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> And new competitors have such an uphill battle it will be almost impossible to catch up.

That's almost all of the science, engineering, industry and bureaucracy of modern civilization in general, not just the chip industry. Experts and organizations are more and more piling atop an impossibly high, increasingly disorganized and fragmented tower of knowledge without leaving formal markers and scaffolds to lead those who will come after them. How much of the knowledge that goes into manufacturing a modern car exists in a single resource called "How to build a 2020 car" ? hell scratch that, how much resources remotely detail how to build a single decent 90s-grade engine ?

The fact that this is google is only tangentially related as it's only a subcase of the general problem that corporations hoard knowledge and research into proprietary "solutions" and "intellectual property": this would still be nearly just as dangerous if those building the chips were a bunch of highly-funded university researchers who know each other by name and are separated from the rest of humanity by billions of dollars of funding and literal lifetimes of knowledge that they're adding to without teaching to others. Not that I blame them (the words might sound as if I am), this is a far greater mess than any single one cause.

It's an astonishingly underappreciated problem of modern civilization how black-boxy and fragmented it's institutions and knowledge have become.
I completely reject Project Xanadu, for one primary reason: it turns an open web into a per-page paywall DRM horror. And where money comes, user tracking and anti-privacy tech follows.

Right now, it takes time and effort to paywall stuff. It's not super hard, but is not a seamless flip-a-switch-on paywall.

With Xanadu, that paywall is built in at the core - request a page, pay the cost, get the page and hope its what you want. And I can only imagine the level of scrape-scams at that level - spam would be not only viable but make money per click.

Sure, I could imagine useful tools to prevent hemorrhaging money, but the threat of clicking links and owing 1-10$ for that is horrifying.

Hard pass. It does deserve a study in its technology and closed-sourceness when it was devised. But it needs to stay in the scrap-bin of history.
There is a slight difference though. Myanmar military took over the government. The US military is led by the president of the United States and only the Congress has the power to declare war.
The vast, vast majority of updates fix security issues. It's like not vaccinating in case you're one of the million people that has an allergic reaction. Supply chain attacks are rare, not the norm. We hear about such things (and only rarely at that) because it's exceptional enough to make the news.
The RFC doesn’t “forbid” using IP addresses in MX records – it’s physically impossible to have them. The fact that the IPv4 address syntax is also parseable as a domain name is unrelated; what is physically stored inside the MX record is a textual domain name.
Why? Goal-driven optimization is totally a thing.
Darker or bolder lines and text would be nice I think.

It would be interesting if you put a little red LED on it like a soft alarm for upcoming events.

I would pay $35 for this, buy I'm sure others would pay more.

Edit: Saw the 200 euro price tag, don't think I'm in the market for this at that price.
Bitcoin is a store of value. When they need money to buy groceries or pay rent they will sell an amount of bitcoin.

Stores and landlords won’t take payment in gold or index funds either.
But everything you'd typically see in an algorithm has decidable equality, so proofs by contradiction are constructively justified, no?
Yeah mixing in those french words sure makes it sounds smart!
I'm a member of a WhatsApp group of families who have family members in a particular care home. It's an important means of exchanging information.

Can I persuade them all to move to Signal / Telegram? No.

Not so easily fixed.
"Try and see ordinary people deal with a Bitcoin wallet and discover there's no recourse if a vulnerability in their computer means the contents are irreversibly stolen."

I lived in a period without debit and credit cards. You dropped your cash it was gone. I'm not sure not having a reversal transaction is the killer missing feature.
I seriously just cannot understand why anyone would live in NYC. It just seems like so much WORK.
Here in Wisconsin, there were federal subsidies available to build light rail connecting to Illinois and Minnesota, but our brilliant Republican Governor Scott Walker turned down the subsidies. That's why we don't have light rail. (He also turned down Medicare subsidies, because who needs health care amirite.)

The very same brilliant Republican Governor Scott Walker did however offer massive state subsidies to Foxconn to build a factory here... which Foxconn never actually did. The whole thing turned out to be a giant scam.

Taxpayer subsidized services for corporations? Hell yes! Taxpayer subsidized services for individuals? Hell no! The irony is that building public infrastructure would actually create jobs, which was the nominal justification for the factory.
Then do that and see how costs increase, and do the comparison again.
Are custom allocators the right abstraction?
solar generation farm takes way too much land. If it's in a desert, that would be fine. But many of them are on otherwise beautiful mountains, how can this be environmentally acceptable?
American politicians seem to have the mindset of “do as we say not as we do” compounded by a view that they as the elected class, are superior in their thinking, and to back down or give in to the will of the people, is to somehow admit fault, defeat, or error. Dare I say that the sign of a good politician is someone who can admit when they are wrong, and admit that perhaps the path they have chosen is not the best path. What we see in America today is the complete opposite, where politicians steadfastly refused to admit a decision was made an error, and a rigid adherence to continuing that path.
I think it is more people hear a topic that is wide ranging and sort of riff off of it and discuss related and not so related things.

I think it is pretty normal even if a bit off the mark at times.
I am kind of frustrated that I am reporting my real-world experience after having been “out” of academia for 10 years and yet you and another person are assuming that I don’t have any real world experience and am just lacking perspective! Please read the comment! And that “bias” you mention 100% exists outside of academia.
I'd go for a much smaller bezel/frame.
> I have never seen something similar to it in any language I understand.

That changed today when you visited this post!

https://standardebooks.org

https://github.com/standardebooks
"but ultimately I can protect myself alone."

You're missing the point at so many levels. One, no you cant protect yourself from covid. Two, its not about protecting yourself, but about protecting everyone.

"eventually people are going to decide they want their lives back if this isn't improving."

If a certain moronic section of our society doesn't die off from this then you are correct.
I agree with all the arguments in the post... but man, I am so unproductive in the mainstream languages (Java especially). It feels like running in sand once you've experienced the other side.
“Use-Sound”, a React Hook for Sound Effects
I have written a very simple (IPv4/IPv6 addresses only) DNS server which can use Lua to determine the IPs to return to the user (It was my big “do cool open source during the pandemic” project). To implement this particular problem, I whipped up this Lua script:

-- This script is to be run by coLunacyDNS
-- This script takes a query like 10.1.2.3.ip4.invalid. and returns the
-- corresponding IP (e.g. 10.1.2.3 here)

-- Change these IPs to the actual IPs the DNS server will run on
bindIp = "127.0.0.1" -- We bind the server to the IP 127.0.0.1
bindIp6 = "::1" -- Localhost for IPv6

function processQuery(Q) -- Called for every DNS query received
if Q.coQtype == 1 then
local query = Q.coQuery
if query:match("^%d+%.%d+%.%d+%.%d+%.ip4%.invalid%.$") then
local ip = query:gsub("%.ip4%.invalid%.$","")
return {co1Type = "A", co1Data = ip}
end
else
return {co1Type = "notThere"}
end
return {co1Type = "notThere"}
end

One will need coLunacyDNS to run this script:

git clone https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS
cd MaraDNS/deadwood-github/tools/coLunacyDNS
make
sudo cp coLunacyDNS /usr/local/bin

Full documentation for coLunacyDNS is available:

https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/blob/master/deadwood-githu...
Nice guide for beginners. Will add this to our Awesome Electronics list: https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics/
I am sick and tired of this bullshit logic, about how much energy per transaction Bitcoin uses. Bitcoin's blocksize is being forcibly kept low. It can easily be increased 100 MB, if not more, without causing any serious issues. That will increase the number of transactions per second to a thousand. Plus, comparing a Bitcoin transaction to a traditional transaction is like comparing apples and oranges. A Bitcoin transaction is completely different as it is irreversible. That energy consumption is the price we pay to make sure our transactions remain irreversible.
back in the day we called these webrings. Still relevant but now that most content is surfaced through recommendation algorithms, and people are more adverse to ads its tougher. Still great idea. Good luck
I don't see where that's implied. The scenario that makes sense is that by the time our heavy investments into nuclear pay off and then some, maybe in 80-100 years, we can transition to fusion.
Nice, super simple process! I've submitted an ad for my side project, rowsandtables.com. Looking forward to seeing how it goes.
Nobody's forcing you to use whatsapp other than a little global pandemic forcing all interactions online aye

Now's not the time to cut yourself off from your support network and Facebook knows it. Gross.
You're making the bold assumptions that landlords or grocery stores accept bitcoin in those countries.

Do they really? Or are you fantasizing a Cyberpunk future where they would?

Because fantasies are cheap, but food and shelter is not, and the ones who make the bread might be more into the cash in hand right now rather than waiting for your BTC transaction to clear.
> If a fixed rate contract counts as market pricing, then market pricing doesn't solve the problem.

It will when people realize it means they won't suffer blackouts.

Currently, Texas doesn't have a fully market based system. For example, a market based system wouldn't shut power off to neighborhoods, it would be granular to the customer. But it takes time to evolve from the old system of government fixed prices.

I would also expect a market system to offer fixed price users an option when there's a supply crisis - go to a variable plan or get shut off.

You can have a system that reduces power use with blackouts, or one that reduces it by price.

Or you can have a government run system at a fixed price that is far higher, because you'll be paying for an inefficient government operation with all kinds of extra capacity and have peaker plants available at a moment's notice. Besides, that's also the least environmentally sound system.
Or you have good high-ups that are just glad if you do a good job and they don't have to intervene.

Problems I struggle with sometimes:

- Finding time for product management (including research) (PO is my actual job title).

- Difficult personalities (relatively I think I'm very good at handling these, but trying to change someone instead of just mitigating harm is hard).

- Keeping non-full-stack devs busy. E.g.: The most urgent topic is some DB migration and I need back-end people for it. I could have front-end work on the next user facing feature in the meantime, but they are blocked by back-end delivering the data. (well front-end can mock the back-end in my example, but you get the idea).

- Balancing how well prepared or defined tasks have to be. There are so many factors: Getting a good outcome / staying agile / having the devs think along (no micro-management) / not overburdening the dev / and maybe most importantly: not knowing who will take the task because devs are on such different levels.
> Getting around capital controls seems to be a niche for Bitcoin

Q: If you pitch up in, say, Canada or Australia, and offer to buy a chunk of expensive real estate and pay with Bitcoin, who is selling?

Q2: ... or do you have to convert to AUD/CAD first, and if so, which bank(s) can you rely on to not worry about KYC?

Q3: ... or do you have to actually travel to Canada or Australia first, in order to open a regular bank account first, in order to have somewhere to move your Bitcoin to, in order to have local currency, in order to be able to pay the local seller?
Can you post some specs about the size of the display in inches & pixels? And does it run an open OS?

I recently bought an M5Paper which is a 960X540, 4.7" ESP32 e-ink display for $70. So that provides a baseline for your hardware.
How does Newsom not wearing a mask lend weight to your argument that we should not wear mask?

All it really shows us is that you and Newsom are a holes.
this is utter drivel.

nobody is saying children should be isolated. they should be isolated from things and people who will damage them regardless of what they do. a stove can harm a child, but a child can choose not to touch a stove. a viscous bully will target and track a child, and in modern schools there is no option to fight back. the child has to simply sit there and endure it. so for example, if you put a child into a good private school this would meet my criteria. almost invariably, bullies behave the way they do because they are abused at home. if you separate your kids from the wife-beating riff-raff then you have done your kids a huge favor without "isolating" them.

i would almost not care about this issue if we still had a sane culture that let kids behave naturally and fight each other from time to time. maybe you are a little older than me, but the way it works now is that kids are raised to believe that without school, their life will be over. worse, they will bring disgrace to themselves and their whole family if they dont do well in school. if you fight, you will jeopardize everything by getting in trouble, getting expelled. we are putting boys between and anvil and a hammer with no way out. if my kid has no way to overcome it, and it causes him intense psychological pain for years, then there is no use in subjecting him to it. i cant understand how anyone can not understand this blindingly simple fact.

the key to raising kids is to let them confront danger, adversity and challenges and to make sure they have some kind of agency to overcome what they are facing. school bullying is unambiguously outside of this category of things because fighting is not allowed. its basically no different than strapping the child down and torturing him. it will build just as much character.

there was never any bullying or heroin overdoses anywhere in my life except for my public school. there are all kinds of people, groups and activities. saying that all outside world interactions are the same is utter drooling nonsense.

palmer luckey and Billie Eilish are both homeschooled and they are doing a lot better than you are. not all homeschooling is the same. i could keep my kid in a cage and call it homeschooling.

i see that you endured intense trauma as a child and you enjoyed it. you would not do it any differently. a pamplet of your story should be given to victims of childhood trauma who have schizophrenia and other trauma-induced diseases. clearly they have an attitude problem. it is not the trauma that hurt them, it was their sour attitude about it. what a revolution you have brought.
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The price point will be a sticking point for consumers. I understanding the pro’s of this style of device with an e ink screen, and the associated power savings and readability it comes with, but the general public may not. This could be better positioned towards an office environment but it would possibly be too small to be useful to a team.

I love the idea and the design, and I hope it works for you, but I think it’s going to be a hard sell ahead for you at that price point.
Sorry to be pedantic, but there is no such thing as an ALIAS record. It's just the DNS server doing the indirection for you.
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Remind me again, are we talking about an asset or a currency?
> "why can't you just use pip?"

IMO, pip is great, but it has exactly two use cases where it's warranted. One is where you need to be your own maintainer, e.g. you've developed a private web server to run your website, and you need to manage its dependency versions precisely. The other is for development purposes: it's really great to be able to use different versions of Python or test against different libraries than your distribution ships.

It's not (or shouldn't be) for shipping software to end users. That's the problem being complained about in the essay. This particular way of handling dependencies (use system libraries by default, but allow the user / developer to create an entire virtualized Python installation if they want one) is actually why I think Python handles this better than most other languages, including older ones.
"I don't break the restrictions"
liar.
They didn't cut power to neighborhoods with a police/fire station (I have a friend in Texas who wondered why his power didn't get cut). I don't know about hospitals. But hospitals usually have their own emergency generators.

BTW, the power to my house can be remotely and individually shut off any time the power company wants to (when they upgraded my meter). There's no reason this can't be used to shut off the fixed rate customers and leave the variable rate ones on.
Why We Want Tech Copycats to Fail
People are always anthropomorphizing inanimate things, especially machines! We see this all the time when people share videos of robots that cross into uncanny valley with humanlike faces, or those machines by Boston Dynamics.

What's funny how most people are unsettled by those. Really, even the "creepiest" robots are about as scary as vaccum cleaners. They're just machines and only make you feel curious.

But anyway, that's tangential to the main point which is that humans naturally want to want things like themselves, all the time. In the same way art is "unnecessary" yet inevitable, so are machines with (seemingly?) subjective experiences and personalities.
But what if I have software and images (e.g. as in game software)? Which version control system do I use?

Honestly, I think the effort was better spent on an improved version of Git.
To answer the question behind your question. I think what you're looking for is a way to increase one's personality trait conscientiousness.

It's not easy.

Here's some pointers :

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-new-home/201...

https://einzelganger.co/how-to-increase-conscientiousness/

There's likely more out there, obviously.
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I am sorry you did not buy it when it was cheaper. No need to hate it now because you were stupid back then.
There is no such thing as an ALIAS record. That’s something your DNS provider made up and shows to you in the interface, but behind the scenes they are providing the same old AAAA and A records as always, along with some sort of auto-updating feature which they will run to detect changes in the address of the name in the “ALIAS record”. How often this will update is anyone’s guess as it’s up to the DNS provider.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record#ANAME_record
>>> Keeping money in the bank (especially in the US) is just dumb

I don't think holding cash is dumb. You get the freedom of timing when opportunity presents itself.

The question with cash is: How to get significant yield (>4%) for your savings risk free? DeFi carries risks that simply aren't present in traditional asset classes. Popular "annuity" products providing downside insurance typically have onerous conditions. Physical Gold is subject to cultural shifts (as well as theft). Real estate is a full time responsibility. My bias is to raw acreage. Passing it down generation to generation ad infinitum.

There is no magic bullet. But I think the idea of an energy-backed currency is the future. Think: Wyoming ranchers leasing to wind harvesters.
Yes it will work. But it will be so slow that you won't ever do anything useful with it, so in practice it doesn't work.

Go mine Ethereum or Monero instead.
In that case, why not flash another kind of Android?
He is handling the integration. The maintenance of the products falls on the ops team. He is doing a great job. I just don't think he will stick around to maintain things once he is done, and we will have two stacks to migrate and maintain.
Number go up with Tether – Musk and Bitcoin set the world on fire
Sure, but solar plus wind does not allow the flexibility to plan for the worst case and come out ahead.
Just to be clear, you think the company that runs Gmail and YouTube failed at a social network because they couldn't figure out how to scale it efficiently?
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> Bitcoin is a store of value

That's what's said now because it failed as a currency.
Who do you think leadership listens to? the employees they never talk to or the line managers they have weekly discussions with?

it happened to me recently. working for a manager that literally took all the credit for all of my visible work, taking 0 responsibility when the team was failing on projects while he is the one who assigned juniors on complex projects without any oversight. He obviously blamed his own team members to upper management rather than taking responsibility too.

He recently got promoted while I am being asked to attend trainings to get better at my job in order to be promoted (While at the same time being qualified as a top achiever in my yearly review...)

Don't forget that no one will ever be on your side in a company. You don't meet leadership. Your line manager does. HR is not on your side never.

So yes. The only way out is to kneel down and accept it. be nice to the guy who takes credit and if you do it well enough you might be the next he will promote. except if he brought his friend to the company and this friend is competing with you....
> I've barely touched C/C++ and still know what pointers are and how they work.

Congratulations you’ve successfully triggered the pedantic interviewer. You will now face six questions on pointers in C++ they just looked up each more trivia based than the last.
I’d make the same argument, especially when it concerns smtp or dns as both standards are full of contradictions, caveats, and errata and there are plenty of real world implementations that deviate from the specs.
That seems to be just false.

The Wikipedia article does mention Mac OS, but does not, anywhere, use it as an example of a walled garden.

Here is the definition from the page you link:

“A closed platform, walled garden, or closed ecosystem[1][2] is a software system wherein the carrier or service provider has control over applications, content, and media, and restricts convenient access to non-approved applicants or content. This is in contrast to an open platform, wherein consumers generally have unrestricted access to applications and content.“

This definition is simply not true of Mac OS.
It’s very interesting. No one seems to actually like politicians these days. I’m not sure if someone who was truly brave and principled would be shunned by the general population. Elites - of course they would shun any challenger. Trump is not a good comparison as he had none of Teddys positive traits.
Immeasurable brilliance. Bow down to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnFAAdOBB1c&ab_channel=Carol...