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Option 1 - Plant trees that have been growing for millennia, with skills that are wide spread across all of humanity
Option 2 - Invent technology that is currently unknown, scale it to a world wide scale, facing unknown challenges and problems with technology that is today completely unknown.

Hmmmmm
They show up on fleaBay every now and then, sometimes by the palette.
I believe that there are users who do produce keypairs with arbitrary explicit curves: NSA and its equivalents in other countries. Such agencies tend to like to use secret algorithms and generating your own curve for internal use is somewhat sane way to do that for ECC.

In other words I would not be to surprised if NSA found this bug by accident because it caused some of their internal “secret” cryptosystem to not work at all instead of by actively looking for it.
All very impressive. But most impressive to me is this:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikan_Tunnel

>>A 2002 report by Michitsugu Ikuma described, for the undersea section, that "the tunnel structure appears to remain in a good condition." The amount of inflow has been decreasing with time, although it "increases right after a large earthquake".
The tunnel boring in Seattle began right at the edge of downtown, went under a highway and a monumental retaining wall (They covered that wall with surveying targets and monitored it the entire time), then pretty deep under a residential neighbhorhood and a canal.

I think the only time it's moving close to high-rises again is over by the University.

Edit: I believe they went so deep because of the volume of glacial deposits in this area. Otherwise they would have been going through gravel. That made building the stations a bit of a pain (the Beacon Hill station still has chronic problems with water. It smelled like a moldy towel for a long time).
Just switch to wireless Qi charging and eliminate cords altogether.
Not only is HGH regulated, it even is specifically addressed under law (in the US) that lead some to believe that even prescribing it off-label it is illegal. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGH_controversies#Law
How much money do you think climate change is going to take out of the economy? Its going to be a lot more than 45 billion.
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my point is there’s a lot of people who complain about work that could in theory never work another day in their life again but do for non-financial reasons anyway
> What you explained so far is that it doesn't play well with concurrent modification

Fair enough.

> I'm less interested in the philosophy of records and more in the use cases they support.

The use cases and motivation, as well as why mutation is wrong for records, are explained in the links I provided. Here they are again:

* https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/359

* https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/datum.html
Boring Co is digging a small tunnel under a single parcel of uniform dirt, which is the easiest type of tunneling project.
Hi - I work on Expo.

One of the big focuses for us this year is to make that experience much better.

We've already taken some steps. (We now just give you a regular React Native project if you need one), but we plan to keep working on this stuff until you can get all the power you need to build something like Screenshot Hero with the ease of use of just making a website.
They learned from CUDA that this is indeed the way to own the whole market.
Agree. Shouldn't a "minimal" website have everything it needs on one page? Huge images you have to scroll past to read anything useful isn't being minimal, it's just cruft. Surely it's possible to build a website that doesn't take up a lot of screen real-estate, has everything necessary to function, and still looks professional and aesthetically pleasing?
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On Arch, `/bin/sh` is a symlink to `bash`. When Bash is invoked with the name `sh`, it behaves closer to the historical Bourne shell. The differences between normal Bash behavior and the behavior when invoked as `sh`:

- It behaves as if `--posix` was given.

- It behaves as if `--norc` was given.

- If it looks for a user profile file (i.e. it is a login shell), then it only looks at ~/.profile (instead of the usual behavior of giving precedence to ~/.bash_profile then ~/.bash_login then ~/.profile)

- At startup, if $ENV is set, it `source "$ENV"`.
How is that? I don't have as much experience with .NET languages so I'm not sure of what difficulties lie in .NET interop, but from my very cursory experience with F# And C# I didn't find anything particularly difficult about using one's data structures in the other (granted they don't have different variance strategies).

What about Java's type erasure lets languages play better with variance strategies and data structures? It's not apparent to me that e.g. IronPython has a hard time sharing data structures with C# (although I haven't actually used IronPython FWIW). Why doesn't the usual strategy of upcast everything to `Collection<Object>` within a language where collections are covariant and then downcast as needed in a language that doesn't care about variance (e.g. a dynamic language) work?
I truly feel so bad for people whose lives are so hard their job title literally means "someone who spends money for a living"

Truly a tragedy.
Have you seen any breakdown of why it costs that much? It seems like an unfathomable amount.
An arbiter looked at all of the evidence and sided with the union. I assume they have more information than we do.

How can you be so confident that your interpretation of the contract is better than the arbiter?
Vice is not taken seriously, the premise is false on entry.

C'mon, it isn't even trying to be taken seriously. its Weekly World News.
counterstrike! ..But it too has now been corrupted by DLC/IAP/etc.
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Did NAB once. Miserable. Barely any place to sit on the floor, let alone benches. And the roaches--ugh.
What's the difference between NMN vs NR? I take NR and they're chemically similar and I thought both are sold as anti-aging?
The use case is different, the standard CSS `prefers-color-scheme` media feature changes the styles according to your system preferences. Here, the goal is to offer to the developer a simple API to create a customizable darkmode feature. I've just started writing this API but I intend to make it more customizable by including `prefers-color-scheme` option and timestamps based darkmode.

I hope it make the thing more clear.
That's a very clever concept.

Could you recommend any classic old-school books about data warehousing that you'vre read that teach more such techniques?

Thank you!
In related news, the younger generation of kids in Asian countries are getting worse and worse at writing Chinese characters because they can just type the Romanized versions without learning how to write it. Personally I am able to read Chinese at a moderately high level (can read newspapers) but I cannot write most characters off the top of my head. This is what happens when you emphasize reading over physical writing with pen and paper.
Good. Wireless Qi charging is too slow, and Apple is still being a dongle diva by constantly inventing its own special connectors.
Outsourcing of support staff...
Programming language research. Nothing better than scheme for that.

Also quite good for building small programs with no/minimal depencies from scratch. Which I suspect reduces to my first statement...
Enforcing a mandatory switch to USB-C is moot with Qi charging kicking around and widely supported.
Re: It takes time, for some it's hours, for others - weeks, but eventually you will stop seeing parentheses, and instead, you will see structure, consistency, and meaning. And Lisp becomes more readable than any other language you've used before.

I'd like to see a university test this theory. I suspect it's subjective and varies greatly per individual, but testing on say 100 random subjects could better resolve the Great Lisp Dispute.
> Who are you obligated to provide the records to? When you get a records request from such a party, how long do you have to respond?

You are required to maintain the records at your place of business or with an identified custodian, with specified content, indexing and cross-reference structure, to provide identification of where they are stored along with any depictions sold/distributes, and make them immediately available for inspection by inspectors authorized by the US Attorney-General (which will generally, as I understand, be any US law enforcement agency which asks for such authority) on demand during normal business hours which are either 9-5 local time or, for inspections at the producer's place of business, the producer's actual working hours, which must be provided to inspectors and, if not at least 20 regular working hours per week, must provide notice of at least 20 hours per week during which the records are available for on-demand inspection even if they aren't otherwise working hours for the producer.

> As long as there aren't too many parties who can ask for the records, and you don't have to provide them on very short order,

I don't think either of those qualifications actually holds, especially the second.
This comment is greatly exaggerated. I've never heard of 20-30h for 8h TAs, and even milder overworking (like 10 instead of 8) gets resolved when it's brought to people's attention. The professors I know actually do care about offloading work and not overworking people beyond their hours. I don't know how many such extreme experience you might've had personally, but the description doesn't seem to paint an accurate picture of what's been happening overall.
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From Twitter I was sad to be reminded of Netscape 4, a late and bloated mess that shipped first on Windows. Not Netscape 2 or 3, which were baseline here.
This is a fantastic piece of legislation.
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I think he's woefully disconnected from the non-rich person's life, then. He can already afford to buy however much space he wants.

>If the transport system exceeds public travel needs, there will be very little traffic.

Sure. But... it would take an enormous amount of development to make this happen, because so many people are going to want more space if they can have it with still a <1hr commute. So more sprawl, leading to more pressure on the new network, lather, rinse, repeat...

For all the talk of walkable neighborhoods, if you gave people the choice of a 30min walk-and-subway commute in a 5-story condo building vs a 30min new-car-tunnel point to point commute with a 2000sqft house on a private parcel of land, you're going to have a lot (not everyone, but a lot) of people picking the latter.

Best case it's going to, for a long time, until we reach steady state, still just be a repeat of the "build roads, watch sprawl" cycle of the last century, just with potential to build even more roads by being able to continually go deeper (but is this that much easier than vertical overpasses and such?).
I fixed my SI joint back issues with kettle bell exercises and lots of stretching. Now my back feels even better than before the issues began.

I can see the need for intervention using drugs as a pathway to rehabilitation if the pain is crippling, but outside of that, exercise and strength training seems to solve a lot of problems safely and without drugs.
I don't think AnimalMuppet is confusing most popular with best. But as you don't have the data required to conclude which language is better by any meaningful metric, anyway, then your claim is just wishful thinking. If ML had won and Java lost, one could have just as easily said that ML was holding programming back from some imagined benefit Java would have brought. I think that it is you who are confusing "an interesting perspective" with a value judgment. Yes, ML had pattern matching before Java, while Java had pervasive dynamic linking and dynamic code loading. Those are simple facts and perhaps "an interesting perspective," but how do you decide which is better?
I agree and would say the same thing, but slightly less dismissively. :)

The key here is that we're out of time. This coming decade is probably the last one we will have where the problem can be solved at a cost less than 10% of world GDP. If we wait another 10 years, I suspect all solutions will require a significant fraction of global GDP and authoritarian-style interventions.

As a technologist, I'd love a magical new technology. But I'm also an engineer, and I want to execute the most efficient and low-risk solution in the smallest possible timeframe. After taking all factors into account, that's massive reforestation.

If new technologies are developed in the meantime, that's GOOD. Every bit of help that's put into play helps us. It's not a competition, it's a collective race against time, and we can all contribute.
(Author here)

Your comment about scaling is on point. We're building on a system that not just enables but encourages a large amount of duplicated work because the substrate we've settled on is bytearray oriented. So all PLs and programs map their structures to 'bytes'. Could be worse - we could have different kinds of bytes (8-bit, 12-bit, etc.). But also could be better - the different processes could map their internal structures onto shared symbols or trees, and the substrate could provide a higher level of abstraction instead of clumps-of-bytes.

The interesting question to me is what kinds of composition models should a substrate provide? If we pre-share the notion of bytes, we end up share files and writing over sockets. If we pre-share more structured notion (e.g. graph) and share that it's another way. But there's more to it - how does meaning get transmitted via a message to a receiver? If we pre-share a grammar language, perhaps we can send a message that programs the receiver to extract useful info from itself? Whatever the structure of the message, there needs to be some sharing of 'tags' or 'identifiers' within the message for it to be usefully absorbed. How do we share these? Should this also be provided by the substrate?
This is a great article, especially because the solution is right there in the text:

> forcing everyone to chase the same set of SaaS companies

> everyone can read the gridiron of SaaS metrics

There was a perfect storm: huge seed rounds leading traditional firms to move upmarket, VCs raising larger funds and so needing to hit the winners hard, which caused Series A metrics to swell, and so VCs are all chasing the same deals.

Of course those deals don't need them: those companies are already winning and don't need their expertise, just their money, which is commoditized by the swelling of funds.

The answer is simple: chase less successful. Stop just trying to get into the big SaaS deals, and target smaller companies, lower metrics, earlier stage companies.

Of course, if the firm staffed up and raised a larger fund as the article says, then it may be structurally impossible to survive. Innovator's dilemma in action.
Oh holy hell this is a common mistake. Especially if your developers have local admin rights. Don't expect /etc/skel (OS X) to be unreadable.
> For example, we have absolutely no idea what's going on inside a proton and we'll probably never know.

We actually have a pretty good idea of what's going on inside a proton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton
> And they even pollute your imagination with the limitations of the director's choices.

Exactly why I never watched the films, despite being a huge Tolkien fan from about age 9 to 16. The thought of how Hollywood would depict elves was particularly off-putting for me. I've never regretted not watching them, even when the hype was at its greatest, and any glimpses of screenshots that I've chanced upon have only confirmed that I made the right choice.
This is pretty accurate. The only part I don't really know anything about to confirm is the parts in #2 about the union doing that protecting grad students (I don't know the history). But it's a very accurate portrayal otherwise.
Throwing the word "murder" about like this is an abuse of language. Nobody, not even the Iranians, ever suggested that the crew of the USS Vincennes intended to kill civilians. The crew appears to have exercised piss-poor diligence, but it's universally recognized that they thought they were firing on a military aircraft.
Jeez just stay off Twitter. It will eliminate 99% of your outrage trolling exposure.
It makes the creation and management of dark modes simpler, by giving you a simple API to work with.

It does not use `prefer-color-scheme` for now but I'm planning to add the option later.
Yes. It was Samsung's first 14nm fabrication facility. They were planning to upgrade it but haven't seen any articles since 2017 on that.

https://www.samsung.com/us/sas/company/history
45B of revenue does not translate to 45B of revenue effects in the Australian economy. it underpins GDP. next to none of it appears as either royalties or income because the companies have massive tax holidays and find ways to legally avoid the upside. Its more like 4B of effect in the functional economy than 45 and has to be set against Tourism which is probably 9B and directly into small to medium enterprise, which has massive effect on rural economy directly.

Economics is dismal. 45B evaporates very quickly when you (sorry) drill down.
Most of the costs are also emergency systems, such as ventilation and frequent exits. From what I've seen (I'm not an engineer or a tunnel expert), his tunnels do not account for these things. The standards, which cost a lot to meet, are there for a reason.
You would see effects of tidal forces in the scenario you described, I think.

The other thing is, if it's not curved then you still need to explain Mercury's orbit precession (43 arcseconds per century is it?). This is not an easy thing to do
While I doubt that "Las Vegas tunnel is mostly under parking lots with no obstructions" is even close to represent reality, here's what Boring Company says on the subject:

> With a typical minimum depth of 30 feet, The Boring Company tunnels are well beneath most utilities, which are typically less than 10 feet below the surface. In circumstances where a utility is located deeper, the tunnel depth is increased accordingly.

From https://www.boringcompany.com/faq
There's only been one "real" release since Java 8, which was Java 11.

By which I mean those are the only LTS releases since the shift to frequent releases. The rest have been glorified betas, sometimes with major compiler bugs included (such as https://dzone.com/articles/jdk-91011-side-effects-from-on-ja... ). They have very little support and a super tiny maintenance window. I wouldn't expect any large or stable library/project to use anything but the LTS releases as a result. It looks like Java 17 is the next planned LTS release, which is quite a ways off.
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Instead of exposing for 30 minutes, astronomers take lots of shorter exposures and stack them. Otherwise you'd get tons of noise from CCD hot spots, cosmic rays, aircraft, meteors, satellites, etc.
> History seems to be moving inevitably towards a universal totalitarianism

Honestly, we've been having this discussion since the rise of the centralized state in the 12th century. The 20th century saw a lot of back and forth. I see nothing inevitable.

> "civilization is the sophistication of evil"

> Is there some strong evidence that contradicts this observation?

If you use this as a definition of "civilization", then of course not, because it's a tautology. It's a hard word to lay out.

If you use it in the sense of Kenneth Clarke's book "Civilization" (which, if you're going to use the word, you should read), then, no, not at all. Quite the contrary. Perhaps orthogonal.
No, as it requires strong medical supervision. Greg Fahy’s company is running experiments on humans approved by the FDA in his company in Los Angeles.
Correct, water scarcity is in fact the PRIMARY bottleneck.

The main "innovation" in this solution isn't "we must plant massive forests," it's that clean (solar-powered) desalination is now possible at very large scales, so we are able to provide the volumes of freshwater necessary for large-scale reforestation and conversion of deserts.

Forestry people have known for decades that trees were the best solution to CO2 in the atmosphere, but there wasn't enough forestable land. And while we can reclaim deserts, we couldn't do it at scale unless we irrigate. And we couldn't do it unless we could affordably create a new source of freshwater that wasn't already needed for humans and agriculture.

Now we have it. Now the solution in possible.
One thing I find very odd about this: it’s in both parties’ interest to gave as much tuition remission as possible and as little pay as possible: tuition remission is not taxable. The deal should have been that tuition remission depends on hours and the hourly pay goes way up after there’s no tuition left. Maybe this violates the Fair Labor Standards Act?

When I was a TA, the effective hourly pay was in excess of $70. It was an amazing job!
I can't even comprehend how anyone could tune out constantly-running TV. Just turn it off!
Well I did most of my signals analysis with an oscilloscope circuitry and a function (read: waveform) generator. You could very easily get computer versions of those and substitute the function generator for some music. But I'd consult the elders of the internet for better ideas.
Worth noting that the union is yelling at everyone on Twitter and grossly misrepresenting what actually happened in the "ECCS" (???) department: https://twitter.com/BerkeleyUAW2865/status/12171616914078474...
> Programming languages aren't able to express arbitrary real numbers,

No system of finite representations is able to express arbitrary real numbers.
How is it different from colonialism?

Leeching in the name of democracy?

There are several democracies between Taiwan & USA.
Honestly, I wish more developers were familiar with the Linux command line. It definitely has a learning curve, so it makes sense that people avoid it if it's not necessary to launch their app. That being said, there's a lot of value in knowing how to set up a server yourself, and secure it.
Or maybe there’s not a single monolithic factor to optimize. Assuming you can even define education in the first place, it will always be very contextual. Of course a single factor is very appealing, but maybe it’s an assumption that people impose upon reality and the reality is more complex.
Most of those channels you mention aren't really teaching anything beyond general knowledge and trivia.

You could watch every video on every one of those channels and you might know a lot of random facts but it won't make you a physicist or a mathematician or a biologist.

>That's a parenting issue not a computer issue. Teach your kids what's allowed and what's not, and check their browser history until they learn how to manipulate it, then check your router logs

Ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. There are things I saw on the internet as a child that I still cannot unsee. My parents having seen that I saw them afterwards would not have changed that.
It used to be, my understanding is that these days many fracking operations are viable at $40 a barrel.

The US didn't become the world's largest oil producer by producing the most expensive oil.
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