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The amount of arable land in many countries has more or less _already_ peaked. It is certainly not growing fast enough keep up with population.
The ability to make lots of good grow in places other than arable farmland is going to be very important in the next 100 years.
It seems like using GPT-3 for code generation is likely to cause open source license violations.
> i hear this argument constantly, but i've never been able to understand it. you say the universe is big and has existed for a long time, but compared to what?

I think compared to how long it took for somewhat intelligent life to evolve on Earth, from the point of first life. Assuming* a comparable evolutionary cadence, the question then becomes - how often does life begin?

*This I assume because the cadence of living things on Earth is at the very least tied to the day/night cycles, winter/summer seasons, and lunar tides, none of which are especially unique.
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Welp this made me realize what kind of filthy Rush casual I am. Started listening on my phone to see if I recognized it. Nope. Grab headphones and renew my sympathy for Alex Lifeson, in just about any other band he would be a beast lol.
> For example, we don’t call it “Constantinople” any more

Not to detract from the rest of your point, but "Istanbul" actually comes from a Greek nickname meaning "to the city", and didn't even become the official name until 1930.
Sorry, yes, I looked at the closest I found was an Ambient Room.
Many many orders of magnitude longer and thousands of km further on hydrocarbon fuels ;)

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> I remember I didn't even hear about sonic adventure until I got the sequel on the gamecube years later. Both of which are actually pretty great games.

Having played Sonic Adventure 2 about a year ago on the DC, I have to emphatically disagree. SA2 is hot garbage. Maybe the GC version was better, I don't know, but I really couldn't see what people liked about SA2.

I did really enjoy SA1, but since that is colored by nostalgia I can't say for certain it isn't exactly as bad (though I seriously doubt it).
If it doesn't, that's just yet another broken assumption by homebrew. Macos is run on other hardware, both physical and virtual, than a few Apple models.
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Our Universe may support life for at least a trillion years. If so, our existence a mere 14 billion years after its creation is so improbable that we may well be the first
True, but isn’t that why vendors that track screen time also offer a means of categorizing it? At least Apple does, I’m fairly certain Android does.

I’d be interested in seeing this extended to “listening time” as well since I probably use my headphones and speakers more than I use the glowing rectangles.
The subscription sponsorship like GitHub and OpenCollective offer are nice, but I encounter one-off opportunities much more frequently. There's been so many times I've wanted to just send somebody a tip because they gave a useful answer in a comment, a package's readme was really good, I liked the library but ended up not using it, etc. I know there's a few sites that do this already, but I rarely see them used.
> When you're growing up, it seems like the older generation is so different, and the generation before that is unrecognizable. I assumed that modern day life would be absolutely foreign to someone from 2000 years ago.

Funnily enough, one way that life 2000 years ago was familiar was that it included a lot of inter-generational moaning; we have written records of Romans complaining about the youth of today.
Really? My friend wrote her dissertation in 1989 or 1990 on the affects of television on children. The affects were dire.

We’ve known about this a long time, even before screens were interactive.
I don’t know how shocking to religions it would be. Surely it would be to some. But if I remember correctly the Catholic Church had some positive statement about alien life. And I know of another christian sect for whom it is a tenant that the universe is full of planets that have been populated by God. Then of course you have scientiology that has some... interesting takes on this issue. And, I don’t think religions like Buddhism would look askance at alien life.
Thanks for the link. But the Asian is mostly japanese here as well

not much for southeast asian
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A Grenfell Story, spoken poetry about the fire. I had no idea who George the Poet is, this episode completely floored me.

https://www.scpr.org/programs/snap-judgment/2020/03/11/78074...
This. Unfortunately, we haven't progressed much beyond Windows NT getting a TCSEC rating: first, remove networking. And then the floppy/cdrom. Then go down the list of other things you can't have.
Try zoho. Zoho has lot of breadth and depth being very economical.
Two years ago, my wife and I visited the Israel Museum in Tel Aviv. We were on our way out when I saw a door that branched to a room of "deep antiquities", or words to that effect.

One of the exhibits consisted of three gold bracelets - beautiful, modern designs that would have looked at home in a window at Tiffany's. They had been excavated from strata with charcoal that dated at ~6,000 - 5,000 BC.

That single exhibit imbued in me a feeling of connection to our human past as much as has a lifetime of interest in history.
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You don't think it's a bit more than bad cosplay when you have people marching to chants of 'Jews will not replace us'?
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Fuse.js (https://fusejs.io/ ) has been super simple for client side search for me, I’ve used it in a couple projects now.
They’ll also probably run into trouble getting the correct bananas. Someone following a century old banana-centric recipe today would struggle with that.
I never said they should be culled. I'm saying let the problem take care of itself.

The actions you were proposing weren't things to help people make better decisions (if they were, it would still be free will). They were to make laws to outlaw activities. If you don't believe in free will, why do you propose helping people make better decisions? Do you really think imposing someone else's will over others is more benign? The government imposes its will through force or threat thereof (causing human suffering).

Government and politics is not really artificial. They form naturally whenever there are groups of people - similar leadership and power dynamics exist in the natural world too (look at bees, ants, wolves, etc).
Right. Did people clutch pearls over "paper time" when they would wake up and read a newspaper, stare at papers all day at work/school, a magazine during their lunch break, and read a book before falling asleep?
If anyone reading wants a tool for printing images and videos in an ssh terminal, then give https://justine.lol/printimage.html and https://justine.lol/printvideo.html a try. I've seen a lot of projects that do this. I haven't seen any that do it better.
One of these will actually kill you pretty quick though.
Fair enough. Kashoggi most definitely was not just any journalist. Either interpretation reflects pretty horrible on the Saudi royal family though.
You're convoluting a quantitative argument with a qualitative one. The parent comment pointed out some hard facts about nutrient density and farming logistics, and how the current model for vertical farming won't solve world hunger, on a nutritional level.

You respond with a qualitative argument that you can grow a business and/or industry and maje better technologies if you have profit.

The issue isn't that the technology isn't good enough, it's that there isn't as many nutrients (as in soil) in a city or apartment to grow highly nutritional food. You'd have to truck in bags of soil to do this, which isn't nearly as efficient as leaving the soil where it is and growing it there.
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I’ve seen many a cat enjoy cardboard boxes.
I didn't say "American media companies." I said "Netflix and Amazon." Both are perfectly capable of, and, in fact, do block certain titles in certain countries for political reasons. They certainly do it for licensing reasons, which, I suppose you can interpret as political, in a way. If they wanted to, Hulu and Disney and all the other streaming services could do the exact same thing. That was my entire point.
I'd love to learn more about this too!

I wear Sennheiser HD1 M2's (with ANC) for ~8h/day, 5d/week, and have been for over 2 years -- with no discomfort or unwanted side- or after-effects. Ofc I'm careful about volume level, and I take frequent breaks from both screen and headphones (albeit for the sake of my eyes).
I'm a healthy 47yo software architect by trade, also a lifelong musician and music afficionado. I care about -- and for! -- my ears and hearing, and would be grateful for any good links to credible sources (ie peer-reviewed scientific studies) which highlight hidden dangers or damage.
How is any lead that TSLA has in battery tech or software not going to be industry standard in 5-10 years? Other companies will hire their engineers etc.

Only advantage they have is branding. Which is good, but companies like BMW have the premium brand down good too.
Ehhh... There is a reason they say curiosity killed the cat.
Wow, I wrote a three paragraph argument in response to the parent comment that is not nearly as explanatory or elegant as yours, but essentially says the same thing. I think the parent commenter is looking at this problem from the MBA perspective, not an engineering one.
Except that, generally speaking, larger companies do indeed provide better pay and benefits than smaller firms in the same line of business.
The newest AC monohulls are amazing devices, but they're not relevant to cargo or merchant vessels. Foils are a form of dynamic lift, where the weight of the vessel is critical. Those AC75s are full carbon, made a great expense. They weigh around 8 tons crewed up. The average container ship today weighs 100,000 tons. That's a whole lotta dynamic lift needed.

Additionally the AC75s are only usable in relatively flat seas, and even then face extreme hazards if they fall off the foils. The foiling cats some years ago killed someone due to this.

Fully flying hulls on cargo ships are a non starter.

However, wing sails may be practical as an assist, and there've been a few startups attempting that in recent years. The best design for cargo ships is a bit different than the AC boats, and uses a fully rotating and self trimming wingsail. See saildrone for an example of that technology at small scale.
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Planet Money does some great reporting, the things they uncover, man, it's depressing. The episode about plastic recycling and advertising, the episode about REDMAP, the episode about the black woman who had her traffic ticket dismissed and still owed the courts $300. There are happy jems too but right now I can't think of any.
Orthodox C++ echoes the old "Embedded C++" scam.

In that case, the impetus was to dress up having failed to implement templates, exceptions, and other "new" language features, typically as a result of budget cuts.

In this case, it appears to be, rather, to avoid learning anything new.

Make no mistake: code written to this, or any old-school subset, is Bad Code. Features are not added to C++ on a whim. They are added because they make programming in new C++ a better experience than old C++. New C++ code is faster, safer, smaller, less bug-prone, and more fun than old C++. C++20 is much more fun than C++17, which is better than C++14, which filled out lots of features from C++11.

Do not trust anyone suggesting any virtue in more C-like C++ code, or in actual C code. We left those behind for reasons.

C++23 will be better than C++20.
As an introvert and an engineer it’s definitely not the easiest for me to talk about something I’m working on openly. So I do cringe every time I mention Typesense in contexts like this thread.

But it seems like every time I mention it, new people discover it and there continues to be interest in the community for an oss search product. I’m sorry if you saw me mention Typesense too often.
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We are aware of the evolution of one sapience in the universe. What argument do you provide that suggests this is such a mind bogglingly unique occurrence that it cannot have happened anywhere else in the universe's volume of over 400,000Gly^3 at any time during its age of 13.8 Gyr?

In other words, the fact that it has happened at least once very strongly suggests it has happened more than once.
I certainly feel the same way answering support emails for our sites. Understandably most of the emails are due to having some sort of problem, and many of the senders are frustrated. Even the positive ones are usually feature requests. Which is totally fine, and appreciated. But still, that occasional email sent just to say 'thanks' is always a treasure.
Huh, they don’t have an “off” more for noise cancellation? I read a review of the airpods max and they have three settings: on, transparency, off. The last one has to be enabled in settings.

I am assuming this is a fairly common feature for headphones? If so you might be able to switch models to one that has an off mode, if yours don’t.
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It's not essential to your argument, but the whole "dopamine drip" thing is not helping. Using ancient disproven 1970s neuroscience tropes here in such a broadly incorrect way just makes me dismiss your potentially legit reasoning.
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>> But you can say "the video pauses at time t1" and "the video resumes at time t2", rather than restricting yourself to "the video is paused" or "the video is not paused".

Well then there is something fundamentally different about the video between T1 and T2 vs after T2. That is state - paused or playing. Word games don't change that.
This feels like a rehash of Zeno’s arrow paradox.
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Holy cow! iPad, 12.4. Sent to lock screen. Great catch!
The difference between newspapers and internet news is that the newspaper for a given day is finite.

Once one has read whatever articles they were interested in for that day, that's it. No refreshing multiple times per day, no reading long comment threads, no frustration about said comment threads ("how can people be so wrong on the internet, must reply"), no live updates on stories, and more time to think instead of mindlessly consuming more information that's of lower quality.
I think this is a strange thing to hear from being a bit older. 30-40 years ago, most people did not spend their time reading the paper and watching TV.

There was vastly more time spent interacting directly with friends and family as well as hobbies and interests that were not consuming media. It was much more common for people to stop by, often unannounced and hang out and talk for several hours. Just talking in person was very popular. Also, people spent much more time on errands and house tasks. It was very rare to have landscapers or housekeepers. This was before dishwashers and people rarely ate out. So cooking and cleaning were common. Super cheap goods from China had not yet arrived so maintenance on things around the house was more common than replacement.

This isn’t at all to be taken as things were better, or worse, it is simply to relay that people did a lot more than consume media and communicate electronically.
Exactly, my first reaction to this was “90% of waking hours spent staring at atoms.” I can describe life in even more absurd ways if I try, but what’s the point?
I am glad you like Uncap. A comment like this provides good motivation to continue working on and maintaining an open source project in my free time. Thank you for posting this comment.
We had very similar 'discussions' about using Ada (or other 'safe' language) and/or TCSEC rated systems for security sensitive systems in the 80s and 90s. With abundant rationales for why that was a good idea. We've ended up with (mostly) C/C++ and COTS OSes, hopefully dressed up with a STIG (or similar) to close the really blatant holes.

I don't think the market has reached the point where the overhead of these technologies has been offset by the pain of endless security incidents. I don't even think we're close to being willing to take on a 'better way (YMMV)' instead of 'move fast and break things (no matter the cost to the consumer)'.
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I’m not sure why I should think that any of that is unique to screens.
https://render.com/ - Winner of Disrupt startup battlefield 2019. Use it everyday for HealingGardens.co and am amazed of all the things it does smoothly. There are little attentions to detail that shine through such as auto issues https certs as soon as my domain was connected. I didn't have to lift a finger. Rock on Render!
My first programming job was building tools to make some warehouse work more efficient. At the outset I had most of the warehouse to myself and I walked around the warehouse talking out loud to myself to solve my programming problems. Once the warehouse was populated with workers and I was stuck to my desk I realized how much I needed that walking. Now that I'm working from home I do laps around my kitchen while solving tough problems.
> This makes computer science a bright target for mathematical formalization. This is entirely different from science.

Yes, but until computer science is fully formalized we will still need design, and can benefit from science. If/when it is fully formalized and creating software becomes an automate-able optimization problem, we will no longer need system designers. Or software developers, for that matter.

> I never said ignore the field.

Not explicitly, perhaps, but it really does read like that is what you're implying. You said multiple times that anyone labelled as an architect or designer knows nothing and is peddling bullshit. If we can agree that design is amenable to scientific inquiry, then it would make sense that some designers do know things.

Re-reading your original post, I realize now that I chose the wrong quote to respond to. I do agree with you that anything labeled as "design" is necessarily constrained by a lack of knowledge. Any time there are multiple ways to solve the same problem and there is no a priori way to figure out which solution is the best, we are forced to design. My point is that this describes software development, which as noted above has not been fully formalized. Writing software is design, and therefore needs designers.

> Often we have no choice. No one calculate the best work of art. Art is created by design.

Are you implying that when it comes to software, we do have a choice?

> The concept of abstraction, good abstractions and bad abstractions can be separated from design and formalized into exact definitions. That is my argument.

This is where you lose me, I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. Abstraction is a design principle, and developers argue constantly about whether a given abstraction is good or necessary. The motivation behind abstraction as a principle hinges on how you define "too complex", and that sounds very subjective to me—the opposite of formal.
That depends on the distro. Fedora and RHEL and their derivatives have quite comprehensive SELinux policies.

Debian (and derivatives) and SUSE use AppArmor but IIRC with more permissive, looser policies. At least Debian does IIRC. SUSE might put in the extra effort to harden them a bit, I'm unfamiliar with their ecosystem.
I think what most people mean by intelligent alien civilization is basically illustrated by Star Trek, and I suspect in the entire perceivable universe we will never find anything remotely like that. Even the aliens in Arrival, as well done as they are, are magic humans in disguise

I suspect we will barely recognize even alien sentience, since it will literally be alien to our understanding
No, there are still limitations, e.g.:
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I don’t think it would be necessarily that big a deal from a religious point of view; the issue has been addressed by various theologians.
unordered_map is usually fine if you keep the loading below 0.5. It is also fine if you don't care, as for example during program start-up.

BTW, vector is contiguous, not continuous.
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Consider a follow up article with 1. Alpine Linux as the base image to significantly reduce the size and 2. Build the requirements in one layer, and then transfer the codebase to a new layer to further reduce size.
Good, it means MLM can move their money to supporting other less established platforms and keep the internet evolving.
the easiest way to find possible life on a planet isn't technology but gas composition of the atmosphere, in particular 'biosignature' gases like ammonia, nitrous oxide, and oxygen among a few others.
Is being sentient or having a civilization actually required though?

Given the wide variety of environments where life can reproduce, shouldn't even non-sentient life eventually escape into space? This removes many of the 'great filter' arguments. This would be more likely on a planet with a shallower gravity well than earth.

Life, even bacterial-level life tends to spread out exponentially as resources allow, which should make it easier to detect.
> Moreover, does any Apple server going down mean you can’t use your lights? Like what happened a few weeks ago with Google, someone I know had their entire house behaving like a poltergeist.

My setup is:

* HomePod as the HomeKit hub
* Hue bridge (no external connection)

I disconnected the network at the modem - the entire house was without an internet connection for the duration.

Neither HomePod Siri nor an iPad Siri was able to control the lights via voice. However the iPad and various Macs were able to control the lights.

The only thing that HomeKit uses the cloud for is the voice recognition of things spoken to Siri.
TN bomber seemed to have no web footprint. Interviews with those who knew him:
That's not really accurate since the "electrolyte" changes phase requiring external storage (H2O -> gaseous H2) and the re-oxygenation step cannot be performed (yet) in the same device as the electrolysis.

It's not an electrochemical battery but I can agree with seeing it in a general sense as the an energy storage device, in the same way a dam is a "gravitational battery".
I'm not a C++ developer, but AFAIK the fact that C++ is not 100% "you don't pay for what you don't use" is commonly acknowledged. Exceptions are an example of that.

There are ideas/proposals how to fix that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARYP83yNAWk
I've found The Five Dysfunctions of a Team useful. It's a clear description of things that go wrong when people work together, even when everyone has good intentions.

I'll second the suggestion to speak with a professional therapist or coach if it's an option. These situations are difficult to navigate and a neutral perspective can be helpful.
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$100/mo won't make or break this startup. Inability to move fast might. Money of this scale is not a problem. Remember the insight from The Goal. Optimize at the bottleneck alone.
Idk, where I live there are massive greenhouse operations that produce insane amounts of high quality food.