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> Religion and morality aren't distinct concepts.

This is only true if you define the "Religion" out of religion; that is, shear it of any dogma or faith claims or even the "funny hats social club" cultural aspect, and then say that all of the remaining guidance is the religion. This isn't what religion means to most people, regardless of whether they have one or not.
If you've written programs you shouldn't have in bash, then you're very much the target user for Oil :) As stated on the home page, it's our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime.

So I would be interested if those programs run under Oil. Many do, and if they don't, the fix is usually small. Other programs I've run include Lisp and brainfuck interpreters in bash. And thousands of lines of bash completion scripts.

If the programs run, you can opt into strictness checks to improve them / find bugs. And if you want to drop bash compatibility, you can use the new Oil language. (still in progress, but you can try it right now)

The goal of Oil is very much to REMOVE all the pitfalls in that thread! It's done with option groups shopt -s oil:basic or shopt -s oil:all. Feel free to contact me on Github or Zulip about it. If you have bash programs, that makes it more interesting. I'm looking for feedback to help shape the Oil language :)

Based on my experience I think only 10% of bash users write a program that's longer than 5 lines, or use any bash features. Most people just use what their distro provides (which is what I did for years as well).
> The system uses a net of lasers surrounding the beam to detect obstructions, like a bird or person, and it automatically shuts off transmission until the obstruction has moved on.

The sensor + electronics part is what is different today from what Nikola Tesla could do.

But the ISM band usage might suck for anyone who needs high SNR for other use, because the scattering on moisture + a 1kw/sqm power delivery means it will look like shining a laser through a dusty room.
I'm as curious as you are to see what happens next...
That's too bad. I would rather MS and Sony charge treat all developers equally to allow fair competition on the platform. This kind of preferential treatment creates a bigger divide between existing winners and those wanting to become winners.
I feel like the "skills" vocabulary should probably be more controlled. This will help a lot with search in the future.

I'm thinking things like "programming", "programming/Python", "programming/JavaScript", "design", "localization/French".
It's possible. The issue is that the we really don't have any information beyond what we have. We have an idea of the big bang and the expansion of the universe. We have knowledge of certain factors etc. But really, we're not really equipped to handle the scale of the cosmos.
"Ultimately, the technology may help power rural areas or transmit energy from offshore wind farms, both cases where it’s expensive to build physical infrastructure to tap or feed the grid."

While I understand case 1 and I worry some people don't understand that even if we get the tech figured out it's going to only make sense in certain contexts (at least until/unless we have infinite `free` power), but I think #2 is a bit weird.

Yes building that infrastructure to the wind farm is costly/difficult but also... It seems weird to bottleneck the generation at the gen site. I guess if the infrastructure costs for wireless transmission are minimal you could get things bootstrapped easier/cheaper but it def seems shortsighted if you're already creating a big loss at the first stage of generation.
I don't know that its increased. I rather think that with the pandemic, and WFH and everything else, weaknesses in the process -- and whole new processes are being exposed.

- People are being challenged

- Situations are rapidly changing course, and people have to adapt quickly.

- People are trying to do their jobs while worrying about their finances, or how they're going to home school their kids, or daycare, or them or their spouses losing their job.

It's fine, everyone will adapt to the new normal, whatever that ends up looking like.
Not really (I am quite proficient at reversing, but this is a special case ;) ).

Browser is a huge, unreviewable (well not true but there is not just simple to reverse java code but also arm dissasembly to be done and that part can take forever), black box that you have to trust and as you dont use it for one single task (as for instance mail client - there is exactly one ip address where it needs to connect to in my case - to my mail server - and my mail client is allowed to connect exactly there and nowhere else) you cant "jail" (pun, not as bsd jail) it. And I dont use any google spyware on my android phone, like GMS.

This might be of help to you, I have reviewed the code and if you pay a donation directly, it wont do anything fishy (and I am building my own version and diffing every version with my baseline - for 2.266 I can guarantee it is safe): https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard
I think Teams is my favorite video app, but I find it lacking in persistent chat.

My org uses Teams and I’m now a member of probably 30 teams with lots of channels each. I ignore them all as there’s too many.

Slack is different because I just join specific communities.

Also text search is bad right now in Teams, but is handy in Slack.
> 547 AU

For comparison Voyager-1 is now at a distance of 40 AU only.
That large companies can get use their clout to get a better deal from console stores isn't a particularly compelling defense.

> Microsoft and Playstation also allow for cross-platform play

Don't some games allow iOS / PC cross-platform play? Epic's Fortnite did, didn't it?
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In the case of Microsoft, they denied the Xbox gaming app on the store after it had already been going through wide beta use on ios. They denied it on the grounds that they need to review every xbox game. Which is nonsense. They don't review every netflix movie, they don't review every spotify song, they don't review other content. The app that was denied doesn't actually download the games either, its a remote/online streaming player so it is exactly like "netflix for games".

Rumor is, Amazon was cut a deal and others have had a deal so the rules don't seem applied in a fair way. Amazon isn't forced to use Apple Pay for example. (which i think is the part specific with this specific case)
“ Microsoft and Playstation also allow for cross-platform play, and crucially unlike Apple, actually provide a significant amount of services to developers for their cuts, including but not limited to QA services, SDK and hardware support from actual MS/Sony employees, and marketing spend”

I don’t understand how this is materially different from apples investments into Xcode, discoverability & promotion in the App Store/“marketing spend”, etc. Apple does tons of stuff with the big players behind closed doors, they highlight it every keynote and that’s just the ones they talk about on the “real human being” front.
Simple, they will be competing directly with cable for home internet once 5G is deployed.
A testable hypothesis is a strong standard in science. Most scientists don't worry about things that cannot or more importantly, will probably never be testable. They can be fun to think about but that's pretty much it.
Unless there's some physical reason you can't run physical conductor there's every reason not to do this.

This setup proposes to use 100mw/cm^2. That's just not acceptable unless you're sure no humans or animals are going to cross the beam (or even it's sidebands!). Even a horn has diffraction sidebands, and unless they're all at least 8dB down in all situations that's bad. The laser trips won't cover this.

This exceeds the safety standards established by the US Navy back when they were dealing with their high powered radars for the first time. They found that anything over 10mW/cm^2 can cause enough heating in animal eyes to cause clouding of the eye. Humans' deep set eyes and brow ridges help (depending on freq) but 10mW/cm^2 can still cause health issues. The measured e-field for that powerlevel, depending on wavelength, will almost certainly be above the electrical field limit for exposure in the USA. I hope that's also true in NZ.
70% efficiency is nothing to sneeze at. Stewart Island, which they envision serving with a commercial system, is powered by diesel generators with a cost of electricity of ~$1/kW-h. It's about 50km across the water from Bluff, where there is a surplus of energy due to a large aluminum smelter served by a dedicated hydroelectric plant.

With only about 300 people, the community on Stewart Island can't justify an undersea cable. But a microwave power beaming system could be built for much less, and supply energy much cheaper (and greener) than burning diesel.
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If this is functional I think it would have huge implication w/r to disaster relief. Much easier to start transmitting power to an area wirelessly then start repairing broken infrastructure.
Even with an SLR it didn't work right on full auto. I had to manually override the white balance to get it to look right.
The question still holds, which you didn’t really answer:

Are there any incentive systems in place to ensure that companies being traded on your exchange don't take part in these destructive practices, or is it simply that they agreed to your policies?

What are the incentives and how do you hold a company to a long term orientation. A company is free to choose and change its vision/strategy as time goes by. Do they get delisted if they move away from this orientation. How do you measure such an intangible and act on it?
It sounds similar to "selective sync" offered by Resilio Sync, which works on Win/Mac/Linux. I don't know how it is implemented though.
I wonder what is the reason to make the game in the real world if it's played fully online?
Wouldn't it be possible and more cost-effective to create same room and scenarios within let's say Unity and stream videos from there?
Or is it something about the pricing?
More mystery as to future weather conditions! (not sarcastic, I dislike the idea that we should know the future of weather, though I grant that this is potentially a downside for managing responses to life threatening weather events like hurricanes)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/will-5g-w...
I barely use email anymore, and I don't really use any chat apps.

I think about moving off Gmail, but 99% of my emails are from retailers I shop with.

Newsletters are now RSS, email with humans.. doesn't happen much, etc etc.

Business emails are not very interesting -- we use secure methods to share info when needed.

Email is.. to me personally, not very important anymore.

(I show up to my accountant's office to sign things.. I keep looking for something that I need to secure.)
Right now they are bespoke reactors so that means that they will cost a ton. But if they are turning them out like Toyotas then the cost will drop really fast.

The hope is that it will be similar to the drop in cost for solar that we've seen in the past ten years. Solar originally cost about $0.28/kwh and now it's around 6 cents.
Yeah, my Pixel works hard to correct my photos to look Earth like :)
Can you say how many it is roughly? Like, are there 10? 100?
Odd comment, given that aside from writing a few ephemeral books and engaging in a ton of pontificating, the only thing Taleb has ever done in his life is move money around on computers for the sole purpose of enriching himself, while Ellul was active in the French Resistance and was honored for his actions to save Jews from the Nazis.

I guess it depends on what one means by "doing something."
What is this based on?
If you use a camera app like Halide, then you can manually turn off the Automatica white balance correction that assumes that this scene lighting is impossible.
This may never be seen but Lenovo has released some new models in the US. It looks like one can get roughly the spec sheet of mine above with the new P15v for about $1800, rather than $2800.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/thi...?

I might get one as a backup.
"main" might be an okay default, it's non-descriptive enough to work in many situation, but if you're making the effort of renaming it why not use a more explicit name?

* If "master" is the current stable version with development happening in feature branches, why not use "stable" or "production"?

* If "master" is the next version under development which will be released when deemed stable enough, why not use "devel" or "next"?
Developers: Programming language C++ is about to get this huge update
Worth adding that android 11 has some features that may prove appealing re: app quality & security:

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/android11-...
This is really the key here. Teams and bing search come free as part of the package so big corporations use it dispite not being very good
Fairly scary working around high power radar. Microwaves heat up the "high water content" parts of your body. Eyes, as you mention and also...testicles.
Gates never said that; the quote is nothing but an urban legend.
> but I never quite understood what is so poor about a tuple of functions closed over same data into a closure. Apart from inheritance, what does it lose.

In the closure-based version, getFullName and setFirstName are defined anew for each instance of Person, using more memory each time. Typically isn't an issue unless you're creating a massive number of them, but the class-based version doesn't have this problem.

Also, just to throw it in the mix as well, the class-based version I believe is largely just syntactic sugar over the traditional way of creating objects in javascript, using prototype-based methods:

function Person(firstName, lastName) {
this.fName = firstName;
this.lName = lastName;

return this;
}
Person.prototype.getFullName = function() {
return this.fName + ' ' + this.lName;
}
Person.prototype.setFirstName = function(firstName) {
this.fName = firstName
}

const person = new Person("Ben", "Bitdiddle")
person.getFullName()

Prototypical inheritance is interesting in that an instance of Person could be used as the class for another object, ad infinitum.
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Definitely no intermediary server with access to your account. This idea would be to use iCloud to sync a set of snoozed server IDs, and only "hide" those messages from within the app, leaving those messages actually in the inbox on the server. No message data going into iCloud, either.
Sun is blocked, and thus the temperature on Peninsula which was predicted to be in 90ies (naturally given no NW wind) yesterday and today is 65F currently at the noon. Basically a nuclear winter preview - the amount of wood burned in the last month near Bay Area (say 20 ton x 800K acres) is like several large nukes. Daily - 20 ton x 10K+ acres - is like a smaller one.
FWIW, I’ve generally had good luck with RSS feeds for comics.
Haven't looked @ v3, but I have a question: why would the Proxy object be available to destructure? Why not use a revocable proxy that is only a proxy when it's being modified through accessors? Why would any state management library author expose a Proxy? It should expose ubiquitous, useful, human-readable, undecorated save for maybe Symbols, JSON.
Base R plot() can also be pretty powerful[1] and look great.[2] As an alternative to ggplot2 I would also propose that Vega Lite[3] could be a contender, with an excellent cross language ecosystem.

[1]
http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/posts/r_base_plotting_without_...

[2] https://github.com/KKPMW/basetheme

[3] https://vegawidget.github.io/vlbuildr/
And then botching the invasion and inviting chaos by creating a power vacuum and not filling it. The US basically gave away Iraq to Iran.
France sent students back to school, and re-opened its universities, and allowed gatherings of 5,000 or more people, and did not require masks in public, or in workplaces, with predictable results.

Their response, and the results mirror that of the worst-performing US states.
>Let me make a meta-point. It's natural to find yourself with a thought of this form: I don't get why so many think ___ is cool.

I don't get why so many think cigarettes are cool.

You're telling me they know something I don't about cigarettes?
I'm extremely glad they are not willing to censor speech for political reasons. There are dozens of other topics at least as controversial as the Xinjiang issue. Should we censor particular opinions on those as well? It's not tenable or healthy.
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> neat attack, but practical risk is very small

that's what Intel said!

sorry. i will see myself out...
This podcast did a good deep dive on raccoon craftiness and mitigating it with engineering: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/raccoon-resistance/
> destroy the console ecosystem by forcing them all to open up

I'm not convinced that the console ecosystem would be destroyed if you forced them all to open up. Quite the contrary: I'd happily invest in consoles if I could build it myself with open hardware.
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Very comfortable creating ten more each time.
We have indeed seen quite a bit of resistance, as you say. I kind of think of it as carving the grand canyon with water and gravity. With sufficient time, determination, and patience, you can make remarkable things happen. We've been able to win over many former skeptics to become allies over the years.

I can't predict the future. I know there are existing public companies for whom this would be a great fit. Can they overcome the inertia and bureaucracy that tends to set in once you go public enough to make a farsighted bet like this? Or will it be up to the next generation of corporate leaders to act with boldness? Time will tell.
As it's inconceivable to conflict both Ritchie and the jargon file when talking about UNIX history, I stand corrected. However, I do remember seeing 'cc was already taken, hence dd' in some old linux documentation.
We need to get in the cultural habit of looking at things for their own being, rather than for how they can be used by humans.
Google and Microsoft teamed up to try to reinvent smartphones
Hey all,

We converted the React JS documentation to use functional components and hooks first in all the examples! This is specifically for folks who are learning to use React JS for the first time, but using the functional and hooks syntax. Hope it's useful!

This post describes the process we used to convert it, what we learned along the way, and how to go about making modifications in general. Let me know any feedback, or if you found anything about our project useful. Also, we always welcome contributors!

(Also, since this question came up last time: Dan Abramov and Rachel Nabors replied to our announcement saying they're working on the same thing, but suggested until they're done folks can just use our version. https://twitter.com/rachelnabors/status/1301509897633308678?... )
You're making an argument from definitions that would exclude ML from being a functional language, which is absurd.
actual development and standardization uses shorter cycles than the 5G hype cycle.

release 8 is slow. your phone would show 4G

release 14 is super fast. your phone would show 4G

release 15 will show 5G but it's just one iteration away from fast 4G.

it brings some cool techniques that boost efficiency (more people in the same cell can download things, increasing the average speed) -- and other stuff. peak download rate is one of the less interesting features, but most prominent.
Do you still expose the k8s bits?

I'm interested in/have previously given up on a product where the control plane is managed for me, I can join the cluster with bare metal nodes, and then it's just Kubernetes.
Of course they can't back this up.

What the universe really is, is a simulation. We are trapped in it.

"Lightspeed limit": this is because the simulation has a finite computing power. You can either move in time normally, or you can move in space. If you go to the max allowed speed, there's no processing left over to simulate time, therefore time stops for that entity. At intermediate speeds, slow down time accordingly.

"Planck length": resolution of the simulation. It's discrete, and you can't go any smaller.

"Heisenberg uncertainty principle": another simulation optimization. Instead of simulating all particles, just use a probabilistic function. You actually don't have to simulate it, just the macroscopic effects, unless there's an observation. In which case you can compute either the position or speed of the particle. See also: atom orbitals

"Superluminal" expansion: it's just so we don't try to get to other galaxies, which are only being simulated in a macro scale. This was left by the developer to turn the 'lightspeed bug' into a feature. Also closes bug UNIVERSE-001 where the background radiation was still visible, but other galaxies visibility was off due to performance concerns. Now they can be enabled.

"Dark matter": other civilization experiments that we don't have permissions to see. Still there and interacting with matter. Bug is still in the backlog.

See, anyone can come up with whacky stuff.
true and true. "Sci journals" are everything but science
Correct. There is no need for you to transact on LTSE for the specific use cases you've outlined in this thread. We are open for business so, for the first time, you're able to if you want to.
It would be interesting to hear your answer to mekkkkkk‘s question
Losing sign in with apple shouldn't end any competent business either.
It's not true in the sense that classes are higher order functions + a lot of junk that the GP examined in some detail. All that junk adds a lot of complexity and makes classes significantly harder to work with.
Given how these companies think, AT&T's solution to solve this might be to slow down 4G vs. improving 5G speeds :-)
I also had to use Halide to get a real pic of the skies. The iPhone was too "smart" and would get rid of the color sepia color in the sky.
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There had been wilful ignorance before and after that incident.
Apple can, at will, remove your entire foundation or business, your (their) customers and your existence on iOS is just gone.

For Epic, though, only 12% of their revenue comes from IOS, so they're willing to dump Apple.
> Dark Souls threw every third person action game of the nineties down the trash.

I dunno. Ocarina still holds up today, or at least the 3DS remake does. I don't know about the original.
Processing power on phones is useful with video editing and AR. Social media is moving towards videos instead of photos. Lot of it can be attributed to the capabilities of current phones.