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>This may be an unpopular opinion, but I stopped making even close term plans/goals a few months ago

What a coincidence I also stopped making even close term plans when I reached 36/37. I felt that I needed to drastically reduce my focus instead of trying to make plans that I had never been able to follow for more than two months.
> The Dutch apparently do have a double title for doctors, which are also engineers.

I suppose this is technically true, but AFAIK, you'd just use 'dr.', which would imply that you're also 'drs.' or 'ir.' (as you can't be one without also being the other).

Of course, these days, communication is more casual and you'd be just as likely not to use your title. When I was in University, all of my Dutch professors signed their emails with just their name (no titles), but one of my professors from Germany would stubbornly sign all his emails as 'dr. ir. nat. habil.' :D
Just an aside: I was amused when someone pointed out that the plot of "Raiders" would have reached the same climatic end if Indiana Jones were completely removed from the script.

I have noticed too that "This Island Earth" (if you know this old classic sci-fi film) is another such script in which the protagonist could be removed with no change in the outcome.
Putting an asteroid into orbit would take an ass ton of fuel, more than is reasonably achievable. However crashing an asteroid into the moon or into Antarctica to mine would be much much easier.
Counterpoint to the last two:

- it's just a front yard (It would make a good CAPTCHA question - select all photos of gardens. Anyone choosing a photo of this yard before the debris landed there would fail.)

- there's more than one soccer field in Broomfield
Not everyone agrees with you, which is why humans are capable of a wide range of behaviors and investments.

If we didn't have interest in space, there would be no SpaceX, Starlink, Mars rover, planetary missions, etc.

I personally think we're about to reach the terminal generation in 100-200 years with advancements in ML, and we won't be worried about sending human bodies anywhere. Just engines, sensors, and computers.
> a book called" by Johhn Ratey

I think you may have accidentally omitted some words.
re 2: are you saying that the amount of signal isn't continuous, or that the time of the signal is not continuous? If the latter, I'm not sure why being made of particles would prevent the signal from being continuous in time.
Err, not "a continuous function of time", just in the sense of "not a discrete-in-time thing", unlike things on a computer that are synced with a global clock cycle.
> a jobs program

Why is funding into technological advancement a "jobs program." We don't call research a jobs program. Rome wasn't built in a day.
It sounds like general problem solving ie. Collect all the individual components of the problem and research the known methods of connecting the components to each other to achieve the desired result. When the desired result is found the problem is solved. It's how basic word problems are formatted. This is well documented. The problem is getting humans to follow the steps instead of making what they think are intuitive leaps but are really mental errors.
Seems weird to want biodegradable lego, when they’re highly reusable. I’ve never heard of a LEGO brick get so worn out that it had to be thrown away. Making them rot would just decrease their productive multi-generational lifespan.
...sounds like something an AI would say...
We need a whitelist of chemicals endorsed for food, drink, and health/beauty.

Packaging ingredients need to be listed as well as food ingredients.

As an individual consumer: contact politicians. The only solution to this is regulatory.
Little returns undef for OOB and for in bounds not set. Tcl returns "" for both.

The thing that GP was asking for, an OOB error, is not a thing in a language where there are no bounds.
Nobody competent wants to spend extra time and work dealing with junior level mistakes. If the basic stuff can't be done right, then the complex stuff definitely isn't done right. Little issues like this cause ripple effects and now guaranteed you've got incorrect behavior in other parts of the system because of this broken API. It's a time suck all around.
Yeah I think so. Blue disk with yellowy/gold writing but looked exactly like this in terms of text: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NbYAAMXQCtlRRfqO/s-l500.jpg
I've been trying to catch myself claiming something is "significantly faster" and instead say it's "substantially faster" for this reason. As far as I know, "substantial" doesn't have the same kind of formal definition, and still captures the informal point I was trying to make.

I wish that we (collectively) did a better job of reporting statistically significant performance comparisons, and in that light using "substantially" is a reminder to myself to think about whether it would be hard to go the extra mile and collect the data to actually report significance properly.
I lived in Nashville in the early aughts. They had recycling centers where there were bins with labels for every sort of plastic. Of course, the only people using these centers, people like myself and my wife, were people who were scrupulously rule-abiding and wanted to do their part for the environment. Everyone shlepped their recyclables across town to these centers and then carefully sorted everything, take great pains and time to do it. If you were there when the trucks came to pick up the stuff, they emptied all the bins into the same truck. I saw this happen. The recycling company charged the city to mix the recycling. Then they charged it to separate everything again at the recycling plant. This was not a secret. Still, the people such as myself who took the trouble to recycling as much as they could of their waste could not be convinced to throw everything into whichever (carefully labeled) bin and go home.

My point is that it is entirely plausible that people are paying extra to "recycle" their waste when this has no positive environmental consequence. I was one of the people separating my trash, knowing the trucks would come and mix and all and charge me for this "service". It wasn't "virtue signaling". It was desperation to feel that one wasn't doing so much harm plus a desire not to be seen as the one breaking the rules of the recycling center. I was trying to do the best I could in my circumstances and feel a little better about my actions. I no longer live in Nashville.
I know this is an easy downvote and foolish statement, but I find very few pre-90s blockbuster movies to be watchable. Spielberg's movies hold up well though. There are a few others, like When Harry Met Sally, that I also still love.
Thanks for that, I tried getting my ticket when I was 12, but I have a probelm with numbers and time, difficult to explain until I got a brain scan years later.

But years later, thanks to the FCC dropping the CW requirement, I was able to pass the test, but I'm stuck as a Tech due to the brain injury, and plenty of Older Hams give me greif about being a Tech.

I do what I can and promote Ham radio, I started a Ham club that lasted 2.5 years, taught classes, had them building 5 element, 2 Meter beams out of old TV antennas, I've tried for years to contact the ISS when a Ham was on board (still trying).

It's way more than a hobby for me though, it's an intellectual persuit where one can build things too.

If you're ever on the Mendocino coast, I always monitor 146.520, one of the few that does anymore.

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I’ve read just about every M1 story and thread on HN since launch, and one of us is apparently mis-reading some posts here. I have never seen anything that I could remotely interpret as matching that sentiment.
> However, we all know company culture do not tolerate speaking up to power. So these people also went about it the wrong way, and going public too soon over something that was just theoretical. What you need to do is gather evidence, and escalate as security violations internally. Use the proper channels. This is harder work than crying wolf, obviously.

This is incredibly spot-on way to describe navigating through delicate office channels to create change and also not ruffle too many feathers. Well said! Can you sit on my shoulder please and advise me real-time throughout my career? Comments like this are why hacker news is so much better than reddit!
How about asphalt with plastics mixed into the underwater, but not the top layer?
In high school in Australia, it was easy to find alcohol. Don't think there was much LSD going around (some marijuana and MDMA).

I think one difference is when you have 18 as the legal drinking age, a significant chunk of kids turn 18 while still in year 12. They could then legally buy it and then (illegally) on-sell it to their school friends who weren't of legal age yet.

In some cases parents would even buy alcohol for their teenage children. Parents supplying other drugs to their children is not totally unheard of but far less common.
Resorted by installs https://wnpp.debian.net/?page=1&sort=installs%2Fdesc
Just the first global, mass hysteria. Move on, nothing new except the scale
I installed Arch Linux on a ThinkPad in 2011 and it's literally running the same OS today, nearly 10 years later. I won't say I've never had anything break, but never anything major like audio or video or wifi.

In my experience, Arch is one of the most stable OS's I've seen. But I suspect a lot of it has to do with what you're doing with it. First, ThinkPads are generally well supported in Linux. Also, I've never seen any reason to use GNOME as a desktop. I used to run XFCE on Compiz, then i3 as Compiz stopped being updated. More recently, I've switched to sway, and I've finally started using PulseAudio because it's required for Zoom. Obviously, i3 and sway aren't for everyone. YMMV.
Because it was selected on the basis of what spending it could justify (in particular, that it would give the SLS something to do), not on the basis of the value of any technology produced.
But that implies you own the song, which you don’t. You’re always leasing access to the song. Just because you pay a couple dollars doesn’t mean you get to listen to it forever.
It seems to me this is a straw man argument. Hollywood is merely metonymy.
It was a test of:

* Asteroid redirect tech in case of, you know, a dinosaur killer coming your way.

* Asteroid harvesting.
The problem is externalized cost: the people making the decision to use the plastics aren't the ones holding the bill for its disposal.
Why are we pretending they are not gonna all be jacked up on Adderall?
>I just think it's incredibly unlikely.

Why do you think its incredibly unlikely, when the facts of recent decades have shown lab leaks to be much more likely to happen than outbreaks of novel, highly adapted, highly transmissible viruses?

>So you need some evidence otherwise we go with the most likely explanation...

The initial evidence is undeniable: an extremely transmissible novel coronavirus is found outside of 1 of only 2 BSL4 labs in China; a lab where scientists were making extremely transmissible novel coronaviruses.

Unfortunately, it's impossible to investigate and gather further evidence when governments agents with guns hide evidence and prevent investigators from accessing the scene of the incident.[1]

>Out of interest, do you know, has anyone ever leaked an engineered bio weapon? The examples are always for naturally occurring pathogens...

There have been incidents where the pathogen leaked was "undisclosed". Gain of function research is kept top secret for obvious reasons.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
They don't do the clickbait titles or thumbnails on floatplane(their in house version of youtube), and will often edit the titles if it's too clickbait-ey
Mind sharing that one?
Actually not as easy as you’d think to do that, criminals don’t upload malware payloads to their own servers, they use hacked websites (old Wordpress installs, etc) to spread the binaries.

Could they do this? Sure, but it would be a lot more complex than the current method of just finding any target where they can upload files, and the payloads do change very often anyway (sometimes daily) so there is no real need for them to change dynamically
Between NASA, SpaceX, and various other space initiatives, there probably aren’t enough skilled people available to do the work. It’s literally rocket science.
The bad guys may not have ever found the ark without the information on the other side of the amulet.
Comment is downvoted, but he has a point. We've been trying to return to the moon for over a decade: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a26962388/g...

George W Bush said we would return by 2020: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/bush_vision.html

There's nothing indicating that this initiative is any more serious. There isn't a space race, people don't care. If this were canceled in favor of any other program (say, relief for climate-related crises), there would be very little opposition.
In the long term, they're pretty much the most important missions possible - even absent disasters, Earth only has so many resources, so designing and testing the technology for extraterrestrial habitation is rather essential.

Admittedly, there are alternatives to manned colonialization (e.g. seeding), but it seems rather worth exploring multiple options, considering the stakes.
The Crypto Museum in the Netherlands has one.[1] They also have most of the accessories, including the test unit. It's a rotor machine, considerably more advanced than the Enigma. Among other things, it has a "magic" circuit, using very early Soviet transistors. which fixes the problem with reflector-type rotor machines that prevents encoding a character into itself. That creates an exploitable vulnerability.

[1] https://cryptomuseum.com/crypto/fialka/psu/tempest.htm
If we're going anecdotal, Ubuntu has been nothing but great for me. I have left laptops off for months and then turned them on and update/upgrade them no problem, as well as computers that I use daily. I think the crux of the update issue is really how well package managers handle interdependencies between packages vs how many/what packages you have on your system.
The issue is that there was no program using SLS that made any sense. It was so expensive it could not be used.

The only way forward is reducing launch costs. SpaceX did that, but if that had not happened SLS still would have been pointless.
If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle.
>Venera
> Even the venerable...

Ha. Did you do that on purpose?

I swear I remember reading about "lenses made of diamonds" when I was a kid but I can't find anything now.
And what I and a lot of others are saying is that no, they are not experiencing similar problems.

You're showing up here expecting intelligent people able to listen, but you're not bothering to listen yourself.
There’s a phrase I heard while back, I don’t live to work, I work to live.

High performance software engineers negotiate for higher salary and the type of work environment and type of projects. They work to live by taking control over their salary and project assignments.

Sometimes, they have to work on less interesting projects. They deliver solutions. At the same time, they regularly have conversations on other more interesting projects. Make sure they line up more interesting projects in the roadmap.

There’s more risk in stagnating position than taking control and regularly switching jobs for higher salary and more interesting projects.

There are significantly more software engineering problems than people that can deliver solutions. High performance software engineers can have their cake and eat it too.
So what you're saying is that you enjoy being part of the Noise, rather than the Signal.

It comes off as callow and childish.
Just because something is valuable in the long term doesn't mean it's justifiable in the short term. Perhaps the route to colonizing Mars is to develop technologies that have nothing to do with going into space right now.
The asteroid is the reaction mass. Send a solar collector and a rail gun sled that fires bits of asteroid really fast backwards.
I don’t think so. You have no right to ownership just because you buy the song. You didn’t commission it, you didn’t write it, produce it, market it, and so on. All you did was pay a couple dollars. In effect, all you’re doing is buying a license to play the song for personal use, not the right to keep the file forever.
One way to combat this (if you’re physically capable): long distance running without headphones.

It forces you to focus on one thing alone: finish your route. I’ve found that my mind wanders, but the pain exerted by running for an hour or so inevitably brings you back.
Relevant I guess since, besides the GPU, I'd expect one of the hardest parts of porting to the M1 would be full support for its very non-standard storage interfaces.

Still impressive, but installing on or booting off the internal storage will be a big milestone for an prospective OS.
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> In particular, the critic owes us an account of why, since physics cannot in principle capture all there is to physical reality in the first place -- and in particular arguably fails entirely (as Russell held) to capture causality in general -- we should regard it as especially noteworthy if it fails to capture causality in one particular case. If the critic, like the early Russell, denies that there is any causality at all, he owes us an account of how he can coherently take such a position, and in particular how he can account for our knowledge of the world physics tells us about if we have no causal contact with it. If the critic says instead that genuine causality does exist in some parts of nature but not in the particular cases he thinks quantum mechanics casts doubt on, he owes us an account of why we should draw the line where he says we should, and how there could be such a line. […]

> In short, anyone who claims that quantum mechanics undermines Scholastic metaphysical claims about causality owes us an alternative worked-out metaphysical picture before we should take him seriously (just as anyone who would claim that quantum mechanics undermines the law of excluded middle owes us an alternative system of logic if we are to take him seriously). And if he gives us one, it would really be that metaphysical system itself, rather than quantum mechanics per se, that is doing the heavy lifting.

* https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2014/12/causality-and-radio...

(Warning: it's a long read.)

Also references a previous post:

> Recall that in an earlier post Oerter claimed that quantum mechanics casts doubt on the principle of causality insofar as it describes “systems that change from one state to another without any apparent physical ‘trigger.’” Recall also that I pointed out that it is simply a fallacy to infer from the premise that QM describes such-and-such a state without describing its cause to the conclusion that QM shows that such-and-such a state has no cause.

* https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/05/oerter-contra-princ...
APRS / SMSGTE: https://smsgte.org/
As a desktop user, not so much, no.

I want things to work. I don’t want to spend my time arguing with my tools, just for the sake of having the latest and greatest. I might go through and upgrade everything every couple of years, at most.

Beyond that, I just want security upgrades to happen without me having to think about them.
Of course. But simply an engine not working shouldn't be a concern. Obviously land as soon as possible, but it's not really that dangerous (assuming the other engine doesn't fail for the same reason)

Turbine blades failing and piecing a hydraulic line on the other hand...
The same applies to construction and alcohol. It isn’t inherent that someone who works construction and uses a narcotic world do so while working.
That's a problem when a pandemic hits and strangers sharing a vehicle stops being viable, or when the unionized bus drivers strike because they can leverage the monopolistic position labor laws grant unionized workers to try to extract economic rent, or when like in my city, law-and-order breaks down after decades of progressively more left-wing governments which increasingly take a hands off approach to policing while insisting on not committing the mentally ill, leading to mentally ill drug addicts making people fearful of getting on public transit, or when people live in low-population density areas which don't allow for regular bus service between all points.

Personal vehicles face fewer limitations and are more durable in various failure modes. But first people need to shed their utopianist ideals about how society should pursue its objectives, and allow profit-motivated investment and consumer-preference-moderated technological innovation find solutions.
One relatively cheap way to attack Bitcoin without ever owning any mining equipment at all is to create a pool (or several) and advertise no or even negative pool fees. Over time it would be possible to undercut legitimate pools and amass 51%.
True, but I'm extremely wary of it and think it leads to magical thinking and bad outcomes.

I prefer to take the opposite view: programming is work - it's mostly just 'building something' much like a Carpenter who has to know a lot of things, makes plans based off of experience, but at the same time will innevitably have to pivot in the face of those plans.

Any job done by a carpenter depends almost entirely on the quality, experience and workmanship of the carpenters and not much else. The newest, fanciest tools will not make good work. Moreover, it's very easy to cut corners if you want as the methods can be opaque to users.

CRUD apps built by experience teams are practically like construction sites.

I don't want romanticized attachment to work, rather, a kind of civil obligation to doing a good job.

All of that said, there's a lot in Software that is more academic, and does require intellectual chops and left-field thinking, experimentation etc. and you have to have that as well.
You had to have created that DVD at some point. Either you downloaded it or bought it.
I'm an Air Traffic Controller at Houston Center, and a regular user of this website. Today I was the Radar Associate controller in the Ocean West sector when that aircraft flew through.

The Radar Associate works alongside the Radar Controller, and performs coordinations and other actions to assist the Radar Controller. It is the Radar Controller who talks with the aircraft on frequency.

In the Ocean West sector, the Radar Associate controller coordinates with Mexico's Air Traffic Controllers to determine safe routes, altitudes, and crossing times at the FIR boundary, as well as pass along any other pertinent information.

I won't answer any questions about today's event here, but if anyone has any other questions, feel free to ask. I will also double-check the FAA's social media guidelines when I go back to work tomorrow. So, if I don't answer your question today, please check tomorrow.

TF or "Tango Foxtrot" are my operating initials - something which every Air Traffic Controller has and is unique per facility. We use our operating initials to identify ourselves when we perform coordinations via the landline.

I was also a Radar Associate controller at HCF Center (in Hawaii) for United Flight 1175, a Boeing 777, from San Fransisco to Honolulu when it lost its engine cowling back in 2018.

The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of FAA.
There is error correction built in to the chants. Really advanced stuff, but I expect nothing less from those who authored the vedas.

https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/9517/procedures...
I fixed same bugs.
Ending the war on drugs entirely would be a huge step.

The degree to which drug-profits propel corruption on a global scale is vast, hard to describe - entire countries wind-up destroyed by this (Mexico, Afghanistan, etc).