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Sure, wireheading is just part of the story, but I'd argue that the 'evil corporation' trope perfectly fits the same narrative. What is particularly evil about these corporations? It is precisely the fact that they don't care about individual humans and treat them as expendable resources to be exploited in pursuit of their goals. Aided by novel technologies, this exploitation can take some weird and scary forms. And those who try to fight back have no choice but to treat themselves as rats.
Neither of those responses were botched, sorry.

And yes, you can in fact fix incompetence by giving the incompetent organization more money. Organizations are made up of people, and those people have varying levels of competence, and the set of people isn't fixed, either. Sometimes you have competent ICs begging for funding and incompetent managers who can't present the case for it. Sometimes you have competent managers who don't have enough budget to hire competent ICs at salaries competitive with industry. Sometimes everyone is competent but too afraid of risking their job to speak out against structures or processes that prevent them from doing their best work. If you think there's corruption, that's a different matter, but if it's just incompetence, throwing more money at the problem sounds like a fantastic plan.
I think that the world (and specifically the US) had been worse ever since 9/11. With lack of privacy through the Patriot act and horrible airplane experience I wouldn't say that the long term effects of 9/11 was good.
GDPR was.

Unfortunately there hasn't been any significant follow through yet.

Yep. All those dark pattern cookie banners are illegal under GDPR.
Of course it was. We built battleships in weeks then.
Yes. This is why companies (and countries) fire wartime leaders when the war is over. Look at Churchill.
Don't iPhone look very similar? why do people need a new one?
There are probably many answers depending on person, some just want latest and greatest, some people were affected by the battery issue(while it was hidden from them), some people break the phone and don't have an Apple store near or don't have the time to wait for a repair and they get a new phone. Sometimes the updates make the old phones slow or incompatible and websites and applications are pushing you to buy a new one.
Most of those security bugs have been found by using http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ for fuzzing the config parser of NetHack.

Also read the hilarious account how neglecting the integer range of parsing a number lead to a config that gives you an almost invincible character from the start:

https://dpmendenhall.blogspot.com/2020/03/nethack-366-or-how...
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The problem is you can't really build theories from global hidden variables. If the details of any experiment depend significantly\* on the state of the entire universe, until we can account for the entire universe in our measurements, we might as well stop measuring.

\* even with Newtonian physics, the universal attraction of any object does have non-0 values everywhere, but we know that the influence is negligible. However, with global hidden variables, the speed a billiard ball will take when I hit it may depend on the size of a planet in a different galactic cluster.
Sure, that sounds nice, but corporations with a strong moral compass (and pharma ones, at that), are not exactly commonplace.
We also have tons of old, maybe obsolete I don't knw, military and emergency stuff sitting in warehouses for things like that from the cold war. My impression is that all measures currently being taken are there make sure we don't need to go to these extremes.
I don’t consider this a positive.

I would, on balance, prefer to have a language with a smaller feature set that limits the amount of syntactic variability in the code I see. This, I believe, allows me to focus on the problem, not on the language features the person is using to solve the problem.

With Rust it always feels like there are changes and, at times it feels exhausting having to ‘keep up’. It also means that there’s high variability in the code you see in the wild.
https://www.nethack.org/v366/release.html
I was wondering if ctrl-f for 'Ryu' would match anything.

Jeroen van der Zijp, developer of the lesser known FOX Toolkit, claims to have done better than the Ryu algorithm. From his changelist [0]:

> New, faster, and often more accurate floating point to string conversion. No, this is not based on Ryu paper. New method reliably generates 16 digits, and does much better rounding.

I believe this [1] is his implementation in C++. See also his paper [2]. (I believe it's not peer-reviewed, but it does appear in Google Scholar.)

[0] http://www.fox-toolkit.org/

[1] https://github.com/gogglesguy/fox/blob/77396c638c1c4e05/lib/...

[2] http://www.fox-toolkit.org/ftp/fasthalffloatconversion.pdf
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6L is about 2200 calories worth of sugar if you're drinking Schweppes, so it might cause other complications :)
Sure, and in CL is even better. My point was that other languages (non-lisps, such as Python, Ruby, etc) don't allow for that.
The problem with red flags they are easy to find but rarely actionable as long as you need to pay bills.
Compare the dates, three weeks are an eternity in this mess.
The getting the disease twice may not be a fact.
People sold stocks and cryptos to hold onto cash to save themselves from the fall.

And Fed comes and dilutes other people's cash further.
On the contrary, see Brussel Effect[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
Philly is way better than SF for transit. Maybe it's similar within the dense parts but it's 1000% better for nearby areas.
The cookie problem we have is because the sites are actually tracking you m so maybe they should have forced to say "We are tracking you, please accept". Coockies used for actual technical reasons like to store a session ID do not need warnings. GDPR improved on that by forcing the websites to show me what are collecting and with who are sharing the data. I like this transparency, if you want to track me then tell me the details and I will decide if I visit your page or maybe find a different one.
To my downvoters see here
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Is 'efficient' what you want though? For embedded, yes. For maximum speed where you are willing to blow large power use, you can be much faster but it will cost you efficiency, badly (think Xeons). Without quantifying what you're trying to do, 'efficient' is only a metric not a target.
Also, once you have symptoms the worst stuff might happen after these fever and coughs end.
You're right. I worded that ambiguously. Thanks for the feedback (all comments).
> no one could know

Did we not have a big example already? Anyone who didn't know is in a literal coma.
This is such a tired argument. It's been 20 years. You don't think other OS's have had the opportunity?

The fact is, Windows is still king today because of backwards-compatibility and nothing else. No other OS has taken this as seriously. Certainly not Apple. And not Linux either.

You can still run DOS programs on Windows today. And companies do. I personally know of software originally written in the 80's and with many legacy components from that time still running on modern versions of Windows Server.

Companies don't take backwards-compatibility seriously. And if you're constantly breaking things, people are not going to trust your product for serious use to be relied on. It's really not that complicated.

Not to mention the developer tools are second to none. You may not like .Net, or you may have some problem with how Microsoft did business 20 years ago (get over it). But Visual Studio is hands down, without question, the best IDE on the market. And Visual Studio Code is the best text editor. And now, with their open source efforts, it just keeps getting better.

(Yes, I know that's not Apple's intended market, you don't have to tell me. The point still stands. Windows is popular today because of a herculean effort by Microsoft over the years to ensure backwards-compatibility. And yes, I know it's not perfect. You don't have to tell me that either. It's always the same tired arguments. And at the end of the day, the point still stands and no other OS has risen up to take Windows crown. And no, this year is not finally going to be the year of the Linux desktop. Next year either. Or the year after that. It's not going to happen. Get over it.)
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Ah OK. But the context was "students in college ... who were just starting out". I would say they would be running their programs, at least initially, in an IDE. And they should be using an IDE to develop: getting students to develop without IDE support is just unfair (although I know people get religious about using a text editor for code development). This is how I keep finding new grads who have no idea how to use a debugger e.g. just set a breakpoint and inspect variables.
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You took a path different from your parents not from your own past self.

Changing who you are is a much more difficult battle. You need to be a certain type and have another overriding motivation to truly drive yourself to the change.
I went to bed _furious_ yesterday.

My friend from Italy sent me an SMS at midnight saying "have you heard from the UK???" (where I live). No, was my answer and I had a quick look on The Guardian.

"Boris Johnson announces 80% of Brits will contract the disease, half a million (500,000) will die in UK only."

That sounds absolutely scary, I read the article and that's the worst case scenario resulting from yesterday's COBRA meeting.

So, I'm furious at:

- My friend for creating an unnecessary panic, I thought there was another terror attack.

- The Guardian for taking the worst scenario information and passing it as if it were the current stage of the pandemic as of 12 March.

- Boris Johnson for announcing such numbers. There's no cure YET, but wait a bloody minute before talking about half a million deaths.

I'm done with the COVID-19 news. I'll catch up with the research, but I'm going to avoid any discussion from friends, TV, news, Reddit and even HN. I guess I still am furious.
Then you'll be out of luck. Same as you cannot legally buy leaded fuels in most countries anymore, even tho you might prefer them, and same as Bayer will not sell you Heroin(tm) to treat your cough anymore.
Superdeterminism is like the whole existence being a Haskell program without I/O. To get anything actionable we'll have to logically separate parts of it...
I don't know, it appears to me that we are running a long in place plan. (Other than troubles with testing kits which can be blamed on a one time case, but there is surely mismanagement in there). We are not panicking, as things prove to be getting worse we are seeing more and more action.

By long in place, I mean first made many years ago and updated regularly as things change. That is the CDC's job.

It is tempting to want instant actions, but they often turn out to be knee jerk and wrong.
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-12/british-government-wants...

"The strategy of the British government in minimising the impact of Covid-19 is to allow the virus to pass through the entire population so that we acquire herd immunity"

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11164977/millions-uk-coronavir...

If you search about this you'll find many other sources...

So basically the UK wants to acquire herd immunity as a country, which I assume is at the expense of all the elderly people who will die as a result...

Also relevant

https://twitter.com/daverooney/status/1238359192249008128
That’s way too simplistic. Antonovs when they were ‘public’ Also had problems. Being public doesn’t immunize them against cost-benefit decisions.
Gotcha, thanks for the breakdown! What a world...
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Where I can get a gift card or money for testing software? Thanks for the links
When China was suffering, people were screaming at the top of their voice how unreliable they are and how bad they are. Now the US is suffering, and it has leadership that's easily as bad but you're defending it. It's fine to call out bad behaviour, but not if it's rooted in xenophobia and doublethink.
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http://www.bulledair.com/index.php?rubrique=planche&album=lo...

These http://www.openculture.com/2018/09/long-tomorrow-discover-mo... and https://www.neondystopia.com/cyberpunk-books-fiction/the-leg... discuss the influences that The Long Tomrorow had.

On Moebius in general, https://www.moebius.fr/?lng=en is a good starting point.
See
https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-risk-of-re...

https://fortune.com/2020/03/06/coronavirus-recover-test-posi...
The only misconception here is the misconception that it's appropriate to label a differing opinion on governance a misconception.
I'm suggesting that a large register file and register renaming is likely to be the better alternative by many different metrics, yes.
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Ah sorry, forgot we are not the center of the universe as usual.
Wait so you think you should not be allowed to buy "unrepairable" devices?
Can't you say that about almost anything.... Is it even right to spend taxpayers' money for running a Health Service, if it can be handled by private companies?

Oh, right -- that's the US. No thanks.
Nethack is great, is there a server where people can watch someone play the game and have a (audio) chat while watching?

There's so much stuff to learn, I'd love to chat with an experienced players while they are venturing deeper into the dungeons.
Wonderful post. I have a number of related books I'd add to your list, but this one in particular got me started on a path to the kind of practical philosophy you and I both seek and extoll:

"How to Want What You Have" (Timothy Miller)
why do 
all you morons
 people lionise this person who is so obviously a vain, egotistical idiot

exactly the same with Julian Assange.

These 
morons
 people idolize these absolute imbeciles.

Where does my point of view come from:

1. Person has a motivation.

2. Decides on a way to achieve that.

3. Frames it as "exposing the evil/hypocricsy that is society/institutions"

4. Adopts the strategy of "1 versus the power"

BUT this does NOT effectively achieve their goal (has zero power against the power) but instead frames them as a martyr, condemns them to suffering, and serves to change nothing.

AND BUT everybody loses their mind and declares, hey this 
moron
 person really stuck it to the man and is making progress for their cause.

When in fact all they are is mentally ill living out a personification of their maladaptive masochistic self-narrative and savior-complex, but doing nothing for "the cause".

But every 
fucking moron
 person lionizes this idiotic, self-destructive behaviour?

I see a pattern where western society has large numbers of suicides and people praise this self-destructive idiocy.

Other notes:

- I am not making regard (here) to whether the nominal cause is a good idea or not.

- I am only attempting to expose the disingenuous ineffectiveness of lionized "folk heroes"

- AND the stupidity of their acolytes and fans

- AND hoping to get people to consider, IF you were the POWER that is the STATUS QUO, would you NOT want people to LIONIZE and IDOLIZE idiotic, ineffective "resistence" measures as a cathartic, zero-change control system to preserve your power and provide people with an impotent outlet?

- AND does this not somehow injure offend and waste the human person

- AND would not humans be better utilized by being directed to either: something genuinely creative, or something actually reformative, rather than deceptively reformative?

</rant status=end>
As the military often go to 'exotic' places, they are have long been at the forefront of wanting to treat 'tropical' diseases.

Also with the military setup - lots of people living together in barracks - infectious diseases have a high risk of spreading rapidly.
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> The idea is not that you should be able to swap your battery as easy as you can with an Nokia 3310 but that you or a competent person could swap the battery with tools made for that purpose.

On many modern devices, you don't have "a battery", you have battery cells fit into every available space and wired together. You're certainly welcome to try replacing those. I just don't want to see that reverted to a discrete battery design.

> Also I should have the right to use components from a broken iPhone into a different broken iPhone so I get a working iPhone

By all means! And "components" here may well mean "single integrated board", as it does on many laptops and phones.
> I think it's very hard to talk about what "the society" wants

People vote for representatives, those representatives enact legislation, and the free press reports on it, causing a feedback effect. Over time we have a picture of what society wants. It's really not that hard.

Obviously, there are many different interconnected societies in the world and not all of them have representative democracy or a free press. Maybe that was your objection?
Much longer term there will be a vaccine, so if someone is worried about developing immunity they have other options later on (if somehow they aren't exposed anyway).

In the meantime getting infected before a peak that occurs at an unknown time seems much riskier than doing so long after.
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The point I think is one of delaying things
"Letting it run its course" implies no action, which would be not correct.

Herd immunity is desired but with change in the nature of the epidemic so that old people don't die as much as if they did nothing.

Also herd immunity.is not 100%, you just need a certain high proportion. If you can protect those most at risk also then it could work.
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Having electricity is worthless if there isn't enough for anyone to run a heater, because it's all being used to run a protein folding simulation no one needs.

It's about intelligent use of strategic resources, not the fact that those resources exist at all.

It's not obvious that we're better at intelligent use of strategic resources than we were a century ago.

Our economic systems promote brutal winner-takes-all internal competition, not strategic cooperation, and that makes them ridiculously brittle when they have to deal with an unexpected stressor.
Photile is a small JS/GO app that I've built to learn ReactJS and Golang.

It can be used to create a perfect cover image for your Facebook, Twitter or any other social profile. You can use it to create featured images for your blog articles or even print it out and put it on your wall.

It can also be used to create "end of year" or "best of Instagram" collages.
It was a metaphor for how things are wrong in the grand scheme of things even if they are possible and available. Repairability of things makes for less waste, if you ignore that fact and knowingly buy a phone which is going to end up in a bin after 2 years with no possibility to get proper recycling and repairing, you have a similar mindset to the SUV buying bunch. That is what he is trying to say (I think).
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Which of those articles provide evidence for that the y2k bug could have been a major disaster?
The entire concept of intellectual property must be abolished. The notion that people can own information is incompatible with the 21st century.
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> Society is not 100% made of illiterate rubes

> There's enough people who could make use of more sophisticated information, including politicians and political advisors.

Far be it from me to suggest politicians and political advisors are "illiterate rubes", however I can tell you with confidence that in my experience politicians don't like numbers and models and won't listen to you if you try to tell them about them. Fundamentally this means that even when they're not actually illiterate, they are functionally illiterate (unless of course said model serves their political interest exactly).
Superdeterminism says that arguing is a part of the experiment anyway.
Being guaranteed the right to repair from every manufacturer is great and, more importantly, much needed. Nonetheless, most people abide by the culture fabricated by those very corporations, which is defined by an annual release cycle of devices which are minimally upgraded deliberately, their selling point usually being something visibly different from the previous year's smartphones--currently, being foldable or having a gazillion lenses on its back. If the users keep falling for those kinds of tricks and spending a whole month of their salary to buy a phone every year, the status quo isn't going to change. Of course, an easier way to recycle our phones wouldn't hurt, either. Even forcing companies to recycle first, manufacturing new components from scratch only if absolutely necessary, would be a beneficial measure, I reckon.
1000 Bitcoins have moved. Some untouched since they were mined over 10 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon_Universe (not coincidentally, this name is also reminiscent of the sun)

One thing to bear in mind is that the series begins with stories that are very optimistic (some would say naively so), but the themes increasingly became darker as the authors aged.
For many years it has been a worry of any competent military that the enemy is going to release a bio-weapon. As such every army is be preparing for something. They won't know what exactly is coming, but they have processes in place to deal with it as best they can. That means supplies in place, and people training in using them - it might mean a generic gas mask instead of a N95 filter, but it will get the job done.

The army is also well trained in securing an area. Need to enforce no travel, the army learns that in basic training.

Again, this isn't about the US army, it is about any competent military in the current world. Limited of course by their budget.
> You can't have bitcoin if miners don't run their nodes.

If there's less miners the mining difficulty goes down. If there's _really_ no miners left, you can mine alone on an old laptop AFAIK. For mining to completely stop bitcoins price would effectively need to be 0.
Most people you know have a drawer full of 100% working phones?

I guess that suffices to conclude that you have an extremely a-typical social circle.
> SOC2 is about documentation, not reality

Yup. If you’re a fixer, knowing this beforehand is going to save you a lot of pain.
Funnily enough, farmer's markets are some of the few places I've seen 'crypto accepted' signs in my city.
I think so, yes. Think OP does as well.
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I am facing problem with these tiny blood sucking creatures from past one year. I tried pest control (spraying medicine) twice to ward off them but still they are back. Unlike in other countries we don't have fumigators or bug bombing.

I often travel and looks like I got them home either from flight/hotel or in transit. Never knew that they are so intelligent creatures and very annoying.
I took it as challenge and tried all means to eradicate them (changed mattress, replaced beds, pillows, repainted cot etc), but they seem to outsmart me ..always. It subsides for some time but they are always back with a bang.

I have a small infant at home hence it scares the hell out of me.

Fellow hackers, do you have any ideas/hacks in eradicating them with no sign of them again? Any pointers in this direction is of great help.
Btw, I live in Bangalore.
Oh, you should be allowed to buy them.

Manufacturers just shouldn't be allowed to produce them.