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> The oral tradition of vedic learning has preserved the entire vedic texts by purely human memory for several generations. This in an enormous accomplishment given the vast corpus of text preserved without any errors creeping in.This has been made possible by a diligently devised systematic scheme of chanting the vedic corpus.

A system of chanting for memory has been used since pre-history across many cultures. See for example Greek epic poetry, Hebrew Scripture, Arabic Koran, Anglo-Saxon Beowulf, Viking sagas.

In ptr-literate societies, bards were able to memorize huge amounts of information and recite to their listeners. Much of the poetry with its rhyme/meter/repetition was written that way to aid in memorization.

That sort of memorization got a lot less as literacy grew and people could just read stuff for themselves, but it was pretty widespread and certainly not something unique to the Vedic tradition.
Lucky for us, most criminals are lazy.
I wouldn't, but I wouldn't bet with him either. I think some people (like myself) have the personality where they won't make a bet if there's too much uncertainty.
A note: CSS is on here because while it isn't turing-complete, it is a logic language like Prolog, and it has performance considerations, and can do a variety of extremely powerful things: http://csszengarden.com/
but they aren't in control of operations.

imagine management asking surgeons to cut corners and water down disinfectants, the lawsuit would be _legendary_
Summary: Texas's energy market does not incentivise capacity planning as common in other utility markets instead pricing only energy delivered. When demand increased and capacity dropped the grid failed. The post claims this market structure is designed to make renewable a more attractive investiment which partly dropped capacity due to lack of wind velocity but then sides steps the question of winterization of the non wind generation sources as the primary cause of the drop in capacity. In short, Texas cheaped out on long term grid protection to make short term gains in energy delivery prices. The bet pays off most of the time, but when it doesn't the failures are catastrophic.
All of those things need to be launched from earth, that is still expensive. Then transported to Mars, expensive. Then landed on Mars, expensive.

And then you land your digger, at a cost of at least a couple 100 million, and you have a dumb robot that digs a small hole?

We should do industrial build up, but for me that starts with solving cheap transportation from earth to Mars first. Then you can hope to bring things like nuclear reactors, that can actually produce the power you need significant work.

Currently we are going for science reason and very few people are even working on going with humans or industrialisation.
I'm an adult and I don't want to use table saws because I consider them too dangerous. Nobody has to tell me when I am old enough for them because I know the danger doesn't go away with age. I also don't want to weld or use an angle grinder for the same reasons. Dangerous tools will never be safe.

If I could avoid driving I would probably stop that too.
How so? The job situation for good developers has never been better. We can make salaries that would have seemed unthinkable two decades ago while working from home and doing something we enjoy.
Sure, OP will find another job as a programmer. But I am sure that their employer will also find another programmer. So saying he is doing it to us sounds kind of disingenuous. "Hate the game, not the player."

For me, the frustrating part is that our society is set up to incentivize value-decreasing behavior like obtrusive advertisements, it doesn't add anything yet still makes money, unlike things that are essential to the world (mundane example: raising children).
I bet Biontech / Pfizer will find ways to store and handle it under conditions suitable for general doctors as soon as Johnson's and other less temp sensitive vaccines are available. And doctors are actively vaccinating.
Only if it get just a little warmer. Photosynthesis is temperature dependent however and its maximum is at a modest 20 degree C, above 40 degree C its efficiency falls rapidly [1]. If it gets much warmer than that, and a run-away greenhouse effect would ensure that, only algae and some bacteria survive a while longer. Once the oceans are boiling, it's hard to imagine any life surviving though.

There doesn't seem consensus on whether Earth could truly reach a runaway greenhouse state or would rather just settle at a higher temperature. In any case, only the ecological (and consequently economic) crises and refugees problem are the ones currently living people will be affected by, but that ought to be enough to take action.

[1] https://sciencing.com/effect-temperature-rate-photosynthesis...
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The theoretical physicists I know get their funding from teaching and don’t need grants.
Well, one way to examine the issue would be through systems complexity. The approach that is now out of fashion was cybernetics. Now sociophysics seems to be gaining ground.
In a short and vulgar summary, any complex system or systems used by humans should contain examination that includes humans, the irrational, unpredictable meatbags that they are.

Software is implemented on automated systems we understand, build, and can predict at some level of performance. Medicine is built with humans, to work on humans (which we can't predict nor understand fully, let alone build like we do computers and software), and on top of that, uses software (and lots more).

Software does not exist in a vacuum, some recent examples of the unanticipated effects of systems complexity in software could include

a) political radicalization of facebook and youtube users through algorithms designed for a completely different goal, maximizing screen-time b) the simplest case, citibank losing millions because of bad UI design (not taking the human user into the design).

So medicine, from a systems standpoint, is not that structurally/conceptually different from software. It is researched, designed and practiced/used by humans, just like software. Some of the reasons medicine is more complex is that it is, at the moment, dealing with more living systems than software (medicine: attempting to influence complex performance on the biological level. Software: for end-users, interact/affect on the psychological, conscious level).

At the moment, medicine is more complex than the software industry. As software continues eating the world, that will change, as nanobots, brain-imitating processors, etc, arrive.

I am at the moment looking at a cluster-fuck of improving a tiny process for a regional medical complex, and the staggering complexity is outside of anything I had to deal with while working in finance and distributed computing, and those software systems were more complex than what got humans into space.

We know the lessons from space and atomic projects - have a mandate, financial and political commitment, theoretical and societal backing. But getting matter to controlled fission or orbit sure appears easier than even understanding cancer, let alone eliminating it, as history so far has shown us.
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I suspect it’s somewhat tongue in cheek. From the README:

> A "bullshit-free programming language" is of course a highly subjective opinion

I hardly think the author would believe the concept to be subjective and also believe they have a monopoly on the phrase’s usage.
It varies quite a bit as our orbit isn't synced with Mars. Anywhere from 3 minutes 13 seconds to 22 minutes 16 seconds. Along with the days out of sync by 40 min it must be hell on the team supporting it.
Regardless of its turing completeness, it has a syntax and is wildly used, popular, and useful
Not sure how toxic PETG is but the fumes are quite unpleasant. When I was around where large amounts of PETG were being worked with, ventilation was a must.
On inflation, absolutely. Nothing has changed since 2008 when people first brought up inflation
>Don't put fingers on the metal bit" isn't a terribly complex lesson

No, that's not the problem. The problem is kickback.
Off-topic, but sometimes I feel like we could harvest the plastic from the ocean, make plastic bricks, and build millions of houses.

Edit: Just to be clear, I’m not trying to say that this is a viable solution to anything, or that it’s a good use of resources based on our current methodologies. I’m more just trying to say that there’s so much raw material out there and that it’s better if it comes out of the ocean. Like, if suddenly we found a non-polluting method to perfectly separate out all the components, then a health-safe chemical mixture with those components that was solid and fireproof (and UV proof), there’s probably enough out there to do something significant with.
I see. My only contention would be that abuse is stopped but use is also equally degraded (due to randomness).

But I see what you're saying. Some combination of voting and randomness might br worth it. Also, another thing is maybe some sort of sentiment analysis can help (abuse mainly comes from trolling, virtue signalling etc).

I don't know, if ther was a way to figure out what value a comment adds (or inverse), then that, combined with voting and some sort of randomness might make the system fairer and better?
mulmen@hostname ~> pgcli service=mulmen@db
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/pgcli", line 33, in <module>
sys.exit(load_entry_point('pgcli==3.1.0', 'console_scripts', 'pgcli')())
File "/usr/local/Cellar/pgcli/3.1.0/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 829, in __call__
return self.main(*args, \*kwargs)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/pgcli/3.1.0/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 782, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/pgcli/3.1.0/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, \*ctx.params)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/pgcli/3.1.0/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 610, in invoke
return callback(*args, \*kwargs)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/pgcli/3.1.0/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pgcli/main.py", line 1311, in cli
pgcli.connect_service(service, user)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/pgcli/3.1.0/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pgcli/main.py", line 479, in connect_service
service_config, file = parse_service_info(service)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/pgcli/3.1.0/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pgcli/main.py", line 1508, in parse_service_info
service_file_config = ConfigObj(service_file)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/pgcli/3.1.0/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/configobj.py", line 1229, in __init__
self._load(infile, configspec)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/pgcli/3.1.0/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/configobj.py", line 1318, in _load
raise error
configobj.ParseError: Invalid line ('PG Service File for saved connection parameters') (matched as neither section nor keyword) at line 1.

Looks like it blew up on a comment line at the top of the file. For some reason the file did not have a # before the comment but psql happily ignores that. I added a # and pgcli loads properly.
Wow!! I thought it was pretty much dead after their fork.

I'm happy to see it's not the case!! ^^

I love this game and its music.
Step one, as others have said, is make sure things are rock-solid enough that you're not nervous about being offline. When nothing critical has gone down in 6 months, you can start relaxing. If things are going down once a month, you need to work on your infrastructure and processes.

I do make sure I'm always available to fix things within a reasonable time. Practically, I try not to do anything where I would be physically unable to get to a computer with Internet access within 30 minutes, though pre-pandemic I would set my phone to silent when I went out to see a movie or was at the gym. Sometimes this also means bringing the laptop in the car when going places you don't plan to actually work, just in case.

One side effect of needing to watch for incoming notifications: I have East Coast relatives who insist on texting pre-7am Pacific (sometimes 20-message text chains), and wouldn't lay off when I told them it was too early and I couldn't just turn off my phone because I need to check for work notifications. Texts and calls from them are now muted 24/7, at least until I eventually get a work-specific cell phone.
In ZFC, you define reals as you sketch, and then specify rationals, integers etc as specific subsets, then you get inclusions, which mainstream mathematics uses without worries. And yes, mainstream mathematics is non-constructive (as is Isabelle/HOL).

(I don't want to have a contentious discussion about FOMs, or which prover is best, just trying to sketch the trade-offs, and historical background.)
But if they intervene, it is no longer the same universe.

Even if they are in the middle of many levels of simulation, it might not be just one line, but more like an infinite tree.

There could be someone in the next room also simulating the universe, or they could simulate the universe again 5 minutes later, this time without intervening. (Like I wrote in another comment)
Just to calm your nerves: place and route algorithms are often classical AI anyway, the things that is changing is what still is and isn't referred to as "AI". The cool thing about this work is that it is looking at higher level parameters about layout instead of the kind of heuristic algorithms you see in APR. Would be cool to see this in tools one day.
Leave the conspiracy theories at the door, wouldja? They're as nauseating as intelligent design and flat Earth.

Meat agriculture is likely the cause of the "Spanish" flu. When you cram zillions of animals together with their excrement and humans, you get pandemics by creating the conditions of high-density Petri dishes for evolution and rapid spread.
Google search also uses personalised advertising. If you search for restaurants you will get ads for restaurants nearby, if you search for clothes it will match the ad results to your gender if google knows it, you can also do the same remarketing techniques with other ads (eg if someone has visited your website and they search for a related topic you can make sure your ad is displayed).
We'll end up in a similar cat&mouse game as online "pirates" been at for a long time. Developers create something to break the AI, the AI adopt because they figure out the noise profile, developers change the noise profile and the AI has to adopt again.
Does this advice work for any difference in sizes between the people? I suspect if one is so small as to not pose any threat at all and/or take on extra damage, it would end badly for them more often than not.
True, let me rephrase what I meant then, if everything, day in, day out, feels emotionally neutral, that's very depressive sounding.
I agree with your caution, I disagree largely with your reasons/the dangers you identify. I've avoided California, so maybe that has an impact, but I almost never have seen ego as a problem. I'm one of the only ones who will do impractical things sometimes (but just as often my crazy ideas are radically simpler).

My gut feel is that romantics have it the hardest. They are way more in touch with the potential & powers of it all, the overwhelming awesomeness that is everywhere, & how un-tapped, un-actualized the world-actual about them is. I don't have particular links, alas, but I think of MrDoob, author of the much loved Three.js library which has the lion's share of 3D on the web. He seems clearly to be engaged, to be interested, but he also has talked to himself not being great employee-material, suffering problems of motivation.

The really romantics have problems of alignment. There are few situations in the world where the passion is allowed to flow. There are few working environments that support the chaotic workflow & passion-driven-development. Agile: we all practice agile. What is agile but a way to insure consistent steady endless sprints, each slowly optimizing productivity? What an evil anethema, a plague upon those of us who work by our muses. The corporation, the industry, wants worker bees. And for many years that's probably a good way to function, probably a valuable personal development, of fitting in, declaring what you are working on, learning how to tackle problems. But in the long game, I think this mode of software development is a joke, is consistently low-ambition, squanders the immense potential we have. And I don't think you need long deep experience & talent to be squandered.
The difference, I think, is that dynamic linking necessarily binds local symbols to the dynamically loaded foreign code, while dynamic loading simply loads the foreign code into the same address space and provides an API for looking up symbols' addresses by name. There's no inherent need for the ABI to match, as long as you don't directly try to call into a function; you can write adapters to explicitly handle the dynamically loaded code's ABI, like python does with ctypes.
How can we be sure this wasn't something engineered by the AI itself?
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That's why the biggest and most complicated code section in my json module is handling bigints. It's unspecified and therefore has to handle all possible cases.
> perhaps this makes me a bit ehm... "unempathic"

Yes, I believe that's the case. Most people have not witnessed these things first hand. Nor should they.
>Companies pay out dividends all the time and sometimes (very rare nowadays) they pay for stock buybacks out of their own pockets from the profit they have accumulated

Not, all stocks do that though. I just checked the FAANG stocks and only Apple pays dividends. Even so Apple has a yield of 0.63% That means you have to hold it for almost 159 years to recoup that investment. Meanwhile if you bought a year ago, by now the stock price has doubled which can allow you to recoup your investment because you can sell it to the "greater fool." Eventually dividends go down, the company goes bankrupt, or some other thing happens and you don't want to be the fool holding the bag.

In cryptocurrency there also exists yield farming and buy backs.

>That's how you get bubbles.

There will always be bubbles. It's like a video game. You need to be minmaxing. Find what bubbles currently exist and figure out how to profit off of them.
> Every school teacher is a Professor.

Same in Poland! But only for high school.
I was not sure I was reading the map correctly, but it is true. If you rushed to get a power plant online because they were begging for power and offering $9k/MWhr, they are now charging you $30.
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I think a law preventing you from profiting from speech on the basis of the content would still be a constitutional issue. E.g., a law saying you can distribute pornography
but can’t sell it for a profit would be unconstitutional.

“You don’t have a right to profit from speech” would be a convenient pretext to, for instance, shut down the New York Times.
This sort of connection should be done by rail that stops within the security perimeter. Rail trips would get flight numbers. You wouldn't touch your luggage.
REDUCE, Reuse, Recycle. People forget (or never realized) the order was intentional.
Thanks for writing this up. I saw your original comment a while back was intrigued, and I got it working last weekend on a 2-vm vagrant private network setup, but only by constructing the network prefix by using a 32 bit ULA prefix concatenated on the full 32 bit ipv4. I think it worked (hooked up wireshark to a tcpdump of the vm's interface to the private network and saw the 6-in-4 packets) but I didn't need to use the `6rd-relay_prefix` argument to ip tunnel, do you have any idea why that might be? I suspect 32+32 is the default (vs. your 40+24), and if you want to only use the lower 24 bits of the ipv4, you need to indicate to the kernel what netmask you are using on your ipv4 network ("6rd relay prefix"). I guess that would buy you either more randomness in your ULA prefix, or some more ipv6 subnets per ipv4 vm.

You can explore this a bit further and set up some net namespaces, connect them to the host vm via a bridge device, assign them ipv6 addresses from the vm host /64 network, and then set up a default route inside each container to the /32 or /40 you're using via the vm host's address on the host local /64. It's cool to see one container on host 1 talk to another on host 2. You're basically subnetting the /40 for each host; each host is analogous to a household in 6rd, and the containers are like your devices on your lan with globally routable ipv6 addresses (except we're using a ULA prefix instead of a globally routable ipv6 prefix assigned to an ISP, so our containers are not globally addressable - whatever). I'd guess this is what the CNI thing you mention does under the hood. For others who are interested in this, it's basically combining OP's article with https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/container-networking-is-simple/ from a couple months ago.

The Teredo part was very interesting as well, I had not thought to worry about non-udp/tcp compatible intermediate systems.
How can something that is invite only and exclusive to one proprietary platform be held up as a beacon of freedom?
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To clarify the title: Enigma was German, this is (predictably) not an Enigma, being soviet. The quotes are to indicate faux, not to specify exactly.
90% of ocean plastic comes from Asia and Africa:

http://odinafrica.org/about-us/news/217-90-percent-of-ocean-....

We need to prohibit Western companies from packaging food and FMCG for the developing world in plastic - until both the disposal infrastructure and societal attitudes around pollution and environmental management change. Or, charge those polluters to build that infrastructure or change those attitudes.

Here are the biggest polluters:

CocaCola (USA)

PepsiCo (USA)

Nestle (Switzerland)

Unilever (UK)

Mondelez (USA)

Mars (USA)

P&G (USA)

Phillip Morris (USA)

Colgate-Palmolive (USA)

Perfetti van Melle (Italy)

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coca-cola-pepsico-and-nest....

I would suggest that a targeted protest and political lobbying campaign against the headquarters of those companies would be more effective than any individual effort to clean up plastic pollution.
I've been enjoying this series of "Breakfast With Forth Week", best one yet.

It had left me wondering what had caused it. There was a thread a few weeks ago where the old guard were describing an actual attempt to game the system, and I wondered if we were seeing a version of that being played out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787374
> It's the technology and the employers and the culture of development that's the problem.

What is it about those things that you find to be the problem?

Genuinely asking.
I've quite liked that the devices are often rootable/usable without an internet connection in contrast to most other internet of shit. It's probably accidental, or at least an outcome of having to cut development costs to undercut competitors but it's made me always go for xiaomi devices when i'm buying new stuff.