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A sufficiently advanced civilisation would be able to control their birth rate to whatever rate they would need at the moment. Think of an artificial womb (if that civilisation is mostly biological, if it's mostly robotic, controlling the birth rate becomes even easier).

It's also likely that a self sufficient, long-term thinking planetary civilisation would limit their population to a certain size, to not needlessly exploit the resources that they have available.
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to me, it feels overly optimistic in 2 ways.

1. it makes the assumption that failure is always positive

self improvement dogma: "fail faster, you learn from each failure"

peter thiel: "each failure is a tragedy, it is multivariate and therefore often too complex to truly learn from"

2. dunning kruger syndrome and learning something "the wrong way" is possible in more than one field.

Overall it was a nice read though
Also this https://github.com/xeno14/recordio
> For some reason, pre-fixing “old” in the url makes the website unusable on mobile :-(.

Mobile is exactly the place where I have to prefix "old" in the URL to avoid getting the horrid redesign, even though my user setting is to opt out and I'm logged in.
More wires more mess more ugly, not everyone has the same priorities.
I think the author might not know that the dongles that Logitech ships are not Bluetooth. They use Nordic's nrf24L01 chips, which run a much simpler protocol, very fast and robust for simple communications.

I use a Logitech MX Master, and while I do enjoy its Bluetooth capability (for laptops), I use a dongle with my desktop, which results in zero latency, no stuttering, and perfect synchronization.
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This has been my experience. I bought some Devolo powerline adapters a few years ago to try in my apartment, and got quite poor speed (<100Mbps) and network was rather unstable. Switched to WiFi and got better speed and stability.

Last year I moved to a new place and faced the same issue of wanting internet in a different room and tried the Devolos again. Same experience except worse speed. Again I had to fall back to WiFi, which at least gets me ~150Mbps here.
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A bit of moisture actually helps to reduce the chance of static discharge, shop compressed air is probably one of the better ways of doing this. I've done it for many years like that and never had a computer fail on me due to cleaning.

The best thing is to avoid doing this on cold winter days when static build-up is very rapid, and to avoid touching the guts of the computer with your fingertips near the circuitry until you have grounded the case against your fingers. Easy enough with metal frames, much harder with plastic ones.
Eh, I don't really care. I am not harming anyone by offering this for her. If she feels better and I have fun then it's a good time.
Presumably, there's at least one US citizen who is on the LibreSSL "core team." With a gag order, get them to write a subtle backdoor (see [0]), and add it to the codebase however they normally do. The developer is presumably trusted, so their code probably gets minimal code review, at least compared to some unknown person from the NSA trying to add it themselves. Alternatively, the US and Canadian governments are close enough that the NSA could conceivably get Canada to do that instead.

[0]: http://underhanded-c.org
I have had good experience with this that is posted at the end of the page

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mlebkowski/471d2731176fb1...
Same here. Every once in a while I look at the OLPC sitting in my closet and wish I had the electronics knowledge to be able to hook the screen up to a raspberry pi.
> but a good chunk of our media influences suggest and imply that men should have an expectation that women will automatically find them as an attractive partner or reinforce that they’re somehow “entitled” to a sexual experience...

Why do you focus on men? It seems to me that all humans expect to be "entitled" to sexual experiences.
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> Apple proprietary headphones or headsets with non-BT radio receivers would work.

That doesn't exist
With other assumptions, they would arrive at 0 intelligent civilisations in the galaxy. That would make the rest of the paper void. :-)

Nobody knows how life is distributed in the galaxy. Assuming that we are not special (the Copernican Principle) is a valid prerequisite. As it neither can be proved or disproved, it's not unserious to just state what the unproven assumptions are.
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Here's a technical description of such a backdoor found in the wild:

https://medium.com/@topjohnwu/huaweis-undocumented-apis-a-ba...
Not the parent, but I wish I could say the same about my MagSafe charger.

The insulation on the MagSafe side started flaking after some time, leaving blue stuff everywhere. Apple's Geniuses say that it's because I mishandled it, and refuse to cover it.
Kudos on pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone. I think you were still thinking in terms of React though, with statements like "I also craved the ability to write small simple functions for making components". Maybe explore a template based approach instead, with the help of a library like Mustache.js so that you're not overwhelmed by having to do it all the first time.
> > And Intelligence is surely bigger than Life.

> This seems a mystical belief, given all we know of the world.

if you assume that intelligence comes from the brain and if you assume that the brain is just a very highly optimized computer, there's no need for an intelligent entity to be alive. it just needs an adequate computer to exist.
You could argue landlords should not be able to evict tenants willy nilly if they change their mind about the lease.
History is a narrative, and States all want to write a particular narrative to make the governance of their communities easier. It's always been an absurdity that the USA somehow decided that maintaining a bunch of tacky statues of traitorous assholes built a half century after they lost a war is somehow key to creating an American history; after all, we don't commemorate Tojo with a statue at Pearl Harbor.

But what is a narrative US governments can write now that everyone, across all the many demographics that make up our nation, will consent to? In the case of public monuments, I cannot imagine any subjects that could unite the US today or in the near future. Just yesterday, protesters tore down the bust of Ulysses S Grant in Golden Gate Park; statues of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt offend racial sensitivities; name a President from Washington to Trump, and someone will rage at their manifold evils.

You can argue that that's all for the best, as every leader of US government has a lot of blood on their hands. But I find that troubling: you can simultaneously recognize that people have a mixed legacy while also celebrating their accomplishments. And there's a fair bit of hypocrisy in the style of critique as well: many progressive heroes themselves have mixed legacies, but for some reason I doubt many of the statue-topplers today would applaud someone vandalizing statues of white supremacist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (though who knows; today's hero is tomorrow's unperson), to say nothing of other more polarizing cases like Angela Davis.

Perhaps relinquishing the use of history to build a sense of an American nation is the only way to go. But I guarantee that giving up our imagined community of "America" will be deadly to progressive goals and racial harmony.
Seems pretty reasonable to me.

If it’s a rough wireframe it can be just that, rough.

If it’s a pixel perfect mockup then it’s a contract for final product IMO.

Of course whether there are that many sets of eyes on it depends how big a co you’re working for!
The top 30 in QS and THE. Most of them have major compiler research groups, even.
I don't disagree, but I see so many usages of React that are mostly static websites and sit in front of an existing MVC framework server side. I think a little bit of native JS can accomplish a great deal of the requirements for most front end work, and when it gets too complicated for native you'll know. What I would advocate against is starting with React, because then your lowest possible tooling complexity is React and it's build pipeline.
Moist air is fine, wet is not. It even helps to cut down on the static risk. And you should always let it sit for a bit after cleaning before turning it on in case there was moisture build up.

The biggest risk is to reach into the guts and zap a component, that's a much higher chance of incidence than any effect from the air itself, after all, the fan also sucks air through all day long and usually is not grounded.

Make sure you always reach for the frame first before touching anything else in the guts of a computer.
Here's what a "little bit" of JavaScript can't do:

1. Manage subtle browser differences
2. Store and manage reactive state
3. Manage declarative updates

You can build a simplified version of React in under 100 lines of code, but that probably won't take care of subtle browser differences. A little bit of JavaScript can do a lot, but it can't do everything you need these days.
I will always preference wired over wireless, but I am currently unable to run an ethernet to my desktop (my partner is not keen on having a tripwire run straight across the house). So I did the same ping test that OP did and noted a few spikes, I had 10 pings over 250ms out of 600, all of these were distributed unevenly over time. Guess I could be subject to such wireless degradation. But I can't say for sure without trying an ethernet cable.
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32: 1725.0,
33: 662.0,
68: 406.0,
100: 980.0,
101: 285.0,
312: 454.0,
342: 746.0,
464: 453.0,
480: 1852.0,
481: 841.0
I only wish you don't get your flat/home burned up due to faulty battery because of your misconception and that others will ignore it.

Again, never, under any circumstances, try to charge a swollen laptop battery.

https://www.howtogeek.com/244846/what-to-do-when-your-phone-...
I made a similar distinction in high school. We used to have 20-question multiple-choice comprehension quizzes on our readings. It was incredibly easy to get 90-100% scores. This is a test of recognition.

However, writing a summary or analysis of a text is much more telling of knowledge/understanding. You have to dig a lot deeper. This is recollection.

Today, I try to avoid the trap of false confidence that comes from "recognition". To show you know something, you need to put away all of the source materials and write down what you know and see where that takes you.

Sorry, this might be a slightly tangential anecdote, but this article made me think back to that.
When I started programming (with Python) I remember how the modulo operator was introduced, without any further information. I found it quite confusing, since I didn't know what modulo meant (that could be solved with googling) but more important, how it was useful. When you come from a CS perspective, it's completly clear on how you can use it and why it is essential for some computing tasks, but for a non-CS beginner that can be much more obscure.
So I am not an expert in this field, and actually I only have a vague idea in what a transformer does, but is there a reason to believe this would not be repairable? We are not talking about a usual bomb, so most of the materials and infrastructure would still be there. It would not make any sense to build a new one instead of repairing or replacing the damaged parts.
I kept jumping between wireless and wire because I'm annoyed by wires, and keep getting burned by wireless pitfalls through these years. But each round wireless seems to be slightly getting better over time.

Here are some tips I collected along the way:

1. 2.4GHz sucks, use Bluetooth when possible. But Bluetooth sucks, too.

2. You want to have fewer Bluetooth devices when possible, reduce the number of simultaneous connections. For example, I only use my Bluetooth mouse for gaming, and trackpad for the rest, so I would disconnect mouse when I'm not playing video games.

3. You want to use some categories of Bluetooth devices first. For example, Bluetooth keyboards usually have great experiences so you may want to make your keyboard wireless first. Bluetooth mice and trackpads are Okayish, but not as great. Bluetooth headphones and speakers are usually bad. If you really want to use Bluetooth for Audio, sometimes devices from the same company may have better connections: Beats Studio seems to have a much better connection than Sennheiser and B&O on Mac.

After all, I still love the idea of wireless because it is nice on paper. It is mostly the de facto protocols and implementations that are terrible.
some swelling is ok, the batteries are not rigidly enclosed so they tend to do that over their design life. Excess swelling is not ok and usually an indication of overheating for instance due to bad airflow. The laptop on display here looks like a textbook case of that.
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Ask HN: What can I include in an effective communication workshop?
I am putting together a half-day or full-day workshop for effective communication - written, powerpoints, narrative writing etc. It's a tech/research audience and now working remotely.

No fluff and only actionable advice the attendees can use on a daily basis.

Do you have any suggestion on things that I could include? Including great material already written that I could repurpose?

So far, the Army Writing Manual is one of the better resources I have come across.
> Let's say that a person needs a kidney or they will day, would it be OK to force the only compatible donor to donate his because he can survive without it? If not, how is it fine to force a woman to go through nine months of pregnancy?

Thats a pretty terrible analogy. Getting pregnant is not something you cannot avoid. That would assume that people have no responsibility in their current condition.
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I just launched a commercial strategy game with a fair chunk of (DOM-based) UI elements and wrote everything in raw JS.
HFP 1.6 does not solve the problem. Surprisingly, there is no solution [1]. HFP 1.6 supports "wide band speech with the mSBC codec," but this sounds terrible compared to the CD quality sound you get from the unidirectional A2DP profile. Some OSes automatically toggle from A2DP to HSP during a phone call (eg. the "auto_switch" option of PulseAudio's module-bluetooth-policy), but you can't use both profiles at the same time.

[1] https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/duplex-high-quality-audi...

This is why the wireless ModMic [2] talks about Bluetooth codecs but actually requires a custom USB wireless receiver.

[2] https://antlionaudio.com/blogs/news/introducing-modmic-wirel...
That's a lot of interesting assumptions.
Off topic:
I was surprised about how amused I was by this. It looks like normal humor doesn't cut it for me anymore.

> Because I cannot be bother to remember this, and don't want to google how it's done only to end up at my own blog, I did a quick realias to add a new bash alias
Not computer science but I learned a lot by going through Teach Yourself Logic[1]. I did not know where to start and how one subject relates to other and this guide helped me a lot. I have followed the guide for two years now and wish for some thing like this for every topic.

[1]: https://www.logicmatters.net/tyl/
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It's a well-documented cultural revolution which praised, awarded, and celebrated departure from traditional aesthetics, so we can't reduce the phenomenon to just economy of cheap concrete.
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Isn't multiplication of two integers with length n O(nlog(n)) with the Harvey-Hoevan algorithm? Is the limitation our 64-bit computers?
He's collated them all in a post on Medium here: https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/the-app-store-debate-a...
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Only in your circle as you say, otherwise people are very wary of Russian actions also in the Balkans and sympathize with Ukraine.
Thanks you! I was hoping someone would spell out the "changes from the last 5 years" mentioned elsewhere.
I recently played doom 1 with my girlfriend on our home wifi (chocolate doom for those interested). Just 2-player LAN coop.

The lag made it unplayable. We plugged in some ethernet cables and it ran fine after that.
He’s talking about real artistry, by people. Sure machines can make things that look ‘right’ but that bread isnt gonna taste great, and the ornamental formwork won’t look right either. Their point about industrial scales vs manual artistry are spot on - very few can now afford high quality. But most of us can afford medium quality, which to me is a trade off we as a society have taken over time.
I really liked "The Computing Universe" by Tony Hey. It's a book which covers most of these topics on a higher level, but I felt it was (very roughly) an abstract of what I learned in the first CS semester. So I find it a very good introduction into the field for interested non-CS people.
Let's see someone prosecuted for not revealing one.
One point I am wondering about is if the symptoms could be caused by an actual disease (unrelated to EM) that would need treatment, but is not because the affected person is convinced that the cause is EM exposure.

However, I guess people usually turn to unproven treatments once medicine failed several times to treat their symptoms, so they likely already went to a regular doctor several times beforehand, ruling out any easily discoverable disease.
Got it. Thanks for sharing your insights. Yea, my main intentions were to compare Jira to other tools, as you can probably tell by the headline. Regarding my tool and all of the rest, I've dedicated a pros & cons to each tool section that can hopefully make the strengths and weaknesses of each software clear. But anyway, thanks for sharing your feedback - will make sure future articles don't look biased even though my initial intentions weren't such.
I've found that sometimes fiddling with some wireless settings like operation band, channel, tx power, WMM, etc. helps, provided you know what you are doing. Especially so if you're in an overcrowded wifi zone or in a poor reception area.
Sorry - none of this seems applicable to me, because the products are honestly and non-deceptively marked.
Does anyone know a 100 line react clone or tutorial? That sounds very educational.
I wonder whether this situation of reverse-enginnering GPU drivers is sustainable. GPUs on ARM SOCs tend to be quite different from each other and most vendors have no interest in collaborating with the linux community. On X86 at least we have Intel and AMD willing to invest in linux drivers.
I don’t think the author is arguing that you have to replace your React applications with vanilla JS, but instead of using React by default, you could consider using vanilla JS.

The tree things you mentioned might be important to you for a specific project, but these are not requirements for every project. So instead, do what makes sense to you. And remember that you don’t always need a framework to achieve what you actually need.
> You can swap CSS classes in JS. But how do you know which classes are available?

> You can target HTML elements in JS. But how do you know which elements are available?

This assumes someone else is creating the CSS and HTML for you? Have rules or coding and naming conventions like BEM for example. That's what a framework basically is, a set of rules and conventions about how to structure an App. What you need is proper architecture, regardless of whether or not it is based on a popular framework. That's how the popular frameworks started out to begin with.
This is what I love about the Internet. "Feed the Canopener" links to his Patreon. Hahahaha.
It is notable that the only historic cryptography that has lasted more than 100 years has relied on security-by-obscurity. There are still a lot of archeological secret messages nobody has been able to decode, sometimes despite pretty big efforts.
I'd like to know the reasoning behind replacing the very approachable, concise, hands-on and doable Nand to Tetris course with what looks like an enormous textbook.
As i understood it, this is not about being faster, but about being more memory efficient.
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I would consider myself lucky if I have a stable connection...

I have the latest Sennheiser Momentum Wireless and it disconnects itself many times from my Mac which is only less than 1 meter away...

I don't even really care about the degradation of sound quality now because the disconnection is so tormenting.

I was having an Okayish connection experience with Beats years ago, and I guess it's because it's been tested and may be optimized for Mac.

Rumor says Apple would release a headphone in the upcoming WWDC tomorrow. I hope I would eventually have a headphone with a stable connection...
I've found it pretty interesting how the South lost the civil war, but there's still plenty of people waving the flag and revering figures from that side of the war. I think in most places if there's a war, the losing side doesn't get that kind of treatment.

One thing I always wondered what what the "Southern way of life" means to people. Aside from slavery, which most modern people don't defend, what are the distinguishing characteristics? What makes it worthy of admiration? I ask because I hear the idea brought up a lot, but there's never any explanation about what exactly is different. Is it perhaps to do with religion?
Cosmic timescales are different. Do you think humans will be around for the next say 100,000,000 years? I think we'd be lucky to survive another 10,000.

We've only had organized societies for somewhere around 20,000.

There could have been say, intelligent life on Venus, then they triggered a runaway greenhouse effect, everything died, the oceans boiled, and then 700,000,000 years pass before we started talking pictures of the dead planet with all signs of previous life completely erased.
In my opinion the article is way to nostalgic. I have seen the images of the child houses. It was complete horror and super inhumane. I can handle a lot of bad stuff but those images have been haunting me for a long time.

Very very sad and I am happy a lot has changed since then.
I come from a country were people are still often denied abortions after being raped, so maybe my perspective is a biased (though the laws say they should be allowed). But even in other cases, I assume if a person is looking for an abortion they didn't expect to get pregnant, so I can hardly say that they chose to get pregnant. If someone gets pregnant because of lack of education or faulty birth control products, I really find it hard to say they are entirely responsible for the pregnancy.