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> Computers get better as time goes off. This technology wasn't a thing ten years ago. Now it's questionable. In ten years it'll be better than it was today. Humans will be exactly as good in ten years as they were today and exactly as good as they were a hundred years ago. And what they are today is not good enough.

Okay. Automated call systems have been deployed for decades now and continue to increase their market penetration. They are still not nearly as useful or good at what they do as a human would be, but that did not make any significant difference to the speed and rate at which they were deployed. Your argument is that abstractly, at some point, they should be better than humans. Maybe so, but that's not what I was arguing--I was arguing that the conditions for a technology's deployment are only distantly correlated with how good they are in comparison to humans performing the same task, not making some philosophical point about how the machines will not replace us or whatever.

> And on top of that... when was the last time you heard about some US soldiers committing war crimes, in person, with their bare hands? No technology involved at all. No technology needed. Stop blaming it for human failings.

I'm not really going to bother to respond in depth to the rest of the stuff you said since it seems to be responding to points I did not make (when did I ever say people were paragons of virtuous, hadn't killed people before, didn't make mistakes, or didn't use technology to kill people?). I am merely pointing out that technology is not value neutral; the particular technology we are talking about is explicitly designed to do pretty awful things. Responding that the real problem is people is missing the point; it's another iteration of the "guns don't kill people" argument.
Agree that they are likely not related, but I think it fits in with the overall message that we seriously not to take our natural environment serious.

My understanding is that this is caused primarily by large scale industrial farming. A lot of diverse is destroyed as one creates monocultures and cut down trees, bushes, flowers and other things getting in the way of maximum utilization of a monoculture.

It is our extreme profit driven approach to everything. I think we need a combination of a tech oriented solution and a "back to nature" style approach. More of our farm land should probably be grown in the more labour intensive manner with crop rotation and diverse crops which are more favorable to insects.

Meanwhile to keep output high I think we should do more indoor hydroponics style growing. That takes less land area and so we can afford to leave larger areas producing food in a less intensive manner.
And now you can only type code in the set of blessed editors and correctly displaying fonts. "Make code pretty" should be a matter of presentation, not actual source code.

To use your example, typing "=>" could display the "follows" sign, but the string representation should not depend on exotic characters like "ř", "⸙", or "" (is that a box symbol, or "symbol not found in current font"? Oh wait, the HTML input field ate it! See?!).
It's for programming with English based programming languages, not regular arbitrary text. I do think there should be more language specific programming languages, but since there are not, there is no reason for a programming font to support it.
I'm waiting for a passable enough display shy of £1k so that I can work outside. It sounds like there might already be one but its quite hard to find and test them!

For indoor use it has to achieve a lot more. But I would use one as a primary display to rest my eyes more.
We are now in the modern age of near-instant electronic communications, social media, Facebook, YouTube, etc. These tools enable the mass education of citizens across the nation, if they choose to partake in the political process.

The idea that we even need an electoral college system anymore is now firmly outdated. And especially since it failed to do its job the last time!

The fate of the nation is now decided by insignificant random counties, by people who appear to refuse to adjust and help themselves. Get retrained, move, do something. But no, they won’t do that. And I get it, life gets in the way.

So the nation needs to move forward and switch to a popular vote. And perhaps even a UBI model, that would alleviate the pressure of making rent, and putting food on the table. This may actually help eliminate the divide, and bring the country together.
The Unprecedented Demographic Boom and Bust
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Which is a little weird, because those who pay more get to board earlier... but why would anyone want to board a plane earlier?

Personally I would like to board at the last possible time, but I not going to un-board until the busiest people have left the plane.
Will China become an ‘AI super power’ by 2030?
The truth is, it's none of those things. I am just unwilling to indulge people's fantasies on this issue, because I've lived through it having been clinically obese myself in the past.

>I find it supremely hilarious that you refer to the person's own body as an external factor.

It's external in the sense that we have no control over our DNA, which is implicitly being blamed when one speaks of one's own predisposition towards weight gain. It's not that funny.
> But for-profit corporations, which is what most people think about when they say "corporation" are generally legally required to put profit above any other value, assuming they are operating legally.

No they aren't. They do have a fiduciary duty to act in the interests of shareholders, which means not taking actions which are unexpected and obviously harmful to other shareholders like paying all the company's revenues to another company wholly owned by the CEO. But that duty to shareholders actually even obligates them to take into account factors other than profit, whether that's mitigating risks or abiding by a shareholder resolution to follow a 'socially responsible' business practice that costs them a lot of profit, and management absolutely also has enough discretion to choose to design and follow its own 'socially responsible' business practices or decline to enter a profitable sector they don't want to involve themselves in. No executive has ever been penalised for not putting profit above any other value.

Companies pursuit of profit is much less driven by legal obligation and much more driven by the fact that greater profitability tends to generate greater returns to the management as well as the shareholders.
Are you implying it's ok to blow up your own jet? What if it was planted? What if it's smuggling?
This is quintessential Swedish sense of humor, the doctors AND the king dying before either of the twins.
Gas releases 50% less CO2 per kWh produced than coal, so it is a good intermediate to reduce emissions on the short term.
Indeed... I don't even consider using their development tools now.
It's still useful for writing localized string literals and comments.
"Activism is the last stage of grief"
> In terms of being a platform for applications, the browser landscape today is paradise on earth compared to the hellscape we endured

I completely agree, but the points that you then make simply show how modern browsers are vastly better than the old ones. I love developing for a modern browser, such as Chrome. I just fail to see how the claim that having competing browser engines that do not have complete feature parity can be in any way considered desirable by web developers. I can understand this argument from end users' perspective (and even then not quite, because remember the days when sites would say that they were "best viewed in Netscape Navigator", or when you could watch Apple keynote presentation on Apple's site only in Safari?), but not from web developer's perspective. Wouldn't a single healthily evolving browser engine be better from web developer's point of view than multiple engines, each with its quirks?
Long time ago there were utterly rosy predictions how simple and safe pebble bed reactors would be. Then they built that thing. I have this theory that the conventional wisdom is wrong. The people that designed the basic reactor design used to day were very very smart and had lots of resources. And that the best design they could come up with. Since then all the other proposed designs come from pollyanna B team types.
A piece of paper no-one can read is extremely doable, if you encrypt your HDD at home you can walk around with it as long as you like and no-one will decrypt it, the problem is making it an accessible device you can comfortably use and take data in and out of without accidentally making it readable.
I'm so completely not a Windows developer or a C++ developer, but seriously, the experience working with Visual Studio on Windows/C++ when I didn't really know what I was doing - but I had to do undocumented things (I needed to get Haskell to talk to some Windows apis, for which no bindings exist) - was incredible. Second to none. I'm half thinking about changing career direction it was so nice.
If you've got beef with someone, take it up with them while they're living. Once they're dead, you missed your chance.

If Baker thought he was damaging the org, it was her legal duty to protect its interests and terminate him. Not only did this never happen, but per Baker's account, Markham was repeatedly rehired.

If Moz changed their mind at some point and wanted him gone, well, he's gone -- crapping all over his legacy accomplishes nothing other than exacerbating the grief of survivors and potentially opening up legal liability.

Should someone allege that Baker's horrific "memorial" rises to the level of actionable defamation, she'll have a hard time winning the sympathy of the court. "Don't kick someone while they're down" and all that. You can't get any more down than "literally dead". If you can't settle the personnel file before the employee dies, just let it go.

Ultimately, it is pretty simple: a corporate officer publishing a barrage of criticism against a deceased subordinate can only be described as chickenshit.
As I understand it, reMarkable claims[1] to have developed CANVAS from the ground-up on top of Carta technology, in close collaboration with E Ink. It may be as you say and they developed just the drivers, but I believe from their press releases that they are responsible for some breakthrough detail to accelerate refresh, that E Ink didn't think was possible (something to do with a waveform transmission signal to transfer pixels to the screen).

They were the first to build the technology to bring refresh times for writing near the 50ms mark, and hold the patent about it (AFAIK they license this patent to other builders who use Canvas).

[1] https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000264751...
you need to recheck as some recent chromebooks are going to get fuchsia which will support the legacy android apps
Absolute AGREE!!! Why are so few others pointing this out!!

If oil was heroin, our current approach is like telling heroin dealers to keep pushing their drugs, but put all the onus on the junkies to stop buying so much of the heroin. It is TOTALLY backwards!

I am saying this as someone who benefits immensely from living in an oil producing country (Norway).

We are f...ing expanding our oil production while building windmills to make our oil production "cleaner." Everybody in Norway seems to be patting themselves on the back that we are reaching our climate goals by reducing emissions from oil production. Never mind that those emissions are like 1% of the emissions from actually burning the oil.

But that problem we leave to the buys. It is infuriating.

My proposal to win over fellow Norwegians is that we join an oil Cartel like OPEC. We then lobby OPEC to become a cartel for green change. All oil producers agree to begin gradual reductions in output.

This will cause the price to go up, so Norway and other will not get the big economic hit that is making it politically unpopular to reduce oil production. It also means all oil producers share they burden.

Oil consumers will then have to start reducing their consumption because oil will get more expensive. This ought to be a win-win situation.
No, Microsoft is the same. My comment doesn't imply that Microsoft is somehow simpler than Google. The point is that the two people above me are disagreeing because they're over-simplifying these complex entities.
That's not a very good thing, especially considering that there are (probably ?) actual unicode characters '→' and '≡' that are not valid syntax for -> and === in languages that utilize the later.
Was Google anywhere near as bad in 2008? I don't recall anything particularly awful back then.
Mozilla doesn't need employees when it has so many people white-knighting it on the internet.
Rebuilding American Institutions
Yeah it didn't catch on. The Wii U bombed, Kinect on xbox bombed and the actual number of games that took advantage of the features in either was pretty low compared to the total games released in those generations.

Wii/kinect is a gimmick that a finite number of good games could take advantage of and once they'd been released there wasn't really anywhere else to go.
Every time a new shiny font comes out I always try it. Then I run back to Inconsolata until the next time :)
Imagine taking advice from Chriss Kresser unironically.
What kind of monster would suggest such a thing?! :P
> In 1960, John McCarthy published a remarkable paper in which he did for programming something like what Euclid did for geometry.

One could argue that Church's (1930s) lambda calculus, which underlies LISP, is a closer analogue to Euclid's distillation of the essence of Geometry.

With the minimal addition of pure binary IO, the lambda calculus is easily transformed into an untyped programming language [1]. On the other hand, full blown and richly typed pure functional programming languages like Haskell remain semantically faithful to their lambda calculus underpinnings.

[1] https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html
Twice as expensive is possibly not too expensive to compete with batteries for LONG TERM storage. It's far too expensive to compete with batteries for diurnal load leveling. DC coupled batteries are already helping solar displace gas in the US west, for example, at price points nuclear can only dream of.

Renewables + batteries, and + hydrogen for rare lulls/seasonal storage, will leave no place for new nuclear. The system will optimize out to 0% nuclear, once existing nuclear plants are gone.
>Android apps and Crostini on Chromebooks are not two of them. In fact, Android apps is one of the migration paths away from Chrome apps, a fact this article fails to mention.

So should someone buy a new Chromebook on the hopes that this new system of apps will continue to be supported down the road? I think once you're burned once, that's hard to buy into.
Nice discussion of a problem pretty much everyone is probably at least sub-conscious of.

Passing mention in a footnotes of many failed attempts at solving the problem.

No proposal for any solution of the problem.

Can't wait for the follow-up article.
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Intel Discontinues Some Cascade Lake Xeon Models, Slashes Pricing on Others
Good for who? In an IDE the person reading them knows what don’t they are using, and so won’t get confused. The IDE itself knows what language the code is in and will highlight invalid syntax.
Two Jurors Voted to Acquit. He Was Convicted of Murder Anyway
Are you saying we have peaceful times because of drone strikes?

I rather believe other factors are at play and we have peaceful times despite drone strikes.
> LDAP is amazing as an identity provider in a data center, but does not offer support for modern authentication methods like oath and oidc.

I don't think lack of support for OAuth is a problem here. OAuth is specifically designed to obtain access to an HTTP service[1], and OpenID Connect is specifically designed for OAuth. LDAP is not an HTTP service.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749
Absolutely it would or wouldn't be underfunded?
>>spent more money on research to make them safer

>It's a very common opinion among people who have researched this significantly

The nuclear industry has spent a lot on PR to convince the public that they're safer but so far criminal liability for accidents is still minimized and the liability cap (i.e. free government insurance for accidents) is still incredibly low.

I'd personally be more convinced of their frequent protestations that they're 100% safe if they lobbied to increase their own liability rather than engaged public relations firms to put a happy face on their industry.

Actions do speak louder than words, don't you think?

Moreover, if you raised the liability then the research into making them safer ought to more or less take care of itself. The greatest incentive for executives is avoiding criminal liability.
No, I think that was around the launch of the first android, right? There was some serious interest in a Linux (!!!) based phone. They were seen as a savior of sorts, as I remember it. Now they’re a place where novel ideas go to die.
The good thing about ligatures is that they only affect how the text is displayed, so people who don't like and use ligature fonts won't encounter them.

The exceptions may be, as you said, online tutorials etc. with their own fonts and formatting, but I think that's more a part of the problem of bloated website design overriding browser-wide preferences.

For me ligatures are less important than syntax highlighting, but I do find them helpful - especially the greater-equal and smaller-equal signs are much more readable with ligatures, and that also applies when I read other people's code in my editor.
> the FQDN is sent plaintext as part of HTTPS.

Can you please elaborate on that? domain name is sent after ssl handshake, no? Why is it sent plaintext?
Biomineralization and Regeneration of Engineered Living Building Materials
I wonder if individual members ever make decisions against the ant colony. For example if the ant colony as a whole discriminates a certain group of ants, will those ants simply obey? Basically are there rebel ants?
Get Ready for the Manjaro Linux Laptop Explosion (Including AMD Ryzen Models)
I wonder if a mechanical solution could be used: fold away the arm rests and squash the seats together. 6 armrests folded away would make the isle twice as wide. This could make boarding and exiting more than twice as fast because you have double the capacity and people can overtake others stowing luggage.

Interesting engineering challenge to design those seats. Perhaps leave the armrests and use a wormwheel to make the seats narrower is easier to implement. Could be hilarious if engaged while people are sitting in them.
I do so as well, but I run back to Fira Code with ligatures. I'll try this one now.
Just an ancillary point: this highlights that free access to group messaging apps makes it much harder than before to suppress facts about what has happened somewhere. Especially if there's video. The Iran regime of 1990 would have had a much easier time keeping this mistake under wraps.

I think the whole "fake news" and related propaganda strategies we see in the West are what happens when people in power try to adapt to this new reality, by attacking at the weak spots of the new information infrastructure.
I actually don't watch TV,and haven't for over 20 years. But I do use a 4k 50 inch TV for a monitor. You are correct about distance away. I measured and it's 89cm my case.

The back lights on ones (~$250) that are lower priced can crap out after a few years. They are strips of LEDs chained together. The entire top half of bottom half will go dim. I have disassembled and fixed but it's not worth it.

I also use a laptop on a stand and stand at my desk. Both are easy to move as the desk is a square, drafting style setup with the top laid flat. The TV hangs from the ceiling, and can swivel left right.

Maybe you could set your desk in the other direction.
Actually, they do: "In this study, benefits of interconnecting wind farms were evaluated for 19 sites, located in the Midwestern United States, with annual average wind speeds at 80 m above ground, the hub height of modern wind turbines, greater than 6.9 m/s (class 3 or greater). We found that an average of 33 % and a maximum of 47 % of yearly-averaged wind power from interconnected farms can be used as reliable, baseload electric power."[0]

The more turbines, the higher that percentage becomes. (For comparison, French nuclear plants also only produced power a bit over 70% in 2016/7)

[0] = https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.475...
www.just-eat.no

Many (all?) Oslo postcodes start with 0, and their site truncates the 0 when you try to enter your postcode. Their stated solution was to use Chrome, so they don't get any of my business.
The reader uses their own font with or without ligatures. There is no cost.
> why on earth would you work every day toward something you don't see yourself in, breathe and beleive in?

because the work itself was intrinsicly interesting, regardless of the product
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Ant Slaves Overthrow Their Masters (2013)
I'm not disagreeing, just pointing out that when the grandparent post says "emotional reactions to a single event", they are talking (correctly or not) about the Fukushima event, not Chernobyl.

A response that "Chernobyl wasn't on the other side of the world" is either misunderstanding which event entirely, or skipping a whole lot of necessary preamble about it not being a "single event" at Fukushima.
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