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* Page opens, I wait for unnecessary animations to be able to read stuff

* Scroll around a bit trying to understand, its mostly buzzwords and phrases like 'Stay in the flow'

* Click 'request access'

* Again wait for the unnecessary animation on that page

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"This prize isn’t too highly regarded."

[By whom?]

"The physics prize has mostly consisted of string theorists giving it to their friends in the field."

Firsty, the Breakthrough Prize is given in Life Sciences, Mathematics and Fundamental Physics. This post is about the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.

As for Fundamental Physics, apart from 2019 (special) for supergravity, it doesn't seem to go to string theorists:

2021 Special Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics -- Steven Weinberg, “continuous leadership in fundamental physics, with broad impact across particle physics, gravity and cosmology, and for communicating science to a wider audience.” [0]

2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics -- Eric Adelberger, Jens H. Gundlach and Blayne Heckel, University of Washington. Citation: For precision fundamental measurements that test our understanding of gravity, probe the nature of dark energy, and establish limits on couplings to dark matter. [1]

2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to all 347 members of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration representing 60 institutions in 20 countries. [2]

2019 Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics -- Charles Kane and Eugene Mele – University of Pennsylvania. Citation: For new ideas about topology and symmetry in physics, leading to the prediction of a new class of materials that conduct electricity only on their surface. [3]

2019 Special Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell – University of Dundee and University of Oxford. Citation: For fundamental contributions to the discovery of pulsars, and a lifetime of inspiring leadership in the scientific community. [3]

2018 Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics -- WMAP experimental team. Citation: for detailed maps of the early universe that greatly improved our knowledge of the evolution of the cosmos and the fluctuations that seeded the formation of galaxies. [4]

There are some string theorists further in the past, but they still don't warrant the use of the word 'mostly'. [5]

[0] https://breakthroughprize.org/News/61

[1] https://breakthroughprize.org/News/60

[2] https://breakthroughprize.org/News/54

[3] https://breakthroughprize.org/News/47

[4] https://breakthroughprize.org/News/41

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Prize_in_Fundamen...
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"if I can't fix it, it ain't broke" - I first came across this in a DOS game called God of Thunder.
Where the money cone from. Who help those small merchant that pay only $99 and some portion to get into such large platform.

Still remember the cost of Getting into windows developer.

To be honest they are not small player. If they fight for lower percentage for small player may be ... but if rich one do not pay
Yes, it can be stopped. All Tim Sweeney is to do is build another mobile hardware/software platform and set the rules for app distribution however he likes. That is the way to beat a monopoly.
The objection to comparing 'multiply' and '*' is silly. That's differential testing. The objection there shouldn't be that those two functions are being compared, it's that the arguments are static rather than being generated in high volume, randomly.
Site.js fits the use case really well. Designed for simplicity, based on small technology principles by Aral Balkan.

https://sitejs.org/
> When I started out I assumed I just needed a cable with USB A on one end and MIDI on the other end ... hah!

And now we just need a cable with USB on one end and USB on the other end ;)

Even pre-amped mics have a USB port.

There are also instruments that go digital -- Line6 Variax guitars/basses have an RJ45 socket beside the century-old audio jack -- you plug it into the stomp box with an ethernet cable, and then USB to computer, and you can start recording without worrying about the impedance mismatch.

And actually I think RJ45 makes more sense than USB in this scenario because the jack is locked in the port so you don't worry about accidental disconnection that would damage the PAs..
I don’t care much about Assange but that’s a fair statement.
For making commits, does anyone else still stick with using git add -p , along with the s/e options?

Granted I don't use Emacs but I haven't found any plugin in any editor that gives the same confidence and flexibility as git add -p.
Energy is only an issue because we burn fossil fuels to generate energy, move bottles, etc.

Clean energy is already our most important goal from a "survival of the species" point of view.
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You're looking at history through rose colored glasses. Societal justice in the past meant basically "protect those in power, burn everyone else on sight." If you weren't part of the ruling group (be it by race, gender, ideology, etc.) then you had very few protections.
Actions can be judged independent from the actor.

If Apple fought against one or many extractive ecosystems that would be a good thing even though Apple itself does profit and plans to continue to profit from their own extractive ecosystem. ...same with Epic.
-I had (and have, though it isn't used much these days) a Sony PCM-M1 ultraportable DAT deck in the late nineties.
Wonderful for recording live gigs. It was, if memory serves, the exact same unit as the consumer counterpart - TCD-D100 - except the latter lacked the 44.1/48kHz sample rate selector - it was 48kHz only. (Oh, and on the M1 you could tell it to ignore the SCMS system, allowing only one digital generation of copying.)

The going theory at the time was that Sony, being big in content production, didn't want consumer DAT units being able to make bit perfect copies of CDs.

Good times. Reminds me I ought to bring out the box of DAT tapes and transfer them to my computer soon. In latter years, I've simply listened to them or at the very least fast-forwarded through the tapes a couple of times a year to minimize the risk of the tape sticking to itself.
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These links are often used for executing strategies or sending information between different exchanges (a classic example being the cross-exchange arbitrage).
I have no reason to think she deserves sympathy, yet, and the first priority of justice should be to get the truth and then to protect the public.
In all honesty Satan himself could have sued Apple for all we care, what's important now is that there is someone who has the resources and willingness to fight for our right to sideload apps on our own devices.
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“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” ―Stephen Covey
Basically since Warwick was founded, it had a reputation for being the place people went to when they were rejected from oxbridge. This sounds bad but one subtlety with the U.K. system is that almost all students may apply to at most one of Oxford and Cambridge in any given year and those universities tend to get more sufficiently good applicants than they take in. If one of Oxford or Cambridge is commonly considered better than the other by applicants then Warwick the distribution of the abilities of the rejects is higher than if they had all applied to a single top university equal in size to the sum of Oxford and Cambridge. Therefore Warwick gets to take in lots of very good undergraduates.

The university was founded in the 60s out of what used to be a research retreat for mathematicians. At its inception a large portion of its mathematics department (at least the topologies) came directly from Cambridge (I believe the story is that Christopher Zeeman went around his colleagues telling them that all the others were going to Warwick). And in the mathematics department in particular has been strong ever since.

I believe the course structure is also different there than from oxbridge (or many other U.K. universities) in that it is meant to be more like an American university with more choice to pursue courses from different subjects or with wide varieties of specialisation.
God is in the rain
"Person-"made if you please. Lest we forget a major part of this year's season was induced at a "gender reveal party".
(loved this in the Wikipedia above)After his album just prior to Play bombed, and he considered quitting music, he says:

>>> "I got one piece of fan mail from Terence Trent D'Arby and I got a phone call from Axl Rose saying he was listening to Animal Rights on repeat. Bono told me he loved Animal Rights. So if you're gonna have three pieces of fan mail, that's the fan mail to get."[5]
Yes, seriously!

The IRS rules for 401k plans allow for the employer to put in twice as much as the employee - that's the only way to hit the maximum. But employers didn't seem to get the memo.

My current employer advertised a 2-to-1 401k match, which was a big selling point until I learned that it was capped at $4800/year. And then even that went away because of COVID :(

I've considered going back to consulting a couple of times just to be able to give myself a proper 401k match.
> It would have to be over night and total for there to be ANY worth to FM/AM radio. It won't be. It's seems unrealisitic to pretend some sort of Walking Dead scenario would ever be real.

Just how often did we have widespread Internet outages because someone fucked up a BGP entry again? It's incredibly easy to barf up the Internet, all you need is a way to put crap in the global BGP database. Terrorists, nation-scale actors, cybercriminals all have this ability. In contrast, an emergency AM/FM radio service can be done without anything connected to the Internet - plug a microphone in the input line of the radio signal generator and you are on air.

Also, power outages are not unheard of, even in Germany. As said, FM radio does not require much power to receive it.
Advanced committing (hunk level) is the one thing I use a GUI for. Sublime merge is pretty ideal for this as it opens instantly, and you can open it from the command line with the `smerge` command.
Cool, let's distract ourselves from an emergency like COVID-19 with an emergency warning system.
Most diplomatic careers deliver rather less in the way of storytelling materiel than the author's. Nonetheless, I'm glad that I am no longer a diplomatic spouse. A life in which we regularly uprooted ourselves every few years to move to a new country was never one that I wanted, and one that I am more than happy to leave behind. (Although I do miss my children terribly, and wish there were some way I could maintain contact with them).
Apple's defense that they are not a monopolist in any traditional sense is correct as far as it goes.

But a novel definition of monopoly may be warranted. As smartphones become more and more a part of the fundamental infrastructure of society, and remain relatively expensive and slow to replace, it's not crazy to say that iPhone users are a market in itself and that market should be protected from monopoly. In the same way that a company in the 1800s might not have been a national or regional monopoly, but very much was a monopoly in their own company town, or how car manufacturers in the 20th Century were forced to allow competition in repair services.

I think ultimately, right now, my personal sense is that iPhones don't quite rise to the level of their own market that needs to be opened up, but it's close.
edbrowse supports JS thru duktape. Enough to sort comments by date on that Spanish Digg/Reddit clone.

https://edbrowse.org/
I don't think Sweeney wants the same software to be available on every app store. He wants users to have a choice of which app store to use.

Effectively he wants the same deal as there is for PC gaming - eg multiple stores available that users can choose from - to be the case for mobile (and possibly consoles as well).
They're battery-included in different ways. Hugo is fairly opinionated, while 11ty seems to be a bit more extendable with JavaScript.
"Be prepared."

It's a double whammy. From the Boy Scouts, and also Japeth the Goat.
> witch burning was remarkably common in much of Europe

Is that a moral issue, or one of knowledge / technologies?

You can only go on the best information you have, and many theistic beliefs are currently acceptable in the modern world despite being no less plausible than a belief in witches.
> We were really lucky that developers and users let at least the Windows store fail.

This might be an unpopular opinion but: I like the comfort of the Windows Store regarding installation & updates for Win32 apps. The app is installed into its own little corner and a lot of them also come with their own contained registry hive. I don't need a thousand auto update services or an app updating itself only when I open it. And the store requires extensive file signing so as long as I know it's the right developer, the need to manually check installer signatures goes out the window. And regarding minimal exposure, if you simply use it as a download source and redirect customers there, Microsoft takes only 5%.

I didn't like S Mode, Windows RT, the restriction to use just the store, etc. That shouldn't be forced upon the already-open PC platform. But I liked having a trusted channel for applications. (I don't mean that every app on there was trustworthy but you get what I mean, like above)

> I think Sweeney is correct, although I also think Epic tried to do the same. Their success with some of their games created capital that they used to create their own platform. Maybe as a defense mechanism or maybe because they wanted part of the pie.

That's what I think, too. Tim Sweeney likes to harp on about consumer choice, store freedom and such -- but with all the exclusives it's clear they just want to be the new Steam. They want you to have a big Epic Games Store library that you can't give up on, that you would always prefer to add to instead of going to another store. That's why they have these weekly free games, to get everyone to start a foundation of games without having to convince them to buy any for that to happen.
In The Netherlands for ages we have an emergency alarm test each first Monday of the month at noon.
"code wins arguments"
It was a new AWS account for the client, which includes 50gb of CloudFront as part of the AWS Free Tier, so I guess it used that. I didn’t look into it a lot. As I joked with the client, it is cheaper to leave it running than pay us to turn it off.
I’m surprised to find myself siding with Apple / Google / etc on this. They did the work to build and maintain a distribution platform. They should be able to define its terms of use and costs. If you don’t like it, distribute differently. If everyone uses those companies’ devices, it’s a market endorsement that the world wants the standardization and managed ecosystem of each platform - that it’s a thing of value.

I don’t see how there’s any way you can tell Apple how Apple has to run infrastructure to support a distribution channel, but it cannot determine the prices or policies for someone using it to distribute an app.
They are all related to a single award -- 2019 (special) for supergravity.
I get what you are saying, but everything has trade offs.

Because everyone would agree for 80%, but then need different 20%.That's how you end up with 10k pages specs or XML and doc types.

And if you need that just use XML, that is actually what it was designed for.
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I used to like, "if at first you don't succeed, don't tell anyone you tried!"
AIUI the problem is mostly the blue light. I can't imagine that becoming habituated to staring at a bright light is all that good either, but I don't know of any specific studies on that. It's also the kind of thing that only shows up statistically after twenty years, as a higher incidence of inability for the eye to accommodate to lower light levels etc. Nobody's going to look at a too-bright screen for a day or two and immediately notice a drastic difference.
> Advanced committing (hunk level) is the one thing I use a GUI for.

Hunk level commits is what git add -p [s/e] lets you do.

You can split hunks with s, and if you need even more fine grain control you can hit e which opens that specific hunk in your $EDITOR and then you can pick whatever you want to commit.
"This, too, shall pass."
Can't help myself, but I'm reminded of this sketch by Key & Peele that pushes accepting ones circumstances into the absurd.
https://youtu.be/Ngk3VX405GE
> ... apparently, both options are roughly equal.

But that's the thing, they aren't really roughly equal in any meaningful way. I think Anscombe's quartet [0] is a good illustration of the issue, only in this case there are very many dimensions involved, with huge uncertainty in each, leading to vastly different risk profiles for the different alternatives.

> ... no real wrong choices ...

This is a matter of philosophy of course, but more objectively, there are many many people actively regretting their choices.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
Halted for how long? It only takes one person or fomite to come in and create a new outbreak that spreads before it's detected. America isn't special in any regard. Only a tiny number of countries are pursuing lockdown-until-vaccine as a strategy, as it's obviously a bad one.

It's worth noting that nobody until very recently was claiming lockdowns could eliminate outbreaks. That whole notion was deemed absurd as recently as June. The problem is obvious - for as long as there is a pool of people, somewhere, spreading the disease, and a large pool of people who haven't developed immunity, and international travel, then the virus will get in. Meanwhile lockdowns have catastrophic consequences far in excess of their benefits (halting COVID is not very important given how mild it is).
Back in the day, not so far from the Minitel days, French was the lingua franca of diplomacy, and spoken all over the world.

English was the language of commerce and technology, but French being the language of diplomacy and intercommunication it would be a game changer on teleco.

But Minitel was a bit like an enclosed shell, like Gopher.

Now Gopher is the opposite, nobody needs a license to host a server.
The podcast "Acquired" recently did an episode on Epic

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/epic-games (Season 7, Episode 3, September 1, 2020)

It helped me a lot with positioning Epic and Sweeney, with his current actions, into my mental knowledge base, in the context of Doom and what was happening in the 90s and thereafter in the gaming industry. It also touches the current topic. It's worth listening to.
In the global economy, monopolies become a tougher situation. In some ways I’d rather not split Apple or Google if it were to mean a non-US company takes their place, particularly a Chinese one. I understand Epic Games is partially owned by Tencent, which if I wore a tinfoil hat, may concern me in regards to their motives here.
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Not if the final dot to denote the root zone were to be brought back, i.e. https://netflix./
Maybe local hosts would shadow it, or you'd have to use some prefix.

It does feel a touch dystopian though.
I like Tailwind a lot, but for anyone else reading, you still need to purge css classes to not end up with a very large css file (187kB gzipped) [1]. This requires a build step with PurgeCSS. (I haven't checked, but maybe Netlify offers a build step that will do this for you...)

I also like Tachyons [2] for utility-based classes, which is pretty small (14kB gzipped).

[1]: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/controlling-file-size

[2]: http://tachyons.io/
> I stand by the assertion that 60/70 years ago western society had a more unified sense of what is right and wrong.

That would be 1950-1960. Speaking of America, Montgomery bus boycott started in 1955. Which took a year and started whole civil war movement. President Nixon’s red-baiting campaigns were at exactly that time too.

In Europe, IRA started their border campaign in 1956.

And that is just me going from top of head.
Soulseek is the ultimate source of hard to find music. I'd have some rare things in my wishlist for months before they'd pop up for me to download. That's all I used for music for almost a decade.
Well, until we can play Forknife on Steam I don't see why he has any better position than the brands he mentions.
I think it’s super unfair that I am not allowed to set up a lemonade stand inside of Walmart for free. Monopolistic, even.
TCP/IP can work over AX25, hamradio users know it well.
> "Everybody doesn't have a great incentive to challenge Apple and Google's 30% because they want to be the next bastard to charge 3̶0̶ 12%,"

There.
I don't know abou the memcpy part from Stack Overflow, but about the second part:

It's UB to read from uninitialized data, and the thing about UB is that the compiler doesn't need to be specially consistent about it. It doesn't need to select the same y for y ^ y, it might transform this into 0 ^ 0 or 10 ^ 5 or select any other arbitrary value for each instance of y in this expression. So the value of z can't be relied upon. even int z = 0*y; can't be relied to produce z equal to 0!

The compiler might even delete the whole code after int y = x; because after this line the code is UB. That's why the compiler might remove null-checks (and all code associated with it) done after you dereference a pointer, because since it's UB to follow a null pointer (the only way the program could be possibly correct is if the pointer were not null!), all further checks become dead code.

Also, the UB story in Rust is still being developed, but regarding memory representation it's expected to be the same as C. That's because LLVM is quite happy in doing such atrocious but spec-compliant optimizations.

Also, now that LLVM supports freeze as an operation (see links below), Rust might surface freeze to the programmer as a primitive low level operation, in order to control the propagation of uninitialized-ness and avoid doing UB when reading variables. It would be something like

let y = mem::freeze(x);

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/taming-undefined-behavior-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/gnx7y0/update_to_llvm...
not western europe, but SECAM had eastern adoption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23455155

(The "Never The Same Colour" retronym also suggests it was colour-related.)
Recently I've been prioritizing sites that don't use require JavaScript, and therefore have been using Eww a lot more (I'll still often escape out to Firefox).

But I love that I can write lisp macros to scrape out data - it's like a cooler GreaseMonkey... though I haven't found a good jQuery-like way to get at elements... any ideas?
It always surprises me how many people are familiar with LLVM internals. Just looking at the 60 unique commenters at the time of posting this is blowing my mind.
My mistake, thanks for the correction :)
Shoot with something white in the frame so it knows how to white balance. I’ve had a similar experience in the past during a wildfire and the shot that most accurately represented the colours I was really seeing had the fluoro lights of a gas station in the frame.