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> I want billions so I can fund moonshot projects

It seems like it'd be easy to create a charity funded with your wealth that provides grants to innovators. You can do this even in a country with a large wealth tax.

The world also has an awful lot of yachts and private jets for me to really buy the argument that billionaires really want the money to give it away. So maybe democratic control over that wealth ends up being better on average, even if you truly are committed to giving away all of your wealth in the way that maximally benefits humanity.
Innocent people plead guilty. 66% of drug crime exonerations were from guilty pleas, not trials. This fact invalidates most of your reasoning in your last two replies above.

http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/NRE.G...
Unless you compile your program with movfuscator: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

Or you decide to execute code on The Fungus: https://www.bedroomlan.org/hardware/fungus

I also recall reading a paper that got into implementing a GC on silicon for a graph rewriting based architecture

WebAssembly is if/else blocks. There's a potential future where it gets implemented directly as a CPU ISA (albeit it'd likely involve some dynamic translation, but the CPU may decide to have SSA as its internal representation)

It's important to understand there's a real distinction between semantics & implementation. Otherwise you risk emulating your implementation when some new hardware comes out (say GPUs, or Quantum computers, or out of order CPUs working backwards to create something like SSA for register renaming/pipelining, or cmov)

See also the debates over C code being executed in the C abstract machine for optimizers while programmers rely on implementation of the end result. But in a language without undefined / implementation-defined behavior you won't have these ways of having the program self observe its implementation
If you build nanosatellites or cubesats or do rocketry those limits are exeeded. For example NovAtel OEM-719 GPS has no COCOM limits.

Fortunately COCOM limits for GPS are not enforced. It's empty clause.
I've long suspected that r/DataHoarder is why we can't have nice things, i.e. cheap online data storage that is slightly subsidized by the average user who only stores a little. Thanks for confirming from the point of view of a major storage provider.
Interesting post, but I have troubles understanding the "SSL vulnerability with the exposed IP address" part. SSL does not prevent knowing IP addresses...
That's astonishing that Amazon builds its own "switch gears" software, as the article calls it. I assume these are the Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS) that connect to battery power or generator power when there's a main power failure. It may be that they want to go back onto main power using their own criteria for stability.
Pretty sure at least 90% of the readers here know that, but still appreciate the convenience of higher-level language constructs. That's why they're called "higher-level" after all.

BTW, it's not entirely correct that it's all if/goto. ARM has conditional execution that doesn't necessarily involve a jump, and there have been other exceptions as well.
Just because it has halved every year for a decade doesn’t mean it will continue. Cf Moore’s Law
> What is a usb smart hub?

Cynically it's a hub that hasn't has its functionality impaired by cost-optimisation.

Technically it's a hub that implements per-port power control and optionally per-port over-current detection.

An example is the old Linksys USB2HUB4 hub that's nearly 20 years old but still reaches decent bids on eBay as it is sought after by many hobbyists. It uses the excellent NEC PD720110 chipset that doesn't cut any corners. It even boosts USB1.1 comms up to USB2.0 speed over the host link.
Do they have the that though? When I turned the 2FA on it was only SMS option, so if your phone number is lost you are out of luck.
Oh that makes a lot of sense.

Somehow, I managed to permanently set my advertisements to Vietnamese, which I don't know how to change. What's weird is that Google also started doing this to me too.

It gave me an idea.
I call them canaryprofiles. Basically the same idea as creating fingerprints or initial seeds of a cold start engine. What you do is you create a bunch of accounts that are explicitly interested in certain topics and post specific content. Then you follow/unfollow them to set a flavor for your timeline. It helps kick the recommendation engine out of feedback loops, I was stuck getting recommend only Billie Eilish content for like 3 months. (I was experimenting with what happens when you follow nobody and it seemed to permafrost my cold start recommendations, surprisingly every single post on my TL was Billie Eilish).

Zoomers do this too with pods, I think they all sign onto the same account so it can't track them as effectively?
Jealous! I pay ARIN hundreds of dollars a year in RSA fees.

As a legacy address holder, how do you feel about RPKI?
Having taught programming to novices a little, I believe “if not” is clearer than “else”. Imagining “not” being prepended to the original conditional expression would be natural, especially in languages with “not X” construct (like Python), and it’s easy to forget that “else” is in fact archaic to non-programmer ears, slightly and possibly needlessly raising the barrier.

if (X) { doY(); }
if not /* X is implied */ { doZ(); }

In languages like Python it could be generalized to enable one to use “if not” with an expression as usual but omit the expression if it is the last branch of a conditional, thus getting rid of the “else” keyword while maintaining or arguably improving readability.

That said, there is no programming language that could entirely map to a spoken one, so perhaps it’s actually beneficial to shed any semblance of such mapping early-doors in the learning process.
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Not changed? I mean, those two screenshots kind of look similar, but are still totally different to me.
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Depends on the state & locality. Places like Virginia where having a radar detector is illegal (and the police have detector-detectors) and going 20mph over (32kph) or faster than 80mph (128kph)[0], gets you charged with reckless driving which is a criminal offense punishable by time in jail. So only the foolhardy speed there.

In next-door North Carolina, going 9mph over (14kph) will only get you insurance points not license points (the state tracks them separately) so many drivers limit themselves to that on the interstates, and sometimes 5mph over (8kph) inside city limits.

[0] Highway SH-130 outside Austin Texas has the fastest speed limit in the US at 85mph (136kph). So what is safe & legal there can get you placed in handcuffs in Virginia.
You don't need to subsidize cow milk, we don't in Australia and it's still $1/litre.
I don't know about the current situation but about 10 year ago, the TIs with their functional setup were _multiple_ orders of magnitude more powerful than their Casio competitors. You could chain an arbitrary amount of functions. With the Casio, when there was no special mask for your purpose, you've been out of luck.

Anyway, I still use my TI-84 Plus, meanwhile virtually on my smartphone using Wabbitemu [1].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Revsoft.Wa...

P.s. I would appreciate a comment on why people down-vote a message.
Not that the car has anything to do with the reaction time and eyesight.
The biggest thing is ACT/SAT approval. If that’s what you need, check out NumWorks[0]. It works on both and is completely open source (down to the schematics).

[0]: https://www.numworks.com/
The set of supported platforms and operating systems is nuts!
It's been so long since I've used Android. How is it done on the latest of those machines?
Reframe what you do as "upgrading legacy infrastructure" or "applying modern best practices to existing products", etc, and it makes more sense. Usually people don't need to build new things, they need to fix their old things. But you have to sell it the right way and throw some numbers at them so they realize, hey, this is actually a better idea (financially and speed-wise). Can't fall victim to sunk cost fallacy or end up with a bad system if you're starting from a working one.

You could probably make a career out of being "the optimization guy". Product isn't working well? Ask the optimization guy to take a look before somebody spends a million bucks trying to replace it.
I think jtanderson’s comment clarified the difference for me. Mustering intensity for me means being sincerely interested, so I actually wasn’t seeing the difference.

Thank you for the comment, learned something.
Try contacting Tiny / Andrew Wilkinson; you may be able to sell it.
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> MicroPython, as a language, is a complete reimplementation of Python

But there are plenty of differences between MicroPython and CPython [0]. Many of them (listed under “Syntax”, “Core language” and “Builtin types”) relate to the language itself rather than the standard library.

Not to mention that the baseline for those lists is CPython 3.4 - MicroPython is also missing most of the new features of CPython 3.5 - 3.9.

[0] https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/genrst/index.html
> When they do it by screwing over their users, yes.

I agree that screwing over your users is a bad thing, but I do think RH contribute a lot of time, money and effort in a way that benefits a larger Linux user base. Just by looking at Linux kernel contributions, RH are one of the largest companies contributing developer time.

> Introducing non-portable ways of doing things that were previously portable to non-Linux OSs.

I think SysVinit was going to be replaced sooner than later. There's a lot to be desired in a way that some systemd developers evangelized it, but the other major alternative (upstart) was also a Linuxism.

Even BSD systems are moving (or considering moving) away from it. From all the "standard" Unixisims, I think that's one of the parts that's aged the worst, and it was a matter of time before various operating systems (BSDs, Linux distros,...) replaced it.
The result which I saw, from John Ionaddis here https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf
"Across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27% (corrected 0.23%)"
...but I grant you that there is some uncertainty.
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That tendency to become cheaper over time is known as Kryder’s law and it’s held up well with some notable jolts like the 2014 floods in Thailand:

https://blog.dshr.org/2020/11/storage-media-update.html

I think you’re right on with the extremes - even outside of paid services I’ve seen that generally hold true where a small percentage of your users are responsible for most of your storage growth. Setting a generous base tier avoids a lot of micromanagement for people who are never going to be major consumers.
This isn't a good answer in the world of big tech and weak anti-trust.
I don’t think increase in money supply is the only factor that contributes to inflation. Its been a while, but I think inflation is caused by a combination of factors, including the availability of a currency, demand for that currency, availability of goods and services that can purchased using that currency, etc.

An increase in supply of the US dollar, may just be due to the increased demand for the currency, as well as increases in the availability/demand for goods and services (e.g., reduction in scarcity).
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Anecdote : I put in the three first books of the Stormlight Archive series and it showed me many fantasy books, comics & BD, and mangas, I already read (I'd say 60 to 70%). I don't know what it should output for things not inherently political.
Doesn’t the library of Congress in the US issue ISBN numbers for each book published. there must be a public listing of those.

After some looking, there are
Some private databases with millions of # but no official site.
Eg

https://isbndb.com/isbn-database
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It begs the question: did we search and find the answer of if-then-else, or did we find an answer that was sufficiently likeable and usable- but one of many possibilities? How do we know whether this choice was the global optimum vs a local one?

Is if-then-else the electron- a deep truth waiting to be discovered- or the gasoline powered car- an option we explored for decades among others options.
How do they do fork()?
> Most uni courses seem to involve writing a "toy" solution from scratch, which is seldom the case in professional programming.

Without writing a "toy" from scratch, one would never understand professional programming or codebases either. They wouldn't understand why they oftentimes poorly designed, full of bugs, etc. Tracing own "from scratch" steps, with self-reflection, is the best way to be prepared to "professional" programming. First, make and find mistakes yourself, only then you will be ready to find mistakes in, and improve on, other people's stuff.
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Yeah definitely more of a hustle than a Ponzi scheme. I would maybe call it a long slow bait and switch?
> Personally, I'd rather they clamped down harder on tailgating, poor lane discipline and uninsured drivers than on motorway speed limits.

There's some interesting facts (?) that I've learned on the topic of traffic safety over time: certainly the speed one has is directly proportional to how bad an accident will be should a crash (née "accident") occur because of the kinetic energy involved.†

However, the speed differential between different vehicles also has a correlation to the accident rate because some folks are going 'too fast' but others are going 'too slow'. I've heard this used as an argument for variable/dynamic speed limits which are changed on factors such as road conditions and visibility.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit#Variable_speed_lim...

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00014...

† Numberphile has an interesting video on the topic: if a blue car is doing 70 (units/hour) and manages to just stop before an obstacle, what would happen to an identical model/mass red car going 100? Even though the red car was going only 30% faster, at the point that the blue car managed to (just) stop, the red car would be going 70.

The energy scrubbed from a starting speed of 70 is 70^2, so 4900; but going at 100 you have 10'000 energy (100^2): so if both cars managed to scrub ~5000 worth of energy, the blue car stopped, but the red car still at 5000 worth of energy left—i.e., 70 units/hour of speed.‡

* https://kottke.org/18/02/why-speeding-is-so-dangerous

‡ If you had the same blue/red cars going 55 and 100, while the red car would been going 'only' twice as fast, it would have had three times the kinetic energy because of 55^2 versus 100^2.
Tailgating is my biggest hate while driving. The tailgating driver is way over confident that he can stop in time. Its me who will pay the price when he can't. (No I don't drive slowly and do drive in the correct lane when there is a choice.) I hope AVs will fix this.
I recently built an audiobook scrobbler for Android that automatically updates the status of books I read on GoodReads.

I'm very disappointed to see that they're killing their API. I'll be looking for an alternative.
We need to start taxing digital advertising heavily. All it creates are dark patterns.
Change takes time. English remains the dominant language for commerce and science, even after the fall of the British Empire.
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>Their testimony is given more weight not because of virtue of authority but by the familiarity and working relationships they enjoy in judicial system.

In the civilized parts of the world this is part of the law - not some "hey I know a judge therefor I am above the law" BS. If you are in a country that is as corrupt as you say it is at least mention which it is.
History section is clear:

ImportBot scrapes Amazon.com, matches product id with ISBN10 (which can be converted into ISBN13 without anything else IIRC), imports product as book.

Candle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/168298494X
I think accuracy is important. If an author isn't trustworthy or correct on this, then why should we listen to their other information in good faith?

I think it's not just new users. It's also new content/files. Existing users uploading more pictures can also generate revenue, right?
Just being cute.
In Britain (and the article is in a British paper), most banks don't charge fees for normal, consumer bank accounts.

They make the money in other ways, which is a different discussion, but it does mean people aren't used to paying for a bank account.
a) They've committed systematic and deliberate violations of human rights in Hong Kong and continue to do so

b) They have violated the agreement they committed to, to guarantee autonomy

"Defending Hong Kong"? They been violating all everyone's rights for many years!
The key difference is that all of the things you’ve listed are legal. Society allows them because the risk comes with some reward, and we find it tolerable to accept or mitigate that risk.

There are plenty of other activities like speeding where the rewards do not justify the risks, and the government has made laws to prevent that risk being taken. Unlicensed aviation, amateur gas boiler repair, knife-fighting...
No. ISBNs are issued by publishers, from delegated blocks, and there's no unified listing.

For books in the collections of large libraries (like the LoC) there will be a public catalogue entry with the ISBN attached, but they don't assign it.

There were also a lot of books published before ISBNs were created, and not every book has an ISBN attached even to this day.
I did a good bit of my high school programming classes in Pascal; only much later in my life do I realize how much it taught me. Kind of miss it, actually.
Why doesn't Rust adopt a running cheetah or similar to show that it is just as fast as Free Pascal?
What if there were 3 cases though? "Else" should exclude both of the preceding cases, but the phrasing of "If not" seems to imply it would only exclude the previous case
At least say which evidence so this doesn't turn into a reddit thread.
> > In the U.K. excess speed is the 10th most common cause of accidents

> That may be in part due to camera-based enforcement of the speed limits.

I can't lay my hands on it now, but there are studies measuring the effect on road casualties before and after camera installations. A lot of the time there's no difference.

Like any punishment/deterrent, people aren't caught often enough for this to work.

If you drive around for long enough in the UK, you'll notice that speeding is actually pretty common. However, it's not the case that everyone speeds everywhere, you're far more likely to catch someone speeding on the motorway or an NSL A road in the clear and dry than in a 20 outside a school. This is because most people are competent enough to regulate their speed appropriately for the environment. Sometimes it's riskier to drive at 20mph past a school than it is to do 90 on the motorway.

Of course there are people who drive dangerously around vulnerable people and in hazardous situations and these are the people who often end up contributing to the statistics. Those are the people enforcement needs to focus on.

> Also, road accidents kill quite a lot of people. If it's the 10th most common cause, that could still be enough to kill more people than many other things that we regulate.

The problem with this is that if we were serious about making the roads safer with the limited resources we have, we wouldn't spend it on catching people speeding. We'd spend it on stuff that actually makes a difference.
If Big Brother hadn't published 1984 would you even know how they really operate?

(this comment is a tribute to https://xkcd.com/966/ )
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I would suspect that Yevgeny Zamyatin would also have been privy to the plan. Aldous Huxley too.
x86 has CMOV, for Conditional MOVe, since the Pentium Pro, and of course there are tricks employed by compilers and low-level programmers to avoid the overhead of branches, like the `a = cond·b + !cond·c` idiom.
Doubt it. The banskters have been positioning for its demise for some time now, telegraphing their moves openly. The pheonix coin economist run was how long ago?

More recently I've heard a lot of talk of central banks starting to use a global currency based on SDRs, a sort of digital SDR coin... scary shit.
Marketing wise, it's better for the business to market with "unlimited" than creating a limit, even if it won't affect 90% of the users. For users, it creates a different feeling of freedom, even if you never use that freedom.
> People don't actually know or care about the semantics of their pages. Designers want pixel-perfect layouts because they care much more about what their page looks like than what it says, and non-designers had to use the same techniques as designers because browsers were asleep at the wheel in how they handled unstyled pages.

When showing what possibilities there are, they are used no matter by whom. For instance when I showed what is possible with inline svg in React everybody in the team bought into that eventually. Also designers are (in contrast to artists) all about creating things considering a lot of constraints. Most web designers know at least basic html so it's possible to design for and therefore work with reusable markups

To me XHTML failed because it was really painful to use (and still is). You forget one closing tag and everything fails. The amount of people using IDEs (or even XML editors) are still in the minority. On the other hand React proves that XML (JSX) can be used in a modern way. That's probably mostly due to the fact that it's not used in one big blob but modularized into more digestible pieces and the barrier to write custom functionality is really low
Thanks for your reply, it was really interesting and gave me some things to think about.

I agree that government intervention is not ideal, as government is also often dumb, evil or incompetent. But that's more our failure to set up a political system where only the best, skilled, most ethical, least selfish people can rise to the top. We are nowhere close.

Propaganda: I wasn't putting words in your mouth intentionally, I see your point though. It was a description of how your words felt to someone making a critism of capitalism, that for me to dare criticise I must be propaganda-ised.

I don't watch movies. I don't have a TV. I don't read newspapers. I read a lot but a broad spectrum of works from a variety of times.

I like your distinction between capitalism and corporatism, it's a great point. I wonder though: Corporations exist inside of capitalism, so isn't it a failure of capitalism to bring outrageous cooperations to heel?

I dislike your "fermeted" comment, you literally followed an accusation of fallacy from me to you, with a whole bunch of actually intentioned fallacy of your own?

Anyway, have a great day!
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