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Epic make excellent products, no argument, this is also a reason why this is a poor tactic - use your strengths to drive a bargain, right?

To confirm, I definitely think Epic are running to Mom here with the lawsuit, they were trying to get Apple sucked in deliberately by breaking the contract.

Regarding the moral argument, Tim Sweeney doesn't get to represent all other developers unless he at least checks with a few, and he might be surprised at the range of responses he would get. This is supposed to be a game where everyone knows the rules in advance and sticks to them. There is plenty of evidence to say that Apple has offered sweetheart deals or not applies the rules consistently - and that IS unfair, and I hope Apple gets a smackdown on that. But on the basis that you knew what the rules were in advance, should we continue to accept these events in good faith?

On the subject of money, Apple's prices are off-the-charts crazy right now, and speaking as a veteran of the prices of the early 1990s, I am staggered at how expensive everything is. My current iPhone is almost two years old and it had better last another three at least. I just bought a new MBP in January and the cost was eye-watering. That had better last ten years. And on these things, we have little choice, or at least I don't. I want to be in that ecosystem, because I've tried the others and they suck, so if it's a choice of spending the money or having my life suck, well, that's why money was invented.

I would rather not be seen as defending Apple, because they don't need my help, and I don't want to help them, but I also do not want to read emotive and partial cheap shots at them decrying their "tax" and espousing "freedom" - everything is a trade-off and people make those choices themselves. If Epic had decided to sue Apple, Google, Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft all at the same time, or done the diplomatic thing and gotten an alliance or coalition to stand up to Apple, that would be defensible, but it seems that the Sweeney Toddler approach won out - how are we supposed to support this even if we agree that Apple deserve a kicking?
That case is meant to fall through. Is there a bug?
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Perhaps your assumption is flawed.
> Anything that defines that sort of function application in a particularly convenient way is a monad. There's more to it, but that's why it's useful.

Aaand with this statement you skipped over what IMO is the most important missing piece, because everything above it fits higher-order functions such as map(), which as far as I understand aren't monads.
The article lists three assumptions that one might intuitively think hold. The problematic assumption is this one:

> When someone observes an event happening, it really happened.

Given the experiment from the paper, I would rephrase this assumption as "it's not possible to rewind things". But obviously inside a computer simulation made up of operations that are all individually reversible, it's trivial to rewind things.

The experiment sets up a situation where certain information is reversibly recorded, and then the records are unmade by temporarily rewinding. The rewinding is obfuscated by hiding it inside of a measurement that is incompatible with the presence or absence of the record. I guess the authors might disagree about the measurement implying rewinding, but as a bit of evidence I'll note that Scott Aaronson and Yosi Atia have shown that performing the measurement in question over a simulated agent is at least as expensive as rewinding the simulated agent [1]. Whatever is being done, it is doing some seriously expensive screwing around with the agent's state. It's like the experiment has a step where you feed the human through a giant meat processing plant, and for some reason everyone is pretending that's not somehow important.

Basically, the authors are appealing to the intuition that humans are big complicated in-practice-irreversible things, so clearly a record is permanent if it has affected the state of a human. But then they imagine instantiating the human's state inside a ridiculously powerful computer capable of reversibly simulating time advancing and of performing operations that have been engineered specifically to mess with the presence or absence of the record's effects on the human's state. Surprise surprise, the record gets messed with. Then for the actual experiment the big complicated ball of dependent spaghetti that is a human is replaced by a nice simple photon going along one path or another path.

1: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4786
Sometimes when a conference call feels like it will never end, it never ends
That's a gross over simplification of the Republican view point. Both sides have blind spots. Republicans on climate change, Democrats on other things like nuclear for instance.
One other thing I've recently learned is that outside of cities, fire departments are mostly volunteer. Here in the Vacaville Fire Protection District (most of northwest Solano county, which burned heavily in the LNU complex) the department is 90% volunteers. And that's fairly typical.

(I recently applied)
There were factions and groups that were constantly warring and amalgamating. It's mostly semantics but what happened is the country fell apart.
Thanks for pointing me to Shellshow, I hadn't heard of it before, it looks cool! I'll look into it in detail sometime this week and see if I can add some of its features to `present`.

> One thing I want in a tool like this is to be able to display ascii charts like from gnuplot, which is why I liked the simplicity of Shellshow. I will have to dig in to see if this is possible, if not I expect it would be easy to add.

I've thought about adding charting features too! Asciimatics supports barcharts: https://asciimatics.readthedocs.io/en/stable/asciimatics.htm... and lets you extend classes to build other types of charts too.

Would you like to open an issue and describe this feature a bit in detail? https://github.com/vinayak-mehta/present/issues For example, what should the API look like, should it pick up data from a csv file and load it up into a barchart etc. I would love to work on this when I find time!
Surprised no one has mentioned yield. With larger chip size, getting good yield becomes a challenge, especially with smaller nodes. 28nm is an extremely mature node with 8+ years of prod volume (in excess of 3k wafer starts a week in multiple fabs).
Nuclear is much cheaper when built at scale. Often 3-5x cheaper. Most of the plants built during the nuclear boom in the 1960s and 1970s were built at a cost of ~$2.5 billion per gigawatt of capacity. Note that this capacity is put out 24/7, so it's equivalent to about 4 times as much solar capacity (which typically has a capacity factor of ~25%).

Solar and wind are cheap in terms of watts per day, but become drastically more expensive one you need to start adding storage. Storage costs are typically in the $200-400 per KWh range for battery storage, and $100 - $200 per KWh range for hydroelectric storage, but the latter is geographically limited.
Unfortunately you don't seem to stand corrected, as you're still declaring the same assumptions you had in the first place!
I can't see how creating a global communications monopoly could be seen as rational from the perspective of the masses.
I created this to have a frame of reference for me and my buddies to compare stats. It has grown to also help with figuring out if people are improving, or to show where they need to improve.

If anyone tries it and runs into problems let me know! I am trying to keep it as simple as possible for people to get up and running with their own group.

And yes, I understand I'm not very good. Thats why I created it in the first place : )
AI researchers have been over-promising and under-delivering for 70 years now.

It seems like AI has settled into making discriminators. Maybe intelligence really is just pattern matching and grouping? I don't think it is, but I could be wrong.
I wanted to learn more about EOPL 2, an HTML page appeared and then browser refresh'd to 404... it was surprising :D

What kind of programming language is used in the book?
What the summary?
> We will not be able to "defeat" climate change and keep this planet inhabitable for future generations without mass adoption of nuclear power.

I wish we could discuss such topics without the much-abused climate scare argument. Most debatable, technology-related issues have many other implications worth taking into account. Like grid stability, cost of energy etc. in this case.

But if all you've got is a hammer...
It starts right with:

> At 34.2 hours, Germany already has one of the shortest average working weeks in Europe. And there are loud voices calling for it to be shorter still.

And then the "graphic of usual hours of work of employees", and then goes on with 35h per week (in the metal working industry).

As others pointed out, 40h per week is quite often the standard, the lower average cited right in the beginning can be explained differently, than large parts of the population enjoying a relaxed safe full-time employment with less than 40h per week, which is kind of implied by the setup of the article.
trying running a single SaaS codebase for enterprise clients. Maybe you can upgrade everyone with CI on a single commit, but no line of business solution wants that. We have to run a very strict and explicit upgrade cycle for our apps that allows them to test extensively before committing to newer versions.

Just because you're SaaS doesn't mean your clients are...
>An analogy I heard:

>What would Target do if...

Again with the real-world mall/stores comparisons!

Does the beans vendor need to buy a machine from Target to manufacture the cans? Do they need to also pay a separate yearly fee to Target?
Ideas spread like viruses (mathematically, and physically, as the interaction between two individuals who have some percentage change of a successful exchange).

Some idea viruses disrupt the host, some improve the host’s health. Some minds are more prone to certain viruses that would be nonsense to lesser minds.
This.

If you want to shower in a place, but have to find the hidden cameras prior to taking your shower? I think that's a pretty good sign that you probably shouldn't be showering in that place.
> something that doesn't have an excellent keyboard, which rules out most laptops including and especially Mac

Probably not very relevant to you, since Macs don't like being bashed into the floor too much, but the new post-butterfly keyboards are really nice IMO. Way nicer than that of my late 2013 MBP that got a new keyboard last year. They've really fixed that issue for me, and you still get the Touchbar with a physical ESC key, which IMO is a lot more useful than F-keys ever were.
I mean please don't take this answer the wrong way, but this is like saying "Some rich person should give away $1M for finding an application of complex numbers". It feels condescending. If your area deals with cellular automata e.g. programming languages, computer simulation, procedural generation etc applications of cellular automata are numerous and well understood. It's niche sure, but it's not like this entertaining thing that strangely has no practical applications. I downvoted GP because of this, since it assumes it has no applications and offers a rich person to help us out to compensate for that.
Why are the VCs to blame and not the founders and executives of AirBnB?
Alfred workflows to increase productivity and speed up repetitive tasks
Do you think it's possible to sell a "low dollar" SaaS (e.g., price points below $200/month) to cities?

I've had a few discovery calls lately where people have said you can slip things by on a credit card if it's cheap enough, while others have said absolutely everything goes through a procurement process.

Very interested to hear your thoughts based on the experience you described...
Hi!

I made up this new Alfred marketplace of workflows as a guy fancy of digital tools and productivity. I think you could like it.

Alfred workflows (http://alfredworkflows.store/) is a curated list with a selection of 100+ Workflows for everyone divided into 13 Categories (Design, Development, Productivity, Video and others...) and for different job titles (Developers, Project Managers, Designers…)

The community of Alfred users and I will add more every week to help people and you be more productive.

This is a version 1.0, not perfect. Hope you will enjoy it.

What do you think? Feel free to ask me any questions and share your feedback.

Cheers!
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I swear that my Windows 10 File Explorer had this problem.

Here is a user complaint about this problem from Nov 2019:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cant-r...

Here's another post from May 2018, explicitly mentioning Windows 10:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-ca...

But I checked again on my own Windows 10 machine (Windows 10 Pro, Version 2004, build 19041.450) and holy shit, it now works. It must have been fixed in a recent Window 10 update.
By one system, I mean one with all the redundancies that such a system serving all of man kind would have, assuming man could actually work together across cultures, etc.
I didn't think of CRISPR and related genomics work. It definitely has potential to change the world like commercial flight or the internet, but I don't think it has yet...

Definitely something I need to keep thinking about. Biology probably is the next area to see some giant advances like physics did 80 years ago.
please dont call yourself that its more like i [and others] are hyper paranoid and marginal in behavior due to the nature of pastimes [i myself can promise you that im not malicious but i cant speak for others, i would leave it up to them to speak for themselves]
Could you explain how Ada tasks work and why they solve the issues the context package is intended for, for those who don't know ada?
Studying programming languages has the same side effects as studying AI. You have to learn some broadly applicable programming tricks to get your programs running. I see closures everywhere after writing my own programming language. Someone might use backtracking in a new domain after studying AI.
> As much as they possibly can.

We can flesh this out, too.

I would add: "As much as they possibly can in tax-advantaged accounts, and then more!" And it turns out, you can save a shit ton in a tax advantaged way.

Let's look at 2020 limits, and assume a married couple, under 50, with one person earning as a software engineer:

$19,500 max contribution to a pre-tax 401(k). Many companies match. You should contribute all $19.5k, not just what you can to get the full match. If you're over 50, do the $6,500 catch-up.

But that's not all. The IRS limit on combined employer/employee contributions is $57,000. So if your employer allows it, contribute the remaining $37,500 post-tax and then convert it to a Roth IRA to at least get the earnings and withdrawal tax advantage (commonly known as the "mega-backdoor Roth").

$12,000 to an IRA (or Roth), $6,000 from both you and your spouse. If you like Roth but are beyond the income limits for the Roth, do the "regular backdoor Roth".

$7,100 to a family HSA. If your company offers it, do it. It's triple tax advantaged when used for health expenses.

Although they are old-school and don't yield much, US savings bonds can be a decent way to fill up an emergency fund. They are exempt from state taxes, and interest may be excluded from Federal income tax when used to finance education. There are a few to choose from, I particularly like the Series-I bonds. The government limits individuals to $10,000 per year for a total of $20,000 for a married couple.

So, if you are a very high earner, and are fortunate enough you can max all of these, you can save $96,100 per year, with some kind of tax advantage. There is probably more that I'm not thinking of. You should probably do all of these before you even think about looking at fully-taxed investments like your retail stock broker.
> Albania was a libertarian/anarchic place, because coming out of Communism, the government was too inept to apply the laws. Libertarism... just like Communnism, are naive ideas that ultimately don't work.

Libertarianism is not the same thing as anarchism or the total lack of government. It means a government that's restricted to enforcing natural rights and fairly resolving disputes via courts.
> I write this with the upmost hope in the future success of private space sector, and with a desire to live to see Mercury turned into a Dyson swarm and to be part of the initial colonisation of Mars or Luna:

I agree with this sentiment!

> There are other ways to get cheap internet, and these satellites serve low-population rural areas much better than they serve cities where most people live.

Ironically, people who live in cities will be much less affected by impingement on their night sky because they already deal with light pollution, whereas people in low-population rural areas have a much nicer night sky.

Astronomy is done more in rural and remote areas than in cities, for the same reasons.
I don't know about tax laws on Barbados, but usually you need to pay income tax in a country where you spend more than half of a year. Just the fact that you rent a flat for a year is enough for an revenue authority to start an investigation.
As someone who just went from zero to a working Kubernetes implementation, like a lot of things in tech, the problem isn't the tool: it's how others explain it.

The tool is excellent and extremely well-conceived. Being able to spin up a highly scalable fault-tolerant system with a few manifest files is impressive. The only frustration I ran into was trying to understand which files I needed when vs. what was unnecessary and intended for a special use case.
Samsung Begins Mass Production of 16Gb LPDDR5 DRAM
Could that be Dibb's Dilemma?
First endorsement in 48 years? I'm pretty sure this qualifies as an endorsement:

> As detailed in the Climate Action Plan, President Obama is committed to using every appropriate tool to combat climate change. Nuclear power, which in 2014 generated about 60 percent of carbon-free electricity in the United States, continues to play a major role in efforts to reduce carbon emissions from the power sector. As America leads the global transition to a low-carbon economy, the continued development of new and advanced nuclear technologies along with support for currently operating nuclear power plants is an important component of our clean energy strategy. Investing in the safe and secure development of nuclear power also helps advance other vital policy objectives in the national interest, such as maintaining economic competitiveness and job creation, as well as enhancing nuclear nonproliferation efforts, nuclear safety and security, and energy security.

>

> The President’s FY 2016 Budget includes more than $900 million for the Department of Energy (DOE) to support the U.S. civilian nuclear energy sector by leading federal research, development, and demonstration efforts in nuclear energy technologies, ranging from power generation, safety, hybrid energy systems, and security technologies, among other things. DOE also supports the deployment of these technologies with $12.5 billion in remaining loan guarantee authority for advanced nuclear projects through Title 17. DOE’s investments in nuclear energy help secure the three strategic objectives that are foundational to our nation’s energy system: energy security, economic competitiveness, and environmental responsibility.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/1...
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I'm sure there's a way to hack this into a Tesla
But we do occasionally stop competing when we know it harms our own chance of survival, e.g. nuclear testing.

I wonder if filling the skies with over 1-10 million satellites will pose similar types of self-reflection, or if the risk is too low for anyone to care that much.
you can inject changes in routing, but if the other other carrier doesn't route around the affected network, you're back to square one. That's part of why Level3/CenturyLink was depeered and why several prefixes that are normally announced through it were quickly rerouted by owners.
I also haven't really seen anyone discuss the cost of nuclear in human labor costs. No matter what method or design you use you still need educated workers to babysit both the reactor and the standard turbine infrastructure, whose salary dwarfs whatever costs come from fuel or safety countermeasures.

In contrast, solar and wind tend to be very manpower efficient due to the logistical pain of maintaining something spread over 10 sq. miles forcing investments in reliability and autonomy.

Edit: Messed up wording
Opengov is probably the market leader, and it’s taken them a while
I thought that I had used Macs with HFS+ filesystem that was case-sensitive a long time ago, but I'm not 100% sure anymore.
TL;DR: Evangelical Christians hope for a power grab. There's a lot of ahistorical belief (US started as a Christian nation) and a lot of self-delusion (Christians are widely persecuted) behind the feeling that Evangelicals need to grab power.
> it is uncommon for sites to proxy third-party resources onto their own domains

Isn't the purpose of Signed HTTP Exchanges to be able to deliver 3rd-party resources from another domain?
No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore (2018)
table of contents would be nice.
... And nothing of value was lost.

If it's detremental to your business to not be able to track users on such a granular level, it's a bad business.

I'm sure Facebook will survive here.

100% biased, can't stand that company.
> Which legal charges stick and which do not are interesting, but using them as a stand-in for morality is a common fallacy employed in irrational political side-taking.

Agreed, but morality is in lock step with the law here: the result of the attacks is the moral responsibility of the attackers. Which know isn't Kyle, because we have video evidence from multiple angles of all three attacks.
>Even though it goes against the basic premise of human-centered design, users have to train themselves to understand when an intelligent assistant will be useful and when it’s better to avoid using it.

I find this is one of the truest things about this article. It's very easy when you first get a new voice assistant to get carried away with the features it has available. Most are either very basic, struggling to take much additional context, or simply just gimmicks/novelties. The majority of tasks can be performed faster through a GUI when you account for the time it takes to brute force the right "natural language" expression to do the thing you need.
The article doesn’t have anything to do with Silicon Valley. It doesn’t say a lot about Chicago (where the subject worked) either. Unless I missed it somewhere? Nor creative culture anywhere. Maybe “People like to hustle and party” is a better title?
Relies on the asciimatics Matrix effect, looks like: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/blob/master/asc...
He drove 20 minutes. His attackers may have driven for even longer. The law around the long gun is true though, he should have used a handgun for protection.
The point is that "if" branches based on a boolean value. A comparison is just one way to produce a boolean value. There's nothing explicit by adding "==true". It just show a lack of understanding of "if".
Sony is trying to own the market for image sensors.

The Nikon D850's image sensor was designed by Nikon but Sony made it.

They have a 'firewall' in place between the custom-contracted fab work they did for Nikon vs the team that designs Sony sensors, so that the Nikon IP stays only with Nikon.

See https://m.dpreview.com/news/1234108119/nikon-d850-sensor-con...

Only Canon at this point has stuck with their own image sensor IP and designs, as I understand it.

Not sure where Ricoh/Pentax gets their sensors from, it's believed some are Samsung and some are Sony.