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It won’t remain competitive.

Wireless is exempt from the restrictions that wired services are forced to accept. Wireless carriers can terminate apps that they consider disruptive and have fewer neutrality and limit restrictions.

You’re not going to have meaningful competition, and the national security nonsense attributed to 5G allows for things like siting infrastructure dramatically cheaper than incumbents.

The regulation is much easier for carriers to control at the federal level, especially with the courts in the state they are in.
I've tried to make a new mathematical philosophy using the permutations of lists rather than numbers as the basic structure upon which understanding would rest.
I think that such a mathematics could replace our numerical maths in many respects.
Therefore I don't think that the aliens would necessarily have any thinking in common with our own.
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Works fine on a Dell and an Acer for me, never heard of that before as well.
I think cpu pinning also would have reduced the impact by a significant factor if all workloads have full vcpu cores
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If yes, please comment the URL :)

Second, does it matter to recruiters/hiring managers?
(Speaking mostly for junior SWE and college students like me.)
What makes this case clear cut based on current legislation and precedent? In what sense is “regulation” or new legislation an alternative to antitrust litigation? The U.S. has been dealing with alleged monopolies via protracted trials about highly contestable economic facts, based on generic antitrust legislation, for a century now – Standard Oil, IBM, AT&T, Microsoft ...
You think Mozilla still has it in them?

As a long time Apple user, and open software advocate I'd literally cry tears of joy. I'd also have to throw Zuck a bone if FB joined.

I really just want Apple to separate their code signing (Developer) service with their advertising and distribution service (App Store).
Care to post the new, realistic math?
Good to see he mentions some of Plato's odder (to our eyes) ideas in The Republic. Add iPhones to them and one arguably winds up close to 1984: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069572
With async Django views we can use Django with asyncpg... o_o but middlewares are still synch...
Somewhere, an evil pony is twitching his ears.
Cool! I will drop you a message or catch up with you on openai-api slack.

There are a couple of features we see GPT3 stands out and potentially benefits the product features.

Currently we are evaluating the end to end quality and cost versus our traditional ML based recommendation and semantic search pipeline.
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Back in March when all this insanity was starting we ran out of dish soap. It took me three shops to find some. I bought one bottle and still have about an inch left in the bottle. People went insane!
I've read a good number of them and enjoyed them, but I don't think he's my favorite author by any stretch.

My complaints (which need not apply to others, of course)
- A lot of the main characters and plot lines feel the same. I can't tell you what happened in some books vs other books because they all (to me) feature listless males who drink Cutty Sark, enjoy jazz music, and have weird shit happen to them that they mostly tolerate while acknowledging that it is bizarre.
- The style feels a little flat. It just kind of is. Even though the sentences can get quite long and windy and full of descriptions and details until you get lost, much like a sentence like this, my inner voice still reads it in a kind of monotone that I imagine resembles how the protaganist (if you could call them that) goes through life. The kind of prose that, if you're tired, will make you more tired.

What I liked
- The casual surrealness. I complained about it earlier but it's also a feature. It isn't meant to transform the book into a sci-fi or fantasy novel, it just is what it is.
- The lack of resolution. Too many books try too hard to wrap things up. Sometimes things just are. Which is also probably why I can't remember what happened in which books since they just end up being a series of events (think another commentator noted that).
- The way things weave together. Not everything wraps up, but that doesn't mean they aren't connected.
- Japan. I've lived there before, it's fun to read about characters and think "oh, I've been there!"

I don't think this accurately sums up my feelings, which I guess means there's actually a lot to unpack which is a positive sign, but basically I think if you can't get into Murakami, that's fine and isn't on you.
How is he being obtuse? Are you not giving an example to the same hypothetical he presented?
I am really excited about adding support for JMAP – I participated in the IETF WG for it, gave some feedback, and think it's a very well-designed protocol that should be really efficient at syncing email. It would probably be one of the most fun features for me to add to the app, but yeah, there's still a lot of work left for the Gmail account experience first.
> would running a PWR with very high enrichment level (AFAIK some designs use 93% U-235) allow quick spin down and spin up?

Well.. there are a lot of factors in a reactor design affecting the ability to increase or decrease power quickly. Geometry, fuel/moderator ratio, fuel density, burnable poisons (for flattening the reactivity swing over the fuel cycle), amount of control rods etc etc. Fuel enrichment being only one thing, which in turn affects other things as well (e.g. reactors using highly enriched uranium tend to use different fuel designs than low enriched fuels).

But yes, military reactors for navy ships obviously have very different demands on them than civilian power reactors, and are designed accordingly.

And yes, while US navy reactors use 93% enriched fuel, it's not necessary, e.g. French and apparently Chinese submarines use low enriched fuel (7% for French).
What frequency are you using and over what bandwidth? How many dB down are your sidelobes from your main beam? Are you using parabolic reflectors for your primary antennas, how big are they relative to your wavelength (what's the beamwidth)? What role do meta-materials play, are they the collimating relay? What about the sidelobes on the relay?

Why do you think 100 mW/cm^2 is 'safe'? You must know from experience this is enough for tissue heating, even from sidelobes many dB down.

Over what ranges do you think this is feasible? With, say 20 km of free space path loss in the 2.4 GHz ISM and 40 dB antenna gain at each end you're going to be at least 50 dB down. Doesn't this mean for things like transmitting power to islands this tech is not useful?

Even if you start at 1 KW in (60 dBm), over 20 km the receiving antenna is going to get about 0-10 dBm, or milliwatts.

With the same generous setup at 1 km and 1 kW you get 10 watts at the far end.

This just doesn't work out.
Maybe I'm appropriating the term. Flux is a bikeshed in the sense that it's not anything groundbreaking or complicated or significant (ducks) yet everyone feels the need to weigh in on it when given the chance. What I mean is, flux opinions are like assholes. Or to reference the xkcd comic below, for every lucky 10,000 there are 10,000 people who will gladly share their story with you.
There's a number of irregularities between the US and Canadian border.

Johnny Harris, who used to (still is? seems unclear) film the Vox series "Borders", did a video on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvvicd07zCs

Basically, the border is largely the 49th parallel and some seemingly arbitrary lines on the East Coast and Alaska. But since they were done in the 18th/19th century without regard for existing settlements, it leads to some crazy enclaves and border towns:

-Point Roberts, WA [1]

-Piney Pinecreek Border Airport (K48Y) [2]

-Hyder, AK [3]

-Estcourt Station, ME [4]

-Derby Line, VT [5]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piney_Pinecreek_Border_Airport

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyder,_Alaska

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estcourt_Station,_Maine

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_Line,_Vermont
In our use case, from 12 cores to 2 :) (mostly for ha)
That’s a weird retort. At least deaths should be reasonably robust and there is really no comparison there between Germany and the US.

Germany is doing fantastically better than the US. All the while measures have been relaxed way more here than in the US. “Lockdowns” were also never really harsh in Germany and only lasted a very short time.

Three factors are suspected to be at play there:

* very early testing that detected community spread with unknown origins very early on (using the influenza sentinel system for detection)

* luckily being late in importing the virus, which lead to …

* … politicians being able to “look into the future” by looking at Italy (a place that unluckily imported the virus quite a bit earlier)

As a result Germany relatively quickly (though Germany could have acted a bit faster and have been even more effective) implemented quite mild measures for a relatively short amount of time. Some of those measures are still in place, most were, however, lifted in the meantime.

This lead to a still enduring drop to very low numbers, extremely low numbers if you look at deaths. Even though measures at this point often are much milder than in the US.

Your defensive “numbers aren’t comparable” retort is bullshit. Mostly because, sure, the numbers aren’t comparable. Sure, that’s true. But we aren’t talking about orders of magnitude here.

Germany is doing fantastically better than the US. No matter what you measure, whether it’s infections, deaths, excess deaths, economic impact. You name it.
I like OpenGL, but I really hate the global state. If only there was some concept of state objects that record state, something like:

glBeginState(&stateObj); glEnable(GL_BLEND); glDepthTest(GL_LEQUAL); glEndState(&stateObj);

and then later on you'd do glBindState(&stateObj) to apply it.

I have high hopes for WebGPU though and I am going to migrate my renderer to it soon.
That is Wrong and the linked article does not support your Assertion. German Labs are running the same high (35+) number of cycles that US Labs are. The Discussion to define a cutoff Value is ongoing.
> the add-ons most willing to pay good good money for placement are probably ones that you shouldn't install and Firefox should not promote. Think tracking, ads, .... Or commercial ad blockers trying to always appear above Ublock Origin.

The whole point is for people to pay to have their add-on manually vetted by Firefox staff to verify that it meets the recommendation standards. As the article says, this process is repeated regularly to account for updates.

> I'm tentatively supportive, IF they provide free reviews for non-commercial open source extensions and are strict with the promotions they allow. No mention of this in the announcement though...

This is already how it works, every recommended add-on has been manually reviewed. The article says that they will use this to expand the reviewing process, not to replace it. They also say, "During the pilot program, these services will be provided to a small number of participants without cost." The extent of the two promotional "levels" are clearly outlined as well.

This is just a way for companies to get their add-ons on the fast track to wide adoption by having them reviewed for policy compliance and, if they choose to pay more, added to a promotional section to increase visibility. The Twitter-style hot take to find a flaw right away is not warranted.
One of the most populated reigons of sweden (skåne) has one of the lowest per capita infection rate. Globally (on a country level) there does not seem to be a strong correlation between density and infection. I think it will take years to get to the bottom of what works and what doesn't and why.
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Can't wait for these to be decried as "racist" once the algorithms start denying bail to more Blacks than Whites.

The algorithm could be 100% accurate and it would STILL be decried as "racist" because of the different outcomes between the races.
Probably my fault for phrasing the question ambiguously, but the parent interpreted my question as I intended it to be interpreted. Interfacing with the system libraries is a common enough case for using null-terminated strings.

I'm actually a little curious how what these low-level APIs look like and how "modern" languages handle efficiently converting to null-terminated strings. Do they just copy everything while C/C++/etc would pass a straight reference? Also, what do the underlying syscall APIs look like?
The thing is that you can serve a lot of requests on a single core.. (and at least us we pay per core)
There are also online-only versions of consoles that don’t have a physical disk drive and have to go through the locked down online store, like the recently announced Xbox Series S.
I had to go through a Google security review process, which took surprisingly long to get through (probably a good thing!). However, the $15k+ 3rd party audit is only necessary if you are running servers that have a copy of client data. Mimestream only caches email data on your Mac, so I didn't have to pay this fee.
Step 1: fire everybody who isn't a programmer.

Step 2: budget problem is solved.
As far as I know, car displays just change the brightness, not the color temperature. Can't speak to planes.
Ha, stories similar to that were going around in the 90's in the RAF. Particularly if you found yourself out in the cold at an RRH up north somewhere...
it's not like those extra years of life are something you can ignore

Quarantining entire populations also has costs you can't ignore.

What exactly has been vindicated?

If the doomsayers were right, Sweden's lack of restrictions should have produced by far the highest death rates in Europe and probably the world. Instead they did better than many countries on all possible metrics: deaths, economic impact, and behavior restrictions.

4000 more people died than in the other strategy.

Even if true, that doesn't make it obviously the wrong call. On average, people who die from COVID would otherwise have lived around 12 years longer, so that's 48,000 life-years lost. On the other hand, putting 10 million people under lockdown for three months is 2.5 million life-years. If a lockdown decreases the average quality of life by even 2%, then that's a higher cost.
The issue is that slack has passed the point of market saturation. There are lots of competitors now as well as a shift towards decentralised options. I think slack should have entered that next stage already if they ever want to have a chance at getting back enough money.
It means they all know in Hollywood that this lockdown ends November 4.
Sunlight is spread-spectrum. This is focused at the frequency that makes water molecules vibrate - which is why we use it for ovens.
Germany is not under “perma-panic”. Your characterisation of what’s going on in the world is so weird.

It’s not true that there weren’t any measures in Sweden – there were quite a few – and it’s also not true that countries like Germany are still in lockdown. They are not.

Only the US with its absurd mishandling of the virus is in this self-inflicted state of permanent-panic.
Just based on my C# experience, this sounds like a terrible idea (abandoning a real task queue for Async/await). 90% of the “gotchas” with async/await in C# comes from people thinking that the task scheduler is bonafide background queue.
> Except when they fired basically all their talent.
That is an extreme exaggeration. From firing about 25% of their workforce, to 'basically all their talent' is a looong way.

> Mozilla should've always been structured as a co-op.
Please fork their software and start one. If you are successful, I will say I always believed in you, if not, I will say that you should've always been structured as a social purpose corporation
Civilization is in a weird space. It's too complex now for many gamers and way too simple for the gamers who grew up with strategy games.
Yes, this is definitely a planned feature!
You don't know the background to justify being annoyed. Maybe the reason they spent up all night playing starcraft was that they had any of the long list of medical conditions that causes stress and disruption of normal sleep, and what you perceive is laziness is management of that condition.

If someone in the middle of every meeting say "sorry just let me take 30s to go to the bathroom", are they disrespecting you or do they have a disorder of the bowel?

The concessions one need to give a parent is the same that one need to give someone who has something more important in life than work. It doesn't really matter what that thing is. It could be a child, a medical condition, an elderly needing help, or something else, but the concession needed is the same.

If someone is doing 10 back-to-back marathons in a single month then maybe its time to talk to them. It sound like a person crashing from stress and who might need a break from work (ie a concession) in order to not end up in the hospital.
Google is totally involved. They aren’t as egregious about it as Apple, but they are equally guilty of stomping out competition. If you get blacklisted from Google Play, you’re basically done. Your cost for acquiring new users just skyrocketed because you now have to somehow educate people on how to enable “unknown sources”, convince them to ignore all of the incessant scary warnings about malware, etc. on top of your regular advertising costs. Unless your main demographic is computer geeks, there’s no way to succeed.

Not to mention that if you DO manage to build a successful competitor to GPlay, you’ll have to worry about Google’s “white hat” hit squad at Project Zero.
async views aren't there because django is moving in that direction, they are there to make it easy to use async functions that already exist. I write a lot of functions that block on IO and a lot of them benefit from async event loops. Now I have a simple way of integrating that functionality into django views.
Your own contributions do nothing in comparison to societal changes.

If I die (lowest footprint possible), it has almost no impact on society in terms of climate change. But if I change behaviors of many (through legislation...) then that is enormous in comparison.

Affordable housing that is also low on climate impact (higher density and close to places people need to go) should be prioritized over “I want 10 acres of land”.
>Frankly having people like yourself chime in at every juncture to tell other people they are perpetuating racism is cheapening the actual historical impact of these events.

That's an interesting take, and not one that I think you will find in common with experts on the subject.

>If you care about the people you claim to defend then do something to help them.

I donate my time, money, and other resources to a variety of causes related to helping disadvantaged groups. I might largely be wasting my time in attempting to educate people on the internet, but it doesn't mean that I do not do anything else.

Why do you believe that uttering phrases that are fundamentally rooted and reinforce prejudice is not harmful? It's a phrase that is quite strictly Othering in nature. Not only can it be hurtful to those that have lived with the repercussions, but it also helps reinforce the Othering mindset in those who did not.
I hope we switch to concrete and brick like the rest of the world. To pay a million dollars for a glorified wooden shed is undignified.
That's correct, I was referring to front-end web frameworks.
We are also using starlette and works quite well.. in combination with asyncpg..
> sacrifice the economy for the elderly’s two years

No. It isn't just 2 years off some elderly people who were going to die soon anyway (not that that isn't an extremely callous position to hold):

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/study-finds-that-people-w...
Making my point. You can't escape it.
Yes, because the "Hubble Constant" is expressed as km/s/Mpc (that's Megaparsec), and the value is thought to be around 70. 70km/s seems crazy fast, until you divide by the 3,300,000ish light years (each light year being about 6,000,000,000,000 miles).

Of course, if you calculate out far enough time, you would eventually end up with the observable universe getting smaller (because the stretching of spacetime would take away more space than was added by light reaching us from further away), down to our galaxy, and eventually everything getting torn to shreds, even down to protons...

In the "near" term, the effect is so small that we have much more to worry about from the sun expanding in a few billion years than the Big Rip.
The US experience is yo-yo-ing in and out of lockdown.

Many countries do not have that experience.
Also interested. Would be good to have the ability to add standard IMAP accounts as well.
That can be problematic, too.

If your language has a garbage collector, it may mean tiny substrings keep huge strings alive. Java moved away from using slices (https://dzone.com/articles/changes-stringsubstring-java-7), I think for that reason.

If your language isn’t garbage collected, it can cause problems if the substring must outlive the string it was extracted from. That means that, for some functions, you’ll have to decide whether to return the slice or make the copy.

(In Rust, that means the slice has a different ‘type’ (not sure what they call it), that of a string whose lifetime is bound to the original string, and the compiler will check that you won’t make the mistake of having the slice outlive it’s source)
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By popular demand:

3 meter diameter panels @ 5 GHz gives a diffraction-limited beamwidth (FWHM) of lambda/D = (3e8/5e9)/3 * 180/pi = 1.5 degrees

0.75 degrees (1.5 degrees is the full angle) gives tan(0.75×pi/180)×(2×40) = 1 meter panels at receive (40 meter from transmit) to intercept the FWHM power. So a 3 meter receive panel will intercept more than the FWHM --> 70% seems like a realistic number for the percentage of power intercepted.
So you're saying that relying on experience and the laws of physics are a bad thing?
After having lived all my life in an area without real seasons, I have very fond memories of listening to Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World while walking my dog regularly but aimlessly in a forest as the leaves began to change.

It felt almost surreal, and paired quite naturally with Murakami’s dreamy but lucid world building.

I haven’t read the original, and don’t understand Japanese, but the translation certainly didn’t feel, to me, like a translation.

In 1Q84, a central character plays a role in rewriting a work, so the translation process must be front of mind for Murakami. Perhaps Birnbaum is his very own Tengo when adapting his works to English.