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>Option 2 is never going to work and is equivalent to just giving up on fighting climate change.

And option 1 is no better. You tax the crap out of fossil fuels forcing billions of people's standard of living to go substantially backwards, they start revolting, maybe have you lined up and shot, people like me say "told ya so" and we're left with shattered economies, refugee crisis and basically all the bad things climate change is going to bring anyway.

We're long past the point of solving this easily. Whatever option we pick is going to hurt given the choice between suffering at the hand of other people and suffering at the hand of nature I think the latter is going to result in a lot less overall suffering because the correlation between land becoming uninhabitable or non-productive and revolt is much weaker (or at the very least it takes longer) than the correlation between oppressive taxation/regulation and revolt. The climate change bill is gonna come due regardless. Having governments try and collect proactively is just gonna give is broken governments to go with our broken planet.
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What Is Verification and Validation in Software Testing?
Verification: It is a static analysis technique. Here, testing is done without executing the code. Examples include – Reviews, Inspection, and walkthrough.

Validation: It is a dynamic analysis technique where testing is done by executing the code. Examples include functional and non-functional testing techniques.

In the V model, the development and QA activities are done simultaneously. There is no discrete phase called Testing, rather testing starts right from the requirement phase. The verification and validation activities go hand in hand.
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#1 can be used to justify anything. It also sets a dangerous precedent for other countries to start blocking / severely limiting US social media companies.

#2 Blocking apps used for the dissemination of information is a free-speech issue. China blocks information because that's what they believe in. US blocking information is fundamentally against our beliefs. If China jumped off a bridge would we do so as well?

#2 however is the true reason. We're getting insecure about our dominance in certain industries and are applying more "tit-for-tat" policies—even if they contradict our core beliefs.

If China wants to block US social media companies that should be perfectly fine. They get less domestic competition, and lower quality social media services should develop (in theory at least). We should welcome their competition despite this because competition breeds innovation and a healthy competitive landscape. However in reality we're resorting to tit-for-tat tactics because we're insecure about the fundamental superiority of a free and competitive market's ability to develop market-leading businesses and innovation.
It really depends what you want. If 80% of the way there is enough, or if you're more after key feel than sound, there are relatively cheap options, from cheap $40 outemu socket boards (that only fit outemu keys unless you wanna file off some thickness from other keys legs) to something like the GMMK barebone, over to a full kit like the NK65 Milkshake (which is INCREDEBLE value and runs for a few more days)
Either that or SEO ruined the internet... (referencing the link that SEO also destroyed the internet)

In my opinion the internet is ruined (is it really?) by greed. Slowly we accept ads in our streams, run software on other peoples machines to allow others to take control, have our darkest secrets about our interests tracked by invisible and malignant scripts on every website.

How unimaginative are you that you would share it all with advertisers? And I though internet destroyed my fantasy...

Even if that was all predictable, you can still be angry of course.
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The whole "XYZ material shouldn't exist in the world" thing seems so naive. It's not hard to manufacture most things and people always will find ways to do it. If we want to use legislation to help people then we should do that but using violence and prisons probably isn't helping anyone.
Seeing your messages, I really think you don't mean the same things as the others when you say "strong type system".
Generally what people here mean by strong type system is

ADTs, inference, type-checking, pattern-matching...

All those tools are made to help the programmer write better, safer programs more easily, as well as lay out his thought
It is generally associated with FP, and are fond in languages such as Rust, Ocaml, Typescript, Haskell, F#

From what your examples are ( C, java, C#...) and the drawbacks you see (too much getters -> linked to an OOP style of programming), what you mean by "strong type systems" looks like it is the old C-style type systems (+ OOP though I don't really get what oop has to do with type systems). These systems are not mainly intended to help the programmer but are really meant ro help the compiler.
When in C you write

`int a;`

What you're doing is indicating to the compiler that for operations involving variable a, it should use the machine instructions for operation on integer (you can replace C with java and machine with jvm...).
These are necessary in order to have low-level control, but are not really hepful (apart from, maybe, documentation purposes. It is always useful to know that that ipv4 variable is a 24-bit int and not a string...)

These two types of systems are tremendously different things. I can really understand that you don't like static type systems if you only know the second type of system, which basically only adds constraints.

I think you should take a look at ocaml, or perhaps haskell, it would probably expand your horizons
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Good question :)

I guess he's writing an opinion column though? I don't read the Torygraph so I haven't read his column. Opinion columns, as always, are not journalism.
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I've just picked this up and Street reading the first chapter I'm very excited to read the rest! It's unusually easy to follow for a book on this subject.
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The batteries need to be replaced every 5 to 10 years depending on how many cycles they can endure. By comparison, the AP-1000 is rated to last 60 years. Furthermore you're being very pessimistic with the $20 billion dollar cost estimate for the AP1000. Plants with equivalent output have been built for less than $10 billion.

When you include the cost of storage, solar and wind is still enormously more expensive than nuclear. The reality is that we don't event know what storage at this scale would even look like. It would take 800 years of global battery production at the current production rates to reach the 3 weeks of energy storage required to decarbonize the US with renewables. And that's with the infeasible idea we're dedicating 100% of batteries to grid storage: no EVs, no smartphones, all grid storage. And again, this is just for the US's storage needs.

Forget cost, energy storage at this scale isn't event possible with one current levels of technology.
So our freedoms are not actually under threat? Not even the freedom to use TikTok, I guess, despite of the US government trying to ban it?

Everything is fine!
A couple of problems:

1. ESNI isn't a standard yet. So, support in mainstream web-clients is lacking.

2. Unfortunately, TLS v1.3 is blocked in countries with stringent censorship already.
That does not compute. The netherlands needs about 40000 wind turbines to cover current needs. The Netherlands is about 40000 km2. So you need roughly 1 wind turbine per km2 for current needs which is completely doable. Of course we need more in the future, but there is plenty of space.

At the same time, building off-shore wind turbines is profitable today.

In contrast, nobody is going to invest in nuclear if nuclear has to compete at the same conditions as now hold for off-shore wind (which includes putting up a reserve now for when the wind turbine needs to be removed). And of course, people find wind turbines ugly, but nobody wants to live next to a nuclear power plant.
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IMO: with limited freedom of speech you can't really have a functioning democracy, just something that resembles one and is temporarily stable.
This study is incredibly significant. If there is not a systematic error or fraud, it just revolutionizes Covid-19 treatment. And the numbers are NOT too small to be statistically relevant:
They took 76 patients coming to their hospital, and randomly assigned them into the calcifediol (Vitamin D) group (probability 2/3) or the non-calcifediol group (probability 1/3). 50 ended up in the calcifediol group, 26 in the non-calcifediol group.
In the end 14 of these 76 patients were going to the ICU. Only 1(!!) came from the large calcifediol group, but 13 from the non-calcifediol group.

Let's just calculate the probability of the event that at most one of the 14 patients, who ended up in the ICU, were randomly assigned into the calcifediol group (despite having a 2/3 chance to be assigned there):
It is (1/3)^14 for the probability that ALL of them were assigned to the non-calcifediol group. Then (1/3)^13 * 2/3, for the probability that the first ICU patient was assigned to the calcifediol, but all others to the non-calcifediol group. Then the same for the second ICU patient. We get the total probability
14 * (1/3)^13 * 2/3 + (1/3)^14 that at most one of the ICU patents was randomly assigned to the calcifediol group (and that is what happened). That is a probability of 1 : 160.000 (!!!). So extremely significant. It means that is mathematically almost impossible that calcifediol did not influence the ICU outcome (provided that there was no other problem in study design as study fraud, or a bias to not bring the calcifediol patients to the ICU or whatever).
Why isn't this getting the attention it should??? The effect is very significant, numbers are definitely not too low to draw conclusions. If you take these numbers seriously, calcifediol treatment lowers mortality by an amount that Covid-19 really becomes comparable to regular flu in mortality. This is a complete revolution! Why isn't it getting more attention?
IMO, they are failing to be good distribution channels overall, but as currently done, can be a nice vehicle for early POC/trialing phases.

Good distribution channels solve three aspects:

- Logistics: Technical delivery - pretty good, as it's cloud as usual, with the bonus of solving how to run on the customer's side of the trust boundary (vs. normal centralized saas), + pricing features like app-defined utility fees

- Marketing: Cloud marketplaces fail to do demand gen (low-traffic search, no promotional campaigns, ...), as opposed to engaged partners who will

- Sales: Trialing is better than an on-prem thing but they harm success by not having a person involved nor allowing you to know who your users are, so overall, hurt closing. They are good-ish on solving procurement/invoicing

So again, pretty bad as an overall distribution channel, but for handling the paid POCs of a sales/marketing pipeline defined elsewhere, they can be nice.

Long-term, I think these can be massive, but they're currently immature/underinvested/etc. Ex: hw fee + 20-30% sw fees for such a poor distribution channel is quite unattractive for most serious b2b partners (distribution partners normally take 5-15% and do much more work, not ~50% for so little), so looks like a symptom of PM fiefdom politics vs senior leadership investing in these to be big. They could take Stripe's 1-3% payments fees, add 5% hands-off reseller fee, opt-in for special programs for another 5%, and poof, multiple $B businesses.
> they’ve for instance chosen to omit the fact that the Wuhan Virus originated in China.

Any social media platforms using the term "Wuhan Virus" would be a bigger sign of governmental propaganda than the lack is.
GPU is a very consistent device, so the purpose of such big sample sizes and multiple launches with averaging is to reduce all the deviations almost to zero. The error is <1% in this case and showing it on the plot will not really change it. The values, however, change when I update the code and improve it, so this is by no means the final way the benchmark will look like. I will think on how to adress this better in the future, but for now I think the best solution if you doubt the results is to launch VkFFT and see what it outputs for yourself.
133 days? Wow... Here in Philippines, we just have 7 days. Normal or C-section delivery.
Best description I heard is "miles wide but inches deep".

The flight model is great, you get detected by your heat signature which depends on the power your ship is using. You can turn off subsystems (like shields) to reduce your heat signature so you can't be targeted, or dump all the heat into a piece of metal that you eject from your ship and shows up on enemy radar. Mining is great too, but overall there's no overarching progression target. In good game design progression should open up new experiences, here (after you collect enough money, which can be done in a few hours) every part of the game is accessible, and none of them lead to anything worthwhile. You just keep doing the same things with more expensive equipment.
How are models trained for this, maybe Ja->En->Ja and see how the the result differs from the input?
Sri Lanka ranking well ahead of India is an even bigger red flag.

Journalists and editors have been openly killed in Sri Lanka for opinion pieces that dared to tarnish the government.
Depending upon if you're counting daily or regular usage, it looks like somewhere between 50+% (daily) and 75+% (occasional usage) of boomers are on facebook. The number for YouTube are a bit lower but not by much. For comparison, Tiktok, the Gen Z share is about 50%.

That is more than enough boomers being algorithmically swayed to alter an election. As has been shown (Cambridge Analytica, etc...) Facebook's segmentation arguably offers more power to target it's user than Tiktok does.
>The problem with an autocracy is that they will not cease until any threat to their existence can be stamped out or controlled

Yes, I already said I was afraid of the US Government.
Can you share the channel ? I'm curious I appreciate distinct keyboard sounds too :D
I have been converted for a few weeks by doom.
From memory, the Fog Creek blog had some good stuff on sales for beginners, but that seems to have died with the Twitch re-branding.
Why is moderation so heavy ham fisted on this site? I've read the entire thread (as it gives a good idea what to expect as a tourist there) and I have yet to find a comment from anyone that could possibly break some silly rule. People here are intelligent adults, and if something hurts their "feelings" too bad.

People need free discussion, ESPECIALLY during this scamdemic where everyone is seriously on edge.

Edit: If people get banned they just open up a new account. I've lost track how many accounts I've gone thru over the years. Yes, many were banned for unknown/irrational reasons, but the point is people just open a new account and done.
> ...and make a commercial product out of it.

For that to be viable it would have to add a real benefit that people would be willing to pay for.
Given that LibreOffice is the child of commercial software (StarOffice) that tried exactly this - at a time when the market for office software was much better - I have little hope for a commercial desktop office that is not Microsoft. Even for Microsoft the market for the desktop version seems to be dying.

That doesn't mean that apparently some have made a profit from OpenOffice and LibreOffice. I haven't seen one in a while but for some time scams that tried to sell you an unmodified OpenOffice or LibreOffice on a subscription basis were quite common.
Right now I'm enjoying that very podcast. It's really worth listening to if you understand German :)
Almost everything done in the name of "national security" seems to be either gross abuse of people or something done to defend that.
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Curiously your anecdata does not change the fact that reproductive numbers are below replacement in basically every democratic market economy.
It's not that hard to build a browser (I'll say this because I've done it, and there are plenty of people who have done it better.) It's just tedious and not something you can put on the app store.
I don't have much sympathy for this argument. If you're a very heavy consumer of the content, it makes good sense that you end up paying more.

It used to be that your only options were cable or satellite packages that included lots of content you didn't want to pay for. People complained, and wished they could only pay for the content they watched. Now we have multiple competing Internet streaming subscription services, and people are complaining it isn't all bundled together.

If you only watch a few shows, you can buy them a la carte from Google/Amazon/iTunes/etc.

What really matters is pricepoint. A couple of subscriptions still runs far cheaper than a cable package. People will keep complaining until they can get every show there is for a minimal fee, but I don't see why we should expect that to be a realistic possibility.
The difference is actually 0.19 points. You can read their description of press freedom in India https://rsf.org/en/india or of Pakistan https://rsf.org/en/pakistan and neither sounds that great.
Underrated idea but very complex in practice. Contextual is coming back regardless as third-party cookies go away. But, I think “traditional” in this sense means brand advertising with broad reach, not micro-targeted messages for narrow audience. Like, why don’t you see nearly as many Coke ads online as you do IRL?

Hypothetically, this kind of advertiser wants “brand safe” context (high-quality, inoffensive, not-too-weird) but is otherwise mostly looking to reach as many people as possible in its core demographics. Figuring out if something is brand safe at the margin is pretty tough and you actually can’t trust ad exchanges for this signal, so that’s what at least some of that JS from advertisers is for. Also, “the margins” on the internet are huge, likely most of the page. Internet has not done well here, traditionally.

These advertisers traditionally loved primetime TV and glossy magazines, with high production values and usually safe content. A surprising amount of this brand money is still in traditional linear TV advertising, despite the fact that most key demos have already given up on linear TV.
Sometimes these weird questions can lead to more practical applications down the road, e.g. once we know how to do something it gets added to the toolbox and eventually used, somewhat like how Euler's totient was a cute mathemtatical curiosity until it became one of the important steps in RSA key generation and a very useful tool almost two centuries after it was discovered. It is also the case that sometimes knowing where the 'holes' are in these sort of stepwise math series' can itself reveal something deeper or more important. Like the fabled exceptions that prove the rule, knowing where a general rule does not work is sometimes an incredibly useful discovery.
This would of course be true for any software development if we programmers could do real magic and create perfect software.

I assure you (given that I used to work for one of the largest news organisations in Sweden) that there is no such thing as a simple platform when it comes to news. Sure on the front it is "just" a website.

Then of course there is the subscription backends, the systems that calculate how many print papers to send to _each_ little store in the whole country, the system that people write in (regardless if you write your own you still have to have it interface with your backend, and don't forget you need to have a way for your person on the fronline in syria to publish as well), many organisations now have video which is another whole beast. Etc, etc.

Now you might not like it and just want to have just text (I'm many ways I'm with you there) but it's a lot more to having a digital newspaper than you might imagine.
> Do we stress about the risks nuclear power far out of proportion to how safe it is? Yes. Even accounting for the worst accidents, it kills a very low number of people per TWh.

That statement is true, but you are overlooking that fact that the reason nuclear power kills so few people is because we focus so much on the risks.
> MT is far from perfect ... but definitely useful

This is, I think, the best way to look at MT.

As many people here have commented, machine translations are often incorrect, misleading, or just incomprehensible garbage. However, in situations with enough context, people can use MT to accomplish tasks that they would not be able to do without it. Some examples, and a discussion of implications for foreign-language education, appear in a paper I wrote last year [0].

[0] https://researchmap.jp/multidatabases/multidatabase_contents...
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This is great. Let the competitors come.
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Even if it is capped at 1800 € this is a lot of money for non tech workers. And as tech worker it should be easy to afford...
The problem in the US is that you have labor laws that do not protect workers, so private citizens have all the free speech in the world, but they can't use it out of fear of being fired. And there's no free speech in the work place as the boss can fire you on the spot for whatever. Do you then have free speech when it does not extend to the work place where you spend 1/3 of your day?
Knowing Germany and the German love for any kind of wordplay and puns, you're probably correct.
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Crazy to think london has the right to tell you what cars you can sit in.
> The best way to fight disinformation is to challenge it with true information.

History shows there exists a subset of issues that drive deep emotion or passion, whether for historical reasons or otherwise, for which this approach won't work. It assumes rational debate is possible in an environment antithetical to it. The hard part is defining that subset, in real-time, on a globalized planet. Hard to say that anyone is capable of this kind of definition.

Edit: I too don't think censorship works in the long-term. That doesn't mean we should throw our hands up at this problem and give up. It'll be with us whether we like it or not, so we as a society better solve it.
> That’s a stupid idea, Sony doesn’t know how to make hardware. They don’t know how to make software either. Why would we want to do this?

They know how to do hardware now, but software? cries in Sony Alpha firmware
I use "smart grid" to mean that the electricity provider has a measure of control over the load. For example they can turn heating in your home on or off as long as the temperature stays within a band defined by you. This is not science fiction, it exists today. I know people who use it already.
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These prices are just crazy compared to their old model. Do these papers really think they are providing as much value as Netflix (or more)? Even ignoring journalistic quality...
The number of corrections in the comments here shows how complex this stuff is.