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I didn't mean to be negative.

I just get bothered when see co2 makes things cold, its almost absurdist joke ie the one thing to nullify a hypothesis is now incorporated into the hypothesis to strength the argument.

I don't know anything about Texans, I don't even live in America but American politics trickle down
I wrote a couple Forth compilers for the Forth chips of the 80s. Yossi (the author) does a great job conveying how attractive Forth can be, and also how it fails to encode algorithms that are less than dead simple.

I wonder how much of the stack manipulation problem could be solved with say four register words A, B, C, D (and A!, B!, C!, and D!) that access registers understood not to be trashed by primitives (CODE words) but might be trashed by definitions (COLON words).

Otherwise, once you start trying to fix these problems, you end up with Scheme.
The EU's local manufacturers were supplying non-locally because they had a contract to do that and the EU hadn't set up such a contract, or a contract at all. Usually, if you've not got a contract then you don't get a say, and usually, if other people set up a contract first, they get supplied first, which is why the EU tried to use other means, and because that jeopardises the most fundamental part of all trade - contracts - everyone condemned them. Quite rightly.

Perhaps you were referring to something else?
So your solution is to charge more and throw more engineers at the problem? Sounds like one of my ex-bosses.

Apple does that and they couldn't be further apart from aerospace engineering quality. Their software and hardware has been historically littered with problems and bugs.
I've tossed it in the submit page. It was submitted once before, but didn't gain any traction then.

As an aside, it is interesting looking at the history of other submissions from the same author - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=uni.edu
"However, the manifold of architecture search generally contains many points for which there is no feasible mapping from software to hardware."

I'm having some trouble understanding how this manifests itself. Can someone help me with this by e.g. providing a toy example?
> It's a question of context.

> It's fine to say things like this to your spouse or your friend

The context was, in effect, an accidental hot mic situation where they thought they were alone with their friends.
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Child protection nonprofit alleges 'manipulative' upselling in math game Prodigy
My main objection is to the "must be banned immediately" part. That's totally alarmist and unnecessarily inflammatory.
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I am reminded of the following exchange from The Big Lebowski:

> Walter: “Am I wrong?”

> The Dude: “... You’re not wrong, Walter. You’re just an asshole.”

> Walter: “Okay then.”
>It's a shame that the lunar gateway is useless

with the number of billionaires walking around, it probably can make a decent money as a tourist destination. Especially if there is an option to get down for a walk on the surface. Though it can become quickly at least partially outdated once one can just charter a Starship to make a quick long weekend trip around the Moon.
Schools across the entire planet should be open without restricton immediately. We are doing immense harm for no gain - the data is incredibly clear that children are at negligible risk from COVID and that schools are no breeding grounds for the virus.

In any case, COVID cases are down significantly, and we are reaching herd immunity (either from natural immunity or vaccinations) across much of the planet, in addition to the seasonality effects of Spring.
bye bye cash
I think you are right, it would be surprising if we discovered something outside our understanding of physics (god) to give us what we perceive as consciousness. It's been hypothesized that some unknown quantum effect might provide us this ability, but there is no indication of that yet.

My general thought is, that since our brain is made of matter, it can be dissected and understood and eventually copied. Except, we are reverse engineering millions of years of evolution, which is exceedingly hard! We have had access to the information about all the proteins that make our brain cells for almost two decades, and still, their function has to be teased out in year long experiments. Not to speak of understanding the workings of the Homo Sapiens brain as a whole.

It is also an analog 'computer', the performance of which we have no perceivable chance to match, at least in the near and most likely also distant future.
Why because it’s an uncomfortable truth? It’s certainly not a novel concept

https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/politics/documents/Ari...

https://gap.hks.harvard.edu/how-does-media-influence-social-...

https://live.worldbank.org/should-we-use-entertainment-media...
“Declaring an emergency” is US specific. The rest of the world doesn’t recognise this phrase you have to use either “Mayday” for immediate danger to life or “Pan Pan” for less severe problems. As I understand it, “Declaring an emergency” is the equivalent of a Mayday and the US is very slowly switching away from this non standard phraseology.
They are both a big deal and expected. 3-4 happen per year and this is why pilots train for them.
If you're unwilling to be civil and also unwilling to engage in the argument presented to you - even when made clear via analogy - then I'm not sure why you think anyone will bother to listen to you.

> it seems to me that

You've busted that flush.
In the US, dumping stuff in the nearest landfill is pretty likely to be cheaper than dumping it in the ocean. Especially if the landfill is operating the recycling sort (the case here and many other smaller counties).

(This addresses your second paragraph; if they are selling the high grade and putting the rest in the landfill...)
The context is it was an official School Board meeting.
Speculation is indeed somewhat baseless, however I think it's a bit off to attribute all joy in the world to kids!
Pascal was my first programming language at University (circa 2016). Alas in 2018 they succumbed to student feedback (university admin was big on that) complaining about learning a "dead language".

Missing the point that it is a brilliant teaching language for a beginner to learn fundamental concepts.
To be fair, that sounds more like "didn't" than "couldn't," which is exactly what GP suggests.
It has nothing to do with harm or even the threat of harm to children. This appears to have more to do with teachers not wanting to return to the classroom, and using COVID as an excuse not to. IMO it's the same reason we have to wear facemasks on airlines: Flight attendant unions demand it. School districts and municipalities, like airlines, are so afraid of the union they don't want to do anything that might upset them.
I don't understand how NASA's manned space program has become such a mess and basically a political football while their unmanned scientific missions seem to go pretty well. Whenever I hear something about SLS I feel sad for the people working on it. Although the James Webb also seems to be a disaster.
From coding bootcamp graduate to building distributed databases
How do you get enough fuel to the asteroid to bring it back if even sending a 'measly' rover to Mars is a multi-year endeavor. Asteroids weight a lot more than a rocket and you need to change their velocity by the same amount
Falcon Heavy is the cheapest kg to orbit rocket in the world by far right now and the largest one.

Super Heavy is only a first stage booster. Combined with the Starship upper stage this system is also called Starship. This system is still in development and has not yet made orbit.

NASA does not just pick some rocket for a huge expensive payload like that. A rocket needs to go threw a complex certification program, have a proven flight record and be well understood by NASA.

While SpaceX hopes to be flying with Starship by the point this would launch, NASA simply doesn't work in those time lines.
They figured that little “Breaking News Alert!” out during 9/11, during which it was useful, but not at all after. I remember when Jason Priestly got into a car accident and they started throwing those alerts up. I realized then, “ok. Now they’ve jumped the shark”

The only thing that amazes me at this point is that it is apparently still effective enough that they keep doing it.
Bash and openssh is a far cry from the development machine most Mac users rely one.
The first comment is "are we alone?" to which someone says "yes".

They thought they were alone and it was over / not started yet.
A good salary motivates people temporarily or if they are in dire need for money. In the long term, it's far from enough.
Did you know there are TWO PRIMARY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION STYLES?
Are you a teacher?
Very rudely, I'd like to mention the popular backronymn for ETOPS: "engines turn or passengers swim"...
There isn't really any systematic reuse of glass bottles in the U.S. The only such thing I've encountered is some very niche arrangements between boutique dairy companies and boutique grocery stores, where you can return your $10 quart bottle of milk for the bottle to be reused.
As a thought experiment this is cool but from a practical perspective it’s too focused on a specific architecture and if anything adding perturbations might (slightly) help the training process.

From the thought experiment side. I think the moral implications cut both ways. Mass image recognition is not always bad - think about content moderation or the transfer of images of abuse. As a society we want AI to flag these things.
I'm helping with building that part at my current job and the main problem that I'm finding is that the documentation is not good at all. There's a lot of trial and error, outdated documentation and such that makes it hard to get started.

I do agree that once it's setup properly with a CI pipeline, it becomes a breeze to install and maintain updated systems.
Maybe this would be easier if you shared your definition of 'elegant'.

> Haskell is the only one that I would call elegant on this list. But we were talking about modern. Haskell is 30 years old, I would not call that modern. Also Haskel and Lisp can be written (just like C macros if you want) to birth an entire different syntax if that's your kink.

The only mention of 'modern' in this thread was with respect to Java... you know, the one with record types which eliminate a lot of boilerplate?

I'm not sure why age should count against Haskell, when you agree that it is 'elegant'? I should point out that the Haskell of 30 years ago is very different from Haskell today.

I'm not even sure what we're arguing about at this point.
> The Sabre compiler emits JavaScript for the Node.js runtime

Does this mean the JVM is BS?
Yeah, there are 4 M2.5 threaded holes on the back, precisely for mounting your own stands. (The subreddit seems to think that some first-party things that screw in there are on the way. In the meantime, I'm happy with my own.)

Here is a Thingiverse link: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4769961

There are caveats mentioned on the Thing page. I measured the screw spacing imprecisely and you will have to pick your favorite diagonal to put 2 of the 4 screws in ;) You'll also have to mirror the file to print one for the other hand.
Boeing 747 loses parts after take-off from Maastricht – 2 injuries
sounds like a lawsuit in the making..
> I thought one of the primary functions of public schools was that they were government provided daycare.

Yes, but lots of people don’t want to admit that, especially teachers. The school system doesn’t need college educated, subject matter certified teachers to run a day care.
Those are heavy objects falling onto a kids soccer field and nobody yells "HEADS UP!", "FORE!" or "RUN FOR COVER!". How considerate.
Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
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... and to fly that way for quite some time with high confidence of success.

If you think about it: this aircraft was flying to Hawaii; after crossing the west coast, it would be flying almost 2,500 miles over the ocean to get there.

If you lost the engine halfway there (instead of soon after takeoff), you'd either have to turn around and fly back toward California or continue onwards; which is almost a three hour flight.

The concept is called ETOPS for Extended Twin Operations; and the Boeing 777 was the first twin-engine aircraft rated to do this (fly up to three hours for the nearest available airport).
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If they needed to go faster, they could do that with a single larger engine if they wanted to (which they may have to develop.) But they don't, because they're limited as you've explained.

> no-one is arguing against redundancy

Sn0wCoder said they reason they had two engines was to go faster and not redundancy, and m00dy thinks they can't fly without two engines.
> In fact their primary purpose is to keep kids locked up in one place for a big chunk of the day so adults can get things done.

I work from home full-time. Our seven year old son has a desk in the adjacent room with a laptop on it. He'd happily sit there using his laptop all day long instead of going to school, leaving me in peace to work in the office. So I don't feel like we really need school as a babysitter (although I acknowledge many other parents don't have my kind of job and so really do need school as a babysitter)

What I think we really need school for is to get him away from his laptop and into face-to-face interaction with other kids. Learning is quite secondary to that. (He's a smart kid and he learns a lot of stuff outside of the context of formal education.)
> A lot of Hams enjoy tracking down hidden transmitters, we even set up "games" to practice doing just that, we call it a "Hare & Hound" practice.

Hams really seem to enjoy being snitches!

I'll keep playing with my Baofangs and their aftermarket antennas! Also I'll wait until HAM dies out as a old white men hobby, and the frequency band are repurposed to a better use that allows anonymity and encryption - or I'll stay on public solutions like WIFI/LoraWAN!
Last I heard, there were mixed results on the health implications to kids. Are there current reports during these spikes?
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This app will alert you when launch agents and other persistence items are added: https://objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html
Absolutely disagree, and I think the waste majority of space nerds do so as well.

ARM was a mission literally designed so Obama so NASA would have something to do with SLS and Orion. It was a pretty terrible mission that basically nobody wanted except the president.

The actual ARM that they settled on would only pick up a small bolder from an asteroid and bring it to earth orbit. Not large enough to live in, not even close. And not even useful for resources.

Water is by far the most useful thing you can find, and its what makes everything else possible. The moon has a huge amount close to each other. Almost every expert I have heard talk about is, think getting water from the moon is the best way to use space resources early on.

>In terms of resources the moon itself only has water

This is completely false. Just FYI.

There is lots of different useful materials on Mars.

Check out this video by former NASA engineer who has work on in Space manufacturing for many decades:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-RTBGnzNks

You can literally build solar panels, batteries, and many other things with martian resources.
Apple is definitevely part of the FAANG pseudo-oligopoly. And they are even less open than Google. They all buy up any competition who might disrupt the market. It's very sad.

Even OpenAI turned out to be propietary and practically bought out by Microsoft. And that's mostly software.
> They're saying that most bullying is of kind A, whereas existing programs are largely treating bullying of kind B. I'm saying that the opposite is true: that most bullying is of kind B, whereas existing programs are largely treating bullying of kind A.

Thanks for clearing that up
> Also not everything can be paper. A coffee cup can never be fully paper, it needs a plastic lining and can thus never be recyclable

There are bioplatic liners for paper coffee cups that allow them to be fully compostable, though. I have sitting next to me one made from the World Centric brand that uses the "Ingeo PLA" for the liner, and I compost these cups in my backyard. I only use them when it's inconvenient to not use a regular mug.
I predict that Bezos is prepping to buy ULA if the Vulcan proves to be a success. It's the natural growth option for Blue Origin to buy their way into an orbital vehicle.
I've noticed the second part - it's become harder to report bugs over the years, and they are likely to be ignored.

My thinking was that if you are getting QA for free, you should be falling all over yourself to make it easy for it to happen.

In other terms, the user interface for bug reporting should be EVEN MORE streamlined than a sign-up process or a shopping cart checkout process.

But put in the terms of this article, maybe it should continue to be fiddly and cumbersome for the sake of the software.
I assume the subtext is that the answer to my question is "no, other localities haven't lost water treatment in their winter outages" --- those outages apparently not being severe enough to impact water delivery.
OK, well it's great you found something you like, and I don't doubt that there are people who can program who don't like it.

I would still claim that just like guitar, it may get more fun with practice, and that practice may take years. Even if you're working on some old legacy system, being the person who can make it sing is pretty fun IMO. Actually I find the legacy stuff to be more interesting because it actually runs and does things in the world.

BTW I also found that those kind of debugging sessions went down drastically in frequency in a ~14 year career of programming. (We had multi-week, multi-engineer bugs at my first job in games.) The industry changed its practices significantly, and I also changed my personal practices. It only takes a few experiences like that to reflect on what could have gone differently. Sometimes they are out of your control, but often not.

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edit: If this helps make the point more succinctly, I will also say I was mathematically oriented, and had a masters and BS in engineering from a good university. And I worked on a small team shipping major console games ... and despite that, I got drastically better at debugging and testing in the next 10+ years. (Debugging being the most literally scientific part of programming; I was better at math than science.)

Actually the experience of working with game programmers taught me how bad I was at debugging. There's also a lot to learn about software architecture for reducing bugs. If you get infuriated frequently by debugging, then there are things you can do to change that. Of course you may not want to if you've found other things you like.
Each time I see the Mother of all demos, I think to myself that this guy must be a time traveler from the future.
What do you think about patch-based systems like Darcs and Pijul instead of snapshot-based systems like Git?

Recent article on Pijul: https://initialcommit.com/blog/pijul-version-control-system/
I know they happen, I just think it's incredibly unlikely. So you need some evidence otherwise we go with the most likely explanation...

Out of interest, do you know, has anyone ever leaked an engineered bio weapon? The examples are always for naturally occurring pathogens...
What a marvellous short form essay.
> Advising kids to lean away from modern life and push back on the progress of distracting technologies will actually be a more anti-social move than not.

It's not about telling kids to unplug completely.

It's about balance.

There are so many endless digital distractions available today that people need to know how and where to draw the line on their consumption. Or they don't recognize that the short-term value they derive from scrolling Twitter or making a $100 gain on their Robinhood app comes at the expense of setting back their desired career goals, or personal fitness goals, or even their social goals.

It's exhausting to listen to mentees complain that they don't have enough time in the day to work out, or read a book they want to read, or cook the healthy meals they want to eat, but then they go on to discuss things like Bitcoin and Dogecoin for 4 hours straight in Slack or recruit their friends into another Twitter argument.

> Accept that today's child is a highly connected, distracted, techno-proficient being and let that be that.

Part of our role as mentors and/or parents is to guide young people in healthier directions.

There's nothing wrong with being connected and techno-proficient, and there's nothing wrong with having some fun on Twitter or Tik Tok. However, that doesn't mean we should go full laissez-faire and tell young people there's nothing wrong with being distracted all day every day.

There are a lot of parallels to diet: There's nothing wrong with eating donuts or cookies or bacon in moderation. However, if you overindulge in sweets, eat 3000 calories a day, and never moderate your intake of anything you're going to accumulate major health problems over the course of your life.
There's a difference between "it's twice as expensive as the alternatives" and "it's 20x as expensive as the alternatives", though.

SpaceX has upended the cost analysis on stuff like this.
Any links to the passenger livestreams?
It's weird, but count is basically a singleton here, where the state is shared with the thing that actually renders this.

> Wouldn’t everything be a lot less magical if it was oop? Then you’d go ‘input_1.toggle_state’ and it is pretty clear to everyone which variable is being toggled.

I think that's mostly mirroring the syntax from React (where things used to be classes, although functional React is getting more popular).

The main advantage of this singleton based approach is that the dataflow is unidirectional. It doesn't show up in their simple examples, but in more complicated ones, those variables get passed to child components. If you do OOP, you're passing a mutable object to the child component. With this approach, they get a read-only copy of the variable. You can overwrite the value, but it won't propagate up to the parents, so the component can only screw up itself.

It's different, but I don't think particularly magical. The magic is basically "for each component, see what singletons were passed to children. If any of the children's singletons changed, re-render the affected children". I'm not a React expert by any means, but once I got used to that functional paradigm, it doesn't bother me.
Amusingly, I pick those because they provide a bit of variety but not so much as to be distracting while working. Usually music with words in it gets me focused on what they are actually saying and thus unable to do work.
Actually pretty impressive results