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An airplane will weigh less, the more jet fuel it uses. A battery powered airplane does not have an obvious way of losing weight in this manner, further limiting range.

Talking about 5.000 km is hard: While it won't get you from London to New York without some post-crash landing swimming, the current largest electric plane can fly ~100 miles at around 114mph, with 9 passagers.

I see that you take the laws of physics into account, but allow me to state this for the sake of the conversation: In order to replace jet fuel, we must match what we could call it's useful energy density (energy/kg * efficiency). While electric engines are probably more efficient, we're still up to 2 orders of magnitude away – that's requires a 50-100x improvement of energy density, while maintaining the needed high discharge characteristics, developing a sufficiently efficient electric jet engine and taking into account the increased weight. All at a price where people won't need to save up for years, in order to visit their families.

While I hope to see a zero emission future in my lifetime (actually a negative-emissions might be needed for at time), I feel like putting batteries into airplanes is a bit too much "Silicon Valley Sophism" – shoving the same solution at each and every problem, rather than figuring out what the core of the problem is.

I do love electric cars, but they are not for everyone('s budget). Perhaps the solution is synthetic fuels, combined with carbon capture and a cheap, clean and reliable energy source, such as nuclear power. I know this isn't exactly cheap or readily available either, but it seems like one would bypass a lot of the issues above, by focusing on the source of the problem: Non-neutral use of carbon fuels.
If you could talk about TCO as in service costs associated, that would be amazing. I.e. A PS4 costs $300.. but after PS+ service costs (to use the features they give you).. that's something like $5/month extra.
I play piano and watching videos of Gould playing is fascinating. He violates every rule your piano teacher tells you about performance, from his unusually low chair made to accommodate a back injury to his habit of singing along to tunes that was often picked up in his album recordings. I especially like this performance of Beethoven's 32 variations in C minor by him [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoWXRlw9vBA
Buy a burner phone, put illegal stuff on it, stick it in their gym bag, call police. Costs 1% of 10k.
A typical 'eco' cycle might take about 90 minutes. The dishwasher might have a rated peak load of 10A/1200W, but you can't just multiply that by 1.5 hours.

The peak power is for the resistive heater, which runs for several minutes at the start and intermittently throughout the cycle, as heat is lost through the insulated enclosure and out with the periodically drained water. But most of the duration is spent pulsing the small 1.3A/160W/0.2 HP circulation pump. It works out to a little less than 1 kWh for the full cycle.

Like my high-efficiency front-loading clothes washer, it ostensibly reduces energy and water use by running a small, efficient motor for a long time instead of a high-power motor with lots of water for a short time.

A commercial dishwasher might have a 30 amp, 220V heater, and a 3 horsepower 220V motor. The heater draws 6.6 kW for 4 minutes to warm up the machine before you can run the first load, or 0.4 kWh, and the motor runs for 90 seconds at 2.3 kW, so the total power requirement is actually less than the 'Energy Star' consumer unit at 0.5 kW/cycle!
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There's not much here. He decided to compete against himself and made a list of self-improvement items? He complained about being directionless yet had some clear choices he could make. Cat? Grad School? Girlfriend?

Sounds like this person needs a role-model and a mentor.
Awesome! I was peripherally aware of that, I think, but had filed it as "not ready" for some reason. Will definitely give it another look, thanks!
> developers started feeling this part of the work wasn't very important, and gradually moved to spending more time on delivering regular features from the Sprint, neglecting the bugs.

Do your developers maybe have too much autonomy, or lack an appreciation for the way bugs impact users/customers?

I've never worked somewhere that we didn't prioritise the backlog, with input from the Product team. You didn't just get to skip fixing bugs because you didn't think it was fun or interesting. Fixing bugs is part of professional engineering. And, lucky us, they're not actually always boring.

Perhaps I missed something from the rest of the blog post, but it seems like a lot of this system could have been unnecessary if the backlog was properly prioritised and/or management made sure developers were aware that bugs have to be fixed. If you have to assign bug tickets to people because they're not getting voluntarily chosen, then you do that.

Edit: I agree with the point of the section that I took my quote from, which is that you need to have retrospectives/team meetings, work on bottlenecks and processes, etc... But none of those are an excuse for not fixing bugs, they're just hindrances.
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The market-share bleed is ... amplified or mitigated, depending on your viewpoint ... by the absolute dominance of handheld Android devices (defaulting and manditory intalls of Google Chrome).

Firefox has slid some on desktop, but not nearly as much as broad numbers suggest.

Put differently: desktop is increasingly irrelevant to the modern Web. Which itself is likely not a good thing.

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Late edit: Safari's marketshare, overall and by desktop/mobile segment, is virtually identical with its device share. Party like it's 1998.

Which suggests Mozilla's attempt at a mobile OS was not entirely misguided. It's preloads, bundling, and tying all over again.
If you want to promote the idea that there's more to life than work and that one could focus more on family, nature and the arts by all means.

But saying that capable people must bend the knee so somebody less capable also gets a turn at 1st prize makes we wonder want kind of morality asks that, accepts that and takes pride in finally winning that way.
Saying GNU Smalltalk "is not running in a virtual image" is incorrect.

For example, GNU Smalltalk does not load the whole standard library from scratch when you start it, the way for example Python does when you "import os". In addition it's perfectly possible (or even common) to load more packages into the image so that any file-based scripts you launch load faster.

And even though by default the compiler is written in C, if you load the "Compiler" package then GNU Smalltalk switches on the fly to a parser and bytecode compiler that's written in Smalltalk. If you load the "Debugger" package, exceptions will take you to a gdb-like debugger, with a companion text-based interactive inspector. (The scheduler is part of the image in the same way as in Smalltalk-80, and features such as exception handling and the debugger are entirely implemented in Smalltalk; the only custom feature of the GNU Smalltalk VM that the debugger uses is single-stepping).

So even though the image is not as pervasive as in Smalltalk 80 or Pharo (development happens in files and builds upon an image, instead of happening straight in the image), the image is there and it's not just an implementation detail.
Tell that to citizens who can't register for unemployment or fill their taxes because the callback hell doesn't work as it should.
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Just did a search for tempest on bing, duck duck go, and google, and ddg was closer to google than bing. Which is fairly common, they are each the odd one out on some searches. Though I think google’s personalized search results make it seem very different to some people.

Pick something really odd like “Purple car teacup” and google seems to give really bad results. 3 links to amazon, 2 to Pinterest, and 2 to EBay. They all link to thepurpleteacup.com, but only google has a Yoycart link, it also wants to replace car with cat. I think Bing started off with the best image search and ddg the worst, though bing wanted to ignore teacup for the bottom half of it’s results.
This is exactly what I do to. I get around a 15% response rate, which I'd thought was pretty good before reading your 30% - though TBH I've no idea what might be expected?
> You don't have to love every day of a job to love the job.

You shouldn't love your job. A job isn't a person. You should love your friends and family. A job is what you do for money. Like a trick, michael.

I would love to know when the idea of "loving your job" came into the culture. It feels so manufactured like "I (heart)/love NY". Similar to "productivity" today. "Have you been productive today"? When did "productivity" sneak into the culture.

Edit: The replies indicate what I am talking about. People are so conditioned into thinking that you should "love" your job that they get defensive when you point out that a job isn't something that you should "love". You can enjoy your job, you can get fulfillment from your job, but a job isn't a person. It isn't something that you should "love". Words matter. I don't like how love has been hijacked into a meaningless term now. I love my job, my hobby, my football team, etc. Someone wrote they spent decades with a job they loved. If you did, then you wasted your life. Do other countries/languages also "love their job" or is this an american thing? It's such a strange thing to "love". Strangely enough, only on hacker news would you people so religious defend their love of their job.
> H1-B is dual intent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_intent so there is no winking required.

There is. It doesn't matter in practice, because it's a legal fiction anyway, but here's the legal logic:

For all visa applicants, including H1B, there is a presumption that the person is an immigrant, and they cannot obtain non-immigrant visas until they convince the admission officer of their non-immigrant intent, see section 214(b) of INA. Crucially, you need to argue that you have no intention to abandon your foreign residence. Dual intent have nothing to do with it, this is true for all kinds of visas.

The immigration law says that, as a rule, applying for permanent residency in the US (a green card) constitutes evidence of your intent to abandon foreign residence. Where dual intent policy enters the picture is that the above does not apply to holders of dual intent visas. For them, applying for green card "does not constitute evidence" of their intent to abandon foreign residence: this is the exact language used in section 205b of Immigration Act of 1990, which is the legal basis for "dual intent" policy. Note that they do not say that the rule of abandoning foreign does not apply to dual-intent visa holders, only that applying for green card no longer constitutes evidence of their intent to abandon foreign residence.

Of course, none of it matters in practice, since it's all legal fiction, and in practice things works exactly as you believe they are. The point here is that the practice is based on the legal fiction, on the wink which requires immigration officials to pretend you do not intend to abandon your foreign residence, when everyone knows that this is exactly your goal.
I figured it out, the apex goes to parking page, the WWW goes to the actual blog.
> If APIs can be copyrighted, then buyers now know that there's a single-source risk for any API that's not released under a permissive open source license.

Buyers won't be very motivated to care because they are consuming the original product, not competing with it. The first mover to release an API frequently has no interest in allowing compatible, competing offerings to exist. It's the second mover, the competition, that desperately wants to be compatible with the first offering, so that they can effectively compete for the business of the customer who bought the original product.
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> Mozilla should have gotten a smaller amount last time due to falling behind in marketshare

That assumes that the amount of money in the market stayed the same. But it didn't: the number of users of the internet grew. So it's possible that the actual benefit to Google of Mozilla's users using their search engine grew.

Disclaimer: used to work for Mozilla, not privy to details of the Google agreements.
As another comment stated, this is only for CSLI data. Tracking data from a different third party is still fair game, and that's what the IRS was/is using.
The more recent problem with wirecutter is a lack of discovery on their part. They select most of the products they review based on amazon reviews, which have gotten highly unreliable in recent years with all the fake reviews.
I honestly haven't done any serious work on GNU Smalltalk in the last 10 years, but it should have worked already back then. The GUI used GTK+, but it was still on 2.x.
There are people with specific legal protections. Amazon and Google would seem to be in jeopardy potentially for firing union organizers. Because so many Republicans and/or businesses support right to work laws (firing for any or no reason) this is a consequence. Since that guy became a Repub., it's reasonable to assume he supported that and never thought it would impact him in that way. So think about that everyone who thinks unions and work rules have no point.
The mirror doesn't flip anything at all. As humans we normally keep our feet on the floor and turn around by rotating around the vertical axis, thus when we face another human they've normally rotated around the vertical axis relative to us.

We're just not used to seeing the fronts of humans who have not rotated relative to us, so the mirror appears to have flipped the image horizontally.

If we customarily rotated around a horizontal axis, i.e. every time you look "behind" you're upside down (note this won't actually work very well given that you'd normally want to rotate around the axis perpendicular to the surface of the Earth, but just for sake of argument...), then we might believe that the mirror has flipped things vertically. It still hasn't actually flipped anything, it's just that we are viewing the front of a person who has not rotated.
> "How many of the incredibly successful people we know of in the industry were drop outs

Knuth, Dijkstra, Kernighan, Ritchie, etc. all had degrees, although some are non-CS because CS degrees weren't a thing back then. Linus Torvalds, Dave Cutler, and Theo de Raadt all have degrees. The only hardcore coder (i.e. not a business person) without a degree I can think of is John Carmack.
>It is because there are many ways to configure AWS ... it is up to the developer use that knowledge with the tools of their choice.

I see this as a huge negative of AWS, personally. While the "freedom" of being able to choose whichever Infra-as-Code tool I personally prefer is nice, it's also a huge negative that there isn't one single tool that has the full backing and endorsement of AWS.

CloudFormation is the "official" tool, but it's basically a second class citizen in AWS rife with bugs and gotchas, and often lags in adding support for new AWS features. CDK is the up-and-coming "official" tool that seems like it might take the spotlight, but it's still in pre-release and because it relies on CloudFormation under the hood, it too is less than ideal.

Terraform is probably the most feature-complete and most frequently updated IaC tool, but since it's technically third party it isn't going to be included in official AWS docs/tutorials or get first party support from AWS.

Then you throw in the other stuff like the Beanstalk CLI, Copilot, SAM, Chalice, Amplify CLI... there are so many tools for creating resources in AWS that it's overwhelming when trying to decide which one to use.
3:55 blu ray drive.
The idea that you have certain Constitutional rights that the government isn't allowed to mess with but private companies are is well established and has been known and accepted for centuries.
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Maybe, but that reminds me of a recruiter or HR rep saying "Java and Javascript are like the same thing, right?"
Google pays other companies (e.g. Apple) for the same thing: search engine placement. Obviously Apple has a business model outside of that deal, but do you feel that the payment to Apple is also a "subsidy"?
I see a lot of people, myself included, who dreaded the way company works. I'm outside the field now, and having seen my own failures to create software / group / work. I tend to believe that I was very much partially blind. I also see a lot of younger people speaking like me, disgust of the system, laudable desires to make great work for less, but failing to make a dent (at best) or going like me, spinning in ideals.

All this to ask, can we adjust the emergent system just to improve it ? can we describe better what are the reasons behind the links between different groups so new generations don't have to question them ?
Assuming Oracle wins, could the people at WG21 sue anyone who implemented C++? They wouldn’t as they work on the compilers, but I’m asking in theory.
Yeah, but what if they send you marketing from Ivan, and also Sara and John?
> It somehow configures itself at inference time so that state machines which produce plausible continuations of whatever pattern it was fed, are most probably generated.

What is this sentence supposed to convey? I'm an NLP practicioner/researcher and this isn't even true - as GPT isn't a "state machine" as the latent space is continuous and not finite.

Moreover, there is nothing that makes GPT-3 "not capable of learning." It has had very exciting results from language modeling a zero-shot task at inference time, but there's nothing (besides compute) precluding fine-tuning of it in principle.

I agree with the rest of your comment.
But we have backwards compatibility right now. That's, like, the whole point of the OSI model. Any device that supports UDP can handle QUIC with no fanfare like it was any other application-layer protocol because it is!
Taxation is theft, because no one is allowed to take my property without my permission. By paying taxes you support theft!
Yeah, getting through a merit-based point system being the key. Perhaps US should adopt an immigration-on-merit system?
Reproducibility doesn't mean accurate or good, it means it can be recreated. Its a crucial first step, but a model can be reproducible and also totally worthless.
It's a shame that we don't have criminal charges for government employees that violate the 4th amendment. As it is structured, the government has the incentive to test their boundaries constantly, as there is no risk in doing so. The worst that can happen is any actions they take on such information gets thrown out in court.

That isn't a disincentive...they can continue to violate the law, because there is nothing stopping them...merely laws that prevent them from using the illegally acquired information if the defendant has a competent lawyer. But never a penalty for illegally acquiring the information in the first place.
5G is not being pushed for benefit of consumers. It's meant for IoT devices (toys, appliances, bikes, cars, toothbrushes, ...) What average joe will see from 5G are cheaper devices and more targeted advertising.
Yep, Google won't tune TCP on Android, so they're abandoning it in favor or TCP over UDP.
European users get hit by plenty of ludicrous things of their own making anyway.
Or we could have companies Oracle copied sue them. For example: IBM for SQL.
I am not sure why you are getting down voted either. Maybe people are thinking of this -> Safe for work picture of PC held from ceiling by strings. https://i.imgur.com/mRrKbnn.jpg

I think your idea is valid BTW.
LOL. 360 days a year tells me everything I need to know about your analysis.
https:// is a scheme, not a protocol. In retrospect, it probably should have been called "www://" and "wwws://" rather than http:// and https://, because a single scheme can potentially be resolved via several different protocols. Consider that http:// does not necessarily imply unencrypted access, due to the opportunistic encryption specification (though this encryption is not MitM-secure).

Also note that because http:// and https:// are different schemes, there is no requirement that they serve the same website. http://example.com/foo and https://example.com/foo could be completely different resources, or completely different websites. An opportunistically encrypted load of an http:// URL still needs to load the http:// website, not the https:// one. Though opting in to HSTS eliminates this distinction.

For that matter, HTTP/1.1 allows full URLs to be specified in the request line, as an alternative to the traditional "Host" header. This is usually only used when using HTTP proxies:

GET https://example.com/foo HTTP/1.1
...

but what is interesting is since this also includes the scheme, it potentially allows you to do something very peculiar: theoretically you could access an https:// logical resource over an unencrypted HTTP/1.1 connection, e.g. by telnetting to example.com:80 and issuing "GET https://example.com/foo HTTP/1.1". It would of course be insane to support this, but if one disregards the fact that https:// is supposed to invariably imply secure communication, theoretically even https:// resources could be loaded unencrypted, just as http:// resources can be loaded encrypted using opportunistic encryption.

In short: scheme and protocol are different things, and for good reason.

URIs are resource identifiers. They exist to identify a resource, not how to access it. Tying those resource identifiers to a means of resolution would unnecessarily couple it to a resolution mechanism and thereby reduce the universality and permanence of URIs. URIs which are URLs are closer to describing a means of access but fundamentally there's still an interest in providing enough degrees of indirection that the longevity and permanence of an URL is maximised.
I am American and these kinds of things are hard eye rolls to me
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Do you know how the payment amount is determined?

I don't, but other such things are often structured as revenue share agreements, in which case it would not be exactly "ads in a different product segment", but rather "a fraction of the ad revenue directly attributable to Firefox". At which point it's really no different from how AdWords or the like work.
> because batteries died and couldn't get replacements

Search for “battery repack”. The batteries inside are always a standard size, and can be replaced by cracking the case. There are specialist companies that do it, but you have to find them.

You can do it yourself if the tool is worth spending the time on - basic soldering skills, and glue the case back together after you break it open to replace the cells (ugly, but works).
The issue is that the bottleneck is not coming up with the solution - but actually getting the political capital to pass it.
Devices can have multiple users. A blind passenger in the rear seat can use a drive-through ATM.
Any relation between furanocoumarins and coumarins? The latter is in cinnamon which I’ve read lately can be quite hazardous depending on the ingested amount.
Mine is clean as a whistle, but the paste seems to conduct heat less rather quickly. I’m not certain why. Liquid metal stays in place and seems to hold better, and conducts heat well over time.

I’m going to be gaming a lot more on mine, I’m not planning to get a new console for another 18–24 months when prices have come down and there are plenty of used games for sale.