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> dependencies on Amiga or DEC Alpha

What about embedded platforms, which tend to remain relevant (i.e. present in large numbers out in the real world) much longer than desktop or server platforms? Don't they matter? Don't they need updates, including for security, as much as any other?
> It must be less efficient than on earth

No it mustn't. You'd expect efficiency to be higher, all else being equal, since there's less drag to overcome - aircraft can generally fly more efficiently at high altitude on Earth (up to a point). The limiting factor is that helicopter flight only works while the rotor tips are subsonic, so as the air gets thinner the "IAS" that a pitot tube on the rotor (that's going as fast as you safely can) would experience gets lower and lower, and so the flight dynamics will be like a helicopter with a slow rotor, but speeded up. But for a small helicopter the square-cube law is on your side and so a low "IAS" is quite doable.
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You have to think like an American to understand it. See, American culture strongly incentivizes us to view other people as competitors. We like things that benefit us and don't mind that they hurt others, while at the same time we are wary to adopt things that potentially benefit others more than they benefit us.

People that have good healthcare thanks to their job (and those that merely think they do) often view healthcare reform as something that benefits their competitors more than it benefits them.

This mindset is also why we have a narrative against all forms of social welfare, because they take our money (at gunpoint, as some would say) and give it to our competitor.
The Snopes article was published 2 weeks before the impacts of coronavirus even started to be felt in this country, back when he was privately telling the truth about it to Woodward.

Trump's base overwhelmingly believes it's a hoax. So is "left" wing media lying to me that he says it's a hoax, or is right wing media lying to all his supporters that it's a hoax?
Yes. In a PC ecosystem this is true - physical access renders the machine in your control (modulo Intel Management System and other backdoor schemes).

For Apple, there is a different set of axioms and some people seem to agree with them.
In Israel it's fairly standard. In fact, you're only allowed a third of the mortgage to _not_ be fixed.
I agree that INES Level 7 accident (well, a disaster at this level) is very unlikely and VVER-1200 generally ought to be matching the quality of the Western designs at this point. Even if the level 7 disaster would happen, the 50 km distance is not great and it's "living on the edge", but it ought to be just about enough for the population to be okay.

However, there are some points you miss:

- There is a lot of space for smaller accidents which can happen, including nuclear fuel leaks. Belarusian Power Plant is very close to River Neris and, as far as I know, uses its water for cooling. River Neris goes through Lithuanian capital Vilnius and there is a great concern that accidents can contaminate the water.

- See my point in a post bellow about the nuclear power plants not being built equal, even if they use the same reactor technology.

- Both political systems produced nuclear disasters, but accidents above INES Level 5 only occurred in the Soviet Union; I am not including Fukushima, because its cause was a natural disaster: earthquake followed by tsunami (and their 1960s tech was still holding in the immediate aftermath). Poor quality standards, general attitude to safety, disregard to procedures, etc -- these are the common problems in such political systems like the Soviet one. Also, many of the accidents in the West occurred in 1950s when the nuclear technology was still in its early days. So, no, I don't draw the equality between different political systems in the context of nuclear safety, although perhaps it shouldn't be overestimated either.
I think the issue is that they don’t trust Belarus to properly manage their nuclear plants, not that they don’t trust nuclear plants in general.

Given that Belarus is a corrupt authoritarian regime that’s teetering on the edge, I’d say that’s a fair concern.
Haha, sorry. Although I will say your blog is precisely where my interest in TLA+ originated from.
It does say much because the TX state leadership is very much one sided, and very vocal.
Was a lot of work, but thrilled to launch this today. Our old store was falling apart by the seams a little, but we did process around £250k of cashouts manually to our merchants.

Lots of interesting design challenges, and a lot of the slow processes from our old store are now automated.

Would love any feedback if anyone has a moment to look! I'm especially pleased with the file previews which watermark and down sample audio files on the fly.
> It is exploitative by the company to expect you to work nights and weekends, but then all the possible benefits go to the company

We’re disagreeing, not talking past each other. (Which is fine!)

Above-market salaries, bonuses and the promise of promotion (within the company or without) are fair compensation for aggressive work expectations. The upside is sharply capped in comparison with start-ups. But the downside has been practically eliminated. Nobody bemoans investment bankers, who have largely this compensation model.
Tether definitely sucks, but it was an absolutely reasonable response to banks randomly freezing out USD bank accounts of various exchanges, for various reasons.

If you're an exchange that's going to be touching actual USD bank accounts, it turns out you need a fleet of lawyers and significant political and business connections to maintain the relationships required to keep the money flowing. USDT allows smaller, more agile exchanges to play with USD, and delegates the icky legacy finance stuff to the larger players who are set up to deal with it.

Of course no one should ever try to store long term value in USDT, but that's not what it's for. It's a tool for shifting the risk of touching USD to people that are actually prepared to handle it, which is fine.
Me too. I've subscribed and unsubscribed to their digital plans a bunch of times in the past ~10 years and it was never difficult. Perhaps this is new?
Just looked it up. 94ms. Starlink has far more latency.

By your lightsped math, Starlink won’t ever be able to compete on latency except in the most rural of areas with poor connectivity since low earth orbit has far more travel distance than convoluted surface routing.
In early days many Britons were enslaved by invading Saxon forces, although slavery in Ancient/Early Middle Age times was in many ways different then what we usually expect based of what we know of slavery in US. It wasn't really based on race/ethnicity/religion as much as being out of luck and owing money, or being simply on the wrong side of the war. Slaves were often later (if they survive long enough) accepted into the society and over time they would become fully assimilated into the society - some would even rise to become very respected people.

You can find some interesting facts on this subject here:
https://octavia.net/slavery-in-anglo-saxon-england/
It's not so simple. Because Apple hardware and software are closely interwoven it's hard to change to another brand.
Most of the software and accessories only works with Apple hardware and software so if you change you have to make rather large expenses to keep the previous status quo.
I.e. even if you are unhappy, for some it is simply too expensive to switch to another brand.
> As much as I respect Daniel for his work on curl, this claim is simply bullshit.

He was talking about "our" in the context of curl, so clearly talking about curl itself. Claiming that the claim is bullshit based on a blog post by Microsoft about a completely unrelated sample set is... not great methodology and certainly not worthy of using the "BS" stamp.
100% true. And let's recall the Time article how the media in US conspired against Trump: https://www.worldtribune.com/time-magazine-all-but-confirms-...
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We had a similar assignment in elementary school and for some reason the memory of teacher being surprised with the small number of species we found on the grass around school is still in my mind 15+ years.

I was so convinced there was nothing there (around 5 different species) and teacher kept grunting in disbelief.
Using services like Donotpay which generates credit card numbers that you can then freeze instantly might be the best solution for this. You can easily get an account when good content is recommended by friends etc then just switch off the card until you need to use the service. Cancelling is a lot of work.
I once cancelled a whole credit card to get rid of a gym membership.
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> Also where does text end and diagrams/images start?

Text is the written form of language. And language is defined as a sequence of symbols. Thus, text is a subset of diagrams. Arbitrary diagrams can be of any topology (e.g. DAGs or even have cycles), however text always is of sequential topology (or a hierarchy as there is an isomorphic mapping to sequences).

Basically, if there is a canonical way of reading it out loud, then it has an explicit sequence and is thus text.

By that rule it follows that:
Musical notation is text as it is strictly sequential (in time) and maybe hierarchical if there are multiple tracks. Most mathematical notations are text, as they are also sequential, even matrices are only a hierarchy of sequences which in turn can be serialized. Chemical / molecular diagrams are not text, they can contain cycles. Same goes for electronic and logic circuit schematics or rail way diagrams found in public transportation.

> Similarly the example about the Wikipedia text of human rights being supposedly impossible to convey via image

Schematics and diagrams are only use full if / because they are subject to a certain defined visual vocabulary. So if you had a visual vocabulary in that domain then you could express them as a diagram.
That last point is factually incorrect. There have been lightning fatalities indoors via phone lines and plumbing.
Thank you for the link.
In which Daniel Stenberg says:
"A rewrite of curl to another language is not considered".
Most engineers at startups get very little equity and most end up worthless due to dilution or failure.

Even if engineers hit the startup lottery, the payout for most are not that much. Very few end with multi million dollar payouts.

Statistically, financials are better with big company offers for most engineers.

Some engineers that get in early with a unicorn can hit the jackpot. This is mostly combination of timing and luck and network. Some just happened to be in the right place at the right time with right group of people. PayPal engineers, early Google engineers.

Early Apple engineers were not so lucky.
I think this is a dangerous fantasy, it does not require any AI, just putting all the data together with loads of man hours
> And if you're up for it, I highly encourage trying to try Zapier which is an amazing company and has terrific remote recruitment. Even if you don't get the job, great experience.

I've just check their job openings. In their application form they are asking questions about race, ethnicity, gender,... Is it legal to ask such questions and what is the relevance of such questions?
> I must say though that Fox News has gotten downright rational (on all things) since then. Politically biased, sure, but they're actually news lately.

I've noticed that national news outlets in the US tend to be better when their preferred party is in power and worse when the opposition is in power. I suspect it's because in the latter case the news outlets slant all of their coverage towards negativity and discrediting the opposition.

I thought CNN was much more tolerable during the Obama administration, but watching them over the last few years has consistently left my frustrated. Meanwhile, the reverse has been true for Fox News. That said, I don't consume much from either outlet.
I disagree slightly - people aren’t trying to make the organization work for them (in the sense of changing it), but rather, “wow the system is messed up so I’ll do what it asks for even if it makes no sense”.
> violent revolts and the populist riding on it?

Few of any country’s elite, nowadays, would be better off fighting a revolt than fleeing with their capital. It’s probably the defining characteristic of modern revolutions compared with pre-Industrial ones: the increasing intangibility and thus mobility of skill and capital.
this is a frontend, not a rewrite
The problem is we can't yet map a person's neurons well enough to know their motivations as to why they don't want to see the other person punished.

Is it a genuine desire to forgive? Or is it out of fear/undesire to relive the experience?

I honestly don't know and it's not my place to guess, but it's a problem that we see in other areas too. This line of reasoning is part of why DV cases move forward even if the victim doesn't want to.
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I'm not saying the old system was any better, I'm just saying that the winners of the tech industry were decided not just by what we traditionally think of as "disruption" (building a better mouse-trap) but also political disruption (finding a way to avoid traditional liabilities).

Uber in particular is interesting, as it's a vastly superior service built by somehow even more morally deficient individuals.
With companies still requiring phone numbers, Google Fi might be a good option if you have a US address. You keep the same number as you travel worldwide and there are no international roaming charges.

Edit:
There are no international data and texting roaming charges. Cell based calls can be about $.20 per minute, but wifi calling is free.
See https://www.wired.com/story/a-helicopter-ride-over-mars-nasa....
He seemed to have believed it wasn't a hoax when closing the border with China. He was being impeached at the time. He was criticized for being too drastic in this decision, even xenophobic.
I'd like to know when he actually called the virus a hoax.
I went to the site to see the prices... 100eur per month for 50-150Mbit connection? There are no data caps at the moment. I bet there will be soon.

That is quite a bit more than people pay for their Internet access around here. I'm out in the countryside and I pay 20EUR per month for unlimited download LTE (15-25Mbps - I have a diy directional antenna to get the service where I am, without it I would get 1mb).I sure miss my 150MBit (soon to be upgraded to gig) fiber Internet I used to have when I lived in a city, but I wouldn't pay 5 times more for 5 times the throughput. It is not like the faster connection will actually be that many more times useful to an average remote worker/home user.

When reliable, low latency uncapped 10MBit cheap Internet is available it is very hard to justify paying many times more for faster access.

I'm glad they are developing this network so people who have no other connectivity can use it, but I wish they offer something comparable to rural LTE in price (and consequently speed probably).
I always go with: "Please cancel my account and do not respond until it is cancelled."
Bad managers == unaccountable managers. If decision makers aren’t liable for decisions, they tend to get worse.

There is been a serious misunderstanding circulating around the office for as long as I can remember - management isn’t the same as leadership, no matter how many times someone is referred to as “senior leadership”.
> What is the scenario that could cause a catastrophic failure in the VVER design or implementation that would result in a disaster that would create a situation to evacuate cities 50kms away?

There is Neris river that is both near Astravets NPP and running through Vilnius - so it is not only 50 kms away and adds other risks.

I hope for the best but stuff like this does not give much confidence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astravets_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...
That wouldn't matter for passive information displays. The fact that it only needs power to change what is displayed makes them very useful in any system that displays something (semi)long-term. Think of roadmarkings, parking-space indicators, shop-signs, billboards, carbonmonoxide detectors, road-signals. I can figuratively come up with infinite amount of applications like this. Basically the only bad application is monitors/tvscreens/smartphone screens.
>The ultimate realization was in a startup you have equity, a decent amount in a good startup. At Microsoft it was a base salary and set amount of stock.

I joined a startup in 1999. There were 3 founders and I was employee #2 after that. I received a ton of options (this was before RSUs became popular). We had a great product and a great team, but 18 months later ran out of money and unfortunately it was right after the dotcom implosion of early 2001 when funding had completely dried up.

My takeaway was that base salary is actually the most important component of TC. Cash bonus based on some metric that you control comes second. Equity comes third. If you work for a FAANG, maybe equity can move higher up (though it remains to be seen how long this will be true).

Outside of FAANG (and top executives at F500 sized public companies) very few people are getting rich off of the "equity" component of their TC. The vast majority of startups go bust before IPO or acquisition.

Time is the most valuable commodity you have, don't squander it for lottery tickets and empty promises.
px is what we use. Just be prepared to write ALL the media queries.
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That it is a common trope in Hollywood movies doesn't mean it is common in the real world.
There will be a great spookiness to augmented reality.

Already, we invite soft surveillance into our private spaces, but will we agree to having those spaces mapped to the millimeter, our objects tracked in kind and location, our private actions (in addition to our words) persistently noticed, considered and logged?
How many bits revealed by choosing the wrong spelling of 'plain'?
I like this reasonably paced expose of "cool".

Because I take some words for their implicit meaning, I had immediate disagreement in mind when I started reading. Because in my mind "cool" was more akin to "interesting/exciting".

So it's nice to see it properly defined (and put in proper context). And I like the "grace under pressure" as a close cousin.

What I'd say, though, is that while this article might very much reflect the US experience, other places (e.g. Europe) might be at a different spot on the curve.

I'd go as far as to say that "cool" ain't dead yet (in Europe), even if without supporting evidence. :-)

Btw, yes, I can find many examples of the "someone lighting a cigarette with a Zippo, imagine someone who pays no lip service to being health-conscious, imagine someone who keeps a low profile and an ironic knowing distance from the world and has zero interest in sharing their life via social media" in my social network. Most of those folks might be a bit further along than in their teens, but they do exist.
Are you sure?

> That’s why we’re expanding our collaboration with the Internet Security Research Group to support the reimplementation of critical open-source software in memory-safe languages.

Though the rest of the article doesn't go into detail about this effort beyond http/TLS libs for curl.
How do you all deal with permanent establishment? Especially with renewed focus in BEPS and all that... e.g. substantive work as employee or agent in another country means proportional corp taxes
I'm not shilling Nano. I don't use it. It just happens to be the one cryptocurrency I know that has energy efficiency on its side. Why are you so sensitive to me mentioning it?
Aren’t drills more for safety preparedness for worst case scenario rather than fear driven; I see no problem here if it’s the former...
Have you considered seeding some of the land with native species? My summer job in college was doing wetland and prairie restorations. It is very rewarding to visit old project sites to see species that I planted still growing years later and birds and other animals that have returned to what was once an empty field. Many species can be introduced simply by hand casting seed on the ground. If you want to cover a larger area, you can use an "organ grinder" type device that sits on your chest and is powered by a hand crank.

(One of the sites I helped restore was old Meigs Field of Flight Simulator fame, now Northerly Island Park in Chicago. It has been reworked at least once since though, so I don't know if any of my plants remain.)
I think something that is often missing in such posts is the appalling attitude towards undefined behavior in C compilers.

Yes, okay. You've been careful. You've checked you're not accidentally overflowing a buffer, traced things with valgrind, all that good stuff.

None of that stops the compiler from doing random bullshit such as this in the search for better optimization:

https://gcc.godbolt.org/#%7B%22version%22%3A3%2C%22filterAsm...

Personally, as a programmer I dread that sort of thing. I want code to work, not to try to figure out how a compiler could interpret my code in the most twisted way possible, like some sort of evil genie.

I think that's one area where modern compilers are going wrong -- fine combing the spec for loopholes in the attempt to optimize better results in code being compiled into something nobody in their right mind would have intended.

Edit: For extra fun, try adding a std::cout to NeverCalled() -- it gets even more interesting.
Nahh... true politicians recognize what’s needed, but they are more than happy to run a narrative that suits them and their voters.

I mean, Texas has been leading in wind energy. If they really thought it was sissy energy would they have done that?

Just like Biden talked about student loan forgiveness and now we’re what? Less than a month post inauguration and he’s like “nah, we’re not doing that”.
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I worked within IBM garage, it's not 'any team of people', it's a specific organization that mostly does services work. Their 'secret sauce' is that they're trying to consult on technology and company culture at the same time, in line with Conway's lay.

I.E. If you want to be more agile you'll want to adopt CI/CD, if you want micro services you'll want smaller more autonomous dev teams.
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Joe Biden should declare a food and nutrition war
Think of it as a 'fuck you' to the thief and whoever might get the brick.
Maybe you get that, otherwise you can be bitter all you want about the inequality and how stealing will resolve that.
Forcing the right-left sprectrum on the NYT obscures the reality that they're mostly a neolibieral organization, if anything. They've been Manufacturing Consent since the mid 20th century.
I'd argue that Chernobyl, which was basically a man-made disaster that stemmed from a drill, is quite fundamentally different from getting hit by the fourth highest magnitude earthquake known to man.
No, I wouldn't. You never have to spend more than an hour actually talking to someone to do this and my phone can wait on a call and ping me when a human picks up on the other end, which frees my time up for other tasks
LOL, cable companies are the worst. I got Mediacom to cancel my non-working service and refund my money, but only after sending a completely deranged demand letter to them[1], copying their general counsel. And you know they googled me and found that I could back my threats before they did it.

[1] https://gowder.io/pgmediacom.pdf
Planted native nut trees and some pine. Seeded some switch grass but it didn't do well. Will burn this summer.