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The article says that by adding heat to raw materials such as carbon dioxide and some catalyst they can produce jet fuel. Which can be burned to produce carbon dioxide and more heat.

I'm glad to know that according to this article's author they have invented a perpetual motion machine that generates free energy.

I would however, prefer to read an article by someone who understands basic thermodynamics and feels like explaining this to an audience who is assumed to also understand basic thermodynamics. Presumably there is an input of energy (other than heat) which is the most significant part of generating jet fuel -- but unless I overlooked something, the article doesn't mention it.
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The game is great I love it. The graphics are amazing, never enjoyed pixels so much.
There is an amazing depth in the storytelling and in the universe conveyed. The occasional bugs only make the game more fun. I consider myself lucky to have witness a few I'm sure many people won't be able to see them when in a few weeks most bugs will be already fixed.
Lots of comments in this thread talk about the secrecy culture at Apple, as if it's an outlier in tech.

We still don't know how Glacier works.
China is an insecure authoritarian nation that desperately wants to be accepted, and seen as a legitimate, first world superpower. However their actions have made it such that for generations, rational individuals will always second-guess everything they do.

“...well yeah but, it’s China!”

It’s unfortunate but How often do we see comments like that? China has been such a brutal, oppressive nation that it’s really hard to overlook, and accept at face value anything that comes out of it.
People's comments are real, and CCP's manipulation, too, is real.

Mr. Ma famously claimed that 996 is a blessing of fortune [1], despite the global outcry on 996, Jack was untouched almost entirely in the media and online circle. He probably was deemed a member of the entrepreneur class, which cannot be unethical I guess?

Jack said that he is not interested in money on CCTV (the national TV station) [2], a rather hypocritical statement.

He claimed that Chinese banking system works as pawnshop, while at the same time his Ant works like "payday loan". He claimed that Chinese financial system is not innovative enough, while Ant is repeating the same gambling practiced 10 years ago.

Jack joked that AI is Alibaba Intelligence in front of Elon Musk. Universally ridiculed in China.

Jack was a close friend of actress Zhao Wei was caught in camera of close interchanges, (Google 马云 赵薇) Mrs Zhao also participate Ant IPO through her mother. She was banned from security market for misconduct [3]. After that, Jack said they were not close at all [4].

There are plenty more. Probably most were censored already. These are just the most brazen ones I suppose.

Remember that Chinese were indoctrinated through Communism ideology. Mr. Ma can even appear in public is itself a proof that he is under the protection of CCP while he is still useful.

An ordinary citizen, showing these behaviors, would have to worry about their personal safety at all times; and would be mocked everyday online. Not for Mr. Jack Ma though.

Now let's see how far CCP wants to expose Mr. Jack Ma to the people's resentment...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/jack-ma-996-china/in...

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oVi5EGbZy1A

[3] http://www.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2018-04/16/c_129851599.htm

https://3g.163.com/dy/article/ED813TL60542805D.html?spss=ada...

[4] https://m.sohu.com/a/209719774_583509/?pvid=000115_3w_a
I wish they just revised the 13" version they already make so everything (power, display xfer) worked over a single usb-c cable. Bonus if it also doubles as an android tablet.
Someone needs to produce an 18/36 game, in which rival minicomputer vendors attempt to build hardware and software value networks. Instead of terrain, incumbent mainframe value networks provide a difficulty landscape...
At some point one is gonna get timing right or the act right. It seems to me chinese government has got their act right.
It's not as if God likes to share the lime lite. Pretty sure orginized religion invented monopoly of values and opinions.
I feel kind of frustration about the pricing, what price makes sense to you?
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How could this look like ? Can you elaborate ?
This particular overflow is pretty famous as a bug, but it's always annoyed me. If you have a 32 bit address space and use a 32 bit integer, the only way this would reasonably overflow is if you have a single array of sorted bytes consuming half or more of the address space. Surely there must be a better data structure to use when you're keeping track of sorted bytes filling that much memory. For instance an array of 256 integers can contain the exact same information consuming only a tiny fraction of the space.

As soon as your array is storing objects that are 2 bytes or larger, you can't overflow the unsigned integer any more. The same applies for a 64 bit address and 64 bit integers. Never mind that most 64 bit hardware in existence is actually limited to a 48 bit address space, in which case the bug CAN NOT be exercised even with signed integers.
There is a huge Chinese diaspora in the US with family members who still live in China. They are the source of information that most in the US rely on more than news articles.
“Too long” is relative.

A few major exchange attacks seem like they could degrade communications in an area for 6-12mos.

That’s concerning considering the potential for conflict in 1-3.
It doesn't work because your changes conflict? How would anything else handle out of order modifications to files that cannot be resolved automatically? There will always been a requirement to do this manually - otherwise the VCS would be able to program for you (understand what is right/wrong).
In maps also have this functions so that I dont see arguments to change it
An old ColorMunki projector calibrator connected by usb and attached to the screen with a zip tie. I have a python script that polls it when the screen goes to sleep or when I request a re-calibration using redshift.

It used to be automatic but it's not stable because there's only one point of measure. If I stood up and cast a shadow on the screen it decided that the whole room has gone dark and dimmed the screen to be invisible.

The only reason why I prefer that over doing it manually is the white point balance. It beats sitting around with a piece of white paper eyeballing it to match white on the screen.
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Sounds like what an
AI would say.
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I think what you want is more than just an "aggregator machine". "Aggregating humans".

What about magazines? There are also annual or bi-annual (printed) publications. And even books about certain topics that might interest you further. Maybe to "easy you into" this idea away from daily news, a subscription to something like the Economist would be useful? (but I personally enjoy even longer cycles more, weekly is too often.)

"Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old" was posted here a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25361224 People there also discuss magazines like "Delayed Gratification" (mixed reviews) and Lapham's Quarterly (fans): https://www.slow-journalism.com/ ( on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200573 )
The M1 Mac Mini will also run much cooler and be more stable.
When you talk about China, are you talking about China as a country, or the Chinese government, or its people?

If you are disgusted by some of the things the government did, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to specify that?

The Trump administration is absolutely a disaster and “didn’t do anything warrant a positive article,” but I wouldn’t call the U.S. names because of the government.
I guess we'll see whether those people spouting "I have nothing to hide" really mean it.
Who's going to provide the most successfull data collection platform (Android, etc.) for CIA/NSA? Not only people around the world carry a device with a mic and a gps tracker, they voluntarily and with enthusiasm report all their whereabouts. They in fact compete with each other about who can provide a better and more detailed timeline of their life. This is better than if everyone had a gps chip implanted in them. If anything, the US will be super careful to not disrupt Google and Facebook too much.
after osmand i wanted to use maps.me and understand that this pr. is really know what client wants
I used to have a .txt file full of - options for google back in 2009 or so.

Then Google started ignoring more and more of what I searched for and they also started blocking the worst offenders so I forgot about it.

These days I mostly use DuckDuckGo for my programming searches.
Not sure if this is a reference to Charles Stross's Laundry series (whose protagonist is named Bob and works at GCHQ as an occult computer scientist) or if just a coincidence.

Recommended reading either way!
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> Google has begun to replace many search results with answers directly from them

> Companies like Pinterest are parasitic

Surely you mean companies like Google are parasitic?
> wouldn’t such knowledge spread quickly and become common knowledge

How to lose weight is open knowledge, but that doesn't make it easier, doubly so if you are also fighting other battles. Sometimes there is a solution, but it's just not attainable for everyone.

> are there any real life hacks that are not obvious that result in significant quality of life improvements?

I didn't want to make this post about my own lifestyle, but it might qualify as an answer:

1. I reduced my expenses. You don't need to earn the money you don't spend. I've always been frugal, but I recently took more drastic steps with point #2 in mind. For instance, I cut my rent by 42% by moving to the edge of the city into an older apartment. Well, actually 30% because I have a garage - a lifelong dream of mine.

2. I went freelance to have more control on how much time I sell. I didn't think this was possible, until a contractor at my old job said he took 3 month vacations between contracts. The more you earn and the less you spend, the longer you can go between contracts. At the average rate [1], I could cover my expenses in 3 months. The 4th month pays for a nice trip.

3. Decouple your income from your time. I built a website, and it grew enough to pay the bills. Now I live from it. I spend 20-30 hours a month on it (though it requires about 10). This was a stroke of luck. I couldn't reproduce that if you asked me.

That's about it. I'm well aware that this could only happen in specific conditions with a healthy amount of arbitrary luck. However, it did result in significant quality of life improvements. Anyone can appreciate the value of having so much free time. It's only a matter of using it well.

I don't know if there's any wisdom to extract from this, but I hope it helps.

[1] https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/freelance-developer-rate
If you're assessing the Windows and Lenovo combo against the benchmark of "Apple-like" experience, then of course you're going to be disappointed, because you can never be as Apple-like as the real thing.

What the author has forgotten is that Apple have built one vision of personal computing, but that's not necessarily a perfect vision or best experience for all people.

People moving in the opposite direction might have similar complaints about lack of hardware options, form factors, backwards compatibility, ecosystem lock in, OS inflexibility, etc. and forget that that's not what Apple is optimising for.

That said, I really wish Microsoft would tackle some of the obvious things. Settings vs. Control Panel is embarassing. I don't hold out hope, given Windows doesn't seem to be a priority for them.
And what is extreme propaganda? Is the Uyghur genocide propaganda? Is the Murder of Tibetans, aggression against Taiwan, imprisonment of journalists, propaganda?

Show me American propaganda that does not have a strong correlation of truth, and I’ll show you concentration camps and disappeared citizens. When was the last time the U.S. government put a doctor in prison for trying to warn others about a deadly virus?

No matter the corruption of America, its corporatacracy and greed, no matter the propaganda of its politicians, nothing in the developed western world can hold a candle to the CURRENT genocide of China.
I’m sure you can get it alone somehow. The whole package is useful though, whether through TortoiseSVN or TortoiseGit.
Not sure, just read about it somewhere.
That seems like just a fancier way of expressing TWIV's "we can't possibly know anything without lab experiments that establish the exact mechanisms, so we should do nothing" philosophy.

The undeniable fact is that this variant has successfully replaced other already highly prevalent variants. That needs to be explained somehow.

Could it be a founder effect? No.

Could it be random chance? No. Of course a stochastic process could converge like this even with no selective advantage eventually. But the change has been too fast and too consistent in this case.

Could it be a super-spreading event? No. The change has been continuous, and a single event would cause just a step-change in relative prevalance.

Could it be the new variant being more transmissive, or having another similar selective advantage? Yes.

Could it be an unspecified emergent behavior? I guess it could. But how are we supposed to reason about something that vague? We have a simple explanation that's consistent with the known facts, I feel that anyone proposing that it's just emergent behavior should be at least a little bit more specific.
You only say that because you are desperate to believe there's more to politics than a villainous will to power
That is just factually incorrect. For the recent years, Western reporters trended to report negatively about tech companies and China.
Some games used it as well. Goldeneye for instance mainly runs out of a region that dynamically mirrors the cartridge to RAM, just like any other virtual memory scheme.
The author seems to be looking around at all the humans around him and asking, why can’t you all act just like cogs in a machine? I’ve had managers like that, and it often went hand-in-hand with poor engineering chops.

Yes, of course, to a large extent big companies require just that sort of cooperation and subjugation, but if you hate fitting yourself into that mold, you’d probably be a lot happier... not working at big companies.

There are lots of startups and small businesses where you can be a hard-working, high-performance contributor furthering key strategic goals, and yes, an faithful cooperator working in harmony with a tight-knit team, and nonetheless be entrusted with a domain within which you’ll be free to identify what needs to be done and take care of it without having to defend your choices to a bureaucrat who can’t see the forest for the trees.
Not the case with pixel qi screens as they can be used with both passive and active lighting.
E Ink is a great example of how the patent system stifles innovation.

One company developed a small, expensive, newspaper-quality electrophoretic display with a refresh rate so terrible it was only suitable for books, decided that that was good enough, and 15 years later every comment in this thread is looking forward to finally seeing some innovation in this space "once the patents expire."

That is some first class bullshit. We could have had large form, glossy brochure quality displays with video refresh rates by now, but nobody outside of China wanted to get anywhere near this patent minefield.
>Also the weather is going to get better in the North Hemisphere soon

January is colder than December usually. We're not even over the peak. February should be roughly similar to December, March is when it gets better again usually. But that's still 2 months of people staying indoors a lot.
Simple question: will it take less energy to do the conversion than you get out the other end? Will the process itself generate less carbon than the existing process? All these “net zero” claims never mention how the rest of the system is affected. Eg, zero emission electric cars: where I live, our electricity comes from coal power plants.
Appears to be unreliable info. Anyway, this not my point. My point is ADE, which make vaccination a terrible disaster. ADE is known to happen in some diseases , including SARS-1.
> I have a 4K monitor and pretty much required to use fractional scaling.

On Linux, another workaround is to set the font scaling to 1.5× (or whatever) but leave the display scaling at 1×. This leaves everything sharp with big enough text to read easily.
> Our main focus right now is making Google’s index of the web available for use by competitors

How would that work? I'm pretty curious about this if there's anything out there to read.

EDIT: Ah I saw the link to Knuckleheads' Club :P
Works well with most people, but not with the >1% who actually don’t have positive intent.
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Apps in linux containers run at the same speed as any other app running on that system.

This comment is pure snark.
At this point I basically view preoccupation with fallacies, presenting arguments in formal format (premise, premise, conclusion), etc. as a proxy for immaturity. That isn't how people are persuaded, that isn't how people ever were persuaded, and that isn't how people ever will be persuaded. It also isn't how people have ever been able to access any sort of truth. Western philosophy has been incredibly effective at tearing apart everything that exists, but utterly ineffective in building anything back up from the ashes.

It's only after you've tried, many times over, in futility, to build a coherent & effective belief system from first principles that you'll realize this approach is a dead end. All we have are beliefs, and our brains retroactively make up stories about why we think they are true. In this framework it is actually very useful to illustrate how your ideological opponent came to their beliefs. Then people can determine whether they find that story relatable.
There isn't some abstract, mathematically verifiable best ranking, a platonic ideal that all search engines should aspire to.

Of course, "quality" applied is a broad term indeed. But there no being a single certain measure of quality doesn't mean there aren't some things that most people would call crap. Google employs a large number of search quality raters and these folks can likely distinguish the terrible from the OK.

Google is far from ideal and getting worse but you seem to be exposing a pure democracy of algorithm conformance, which is guaranteed to result in hot, steaming idiocy.
That becomes real clear once you've asked enough questions.
Hmm, I'll have to try that. I did attempt to orbit it but I just ended up getting killed by a UFO shot before I could get much speed going.

I have played Spacewar - or, at least, the old IBM PC port [0]. That one gives you enough thrust to overcome gravity, no problem, though it still effects your trajectory (and missiles) enough to make it interesting.

0: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Spacewar_1985
I just checked, and the last time I mentioned that I worked at Apple on here was 4 days ago [1]. I’ve seen others do it too.

Perhaps you just haven’t noticed it because frankly it’s rarely germane; at best it’s an aside to add colour to an argument. This time the topic is Apple and it’s relevant...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25491234
Cauchy rolling over in his grave.
Just seems like a bad idea - violating the idea of a getter and increasing complexity. Why have a getter in the first place?

The proper place for this mess is the setter.
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Yea, slippery slope works both way, "we did not do this before", do not you think so? Remember that phrase about "the came after Jews, commies then after me"?
To you, presumably, but not necessarily to others.
I loved the game. I expected more but I still loved it, despite bugs and all. I’m pumped for the DLC.
Drivers. Good lord. I primarily use a Mac for both school and work and had forgotten about the nightmare of drivers. I recently purchased an HP laptop for software that only works on Windows and have already had to reinstall Windows since the display driver was completely broken.

I absolutely appreciate how Macs don't really need you to play with the drivers... I've been using them for years and haven't once needed to do so.
i bought a mbp a few years ago and do not use it full time and nevertheless ive had constant, ridiculous problems the entire time. not juat fresh post release stuff.and everytime i search i find many others who do too. there is a lot of blinders in the community i think.

Anyway osx is basically a piece of garbage anymore that breaks obnoxious inexcusable stuff regularly. recent favorite because this is what people used to use an example of it just working

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252174979

with that said, linux is a joke on daily desktop stuff too with exception for very narrow use cases
It's a weird enough way to go that a contrived murder plot to make the victim look like a suicide becomes an actual possibility
(Sorry GP) asked a personal opinion question and I offered one —

My gut feeling tells me this pandemic is suffering from a similar phenomenon in user interface latency. The research shows that if the latency is under a few hundred milliseconds, we believe that we are in control of the device and our cause and effect matters. However, if the latency is longer than some hundred millisecond mark, we think the device is under someone else’s control and that our cause has no effect on the system — though in fact, it is the direct cause.

To me, a pandemic kinda follows the same thought — if the disease isn’t having a direct, somewhat immediate effect (intuition says a couple days) to our actions, then it’s hard to issue broad, population level behavioral change that comes with direct costs to life and property - it’s just beyond the timeline for us to accept our actions (not wearing a mask or not distancing) as meaningful inputs to the pandemic system.

Personal opinion: I have no trouble wearing a mask even after having covid, but the current gov’t approach is 100% not the way I’d approach this issue. I would approach the mask mandates and business shutdowns this way only if the disease symptoms were severely impacting (so that’s my symptom description with walking a block) a large set of the population (so that’s the 30%, no age brackets needed) — and to me, that number is about 1 in 3. Now the counterpoint to this, is that if there is a tipping point in the proposed pandemic that once it gets to a certain spread, it becomes that 1 in 3 statistic - but I digress, you get the point I believe.

Edit: to tie this all together — there’s a lot of talk about increased sanctions from this new variant — but if the severity of symptoms do not change, only the transmissibility - it is a dangerous seed to sow amongst an already incredulous population.