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Guile runs elisp just fine, although there are quite some low hanging optimization fruit to be picked.

From the Emacs side I strongly doubt it will happen. The discussions that have been going on for faaaar less intrusive changes is staggering. Reading the discussions about the portable dumper (new in the upcoming emacs 27, proposed in 2014) is a nice 4 hours. That was in just about every measurable way a step forward for Emacs, yet it took almost 4 years for it to be mainlined,despite glibc more or less deprecating the old unexec from under emacs' feet.

I might be misrepresenting just about everything here, but one thing I am pretty certain of: guile Emacs will never happen, despite the promises of running elisp on guile.
They're private subnets, right? From the paper:[0]

> Looking at the network configuration of the Uconnect system we can see that it has several interfaces used for communications. It has an interface for the internal Wi-Fi communications, uap0, and another PPP interface, ppp0, presumably used to communicate with the outside world, via Sprint’s 3G services.

# ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 33192
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
pflog0: flags=100<PROMISC> mtu 33192
uap0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
address: 30:14:4a:ee:a6:f8
media: <unknown type> autoselect
inet 192.168.5.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.5.255
ppp0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1472
inet 21.28.103.144 -> 68.28.89.85 netmask 0xff000000

> The 192.168.5.1 address is the address of the Uconnect system to any hosts connected to the Wi-Fi access point. The IP address 68.28.89.85 is the one that anyone on the Internet would see if the Uconnect system connected to them. However, port 6667 is not open at that address. The 21.28.103.144 address is the actual address of the interface of the Uconnect facing the Internet, but is only available internally to the Sprint network.

> After a little experimentation, it was observed that the PPP interface’s IP address would change each time the car was restarted, but the address space always fell within two class-A address blocks: 21.0.0.0/8 or 25.0.0.0/8, which are presumably the address space Sprint reserves for vehicle IP addresses.

So these are basically huge LANs that anyone with a suitably tweaked Sprint baseband modem can access.

0) http://illmatics.com/Remote%20Car%20Hacking.pdf
> "Most" because it has exemptions even for copyright circumvention.

Right that was what I meant, that the specific "list" I could think of is actually of exemptions. Irrelevant nitpick really, sorry.
Beyond that, most people are comparing old houses built by well off people vs modern middle class houses. If you look at "middle class" houses built 300 years ago they were basically shacks.
Physics does not exclude such an instrument. Budget does.

Shipping complicated physical hardware to space requires that it absolutely must work on the first try, and never require maintenance for the lifetime of the instrument. In contrast, the large earth-based telescopes can be regularly updated, maintained, and debugged. Access for such activities costs as much as a plane ticket to Chile, instead of a dedicated mission to space.
About the New Google Search Page
Once in a while, I'll type the wrong address, stumble on a parked domain and be shown ads masquerading as a search engine results.

The new Google search page feels like them.

Instead of being determined by millions of experiments, this seems like it was designed for a specific goal in mind - to make search results indistinguishable from ads.
Welcome to the New Microsoft Edge
>That's called doing it manually.

Yes, a common feature in unstable environments. Automation is an ideal, but not a necessity, and it's not always viable or cost-effective.

But also that the unfailing competency means that you need to contiously maintain (all aspects of the) automation without fail, again in spite of a changing environment. Across everyone who does things.

>What you're doing is making excuses rather than holding yourself to a higher level of quality.

And what you're doing is pretending that firing off blind, trivial prescriptions is a useful activity -- perhaps I'll soon find you selling self-help books as well :-)

Automation is not an answer that can always be applied trivially; especially retroactively. Even despite all the marketing that will tell you otherwise.
Yeah but if they extend your life won't you need even more for retirement?
And the zodiac signs are also divided in 4 groups (air, fire, earth, water) so it seems the idea of dividing people in 4 quadrants is pretty old.
Astronomers will have to get used to this. If we ban these for such nonsense reasons, it will be Chinese satellites blocking their view.
Appeal to Nature
This is a very poorly constructed argument that's repeated over and over. There is nothing in vim that makes you not be able to use autocomplete. If you want autocomplete you got it. I'm an emacs user and I have a lot MORE features including MORE autocomplete features than my coworkers using IDEs.
Interesting, thank you! I guess I got caught up in my stress about this winter - while last winter did have a lot of snow, this winter has had nearly 0. Looking out the window of my office I see greenery, not snow, so I figure the huge swings from year to year are something to be concerned about.
I'd argue that 4e was closer to 'sword and sorcery' than either 3e or 5e, given how it took away campaign-altering 9th-level spell access, flight abilities as a default assumption of combat at high level, easy access to whole piles of miscellaneous magic abilities, etc, from PCs.
The original announcement: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/ente...
Tesla will protect bicyclists from “dooring” in future update, notes Elon Musk
When I worked in Boston I organized a company event for habitat for humanity. First year was great, we worked on a house all day, paid HforH somewhere between 1k and 5k (i cannot remember). A year later we returned to the same site. But... the house we worked on the year before wasnt finished yet...

That kind of blue my mind. I always wondered whether the money donated by companies would have been better used to just hire contractors.
the original osx pinstripe look is pretty hideous, and the faux glossy emboss look hasn't aged well either

https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2016/01/mac-os-x-...
I recently got a job in the ERP industry(SAP), though my purpose is essentially to do stuff that is not SAP related.

I don't think it should surprise anyone that SAP makes mistakes and/or that ERP systems are hard to implement. SAP in particular is an absolute monstrosity. I don't just mean in terms of size either. I can't help but think about that Nietzsche quote about the abyss.

SAPs systems should become textbook examples of tech debt left to accumulate, of what happens when systems are allowed to grow in whatever direction is useful at the time without any thought for the future or proper design.
This isn't very surprising either since I can't imagine that there is any group of human beings on Earth that is capable of understanding SAPs systems to the point where they could extend it safely.

SAP also takes the NIH syndrome and makes it a core value. Everything they make is worse than that other technology that accomplishes the same. See UI5 - it's like they traveled back in time and hired a CS freshman in the late 90s to develop it.

When they don't have the expertise to create a copy from scratch, they just use the competitors' solutions and wrap that in their own marketing. They want you to only use SAP stuff.

The figures mentioned in the article about how important SAP is to the world's economy and logistics should scare the living shit out of anyone.
> I don't have it here / I don't have it now / It's not me who keep them / It wasn't me at the time / I don't know

More like the state should not need it at all. Why support even more surveillance?
Black satellites are nothing new. Just ask any Surveillance Agency how they handle the heating problem due to black paint.

Oops that's classified. But probably such satellites need a dedicated cooling system.

It's never as easy as, just paint it black and hope for the best.
That must be an amazing feeling! Is this a feature that's still in macOS today? Can I see it in action?
The world is a big place. As it warms, we should expect that places which used to have snow constantly will instead have intermittent snow.

Not in the arctic, but at places more on the limit of the snowline, why would you NOT expect this to be happening already.
There's no need to mislead potential participants. Just post information on the event web site showing where their registration fees go and let them decide.
It's all always going to remain out of reach for a long time if we don't try.
Let's hope nobody gets murdered, injured or raped. This is about as bad as it gets.
Early Microsoft tended to clone or buy successful products. They were not really into core R&D, only improvement R&D. They let others be the guinea pigs. Gates was a skilled poker player, which probably helped him be a shrewd business-person. When all was said and done, you would realize he walked away with all your best cards.
Just opened the study and read a bit about the methods and I wonder why they didn't include people that do not drink milk so the telomere lengths could be compared.

We cannot know if milk (in general or 1%) is causing aging or protecting against it, cases which point for very different conclusions.

This table also has something interesting that corroborates with this idea:

https://new.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2019/1574021/tab4/

Note how the ones that rarely drink any milk have the same telomere lengths, same as the ones that drink full fat or 2% milk. SE is also so big for 1% and non-fat on the "rarely" row that telomere lengths can be considered to be the same for all the columns (on this row).

It makes me wonder if it's the milk or if there is any other covariable that is playing a role here. In fact, they themselves cite this in the study ("Discussion" section):

"However, it is possible that other dietary differences account for some of the biological aging differences among the milk fat categories."

Therefore, I'd take this study with a grain of salt. If anything can be concluded by these numbers is that 1% milk may be protective, not that full-fat milk promotes aging.
Mildly ironic: The first video I went to is https://www.applearchive.org/1990-feed/steve-jobs-on-the-lib... which has the caption, "We shouldn't build too many more libraries, instead we should connect towns to the internet to provide access to the Library of Congress". 30 years later and copyright has us not much closer to unlocking the Library of Congress.
Maybe take once a week, then you will need to wait only 20 * (365 - 52) / 365 years?
Could you link the Reddit comment please?
I completely agree with you. HR seems to aggregate all the people that you wouldn't allow anywhere near the actual business of the company.
Because nothing good can come of that.
200+ games with source code· GitHub game jam winners
Splurge (and read) TAOCP box set + the newer titles. https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Programming-Volumes-1-4A-Box...
While I was in Tokyo a couple months ago, I put my common black/clear umbrella in the ramen shop rack. Upon exit, I was forced to grab another as mine had been nabbed. I felt horrible grabbing someone else's umbrella (though I still did haha)! I feel relieved to learn this is ok.
I always tip, and usually rounded up from at least 10%. Often even 20% if it's a small amount. Mostly because I've worked service industry jobs and the experience was awful compared to my current work.

That said, there's no pressure whatsoever on tipping, and while it's common enough that the service workers aren't 'surprised', I regularly have friends making a comment about how they never tip.

I do vaguely remember quite a few places having tip jars though, but my memory is fuzzy on that.
Until companies are made to feel the pain of data leaks, they won't bother.
there are zsh distros that come with good defaults such as oh-my-zsh.
That would be a shame. Write to your congress person and let them know.
I can see this picture of Satya Nadella used in future to remind him of how this plan failed
For now. Do the Elon Musk analysis from first principles. The future of astronomy is clearly outside of Earth's gravity well and atmosphere.
Oh, I agree. Erikson does not appear to be a scientist at all. But I think the criticism should be along the lines of "he was not using the scientific method or citing sources which used such in the writing of this book", not personal attacks of "he doesn't have a degree in behavioral science".

To illustrate my point, this article[0] paints a very dim view of the science used in the book "Why We Sleep". The author of the book is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley. Being in academia (even a professor at a prestigious school!) doesn't mean the book he wrote is de facto "scientific".

[0] https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/#appendix-what-do-you-d...
We still shouldn't let them off the hook for their invasive telemetry lately, but for such a large, energy hungry company to be carbon negative is legitimately a great thing.
Belbin is same bs mostly. Yes, some people tend to be more comfortable in leadership roles and yes, some people are more creative.

But the belbin model is yet again one failed attempt to quantify these ephemeral observations - and failing at that.

I deal with several roles. My belbin questionnaire mapped pretty well the type of communication that was required in each role between the other person, but did not tell about me as such.

These tools are best used as an entertainment to get people thinking about how they behave, but in that a "which hogwarts house do you belong to" would run the same function. I.e. they are all fiction. Fiction can capture important insights, but it's not science.

(For those not familiar with belbin, part of the routine is collecting feedback from 5-6 of you coworkers)
That's the gift that keeps on giving, the whole year!
> The invocation of a personality Gremlin is one example of careless thinking.

Am I supposed to accept this because it already makes sense, because Katz or Sumpter wrote it, because other people believe it, or because of research to back it up? I sympathize with all the so called foolish Swedes.
> Kids who never drank coffee would grow up and never think about it, much less care

Which pretty much nails the problem. Us older folks remember that cold, snowy winters were normal, that there were orders of magnitude more insects such that frequent stops to clear windscreen, headlights or helmet visor were just normal. We remember mixed farms that husbanded the land rather than beat it into submission.

Those kid's normal is no insects, no snow, monoculture industrial farmland everywhere, signs of human interference in every remote corner of the globe. Most live in concreted cities where food comes from the shop, not the land. Everything is based on that "normality of childhood". They quite literally don't see the problem. Even seeing old photos and film footage doesn't convey... I wish I'd listened to more of my granddad's tales of shire horses and traction engines. I wish I could have seen through his eyes.

The environment and natural world has become a theme park to visit for a skiing holiday, safari or to farm to oblivion. To watch in the latest Attenborough. Only a few outdoorsy types understand it, even fewer what it used to be any more.

Most of us have no connection with the natural world. Every industry and activity has become unsustainable by injecting rampant consumerism and near limitless fossil fuel into the process. Ironic so many of us are starting to actually care about impact, as it reaches worst ever.

I really do think OP has it right saying we need the "appearance of immediate, severe-yet-not-deadly impacts on our day-to-day lives" before anything truly significant will happen.
If I'm healthy enough to keep working, retirement isn't really necessary.

Also, given enough time, I ought to be able to amass a self-sustaining pile of wealth and then I can retire :)
Show HN: MikroORM 3 – TypeScript ORM Based on Data Mapper and Unit of Work
For radio telescopes, some Very Long Baseline Interferometry experiments have a space based component:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-long-baseline_interferome...
I think I generally agree with you there.

But I don't expect to be seeing ski areas becoming generally untenable operations in the Eastern US until many decades in the future, other than maybe some of the southernmost areas (there's ski areas as far south as Alabama).

Average conditions may be more variable and resorts will have to push even harder in snowmaking windows.

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On the other hand though, there's quite a bit of technological advancement still coming down the pipe on the snowmaking side. In some respects, Eastern US conditions are (for now) arguably improved from what they used to be for many as a result.

The massive automation coming to the industry is making it possible to make a lot more snow and take advantage of small weather windows, and the efficiency improvements have made the energy costs a lot less prohibitive to use extensively (and less environmentally problematic).
Text is generic. With interfaces you have to design abstractions that are suited to the application. Like code, great UI abstractions make solving problems easier and pleasant. Wrong abstractions do the opposite, leaving users powerless to accomplish their goals. Text both fills a gap for when no abstraction is present and provides a fallback when the abstraction isn't good enough or discoverable.
CRM Is Not Enough – Announcing the Platform of Independents
Yep. it is actually largely dubitative.

I don't know, I simply have no idea of the number of device units of the Gray thingy sold, and how much they could have been used, and as well I have no idea on how many crimes involve the access to a (password protected) iPhone, but unless (yet another piece of data I have no idea about) all suspects either use an Android (or however non-iPhone) or give to the police access to the device without need to "crack" the access code, they should be non-trivial amounts.

I mean, I understand that it is a fraction (going to trial) of a fraction (criminal cases involving a phone) of a fraction (suspects not providing access to the device) of a fraction (suspects using specifically an iPhone), still the ubiquity of iPhones and the large number of criminal cases should anyway result in tens or hundreds, while we have AFAICT none or maybe a few actually documented/published about.

The declining of local reporting may be indeed another factor, but there would certainly be lawyers making a fuss (right or wrong) about this or that right violated through the use of this or similar tool.

The contract with ICE:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/05/08/immig...

is likely to produce no public court records, just like many national agencies, still the sheer fact that not a single actual court record of its use can be found (at least by me) could mean that the device is not used that much by local police, a few cases should have been brought to the attention of the public.
ripgrep isn't POSIX compliant. It's hardly a proper replacement.
Not all of these are new drugs. NMN, for example, is a supplement that you can buy now. It's a bit expensive but the price is dropping as it becomes more popular.

Others mentioned include HGH, which has been around for decades. Only problem there is that it's a controlled substance so getting a prescription for anti-aging purposes may be difficult.
I have seen a scenario where a bespoke application which had also been running for sometime had been lost to the miasma (consultants took the source code with them).

The organization in question paid for a team of forensic software experts to reverse engineer it to the best of their ability ahead of a full data center migration to a new facility.

I left the company while they were somewhere in the middle of this project.
I would think Space X isn’t even going to transmit to the ground in China.
I saw what I consider to be the epitome of money-grubbing "charity fun run" about five years ago with the "Ugly Sweater Run". They blatantly advertised that there would be no clock, no results, and it would be "about 5K/3.1 miles". For $85. On a private road that was unlikely to require any permits or even much traffic control (Remlinger Farms, for those familiar with the Seattle/Carnation area). I've run plenty of 5K runs with awards, traffic control, support, timing and placing for $35 (and this old man thinks that's high).

But wait, you might ask, what about the charity? Toys for Tots. Bring your own damned toy, because the organizers sure as hell weren't giving the little shits any toys. None of the money was earmarked for the charity, right into the event organizers' pockets it goes.

That's the most egregious example. Other examples abound to solidify my belief that charity fun runs are a racket. Write a check directly, and go find a run that isn't trying to bullshit you with a coat of "it's for charity".
Something I notice regularly on large companies and universities, literally any organization which is bigger then a single building: The vast amount of energy waste.

This starts at heating rooms like crazy (because it is unmanaged), having unneccessary equipment, computers and lights running all night (because they are unmanaged) and goes up to transportation. It's so simple things like truck drivers who prefer to keep their diesel running during loading/unloading. I guess they do so because either they were told by incompetent managament, have the wrong belief that their batteries could not power the lights, or some other disbelief.

Saving energy starts in the small, also if started by something big. Having said that, I guess a company of the size of Microsoft will have a huge potential to save energy.
Also notable is https://www.folklore.org/ - thatnks for this site!
The Mysterious Disappearance of Consciousness
This seems like a very principled move by marketing tech companies. If they can make it work, we can hopefully expect other domains to follow open standards too?
The lawyers don’t even understand how the law says data is supposed to be segregated [1], how are the performers supposed to know.

Also, there is a very big difference between citing facial recognition tech (which while rapidly becoming more common, is still something that requires a degree of skill to use and has a real cost to using) as a reason for “zero anonymity” and having public records with direct ties to nude photos and videos leaked. It’s even more misleading to represent that these have the same risk profile.

[1]: https://lawofsex.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/keeping-your-recor...
We'll say the same about flat buttons-that-don't-look-like-buttons too.
Could you explain how something that orbits 500km up could be seen at night?
> Your comment shows malice [...] Try Hanlon’s Razor.

For the sake of internal consistency you should accuse GP of stupidity, not malice.
> I've wondered what would happen if we scrapped the most useless 30% of my state's school curriculum and instead replaced it with reading time.

At our kids school they operate a (third-party) web-based reading comprehension test linked with many books available in the school library.

Kids can collects points in their account on this system if they correctly answer questions about the books they've borrowed and read.

Our eldest has now amassed by far the most points that any child in the school has ever had.

His teacher is convinced it's somehow to do with him chasing lots of points. We, on the other hand, are convinced it's just because he really enjoys reading, and that we have no TV in the house and an awful lot of books...