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You can't go home. Not ever.

Forever burned into my memory is some stupid hippie liberal (disclaimer: I am also a stupid liberal) professor type talking to some NPR-voiced reporter shortly after 9/11. Very shortly, like a few weeks.

"I think this will be a good thing for our culture in some ways. We'll see an awakening of youthful counter cultural movements, art, and music inspired by these difficult times. It will be like the late 60's all over again." Something like that. Never mind how vile of a viewpoint it is that 9/11 may be good because some anthropology professor misses the 1960s. It simply never happened.

Wars occurred. Freedom contracted. Culture moved forward, not backward. New small renaissances did occur in that time. I'd consider the ~2005-2015 internet to be a pretty special moment and place, for example. But the 1960's never came again. Nor will the renaissance of the early internet. Nor will the bands of San Francisco.

Special moments of the future belong to different people, located elsewhere, doing different sorts of things.
See -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_nuclear_safety
I blame Google for the modern web.

Tracking scripts, ads, etc.
As time goes on, more workers are experiencing health effects that might be due to their years of work cleaning up the spill:

>...More than 30 cleanup workers at the December 2008 TVA Kingston Fossil Fuel Power Plant coal ash spill are dead and at least 200 are sick or dying — all with common ailments known to be caused by long-term exposure to arsenic, radium and the host of other toxins and metals found in the ash.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2018/09/20/kingsto...
> You're missing the forest for the trees. What's the tiniest x86-64 code generator that can bootstrap John McCarthy's meta-circular evaluator,

I don't think I am, and that's explicitly not the focus of the series. The goal is to learn about writing a Lisp compiler and to learn about x86-64. I don't care if I compile more in C than I need to.
That requires a customized PID 1 init program and a lightweight GUI (that map app is just ~10MiB of code + some code for postgresql that runs in the background) - most of the delay there is waiting for the postgresql to start up, actually.

Arch Linux to some lightweight GUI based on Xorg/i3wm takes about 8s. Similar for my Electron/X11 fullscreen based GUI for the phone (also in the video). Both are much larger.

Sadly, the Linux userspace is quite bloated, and the limiting factor is loading times from storage to RAM. You basically need to load >200 MiB of binaries/.so files to have anything useable running.

With eMMC speed of ~85MiB/s and SD card speed of 25MiB/s max for sequential reads only, you get the picture of where the most of the delay is.
Probably you were limited to a single 64k segment for stack... still would have required a really big amount of context per call to blow stack so quickly.

Back in the mid 80's on DOS I had no problem recursing 30+ levels deep.
It wasn't a racist tirade. It was a tirade against everyone who the fictional person felt was different from him as a method of identifying who he believed to be taking away his opportunities - just by those people existing.

See the consequent side-conversation here, https://youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?t=319. The crowd rejected him, the more he spoke.

Today's news is full of exactly the same attitude displayed by this person. Why are people not rejecting this today?
Turbulence doesn't mean loss of control. It's just rough air for a bit, and computers can manage through it. Modern passenger/cargo planes are designed to be naturally stable (positive static stability) in flight so that disturbances are dampened out.

Bigger issues like bad weather and other traffic would likely be programmed well in advance rather than leave that to real-time decisions.
> That's not what "empirical evidence" means. Empirical evidence is something we observe in the world. If we set a definition "all murder is illegal" and then we conclude "legal murders do not exist", do we have "empirical evidence" that legal murders can not exist? Of course not.

Hmm, you're right...

> We can conclude the claim is true by definition.

...which means we don't even need any empirical evidence to say that banks are different and unique from non-bank entities!

> I never asked for empirical evidence for non-banks' inability to create money out of thin air. Werner claimed to have empirical evidence for this.

No, he doesn't. He claims that he has empirical evidence for banks creating money out of thin air, nothing more.

> If Werner had instead said "due to accounting conventions, we declare banks' IOUs to be money and non banks' IOUs to not be money", I wouldn't have any problem with that.

Doesn't that go without saying, considering that non-bank IOUs, such as poker website deposits, aren't considered part of the money supply under pretty much any definition?
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How might you recommend moving into this field more?
> we're as close (or closer) to the hippies of burning man and esalen

I might concede this for SV, but not for the American tech industry as a whole. SV has an outside cultural influence on the rest of us, but even it doesn't dominant in places like NYC, RTP, etc.
The "cost of the pilot" / "cost of the operation" metric gives us this order: urban transportation, inter-city ground transportation, air transportation, water transportation.

The difficulty of automating it metric gives us this order: air transportation, water transportation, inter-city ground transportation, urban transportation.

So I'm personally expecting a mix: air transportation, inter-city ground transportation, water transportation, urban transportation.
Easy way to get hit with even more antitrust suits. Better to just leave it alone.
I was just wondering if they had some reasonable basis for not wanting an inaccurate app doing this. But I can’t really see one.
Latency issues? Perhaps the reviewer is on the other side of the globe?
I'm glad you enjoyed! I don't know anything about John Carmack's coding standard, so probably not.
No, she's wrong. The modern scientific models each form a kernel of truth from among the BS, and today we have to deal with quantum mechanics and its quirky bizarre predictions which invalidate the "just look at it" and "just think about it" schools of philosophical thought.

For example, she claims that God exists. A typical trait of God is knowing everything about the universe; say, knowing the positions, momenta, and spin of every particle. But QM gives us Heisenberg's Uncertainty, which prevents anybody, including hypothetical deities, from knowing that information. Indeed, QM typically isn't materialistic; it is wrong to insist that all of those particles definitely have some position and momentum at an instant in time. So, whatever her God is, it isn't the all-powerful one. (The all-powerful God has many better-tread problems in pure metaphysics, like the Problem of Evil, but I don't know what "evil" is and so I'm leaning on QM.)

There is no problem in having to learn philosophy by reading surveys of historical ideologies. Philosophy is cumulative, and as little as one semester of studying historical philosophy can massively improve a person's critical thinking skills.

Really, the problem is in not taking seriously enough the invalidation of old philosophies by newer thoughts, as we continue to improve what we know. There are many positions that are simply wrong, including positions which we currently think are correct!
What passes review is negatively correlated with quality I'd wager. The app store is literally filled with malware and it apparently easily passed review. While I hear horror stories from almost all devs that actually try to make something legitimate.
Hey! Author here :) This is a very good question, and you're right that I should've expanded on my rationale as this is not standard practice at all.

There are some particularities of the data we're writing that make this case more common than usual, and in any case the time spent in the bit masking routine is negligible compared to the flash erase time, so it works out well (keep in mind that the `all()` consumer will short-circuit as soon as two bits differ, so in the general case it's cheap, and in the erased case it isn't too different from verifying every byte is 0xFF). We're also really, really strongly optimizing for flash life above speed, as this code is meant to run very rarely for FOTA upgrades.

For a general purpose storage flash driver, I'd definitely erase every sector.
Its core market does not even know what side-loading refers to.
I doubt you have to be a full on developer. Probably along the lines of a QA tester. Some overlap for sure with developers but a different skillset mostly. I think it would be interesting to work as one for a while just to see how the sausage is made though.
Well, just a single key system needs to be running on 100 microwatts for this scenario to occur.
Yeah, why provide an API to disable the minimize button if they're going to reject your app for using it
Just finished the second post this morning if you're interested: https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-a-lisp-2/
Very interested, would love to be a part of this.
this is a small startup, I am that person :)
Don't they have this policy to not allow competitors to their own functionality?
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You can already sideload on iOS (with no jailbreak) - it is admittedly janky though.

I sideload a YouTube Vanced - like app on all my devices
Backup applications always need to be aware of the filesystem features. Otherwise they won’t be able to store all important information, such as permissions and extended attributes.

By the way, having two files in one directory that would clash on a case insensitive filesystem is a bad idea and pretty unlikely.
Or it might be just a scarce resource planing which becomes obsolete once we colonize planets or get involved into nano tech.
iOS developers are not successful in general. The top 1% of App Store developers make the vast majority of the App Store revenue.

Apple doesn't seem to care, because they get their 30% regardless of how the other 70% of the revenue is distributed.
Affirmative action is racism. It’s the only institutional racism that still exists today.
Sparing Tokyo worked because Japan didn’t have the capability to retaliate. Any launching during the mid-to-late Cold War would have been a massive first strike and possibly a retaliation at the same scale. In the early Cold War it may have been a reasonable strategy, but as another poster notes that’s a very narrow window for changing how a city grows.

Even if there was an effect, I’d be very surprised if the signal wasn’t wiped out first by railroads and then by cars.
There's a reason why the Eisenhower Interstate System signs have the 5 stars of a general.
It's great to see you in the thread! I very much enjoyed Lisp from outer space. Your work has been helpful in teaching me programming languages stuff.
Can the pinephone hardware realistically be used to run Linux comfortably on mobile? The pinebook sucked and this is the same hardware,the pinebook pro has 4gb and still struggles
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Well they should dogfood their own rules and add such a button to Safari. Every time I end up mistakenly tapping Open in New Window (which I NEVER want) instead of New Tab, I have a very frustrating time figuring out how to gesture that new window TF off my screen.
Arguably if we are sticking with the existing definitions of days and years the reason we use a base-60 is because that is a degrees system. We are respecting (approximate) circular travel. It would almost make more sense to express time in radians in that case as that is the metric measure of angle. We are about 3/4 Tau through this year, and I'm writing this at about 1.2 Pi on this day.
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>That is literally what it does. It slows down cognition.

Yes, but I'm talking actual changes in the cognitive output. Look at all the physiological changes astronauts undergo. Those changes extend to their cognition, even if the effect of general relativity is small.

>Again, this is a pop-science misunderstanding of all of physics, not just Quantum Mechanics (QM).

There's an entire field called quantum biology. I'm not advocating the brain has quantum magic (in fact last I checked the theory was pretty much completely discounted). Rather, on the off-chance that it does, your example breaks down via way of the elements that comprise the brain's computation not being necessarily subject to the same relativistic effects due to potentially vast distances between some of those elements.

Or, without QM at all, consider that there's an extremely minute difference in relativistic effects even across the few inches that span your skull. By that alone, 1.0 is not 1.0.

Not trying to be pedantic here, merely food for thought.
I think you swapped the numerator and the denominator. If the US uses more water than is on the moon every day, how would it survive 2.5 days?

(There's also some conversion problems because the article took the amount of water on the moon and estimated a number of swimming pools, and you've taken the number of swimming pools and estimated the amount of water. From the article, the moon has 600 billion kg of water, or 159 billion gallons.)
May I ask why are the vast majority of your comments about Apple? I'm not calling you a paid shill but I don't understand what it takes to defend a company on anonymous internet forum so much. Do you work for them?
When I was a kid we used to play football using the wall of a s.XI church as goal. That might be an extreme case but gives some perspective about european cities.
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Pilots train for water landings. Why wouldn't an automated system get the same training?
That area full of 1s might not be really erased, though, if power was removed or the device reset during an erase cycle before.

Those would be partially-charged cells, and should be erased properly before writing, lest you start getting temperamental read errors later.

But repeatedly erasing blocks just to add a byte will wear out the block, as well as take a long time as you point out.

I think the solution to these two constraints is filesystem-like book-keeping of which regions are in which states.
I don't know about Paris, but London public transport reaches almost every corner of the city. I'm making some assumptions here, but I assume you've only ever lived in an American city. You often see Americans thinking that the terrible public transit they see is what public transit is everywhere. This is very much not the case.
> That would be a lot of ICBMs

That's what MIRVs are for.

The strategy, if it existed at all and it isn't just a post-hoc explaination, was probably designed around the time the strategic bomber was the primary, and only, method of delivery of atomic bombs.
>25 minutes from my work

This is definitely ideal, but is it achievable (in average, not for any individual) in larger cities even if they are built for walk/public transit?

I don't have much experience in Europe, but I knew in Tokyo, which probably has the best public transit in the world, the average commute time is one hour. This is obviously an extreme example as Tokyo is a megacity, but I think majority of people cannot live 25 minutes from their work for any cities that have 1M+ populations, regardless how the city is built.
Handling mechanical failures and other in-flight emergencies are the tricky parts.
My immediate reaction when seeing the phone: thank $randomdeity that the screen is a proper rectangle and not some moronic almost-oval (eff you Apple).
Every single city that was targeted had multiple rockets assigned to them. Each rocket was just a launch vehicle similar to SpaceX launching Falcon9s with multiple Starlink satellite, each nuclear rocket was equipped with MIRVs (multiple independent re-entry vehicles). So one rocket launched would result in multiple targets. You could target each MIRV at different parts of the suburban sprawl. Pretty damn effective.
Apple test everything on a VPN. This issue took me 2 weeks to resolve, and they had to whitelist the IP addresses for the provider I used :(
thanks for your interest, releasing the training code should be granted by my lab leader. I am trying to apply for it. If you have any question, welcome to raise an issue or email me :)
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Probably by what you write in the release notes during submission.
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A typical nuclear bomb has a wipe-out radius of 1-2 Km. At 10-15Km radius, you are looking at damages/injuries but not a complete wipe-out. Also residential houses are less susceptible to infrastructure breakdown vs. a high-res building.
You'd almost expect this; taking steroids, particularly without medical supervision, is inherently rather dangerous, so it's fairly reasonable to assume that people who do it are on average more reckless than normal people.
If doing things properly instead of leaving cludges in place forever is insane, we need a lot more insane ideas. Seriously, laws aren't scary.
I hope so too. Still I'm reminded of:

Apple has copied the features of the best apps to compete with them [1]

Apple is accused of ranking their identical apps higher than the competition [2]

Apple appears to have no shortage of healthtech related patents [3][4][5]

Given the propensity to compete with existing apps and features, it might not be a stretch to prevent them too.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/05/how-app...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/23/20707323/apple-app-store-...

[3] https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2020/04/apple-w...

[4] https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/biometrics/

[5] https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2019/12/apple-w...
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> or staying to justify his actions

stay to face the angry mob of anonymous individuals (wearing face-covering hoods and masks)?

Consider that RH was not running from the police, but from a mob of people shouting "Get him!" and shooting pistols. You think he still must be guilty if he chose to run from that?
The cloth sheet example with heavy object in the center making other objects come towards it never made sense to me.

This example would never work in zero gravity.

Someone gave this sponge visual on stackexchange I think and since then it made so much sense. Also, this makes time travel totally senseless.

You can not travel back in time without reversing all input you ever received from external factors. Only thing we can probably do is stop or slow down time for something.
> Apple and Google are not exhibiting anti-competitive behavior when they moderate the marketplace.

It's not the moderation, it's the moderation combined with effectively gating the ability to run a competing marketplace.

Apple does this through linking all the components of the stack, their store requires their OS which requires their hardware, and their hardware requires their OS which requires their store. You can't compete on any single level because the whole paltform is a monolith.

Google does it slightly differently, but almost as effectively. They don't really care about the hardware, but they've moved portions of the OS to things that are distributed through their store. You can't completely remove the Play store without crippling a lot of OS features.

> They are not competing. What Apple product is competing with a random app they reject on the marketplace for a random reason?

Anti0copetitive behavior doesn't require they compete specifically, just that they prevent competition. But if you want a simple example, a web browser. You can't ship a competitive web browser because you're forced to use their core, for multiple reasons (can't JIT because of memory restrictions, but at a more fundamental level because you can't release an interpreter, which JavaScript engines are).

> It is not a question of competition. ... if they decide that they don't like you you are out of luck and might as well give up your business. That is where the harm comes from.

That's preventing others from competing. That's exactly the problem. Competition is a core attribute of our economic model, and preventing it causes that model to not work correctly. Monopolies aren't inherently bad, they're bad because they allow anti-competitive behavior to be exerted easily. Anti-trust laws exist not because we don't like companies making deals with each other, but because when those deals are anti-competitive, it goes against the economic model we have in place, and the public is harmed.

> Private companies should not control critical digital infrastructure, just like private companies should not control critical physical infrastructure.

That's true, and that doesn't require a monopoly to have happen. I think it's a weaker case though, since I don't think Apple or Android are really providing critical digital infrastructure, and if you do think of a mobile device (and software delivery on it) as critical infrastructure, then there is choice (that is, the complete failure of one allows a different systems to be used). I think of consumer harm a bit differently when considering critical paths, as that assumes a whole new platform/stack might be required depending on where the break is. That's not a strong conviction though, so maybe you're convince me otherwise.
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With the US specifically President Donald Trump potentially banning the hot social media app TikTok, Walmart has teamed up with Microsoft to try and purchase it. That would be an interesting acquisition which would help boost sales and promote specific items to the younger TikTok audience

That version of the app, Douyin, which works much like TikTok but is available only in China, has become not only a platform for goofy videos but also an e-commerce destination with the kind of reach among young buyers that Walmart would love to have.

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> Onboarding somebody into a world full of single-character variable names and such is a headache.

The opposite of named arguments isn’t single character variable names. Any organisation with an enforced coding standard would ensure that variables are descriptive irrespective of whether that language uses named arguments or not.
Ah, minor linguistic differences. In Ireland, 'gear' means heroin.
Also Japan was hit by bombs in the low tens of kilotons. Modern bombs are in the megaton range.
Then what's the piece of tape here?
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