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2001 predicted we'd be permanently living in the moon with orbital space hotels two decades ago, and no one ever thought they were being unreasonable if we kept the same momentum as the 60s, so yes it's sad. But we have to take things for what they are and what spacex is doing is definitely progress.
Keep your f%@#g cat indoors - or at least in your yard. Cat's don't "deserve" to be outside wandering free and I sure as hell don't need them on my property terrorizing wildlife, tearing up my garden and shitting all over the place.

And no, you're kitty is not a "natural predator" rebalancing anything. It's a pet and as such should be kept under you're control.

Entitled "free roamer" cat owners are the worst - and breaking leash laws in just about every jurisdiction out there. I have zero problems trapping trespassing cats and turning them over to animal control. Not sure why people feel entitled to get a pass on this - it's BS.
Gotcha, but I guess the counter would be that you can't really know what someone else will be able to figure out. Some groundbreaking historical discoveries were made in quick succession by multiple people working independently; others weren't.
Ash Thorp has a course on HUD design as well:

https://www.learnsquared.com/courses/hud-design#
Yeah in some ways the Saturn program is the more amazing. Technology finally caught up to the amazing accomplishment of the Saturn rocket program, if that makes sense.
Funny bug :) I often prefix integers with a char, e.g. maybe "u12345" here, in places where I'm using integers as id to force a string conversion and avoid any code accidentally doing math on it.
No it's the scientists who are wrong!

If it's deemed safe it'll come, I assume it's only a matter of time, but you really can't rush these things (One fuckup anywhere in the world, and you bet Alex Jones will be on it straight away)
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$5 a month? Not a chance. Good luck getting 1000 people to pay that.
Cannot think of a similar story - that one was very unique.
Do you think sls development is less than what spacex is spending on starship?
Honestly, I think the RTS genre is too hidebound to the origins of the genre. Too focused on trees of units and factories that existed originally because of singleplayer campaigns and trickling out upgrades.

I mean, the current monster of the genre - SC2 - can trace many of its gameplay mechanics and units back to a game that came out in 1994, which was of course primarily designed for single-player gaming.

An RTS basically expects a player to learn multiple games with completely little intersectionality between them - an early-game, a mid-game, and a late-game, wherein you use completely different units and strategies. Given the fact that the designers have to figure out how to make the "core loop" fun in several completely different gameplay modes, and players have to learn all of them, is it any wonder that RTS isn't more popular?

I love the RTS genre - the combinations of base-building and unit command and creativity and intensity scratches all the right itches for me. But every RTS game I play feels like it's bogged down in far more complexity than the game really needed. For a while I had a lot of fun playing with the Cambrian explosion of simple RTS games on mobile because they don't feel the need to bolt on so many mechanics - they figure out what their core loop is and stick to it... but the mobile gaming world has been ruined by F2P mechanics.

I've been enjoying Zero-K lately, which does reduce some of the RPGishness that I think hurts the genre - no upgrading, no teching, no tech trees... you just plop a factory and you start building units. But its mechanics are still incredibly complicated, grown organically over a decade of experimenting within the genre of Total Annihilation-style RTS play. But even then, it's still very tied to Total Annihilation, another mid-'90s RTS game.

I'd love to see more first-class attention to the "core loop" of RTS games, but I'm worried the only people who are truly experimenting with the genre are the mobile developers, and the economy of mobile gaming is an ugly place.
Not OP but maybe they were thinking of this one: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.201912
It shouldn't be (given the 50 years) but NO ONE else has done anything close to it.
Didn't they do this in that movie armageddon? Hopefully space-x doesn't know something we don't.
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Starship. Super Heavy won't go to orbit.
I am so glad I can read something like this in public.

When I say stuff like this in job interviews, I get eye rolls and don't end up getting a job.

The industry is so far up its ass lately, no one even dare stating the facts in public. /rant
What textbooks did you read, and what's still on your list?
>I disagree about Chapel's cost. A 5 cost Chapel would lead to extraordinarily unbalanced games where a good starting hand basically sets you up to win.

It already has that. If you draw 2 coppers in your first hand (and thus five in the second or vice versa), you can start out with the awesome five-cost card and chapel.
”Oxford’s measurement showed that the batch was more potent than the Italian manufacturer had found, the documents show.”

The Italian manufacturer’s analysis was correct. Oxford’s was wrong. They decided to stick with it and got the regulator to approve it.

The fact that the more sensitive and selective PCR test result was ignored isn’t a good sign.

Someone should have followed up to confirm which test was correct.
Reminds me of Norm's use of the word when reciting a joke about Danny Devito (and Norm's a stickler for proper usage of words)
Interesting. How long ago did this happen?

This happened to me on an Amazon -> USPS package. I clicked the "still don't have it" button, clicked refund, and saw the money refunded to my card after about 2 days.
> At the dawn of IPv6, the idea was that you could upgrade an address to IPv6 by prepending a pair of colons, as in ::1.2.3.4

No, IPv6 explicitly rejected that idea at first. Most of the other IPng proposals did have a backwards compatibility mechanism like that. I'm still sore that the least backwards-compatible proposal was the one that won.

Later the IPv6 cabal admitted their mistake and published NAT64, but at that point it was too late to make it a mandatory required service offered by any default-route router. So now we have all of this crap about dual-stack hosts instead of simply being able to upgrade to IPv6 and trust that you will not lose any connectivity.

This is basically why, twenty years after it was standardized, IPv6 is still merely the "internet of cellphones" and no closer to replacing IPv4.

As usual, DJB saw all of this decades ahead of time:

https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
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The article is mostly based off the 1,000 pages of supporting documents Oxford released with their paper, no?
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Oh no, that's another shorthand that's different from all the others. A single number should be interpreted as a big-endian uint32, and so "1" should be "0.0.0.1". However, I can confirm that `ip` interprets it as "1.0.0.0", even though you should have to write "1.0" for that.

Ugh.
> Slow startup time for the first docker app you run each time you reboot, as it boots the linux VM.

This, and the other VM-related criticism, is true, but only on Mac & Windows. Running a Docker container on a native Linux system carries very little overhead.
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The Apollo program was indeed amazing. Government bureaucracy and mediocrity is responsible for 50 years of regression. What SpaceX is doing with Starship is also amazing on so many levels (Raptor engine, reusable, goal of Mars, etc).
Is the price a result of the cost to produce it, or is it price adjusted, reflecting the relative demand? Perhaps there's limited demand for a vaccine if the mixed results undermines confidence.

Also, it would be interesting to understand the global pricing. Due to market segmentation, there could be inconsistent local pricing among the manufacturers.
OK, but then how do you choose that deadline? If you don't hear back by then, fundamentally you are still taking a destructive action without any positive verification that the original request to do so was legitimate, which is still likely to be a bad experience for the real customer if you've been fooled by someone else.

I'm struggling to think of a situation when I'd want to follow that email-with-deadline pattern but didn't intend to complete the destructive action anyway, like closing all accounts because the service is shutting down, or notifying customers that you're changing business model and they need to switch to some alternative under your new terms first if they want to continue using your service.
> I always thought the plan was: lock down, wait until vaccine, get everyone vaccinated, then lift lock down.

"Lockdown" were always sold as in "flattening the curve, not "wait for a vaccine".
Well, there are gradations. Destroying a telecommunications hub via rapid unscheduled disassembly of a city street sends a different message than painting an Olympics party red. The goal of the Nashville bombing was likely not to instill terror on individuals fearing for their safety.
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I read when the original trades were shared online so the story is no surprise to me. But the links in the 'See also' section, especially 'Gudbrand on the Hill-side' made my day.
I watched said episode, and it does make you think.
Apparently, it is a thing in prairie Canada, where juneberries are grown "for wholesale processing, with some fresh market and you-pick sales."

https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2011/10/juneberries-they-go-w...
A MASSIVE 30 story building that can land vertically isn't a huge feat?
Correct. Here's a somewhat larger set from Western Australia, showing Down terminations roughly tracking with diagnoses: https://1v1d1e1lmiki1lgcvx32p49h8fe-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/...

From: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2017/08/17/down-syn...

In the US, only 2% of expecting mothers have amniocentesis or CVS tests, but of those with confirmed positives the termination rate is 75%: https://www.kcdsg.org/files/content/termination%20rate.pdf
I recently lost my trust in humanity to Covid. So many people are willfully ignorant, shamelessly dumb and maliciously defending the first position they took. So many people refuse to learn, unlearn and relearn anything after a certain age. Even friends who I held in high regards seem to stick to opinions based on misinformation that ignores every sense of reality. So many cults and subcults are holding humanity back.

I have not lost anyone to Covid yet. So for me personally, this is the biggest loss so far.
This...I love this answer. Resonates with quiet few of my experiences lately. Cheers Friend!
If you go far enough in the story, each main character can buy a warehouse to store cars in. The DLC that adds cars gives you the warehouse up front since it stores them there.
Maybe, but you could be a successful programming language designer and a hobbyist game developer. Depends how you define success. Making money at games is something very few do, but many have fun just for the creative outlet.
For serious competitive play, all players should have the same opening split, or get to choose 5/2 or 4/3. Chapel games tend to make this weakness obvious
1) First of all, skip the whataboutism regarding the CCP. It makes you a useful idiot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

2) Second, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is different than capitalism - it's communist colonialism. The CCP is using money from US capital markets to massively bribe foreign officials to sell out their countries, with projects that are not affordable and often not useful - called debt traps.

In the case of Africa, China is also positioning armies in some of those countries.

In countries with ports, it's having the host nation pay for future docking facilities for China's navy, which is the largest in the world by number of ships.

In the case of Greece and some other European countries, it's buying the largest ports and then telling the government to vote China's way in the UN, or else.

In the case of the Himalayan neighbors, it's providing financing while "leasing" vast areas of their countries, and encroaching on their head waters.

All of the above has already happened. It's a form of global colonialism without firing a shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcBQ148KPsg

The US' fear is that the BRI ports will be used to store container nuclear bombs, then one day the CCP will announce they have "mined" the world's largest ports.

Mao: "Hide our strength, bide our time."
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For golang I wrote this:

https://github.com/skx/remotehttp

I've found, and reported, a whole bunch of services which take user-supplied URLs and don't filter out access to localhost:8080/server-status, and similar local resources.

A common route to attacking these is to access the AWS metadata URL endpoint. Something at least the Google cloud prevents, by forcing the use of the `Metadata-Flavor: Google` header.
I did something like this in college:

pencil - can of bug spray - first aid kit - floor lamp

I only did it for an hour, and it was kind of fun. I think it makes for a great activity for college students, and those with a little bit of perseverance, might make something substantial of it.
The pattern you describe is very real. There’s also the hypothesis that some people actually get worse on anti-depressants. Normal people, that could have overcome depression with just enough time & counseling, becoming mentally ill & destroying their lives as a consequence of the drug itself.
Any bug you can learn something from is better than the alternative. :)

Thankfully, I caught this one while building the feature in the first place; I don’t imagine I’d have such fond memories of it if I’d had to recreate it from user reports!
Yeah, I think as time goes on the situation only improves. Apple's doing same-day delivering now, and Instacart is making that an option for more retailers.

But when Prime first came around, it was utterly amazing, as were the moves to next-day and same-day in some areas. There still isn't a one-stop place where I can buy baby wipes and coil packs on the same account, under the same membership plan, for free rapid delivery. That will take a while for someone to match.
> Mars will be a cash sink instead of a cash generator for some time to come

The wildcard for profit here is government. No doubt China and possibly Russia, EU and India will want to race for position when the see America claiming stake here.

I could see huge government funds from US and even allied countries coming through to support the development and get the fast claims.
All these boats getting 3D printed (also those mentioned in the article) are made from composites, primarily carbon fiber or fiberglass based composites.

Injection molding for plastic parts is easy and fast, however the current process it takes to make carbon fiber composites is highly energy intensive (one needs huge ovens), time consuming, expensive, and some approaches can even be highly labor intensive. This is also the reason why only the more expensive cars in the market have carbon fiber bodies as opposed to all cars/vehicles in the market.

An example of the process of carbon fiber construction today from Koenigsegg's cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=504I_hJDFck
Curious why does it need to wait so long to reorient? I thought it was going to crash and in last few hundred feet, it flipped! Can it orient straight - way up in the air like Falcon boosters?
I don’t think Qanon conspiracy theorists are capable of tying their own shoelaces, let alone knowing how to pick a good telecoms target, choosing an appropriate explosive and quantity, assembling a bomb, planning timing and logistics of the actual bombing, and completing it without getting caught by the FBI or stopped by local authorities with minimal collateral. Nothing about this says “dumbfuck theorist”. I’m just an armchair detective though. I’ll wait for the Netflix special (complete with composite characters and fake events).
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Its still possible that instead they are just hijacking the ip space. You could probably distinguish by running traceroute. Or doing something like curl https://186.2.163.219 --header "host: sci-hub.se" -k (which should not send an SNI that can be sniffed but still send the corect host header inside the encrypted http stream so the connection would work minus a cert failure, but DPI by the isp wouldnt be able to detect. If that curl fails they are probably doing ip address hijacking. If domain-fronting request works then they are probably sniffing SNI)
Uhh if Elon just complied and shut his Tesla plant down like Alameda County demanded I would be a bigger fan. Good thing he is going through the proper government channels this time. Just kidding FUCK THE FEDS LET THE CAPITALISTS RULE!
We've played a couple hundred games ourselves. Each player in our group has predictable styles -- one is the aggressor, one is the engine-economist, one is the creative, one is the flexible. I'm the card-chooser, we have around ~10 expansions in a box and I pick around 5 randomly, then I round out with fan picks or what we think it needs.

The game truly is deep. There are so many cards, numerous mechanics, counting your own and your opponent's cards, timing your green-buying, balancing deck control vs. buying high-value cards, etc.
Who appointed you the fun czar?
The "6x" is a number to ignore, because it's focused on one tiny part of the trip. If you can drive all day long with 1 stop, then the extra 25 minutes only makes you a few percent slower.
Somebody should use the latest AI libraries available to upscale all these to 4K and maybe even colorize them.
> Rhetoric like this works until it won't anymore.

Let it continue to work forever then.

> And that rhetoric breaks when innocent bystanders start getting killed in numbers. Line up enough grieving families in front of congress and congress will act, and then the new rhetoric will be "The car should be your mother."

Do I get to line up mine? Cars doing what idiots tell them to is remedied by punishing those idiots. Cars not doing what people need them to results in fatalities.

Bob is a big dude. He weighs 400 pounds and can only fit in the car by putting the seat all the way back. There are a million Bobs and you just prohibited any of them from ever using driver assist, which would have improved safety and saved lives.

Your car won't let you drive more than 10MPH over the speed limit. But then it thinks you're on a service road with a 30MPH speed limit when you're really on the highway with a 70MPH speed limit, forces you to decelerate to a speed 30MPH slower than the traffic flow, and you get rear-ended and cause a twelve car pile up with nine fatalities.

You're on a family vacation driving through a deserted area in the middle of nowhere and stop to stretch your legs. When you get back in the car, some sensor has failed and the vehicle's computer won't let you put the vehicle back into motion again, but there is no wireless coverage or anyone else around, so you and your family die in the wilderness.

You need to drive your car the wrong way down a one way street because you need to get to a hospital and the other road is blocked, or you're currently impeding a fire truck answering an emergency call, or you need to get away from a forest fire. The computer refuses.

"I can't let you do that, Dave." -> People die.
There's probably an analogy here in cost of task switching. Switch too much and one finds themselves with too many tasks and too little time. Switch too little and the doings or learnings may become monotonous. As with most things good, it takes skill to play it well.
Tracking potential and waste of network and DNS server resources.
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I think if I could “do it all over” it wouldn’t be any particular life choices I’d make differently, but to seek mental health treatment earlier on. I learned only recently that I suffer from depression, and I feel if I would have learned that earlier, I could have/would have understood myself a lot better. I don’t know if that would have changed my decisions, but I can tell you just knowing that information has change my life.
I can't help but notice that your comment ironically continues the recursion chain, and that mine now does as well.
They need an engineering focused and driven CEO and not a bean counter. They need someone that will say to wall street “Hey, I am going to focus on doing something new and revolutionary that will pay off in the long term, but might hurt profits for a few years. If you do not like it then sell the stock.” That CEO will need a board of the same mind to make it work. There is not a quick fix here, however there is a company of very talented people that if given the right leadership can drive new outcomes. Remember, Dr. Su at AMD did exactly this.
That’s cool! How would the major companies reverse engineer these chips?
When supercooled they’re a bit more dense than that. But as the sibling comment said, most 30 story buildings aren’t filled with water.
But the 73m -> 500m is still true, right?
It's never too late. I was drowning in debt a few years ago, in a bad career, and I was older than 40 [actual age undisclosed]. I don't have a solid retirement, but I'm now doing well and have some peace in my life.

My one life advice: Don't search for greatness, search for peace.
If you care about that kind of guarantee you might want to keep a connection open and stream new updates.
I can't believe you willingly used faulty RAM for a year. It could have silently corrupted an important file.
Isn't the current government bureaucracy paying for starship development?
Issue 63 of Alpinist magazine had a climbing history of Nanda Devi, that I recall included some discussion of the nuclear device: https://shop.holpublications.com/products/alpinist-magazine-...
That one was wonderful. C programmers would stop at the mention of '%' and go "aha!", but no!
The nice thing about the mRNA vaccines is that while that tech hasn't been used in an approved vaccine before, it has been used in other treatments, and there's no real mechanism for there to be long term side effects. The vaccine and the proteins it causes to be produced are only in your system for a limited time period. Long term side effects are more of a concern for medications that are taken on an ongoing basis.

Currently if I had the choice I'd go for the Pfizer vaccine hands down, given the superior efficacy in testing. (That said, beggars can't be choosers, so I'd take any approved vaccine I could get...)
Yes. Example small app I created using it:
Digital Clock created in FreePascal / Lazarus:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2017/04/digital-clock-created-in...
Is it possible to run your IDE within these docker environments? I'd love to set up a do it all docker container for the front end devs at my work.
What would you characterize it as? Would execution work better? It definitely wasn't an accident, nor was it self-defense. Literally over $20, all the turmoil that followed, this guys life, everything this ignited shows that one life is worth more than a measly $20, the fact that it's caused billions of police dollars to be re-directed says he's at least worth all those billions of dollars that WERE earmarked for cops, and now will go to mental health, social workers, and others to deal with less dangerous mental health issues. As well as hopefully more/better training on what is acceptable and what is not.
Probably because most of the world has a different definition.