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> Programming a library referencing an RFC seems kind, the rules are already there.

Depends.

Is there a reference implementation? A format/protocol validator? An interoperability matrix? What's the ratio of SHOULDs and MAYs to REQUIREDs, SHALLs, and MUSTs? Does the RFC reference other RFCs? What are the answers to these questions regarding those?

I mean, I wouldn't ever describe the task of implementing a SOAP[0] or WebDAV[1] library as 'kind'.

Oh, and if you're working at a sufficiently large org, be prepared to battle it out with a competing internal implementation for the coveted position of 'company standard'.

Note that you (or your boss) may not actually want to win that battle, as internal customers will make all sorts of unreasonable demands[2], and implementing them all will cut into your real work and negatively affect your evaluations and career advancement. Also, refusing to implement those requests will get you labelled as "not a team player" and negatively affect your evaluations and career advancement.

Fun times!

[0] https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/s-stands-for-sim...

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/tobyS/webdav-the-good-the-...

[2] https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-17
Some people see this as corruption, but the correct way to see this is as an opportunity to get rich people to give money to everyone else.

When rich people are trying to give away money, we should try to direct that money to good causes. We have an opportunity to do that here.

What would you prefer: that rich people give away money, or that they keep all of it to themselves? If they want to give it away we should certainly be interested in how to direct it. If they keep it to themselves, nobody benefits except them.
Right, the projected rate is effectively the super-bulk discounted rate if you buy 10 launches worth of cargo at once and actually fill it to max capacity whenever a launch window is open. I don’t think the individual flight rate would be anywhere close to $50/kg for the vast majority of customers.

The more relevant number is the all-in immediate price per launch, the rate where one could simply wire the money and SpaceX would launch next week, divided by the actual thing(s) launched, which will weigh some intermediate amount. And compare that to the same for the other rockets.
Tbh it's very hard on the eyes.
Portal was made as full game, tech demo was earlier Narbacular Drop.

(personally I think Portal is a great game, but obviously it won't satisfy hardcore puzzle-solvers. however I don't think every game have to be about tricky puzzles)
but who do you retaliate against? Cyber-attack is harder to attribute than a missile launch
What specifically is entitled about expecting a properly-working game on the platform said game is released on, especially the consoles where not having to waste time and effort to "debug, alter, or otherwise hack games" is one of their selling points?
I'm not sure why this matters when we're on a thread about refunds on said "7 year old PC".
1. It is not data share, it is advertising identifier (idfa) you will still have access to (idfv) vendor identifier.

2. Apple apps are not exempt. (Even weather app is asking for location permission after permission change about location, this is no different)

3. Yeah apple and google are after data from other applications, applications you installed, how much you are using, basically everything. Amount of idfa provides is unbelievable.
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Vanilla webview on android 10:

The webpage at https://sqwok.im/ could not be loaded because: net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED
mRNA might not pan out for more general purposes (well, specialized for each use case) but it seems kind of crazy that the most significant pandemic, social upheaval, and economic crisis the world has known in 100 years could also lead to some of the most significant advances in medical science & therefore quality of & length of life as well.

I'm not trying to downplay the health issues or impact of COVID, just saying that it has the potential for one heck of a silver lining. Not least of which is that even if other mRNA uses aren't forthcoming, we're incredibly more prepared to fight another pandemic, especially other Corona strains, that could be more harmful.
That is exactly what I thought too. As things go cheap, they become encumbered with their local version of « turd ». We are now sending dozens of thousands of microsatellites, which, in 20 years, may well be considered as Earth’s manure floating around.

I wonder if the market or human incentives will increase some other variables which will make it just as inaccessible to the lowly (as it should - Even Elon Musk shouldn’t be able to send non-necessary stuff up in low orbit), such as: Increasing testing requirements to ensure it does ejects itself away from the LEO, or increasing legal authorizations required.

On the other hand, assuming we could indeed send our manure for $1400/kg, would it be the most reasonable way to get rid of radioactive waste? It sounds like a Simpsons episode, but the cost seems so low that it sounds like the next step.
Your question boils down to whether or not the quantum circuit that entangles the qubits works correctly. You can simply test the reliability of the quantum circuit by running it multiple times and checking that the outcomes behave as you expect. For example, if your circuit is supposed to generate the entagled pair [00 or 11 with equal probability] you would expect measurements to either be 00 or 11 and never 01 or 10.
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I wonder if x86 really is inherently inefficient, or if it could get there given enough investment (i.e. not just put a 2nd tier team on it for a few months but really push it with major resources). It feels like they just did not want to bother, not that it was impossible.
No, you have to transmit every time you want to transmit.

When measuring one particle of an entangled pair and you get say "spin up", you know immediately that if someone measures the other particle (with the same measurement settings) they'll get "spin down", and vice versa.

The chance that you get "spin up" or "spin down" is 50/50 and, as far as we know, cannot be affected or determined in advance.

So, on the receiving end, they measure some random combination of "spin up" and "spin down". Without anything else, this information is for all intents and purposes noise.

What you can do however, is to send a message using regular means with what you measured: "up, down, down, up, down". Ok, at least now they can check that what they got was the exact opposite. However that still doesn't tell them anything.

So instead what you do is that you change the measurement settings, and send via regular means not just your measurement results but also your measurement settings. So you'll send "H left, V down, V up, H left, H right". The recipient will then take the measurement settings (H or V) and measure the entangled particles in the same way you did, and then note down that they get the opposite.

Note now that you suddenly got a way to communicate some actual information. By agreeing in advance that a Vertical measurement means 0 and a Horizontal measurement means 1, you can send information to the recipient.

However also note that you had to make a measurement of your particles and then send the results using regular means, limited by the speed of light. So why bother with this complicated setup? Why not just send the data without all this entangled stuff?

And indeed, for just sending plain messages it makes no sense to use entangled pairs.

However as I noted in my other post, the inability to clone entangled states means an eavesdropper can be detected using the entangled setup.
The log scale and the orgin at 0 definitely don't help the readability here...
Ah, but here at $startup we want team players who are fully bought in to our vision.
I get out of macos exactly what I needed the most from linux: a powerful unix shell.

I can use bash or other shells in macos and it's perfect. I rely heavily on the command line when developing, but I also appreciate a nice UI and operating system interface with great graphics drivers.
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How come in all the companies I worked for (in NY, not SV) I never ever was told what percentage of equity I had, and was just given a magic number. 25K units. 10K units. 100K units. Common shares. 4 year vest.

I've had fairly senior roles so reading all the articles about how people can get screwed reminds me that I'm getting screwed, in a completely different way though and probably a lot more simple a way.
I share your sentiment in opposing such efforts, but I think they're actually highly effective. Right-wing populism would have done much better were it not for the extreme censorship deployed against it. Most people have never even heard the best arguments for right-wing positions because they are so actively suppressed.
Thanks, that's very comprehensive.

I wish I didn't have to wait until Fall 2021 to start studying at OMSCS. If I prepared early enough, I probably would have been studying there already. I also wish the program could be accelerated, like at WGU. 2-3 years seems far compared to 3 months.

Given that we both finished the program in 3 months, I suspect that we have similar skill-level and study habits. Do you find courses at OMSCS to be as difficult as others claim? How much time do you study in a given week?

I didn't receive any scholarship at WGU. I didn't know they were so easy to get. How much was it, $500/term?

Email me, I'd like to stay in touch.
My favorite gravity explanation video:

https://youtu.be/wrwgIjBUYVc
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Referring to human beings as "turd generators" is truly fantastic.
> Some other people highlight this mentality as extremely dangerous from a defense standpoint.

Often the answer this group offers is yet another third party solution that is popular at the time. Then they give these tools the high level of permissions they need to function. Cycle repeats.
I'm really curious what's going to happen to SolarWinds the company, if anything, because of all this.
The government of your country will need to approve, since they are covering the damage your turd could make to some other satellite.

Also, you can send the turd alone, you need to attach it to a launcher, and have a deployment mechanism. You are looking at a few thousands $ minimum regardless of the weight.
If he's so principled, why didn't he propose this bill during a time where he could actually see it walked through the different committees and maybe have a chance at getting to the Senate?
I listened to a lecture not too long ago about the perception of coincidence in the context of large, seemingly random environments, for example repeatedly seeing the same person in a busy city shopping district or encountering unexpected traffic patterns. This sort of goes to why humans are so bad at seeing patterns in the ”random” numbers generated by computers. Simply put, coincidence is generally our inability to make sense of the more complex underlying mathematical relationships, and so our dumb monkey brains attempt to fit together information that may not really have any logical commonality.
Aside: why on earth would you use a picture of a V2 launch for this site?
Echoing what bilbo0 said.

Also, you’re not factoring in the reputational and legal risk to those bribed, and the fact that the rich try to get it with the specific intent to ramp up their riskier activities once they get it, which will allow them to do valuable things in a disproportionately valuable time frame.
The problem with analog encodings is that it often doesn't scale at all - the energy required to measure your analog state precisely enough to send large numbers of bits becomes too impractical.
Thanks Jean, yes as someone who have suffer from this kind of war, everything is never black and white....
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I agree and that framing resonates much more strongly with me. It is more powerful to say that “I don’t want to see that" than insinuate that it is a collective problem, or perhaps a problem for other inferior people, eg halfwit republicans or some such.
High 5
If you're going to use more than 3 of their offerings, it starts to get cheaper going with the all products pack or IntelliJ ultimate is cheaper than going with 2 tools. But you should note that IntelliJ doesn't include every other products as plugins such as AppCode.
This is precisely the reason why I'm against moving everything to the cloud. Find your way into AWS or Azure and you will have everything on a silver platter.
NSA back doors are different. Yes, there’s a MAD component but, when you weaponize an independent software vendor, this becomes asymmetric warfare.

Its presence manifests a different set of skills. Exploitation is not necessary. Presence itself is enough of a warning.

It says “we’re equal now. We can be in your turf, sleep for a long time and even use your own companies as launch pads”.
Oh man. Don’t give them any ideas.
My partner, a biochemist, has mentioned the potential possibility of RNA viruses causing the RNA of the vaccine to stabilize as some sort of DNA structure. Normally RNA is quickly broken down by RNase, but apparently RNA viruses have a mechanism to defend against this, that it's possible to imagine having an interaction with an RNA vaccine.

I don't know anything about biochemistry, and I'm aware that the above is just remote speculation. It is meant as an example of food for thought. But I do wonder when a whole field of scientists state "there is no possibility of unexpected long-term side effects" to a therapeutic tool that has never been used at anything resembling this scale.

Would love to hear more experts discuss why this is considered sufficiently long-term safe to make the decision of vaccinating a billion people after nine months of testing. Am I missing something, or is it just a question of the precautionary principle in this case being considered too costly?
Wow, that sent me down a short rabbit-hole of listening to Jupiter [0] [1] and other space radio emissions [2].

Makes me wonder if these sounds were ever remixed into music? Would certainly be an interesting concept along the lines of the German Space Night TV program.

[0] https://youtu.be/slE2i0O0pDY

[1] https://vimeo.com/173638603

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/features/halloween_soun...
Almost everyone has lost personal information to such hacks at some point or the other. Critical infrastructure (e.g. hospital systems) has been held for ransom. National elections have been swayed by state-sponsored actors. Companies have lost plenty of IP to foreign competitors and governments.

They are already weaponized, and have been for a while. The time to start taking information security seriously was 15 years ago.
Asset forfeitures are "done by cops", but the laws giving them power are written and passed by politicians and directed by attorneys.
Trash is full of valuable materials! Right now it may not be economical to recover those, but I would be surprised if we aren't mining our landfills in the next 100 years. That said, the CO2 emissions from launching anything non-essential into orbit are huge, I'd wait until we have a space elevator to (intentionally) throw trash into space.
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I dunno if environmentalists are going to want to send all our trash into LEO
I find it ironic, that in a nation that complains so bitterly about its healthcare system and the associated costs of care, there are so many willing to exponentially increase the costs of an item just because people need it and some can afford it.

Your approach baffles me.
Is Matrix/Riot/Element related to Cerulean Studios that built Trillian for Instant Messaging?

(Because I need to be a bit more confused!)

> Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP.

> Element is a new type of messaging app. You choose where your messages are stored, putting you in control of your data. It gives you access to the Matrix open network, so you can talk to anyone.

> Cerulean Studios was officially founded in 2000,
the same year Trillian started its long journey as an interoperable instant messaging client.

> Trillian[0] is modern and secure
instant messaging.

> Cerulean: a highly experimental new microblogging app for Matrix

[0] https://trillian.im/
Nice charts !

I was a bit sad not to find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_(rocket_family) in the list ! I'm really not expert enough into space race matters to know if it's relevant, or if the tiny french LEO platform would be worth charting ?
Yes I remember him proposing that; as I recall, the quid pro quo was a concomitant permanent abolition of the estate tax, which would have a sweet deal for the Trump dynasty.
Are these numbers inflation adjusted? The difference would be far more dramatic if not.
Counter-drones, obviously. One who has the most drones (most money) will win.
It certainly was for Witcher 3; best $15 I ever spent, 4 years after release with both DLCs. Highly recommend Witcher 3; I loved it!
Given the behaviour outlined in the post, I'm not sure if that is the population they were trying to cater to - and if it was, it doesn't look like they tried very hard.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25461954

From yesterday:

> "We have no indication of this," company President Brad Smith told New York Times reporter Nicole Perlroth. Perlroth said the company stood by a statement it issued on Sunday saying it had no indication of a vulnerability in any Microsoft product or cloud service in its investigations of the hacking campaign."
Given these insanely cheap prices, I have to wonder about the viability of sending your own microsatellites into space to create your own personal communications cluster.

I don't know enough to know what all would be required, how / if you could communicate with other networks, etc., but even just having your own personal LEO satellite-based communications network seems relatively plausible based on these launch costs and piggybacking on other, larger launches.
Based on all the socialist rhetoric I often see these days, I suspect the serious answer from the kind of person you would be having this discussion with, would be "and that's why it needs to not be a choice". Under the "billionaires should be illegal" plans from the likes of Bernie and AOC, people like Brian Chesky and Ron Conway should have had all their wealth taken from them long before they got to this point.
I can't stand stuff like that. There's no way the actual negative externality of a small bag of trash is $2. If I lived in a place with a ridiculous rule like that, I would be more inclined to protest the rule by dumping illegally than going along with it.

Trash disposal here is great; free unlimited household trash disposal if you drive it to a dump, with only larger things like tires and mattresses costing money (but a very reasonable amount, like $2/tire).
Not diminishing the technology advancement that SpaceX has been pushing but are these prices profitable? Or is it similar to the Tesla strategy which is to keep margin minimal (even negative) at the benefit of breaking into the market?
I have to disagree with this, I really don’t think that Apple is a competitor here.

The M1 chip is undoubtably a remarkable piece of engineering. But it quite clear that Apple are never going to sell it standalone. It also seems extremely unlikely that Apple are going to get back into the server game again.

Apple sell high markup, low volume (relatively) products. Data centre severs are the opposite, and Apple have stated quite explicitly they’re not interested in building anything that isn’t a high margin, luxury, product.

In the consumer space, I can see Apple taking more market share. But again, the vast majority of PC are either business machines, or low margin consumer machines. Both markets that Apple doesn’t seem to be that interested in diving into (their enterprise support is crap, and see above regarding low margin goods for the consumer market).

In all I must disagree with this statement

> So it seems to me that Apple is perfectly aligned to take a large part of the market

Not because Apple doesn’t have the technical chops to do it. But because they just aren’t interested in that market.

As such I think AMD, and other ARM manufacturers have everything to play for, and no need to worry about Apple.
I mean if you own the game it’s £5 to try it but it’s decently playable on ultra settings. Resolution is capped to 1080p though. Input lag is not hugely noticeable but I wouldn’t be playing a competitively on it.
Being a crusty veteran of CP2020; The only real thing tying the game to the TTRPG is the story and general lore (the entire main story is a continuation of the TTRPG lore).

Mechanically they are vastly different, with 2077 abandoning 99% of the mechanics and systems of the TTRPG to fit in as a modern video game. Nothing to be hanstrung by there.

Mechanically it's an open world looter shooter with tacked on crafting mechanics with a cyberpunk theme, literally par for the course for any modern game like this.
> I'll admit I'm actually totally confused as to how that even works

I subbed for a few months and have never played CP2077 but here's the high level overview:

You buy games on Steam/Epic/Ubisoft game store as normal.

In the GeForce Now client, you pick the game you want to play (and on which storefront). When you "launch" it, NVidia spins up a VM, configuring it to launch the storefront you selected with your game, and connects a remote stream to your local client. You sign into Steam/Epic/Ubisoft (usually only needed the first time per storefront), and you "install" the game and play it.

It works pretty well. If you don't have cutting edge hardware and don't mind a few ms of latency, it's a pretty good deal.

Only caveat is that I would not use it to play shooters that require quick reflexes.
That might be true for a tech-competent company with a well-staffed security team, but for many companies and for individual data, I'd trust Amazon and Microsoft to secure my data more than I'd trust myself.
So tell her what it is :)

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You've hit the nail on the head. This is what's called the measurement problem in quantum mechanics and it's arguably the biggest open question in foundational quantum theory. Nobody knows what a measurement actually is nor does anyone know what happens during a measurement.

There are some modified versions of QM that tries to place this on a more rigorous footing, but none of them have convinced everyone that they do. My personal favorite is the many world's approach that in many ways is simpler than traditional QM because it says that there's no such thing as a measurement. Instead, when you think you're measuring something what you're really doing is entangling yourself with the system you're measuring which means that your state is no longer separate from the state of the system. There's a part of you that sees each outcome.

This is actually already how microscopic systems work: if two particles collide and get entangled, the state of each particle sort of splits in two. The only thing that MWI says is that this dynamics also applies to macroscopic objects.
>Increasing testing requirements to ensure it does ejects itself away from the LEO

You actually specifically want things to go to LEO before they die; when they're sufficiently low, atmospheric drag takes care of them quickly.

I agree with the overall direction of your point-that we need to be careful about our space junk-though :)