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>Extremely simplified, all you need to do is drill a hole deep enough for a high temperature difference.

>There's plenty of asteroids rich in gold/titanium just floating around. All you have to do is bring them here.
I really dislike the "more (welcoming|inclusive)" argument as it tends to shut down discussion. I don't think that's why you've chosen the phrasing you have, it's just the verbiage that's common now in these discussions. And it works! Can't be against more inclusive language, oh no. Nevermind that it's hardly ever defined, nor the costs discussed.

Is the phrase "quantum supremacy" actually unwelcoming? Is it causing harm to people affected by white supremacy? Just because some people imagine a path from "quantum supremacy" to "white supremacy" doesn't mean that it's actually taken in any significant amount.

Now, what's the cost? Political capital has to be spent, drawing down what's available for other initiatives. People who are otherwise sympathetic to the cause are being attacked, or wary of being attacked (c.f. Scott Aaronson's "The Far Right is destroying the world, and the Far Left is blaming me!"). Reputational damage [ed: from pushing through the walrus operator] is reportedly the reason that Guido stepped down as BDFL; it's not a minor concern.

Personally in this case I don't really care one way or the other. Absent evidence I don't think there was any actual harm from the old term, but it not being an established term and being made fun of for being overly grandiose, the cost also seems very low, so meh.
"If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude.

See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting
that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious
and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for
himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not possible. Housing, medical care, movie tickets, college tuition, prescription drugs, and a host of other things have gone up in price far faster than inflation since then. You can't even buy a house that was around when Keynes was for the inflation adjusted price it was then.

What would your cost of equivalent housing have been in Keynes' day?
> Personally, I'm more annoyed by the fact that electrical systems in buildings are still too hard to modify. As you say, you cannot really tweak much once the wall is done. In a day and age where electrical devices continue to multiply, it's sadistic to bang on about extender-cords being "fire hazards" while not providing alternatives. You don't want fire hazards? Give me a way to safely upgrade the energy distribution of my home that is as easy as plugging in an extender cord.

Glad someone else is sharing my views. Burying cables into physical fixtures that cannot be accessed any other way than brute force is, I find, completely archaic. The solution is modular home design. Houses should be built more like gaming PCs in a way. Every wall would be 4-5ft thick, be mostly empty on the inside, and have a special door to allow a human to go inside. This "closet inside a wall" would contain standardized
plugs/hooks/supports for electrical cables (along with plumbing and gas lines and internet fiber and any kind of wire or pipe that passes through the home). Load bearing would still be assumed by columns and other hard elements, but hidden inside these 5ft thick walls.
Using Graphene to radiate heat from deep holes to the surface is also one other area being worked on.

Graphene has exceptionally high thermal conductivity, 12000x of copper:

https://futurism.com/thanks-to-graphene-we-may-harness-the-l...
Japan developing wooden satellites to cut down on space junk
> Bitcoin adoption was growing and working well for monetary transfer but its capacity was throttled to encourage use of an unproven technology, the lightning network.

What? Bitcoin's capacity has been limited its entire life, the limits were coded in by Bitcoin's creator. The limits are integral to protecting Bitcoin's decentralization, and have nothing in particular to do with lightning. Alternative blockchains without functional limits such as "BSV" are so bloated that it is practically unreasonable to run nodes, leaving participants blinding trusting third parties.

These trade-offs were well understood long long ago (e.g. https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Scalability&action=h... or https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3118.msg44789#msg447... or https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2500.msg34211#msg342...).

Liquid isn't some replacement technology for Bitcoin, it's something it's a distributed-centeralized (federated) system that can do things Bitcoin and other completely decenteralized systems cannot do like offer instantaneous settlement. It trades off decentralization to for latency. When users have funds in exchange they've already substantially lost their decentralization benefits, for for e.g. rapid arb between exchanges this tradeoff is probably a good one.

Bitcoin gives people the freedom to use their money in a bunch of different ways.

> nullc have some close relationship with Blockstream.

I haven't have any relationship at all with blockstream for over three years now.
Also the setting of the "Right of Return" novel from Janusz Zajdel is like this. Humans have ships that can reach very high sub ligh speeds as well as totally safe hibernation technology.

So you can go on long interstellar voyage and only age for a coulpe weeks or moths where you are actually active, the rest being in hibernation or time going much much slower for you due to time dilatation. There are even some scientists that will spend just a couple days per misdion awake to study an interesting phenomenon, being in hibernation for the rest of the journey!

Of course if you have any friends or family somewhere they will be decades older or even dead by the time you get back.

On the other hand if you have friends in the spaceflight community it is much less of a problem as you will be meeting the same people over your travels on various stations or missions as decades or even centuries go by.

For that reason a lot of the space community is joung people who migh want to settle down once they are oldet (and never see their spacefaring friends agai) and centuries old academics who are having the time of their lives, studying the wonders of the universe every single day (from their perspective).
> There's no consistency, everything changes every 2 years, the documentation is awful when it exists at all

In the days of electron and web apps, it's clear that the users either don't care or developers are shooting themselves in the foot.

In either case, consistency died a while ago.
Yes, Lilies are exceedingly toxic to cats...if you have cats, do not allow them near lilies.
Mainly, he conflates the question of whether work will continue to be necessary and whether we should enjoy working.

To the extent that we work, hating it simply brings another source of misery into your life. It then makes you poorer because you can't succeed at a job you hate.

So the advice is basically to increase your misery and decrease your wealth.
I can buy 20 pounds on Amazon for $40. I wish the author had addressed this solution to his perceived shortage. Is this some bad brand? Are all these brands sucky? Did the author forget to google for mail order pasta? Did all these companies in Italy not work out for him?

This journalist needs a journalist friend to help cover his story.
> Not to mention that this whole discussion brings us back to the question: Who's fault is it that people die? The arms researchers or manufacturers? The army? The people who are mean to us and own resources we want (I mean they could just surrender)?

Everyone's at fault, according of course to the degree to which they themselves are able to shape the object, in this case mostly culture and incentives, responsible for the decline.

> Are the people building Facebook responsible for the social decline? Or is it the government, not applying proper regulation/laws? Or is it the people using Facebook (nobody is forcing you)? Or are humans just like this and Facebook shows us their true color?

I repeat, everyone's responsible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
I had a very hard time finding bucatini back in February in the Austin area. I eventually ordered a box off amazon.
Too bad that's broken for directory names: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/33
Why would a non-technical person choose this over SAAS that already provides the same service?
Or you encrypt it.
The selfish framing cringes a bit too much
I suppose the parent poster's response could be, with $2M you could consider that $30,000 per year plus health insurance.

Or, at $1M you could have $30,000 per year to subsidize working in some job that provides health insurance but otherwise is something you enjoy. Being willing to work for $30k less than anyone else, for example, would probably give you ways to convince the hiring managers to let you do things your way most of the time.
Only if it was before American TSA which sounds like it was.

Now flying that much must suck cuz murcia. And you know real threats combined with gov agencies flailing about to pretend they are doing something about it. (Most of the stuff that worked had nothing to do with TSA adopted tech).
I have read some horror stories from people who have lost control of their domain. Now you have a hostile actor holding it for ransom and able to receive your mail. I really like having full control of my MX record but that's something I keep in the back of mind. Whenever I think of it I go and top off my registration up to 10 years so I don't have to worry about auto-renew failing.
Building an E-Commerce Product Manager
Which container system can't run this way? I've only used Docker which does run rootless.
If that is the society you are building, it deserves to be mercilessly destroyed.
> pay labor to build new housing for you!

good luck using labour to generate a piece of land to which you can build on that's near where you want it.
When I worked on Microsoft Azure, my team created many Azure Resource Manager templates that we offered on Azure Marketplace. There was no charge for the software, only the underlying resources that you consumed. While privacy and owning your data was a benefit, this had many more downsides and 99% of our customers were asking us to offer those solution as a managed PaaS offering. First, because the app was single tenanted the cost for most users did not justify the benefits that they were getting from it. Maintenance, trouble shooting, scaling, updating, and support are just few areas to call out where our customers had trouble and wanted us to run everything for them and just give them access.

Of course the customer experience lacked mostly due to the lack of a better platform for offering such "one click to deploy" apps. But still the customer needs to manage the uptime of the system and have on-call engineers who not only are intimately familiar with our software but can quickly identify and fix the issue.
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Absolutely. I had no idea tape was being pushed to these levels!

Crazy good tech accomplishment right there.

In a way, I am somehow comforted. Tape remaining relevant kind of dropped off my radar. Good to see.

317Gb / square inch AND 15km/h transport speed? That is nuts fast.

Wonder how robust it really is? Of course at those densities and potential transfer rates there is ample room for error recovery.
Are there any skilled workers - whether plumbers, welders, carpenters, lawyers, accountants, doctors, pilots, or programmers - who immediately stop thinking about, keeping up with, or otherwise expressing an interest their field after clocking out for the day?

Some more than others. But few, it seems.
I've never used any alternative account to post here, nor do I use any on Reddit. Contrarian isn't me, and anyone who spent a bit inspecting his 9+ year reddit history would easily see that.

The allegation that he is me is an absurd bit of nonsense spread to try to harm his and my reputation (which is kinda weird, since I'd be proud to be the author of most of his posts). ... mostly spread by people promoting the activities of the con-man Craig Wright, but also somewhat promoted by employees of Saint Bitts LLC (Roger Ver) as a part of their effort to defraud cryptocurrency users and hide from the consequences of the unlawful and unethical activities that Contrarian and I have brought to light.

Edit:

> Edit: thanks for the downvote, Greg.

I hadn't ( https://0bin.net/paste/EVtgwnwh#ZAMwmphwqkYrm-NQuWpnQFvsbESq... ), when I thought you'd merely been duped. You've earned one now, especially with reposting that absurdist attack garbage even after being informed that it was incorrect.
I agree with you, and to give some numbers as examples for other readers to respond to, I've seen good individual health insurance in the $500-1200 range, and there may be tax advantages associated with paying it. That's not a huge amount per year if you are getting the $30-60k hypothesized interest income.
How do you manage the server side programming language of choice execution of the code of the notebook? Do you use something existing like IPython kernels somehow, or do you keep an instance of whatever programming language alive yourself?
Reminds me of the first atomic clock wristwatch:

http://leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/

> Batteries are included (they last about 45 minutes but are rechargeable)
How do KDE Cantor's project files compare to Jupyter? I want to try out Cantor next time I want to work in a notebook.
The one thing I remember the SP failed on was the unified charging/audio port. So unless you used an unsupported third-party dongle you couldn't charge and use headphones at the same time.

Otherwise agreed, it was a fantastic console.

Apart from web stuff, ARM C on the GBA was my primary early programming experience after dabbling around with QBASIC and GB(C) z80 C as a kid. There were a lot of community-made dev tools, example code and guides online that were reasonably approachable for a curious 12-year-old.

I owe a lot to the GBA homebrew community.
No, different guy.
Think Gmail does the latter. I've seen all my mail pass through servers in California.
Sold! I love basil. Thank you.
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments.
> I don't see them scaling to replace traditional ag

That's funny, because I do see vertical farming scaling to replace 100% of two-dimensional (read: "traditional") agriculture, and feeding billions. Every city of over a million should have at least 15 skyscrapers with at least 30 floors each growing staples.

Of course, we also need to switch to meat grown lab for > 75% of our meat demand and mostly stop producing cattle food with agriculture.
Immigrants won't give up their high salary in the developed world.

Employers won't pay a first world salary while living in a low cost country.
One of the most important Stoic teachings is to not get upset about things you can't control.

Once you fully internalize this, it's hard to get angry about trivial things like "someone at the office started claiming your work as your own". Now extend that to everything else in your life you can't control and might get upset about. Everything is trivial once you realize that you only have one life to live.
Fantastic, thanks
Just store your diaries in a line of yeast that produces tasty beer or wine. That could work. I wonder what the oldest yeast lines in use today are, and how stable their genomes are.
Golden Sun <3

I think GS 1+2 must be the last great 2D JRPGs - nothing after the SNES era comes close in my book.
Additionally to what has been said in the comments about the format that should be well diff-able, if you get into it, please also do a complete rewrite of a tool like JupyterHub. Anyone who ever had to modify that thing will thank you.
..and you know what, I use to hate bullshit jobs. I really did. I've worked in everything from a sysadmin at a debt collection firm to developing data entry software for a travel agency, to health insurance data science to identity management for a University with 20,000 students (actually, that one was rewarding. Working for a Uni didn't feel like a total waste).

I dreamed of getting back into a University and getting my PhD so I could earn way less, but at least try to get grants for research I wanted to do and have summers to develop the classwork so I could lie to--cough-cough--I mean "tech" students. I got my masters, but PhD programs were much more challenging to get into, and my GRE scores are terrible. With the way Universities have turned so ideological and anti-free thought, I doubt I'll ever actually go back.

I lived in some other countries (did software there too), took a year off to backpack, ran out of money, took more tech jobs ... and now, I feel like I'm okay working tech for the rest of my life. I'll probably be 100% remote from here on out (I have before 2020 at one place) and plan on moving out as far away from the city as I can (and still have decent enough Internet to work).

Sure my life might be wasting away playing video games, blogging or attempting to learn banjo while working for another firm soaking up money ... but I've had adventures. I've literally traveled around the world. I might not hit a lot of my goals .. but man, I've done quite a bit and I'm not even 40 yet.

I'm sad due to the pandemic, but at least I'm not bitter. I know if I was stuck locked up in Chicago with younger me, that kid would not have made it. My old project owner at a job sent me an e-mail about how her Italian roommate had committed suicide during the UK lock downs. Could have been me. It's only luck and timing that it isn't.
The tape may well be the better scenario.

With a pile of random access devices, the time and cost of a single record retrieve is low, though the cost of bulk records can get high.

All the oppressors need is a half decade window, maybe a decade to be pretty much golden, as far as totalitarianism goes.

The tape will definitely hold the data, and then some apparently.

But access costs go up.

The drives seem to encourage indiscriminate targeting.

Tapes would at least favor some priority.

The smarter bears will use both!

You are not wrong about what it will take.
While I loved using Ubuntu, I found it pretty darn frustrating that driver support could be wonky. I had to dig deep into the weeds to fix issues with my Wifi driver, and had it not been for amazing Linux users with similar computers that posted their remedies online, I would've been SOL.

In contrast, in all my years of using Apple computers, I've rarely if ever had a driver related issues that wasn't easily solvable by updating my OS.
> I find LN's UX really painful.

What did you find painful, and which wallet(s)?
> “FDA is quite slow to take action involving standards violations. I’m speculating that a competitor put some heavy pressure on FDA,”

Or the enrichment material supplier that the pasta-maker cut back on. Or pasta-maker switched flour suppliers to a cheaper under-enriched source.
I guess it’s just me then. I wouldn’t write “we” in a comment online without explaining who “we” is, it seems like an unnecessary detail to explain
Findora Lawsuit
Ongoing litigation during findora ICO
It continues to be updated.
If it has never been seen to work, by what criteria can you claim we have invented it?
Wow, it's like a segment of a floppy disk of infinite radius!
Consumer Reports places Comma.ai on top in Active Driving Assistance Systems [pdf]
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a1oxZYJgSy9WegDlPAc9X4LUyIU...
More interesting is that the FDA apparently never spot checks these sorts of things, so the claim is Big Pasta has some sort of axe to grind against De Cecco.
Human Longevity.

150,000 people die every day, and 2/3 of them die of age related diseases. The developed world and China are racing towards a demographic nightmare where fewer and fewer people are left to take care of the elderly. The older someone becomes, the more of a burden they become on the young. As people get older they begin to develop the diseases of old age and have an increasingly pain-filled life. People are forced to save for a future where they have enough to survive for a few years and then pay to have someone take care of them, instead of doing what they actually want to do.

Why are we not all collectively trying to solve this problem? Dying of age related diseases is as natural as dying from malaria or childbirth, yet we try to solve those issues and pretend age related diseases are inevitable. COVID largely shut the world down because the largest risk factor for complications is how old someone is. The gains in productivity alone should make human longevity the number one priority for every government.

I also think it would solve climate change because if you expected to live much longer, the obvious problems are no longer just future generations problems.
> AI is not going to render everyone jobless anytime soon

EXACTLY. From what I've seen, I don't even think self driving cars are remotely viable for another 10~15 years (honestly we'd probably need general purpose AI first, and if that's even remotely possible, there's no way you're going to get a thinking sentient machine to put in the effort to do something so mundane as driving your damn car).

There are still so many things machines cannot do. They can't pick products of different sizes in an Amazon warehouse. They can't make carbon fibre (most of that stuff is still shaped by hand) .. hell even a lot of space rocket shells are still bent into shape by hand.

Ideally we'd want to see the world move away from goods and more human beings living more sustainably producing content and art for one another. But who am I kidding, we're totally going to run out of resources and/or cover our planet in plastic slurry of sludge and pollution long before then.
Samsung opens preorder reservations for Galaxy S21
You're misunderstanding the term "bullshit job" (originally from the late David Graeber [0]) which has a specific meaning and has nothing to do with

> boring, dirty and doesn't earn money.

Or even

> If you wake up thinking "Oh fuck, I need to work", yeah then that's a bullshit job for sure.

Instead, it refers to employment that is "so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence". Prototypical example is the layers upon layers of superfluous middle management.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Why not a menu of different approaches to chose from?

I don't get the jump from parenting classes to "the correct approach".
Fly traps?
Her.

The point of the article is in the writing more than the actual subject matter.
I make a script purely with `export secret=...` lines and keep it in a local folder and KeePassXC. When I need secrets I manually source it. Not super automatic, but I dont add a lot of secrets a lot of the time
You are right, that's even better! Will implement it like this.
You can just make your own! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWNKMy2yKA&t=239