideas in the long run. Most of them were later removed from the architecture, or persist only in backwards compatibility modes.

ARM is ubiquitous today more due to business models and historical accident than to inherent superiority of the design. (See also x86.)
I have a small IBM 390 which I haven't been able to find out much, but I did spot while searching that my 1999 S/390 has a 256 byte cache line. That's 4x over a 2020 i7.
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I think nuclear power is a quick win, for the amount of CO2 discharged and the 'amount' of materials gained. The lasting legacy will always be the cost of maintenance, both in knowledge (in 100 years from now will people be able to operate the reactors and remember where all of the crud was left) and environmental impact. Certainly in the north sea area of europe, there is a drive for wind power, which I fully back. Nuclear power plants don't run themselves, which is why it's a highly skilled area, kill the skill, welcome to long periods of radiated land masses which are not obvious (unless you have a geiger counter)
This article is an awesome write-up. I love how it walks through the process of discovery from the beginning- or as close to it as readers will bear. Its insane to think that we are at a point where we can just swap a coating on a virus as easily as I can un-solder a component from a motherboard. Its also scary as hell to think about what plagues could be created in these labs for biological war.

Like sure we get atomic power its super clean- but now we also have nukes. Tasty yummy nukes.

Where is the biological nuke equivalent here? I don't want to spread Microsoft style FUD about such exciting news but it does make me wonder what classified work is being done in Andromeda strain style labs.

I am both excited and scared as hell about what we can do these days.
DNS is the joke, punycode is one of the punchlines. ;-)
As long as we're giving feedback, you could do better on empathy for those who don't know the same things you do.
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It's pretty well known in aviation circles in the UK. Three aircraft inevitably come up if any one, or simply idiotic cancellations are mentioned:

TSR2, P1154 (Supersonic Harrier), Avro Arrow.

I'm really pleased he chose to perform an offsite backup of the plans ordered destroyed...
I knew someone would disagree, but it just sounds really antisocial to me. Sure, the woman should have asked him to put his phone in airplane mode instead of going straight to the attendant, but he could have also replied with an "oh, sorry" and put his phone on airplane mode when told off about the rule he was in fact breaking.
That means the transponder became non-viable at that point. Any sort of in-air catastrophe could have caused that, including onboard fire.

Redundant airplane systems protect against component failure, but they tend to still be near each other. For example, if an AA gun were to tag the plane in the right place it could easily take out power to both a primary and backup.

It really doesn't look like a mid-air explosion. It was either a massive spontaneous fire for some reason (assuming the burning thing in the social media post was the plane) or it got shot down.
Ask HN: Companies where people work 12 hours, How do you sustain a relationship?
I’m seeing some companies ask in their interviews whether you are okay with working 12 hours a day. Is it even possible to have a meaningful relationship/social life in that case?
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It's a personal decision, but to be honest you should talk to a lawyer who is familiar with the industry your LLC is involved with.
Question: Would we all become more spiritually stable with micro doses of LSD or ‘shrooms?
Let me quote Torkel Franzen in this issue:

> True in the Standard Model

> The idea is sometimes expressed that instead of speaking of arithmetical statements as true or false, we should say that they are "true in the standard model" or "false in the standard model". The following comment illustrates:

>> This is the source of popular observations of the sort: if Goldbach's conjecture is undecidable in PA, then it is true. This is actually accurate, if we are careful to add "in the standard model" at the end of the sentence.

> The idea in such comments seems to be that if we say that an arithmetical statement A is "true" instead of carefully saying "true in the standard model", we are saying that A is true in every model of PA. This idea can only arise as a result of an over-exposure to logic. In any ordinary mathematical context, to say that Goldbach's conjecture is true is the same as saying that every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. PA and models of PA are of concern only in very special contexts, and most mathematicians have no need to know anything at all about these things. It may of course have a point to say "true in the standard model" for emphasis in contexts where one is in fact talking about different models of PA.
Ahh got it! Thanks! Sorry, I didn’t understand before.
ryg's 2011 classic is still as good as ever.

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...
Java is getting value types. It will be interesting to see how performance improves once it does.
> WTF is gravity?

That's metaphysics, not science.

> Do we orbit the Sun or the image of the Sun? In other words, what's the speed of gravity?

The image. Speed of gravity is the same as the speed of light.
You can now sync the blockchain via satellite, and send transactions via SMS gateways
We have alternatives: solar, wind, water, bio, nuclear fusion, maybe LENR.
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> I rather have 10 Fukushima nuclear accidents than one big dam break

You say that, but Fukushima didn't even come close to reaching it's catastrophic potential. Japan was facing the possibility of having to immediately evacuate 50 million people[0], or roughly 15% of the US population. An evacuation on that scale would almost certainly top any other emergency evacuation in human history.

Japan got pretty lucky with the weather conditions during that episode, and if you flip that coin 9 more times, you'd find out pretty quick that they got pretty darn lucky the first time.

0: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/12/national/kan-ci...
It’s not that I don’t see it, it’s that I accept it. 30k people per year dying (and many more getting mangled) is a tragedy, but dying is a fundamental part of living. Sucks not to be immortal. We live in a country that is practically defined by having large distances between everything, and values personal space highly. I’d posit that you have it backward, car culture developed as a result of Americans’ culture of traveling and personal space. That some urban dwellers don’t like this is their problem, as a minority in a society that likes space and developed cars as a result.

How many people die each year to get us high tech? I can’t find good numbers, but with all the mining and refining required(and done under lax/no labor/environmental laws) I’m sure it’s shocking. Fossil fuels(4.5M) kill far more people than cars(1.24M) globally[1] so lets shut off the lights too, while we’re at it.

I clearly do not see eye to eye with you at all about death(which I find to be (relative to you) really not that big of a deal, especially children), so I’d rather not go there.

[1] https://qz.com/568450/fossil-fuels-kill-more-people-every-ye...
Not to mention majority of devices on the market already ship from the factory with depleted firmware update slots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nI9ok7iQg
Several times in the last months we've seen that various AMD CPUs performed better on certain benchmarks with overclocked RAM. I am not sure the RAM that can help the CPU saturate the transfer channels even exists today.
The GUI is custom. The IDE is Windows-only at the moment, but there's also a command-line compiler for other platforms. VS is required for linking (even when using the LLVM linker).

I'd be interested in more information about the IDE crash.
Great list! Thanks for sharing. I was thinking only about the maintenance costs of the structure.
I'd like to think most people would act more civilized initially in that situation. In fact the most civilized thing to do would have been to simply follow the rules in the first place, knowing that most passengers will believe they must be important.
> why do all the curvature calculations fail?

Please, show a calculation that fails. Or two.
This is about where I stand. If there's a cheap and easy way to reduce carbon emissions that is already happening because of existing market forces, at the very least we shouldn't stand in its way. I'd even support government subsidies of it, if it helps it kill off coal, but it already seems like it'll do so without any help.

Best would be strong climate change policies that set the price of carbon at its actual (high) cost, and that would naturally drive people from coal to gas and gas to low-carbon approaches, but that doesn't seem like it's in the cards in the short term.
Apart from what's already been mentioned...

Consider that the population of England during the colonization of America was around 3 million. Today, nearly 3 times that live in London alone. It's like asking why would anyone have bothered to risk traveling across the Atlantic for months to get to untamed wilderness when England could've just built more housing.
Oh! Only 40 meters. I had assumed the distance must have been mush greater for these scale effects.
Agreed. However that is the point he was making - in the next paragraph he goes on to explain that he was being “a bit of a cock about it” and why
I thought that Kickstarter/Indiegogo had effectively become this. A common complaint is, "hey, I launched a Kickstarter, got funded, and some Chinese factory stole the idea!"

My response is always, "so? Aren't those sites more for 'I wish this existed so I could be a customer' than 'I want to personally profit from this idea'?"

So, yeah, if you don't care about someone stealing it, you might be able to repurpose Kickstarter that way:

1) Start a KS for the idea.

2) Wait for someone to steal it.

3) Cancel and refund everyone's money.
was using Buxfer, now transitioning to Splitwise. Splitwise seems to be nice app and overall ease and experience.
As typical with contrarians, Ramón y Cajal said some things that held up well and others that didn't. In the same book "Advice for a Young Investigator" that this excerpt is from he also gave his view of theorists: "Basically a theorist is a lazy person masquerading as a diligent one because it is easier to fashion a theory than to discover a phenomenon"!
It used to be that way, but these last 5 years, C# and .Net have grown a lot. If given the choice, i would choose C# every time; Such a pleasant language to program in. All desktops support, native binary compilation, easy (easier?) interop with native code. Lot's of features to promote performance, like structs by reference, explicit stack allocation etc. Well I'm a game developer so for me it's perfect; That said, i remember reading D's specification and really liking it. As it never gained much of a traction with gamedev I looked away. Who knows, maybe in the future.
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> The only thing this article really shows is that every
> state has a nice place to go hiking.

Not even that. Florida, for instance, has none, so they mention a campsite instead.
What actions would a panicked person take and how might those actions help?
I hate when people talk about solar or wind "saving the planet".

Solar in particular (and wind to a lesser extent) requires digging up then melting down literal mountains worth of ore to get the rare-earth elements to create them. Creating the space-age materials used for solar and wind installations is hyper-toxic for the environment and creates its own waste-storage problem.

You talk about deaths, but companies seem to be very tight-lipped about wind fatalities. Bucket truck electricians have a serious injury and fatality rate per-capita an order of magnitude higher than normal electricians. Tower workers have rates an order of magnitude higher than that.

Wind towers aren't like normal towers. They are smooth, aerodynamic surfaces. They are much taller than an average cell tower which adds complications. They have hundred-foot blades with all the lack of strength usually associated with airplanes travelling at up to 180mph. Unlike normal towers, you are definitely working on live systems (dead systems are even more dangerous as they are be at the whim of the winds). There's a huge, high-voltage motor in there exerting tons of torque (plus other motors for things like wing rotation). These extra hazards are standard. They don't account for the bonus hazards like fires, mid-air disintegrations, or even a bird (or something more exotic) getting struck and flying your direction. Even ground crews are at much higher risks.

I know several people who have worked at coal or nuclear plants. They wouldn't get anywhere near a wind plant because it's just too dangerous.
Thank you for sharing! Seems reasonable enough. Will definitely try more breaks at work!
This is a long and interesting article that, because it is attempting to preserve the system, ultimately misses the mark:

My obsession over the past three years has been trying to figure out how our national immune system works, where it draws its strength from, and how we can get it working again.

There is no national immune system because there is no nation. The US has never been a nation. It was a loose amalgamation of many nations on a huge continent under a commercial republic, then a warring set of nations, then an oligarchic industrial powerhouse that finally matured into a financial/military empire. All of the internal conflict we see benefits the ruling class and, therefore, will continue and, in all likelihood, get worse.
I'm not disputing that there'll be pain, or that we shouldn't be building them so quickly. I'm disputing how much pain and structural lock-in there'd be.

The article says that "planned investment in new gas power plants and pipelines totals over $100 billion", but that "by 2035, over 90 percent of proposed combined-cycle gas plants, if built, would be uneconomic to run compared to the cost of building a new clean energy portfolio."

Considering how quickly plants can built and how clean they are, at least in the sense of environmental regulations requiring long lead times (and therefore sunk costs) in preparing sites, if the predictions are true then energy executives should be able to pivot rather quickly. Most of the risk in a roadmap for building a bunch of gas plants isn't in being locked into building the gas plant, it's in the opportunity cost of not preparing for whatever the alternative will be. So long as wind and PV have similar initial costs, then pivoting should be easy. "Planning" to build $100 billion in gas plants is alot different than planning to build $100 billion in nuclear or hydro.

FWIW, I'm not disagreeing that maybe we should be incentivizing renewables more, but I can't get too worked up about it, either. The factors that make natural gas easy to switch to also make it easy to walk away from, particularly if you're walking away from planned construction.
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That would have been Jason Kapalka - he was a video game reviewer before becoming a game designer.
You can't possibly work 12 hours everyday. Maybe for a week or two at best. At worst a month.

So if you are working for up to a month for 12 hour days, you better have a strong relationship with your significant other who understands your work and understands it's temporary.
Not everyone has near perfect vision, in which case a better monitor won't fix too much if contrast is bad.
It's my estimation that this misperception of D (that it requires GC) will take a while to unlearn/relearn.
And the author in fact says in the article that that is what he should have done.

The whole thing is about how everyone can be anti social from time to time
assuming good ones...
> It's the hiking equivalent of "See girls looking
> for love in localhost!"

To be fair, the love of my life is now at 127.0.0.1.
I use ctrl-a quite a lot on the command line, though.
I think what OP was trying to say was that fluctuations in RSU-valuation increases the extrinsic value of your option to switch jobs.
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Not everyone lives near Washington or Utah or Colorado, but everyone lives in a state with nice hikes, so this article is still useful. And even though I do live in Washington, I'd never been to (or even heard of) the "Yellow Aster Butte" hike -- the wealth of nice hikes nearby has kept me from branching out to hikes in other parts of the state.

State may not be the perfect way to break things up (I can easily drive across connecticut in a couple hours, not so much in Texas or California), but there's no other commonly used grid system to break up the country.
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Thanks all for the answers! I didn't reply to each one, but they are greatly appreciated!
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That's exactly it
I thought the computer vision model wasn't open?
VISC seems at least potentially promising.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/10025/examining-soft-machines...
Good general advice, but I'm not sure if that would have made a difference in my case. I was a suspect already. Giving a statement didn't have any negative consequences for me. Maybe it prevented a raid like in the OP's case.
Is it the end of the function, or the end of the scope?

There's also no reason the compiler couldn't allow the deferred call once the last reference has been utilized (though in practice the common and performance minded case probably is to just use it as an additional goroutine that the context passes execution to when it queues any return messages).
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you can find the option in FF in about:config by searching "prefetch", but mine was also disabled already because of uBlock origin.
> Unless the argument you’re making is “two bugs make
> a bug intended behaviour”

When you start finding so many bugs, it's time to start closing Windows.
Here you are - https://join.slack.com/t/appwish/shared_invite/enQtODk4MTgzO...
looking at the other two countries that gave up their nukes, i don't blame them.
Where you say "really shows the failures of a police state." It's a great success, the greatest actually. The people who fail to enforce anything against the police are the same people who need them to act as the tip of their spear. The purpose isn't everyone compliance - just the compliance of those with the potential to change things. Think FBI and MLK, or Aaron Swartz. It's like spear fishing vs mass spam, tracking the individual agents of change and their social network vs fire hoses and dogs at protests.
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I have enjoyed WaitButWhy articles in the past but with this new series the author seems to have spent a huge amount of time, energy and words coming up with ideas that aren't that new. I keep skimming through them waiting to find the big point.
Yep, his new advice is to insist on a lawyer. You can even say something like "If it's important, I'd love to cooperate and talk to you, so I need a lawyer in order to do that. Let me know if you want me to set that up." That link is to his old talk where he recommends invoking the 5th. His newer talk is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTYZboDXYQ

His book should be easy to find at retailers or cough other ebook sites.

Critical points:

1. The police are almost never trying to railroad anyone, but mistaken evidence, mistaken witnesses, or unfortunate consequences of telling the police things can make you look guilty.

2. You have no idea what the police are investigating. They can and will lie to you about this. They can and will lie to you about anything they want. See point 4.

3. There are tons of laws, especially federal laws, that are BS, and you're playing with fire thinking you can answer questions about what the investigators claim they're investigating without implicating yourself in some other crime.

4. Interrogators are trained to put an enormous amount of psychological pressure on you to help them, even if you realistically can't help, so you'll end up talking about anything and everything until (hopefully) the police realize you're actually not a good suspect, or until you've gotten tripped up and either admitted guilt or said something that makes you look guilty even if you're not.

5. Simply asserting the 5th, your right to remain silent, might now be able to be used against you if you don't do it perfectly and the cops/prosecutors think you're guilty and are willing to twist your invocation of the 5th against you.

6. Asserting the 5th isn't likely to stop interrogations immediately. Asking for a lawyer probably will.

7. Talking through a lawyer shields what you say from being used against you. Prof. Duane doesn't make this point explicitly in his talks, but Randy Barnett does in the second half of the above cato book talk.

8. If cops say they're going to arrest you, remember they're only arresting you if they have probable cause (or worse, they already have an arrest warrant). You need a virtually unassailable alibi that can be immediately verified (and hope the cop will verify it immediately) in order to be likely to talk your way out of being arrested. That almost never happens. A witness who will vouch for you is not the greatest alibi; cops may not believe them, especially if the witness is your friend or family, or the witness may not tell the cops what you hoped. If there's any doubt about your alibi, the cops are going to arrest you and book you anyway and sort things out later. And meanwhile what did you tell them for the 5 minutes or 30 minutes you were trying to talk your way out of it?

And as Prof Duane notes, the advice he gives and that's in his book doesn't really apply to routine traffic stops. However, if it escalates to "can I search your car" or "step out of the vehicle"...
15 minutes is the US thing. Everyone else is ok with retaliating later. Maybe weeks later. UK and France rely on submarines. China even stores warheads and missiles separately.

It's unnecessary and dangerous to try to decide the fate of the world in 15 minutes.
Unfortunately this is a problem with adding another layer, now not only provider has to be up, bgp etc but also cloudflare.
It's less a retelling and more an expression of a culmination of factors in post-war Japan. Japanese media in that era really had a lot of fear about the post-war state, especially the loss of culture, baked in.
For sure, everyone likes to think themselves and most people act decently 100% of the time and never irrationally. But then sometimes, everyone acts irrationally, for one reason or another.