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> does not provide genuinely valuable economic activity

Not yet, but don't presume current economical status quo is working flawlessly. The current monetary system is kind of a joke, it no longer is backed by gold, in fact it's not backed by anything. So if you think about it for more than a minute why should it be that currency in the US should have any value? Creating an alternate store of value that is not just printed or made up and can be proven to exist at the very least provides something not too dissimilar to a database backup in case of a complete meltdown of fiat currency. It, however, does need to be allowed to get sufficiently big for a future restore to work. That is worth a bit of electricity. Yes, a bit, as a percentage of the GDP.
I never said they didn’t. I said don’t delude yourself that buying a used laptop has any real impact on the environment.

There’s simply no way to have a biological child and be environmentally friendly. Can’t put it any more simply. I’ve got no issue with people who want biological kids. Just acknowledge that it’s a selfish choice and don’t pretend that you can buy a used laptop like that matters in the slightest.
Thanks for that clarification (to you and the author of the dead sibling comment)!
Most debt is mortgage debt - and virtually all of that belongs to non-poor people.

For the last 50 years, home prices have tracked or exceeded CPI. When home prices appreciate, you get leveraged equity on your home. You are unquestionably benefiting enormously from inflation.

Sure - if you took out personal loans to go to Cancun for the weekend, you're not doing any better. But >68% of all personal debt is mortgage debt. The majority of debt is backed by assets which are inflating. The majority of people in debt (and especially companies) are benefiting enormously.

Further - even if you did have an unsecured personal loan or an auto loan or even student debt - you can refinance to artificially cheaper rates - so you are still benefiting.
So what? The point is that we don't name awards after them. They aren't erasing Millikan from the history books but rather choosing not to blindly use his name as a honour.

My secondary school house was named after a slave trader, they recently changed it - good riddance.

Of all the bad things modern reappraisal culture is leading to, this isn't one of them.
I'm always kind of curious as this "expensive" line of thinking. Yes, nuclear is expensive. Extremely expensive. But is it more expensive than a week's worth of catastrophic grid collapse due to global warming? We have the ability to build nuclear plants. We can reprocess the waste to make more energy with. We can get better at it to drive down the price. It's more reliable as a base load than any renewable.

My state gets over fifty percent of its energy from nuclear power plants. I pay a few pennies more per kWh than neighboring states. I'd pay a few more pennies than that to figure out the rest of this issue.
Would it then be feasible to replace second trimester abortions with early births? I think most pro-choice people would accept early birth as an alternative if it were safe.
There's a difference between committing to your local tree and pushing it to others. You can always cleanup before pushing.
Bitcoin doesn't need high transaction volume to provide value to its users, which is obviously apparent by looking at the current transaction volume.

PoW is also the most efficient way to do what Bitcoin is doing. Attempts to displace PoW have all failed, because the required trade-offs are always too high, and detract from the value of the network.

If you can figure out a fair way to seed value on a network that doesn't require burning energy, then please let the people know, and your new magic cryptocurrency will dominate the crypto-ecosystem overnight. No one would love that more than me. I could talk for hours about the various ideas people have had in the past, and why they failed, but I don't think this is the right place for that rant.

It's also important to recognize that there isn't a single watt of PoW power that's wasted. The power utilized reflects exactly amount of value that Bitcoin is providing to the world. Satoshi also made the mining rewards get cut in half every 4 years, so the value to power usage ratio gets better and better over time.

I could also go on about how mining facilities overwhelmingly are using excess power produced almost entirely from clean power sources. If the goal is reducing carbon emissions, there are so many serious offenders that are massively more wasteful.
The fact that they have wind farms is entirely irrelevant to the fact that their economy is dependent on oil and their politicians are major proponents of denialism.

Stop playing dumb.
The worm logo is taught in design school. Like the FedEx arrow, it has become a textbook example of classic design. It also harkens back to the UI elements of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which is a very positive link for the NASA brand (although the causality is backwards--the worm inspired the Star Trek set designer).
Somehow just.js is faster than Rust and C++ in 20-queries benchmark, they're all using postgres. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...
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That has been in for quite some time. I don’t remember since when, but at least in the 2019 version.
>> unless your TLS layer is padding out to (path) MTU

> I'd actually like to see more servers doing this. In TLS 1.3 it's actually free (in earlier versions signalling the intention to pad costs some space so it's possible you've got some free space but not enough to add padding without using a whole extra packet), but in TLS 1.3 as a side effect of other changes needed you can add any number of empty padding bytes to a record). This means an adversary loses some precision in estimates of your payload size from size of TLS transfer, which may reduce their ability to fingerprint these payloads.

Yeah, I think this is a good use of not entirely needed bytes. Even though it's way more bytes than repeating one of the hostnames. Of course, it puts more emphasis on path MTU working, especially if the client does it too. It seems very likely the server side of the handshake will easily fill at least one whole packet, unless you've got jumbo packets or terrible packetization.
This is one of the reasons I thoroughly test my websites on older hardware and browsers. Just got finished doing basic testing on an G4 Mac with Firefox 2.x and similar vintage Safari and IE.

Internet+Web is amazing, almost miraculous technology, enabling even 25-year-old devices adequate access with a little bit of forethought.
There's hints elsewhere it's Amazon.

Their build system is interesting. One of the quirks is you define your application, and every library/package that you depend on. They don't depend on system libraries for their application code. The idea is to get as consistent an operating environment where possible. It's both generally amazing, and an absolute pain in the arse (usually when you least want it to be, because some upstream package changed their dependencies and you end up with version conflicts to unpick).

When Heartbleed came out, the patches landed in the Amazon build system for the OpenSSL package something like midnight. By the time I got in to the office in the morning, almost every service had been fully rebuilt with patches, and services that do CI/CD had already had the patches deployed. Services that didn't have CI/CD were already kicking off deployments of their front end fleets. IIRC they were paging teams when relevant packages were complete to make sure deployments got kicked off ASAP.

So in this case, someone will have patched Python packages for relevant versions, built an updated version, and everything that depends on it will have immediately recompiled, and from there all the packages that depend on those, and so on down the line. Given how python is used a lot for operations etc. I wouldn't be surprised to find a significant chunk of Amazon got rebuilt today, even in cases where Python wasn't being exposed to external users, or even used by the service directly. That's a lot of components, and probably left zero capacity left for anything unrelated, and no doubt there will be quibbles about the ordering in which things got built.
It's not the only form of scrip in Fallout76 either. Gold Bullion is scrip since you can only acquire it from and spend it at the faction camps. You just about need an accountant with all the different currencies F76 has. Atom is a scrip, SCORE is a scrip, etc!

But for what it's worth, the game is completely playable without giving them any money but the cost of the initial game, so props to them for that.
The press release calls him Caltech's founding president. They don't pretend they don't know him.
There's already another holocaust ongoing (see what the CCP is doing to the Muslim Uighur population). No one seems to care. It's all about the money at the end, all the holocaust museums didn't seem to prevent a repeat.
> it does not make any sense in 2021 to have a currency that need heavy computation thus increasing power consumption

Because it makes so much sense to dedicate equal or if not vastly greater resources to playing games?
Electricity usage will forever be a human need and people need to realize and accept that. Taking down bitcoin because it's software that runs on computers that uses electricity is not the answer here - renewable and sustainable energy is the answer.
Everybody is just echoing the same headline they read on some news article about bitcoin using a lot of energy without thinking it through properly.
Agreed. I never do this. Why do people do this?
Except, wind lost generation capacity in the cold, just as all other forms of energy generation did.

Is it possible that warming temperatures in the oceans weren't considered to be an issue when we first started seeing arctic air being blown further south by the jetstream due to a changing climate from anthropogenic carbon sources? Possibly. There are certainly mitigation mechanisms they could have invested in. If the public heard their taxpayer dollars or utility fees were being wasted on winterizing efforts in notoroiously hot Texas, even if there were responsible decision-makers, their hands were tied at risk of being shamed for wasteful spending in the court of public opinion.

It is still a shame that they're left out in the cold, so to speak. Hopefully they can come up with more sensible remedies, if not out of a change of ideology, perhaps a sense of practicality?
My argument is a mm is too fine in that situation. 1/8ths and 1/16ths are ideal when working at those scales.

In reality I use both systems all the time. It’s situational.

> When I hear anything past about 1/8th of an inch my brain shuts down, and I give up.

Realistically, same. 32nds don’t get used outside of some specialty wrenches. 16ths are a practical limit where other scales start to make more sense. Probably millimeters.
I don’t know if this is what the previous poster was getting at, some there is some theoretical evidence that the absorption wavelengths used in photosynthesis are not tuned for maximum power input but for stable power input: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12281

If this is the case it would be a motivation that is fundamentally very different than that of a multijunction solar cell.
It's cool. I wish I could be happy.

But for me, this sort of thing just sends me further into a deep depression.

It ain't right. Pictures of food don't fix hunger.

I hope that we snap out of all of this soon. Writing these comments, just to leave a log, in case someone cares, if it all goes wrong.

I miss having the ability to miss. Having the feeling that others exist. Right now I feel that other people stopped existing.
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I do not underestimate it.

I eat a plant based diet, live in a tiny apartment, will never have children, and never fly (have never driven a car either). I’m complicit.

A person can buy a used laptop and they’re still complicit, too. Sure, they can say “I’m not part of the problem” and feel good about it but that’s what people do. Bury their heads in the sand and make themselves feel good.

It’s why we’re in the mess we’re in.

We’re all complicit.
I have to question the value of text written by someone who sets white-on-white text in their website...
The support duration for macOS is quite short compared to Windows. But if one wants to continue using working hardware for longer, there’s always Linux. It won’t provide the same experience as macOS. When I tried it on even older Macs, I had some struggles in getting the trackpad (external one) to work nicely. But it’s an option to avoid throwing it out and instead using it (even as a secondary device) or handing it to someone else.

Other than software updates, repair and parts replacement options for those older models (which are easier to repair compared to the newer ones) may also dry up soon. Apple marks Macs as obsolete when they’re about seven years from the original release date. So Apple paid service is not an option.
No asset class is QE-proof. Low interest rates drive people to hold anything but cash. If interest rates go up, people hold cash, demand for [bitcoin,stock,real-estate] drops.
brutish?

Although as a Brit myself it's amusing to consider myself some kind of atavistic archetype of humanity
Anecdata: My wife is still rocking a ~10 year old Macbook Air, which is fine for "household" duties. I have a Mac Pro 2013 for my main computer.
Well there you go, you've identified the problem. We've confused "want" for "need".

If you make $100,000 a year, you can't afford a $600,000 home. Too bad, so fucking sad. More people need to be told this, by everyone down the line, from their bankers to their parents.

And you're making far more tradeoffs than just three holidays per year, the nicest food, etc.. That level of debt means you miss out on investment opportunities when they present themselves. GameStop might have been one of the most recent and dramatic ones I've ever seen. I wish I had known about Roaring Kitty / /u/DeepFuckingValue a year ago. I've been looking for some investment vehicle to park a significant sum for awhile now. After watching his videos, I would have easily dropped $25,000 there. Unfortunately I didn't know about it. But what's even worse is knowing something is going to take off and not having much - or even worse, any - money to invest.

When Facebook IPO'd, I only had $10,000 to invest, but I was able to purchase for $18.50 per share. Would that I had had $100,000...
Buying and selling people is not the same. There is no science. It’s just brutality. Eugenicists were looking to better society, albeit absurdly. It was bullshit but back then it wasn’t.

It’s like condemning shamen and medicine men and women. Sure it was bullshit, but they thought it was real and effective.

We’re going to Mars. Maybe Elon will be first. Most everyone would be excited.

Maybe some day in the future it’ll be the worst thing we ever did as a species. Do we vomit on them because now we know better?
I think you’re attributing a lot to a few there. Absolutely Joe Rogan helped make podcasts the phenomenon they are today, but so did a whole lot of other people. Same with PG and Altman: “startup culture” exists outside of their influence.

I guess my metric is “if they didn’t exist, would their achievements have still happened?”. I’d argue with PG and Rogan they would have, but that Trump would not. Another I’d include on that list is Steve Jobs.
> Doesn't government suck because our best and brightest often do not choose to work in government?

No, it sucks because it extorts money from citizens using violence.
Big fan of older gen laptops. While I confess that for my personal pcs they have always been pretty expensive with high end parts I find that I prefer old cheap used laptops for work and other more serious things. They do everything you need and you don't need to be fussy with keeping it safe because it hardly cost anything.
I took one to class when I went back to college and younger students kept poking at the screen expecting it to be a touch screen.
> Do you also expect the Texas government to bust into oil and gas company headquarters and force them to say they believe in global warming?

Actually, yes, I would be perfectly happy if the oil industry was not run on full 'free market' capitalist principles, and they acknowledged climate change is real.

An article contrasting the Alberta and Norwegian oil industries.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/c...
As with used cars, 1-3 year old Thinkpads seem to be a pretty good sweet spot. New enough to be reasonably powerful / efficient / light, but old enough to be cheap and accessible.

Corporate IT shops are often selling off batches of laptops that they've replaced, so selection is usually good. The repair ecosystem will have been running for a while, so it'll be easy to get model specific upgrade and replacement parts on eBay for ~1/3 of what Lenovo charges (hinges, LCD panels, keyboards, trackpads, batteries, outer shell, motherboards, etc.).

You can usually find anything from "this laptop sat on a shelf for two years and looks pristine," to "previous owner was a slob, please take this off our hands." So depending on your comfort level and interest, you can either start using it right away, or buy every possible replacement/upgrade part and essentially build yourself a new custom machine.

Right now I'm using a T480 purchased new from Lenovo (for work), and another T480 that I bought on eBay for ~$600 and completely refurbished. I doubt I'll be buying a new personal laptop again -- rebuilding an old one is too much fun.
Because one NASA Administrator in the 90's f---'ing hated the worm with a passion. That's seriously all there is to it.

I worked at NASA about 10 years ago, before the worm revival. The logo was still visible on older equipment from that era, and everyone had a great deal of respect for its design elegance. But Dan Goldin made Worm vs. Meatball a political fight that people still had PTSD from. It took a crafty political outsider like Jim Bridenstein to find a solution that everyone could be happy with.

I think it also helps that after the Shuttle was retired with no successor, people now look back at the worm days (which were the glory days of the Shuttle) with nostalgia.
Are neural net weights code or configuration settings? Are email connectivity parameters code or configuration settings?

How would a judge distinguish the two?
@maxharris pointed out the article’s fib about power generation, but the ignore the other important aspect.

Vertical farming does not require the farm be in the same location as the power generation. This allows production closer to population centers, and in climates where production would be otherwise non viable.
Commenting is the answer. It stays until I'm certain I no longer need it.
isn't vertical farming just moving land that was in the horizontal direction, into the vertical direction then creating a complication where the plants grown under the top rows need to be fed by an artificial source of light?

I mean I think this is actually pretty logical because you can't place the solar panel above the top plants because then you are losing the advantage typical horizontal farming gets from being able to directly be fed by the sun, so then you have to place the solar panel next to the plant?

The real question is whether this can save space, is whether you can generate more energy from a solar panel that takes up the same amount of space a plant would require if planted horizontally, than said plant could absorb from the sun directly.

Plants take up much more space than one would expect because their roots branch out further than the actual circumference of the actual plant body itself. So in that way a lot of sunlight is wasted because it hits the extra area of soil the roots need but the actual plant body doesn't. Now if instead of hitting soil, it is instead hitting a solar panel then the general question is whether or not this is creating more efficient use of the sun, because even with a minor improvement in efficiency you should "theoretically" be able to save a considerable amount of space when growing at scale.

Whether it will be cheaper to grow this way, probably not because with vertical farming obviously will come with a ton of logistical problems when it comes to harvesting or maintenance/construction of infrastructure. But I don't see how growing three plants vertically with a solar panel that feeds the bottom two is technically not saving space unless you need more area of solar panels sitting next to them than all 3 plants would consume had you just planted them all next to each other.

In other words would you need 2 or more solar panels + the sun to feed 3 horizontal plants? If so then just plant them horizontally and let the sun do all the work.
Does this argument apply to anyone making a profit so long as they use energy? How can you make profit without energy? I'd think to lose money you will also need energy.
The comments are telling, but I wanted to point out something from a different perspective.

I have friends from school who never really made it anywhere. One makes $12 an hour moving boxes around in Pennsylvania, another is stuck living at home and hasn't held down a job for more than a few months at any point in his life.

I have heard from this friend group, on many occasions, statements that prove they have no concept of relative value or of how money works at all. The guy making $12 an hour would be frustrated to hear you say that you make 40k and can barely afford minimum living. The cost of living differences between you would go completely unconsidered.

This is a roundabout way of saying that most people have a very narrow view of the world. Unfortunately, in my experience, it doesn't matter how educated, intelligent, or wealthy an individual is; they still resist expanding their world-view.
Yes. Some materials absorb multiple photons for each one they emit and thus have enough energy to emit at shorter wavelengths. Cesium vapor is one (though probably not a good choice for this application!).
I think Abbott is one of those right twice a day kind of guys, and in this is one of those cases.

The engineering side like to focus on the difficulty of stabilizing a grid with a lot of renewables. But this isn't really TX's problem since we have all these NG plants that spin up a few times a year and make their entire yearly operating budget.

But there is also financial destabilization because the wind generators are putting a lot of financial pressure on the entire system. None of those NG plants would have wanted to miss out on the last couple days, but they did because they are also operating at fairly thin margins because the wind has fairly low capital costs and just pumps energy into the grid when it feels like it, even when they aren't actually making any money.

If the price of NG goes up much, this will become completely unsustainable.

Frankly, I think what we need is a power demand tax/fee. If your a generator and you can't supply energy during peak demand times you get hit with say a 20% generating fee that get transferred to the energy sources that do. That would force the intermittent sources to at least pay for part of the peaking and base load capacity that has to deal with the intermittent sources flooding the market. It would also strongly discourage market manipulation by "accidentally" having a bunch of generation capacity offline at the same time.