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I agree those are mere plausible ideas with no real foundations, but the aim is to open our imagination to the realm of the plausible. Even those phenomena that are improbable and barely plausible, there are some of them we will encounter, and thanks to the work of sf writers we will not be too much caught off guard.

Specifically for your point on entropy and stability of vortices, I don't disagree totally though I'd like to call your attention on what is known with magnetic skyrmions. They are stable because to change spin the particles would need to overcome huge energy barriers. Then, the only difference with fluid vortices is that in a fluid there is friction that can bring the fluid elements to gradually shed their angular momentum at the contact of other elements with a different momentum. But in superfluid states that you could encounter at very low temperatures (like on some distant planet etc), it is plausible that there would exist analogous energy barriers preventing the fluid elements to directly shed their momentum! And even though, you can of course imagine fluidic circuits and rotational computations, which would have some stability thanks to the superfluid state.

Of course all of that is baseless speculation, but the point of SF is precisely to appreciate the vastness of the world of plausible phenomena...
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A quote from Mark Twain - "I apologise for the long letter, I didn't have time to write a short one".

Distilling an intertwined set of thoughts down into the single point you are trying to make and then expressing that concisely and clearly is difficult and takes effort. When text is convoluted it's usually because the author didn't know how to do anything different or didn't try because they didn't realise it was necessary.

For those of us for whom English is a native language the problem is less, and I enjoyed the colour provided by the FBI story. You're right though that it muddied the waters of what was actually a coherent and interesting point being made. It is a useful lesson to me that clarity is even more important for non-native speakers.
I really hope for the Japanese people that this changes with a new generation where family is family, and business is business, and that the former is more important than the latter.
My primary development environment is Emacs for around 7-8 years now I think (used to be pretty proficient Vim user before). I mainly program in C++ and Python, but often hack on Java, Go, Rust and Haskell. I have heavily configured my Emacs, and window/buffer/workspace/panels/keybindings (you name it) work exactly the way I want -- and its muscle memory -- to the extend that I feel paralyzed in anything else -- even if it has much reliable code browser/completion or feature X/Y.

So here's my two cents:

Even though Emacs is not mainstream, I somewhat agree that the ecosystem is much better now and I can get to configure it as IDE. Sometimes things break, sometimes it takes frustrating amount of time to configure/fix things -- which is probably 1 click away in VSCode. And regardless anything, despite LSP, nothing just works out of box or is immediately obvious. And for these reason alone I think the mainstream IDEs are here to stay.

That said, I don't care (or think doesn't matter) if Emacs remains mainstream or not, as long as the ecosystem remains healthy and strong, and it gets the work done. It will keep it afloat like past whatever 30-40 years. However, that doesn't mean it can survive without being competitive. For me, the single BIGGEST ISSUE that made me consider trying VSCode is performance. On two companies I've worked with, the C++ parser performance with LSP running is just purely BAD (more so on MacOS I think). And quite honestly I can see myself getting frustrated enough someday and move.
have a look at what processes are running & consuming resources in task manager next time it happens.

from memory I think there's some kind of periodic job that causes a lot of disk IO (some kind of defender antivirus scan? Indexing for search? I forget exactly what). Disable it or adjust schedule. Noticed similar thing when trying to play games in windows 10 VM, every now and again game would lag up horribly due to some scheduled task that runs by default.
No, you can’t.

SQL is easy. Data is hard.
When I was university student (~ 2012), Woz was traveling Europe visiting Macdonald's (:D) in lots of countries including Slovakia. Shared it on the internet, probably Twitter.

One of my classmates tracked him and successfully asked for a photo with him. nice guy
I wanted to like it but it was hard for me to get into. The style of writing didn't particularly appeal to me unfortunately. :(
ButeDance is a Chinese company responsible for complying with directives from the CCP. If one doesn't trust the CCP, then one should not trust ByteDance.
If you look it up, there are plenty of articles of rumors saying that the VCs schemed to kick him out because they wanted to IPO and the founder didn't.
We use exclusively stored procedures, so if we want to add a FK constraint while the application doesn't adhere to it, we do one of two things:

Either add it to the application and push out a new version.
Or handle it within the stored procedure.

Additionally, there would be the option of updating the database when pushing a new software update out.

> If your data is well architected so that you only have a single representation of each piece of data, sure. Equally if your application is well architected you can have a single API where any given thing happens.

I think I formulated it badly before. In this case I meant that we have one stored procedure for each thing we do. So that, if the underlying data changes for example, we only need to change the procedures directly acessing it. We can then call those procedures from multiple different parts of the code. And the procedures are all managed within one application, mssms in our case, where you can have a much cleaner structure than within code.

In my experience, in PHP for example, you tend to write VERY similar/same queries in multiple locations, which can cause you to find it harder to all instances.
It'd be silly for whoever provides the Big Red Button to have it plugged in to anything in this instance.
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Yes, but the (dwarf) planet would then need some mechanism to keep the internal temperatures up, for example Europa and Enceladus have massive planets that keep their interiors warm with tidal forces, or the Pluto-Charon (practically binary) system where both bodies are very near in terms of size/mass and keep themselves warm that way.

Ceres doesn't have any companion to help in that regards, but hints of cryovolcanism have been detected (emission of water vapor on several spots), so at least _some_ internal temperature is driving volcanic processes.

Still, this isn't really my area and you should definitely consider what a planetary scientist has to say, should one chime in to this conversation.
Slight off-topic tangent:

Anybody able to identify all of the different covers of "Go your own way" in that video? I feel like I can hear Dolores (of Cranberries fame) even singing a version I'd not heard before.

EDIT: Found at least that one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LL7CLRt-es
The commonality you are referring to sounds like Chomsky's concept of Universal Grammar [1].

The object.method(args) "won" because it is a low barrier to entry from English to Programming indeed, but as you become more and more experienced and you shake off the imperative way of thinking in favour of declarative thinking functional languages becomes more expressive than imperative languages. They become better at managing complexity because they allow you to build higher and higher towers of abstraction.

And then homoiconicity [2] shines because of its 'universally grammatic' property.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
Spacemacs has been in rolling-release mode for something like 3 years. Almost everyone using it just tracks the develop branch where features and fixes are merged daily.
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A curated database like this can be copyrighted. The author even mentions this in the article, that the net worth numbers are not considered as commodity information like the height of a famous building.
Tramp works for non-ssh remote terminals. Also it leads to remote commands running automatically rather than running commands locally against a remote fs.
>At the same time, how can a single person decide the fate of a company in a different country?

How is TikTok's fate being decided by a US ban? The CCP does this all the time, it isn't uncommon to ban foreign software.
> If you have errors in your paper ledger, you're not much of an accountant.

That’s because accounting practice has solidified certain inevitable innaccuracies as “the way things are done.” Any method that doesn’t produce the same accounting-correct but mathematically-imprecise results is “wrong,” and those innaccuracies are based on a fixed-point model.
> ideal code

One problem in these discussions is that people quickly start using absolutist language, which makes it hard to find balance.
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I don't think they ended up having to buy them as the mere promise to buy them was enough to get private investors to boost junk bond prices.
> Actually, a more reasonable description of the expectation is you must be racking up successes at a reasonable rate. But as everyone knows you can't rack up successes without failing occasionally.

This is a big question that is unlikely to be an easy answer, but what can you tell us about how your previous organisation incentivised this behaviour and produced a productive culture? Also - how big was it (these things become harder to do the larger your org gets)?
If it's anything like bankruptcy in the UK, it will go to the subset of the "victims" who have the best lawyers.

Fees for Lawyers and accountants dealing with the bankruptcy will be deducted first. Any money owed to banks will be paid next. If there is any left, it will go to pay any taxes owed to the government or the local authorities. Eventually whatever is left will be divided proportionally between whoever is left owed money, but this will probably be a tiny fraction of the amount they are owed, if anything at all.
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> Kelsey said “for the next step, you just have to put this in your Go imports, you don’t have to use it or anything:

_ "google.golang.org/xds"

> I was all “WTF how can that do anything?

very suspect language design from golang
yep, this is my argument
Not really. The dominent solution nowadays is to use starterpacks/distributions of emacs-configurations. Spacemacs and doom-emacs are pretty popular. Emacs-Project itself is rather conservative in that regard. Vanilla-Emacs is still ugly has hell and not much different from decades ago.

There are voices who demand to lean more toward VS Code in that aspect, so maybe in another 10+ years emacs will finally innovate itself there.
I work on these all the time. Problem is normally cheap charger. Try and find a ups that puts load on the batteries everyonce and a while. Good luck. This is hard and never done. We got sick of UPS sitting there for sometimes years and then when needed - batteries collapse and the whole thing comes crashing down.

I have worked on UPS that are in charge of maintaining power to DP systems. When they fail you get things like oil rigs pulling off station costing millions. The company I work for just finished putting batter powered thrusters on an oil rig. First one ever.

Don't have a job right now. Rather sad.
Completely agree regarding the complexity of various flavors of SQL. The thing is, this complexity came from legitimate need.

My team gets by with a very small subset of PostgreSQL functionality day to day because most of the stuff we're doing with our database is just not that complicated. Simple lookups, writes, joins when our applications interact with the database. Simple joins, grouping, aggregation when we personally interact with the database.

We are not confronted with the full complexity of PostgresQL every day. And on, the flip side, the database itself gives us killer functionality in the form of constraints and transactions. It offers a lot more, but this is all we care about an overwhelming majority of the time.

I am curious how you see it. Is there a compelling reason for a team like mine to leave their comfort zone to work with your new database? Does the new query language really solve any problems for Joe Sixpack, developer?
I encounter many click-wrap-agreement PDFs in my dayjob.

The hilarious thing is that these monstrosities are created by “security” people and work only in Acrobat on Windows with scripting enabled.
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What does it mean to be "treated like an employee"? I'd like regulation to give everyone healthcare. Are non-employees not worthy?
It sounds like you're already pointing to one concrete outcome that would come from these "driver protection" laws: the proliferation of driver co-ops that are able to undercut Uber and Lyft. Assuming they aren't regulated as Uber and Lyft are(for argument's sake), this would allow drivers the choice of whether to become an employee of the big corps or remain an independent contractor by using the co-op platform.

I don't think it would be much of a stretch to assume that in this situation you would have sleek, more expensive "luxury" services competing against more humble, but cheaper, community run services. Sounds like a much more equitable arrangement that provides greater choice for both riders and drivers.
Use an implant.
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We have this for IBAN payments within the NL, I can't speak for the rest of the EuroZone.
You should read “This World of Ours” by James Mickens. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

It’s informative and funny. Mossad or not Mossad?
> It takes a max of 15 minutes to understand basic JavaScript/Go/Python primitives and write a program.

Basic SQL can be learnt just as quickly, if not quicker, I'd say, as it is close to english in comparison with other languages. IMO the hardest parts are stuff like pivots and cursors, along with performance problems in complex queries.

I personally wrote my first few queries within 30 minutes of starting to learn it.[1] Of course it wasn't particularily good SQL, but workable enough.

[1]Basically got an apprenticeship and was almost instantly told to write some queries.
I've considered using it, how has your experience been with regards to webkit compatibility and performance? Did it render correctly out of the box?
Not sure where they are getting the wir-currency facs from. But they are definately wrong about 1/5th of swiss companies using it. 60‘000 members of wir (private&company) versus ~600‘000 businesses in switzerland cant match up with that statement.
While the backends are unified, MS still do refuses to fix the UI framework. They instead have yet another version of the post WPF scrambled egg UI framework. AKA WinUI3.

the native grumpy old people like me will continue to use Windows forms or WPF or MFC,ATL,Win32.

The masochists will try to use the open-source silverlight replacement. Moonlight?

The futurists will use Avalonia. Maybe SAFE stack MVU via Fable?

The Microsoft contractors will use WinUI3.

Vast majority of web developers today will use electron, as unfortunate as that is...
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nano-Silver conductive ink

and the other for

dielectric polymer ink.

This set-up allows the DragonFly LDM™ to concurrently print with both advanced inks in a single print job."

Conductive ink + dielectric ink = the ability to print semiconductors and other electronic circuits...
There ya go https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethcohen/2020/06/28/reparation...
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If you are just using the software and not selling or offering binaries, it's not a concern.

When you give back your improvements to the community, under any license, you free yourself from maintaining a separate fork.
There are several listed in
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_Chi...

But the wait time for organs are suspiciously short. And the accusations of Falun Gong practicioners align with these.
Probably by supporting the Red Cross, Medicins sans Frontiers, etc. Where I live, you can donate to all collaborating charities with a simple bank transaction. They state that €25 provides clean water for 10 families, €50 gets mattresses and blankets for two families, etc.
> that AutoFoley is best at producing sounds where the timing doesn’t need to align perfectly with the video

This is what I thought this would be and were the value is, properly syncing sounds.

Especially around foreign dubbing, if you could speed up slow down a little to match film better that could help bringing things to market.

But there will be a big wave of [pirated?] stock material coming soon which will change the art scene.
>No, by taking the "high road" and valuing freedom and rights, you get global influence and alliances that are worth far

How can anyone paying attention to global politics for the past 20 years claim this?

>I'm amazed at the short-term thinking behind these moves

The short-term thinking was Western companies doing everything in their power to appease the CCP in order to gain access to a huge market.
He was right: nobody is paying for a web browser.
You need a licence to practice medicine, if there is something called a "license" for engineering but isn't required for practise, then it's not the same. If we have the same barriers, but not enforced, then we don't have the same barriers.
Whenever I was doing intense physical effort drinking water made me feel sick. When I was a teen I didn't understand why so I assumed water is bad right after exercise. But later on I started reading on this and using some common sense and I started putting salts/minerals and some sugar in the water I was drinking and my body reacted completely differently. This was before sports drinks were a thing.
It's called just that: Tagged PDF. It was added to the ISO spec quite some time ago and allows you to annotate your documents structurally.
> level two means restaurants and cafes need to follow the three ‘S’s’ where practicable -with diners seated, separated and served by a single server.

Surely that's six S's
-30F (-34°C) is the surface temperature. There are probably not many people who believe that Ceres has life on its surface.
Without any volcanism, it's hard to imagine there are hydrothermal vents at all.
>... we should treat each other with more dignity...

You mean like respecting their decision to engage in gig work despite every other available option? That kind of dignity?

The whole issue is pretty rich coming from California. If people are struggling the answer is never that the cost of living is too high due to rediculous zoning and environmental regulations, clearly it's the greedy companies that are the problem. The whole living wage issue in California reeks of doing every gymnastic available to avoid political introspection that might lead to admitting a lot of well intentioned things aren't working.

Never mind that the state suddenly becomes mute about living wages when discussing its many illegal immigrants who work for /below/ the minimum wage. We apparently don't talk about that because leeching off desperate individuals "is complicated" and something that only companies do. If a large number of workers prefer gig work the problem isn't that they aren't making enough money the problem is that catering to them would undermine all of the previous "benefits" that they obviously don't view as a priority in their current situation. Heaven forbid that we let the actual workers decide how they want to associate.
All the journals in my field (oceanography) show papers as HTML, with a link to get the PDF. I go for that link if a three-second glance makes me think the paper might be of interest. I am certainly not alone in this; I have never heard anyone state a preference for the HTML view.

This is not just for one journal; it's for the dozen or so journals that I look at regularly.

The mathematics looks terrible in HTML, and great in PDF.

Figures usually look terrible in HTML, and quite often when you click on the action to zoom them, you get a choice of just one zoom factor. Plus, the caption disappears so it's easy to get lost. With PDF, you can select your zoom factor and maintain context.

PDF has fixed page numbers, so you can refer to material in the paper easily.

The fixedness of PDF aids memory. I can look at a paper I've not consulted in 30 years, and know that something I want is (say) at the top of the right-hand column just past the figure showing such-and-such. With HTML, I basically get lost in a stream that changes if I zoom the text (often required to try to decode poorly formatted mathematical symbols) or even change the geometry of my viewing window.

I can highlight PDFs, and add comments to them. This is enormously valuable in research work.

(La)tex-generated PDF files can offer mathematical representations that are not just clear, but elegant, and in a form that matches historical convention. HTML representations vary from journal to journal (which is bad enough in and of itself) and almost never match what the reader expects from standard textbooks and classic papers.

I suppose HTML has the benefit that it can be set up to adjust to the viewing platform, so I can try to read a paper on my mobile phone. Not that doing so makes any sense at all.

For me, it's an easy decision.
even if any of the allegations against the platform are true, banning a single major platform like this - especially coming from someone as ham-fisted and blatant as Donald Trump - won't solve any of the problems people have with how China runs their businesses
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Out of interest, what have you had broken?

I've been on develop for ages, and don't really remember many breakages, I do however only pull sporadically.
because America isn't China?
It's very rare for anyone to talk about the efforts made by some institutions to give power and wealth away in restorative colonialist experiments, for example the American Colonization Society.

We have decades of socio-economic data about Liberia covering all aspects of development since its creation as a colony for freed slaves.

I have never heard anyone debate the terrible experiment of Liberia which is today one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world, despite it being founded and governed by its own free people and independent from any other nation for over 170 years.

It is one of the purest split tests in human civilisation but few know it exists and even fewer want to learn anything from it.
Thanks for your comment, I actually never heard of NATURAL JOIN, I will have to play with it but it seems very interesting!
It's the difference between a new tab vs a new browser instance - every electron app is a new browser instance with fixed overhead of 100mb or so. A new browser tab is closer to 10mb overhead.
If you use a DBMS to manually update these, yes. Otherwise you can do this in code whenever you want in your build/deploy pipeline.
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