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Why does GitHub add PRs into repository as new commits even before author adds a merge commit rather than doing a usual multi-remote non-FF merge when merge action gets triggered?
I can sort of buy that argument; but in that case it seems the problem is just that M$ is a company which many people dislike? Not that there are actual restrictiveness issues?
How does its energy density compare to existing liquid fuels?

Diesel engines have a thermodynamic efficiency of ~42% in optimal conditions - usually it's less.

Large marine units approach 50%, but the fuel they use is only technically liquid.

EDIT: I just noticed you were asking about density, not efficiency.

I suspect it's much less than liquid fuels, which derive most of their energy from burning the hydrogen in them.
We can handle Wasm like Flash: declare it obsolete and then reinvent it again.
It seems to be a building block for their main project: https://statebox.org/what-is/

It looks potentially interesting, some kind of Category Theory + visual programming mash-up, although the current examples and lack of explanation currently leave a strong sense of "WTF is this supposed to do?"
Do you mind if I posted your comment on https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085 [AOSP Issue] Support for DHCPv6 ?

At this time of writing the issue is 8 years old and it is still spurring discussion.
I'm not interested in arguing with you for its own sake. I'm just saying the following because I don't like to see the kind of behavior in this community that I think is going on here (and I don't think it's intentional, fwiw).

Your criticism of me amounts to the fact that I asked for a citation of a statement I was skeptical about. I think that's pretty plainly not a legitimate criticism.

I think that you are the one who is being passive aggressive here.

If you thought my comment was passive aggressive, you could have just said so. (It generally is not passive aggressive to ask for a citation, but I can see how someone could think that.)

If you wanted me to explain the rationale for my statement, you could have just directly asked, instead of criticizing me in the way you did, which seems indirect and unfair.
The firmware is not ment and most likely does not have the capacity to contain such complex logic. You wish it to observe storage devices, to know its size and what is likely to be normal, and to observe witch processes are accessing it without being sure what os it is running. This is kernel level stuff and it would be just one more mitigation tactic.
Not to knock Amazon here, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a publically funded British institution running on American-owned servers. I known we live in a Globalist world now, and even if the BBC ran their own servers it would probably be running on American produced hardware (Dell)...

What do people think? Am I worrying about nothing?
Sure but Intel was the worst among everyone else.
Thank God in these times of uncertainty, we are protecting what is really important.
A fine read indeed. This quote in particular resonated:

"Many who have ''plied their book diligently," and know all about some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like demeanour, and prove dry,
stockish, and dyspeptic in all the better and brighter
parts of life. Many make a large fortune, who remain underbred and pathetically stupid to the last."
>So having ships, planes or even cars powered by burning iron seems to be unfeasible

aluminum of course. It is cheap too and has higher specific energy than iron. Using aluminum-air fuel cell instead of burning makes the efficiency about 2 times higher. The actual cars powered by aluminum have range up to 2000km per refueling.
Yes, but then there's also no use for the empty trucks en route the brewery.
" ... they want recruits to be attractive, energetic, articulate, socially smooth, and have had elite personal connections, jobs, and extracurriculars ..."

Who would not?
Playing audio from WASM means going through WebAudio, there is no magic direct connection between WASM and the system's audio device.
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>Can't these idiots realize that whilst there's risks that they're outweighed by the benefits.

Please list the extent of the risks and the impact so that we can weigh it up against the benefits. Make sure you remember every risk, no skipsies.
I've read of this other view that the true value of management consulting is hiring an outside group of people to tell you what you want to hear so the executives can justify their decisions to the shareholders / board / whatever.

I guess from this perspective it makes sense that such a firm operates that way. If a company wants to layoff people but is worried about PR or whatever they can hire this firm who they know is going to tell them to layoff people
This trend will only continue. Until middle class will be driven into the ground and the whole thing collapses.
Efficient cycles to store heat/cold will be very valuable in the next few years. There are a lot of industrial/logistics processes where by far the biggest energy usage is in heating/cooling. In a recent refrigerated warehouse 40% of the electricity is coming from solar panels on the roof. Going higher than that is not economical because energy will be sold too cheap to the grid and batteries are still too expensive. But there are solutions starting to appear to store cold while the sun is out and then release it over the night as needed. If we can get a lot of these types of loads working like that switching the grid to solar can go even faster because of not having to wait for cheaper grid-scale storage.
> "Fatal flaw" is quite a hyperbole,

I think one should just assume headlines are hyperbole and live with it. No one would read the article "A nuanced critique of ownership semantics" no matter how good it was. The only reason we are discussing it is because someone chose to make it hyperbolic. That's unfortunate but it is what it is.
That's what I'm guessing too. Magento and WordPress both store only the hashed passwords in the database; however, a screenshot from the article shows that the hosting company had stored plain-text passwords for an admin user, which were likely generated automatically, and stored in a separate (and publicly accessible) database.
WASM modules can be blocked by domain just like regular ads. Just block the whole thing, problem solved.
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Lots of Apple fans were not sharing your opinion when Catalina came if I remember things correctly. If the safeguard is not calibrated correctly, people will just click "okay" all the time. If the ransomware is smart enough, it will rate limit itself or will distribute the work between different processes, including innocent ones that it has managed to inject itself into.

Not saying that it is not possible, but its usefulness might not prove as high as hoped.
Back in the day they were doing this, shaders weren't still a thing, so you would get a slow CPU emulation instead.
To use the warehouse metaphor, the malware first got rid of the cameras, then locked up the security guards and then proceeded to do the box flipping while having complete control of the warehouse.

There are many ways to counter it. One possible approach is via smarter storage (think those dedicated datacenter storage servers) that lets the malware think they flipped the box while keeping the original safe as a previous version of the box, even if the box is a virtualized block storage instead of a file.

Another is to run your OS (and the malware) under a hypervisor, hoping the malware can't escape the virtual environment (which is more or less what gaming consoles do which varying levels of success).
Its funny how people will admit to being upset about something when they are supposed to be tech saavy and should have just googled the solution .
If you fact check a single side with additional rigor while permit others to post freely, then it's just censorship with extra steps.
Would that not sadly depend on them having a presence in Europe, with either servers or incorporation?.

They should not be allowed to get away with criminal security.
This is the perfect solution for an off grid heat source that wouldn't fatigue electrochemical batteries with limited lifetimes I'd rather reserve for smaller, precise loads (not heating element voltage).

I've been saving 1lb propane containers because I thought I would experiment with low pressure (for safety) hydrogen storage as flame source. Then I see videos where people are putting on spark arrestors and using more involving methods to totally remove oxygen (electrically interactive element in a steel container - an amount as low as 4% mixed with hydrogens low ignition point could be hazardous). Combine this with all the hoses and couplings I'd have to put in and it could add up and get complicated (although Alex Lab is a neat channel for hydrogen experimentation).

Could I just put a grinder wheel to some pig iron and create a powder stock (high surface area)? Since the powder flows it could be delivered like a wood pellet stove with auto-feed and hopper storage, and maybe for cooking I could spoon feed powder into a bowl with air flow rate control for temperature adjustment? Then another batch would "charge" as a short between two electrodes of a voltage source. Would the constant voltage of a charge controller be necessary for this redox? Could it just be a container of oxidized iron that reacts as voltage is available?
This argument presupposes that the voting patterns of mail in vs non mail in ballots are the same, even in the same district.

I believe an argument was made that this will not be the case.
Yes, brutal-force our way out of every problem some times is our "human natural" way to react against problems out of "our scope/control". But for the same premise that are out of our handling are in majority of cases wrong reactions to face problems.

Thanks for sharing.
This reminds me of Wavefront OBJ files, which is the format I use the mostly for a lot of my 3D stuff. It's limited but super easy to parse and generate, and macOS Finder can preview it natively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file
I never understood why media companies continue to reinvent the wheel. What’s commercial benefits if at all any? I guess, good for everyone’s CV. Build better media products, but no let’s build another publishing system.
It is sufficient in Europe.
My relatives who run a farm (some tens of cows, pigs, chickens, various crops for sale and food) do it on I believe around 25 acres of farmland plus a few acres of forest (for firewood). They are able to sustain a family of 5 people (3 grown ups, 2 school age kids) this way, plus hire a few seasonal/part time workers.

It does require quite a bit of machinery though- several tractors plus all the attachments (plowing, harvesting, cutting etc).
I studied in Europe's Universities and met and befriend a lot of smart people coming from lower classes families.

The number one problem with them is they being "penny wise, dollar fools". They had been trained all their lives in saving money, so they continue doing it even when it does not makes sense.

For example I had one friend that spent a week trying to save $100. I had to take him apart and give him a talk: Listen, your company is paying for you 9000 euros a month, it is beyond stupid what you are doing. He understood that rationally pretty well, but emotionally he has been trained all his life into this behavior, and it was hard changing habits.

You could also see the opposite behavior. "New rich" people wasting money because they don't know what to do with it.

Educated people inherit lots of knowledge from other educated people like their parents or just the books that you have in your house from the smartest people that have existed in the world.

When I was a kid I just read from books that were in my house because it was normal, all my family did it. So it was a shock to know that most people were so naive about so many topics.
My idea was, that even online, people can't seem to afford to speak their mind, so I guess in real world this could be even harder.
I can relate to this sentiment.

I would rather have seen they host it physically within the borders of the country, with a 'good' local hosting/cloud provider.

The added cost is the cost of that kind of 'security'.
How many potential customers did you talk to before starting development?
Fundamentally, this most obvious way of representing a graph (each node has a list of adjacent nodes, which are references to the actual nodes) can only work in an ownership-oriented language for directed acyclic graphs. Blockchains, Git commits, directory trees not supporting links, that sort of thing. (Mind you, for practical reasons many systems will still prefer to invert the tree and probably even traverse from leaf to root; this most obvious way is not actually a good fit for computers a lot of the time, even if it’s conceptually beautiful.) But if your graph is not directed, then ownership is not clear (A → B means A owns B, but with A ↔ B you can’t have both A owning B and B owning A), and if it can be cyclic, single ownership definitely falls apart.
Yes, but I have no space for them on my balcony ;-)
Prestige: Holy See, Bishop of Rome, Saint Peter’s Rock, old Emperor of Holy Roman Empire. Contacts of world leaders and decision makers at disposal.
Doing pretty good but not as prestigious as the Pope: the tech working class.
Declaring something obsolete doesn't make it so. Flash went away because of iPhone and rise of mobile app and still it took about a decade for it to be irrelevant. Without a similar tectonic shift, it would take longer.
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I can see a couple of problems...

Male ticks still bite, so they'd still cause problems. Although presumably lab ticks would be disease free.

A bigger issue is spread. Mosquitoes fly so you can do a release and they'll spread over a large area. Ticks walk. They can't travel as far. I suppose you could drop them from drones or a plane.
It's probably hosted in AWS' London region, so at least geographically it's within the borders of the country.
> But people don't really get SLAAC and RA.

I'm one of those. Say I connect my new Pi Zero to the network, and I want it to be a server of some sort.

In a IPv6-without-DHCPv6 world, how do I make sure I can always reach my Pi server?

With DHCP it's easy, I can assign it a fixed lease in the DHCP server and the DHCP server automatically registers the name in the DNS server for convenience.

How do I get the same when using IPv6-without-DHCPv6. Keep in mind my IPv6 prefix changes frequentl, sometimes multiple times a day, and this is out of my control (changing ISP is not an option).
Have you tried Reaper? I haven’t personally used the experimental Linux builds, because I depend on a lot of third party VSTs, but if it's anywhere near as good as it is on Windows/Mac it may work for you.
"I was given a long explanation about how gene drives worked and was filled with mild existential terror at how easy it would be to replace "mosquito" with "human"."

You're right of course, and unfortunately sooner or later what you say will come to pass (tragically, I see it as inevitable).

My take is slightly different: as the technology is here now, and given that we cannot stop it (certainly not in the long term - as eventually the tech will get so easy that it'll done in backyard sheds), then it's better to run with something like this mosquito eradication which hopefully may do some good.

With luck - and we'll need lots of it - intelligent regulation may follow. Ban it outright and it'll definitely go underground. Backyard sheds will then become labs that are centers of research. Heaven knows where that would lead us.
All of this. However, the issue is that coding the paper is only _one_ (and often not the biggest) step from idea to published paper. Worse, once the paper is published typically nobody cares for your code and whether its test coverage is x% (at least here in the social sciences).

I'm not saying that I support this (quite the opposite), but that's the outcome of our publish-fast-and-frequently-culture to get tenure.

Nota bene, I observe an increasing number of exceptions to this rule in my field, but still a minority.
The reason behind this wisdom is that it's easy to suggest a rewrite because you think the current code is too complex. You suggest a rewrite because you cannot grasp the current code. If that's the case, then I think the mentioned wisdom more or less holds up. However, it's also possible to understand the complexities of the current code, and still suggest a rewrite. Then the likelihood of a success is much, much bigger, I think.

I'm not 100% sure, but I'm under the impression that imdb.com pulled off such a rewrite a couple of years ago.
The Nature of Infinity – and Beyond
Complete bollocks. The genetic evidence is that most jatis (the ethnic groups that are constitutive of the broader caste groups) have been endogamous for over a 1,000 years. It’s completely normal in India for people from the same village to be as genetically distant from each other as a Sardinian and a Swede.
facebook and twitter have also been uncritically spreading false rumours from trump and only in the past couple of months have done anything to arrest the swirling hive of insanity/bad faith/malicious interference that is qanon.
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Good joke about Germany being privacy-conscious. From what I've read about state-of-the-art in Germany it is the most draconian state in EU (now when Britain has left).
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> gigabytes of data on one of my disks

This would require some cleverness at the device itself - perhaps a throttling mechanism and entropy checks on the content to effectively limit how much encrypted (or, sadly, compressed - they can't be easily told apart) information you can write to disk. Exceeding it would make the disk unusable and, perhaps, require very annoying manual intervention. The device also doesn't have any way to warn the user without going through the computer and the OS which, at this point, should be considered hostile.

> or network locations

This is easier to tackle by keeping backups and snapshots that are invisible and inaccessible to the end users and their OSs. Even if your workstation is mounting remote data as virtual block disks, you can still snapshot the whole disk at any given point in time. The problem will be cost - this requires a lot of extra storage capacity.

> I would not be annoyed if a popup asked me to verify that this is something I approve of.

In general the user (and anything on their machine) cannot be trusted. This confirmation should go to a separate channel - a phone call or other alert that's not going through the suspect computer.
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I wondered if anyone would call me out on that, when I first wrote it! I agree: at the most fundamental level data types aren’t real; even pointers don’t exist, they’re just a convention. What I was trying to get at is that at the fundamental level everything’s a value; when comparing high-level and low-level memory models, the key difference is whether everything’s a value or a reference (though many high-level models still support some kind of value types). When you have value types, ownership is real, and reflects how the machine works. Because the real world of CPUs isn’t quite that theoretical fundamental level: there are instructions for dealing with pointers; the concept of the stack is built in; things like that. If you have a stack variable, it’s inherently owned by the one place (though whether the language freely permits mutation from multiple places is another matter). So yeah, in the end I maintain my position that ownership semantics more closely match how computers work at that low level.
You have to compare the efficiency to other similar options. For instance, (hydrogen-based) fuel cells also only have around 40-60% efficiency…

Though, I would assume that iron-powered (steam?) vehicles would not be competitive due to the weight ? (Even despite the extra weight that hydrogen or electric batteries add.) Maybe iron-burning steam boats ? Steam rail ?

Nevertheless, fixed processes (far from hydropower), especially those requiring heat energy, seem to be a great niche for iron burning ! And I say niche, but this niche might be even bigger than transportation, which IIRC is only like 25-30% of total energy consumption ?
Totally agree. I think over time, we will learn to let it go and think sensibly.
I see DT fusion as a stepping stone to evolution. It doesn't have to be the answer for space travel or even Earth's clean energy.

If within a few thousand years we managed to go from illiteracy to studying fusion, I'm hopeful of what can be achieved within the next few thousand years.
As someone who has been using MuseScore daily for the past decade in my teaching, my deepest respect to the developers and community, you have built a piece of software with real impact that challenges proprietary (and very expensive) alternatives. Kudos to everyone involved in this life-changing project.

Looking ahead, it would be rad if some form of real-time collab could happen with MuseScore, either with the software or MuseScore.com embed.
DNA evidence show "these groups have stayed genetically separate while living side by side for thousands of years"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/health/india-south-asia-c...
What a bunch of cu9ts
> Object orientated programming is a form of misinterpreted and misapplied Aristotelian Metaphysics applied to a domain it was never meant to model

Ha! I always felt like OOP is a natural outgrowth of Scholasticism, which is basically saying the same thing.
> The Linux kernel is very different in this regard. Changes can be reverted easily.

Only if nothing in userspace (the equivalent of "[Go]'s users projects") has started to depend on it. A OS kernel is perhaps slower than a programming language to see uptake of new features, but the dependencies are still there.
We started out as a Shopify plugin for marketing and had some users. But before expanding the product we didn't really talk to any potential users. Again, another stupid mistake.

Once we started building we got the opportunity to talk to a users(Other YC companies in the same batch) - which thinking of it now was not the ideal user persona.
A quarter of an acre will give you plenty of food to fill multiple freezers for the year. Some vegetables have a very high yield (potato, tomato, carots). Hens/eggs also have a very good yield, most farms used to have hens.

It's nowhere near self sufficiency though. The amount and the variety of things you eat today is tremendous and coming from many places, you're not going to cultivate a fraction of that at home.

If you're talking bare subsistence, 1-2 acres of wheat should be enough to feed a family in grain/bread.
Have my upvote for that too.
They'd cause problems for a few generations, until their population collapsed from a lack of females.
Missed time with your children due to work can also induce a bad conscience that can be appeased slightly by subjecting your children to draconic surveillance. Nothing says "I love you" like being watched 24/7 outsourced to security companies. Because you just want the best for your children.