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Your mental model of directed graphs is a functional model.

In the more general sense that may be true, but I was talking about Factorio specifically, where I'm using the graph representation to do the analysis.

Or rather, just because a functional interpretation exists doesn't mean I actually reach for the toolkit filed in my memory in the box labeled "functional stuff". In practice I mostly reach for the boxes I've filed away under "linear algebra", "graph theory", and "circuit design", which aren't things I typically reach for when I'm actually doing functional programming.
TLA was accepted in the specification before the module loading scenarios were fully baked. Probably best to use async IIFEs until the TLA spec bugs are sorted out and the fixes are subsequently implemented in the major browsers and released. Maybe a year from now.
Gmail caches by default.

The catch is that Gmail caches all the same images from the same servers, so email marketers get around it by serving tracking pixels with obscure, unique URLs per individual.

Geotargeting fails because it loads on GMail servers.
I'm going to miss this catalog. I really enjoyed browsing through the catalog once I learned it was mostly CGI: http://web.archive.org/web/20170327144912/http://www.cgsocie...
> bare metal servers is somehow depicted as normal or usual or basic competency skills. It isn't. At all.

Just calling them servers is sufficient. I don't know when this "bare metal" crap started

Standing up a service is a basic competitancy
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I also do not know what a Roomba is.
You just start it. Beware - this game is notorious for showing you in your face that whatever doesn't work in your base is YOUR problem, you made a mistake, probably plural, probably too basic to fix. So prepare to start over multiple times. It's my at least tenth attempt in 5 years right now. And it's lots of fun!
Well we regularly buy LCD panels in large and small quantities from big manufacturers, and distributors, in order to integrate them into our industrial PCs. While we are not a household name, we're big in our niche and I'd say we have industry experience.

I was not on the project and I'm not in purchasing, so I don't know the details, but from what I heard it was quite odd. The vendor (not e-ink, but a downstream integrator) was first willing to sell thousands of units, we got a devkit from them and started developing. But suddenly they were like "What is your business plan sir?" and "I'm afraid we cannot sell at the moment". The quantity was not the problem, they sounded like they were not happy with the use case.

The reason you never see hard evidence is that there is no evidence to be found - it's just that the vendors behave "odd" and are picky with whom they sell to.
Interestingly, I spent more time fighting gems and nuggets than npm, despite spending vastly more time with npm.

A thoughtlessly npm’d together FE is a pain, as is any thoughtlessly bolted together anything. Granted, some things lend themselves more to disaster than others.

I think it’s a people thing. Hire lots of hardcore .net peeps to wire up a complete setup, and of course nuget will be solid and npm a flaming mess.
It's figurative? The point is that they're pretending to be something they're not.
Maybe the proxy removes metadata such as useragent, but often the pic urls contain uniquely identifiable information, eg a number that is unique to that email that received the email. That way you still leak that it is opened, how often, etc (unless they cache, I don't know).
Somewhat unrelated IKEA has been brought to it's knees during the pandemic and it has made their online ordering completely useless. For a company shifting focus to online only I would think they would want to be able to ship some things purchased online.

Stock is also low in the Portland store, but even the few items available can't be purchased online and shipped to me. I've tried to order a number of things recently and they won't ship anything to my house.
> [...] all the way until the lower unit bound, which is a satoshi (0.00000001 BTC), is reached. If we ever reach that point in our lifetime the code will need to be forked to upgrade the protocol to handle further subdivisions.

No fork necessary. We can already use millisatoshis on L2.

https://lightningwiki.net/index.php/Denominations
That's a feature of the database engine, not the file format. You could attach a similar database engine to a zip backend.
Thank you. I forgot the Proc#[] method.

I never thought I would ever write these words, but the Python equivalent is more beautiful. Ouch.
It's well-written, but reads like fan fiction. Isaacson seems to be unable to separate himself from the "reality distortion field" he describes Jobs having.
I was just telling a colleague that I love working with Ruby specifically because it makes me happy. It's not the fastest nor the most elegant, but it really does make me smile to work with Ruby. That's a huge win for me, personally, and will drive me to continue using it whenever possible.

That said, I've been playing with Rust lately and it's giving me very similar vibes. My hope is that once I get the basics down I'll be able to use Rust for those things that require a bit more performance and I won't have to give up being happy to work on.
That’s a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it.

In general, I think amateur radio operators are still mostly like that. Most of the hams I know respect the hobby and its rules, and will gladly relay emergency traffic without delay. Many do even more, including being members of groups like ARES and RACES.

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Right. 60% of the hashrate in China, where 60% of the power comes from coal, to mine a useless coin.

If miners could burn cyanide to mine, they would. They don't give a single shit about clean energy, just cheap energy
> and one of cryptocurrencies' goal is to decrease this amount of databases.

And replace them with one of the biggest wastes of electricity?

What's the point of "getting rid of databases", when you end up needing them for something as fundamental as an BTC/USD exchange anyway?
There is the reflexivity of bitcoin's network effect. The more institutions adopt bitcoin, the more stable it is, and hence more institutions will want to adopt it.

Bitcoin won't be a unifying currency. It behaves like a commodity, and commodities prices can swing wildly - remember negative crude oil prices last year?
Fortnite creator Epic files European Union complaint against Apple
I'm not saying nobody knows the difference, certainly a lot of people do. But these people are a tiny percentage of the general public.
We are all waiting for the "iPhone moment" - when it goes from existing to being a good experience.
> It’s a simulation game called Factorio, in which you are given resources that you have to explore, build factories that process them, create more and more complex systems, until you are finally able to launch a spaceship that may take you away from an inhospitable planet. If this is not engineering at its purest then I don’t know what is.

I think that good engineers should focus first on how to prosper on the current planet which was favorable enough to sustain their live until now, rather than carelessly exploit its resources with a delusive goal of finding a more hospitable place somewhere else.
That's exactly what types are for dude
It gets cold in Texas, especially north Texas. I never claimed otherwise. It regularly snows in Dallas, but it does not regularly snow in Houston.
Movie recommendation: Moon (2009) sci-fi
I live in a country where a good six months I'm wearing a warm hat and gloves and my phone is buried deep in my clothes to keep the battery over the freezing point.

It's a lot easier to say "Siri, play podcasts" (Which triggers a Shortcut to start playing a specific playlist in Overcast) rather than opening my jacket, digging out the phone, taking off my gloves and fumbling with it to get the podcasts running.
> "as we've always been"

To reuse a phrase from the native-Spanish-speaking Americans of the Southwest, whose family moved there in the 1700s or earlier, "I didn't cross the border, the border crossed me."

In the late 1990s, when I started with Python, writing Python C extensions was definitely not off the beaten path. I remember reading the design discussion, and I think I contributed some input too. I probably knew the original developers from going to Python conferences.

I know that at 20+ years old it's also long in the tooth. There's certainly features I would like that just aren't going to happen with it, like being able to emit a Makefile that I can use during development for incremental rebuilds, instead of taking 10 seconds to compile.

And distutils isn't going away for another couple of years, so I can plan time to migrate.

But I don't have an inkling of what that migration path might be, and can find no mention that the current set of developers are even aware of this issue. (Not that I've looked for more than a few hours.)

BTW, is "setup.cfg" dead and forgotten now?
Do you mean to say you do not believe me? What do you base this on?
"Alexa stop" works too and is a bit more polite in my opinion :D
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Isnt the proxy downloading and caching the image before the user opens the email? If so doesnt that prevent tracking if/when the user actually opens the email?
Oh heavens, there are so many. Let me think about it and I'll post a few titles. It would be easy to list lots but for those studying HPS it's important to make them as relevant as possible.

The 'trouble' with philosophy (actually more its beauty) is that it's such wide, diverse and interesting subject that it's dead easy wander off into one of its many branches and then get sidetracked. As it is, many professional philosophers specialize in one of these branch fields (not that that's a bad thing as they've already learned the prerequisites - shortcuts don't usually work here).

Although I've studied philosophy I'm not a professional philosopher (I'm in technolgy) so it's very important that I try not to mislead anyone (actually philosophy teaches you to think like that).

Irrespective of any texts that I would recommend, there are two things you should do: (a) consult the syllabuses of traditional university philosophy courses, and (b) either talk to a mainstream philosopher or professional university lecturer in the subject about suitable texts or even about doing a short course in the subject (that's if you are already doing HPS).

(Let me stress, identify mainstream philosophical strands first, learn from them so you don't waste time.)

Let me add these points, I've always been involved with technology, science and engineering - technology has brought me my bread and butter but my studying philosophy and HPS has profoundly altered my perception of technology per se - and for that matter the world in general. In many ways it's made me a better human being simply because it teaches one to view the world from multiple perspectives and to try and think logically. (Mind you, that doesn't always work but you at least know when you've screwed up. Philosophy is a very persistent and recalcitrant rose-colored glasses remover.)

Like many obsessive techies, it's easy for me to get fixated on my own specialities at the exclusion of almost everything else. Philosophy has the marvelous ability of regularly kicking me off my pedestal back down to earth.

As such, I reckon both philosophy and HPS ought be compulsory short courses for both scientists and engineers at university.
I think you are giving them too much credit - Microsoft won’t talk to anyone who isn’t a partner and GitHub tends to just be silent on anything they can’t cut and paste an answer to. It’s more an issue that mumbling on about your algorithm and submitting support tickets while bereaved kin desperately seek access to a loved one’s account is just incredibly bad PR and always makes the front page - and nobody wants the job of dealing with that.
That's because the peephole optimizer only looks at constants, and lists aren't constant while tuples are.

It doesn't explode in size.

The peephole optimizer is checking for uniqueness, via a dict, and evaluating hash() of that constant takes a very long time.
Right but his focus since the dragon speech has failed to materialise. He’s done a lot of things in that time but towards the goal articulated there. So understandably he regrets the way his dots connected.
I think rather than continuing to debate relatively peripheral issues (such as consistency or the culture of psychiatrists), let me just state what I think the crux of the issue is:

I believe that journalists ought to honour all requests for pseudonymity, unless they believe there is a strong public interest in not doing so in any particular case, and if they believe there is such a strong public interest, they should be explicit about what they think it is, so others can judge their public interest claim. I think this is the decent thing to do, and sustains a culture of respecting people's privacy.

NYT did not follow that standard in the case of Scott Alexander.
When you read the last sentence, it's like you just saw a giant closing parenthesis.
I listed half a dozen times when it got well below freezing in Houston in December alone. Don't move the goal posts to snow, you said that freezing temps in Houston were unprecedented in the modern era, which is just simply not true.
You could do a shortcut for this?

I've got one for "Siri, good night" that turns off the lights, sets the phone to DND, turns down the brightness and starts Sleep Cycle in the correct mode depending on the day (alarm on/off).
The article doesn't mention (or I didn't see it) how they will show their new products to the costumers. How will they tell us?
The magasine was a big, bulky commercial that we happily subscribed to. It must've been the cheapest ad that a company has ever produced.
For some more technical details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0NakShgbHY.
This makes me even more anxious, there are just so much things that have to go right.
As long as linux has to hack zfs into the kernel with all their shims to avoid breaking license terms, I'm going to consider zfs a FreeBSD advantage. I've heard too many people complaining about issues with zfs on linux, so as someone who likes to configure once and then forget about it for a few years, that's not for me. I don't want to update my system one day and then find I can't mount my filesystem anymore (or worse).

For networking performance, I doubt it makes a noticeable difference in personal use. Firewalls are pretty nice on FreeBSD though, at least for my uses.

Of course, it's not like FreeBSD doesn't have problems of its own - I've had multiple times where I boot into my machine and find that I don't have graphics until I build the drivers from ports because their binary packages were compiled against an earlier release, leading to kernel incompatibilities (also can't figure out how to get hdmi audio out of my current card, not a deal breaker but wasn't what I was hoping for either).

Pick your poison I guess, but until linux gets a comparably featured and stable filesystem I have a tough time seeing myself move away from FreeBSD. I've definitely considered various linux distros due to certain applications missing in FreeBSD or just general pain points though. Just very hard to leave zfs, and also most linux distros either seem to be stable with ancient packages, or always changing and often breaking things in the process. Stable base with latest packages is very nice.
Every developer is a potential full stack developer, even if they don’t realise it. The user interface is just another interface, with its own set of rules.
> But you also ignore ACH/wires/credit cards and all the ways most money moves today. What is the fundamental issue there that Bitcoin solves?

Regarding this point, Bitcoin solves the freedom to move capital. People in the U.S. under-appreciate this freedom. I'm from a country with strict capital control, very very difficult to move money outside the country, it's hard even to convert local currency to USD.
https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/
There is the Italian translation by Eco himself, it's titled: "Il fascismo eterno".
Their activity detection does not inspire confidence. Google is an incredibly bad proxy for user activity.

Edit: downvoted but no substantive responses? Guidelines are for thee but not for mee, I guess.
I use it all the time. I saw a customer using a graphical app last week and I was surprised to see one. Of course there are, I see people connecting to PostgreSQL and MySQL databases on servers with DBeaver or similar apps. I always ssh and run the command line client. I think it's faster to operate. In the case of sqlite the command line client is a bit underpowered compared to the other databases but it's good enough.
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The title makes it sound lime they lost the key to the Bitcoins...
My crazy conspiracy theory is that there is some ownership overlap with traditional display manufacturers. If it gets used widely as a general-purpose display this can cannibalize sales of LCDs as the technology gets better and cheaper. [1]

That's one reason you can get good and cheap e-ink if you are building an ebook reader [2], or if you are building these little price displays for the shelves in supermarkets. But if you want a monitor, you have to either pay a lot of money or buy something for tinkerers, there is no inbetween.

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[1] The rational reason would be that they have only limited production or support capacity, and sell to the easiest, most lucrative customers first.

[2] Of course, for e-book readers you also have the benefit of scale if you are Amazon or Sony. But there are also smaller vendors, and in the case of the digital price tags the companies that make them are mostly smallish businesses.
The latest thinking is that with the seasonality of solar insolation and the current demand curve, a complete move to solar will require massive overprovisioning. (5x, 10x capacity at solar noon?) The price curve in 2050 or so would look funny to modern eyes: power would be free around noon, but expensive at night. Charge your car for nothing during the day, and enjoy endless hot water, but the minute the sun sets you'd cut your own throat rather than run anything power hungry.

Amusingly, Texas in this current crisis is halfway there: the handful of people who haven't had their power cut off are going to see gigantic power bills next month https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/texas-utility-company-urge...

I wonder what a similar cold snap would look like in the future. Long distance HVDC lines ramping up to full capacity. Strident alerts on your phone as KWh spot prices triple, then trigintuple. Water heaters and EV charges passing stop loss triggers and shutting off. A wood stove in every home. I see Texans in this thread talking about using space heaters, and boy will they regret that when they see the bill. Electric blankets and heat pads are dozens of times more efficient: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/03/home-heating-for-the-hard...
If this is a question, it's the wrong forum
Today my team decided to use RudderStack because it’s open source and cheaper than segment. I’m integrating GA UA API as a destination and it has been a chore, but I’m really keen to help support OSS products as much as I can.
This is what I keep reading, but when I tried that, auto fill didn't work for this.
fond meme-ories.
I said that it doesn’t get below freezing in Houston every year. Certainly not for days at a time.
Wow, from another era. I miss these random vBulletin forums, they were pretty ubiquitous back in the day. There were other 90s memes at the time, like dancing baby, hamster dance, etc. But this is definitely one of the earliest examples I can remember of this sort of emergent creative collaboration.

I wonder if kids these days appreciate how novel photoshop was at the time. That was at least part of the hilarity of the meme.
Microsoft will definitely speak to people who aren’t partners - I work for a small business (12 people) and the two times I have had to go to Microsoft for support on 365 they have been incredibly helpful.
Man, Tribes was such a great video game. It still holds up, even, and I don't know of anything like it in the 25(?) years since.
Their support systems have also fully broken down here in the Netherlands.

Phone is not available because their people are working from home (this is entirely a solvable problem...), there's no email and the chat channels are so overwhelmed that it takes a week for them to respond.

This is not a great experience when you received nothing and your delivery is marked as "delivered a week ago" in a completely borked status page.
Hey, Cowboydang jokes are off ulimit!
Personal anecdote, buz IKEA's online shopping has always suckes for me, even before 2020.

- Shipping options disappear and reappear randomly when refreshing the shopping cart

- some items just cannot be bought online for no clear reason (baking spatulas cannot, cooking spatulas can)

- Several packages arrived completely smashed open, and returning them involved bringing them "back" to the nearest IKEA which wasn't particularly fun with 35kg of furniture and no car.
You'd probably be more comfortable if you left your house and went winter camping. Surprisingly, it's not that difficult to stay warm while winter camping, you just have to be doing something: cooking, eating, exploring, talking.

Learn neat skills like: keep your water in a cooler so it doesn't freeze; pee in a nalgene rather than go outside to pee, then keep the nalgene in your sleeping bag to retain heat; eating to stay warm; changing clothes to stay warm; covering your neck to stay warm; which clothes will actually keep you warm and which just look neat; what fabrics are best in winter; layering; what stoves work below freezing; how to stay positive ("hey, my toes still work!"); how to remove ice from your socks in the morning; how to keep icicles from forming in your tent; how to anchor a tent in a blizzard; how to find a tent in a blizzard; how to help your friend find his tent that blew away in a blizzard; how to pick snacks (two things that don't freeze hard: fat and alcohol); how to pick snacks so you don't need to poop often; staying hydrated and warm.
Apple mail will load them if you forward an email, even if you have remote images turned off. (last I checked)
I'm on mobile, so can't do 'show source', but it's not simply a clever use of getYear()?
I am genuinely upset about this. I have such fond memories of thumbing through endlessly as a teenager and dreaming of having my own spaces that were so wonderfully busy and eclectic. My wife and I were just at IKEA last week picking up a new bed for our growing toddler, I glanced at the catalogs as we passed and decided against picking one up. I hope I can still get my hands on a couple old copies to keep on my bookshelf.

Edit: Just placed an order for the specific catalog year I have so many memories of reading. One of my sillier purchases, but it feels like a piece of personal history.
Roundcube doesn't.
> I said that it doesn’t get below freezing in Houston every year. Certainly not for days at a time.

Yeah, but you did not say that.

You said:

> It gets below freezing every year in Texas. But in the biggest city in Texas -- Houston, with a metro population of 7 million, it does not. This is unprecedented in the modern era.

If you want to change that to say "this is an unusually long and wide freeze across the entire state", or "this is an unprecedented power outage" that's arguably true. But you didn't actually say that, you said that freezing temps in Houston were unprecedented, which is objectively not true.

Heck, a long freeze knocking off the Texan power grid isn't even unprecedented in this century. A similar thing happened back in 2011[0].

0 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ercot-rollingblackouts/te...