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The iconic Empire State building is too old structurally to create what corporations like for offices— large, unobstructed open areas.

So it's turning mostly into residential.

And when you think about it... what you're suggesting is like step n of "internet-era social organization" because we now have the infrastructure to make it work. Have mainstream broadband for >90% of the population? ⇒ you may remote massively entire categories of jobs (probably leave a skeleton crew on-prems for peace of mind).
What is boring and annoying in C? The only thing simpler than C is Basic.
Offer to solve a local business' solution pro-bono and commit to self-imposed deadlines
To Cellebrate John Conway's Life, I'll repost this description of Rudy Rucker's cellular automata rule "ECOLIBRA", which combines "Brian's Brain" together with "AntiLife" (the 1's-complement of life), so that the void of AntiLife stimulates Brain, and the void of Brain stimulates AntiLife.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22438816

>Here's another ecology oriented cellular automata rule called ECOLIBRA, a cross between LIFE, BRAIN (and optionally ANNEAL on the bit plane that determines water/land), from John Walker's and Rudy Rucker's classic CelLab (which Autodesk originally published as a PC application, but John Walker has ported to JavaScript):

https://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/manual/rules.html#EcoLiBra

>ECOLIBRA

>This rule is a cross between Life and Brain. The basic idea is that the cells are divided between dark “sea” cells and light “land” cells. We run Brain in the sea, and on land we run not Life but AntiLife. All the land cells are normally firing cells, and the presence of an active AntiLife cell is signaled by having a land cell which is not firing. Full details on EcoLiBra are in the Cellular Automata Theory chapter.

>The name EcoLiBra suggests 1) an ecology of Life and Brain, 2) a balanced situation (equilibrium), and 3) the human intestinal bacteria Escherichia coli, known as E. coli for short. The third connection is perhaps a bit unsavory, but remember that E. coli cells are in fact the favorite “guinea pigs” for present day gene splicing experiments. As one of the goals of CelLab is to promote the development of artificial life, the designer gene connection is entirely appropriate. I've given EcoLiBra a nice, symmetric start pattern, but it also does fine if you use the Bit Plane Editor to randomize all bit planes.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/manual/chap4.html#EcoLiBra

>The EcoLiBra rule, consisting of Brain and AntiLife, each turned on by the red/black boundary.

>But when the sea runs Brain and the land runs Life, the situation is no longer symmetrical. The pervasive presence of Brain's refractory state makes it less likely for a sea cell to have seven firing neighbors and be turned into a land cell. Unless we change the transition rules, the land will always melt away. So to give land a fighting chance, I now say that a sea cell becomes land if it has seven or six firing neighbors. Also I use better colors: Black, blue, and green for Brain; red and yellow for AntiLife.

Here is a variant I call "ECO" that runs "ANNEAL" on the water/land plane, and (for giggles) a heat diffusion in the upper left-over planes.

https://github.com/SimHacker/CAM6/blob/master/javascript/CAM...

[More discussion and code in the original post...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22438816
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No it does not contradict it. You can have random processes induce a reduction in entropy of a system (e.g. random bit flips can lead to the sequence 111111 which has 0 entropy) and in particular a random process can increase the ability of a system to maintain low entropy over time (e.g. a mutation that makes dna replication during cell division more accurate), which is the more relevant point in the proposed definition.
I never noticed the "whoosh" silence with the AirPod Pros when I tried them BUT I noticed something like that on my iPhone XR. Sometimes when I am on a call and hold/press the phone to my ear in a certain way I have the sensation of losing most of my hearing in that ear with only the voice remaining. The sensation never lasts longer than a couple of seconds but it's only on phone calls that I ever noticed this. I never had that with any other smartphone, even ones claiming to have noise canceling during calls. Reading this article makes me belobe that the iPhone still has the original AirPod ANC which is just less effective due to the bad seal.

Did anyone else notice this?
> 'Bravi', or 'brave'(f) would be the plural of that.

I have never heard anyone but you say this ergo it is wrong.
Preferably a local business that's been hit by covid pain
But object oriented programming is gradually considered an antipattern by more and more people.
By the looks of it, the same way git is decentralized.

You can hook up your local to a central server or you can choose not to.
While homeownership of millennials is lower than that of their parents' generation at the same age in the US, it is far from being zero. Most results I've seen point it at 32-37% compared to the parents' generation at the same age in the US at 42-47%.

It's not a small gap (with various factors leading to it), but it's not like millennials don't own anything or previous generations even owned mostly at that age. (But the data is not the most recent, so actually previous generations might have had more than 50% ownership at that age in the US)
I think? There was a time fb forced a "pests is... " format for updates and I very distinctly remember them removing it to better match some other service of the time. I thought Twitter but maybe Myspace, it's been so long.
Excellent!!!
I think this is exactly what I have been wishing for (fro quite some time now)!

I am not quite ready to make the switch to i3 as a WM, (I'm still fairly 'new' in the Ubuntu world, so still need the GUI to help me find settings that I don't know the name of thus how to access via a CLI) this brings me all the great features for my terminal (just like you stated).

This is now the first item on my TODO list for testing new SW :-)
Dude you LOST, you and India's laws are morally bankrupt about it, you are NOT heroic! You claim that your customers are not poor but by definition you stupid lending app is praying in the poor and low IQ people to make you money. STOP
If this is the strongest criticism someone who I know is knowledgeable and intelligent can muster, it gives me more confidence in the conclusions of the book.
Not all of them are webapps see https://open-store.io/?type=app
Yeah it's insane these simply facts are completely devoid of any discussion.

Inflation as we talk about it colloquially is supposed to measure price changes of the same thing. Like an apple. What actually happens in most discussions is that we measure wildly different things and then say 'look, prices changed'.

Not just have homes gotten bigger, the heating and cooling is better, they're safer, they're equipped with more amenities etc. My grandparents didn't have a shower, but went to the communal bathhouse once a week. My parents didn't have central heating in one of their homes.

I see the same discussion in healthcare. Life expectancy in many western countries grew by 20-30 years since the second world war, which is a radically improved outcome which proxies health throughout life, yet we are shocked this outcome is much more expensive than before.

College is trickier, there's tons of inflation there and you can wonder if education really improved. By some measures, it worsened, by some it's much better. What's clear however is that educational attainment has never been higher.

That's not to say there's no inflation in any of these areas. But rather that it's much more nuanced if corrected for some values.
Imagine an article bemoaning the fact that the cost of clean potable water was coming down across the country and calling for massive government intervention to increase the price of drinking water. That’s how this kind of article reads to me.
You should give https://regolith-linux.org/ a try. It's a Ubuntu based distro with i3 as WM. They have polished a few things here and there so you have icons for WiFi and easy access to settings.
Embdded development is like this sometimes.

Start with some hardware. If you are lucky, you get a board support package with a Linux kernel. Otherwise you need to write some drivers to talk to the hardware. Progressively get it to the point that it will boot up and get on the network. Then get the application running.

Microcontroller development is even worse. When you don't have any space, you may actually end up writing everything in C from scratch.
Hi, I got curious and went digging for a few minutes :)

- https://www.jetbrains.com/company/press/press-archive/pr_111... - press release for 3.0, Nov 11 2002

- https://www.jetbrains.com/company/press/press-archive/pr_021... - PR for 4.0, Feb 11, 2004

(Found via `intellij idea "3.0"` and `intellij idea "4.0"`)

- http://web.archive.org/web/20030320181401/http://www.intelli... - announcement for 2.6, Jun 3 2002

- http://web.archive.org/web/20030210115005/http://www.intelli... - APPROX - download page offering 3.0.1, archived Feb 10 2003

- http://web.archive.org/web/20010223163551/http://www.intelli... - APPROX - download page for 1.0.2 (build 339), archived Feb 23 2001

(Started poking around inside IA by following the EAP link at https://wiki.c2.com/?IntellijIdea, which is helpfully
woefully out of date)

- https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/Home has info back to 9.x (expand "88 more" on the left)

- https://www.jetbrains.com/company/press/press-archive/pr_151... - irrelevant but interesting FOSS release announcement, Oct 15, 2009

If more accuracy is needed, perhaps the relevant info will only be one or intermediate pages away from the above.
I hope to god fdroid does not allow this. They will probably newer open source their build app and let fdroid build it anyway.
Be nice if the pandemic resulted in the death of the open office with it's noise, distractions and germs. Oh yeah and large pointless all hands meetings.
> Today we celebrate Yuri's Night on the day that Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth as the first human back on April 12, 1961.
> Real estate is an investment vehicle

That's the problem. Real estate can't perpetually be both affordable and a good investment.
It did. Like I said everything was table driven, with key value pairs. The owner opened up the text file, and added a new rental type, DVD. They also started renting VHS players, and DVD players, just added as new categories.

If the sales tax ever changed, the owner could easily make that change as well. It had a built in rewards program, specials, sales, all editable in the text file.

Once the software was delivered I never touched it again.
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> I guess the OP means that humans are less able to function if they have to pay out a large proportion of their salary in rent, which is basically true for people living in cities near to jobs.

I hear you but owning isn't a solution to that for most people. When you take into account the interest on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, HOAs, property taxes, homeowners insurance and 1% per year in repairs/upgrades, and periodic remodels. As a renter you're on the hook for none of that.

A 1-bedroom 700sqft apartment in downtown SF rents for ~$3750 in my building.

It's worth about $840K. You're out:

- The opportunity cost on a $168,000 investment.

- $2080/month in interest.

- $870.00/month in HOA fees.

- $83.33/month in homeowners insurance.

- $1260/month in property taxes.

- $700/month saved up towards your 1%/year repair bill.

That means you're paying $4700 per month in what amounts to rent, and you're setting aside $1000 per month in principal saved in the first year. Once you deduct those from the salary you need to afford it in the first place, we're talking right around what rent would be.

In general, especially in these areas, not only are your PITI payments really, really high -- rent tracks all-in expenses. Basically the cost of renting an apartment is approximately what the non-recoupables would be owning, for much of the first decade of ownership.
Halium 'is the collaborative project to unify the Hardware Abstraction Layer for projects which run GNU/Linux on mobile devices with pre-installed Android' (https://halium.org/). The project to support Android apps is called Anbox but it's mostly on hold for now.
I see the same discussion in healthcare. Life expectancy in many western countries grew by 20-30 years since the second world war, which is a radically improved outcome which proxies health throughout life, yet we are shocked this outcome is much more expensive than before.

There’s been more than 300% increase in the last thirty years. How much better off are we health wise than 1990? 1945, sure, but 1990?
> I realized a few years later that this was just an exercise in flexing the fact that I could probably bootstrap my way up from this with the C compiler to write a terrible editor, then write a terrible TCP client, find my way out to ftp.gnu.org, get wget, and keep going from there.

I assume by "a terrible TCP client" she means a TCP stack, so you don't have a TCP stack yet, so `/dev/tcp` wouldn't exist. Otherwise just opening a socket and sending the request would do the trick. Or maybe that's what she meant by "TCP client"? But writing an editor for that would be overkill I think.

Nice try though :)
I saw Conway talk on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems shortly before he went to Princeton, and the proof he gave was the standard one (although very entertainingly and efficiently presented).
I think that Apple should take advantage of the lockdowns and focus just on fixing things.

They don't need to ship anything new and they have the perfect excuse to focus on improving both their OS and their processes that allowed such flawed things to reach their users.
I managed to get round this by copying
Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/13.4
from the latest Xcode.xib into my installed Xcode package.

I can now debug 13.4 devices on Xcode 11.3.
I do not use IRC at all. But still curious, do people use it?
Shannon wasn’t the first to think about entropy. It’s a general concept that is hugely important in thermodynamics and statistical physics. Information theory itself becomes increasingly more important in fundamental physics, see the firewall problem of black holes. It’s even harder to overlook these ideas and claim the human brain and our ears are somehow relevant to the definition of information and entropy.
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Actually it's only Ubuntu Touch. The by UBports is used only to call attention to the broader community that does more than just Ubuntu Touch, we also have other projects around it that where craeted to serve our user and developer community.
I teach Java to first-semester students and I tried a couple of times to switch to another language because I think it’s not a good language to start with and because the students don’t like it either. However, the business (and we are a private university driven by businesses sending students) builds on two primary technologies: Java and COBOL. So even if I did teach another language, I would fail to prepare them for their careers in engineering.

What I do instead, though, talk about the architecture and backgrounds, show different ways and let them make the mistakes that help learn to solve problems.
To make stuff worse, Elantech/Synaptics feature-gate their drivers... I have had laptops where I put a trackpad driver from some totally different laptop and suddenly I'd have a lot more gestures.

But no matter what, two finger scrolling and zooming won't ever be as smooth and "step free" under Windows/Linux... once experienced, cannot be missed.
I’m not commenting either way on who should own the housing stock. But whoever owns it, cost to live in it is strongly correlated with cost to buy it. So when prices come down that’s a good thing, not a bad thing. Same as with food, clean water, clothing, and for that matter cell phones, TVs, and musical instruments.
When I did my PhD there was another PhD student of Biology who lived for 3-4 months in the lab. That was in Central Europe btw. :) He had to move out of the dorm he lived in and then didn’t want to look for something new since rents were too high for his taste. After the aforementioned months the Prof told him to find somewhere to sleep than the labs cafeteria where we used to have a couch, so he found a new place eventually.
> and frankly, the chances big tech is going to cut pay is below zero.

I doubt this. It is not like Google/Facebook are not affected by the market downturn. When recession comes, advertising is the at the frontline to be cancelled.
Which laptop are you using? This has never been an issue to me, and I've used Linux exclusively for years. I'm on a Thinkpad T480s.
Nothing. macOS simply implements touchpad gestures in continuous way as opposed to binary triggers, does it consistently across applications since most of it is handled by toolkit and comes with sane defaults that are harder to accidentally misconfigure than on other systems. Those things contribute to perceived user experience, but there's no real reason other than lack of software polish that it couldn't be like that on other platforms as well. GNU/Linux is slowly getting there, but there's still plenty of work left across toolkits and input stack.
Better would be to have a scheduled execution of some bits on the disk, every 5 minutes or so, and you are only allowed to write to disk, not execute anything on your own.
To clarify, you bought the device in Australia and thus had an Australian warranty on it, right?
What rights do Americans have, which you don't think Europeans have exactly?
https://gotgaytubeporn.com/en/category/4294967311/Maledom/po...

You're implying America is more free than other parts of the world, but it just isn't.
It’s not just money but time, research, and ease. If you are in the desert with no cell connection and your car encounters a failure condition, even though you can pay to have it fixed, for all intents and purposes, to you it is bricked.
Conway distinguishes Free Will from randomness by showing that randomness is just a special case of determinism. The random numbers could have been written down before the big bang and looked up when needed, which is still predetermined.
What makes Free Will free is that it's the selection of some future state independently from the information in a particle's past light cone. Only the particle determines that part of its state. One implication is that our brains, being composed of particles, derive their free will from the sum of the particles' free will. This doesn't imply that particles are conscious or aware, it only means that certain degrees of freedom evolve according to computations performed by the particles independently.

In one of the lectures Conway goes in depth into the philosophy of free will, which he believed in at a time when it was (and still is) almost universally unfashionable.
This article ignores stimuluses, printing money, and inflation.
But how are they going to get the clicks?
That's the rentier run society for you. Seriously high rents and real estate prices rat fucks the real economy.

The only satisfying thing about the pandemic is before the it hit our companies new landlord told us he was raising the rent to $4/sqft. We've just scored a better for us place a block away for $1.5/sqft. We're taking one of his other tenants with us too.
This argument is highly speculative and very likely misleading too. Common sense would say that the best way to hit a target is to be aiming at it.
If you're aiming all over the place, it's possible that you could end up with a few bullseyes but how many shots have you wasted?
How many bullseyes would have been achieved if you had been aiming right at the target?

My point still stands that it's a wasteful way to reach those targets.
It's not like it isn't working. Scala runs fine on JDK13 (probably 14 too, but we currently run one Play project in prod on 13).

Java is a pretty safe bet, as it has an outstanding backward compatibility track record.
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There's a signal text messaging application, there're a few 2 factor authentication applications, I don't know what anki is.

Hallium is an hardware enablement abstraction layer. We use it to port Ubuntu Touch and other OS, to devices that where built to run android.

We are not working towards android app emulation, we are working for running apps natively. We're doing this by using anbox, which basically is an minimal android image, with just enough to run apps, and that image is running inside an lxc container. However that is very hard to put it to work fully (access to sensors is one of the problems), and we have been asking for help with that.
Yes, I agree completely. It's not physically possible, but it's also the core of the American financial wellness narrative. It is heartening however than on average it only tracks inflation, so it's not an investment so much as a store of value.
There is a dead sibling comment by qroshan that gives a likely reason:

> 10 year olds can't have gmail account. If your son entered the correct date of birth, it is permanently lost
It also points out what most of the comments have missed: this is on lithub, so it's not meant to be consumed on a purely literal level. The presence or absence of the wolves and the way we know about them clearly relates to the deeper, more horrifying questions about the past massacres of humans by humans.
Thank you for the insight on the PhD life. I just finished my master's thesis and working on a paper submission for an automatic RCU framework.

I was recently hired by a FAANG company and wil be starting soon but I have a nagging feeling that the life path I would prefer lies in academia. I have seen a lot of posts detailing the horrors of PhDs and was surprised at the balance of your post. You lose some battles and you win others. In all cases, I bet the feeling of overcoming the hurdles with a stroke of inspiration makes the experience worth it.

So thank you for this post!
It's to note that "little functional detriment" contributes to a catastrophic failure in a digital system. A flip of a single bit can fell the thing you're trying to operate. Humans respond with much more delay and can usually complete most any mission, even if they die of complications later.
It is unclear to me whether the C libs include TCP.

If not then that seems like the main part of the work because once you have that then you can download everything else.

Unless it was already in BIOS or some network hardware remote admin Intel thing and there was a way to hack into that to use it. Then you would not have to implement TCP IP.

To me the question is what is the minimal part of TCP
/IP that you would need. I guess also you need ethernet if that's not in the C libs.

To cheat maybe your computer has a modem and there is a BBS - simpler protocol.
Also came here wondering how it relates to this.

https://plundervolt.com/
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10883-plundervolt_flipping_bits_...
I was like that. You read a lot and get a lot less distracted.
I think one of the interesting things about Conway is that there were better contemporary mathematicians by a contemporary measure of “better”. He just sort of did his thing and worked on problems that he found interesting, not necessarily ones that were considered “important” in the mathematical community at the time. The courage to stick to that is pretty amazing.
Gotcha - well either way I am not going to experiment on myself with the gas, but as i said, drink black tea instead of coffee and add beetroot to my diet. I think presenting both pros and cons of an idea is a must in any debate.
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By some measures housing is not as good: UK houses have shrunk from the days of the Parker-Morris standards.