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These are just my personal thoughts, but my guess would be that we don't go back to having big chambers. Having more chambers and engines theoretically provides more fault tolerance. I think one of the things that has really improved since the 1960s is how much smaller and faster a control system can be since we've got much more powerful computing.
> What do you miss in multicursor that macros give you?

Not OP, but to take a recent example (although it was in Emacs, I'm pretty sure it would work in any advanced editor), I had a macro select the second half of the open file and pipe it through sort and uniq to replace it with each unique line and their number of occurences. That's not doable with multi-cursors; their use cases intersect but don't overlap with macros ones.
"Licensing should absolutely be considered", I agree but for all the opposite reasons. I release all my code under MIT/BSD as I do not want anyone, at all, for any reason, to not be able to use my code, for good or for bad as defined by me. I also prefer the BSD community as it lacks the hubris of "a greater mission" that the GPL fosters leading to this notion of good and bad.

Plurality of thought, use and outcomes are a good thing.
I'm sure you can find examples of that... on thedailywtf.com sadly.
Neither statement have an agreed "context" from which the discussion is taking place, and flipping the statements may make the other seem irrelevant.
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The Wikipedia article has a short paragraph on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Majorana_fermion&...
The air intake has a filter, otherwise as soon as one would drive on a dusty road the cabin would fill up with dust.
Interesting. I didn't know that.
Depends on the tax and accounting laws of your country, but generally the taxable event happens when you invoice.

So I'm doing accounting in EUR and invoice 10,000 USD. For accounting purposes my 10,000 USD gets converted to EUR on the invoice date, at the ECB USDEUR exchange rate.

Then you hold that 10,000 USD for 2 months in your USD account, and the USDEUR exchange rate has dropped or increased 10% in that period. When you then exchange the USD into EUR, you'll generally pay tax on the exchange difference (= capital gain)

My Belgian bank accounts are all multi currency. I can hold, receive and send USD/EUR (and others if I wanted to).
I always laugh at this... "Meat" looks nothing like the original flesh of the animal. A sausage looks more like a cucumber than it looks like an animal. A hamburger is of a form as a disk/circle/mushroom, how natural is that? So no vegetable burgers, sausages, etc does not look like meat, they are in easy shapes that enables us too eat them.

Just like almond milk has existed for hundred of years so have vegetable products. Next you will say a falafel is in the shape of a meat ball?

And since people don't get it, many eat vegetable products so no one needs to die. They don't eat it because they don't like the taste of meat, cow milk, cow cheese, etc.
"Trump Orange": That name already exists in 11 other places.
With Linux, no matter the distribution you pick, you have to be more interested in computers than merely viewing them as an applicane for word processing, video chatting and online shopping.

- Some software defaults to installation as sandboxed packages. Try explaining that to someone who is used to dragging and dropping files from the desktop into their programs to open them.

- Want to watch a movie? Sure, but you won't get vsynced video without opening up a text editor as root to configure your graphics driver.

- Ohh, your laptop has THAT particular Wifi/Bluetooth/PCI bridge/whatever chip? Sorry...

- No, don't open "Christmas Wishlist.doc", that's from last year. The new one is called "Christmas wishlist.doc".

While Microsoft (and to a lesser extent, Apple) has gotten a lot of flak over shoddy updates lately, things are, by and large, much more prone to breaking on Linux. And when they break, even just a little, you need to know your way around a terminal to fix them.

I recently had to downgrade my kernel because of the bugs in i915. To do so, I had to first identify the problem by following the syslog and then do some heavy lifting in GRUB to lock my boot process to an older kernel version. The prerequisite knowledge to be able to perform what we might consider a simple task, has been built up during decades of me being a computer nerd.

For someone without a keen interest in computers, Linux on the desktop isn't all that great. The thing is, I like it that way. I want the freedom of choice. I want the level of control it gives me. When (or if) it becomes ready for the desktop, it's probably ready to be abandoned for something else.
We have played the game of life in my UG class for years during the ABM lecture....the last time was about 5 weeks ago. The students always loved it....:(
There are a few minor things I prefer about Windows here & there, but power management is the biggest single thing, agreed.

In truth I don't like any current OS - when you add up all the pros and cons, Linux has the best overall balance of attributes for my use. It's far from optimal though. I find the state of OSs in 2020 pretty sad.
There's absolutely no evidence for this. On the other hand, there's some evidence that Sun made ZFS licensing explicitly non-compatible with the GPL, so as to not "sabotage" Solaris.

Linux has other efforts going on in this area, including Btrfs and Bcachefs - there's also ZoL, of course.
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Neither the sender or receiver had ever stepped foot in Europe or the UK and had anything to do with those jurisdictions.

Go read the Acceptable Usage Policy... nowhere in it will you find anything about every customer being subject to UK law. In fact they go out of their way to make you think the opposite is true... by showing you different AUP's depending on which country you're in.
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I'm replying from memory, so this might be worth researching for yourself, but I remember a cryptography conference where someone was talking about how important it was to use constant-time algorithms to prevent leaking information about the number of bits that were set in keys and messages, and demonstrated that using balanced ternary allowed some really cool techniques.

Don't know if any of that has made it into the literature, but you could have a look.
The math HAS been done. I'm not wrong.

Claims that renewables cannot handle things typically make the stupid assumption that long term variations in demand/supply are to be covered with batteries.
How does it look like meat exactly? You extract mushroom/disk-forms out of the cow or what? The cucumber shape of hotdogs, or maybe the falafel shaped meat balls?

Vegans want it too "look" like meat, not because they dislike the taste of animal flesh, but because they don't want to kill anyone.
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My UG students and I played the Game of Life in class during Week 7 this spring semester....that was about 5 weeks ago. We have played it for so many years during the ABM lecture...I never had the good fortune to meet him, but many years of students know who he is and of his accomplishments..:)

Stay safe, all.
Ask HN: Are there email clients that reduces friction/latency in communication?
Problem statement: I'v been thinking why don't we have "Slack" that uses plain old email as the protocol, enabling communication with everyone. Using outlook feels heavy. Pressing reply, scrolling through the conversation, not-so-fast-search, composing new email and yet again inputting those recipients has so much "friction".

Are there any email clients that are available? My wish list would be some email client that comes close to:

- Working offline (my mails don't have to be routed somewhere through "the cloud")

- Clever UI that groups email by recipients / threads / priority inbox.

- Can create my own "groups" / "rooms" (i.e "Developers"), with particular recipients. I'v visualized that when starting new conversation (i.e different subject) I kind of start some new thread.

- I don't have to press "reply all" all the time

- Search is fast.

- Exchange support?

That would greatly reduce friction in using email.

I'v found https://missiveapp.com - email + chat combined - neat. However it's not obvious how it works. I need to register to use it (okay). But after registration, I have to provide extensive permissions to my Gmail :( Googling for "mail like chat" brings up many matches... But not that I want my email to be exactly like, say, whatsapp.

Suggestions?
Not sure if you were serious or not but your comment seems like a nice example of what the article talks about
You are saying that both theory have the same credibility. I don't agree, because you can actually go see the sources linked in the video description. So why don't you go see the sources? Is your claim that laowhy86 is divorced, and that his judgement is clouded, substantiated? I didn't think so, so to me it looks like plain old smear.

This lab accident, on the contrary, is NOT unsubstantiated claims, and acting as it is some frivolous theory is unfair at best. I, while perhaps inducing worryingly staggering feelings to you, looked at the sources and concluded that the info was credible. So it has nothing to with the occupation of laowhy86.

You are appealing to the authority of billions poured into NGO, as if corruption never happens, as if money magically makes people competent, as if organizations never suffered from political bloat. As if for example there was no video proof that the WHO was ignoring Taiwan input for policial reasons – a country that has better epidemics statistics than the majority of us–. Are we also all stupid to entertain the idea that, when a WHO leader does not hear the journalist on skype exactly when she asks a question about taiwan, this is just a bad stratagem to elude the question?

Please.
> “Do not let the virus prevent you from seeking shelter in a tornado,”

- American Meteorological Society.
Ok, puke-green-with-a-hint-of-brown is now "radioactive mud".
Why the government?

Let private businesses do it. The government can't even run the government properly, let alone something that requires more skill and is supposed to make a profit.
That's preposterous. Wild boar is hunted, eaten and sold everywhere here in Sweden. The radioactivity (among other things) is measured and there are about a handful of animals above the limits for cesium-137 each year. It's important to note the limits are set very, very low.

The term "meltdown" means the core has melted. I don't know where you got the number "5" from, because it's not the number of meltdowns globally (there have been a lot, almost all of them contained) nor the number of accidents with widespread consequences (2: Chernobyl and Fukushima).
I'm in a similar position.
The nice thing about the NAS is that it doesn't have a "leaving soon" section.

Another good thing about using it for most video consumption is that disruption of internet service becomes a temporary issue upstream, rather than game over. Quality downgrade because of a drop in bandwidth doesn't happen either.

Similar to you, I'm converting CD to Flac one cherished album at a time, taking a bit of time to enjoy it and tweak the artwork, etc.
It was hit by tsunami because it was built in a tsunami-prone, seismically vulnerable area. A "1 in 1000 year" tsunami hitting it in first 40 years of operation sounds like a planning and engineering failure, and is why people tend to be super sceptical about safe nuclear.
Even with lets say BSD-licensed code, the code you publish and maintain stays free. There is only the possiblitly that some entity maintains their private fork of your code and distributes that. But that doesn't change the state of the freedom of the code you publish. Also, it is extremely unlikely, that a company does significant changes to a well-maintained code and doesn't push them back upstream, as this reduces their maintenance effort.

Yet, if you want to completely rule out the possiblity of that "propriatary fork", one could amend the license so that the distributor has to include the sources. This is a legitimate request. If one says: "but that is what the GPL does", that is not correct. The blog posted by the parent poster clearly lists a lot of problems with the variations of the GPL license. The LGPL license too much assumes you are using C, and the GPL of course requires you to relicense your own code just to be able to use a GPL-ed library.
I think there is a name to this: it’s called dialectic/sophism. These arguers have no interest for the scope of the discussion, they just want to win the argument. I think it helps when you set the scope of the discussion clearly, at the beginning.
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Thank you for the update.

Last year it was not possible (and took me some time to discover that).
Although I got it right in the end, I found the second row to be insanely hard.

But somehow, on all rows, the colors just seemed to snap into place for me, is that a normal feeling?
I am pretty sure Musk runs on Mars time. One year on earth are 1,9 years on Mars ;)
I am sure that dropping comments like this in threads on popular news aggregates has crossed the minds of many PR firms.

Even if this comment is genuine, culture within a company is temporary, and once a company has built up a trusted brand, the amount of money that can be made by taking advantage of this trust grows substantially.

Especially for fast growing companies built out of venture capital, most will eventually sell out. It becomes especially difficult to avoid these pressures after IPO.
Supermicro's got a top-loader 90-bay chassis that fits into 4U. Filling it with 16 TB drives will give you 1.44 petabytes (not pebibytes, because hard drive salespeople), minus whatever redundancy you'd like to build in.

I wouldn't consider that chassis to be an "off the shelf consumer part" though. Also comes in 45 and 60 bays. :)
I don't think he's agreeing or disagreeing with the article, just providing a possible explanation for this behaviour. The two people arguing are ignoring the context, which is common in many debates. Especially with politicians - shift the context a bit and you're right even if what you're saying is unrelated to the original point.
I am surprised that there is no mention of Bitcoin. My current project is also in another country (US) and I live in Europe. I am getting paid in BTC, and I pay even less then via Transferwise.

It is cheaper because the company already owns Bitcoin, so it doesn't need to buy them. What I do is:

- Getting BTC transferred to a wallet at an exchange I trust
- Sell the BTC ones I receive them and put the money on my bank account

I switch between using Transferwise and BTC. The downsides are obviously that the price can fluctuate quite heavily. But my experience is that I saved a few hundred Euros each year (around 450 Euros) from using BTC instead of Transferwise.

That's not a lot in the grand scheme of things. What I like about a BTC transaction is that I can monitor it, it is even more transparent then Transferwise and I truly "own" the BTC ones sent.

It is a bit sad that I can't use it as much as I would like so I sell around 90% immediately to pay rent, buy stocks etc, and 10% stay there for future gains.
JFYI: Twint is already the name of a popular payment app in Switzerland

https://www.twint.ch/en/
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Lots of programmers forget that they should also be engineers, and not only computer scientists (or wannabe computer scientists).

I can still remember how during the first programming class I took at uni 20 years ago the teacher told us that "engineering is all about compromises and especially about what compromises you should choose to make or not" (in that context she was talking about memory vs processor usage), and while I managed to barely pass her class that piece of advice has stuck to me ever since. Looking at things through the compromise lenses (for lack of a better phrase) would eliminate lots of misunderstandings rightfully pointed out by the OP in this article.
No, it's likely due to hydro power. Hydro has had several large scale accidents killing and displacing hundreds of thousands of people, such as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam in China.

Coal kills slowly but is the power source that's killed most people over time. Nuclear has killed the fewest by far.
I don't understand the negativity the article associates with "hoarding" data.

It is the nature of the internet that any content or website you see can disappear at any moment without a prior warning or an explanation. From an author deleting their earlier work they were later dissatisfied with, to copyright claims, to people losing interest in their hobby project, to site owner forgetting to extend their domain, to website becoming impossible to find in search engines.

It always pays to be properly paranoid and have backups in case the worst happens. Storage is cheap, so what's exactly the downside?

My personal archive may not bring "the betterment of mankind", but it saves me from disappointment when looking up older content that has since disappeared, and also allows me to help other people find what they're looking for.
The Mail Online is constantly dissed in left-leaning forums like this one, but if you just go read the articles and check the claims they're not usually any less accurate than any other news source (this doesn't mean they're very accurate of course, just that other sources are no better).

This article consists of some publicly known facts, along with some anonymous sources in the British government's emergency committee (the Cabinet leaks like a sieve so this is entirely plausible). It also cites an academic, some report from Beijing News (whilst noting that the report was retracted) and an academic paper that was uploaded and then deleted. It's written in a pretty neutral tone and explicitly calls out cases where its sources may have issues. The article is no different to the sort of speculation routinely found in Bloomberg, the WSJ, NYT, the Guardian etc.

What we're seeing here is just another day in no-platforming land. To the left what is said doesn't matter, who says it is everything. Based on prior experience I'd be willing to bet that virtually none of the people spitting fire over a Daily Mail or National Review link here have even read the articles, let alone rigorously apply the same purported standards to every news link they see posted.
I think part of the problem is that school and college teach us to say "no" to something that's not always true. We're told a statement that's mostly true, and asked, "Is this true?" When we say yes, the professor says "No!" While a normal person, one with common sense, would say "Yes". This creates a habit of unnecessary attention to detail, nitpicking, and grasping at straws to come up with some reason why the other side is wrong.
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I honestly cannot fathom the idea of using my time maintaining or developing something that would be used commercially while the user has absolutely no copyleft obligations! well, guess you have to develop your libs then!
Not at all. FreeBSD is without doubt on equal footing with Linux in terms of industrial usefulness, assuming the features you seek are available. Large companies use FreeBSD in production for mission critical apps but are generally less vocal about it.
I want you to look up how many new coal plants have been built in the US in the last five years. Answer: just one, a tiny oneat the University of Alaska. During that time, many nuclear plants were retired here. Shutting down nuclear did not lead to a resurgence of coal. Instead, coal is collapsing. Large steam thermal baseload plants are increasingly uncompetitive, coal or nuclear.
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Anybody know of any Wayz like community app which reports on the supplies in the local supermarkets e.g. which ones are stocked on pasta or toilet paper in real time? Thanks in advance and stay safe.
My understanding is, that there are some big safety concerns with that power plant. As are with others still operating (Tihange).

Yes, I am very unhappy with the amount of coal being burnt in Germany and I fully support a quicker exit from that. Fortunately, it is strongly declining, but it could be faster.
This is genuinely one of the best posts I have ever read on here. Completely correct, very direct.

> In the real world being right is not a merit by itself

A lesson a lot of programmers could learn.
An online payment of USD 150 generates USD 14 for the middlemen. Source: https://docs.sendwithses.com/random-stuff/enemy-at-the-billi...
Excerpts:

"Q: Does your computer execute the program you wrote?

A: What a quaint concept!

Think: Compiler optimization, processor OoO execution, cache coherency.

Compiler/processor/cache says:

“No, it’s much better to execute a different program.

Hey, don’t complain. It’s for your own good. You really wouldn’t want to execute that dreck you actually wrote.”

My Comments:

See the referenced document for the why...
fzf, integrated with:

- shell's ^R (history), ^T (args), ^P ($EDITOR)

- vim's ^P and <leader>p (open), <leader>b (buffers), <leader>r (tags)

and small little tools of my own like kd (mentioned around here), or vim's - to go up from file to dir in netrw, that allows to jump to any place of my filesystem quickly.
I believe fiat withdrawal fees / trading are a lot higher than transferwise fee, at least in my case. Which exchange do you use if I may ask?
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History of science, like all history, is written by the winners. But even this history shows that it often takes hundred of years.
What is the point of this blog post? It appears to be about arguments in the Internet in general, but its implied point seems to be a rant against low-level programming.
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