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I know you cannot be serious. If taste was not subjective there would hardly be the variety in meals we see all over the world.

And yes, if you go to extremes like rotten meat, there is of course little dispute. However, many cultures have developed certain dishes that they consider delicacies while outsiders would find them revolting.

But even from everyday experience, I'm sure even you will reassess your position if you think about it a bit more. Have you never had the experience that some food that you absolutely love and need others to try gets you little more than a shoulder shrug from someone else?

Taste even changes over time which is another intuitive reason why your claim makes little sense. Do you remember the first time you've tried coffee or beer (if you drink those)? Most people are not too fond of these flavors at first, yet they drinks are among the most consumed beverages, at least in Western societies.
> Of course, this flexibility comes at a cost: an FPGA is perhaps 50x more expensive than a feature-equivalent SoC and about 5-10x slower in absolute MHz

If an FPGA SoC of the same power is 250-500x more expensive - how many of the issues of proprietary SoC's become tolerable?

Wouldn't using a non SoC architecture - Processor + support chips become a better solution?
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Who's talking about murder? I'm not for eating humans lol. This sort of phrasing is intellectually dishonest.

> That's what the entirety of animal agriculture is. We go WAAAY out of our way. It's expensive, inefficient, unhealthy, and immoral, and we do it anyway.

So are you against eating all meat or in favor of reforming industrial meat farming? These are two very different positions.

> It never needs to.

Yes I didn't say it needs to. I said sometimes it does. Foie gras involves sticking a pipe down a duck's throat and force feeding it until it has liver desease which makes its liver extra large and tasty. It is what it is. I support it because it's delicious. My taste buds are more important than a given animal's suffering, plain and simple.

I know I'm being blunt but I feel this holier-than-thou attitude on the vegan's side needs to be confronted with a little bit of "silent majority"-type viewpoints.

I'm not making controversial points, I'm spelling out widespread ideas to you.
I don’t understand what your problem is? You can read, can’t you?

Google even pops up a box with the relevant information immediately. Here, let me help you if that’s too hard:

“The cost of completing the nascent fiber-optic network connecting the capital cities of Sub-Saharan Africa and the main submarine cables is modest at $316 million, based on a cost of around $27,000 per kilometer.”

And that’s just the top result. You can look up the per km cost of almost any cable system trivially.
I don't know if the author of the website is here, but please reconsider redesigning it. This is what it looks like on a 1900x1200 screen: https://i.imgur.com/Ivyse91.png

The use of white space really is too liberal.

Luckily Firefox has reader view, but that shouldn't be necessary to read an article.
Yes, I use ace-window as well: (global-set-key (kbd "M-o") 'ace-window)

Combined with maximize-window and winner-undo, I'm in heaven :)
Is it possible to use something like rr for microcontrollers, assuming we can simulate the microcontroller?
That's interesting. I'd seen Arnold's work on teaching mathematics, and I'm very much aware of the dry formalism in Bourbaki books. However, I was not aware of the Arnold-Serre debate.

But the thing that really caught my eye here is your claim that there were visible effects of Bourbakism polluting mathematics.

Do you have any examples or specifics of that "visible effect". My question is a genuine one, not a challenge to what you are saying.
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Ahh magit, the reason I keep getting back to Emacs.
> Kosher slaughter is extra cruel/inhumane

So is circumcision (genital mutilation)
If you look at European warfare after the collapse of the Roman empire and before the Siege of Vienna it was basically a wave of ass kickers coming from central asia and getting their ass kicked by the next wave coming from central asia.
There isn't necessarily a causal relationship. Norway was poor while being a neutral country with a tiny military, it's more the resource blessing than anything which helped. Similarly, I have huge doubts that wealth redistribution of eliminating military in the USA would end up with the poor.
Of course, if you average subjectivity out, it's not longer there. But what's the point?
> No, the comparison to an APC (armored personnel carrier) is apt- knights were armored enough to be nearly invulnerable to the weaponry a peasant would have access to.

No. A knight prone on the ground was very easy to kill very quickly - just stick a dagger through the visor. There is nothing comparable a civilian today can do to an APC.

Additionally, a single knight on a horse was not that hard to take down using relatively easily-available polearms, at least to a group of peasants. It doesn't scale down linearly - 40:9000 is a very different matter than 1:200, because a charge of 40 mounted knights is still inescapable death to the part of the enemy force they're charging at. A single knight would be much less terrifying even to a relatively group of peasants.
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these are the best comments in HNews! It amazing the amount of incompetence there are in tech industry now days.
A random tidbit I've heard floating around: Examplify (yet another proctor) will think that you're running in a VM if you have WSL installed.
In a good Scala codebase you use the implicitness to put the business logic front-and-center and push secondary concerns into the background, but without making them completely invisible. The plaintext becomes something akin to the DSLs that people write in e.g. Ruby (using metaclasses and other such magic), but when you open it in an IDE (or compile it in your head) all those extra details become visible to you in a reliable way, rather than having to guess what a given piece of code actually does.

IMO modern language designers should be making IDE-first languages - after all, most serious programmers do use IDEs (even if they build that IDE within Emacs or Vim). The problems with "visual languages" are that without a textual representation you can't meaningfully diff/merge/blame, not that using the GUI is an inherently bad idea. With Scala you get the best of both worlds: it's textual enough that version control works properly, but you have standard-ish way of folding, hovering etc. that mean that you can "zoom in" on the details of unfamiliar code but also "zoom out" to get a clear overview, in a way that few other languages manage.
Great video explanation on the subject from Minute Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZDsSnpYZrw
He can set up business ventures in Cyprus regardless but that wouldn't help him much in most cases as he's then going to trigger all the controlled foreign companies rules and if he renounces his US citizenship he's over the $2 million asset threshold so he'll have an exit tax, I think it's highly unlikely he'll ever do that, though he might be setting up his family members to do so since under most of these programs you get citizenship not only for you but also for your family.

Someone in Eric's position will most benefit from the use of trusts and charities to improve his tax position.

But Cyprus citizenship has tons of other advantages:

1. Having an EU citizenship allows you to live and spend an unlimited amount of time in any EU member state vs 90 days out of every 180 days for a normal American so if he wants to retire to a beach in Spain for 5 months at a time he can't currently do so but this will allow him to

2. It gives him visa free travel to various parts of the world that he might not otherwise have, most notably Russia. If you're in Eric's position and say you want to do some business and investing in Russia the hassles related to travel might not be worth it for you and it makes it so much easier if you've got a second passport that allows you to go without issue

3. As mentioned you're setting up your family for a future with more options

4. You're creating a back up plan for yourself
Exactly - the key term here is "in reasonably quantities". Note that my complaint above was about "loads of ...".

Of course, honey is questionable - just because it's a more-or-less natural product doesn't make it especially good for you.
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Not sure how to feel about it. I think there will be a concentrated mass of user with certain viewpoints. On the other hand the censorship of Twitter is not attractive for many users and alternatives are always good, although I think Twitter is losing relevance for media exposure. Seems we are getting two distince bubbles.
That's true, and also unfair, however if believe if we are supportive rather than dismissive or aggressive towards these experiments regardless of who they come from then we can create a culture of encouraging people to try things. Many people may read his article and be inspired to try their own experiments, and even if they're low level they will increase empathy and consideration for blind people. We can't go from ignorant to perfect in a day, I believe we need to create a culture that leads in the direction that we want to go.
You sort of are. The main OS is virtualized too under WSL2. Both it and WSL2's kernels running on top of hyper-v.
> As a note, I’ve seen some truly awful software written by highly paid devs, so, just paying more won’t necessarily fix the problem.

High pay is necessary, but not sufficient.

With high pay, you MAY get a good product — if you attract competent people on all levels.

With low pay, the mind-numbing godawfulness of the end result, if it's ever delivered, is practically guaranteed.
Salt and fat are completely fine, even necessary for your health - when taken in moderation. But I was talking about "loads of sugar, salt, fat".
> https://www.csoonline.com/article/3193718/xen-hypervisor-fac...

> May 3, 2017

I said Qubes 4+, which was released in 2018: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/03/28/qubes-40/. All previous versions relied on software virtualization (and had much wider compatible hardware).

> Right, and that master key is signed by nothing. There is no way provided to verify it.

Sorry for my ignorance, how does one securely verify a master key not risking to compromise it?
There was an interesting recent article about Bourbaki, and in particular why they wrote in the style that they did, in the New Left Review: https://newleftreview.org/issues/II124/articles/alice-bamfor...
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Interesting article on Oat milk (specifically Oatly): https://www.jeffnobbs.com/posts/oatly-responds-in-defense-of...
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> JIRA pages take 15 seconds to load, all the while the UI is glitching and twitching

In the biz we call that "an improved user experience"
I’m note sure why you bring foreign-speakers doing their PhD in French (the one who does have outstanding language abilities btw), I’m speaking about research output in general. The few thesis I looked from my immediate research entourage are quite weak compared to the few I’ve read from my home country. There is definitely something different in the writing and the expectations between Europe and the New World. To be clear, I don’t think it’s a language issue per se, but a result of the difference in requirements to graduate. For research papers, quality went down because of the rat course.
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This is called speciesism [1].

Problem I have with all of it is the black-white thinking. You are either vegetarian, or you are not. You are either vegan, or you are not. Whereas you simply aren't, depending on how far you stretch the definition. If it comes to giving up and alienating people for being imperfect, I believe that is harmful. Hence I applaud reducetarianism. Either way, however far you take it, the direct connection between eating meat and animal suffering is easier and easier for an individual to work around. Because society is getting more and more vegetarian and vegan friendly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism
Wonderfully written, completely baseless.

Not meant as a criticism of Rust, but you will unseat COBOL from the finance sector LONG before you get the gaming houses onto rust.

Not impossible, highly improbable though
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Nothing of the extremely limited options that you tried.
It’s funny seeing people discussing authoritatively about things that they even admit to not know at all.
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Maybe fondue and hard cheese is the true magic potion.

So even my bad French can get the translation - it what does it mean? :-)

It smells like something out of Asterix - but what is the quote from?
Yes, maybe you're right. I guess the ideal solution would be to check 25 OH D level every 6 weeks and adjust supplementing to maintain the desired level.
A big part of local print newspapers are photos of events (birthdays, parties, weddings etc) which drive sales to those related or just interested.

Local event photographers may be a good source of content, it obviously helps them too.
Lots of media presences that either clearly didn't get the memo on "how to implement GDPR correctly" or who still are determined on selling out their users, for one.

Technically speaking, at least in German jurisdiction the way to completely be in compliance with GDPR is to not even load a single library or other asset from any third party servers (the point being that the third party receives the datum of the user's visit timestamp, their IP address, and the referrer) without the user's explicit consent. Anything else opens you up for issues.
People who suggest that knights could be defeated by peasants in one-on-one or even one-on-many combat often overlook that many (or most?) knights spent their time practicing how to kill people in combat. Peasants on the other hand were busy tending to their land or cattle or doing whatever they had to survive. The modern analogy for adult peasant fighting an adult knight would be a bar fight between a random bystander and a UFC fighter. Now imagine the UFC fighter is wearing armor (and is trained to fight in armor) and is equipped with a deadly weapon of his choice (and has been training to fight with it). If you think there is a remote chance for any outcome besides death of the knight’s opponent (also death at the moment and in a form of the knight’s choosing), try going to a local boxing gym (or jiu-jitsu club etc.) and challenging one of their trainers, then multiply the results by 10 (in trainer’s favor).

I can’t imagine how 10+ years of training could not give a knight an infinite advantage even if we equalize the combatants in terms of equipment.

Also knights were training to fight since they were children, so in our hypothetical bar fight the pro-fighter’s skills would be along the lines of those of Floyd Mayweather (who started training when he was 9). Surely the knight may be less gifted, but that matter should really concern other knights and not peasants :)

49 vs 9000 scenario described in the post seems grotesque but I think, limiting the number of slain civilians by knights’ stamina and assuming that any resistance is negligible is more than reasonable.
Unless they installed a gps tracker and remote kill switch. Which they might well have done. With self driving cars, eventually the car may be able to return itself.
I can believe that individual slashes and stabs are ineffective against metal armor, sure. But this video makes it seem like a knight could take down a whole crowd of enemies by himself. This is what fighting that many people at once actually looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CmRo7uECEg

Several people knock or drag the victim to the ground while the rest take turns beating him. In the movies when the hero goes to fight 20 dudes, at any given time 18 are standing around doing nothing while he lays waste to them two at a time with flawlessly executed martial arts moves. That's pure theatrics, and no amount of armor or training or general badassery can make it a reality.
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I wish I could have seen an image of noise for comparison.
> sort by price does not sort by price

This drives me crazy. How do they get away with this?
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Interested in what the Starlink CPE antenna solution looks like. Have seen the customer antenna in pictures and it looks like a parabola, but there has also been a lot of talk about beamforming and antenna arrays so I'm curious to see the spec, pictures and get info about how it is supposed to work.

Also interested if someone could provide link budget input (output power, antenna gain) for Starlink operating at 12GHz (at 550 km altitude) and 39 GHz (at 350 km altitude) respectively.
What impressed me the most up to now:

https://ziglang.org/#Zig-ships-with-libc

On any platform it can without any effort cross build for most other platforms which means "that --library c for these targets does not depend on any system files!"

"This means that this functionality is available on any platform. Windows and macOS users can build Zig and C code, and link against libc, for any of the targets listed above. Similarly code can be cross compiled for other architectures"

"In some ways, Zig is a better C compiler than C compilers!"

And it's all immediately available after the download. I am not aware of anything comparable that offers that functionality.

And currently "self hosting" is in development, which should longer-term allow language's independence of LLVM. The way I understand it, it will make the product even more usable on additional platforms. The "self hosting" aspects and goals are known to the Zig developers but I hope a nice explanation of what will be achieved will be written.
I seriously doubt that you tried a real Neapolitan pizza then. Even in Italy it’s not that easy to find unless you are in Campania.
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You call going to a cafeteria a hard challenge? Wow, that is really aiming low. Lets list a few hard challenges:

* Read a book with your fingers. At least 300 paperback pages. That will be about 2000 braille pages.
* Cross a road which lacks pedestrian lights. Use your ears to find out if you are going to die.
* Write a 2k+ lines program, pick a language of your choice. For extra points, use a speech synthesizer only, no braille.
* Go to the groceries store and buy the food for a week. Go with whoever you get assigned as assistant. If their IQ is likely not above 80, continue and try to explain to them what you need.
> And students are being forced to install this on their home machines.

Wait, what if I work from home and my kid is sitting in the living room as well. I get recorded then? WTF???

Who owns these machines? Is it the parents or the school or the government or who? What if they decline? Can someone explain why a child has to accept that they are being watched on a webcam without their consent? Without the consent of their parent? And, "either accept it or don't get allowed at exam" isn't a choice. They ain't going to high school yet, but I don't envision I would allow my children to be scrutinized by this. Then again, who expected COVID-19. I can only hope this is temporary, but perhaps its part of 'the new normal'.
A summary of what Scala is great for:

- Safe and high performant concurrent programming. Scala is miles ahead of most other languages here and pretty much on par with the best ones (such as Haskell)

- ETL / data transformations. Python is a big player here - but for stable and performant data pipelines, I strongly believe Scala is the better choice. For explorative things, python has the edge though.

- Actor systems on the JVM. I believe that most "scalable" systems are over-engineered. A well configured postgres / elasticsearch and a machine with your application on good hardware goes _very_ far. But sometimes it's not enough and then Scala offers a great solution with Akka on the JVM. Erlang/Elixir with their runtime are probably even better, but Scala offers the better typesystem and one can stay in the JVM world if they want.

- in-language custom DSLs. No seriously, Scala is the best language I know in terms of building typesafe, customizable DSLs within the language, making it almost look like another language. This is great if not so techy folks are to make changes to actual code in an easy way. The link in this post here shows some examples but it goes beyond.

- Writing glue-code. Surprisingly, I think Scala is better than python and many other languages here, because of the sheer power of composability of the language and ways to connect pieces with each other in a typesafe manner. The reason for this lies mostly in the concept of implicits, which both enables great power and reusability but also makes the learning curve much steeper.

This list might be a bit subjective and I don't know every language out there, but as the questions comes up almost everytime, I wanted to list the strengths of Scala in the areas where most other languages can't compete with it.
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Oh man, thanks for pointing this out. I feel like we got an email once every month asking about something p2p, and was always confused why people kept getting this impression.
> And how do you manage your corporate accounts on your personal devices?

Oh that's simple: I don't have them.

I set up this boundary really early in the hiring process. I sell 8h of my day and I'm not reading/responding/doing anything else outside of them.

If they want me to, they can issue me a phone/laptop and I'll install whatever they want me to, but I'm not going to look at it outside my hours unless we negotiate paid overtime.

So in short, never have work accounts on your personal devices. If you need a reason to refuse that, you can always go with "I don't want to be held liable in case someone steals my personal device and gains access to your company's secrets".
> but on the whole America has been uncommonly benevolent.

I bet you'd feel a little different if you were born in Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria for that matter. Conflicts the US triggered have cost close to a million human lives since 2003. And honestly, a lot more can be said of the "Benevolent" superpower of yours.
There's no way to win there, under _any_ definition of "win". The British failed. The USSR failed. The US failed once already, and will fail again. We can fail after killing 600K and spending $3T. Or we can fail after killing 1.5M and spending $6T. But we _will_ fail regardless. It is not possible to win an unconventional land war with people who are fighting for their own land.

All these "robots" are basically technological masturbation: great for milking the taxpayer and nothing else. They do not change the situation on the ground, especially when you're fighting with a bunch of semi-literate dudes with Kalashnikovs who are not afraid to die.
Those bugs of course exist, but I would not say "There have been many of these bugs, on qubes/xen... they exist and they are plentiful":

https://www.qubes-os.org/security/xsa/. The actual number is 67 in ~10 years: https://www.qubes-os.org/security/xsa/, which is more secure than anything else AFAIK.

Note, this is counting older Qubes versions, where the virtualization was much less secure.
Look up 'forking web server'. It predates common multiprocessors. Why do you think that is? Because it's useful for concurrency even when there is no parallelism.