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You sound either like English isn't your first language, or like you're taking words far too literally.

In the sense we're using, a tool is anything we use to do what we're trying to do. A physical tool is a tool. A software tool is a tool. But if I'm trying to ship something, FedEx and UPS are tools (in this larger sense).

So an abstraction, a way of thinking, a way of writing code, is also a tool. I can use FP for the problems that it fits well, and use other ways of programming on other problems. "It's just a tool" means "it's not The One Right Way". Use it when it fits. Don't use it when it doesn't.
FWIW, nuclear power does have quite some associated costs (storage, security, etc.) - I'd love to see a sensible estimate. It might still be worth it to cover base loads.
The beat is about to drop
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/never-boil-water-twice/

Keep it coming - I used to work in a water treatment plant so I love water chemistry questions. If you think reboiling it in Teflon a bunch of times isn’t a great idea I agree but I’ll note all those people who go out in the wilderness with nonstick pots and a bunch of Dasani water seem to do fine.
https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/tree/mas...
This is a good point, any examples that come to mind to illustrate it?

I’m genuinely interested.
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You can see in all public talks how Karpathy focuses almost exclusively on image recognition. Yeah, that’s great and important, but that’s a step one in making any autonomous vehicle. And the easiest one.
Every person not in the bottom rung is a "sociopath"? Honestly I get a little tinge of joy out of the bitterness of these whiners sometimes.

If you think every person in life that has gotten a different outcome than you is a "sociopath" your are probably something a lot closer to a sociopath than average (ie a seeming total lack of ability to empathize with a vast swath of people based on superficial differences)
My god, pure ideology

/Zizek

The incentive is in the form of cash money from governments. Nobody is asserting the Pharma companies should build and run a manufacturing pipeline for free.
whats your sociology education and experience?

I am curious bc you make some broad category claims, presented as fact, to build up ignorant perspectives on a bed of sandy logic.
The key part is that many people do believe it's useful when it's not.

It's management/legal saying "Oh no, we use cookies! We need a cookie banner!", even though the only cookie used is to track state or some such thing which doesn't fall under GDPR.
Taxes to pay feed in tarif, contract for difference for renewable being another 30%
They did get more annoying lately though. Nowadays you have to wrestle through a horrible click game of dark patterns to not accidentally accept anything. Things like putting a small "Accept all" in the top right corner where you expect a close button or hiding the settings with at 12px in light grey.
Yes I am aware of those. My question is: what makes you think that this poses a superior threat than other issues we face?

When I think about the future and its risks I never think about nuclear waste. I think primarily about global warming and all its consequences: massive migrations, droughts, fires etc.

To me these are way more important because

1) the likelihood is MUCH higher
2) the impact is MUCH higher
For software the overwhelming consensus is the OSI definition (extremely close to the FSF def, extremely close to what is applied as criteria by various distro, etc.)

You may want to write "Open Source" to be sure it is not confused with something else, but even "open source" should be parsed as that definition by default. This is not even pushing a political agenda or a judgment of value. Just "everybody" calls that like that, so there is no point in overloading the term for other approaches. Using another term for other things is perfectly fine and there are plenty of them possible with a positive tone, in case they bring positive things to the table.
Tesla sues a former employee for allegedly taking automation files
Very correct Michael Scott.
It's very odd that 'baby talk' is professional. I don't think society was always this way. I also respect anyone who questions why this is the case. Assuming it's an efficiency, we should be able to justify this behavior.
Keep doing actual coding at least some of the time. Unless you care about income, in which case try to ascend the ziggurat.
Yeah, the political motivation makes sense.

What I'm sick of is all of the suburbs doing their level best to try to convince businesses to not locate in the city while also complaining about the "housing crisis" and "traffic crunch" that their own policies caused.

Everybody griped that Seattle wasn't zoning for housing at the rate it zoned for offices, so the city has started upzoning and now the 'burbs are doing the exact opposite of what they lobbied the city to do for a decade.
Control. If you control your IP, then the company is more valuable because there are more options (whether selling the company, relicensing/dual licensing or something else).

It's similar to developers assigning copyright when they make a contribution to an open source project--keeps control in one place, makes it easier to make long term decisions about the project (for the project's maintainers).
Using the word conspiracy is one of those words that there has been a conspiracy against. Multiple organizations, most likely acting independently, have conspired to make articles that use the word be instinctively be viewed as fringe and nutty.

Nonetheless, it's often used appropriately. This article just says business truths. Rent collectors, of any kind, will spend money to spread FUD about competition that has a product to achieve the same outcomes by a different root path. This happens because it's usually cheaper to take that option, or it drives short term gains/profit, instead of investing in an o long-term better way.

Business people, doing business things. Busting rent collectors is difficult, in the US and world wide because the people who are being lobbied also make the laws about how they can be lobbied.
Could be anecdotal, but I've had a refurbed Latitude 7270. No issues until now, I replaced the battery with a larger capacity and 32GB RAM + 1TB NVMe. It might also be like since the Latitude are enterprise laptops, while the XPS is the consumer grade line.
> "if it's involved in infrastructure, open source it, if it's related to movies, keep it closed."

In the first wave(s) of open source, I think most contributors were working on company time, but the open source was not the primary product of the company. It was something useful to the business of the company, without being the business of the company.

So what you describe seems to fit into that model.

That model seems to be less and less of open source contribution though. (I am not certain why). And I think that has a lot to do with current apparent crises in open source sustainability -- it was the model that worked, for a while, to produce and maintain lots of open source. I am not sure "open source companies" ever really have.
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Was that because the data was not actually peak _instantaneous_ rain rates, but rather rates averaged over a period of time (likely hours or longer)?

Seems like microwave links would be most sensitive to instantaneous rate along specific paths, but any historical data would be measuring accumulated precipitation (averages over time) at specific locations.
I'm sorry, what else are you suggesting? That we let the free market figure out by itself how to maintain the ISS without signing any government contract?

Also, Falcon 9 wasn't the product of a government contract.
That's accurate. But there's also a local feed you can consume (all the people on your instance), which is kind of a workaround if you can't be bothered with finding a fair amount of people to follow for your own timeline to be interesting.
> "the most precious commodity of all, developer mindshare"

Reading the above reminds me of a not too long ago news story, titled "An Influencer With 2 Million Followers Couldn't Sell 36 T-Shirts":
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a27623334/...
That option requires governments to not be printing massive amounts of money, though.

I am planning to refinance again (back to a 30-year mortgage) and won't be in any hurry whatsoever to pay it off early. Borrowing money at 3% nominal with the (hopeful) prospects of economic growth allowing inflation to return means that I expect/hope to be borrowing that money at negative real rates in the back half of that loan.
If you stare at clouds, you might see patterns in them. That doesn't mean that's the governing principle behind their formation.
So I don't think any of the above directly increases birth rate, but the one thing that people seem to be in agreement on is cheap/free daycare.

Evidence from Quebec suggests that compared to Ontario, the birth rate has increased because of subsidized day care. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/daycare-difference-quebec-fert...

The correlation here at least makes sense, because child-caring is time intensive. So you need one parent to stay at home, or go part-time, or pay out the nose for a nanny/unsubsidized spot, at least in the US.
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I have not into how they have been handled in Europe, so I would not be able to speak to that. I am comparing the US to eastern Asian countries and Australia/New Zealand.
I wouldn't sell Vermeer's eyesight so short. The human eye has about 500 Mpixels. In a healthy individual, the central yellow spot of maybe 100 Mpixels can be zoomed in with perfect focus on a spot no larger than a few square cm. Sequentially looking at the painting in small patches from very close, you have a similar order of magnitude for the resolution.
Came here to say the same. If everybody included just a single high level picture like that, you’d give newcomers a real head start in understanding the code.
The author makes a good case against open source businesses, but he indulges himself in a false dichotomy between a traditional proprietary model and open source.

Increasingly often, there is no market for your proprietary software. It is then not a choice between open source and proprietary models, but rather between doing open source or doing nothing.

A lot of markets are just gone, and they're not coming back. Odds are, you're never going to sell another proprietary UNIX clone, or a proprietary database, or a proprietary application server. There are no punters. Those niches have been extinguished.
Very cool. There are tons of non-Euclidean video game experiments. But this one is actually fun and definitely has potential ;)

One possible improvement is to add another degree of freedom for player movement. Being ability to rotate the sphere and see where you are located in relation to the goals would help. And make touch screen play really immersive.
Thx, I must have missed it (it admittedly is very small ^^)!
That is not true the Cour des Comptes has extensive documentation for its cost, also nuclear LTO should be preferred, but replacement is economically possible.
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When I was a broke college student, I cared a lot more about open source. Now that I have more resources, more experience, less time, and a personal interest in getting paid for software, I have stronger feelings about the interface.

Whether or not the box is black isn't really on my mind these days. I rarely have the skill or time to fix them when they break, or don't do what I want. I'd rather the box be easier to swap out or build around when requirements change. I'd rather have a richer ecosystem of blacker boxes, than a bunch of broken transparent boxes laying around.

A problem, of course, is that businesses don't want their boxes to be interchangable. Transparent boxes do tend to help.
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PasswordVault 1.10 is out. It is super easy to install to your Wio Terminal. Just drop the release file https://github.com/PasswordVault/passwordvault/releases/tag/... to the Arduino drive.
> I have the feeling this bar disqualifies most human drivers, too.

There are plenty of people who wait for road-side assistance for a flat tire. It's arguable that a FSD system may be totally viable without having to solve every eventuality on the road. If it can stop someplace safe and call for help that's the most a lot of humans can manage.
A lot of people can put themselves onto the Fediverse with little more than a WordPress site and an ActivityPub plugin. You're right though, it goes beyond an average user's technical capability to do so at the moment.

Perhaps Automattic (the current owner of Tumblr) can shoehorn the ActivityPub protocol into Tumblr and find a way to market that system to your average Joe.
> The actual worry is whether a patent troll or a more litigious competito

Is there a reason that is more of a risk with GPL/AGPL than with other ("permissive") open source licenses though?
I was at a conference a few years ago and the conversation around the lunch table was the chilling effects of the public cloud's operational expertise on venture funded open source businesses (what we saw with Elastic). Nothing I've seen since that conference has changed my mind.

As a developer, I love using open source software. Easy to review/bug fix, less risky because even if the company fails, it'll be around, and usually very low cost and easy to get started with.

As a prospective business owner, I think it stinks.

Another view: as a consumer of software, I love free stuff. As a producer of software, I like to get paid.
That isn't an option for average users on any social network.
Although your question has merit for this case specifically as ASML is a Dutch company there is very little hand wringing about outsourcing. For the forseeable future the Dutch are going to toe Washington’s line. In fact in some ways it’s desirable to throw middle powers a bone every now and then as it gives Washington an additional geopolitical bargaining chip that can be more easily called.
Yeah, exactly. I did a fairly deep dive into what path the car industry is going to take with respect to electric cars (especially what a mass market electric car is going to look like), and it all had a huge asterisk associated with it of "but mass car ownership might stop being a thing before any of this happens", at which point thing change drasticly, because then you have a much smaller market of probably more specialised, expensive cars which are designed for way higher duty cycles than most consumer cars.
There should be a better way of reporting a bug on Windows than posting it on a public forum full of spam that is only accessible from a Metro app which does not come with LTSC.
Yes, that's probably the reason, especially the fact that the person on the other side doesn't even need to be aware of Delta Chat.

Or maybe we need something like Delta Chat that uses XMPP by default but falls back to email if the recipient doesn't have an XMPP account.
But... why?

Translation is not something to be avoided for the adult language learner. We should use every advantage at our disposal.

You can spend hours trying to guess the meaning of a word through pictures and context (and not getting anywhere far), or you can spend a minute reading the translated meaning and then spend hours understanding it in context (and reinforcing it, and learning its semantics).

I wonder if this idea of "avoiding the mother tongue" stems from all the misguided marketing surrounding products like Rosetta Stone which advertise "learn like children learn." Spoiler: it takes children years and years of near-constant, directed input to acquire their native language to a high degree.

Edit: But I can see the value in doing this as a thought experiment ("what if translation isn't possible?"), and for that it's interesting.
I do not think it is money. My parents were much poorer but decided to have three children. This global utopia where there is so much to do, experience visit and see. For many millennials and Z gen Netflix is more interesting that having a child. It does not help that there are extremely high expectation for being an parent.
> But with 8kb zipped (I assume that following pages aren't that much worse) why should one optimize with a solution that adds that much complexity?

If that's the argument, why not just let them take the (tiny) initial 8kb hit as an external css file, and make the rest of the experience even "zippier"?
Having been a long term resident of both, his moving to Bee Cave is going to put him amongst a higher percentage of natives. Natives aren’t thrilled about higher property taxes and the sprawl. The farther out you go, the more conservative it will get. In the Bay, people aren’t worried about property tax but rent.

All your favorite places are too crowded (Austin or Bay, pre Covid). Those non aggressive drivers in Austin are all on Ambien or pot and driving 15 mph below the speed limit, which just enrages the other drivers. Houston is more of a Nascar experience. Dallas actually has made road progress, if you don’t have ptsd from the last four decades of nonstop construction. Your neighbors will all be moaning about their toll bills though.

Drive IH-35 between DFW and Austin and you’ll get what a low-service State govt is all about.

IMO, all this talk about CA culture - the vast majority moving to TX aren’t BA natives. They’re folks who came for the money and now they’re moving on. They weren’t that welcomed here, they won’t be that welcome there. That said, most Austinites aren’t natives either. It just worked until it got ridiculous (which is function of your arrival date).
Well the good news is that the kana are really low hanging fruit. You can learn them in a day and as long as you continue learning Japanese you will be constantly exposed to them. There are only just over a hundred of them and, unlike English, they are only ever pronounced one way[0].

Kanji are significantly more effort, with 2k characters to learn and multiple pronunciations for each. Interestingly, while you will probably hate Knaji at first and wonder why they are still used, you will come to appreciate them later as they aid reading by breaking things up[1] and disambiguating between homonyms.

[0] Ok, sorry, that was the lies-to-children version. Katakana are only ever pronounced one way. Hiragana has different pronunciation for は and へ when they are used as particles. Also there's pitch accent.

[1] Japanese generally doesn't use spaces.
That’s exactly what I’m saying. I’m glad you like it!
Its interesting seeing this formal non American pov and how the American Office is very denatured compared to the UK one.

So "the good place" is prestige TV! would not that be more like discussing the latest "in our time" about the plague of Justinian over the water cooler ?
You might be mixing up threads here, I didn't mention single user instances in my reply.
I had to go back and re-read the article because I thought I had missed something. The whole content seems to consist of only three points:

1- that their sensors are better and lidar is indispensable.

2- that there is no continuum between assisted driving and fsd.

3- that they have already achieved full self driving.

That's it. Neither 1 or 2 are supported by any argument, and 3 contradicts the widespread opinion here that fsd is impossible (at least without agi).

Note: I'm not defending Tesla, I'm just saying that this article is very light on actual content.
We have that in Germany as well, "Fernwärme" (="remote heat"). Apparently it's ubiquitous in Denmark and Sweden as well.

Apparently they started building this based on nuclear power plants as well in Russia (Woronesch, Nischni Nowgorod), but gave it up. That would've been a bit creepy, to have a pipe straight from the local reactor to your home...
Reading through the first 100 results, I see it mostly used to refer specifically to adult male individuals, or to "a man" meaning specifically an adult male ("would've flipped out if a weird man said some creepy remarks"). There are some uses where it may or may not be gender neutral ("you are a Spammier man than I" - may refer to a man or a woman, but it is probably used because the author is male; a woman might have written "a Spammier woman than I" instead, while also addressing both men and women).

There are also clear cases where "a man" is used to refer to "a human", such as "wheat growing taller than a man".

Rather more interestingly, if you instead search for "men", you'll see that is used essentially exclusively to mean "adult males". The only exceptions I found was "and because the greed of a few men is such that they think it is necessary that they own everything" and even there I'm not sure.
The author missed a genuine opportunity to wrap it up with "Wrote The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class? Definitely, definitely Michael Scott."
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The earnings, much like BTC has, would likely approach just above the cost of fuel and maintenance.

The real winners are the automakers that build the part-time robotaxi investment vehicles (literally), and the consumer who now pays way less for a frighteningly AI-driven future.
I mean, the argument literally was Tesla supposedly having more data than Waymo and nothing else. So I'm not sure how they didn't imply what I said.
The general attitude to software development is why we really should not be calling it software engineering. More like software plumbing. And even plumbers tend to carry liability insurance.
I honestly love how more people are rolling their own OS's. But it stinks how difficult hardware support is.

I wish there was a nice wrapper dedicated to abstracting hardware support better so developers can focus on the interesting parts instead of arguing with wi-fi cards.
Waymo following police hand signals: https://youtu.be/OopTOjnD3qY
CMS in general, yes. WP specifically, no.

Often the “loads of ways” on WP require changing its normal behaviour and thus breaks ones ability to use the admin console. Or use some other kludge that might suit some subset of people some of the time. But ultimately it keeps coming back to kludges or other workarounds that introduce as many caveats as they solve.
The keyboard is the big thing that kills any non-Thinkpad for me, otherwise I'd have gotten an M1 Mac in a heartbeat. Has anyone here managed to adjust from the nice solid ThinkPad keys to the modern Mac keys?
Actually there is. If you view all data as statistical probability, data from the past is simply a 1.0 possibility of occurring, and future data is less than 1.0. We can easily see this by looking at weather forecasting, as a common example which both exemplifies the possibility and serves as an example of why it’s not perfect.
This is a very Reddit-esque response.
The metaphor definitely breaks in the middle ladder. Why not just do labor, middle management, owners like in the first part of the piece? I get that everyone hates NYT opinion writers but that’s like 20 people - not a social class.

Also do software engineers fall into upper middle class or high skilled labor? I think they’re in both. Or maybe I just don’t have any interactions with the middle ladder in real life and I’m clueless
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> If you are running a commercial business on top of your open-source solution, it is paramount that you own the product's full IP.

That sentence is even completely absurd. Suppose you ship a product/deploy a service that includes, among other things, Linux and PostgreSQL. Is it paramount that you own the full IP of Linux and PostgreSQL?...
Just got (as in, 2-3 hours ago) a new 4k display (32") to add to my 2x22" setup. My eyes are already happier. I'm using windows with scale set to 150% (for the 4k display) and 100% for the other 2.