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Yes it will. When costs change by orders of magnitude, trades change. Space hardware will always have some non-trivial cost, just like how equipment on the ground still has significant cost in spite of low logistics costs. As reuse lowers cost of space access by orders of magnitude, the relative cost of trashing vs fixing changes dramatically. When the space hardware costs 100x more than the launch, then it makes sense to fix than to trash.

Also, astronauts are MUCH faster at assembly than robots.
There are a few situations I am extremely wary of — how I'm perceived when I'm interacting with children, being accused of inappropriate behaviour in the workplace, or being accused of being racist or otherwise bigotted.

These moments help me empathise with people who live their entire lives with that fear. On the whole I have it good. I can walk down the street without people assuming I'm looking for cars to break into. Or fly on a plane without people wondering if I am going to blow it up.

But at the same time I get the feeling that some people see those behaviours as punishment for my percieved privilege, and might even enjoy seeing me squirm. Which doesn't sit right with me. I think the answer to bigotry is to be aware of it, counter it, and fix it so we can lift everyone up. Rather than wield it as a weapon to cut down those you perceive as being unfairly advantaged by history.
This is a really good idea, thanks. Snippet won't be enough to cover the usages though. Most of these tools use varying syntax for different diagrams.

Anyone looking for a specific need can go through the links to find out which one is better.

Go through some of them. It's hard to summarize a tools function in a single snippet. Same goes for screenshots. How would you do that?
> If in fact the statement by dcurtis is the first efflorescence of the problem, your line of thinking would reject it anyway.

This is true, but we have to take it in context. How likely is it that this is the policy, and we’ve never heard about it before now?

The card has been our for a couple of years. Millions of people are using it. This implies 10s of millions of payments. At a conservative estimate this would mean there must have been thousands of missed payments, and therefore thousands of locked Apple accounts.

It therefore seems unlikely we wouldn’t have heard about it. I could of course be wrong as could the GP, because this is just a probability estimate. But that’s all the GP is saying.
That's a good question and I'm not sure I'll have an answer for you but I'll try and explain my thought process. I look at technology similar to this (this seems more benign than some) as extracting as much value from people as possible. It's not a question of "what can I charge to live comfortably and have a great life" but how can I extract as much revenue as possible from my customers.

The big companies are masters of this and continue to get better as computing gets faster. It worries me a great deal that everything is or has become a monthly payment in perpetuity.
Files are quite central to Unix and are required by any relevant standards I'm aware of. iOS, deriving from Mac OS X, is a Unix and has always supported its fundamental filesystem abstractions, regardless of whatever the SDK exposes to third-party application programmers.
i think it provides context, if what they are doing is status quo, then maybe we should question the status quo rather than an individual company.
> A final interesting property of this code is that its be- haviour is undefined according to the C language standard. The reason is that it calls memcpy() across a range of memory comprising multiple distinct C objects, copying them all into memory-mapped storage in a single operation.

What's wrong with memcpy here? As long as dst and src are both non-zero and the ranges of memory are not overlapping, the behavior of memcpy is well defined.
Yeah, with Codec 2 setting the gold standard, I don't find this very impressive. I find this more intelligible at one-third of the Lyra bitrate:

http://www.rowetel.com/downloads/codec2/hts2a_1300.wav

Codec 2 does a better job of isolating the parts of sound which are most necessary to intelligible speech, without necessarily caring too much about preserving the original qualities of the speaker's voice or environment.

Fun fact: Codec 2 can be used to transmit voice over IRC:

https://github.com/asiekierka/voirc
Also AFAIK you can still dispute charges after you have paid them; if you win the dispute you'll get credited later.
Joby Aviation is turning science fiction into science fact
Are you really suggesting that SMS fallback is a good enough way to message people in 2021? How about sending them a video? Location? Voice message? MMS? Does this crap ever work?? (In my country it doesn't work between operators and costs €.5 for one message)
Trying to get legal to sign-off on allowing no-privacy-policy access to anything is going to be hard every time, especially if you do keep personal information like IP addresses for any amount of time (hello gdpr).
I'm curious about this as well!

Search results sent me to this Twitter thread which suggests it was still a mystery in Aug 2020:
https://twitter.com/vboykis/status/1290030614410702848?lang=...

To speculate a bit:
The GPT-3 paper (section 2.2) mentions using two datasets referred to as "books1" and "books2", which are 12B and 55B byte pair encoded tokens each.

Project Gutenberg has 3B word tokens I believe, so it seems like it could be one of them, assuming the ratio of word tokens to byte-pair tokens is something like 3:12 to 3:55.

Another likely candidate alongside Gutenberg is libgen, apparently, and looks like there have been successful efforts to create a similar dataset called bookcorpus: https://github.com/soskek/bookcorpus/issues/27). The discussion on that github issue suggests bookcorpus is very similar to "books2", which would make gutenberg "books1"?

This might be why the paper is intentionally vague about the books used?
Africans discovered Lead, Americans discovered Plutonium.
I mean..........urgh. It's an unbelivably convoluted topic and I feel like just dismissing it as "stolen by KGB from the West" is simply unfair.

Yep. The article even mentions that initial designs for some of these cameras were taken as war reparations in the aftermath of WWII. I suppose Leica might see that as theft, but it was hardly KGB espionage.
That was, of course, a complaint about Linux back in the day. It turned out nobody cared enough to stop Linux development.
The unbridgeable gap here is that the speaker of a phrase cannot with 100% certainty know whether a phrase will cause offense - "being offended" lives in the listener's mind. So we have to fall back to a "reasonable person" presumption. To do otherwise is to cede all control of public conversation to people who wield bad-faith claims of offense as a weapon.

If I say something, and have a good-faith belief that no one would be offended by it, and 99.99% of people agree that it was not an offensive statement, but one person claims to be offended by it - should I be forced to apologize under pain of being branded an "asshole"?

For the sake of argument let's say I'm offended by your "just asking questions" style statement that "Fry doesn't care about other people's feelings". Do you think it would be reasonable for you to apologize to me or retract your "question"?
It was possible. Like others have commented already, it's much more affordable to do that today, given sensors, computing and advances on our understanding of the whole field. But given large enough pockets, I'm pretty sure by the time we had the capability to build Space Shuttles, we could do reusable rockets instead.

There's one point I would like to add. This is something that's very difficult to do for well established companies. They tend to have their workhorse rockets - which were NOT designed with reusability in mind. Modifying these rockets is not feasible in many cases. Even when it is, it may not be cost effective. So the usual solution is to design a new "reusable rocket program".

Now, the problem with such a program is: the success criteria is reusability. If the new rocket cannot be put into service quickly enough and demonstrates reusability successfully, it will be scrapped. If it delivers payloads just fine but can't land (or can land but refurbishment is costly), it will be a failure. After all, on one hand you have a working system, which is generating revenue. On the other, you have a problematic R&D program that's draining resources and engineering cycles for the promise of potential savings. They end up getting scrapped on the first resource crunch.

SpaceX was developing their rocket. Their success criteria was that it would deliver payloads into orbit. Given that they started from scratch and had no existing workhorse, they also added reusability as a goal and designed the rocket to allow for that. If it achieved reusability, great! If not, it's just another single-use rocket. They also got "early" adopters, companies that were willing to launch their payloads on SpaceX, on new rocket designs, that only had a handful of flights. So they were, by definition, a little less risk-averse.

On every flight, SpaceX got closer and closer to the reusability goal. But that didn't matter to most customers (they would pay for new boosters anyway), because that part of the mission happened after their payload was already on its way by the second stage, so who cares what happens to the first. All the while cementing their reputation.

In essence, SpaceX got companies to finance the R&D for the reusable boosters, because they only had one rocket. If they tried to start with a single-use rocket, and then created a "Falcon 9-reuse" version, they would have faced the same difficulties. Namely, who would fly on the untested new design?

Rocketlabs might be able to pull it off still, because - while it's a new booster - it's also one that's intended to increase their capabilities (much like Spaceship), it's not just a "reusable rocket program". If it can't be reused, then it's a more expensive rocket, but one that still adds value.
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I like a lot of FS, but this seems particularly incorrect. You can slow down your thinking rate, can you not? That being the case, it seems trivial to me that you can also speed it up.

Perhaps you can't raise your maximum thinking rate, or you can't raise it without introducing errors or reducing criteria, but that is different from saying it is fixed.

Of course, what I'm describing is more of a "decisioning rate" than a thinking rate, but that's exactly how they describe it in the article.
The majority of all electricity and auto power we use is an environmental disaster. My gore tex jacket, anything producing forever chemicals as biproducts is an environmental disaster (Dupont). Your car tires and mine apparently have biproducts affecting salmon health. But you're just calling out the hot topic -that's my point.

bitcoin's energy useage - yes it's completely wasteful by design. But one day in the future Bitcoin may not be in comparison to our gore-tex problem, our cow-methane problem. Keepin' it real. I'm saying 2050 it could be solar powered completely. Then batteries can be an enviromental disaster ... it's a never ending cycle

Call a spade a spade: it's the financial sanction power that will stop bitcoin. Why would the US give that up? Decline only.
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My wife is a developer in the same company as mine (albeit in a totally different sub-orga). This is maybe the cause I don't share your experience (at all).

She's the best paid person in her sub-orga. We're definitely lucky, but also the woman-vs-man topic isn't relevant at all here. We (as a company) are just looking at skill in all aspects, and she's good in most of them, as am I in a different subset.

She also has a twin-sister. She works in a different company, different federal state, and she earns a bit more than my wife - and she also doesn't care at all about the shenanigans happening, she's just doing what she likes and is good at. If you don't believe me I'll create an email alias you can mail me at and we'll get into touch.

Yes both of them have been humiliated, and this is what we should work against. But they have proven theirselves, and they have had support from co-workers, and instead of always putting blame on whatever, we should put focus on supporting good people, regardless of gender. This is so much lost.
> "this happened to me and I didn't encounter the same consequences for my Apple account."

You can see other commenters on this thread saying exactly this.

E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26307849
What aspect of portable floating point did Java back down on?
> Anyone looking for a specific need can go through the links to find out which one is better.

98% of people don't have time for that. If a snippet or tiny screenshot can't reveal some of the essence of the language it's probably not very good.
It's suspected that Relogic's Youtube account being banned had something to do with it. Then Google's machine learning probably decided that guilt by association was enough to lock down everything that it had touched or been touched by.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/terraria-developer-c...
The Power of the Cat over Man
I dont understand where this comment is coming from. What sources are you using the make the cost claims you are making and/or the reliability requirements and/or heatshield requirements?
Also check the anti-racist math (funded by the Gates Foundation) document here: https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...

This is the most racist document I have ever read. "The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false" is on p. 65.
This only seems to applicable to shaders? GPGPU in most contexts is referring to code divorced from any graphics pipeline, like CUDA or ROCm. CUDA has had asynchronous and concurrent kernel calls for a long time. How are asynchronous compute shaders relevant in that context?
Bug 323 – optimized code gives strange floating point results
I agree with the point about managers and decision-makers setting the tone with regard to the "hurry up" culture, but I take exception with one line:

> Expecting great things of all your workers

Why is it not OK to expect great things out of everybody on your team? Surely people don't want to feel excluded from the "great performers" group? Surely people don't want to feel that they're not capable of great things?

I'm completely in favor of giving everybody the time and space they need to do their best work, but then to _also_ assume that some people are incapable of producing great work given the time and support they need to achieve it... isn't that the definition of an under-performer?

As decision makers, don't we have an obligation to identify the people who do great work and empower them? Isn't it our job to create the environment in which _everybody_ does great work? Why is it not OK to expect that everybody does great work?
Because it has cost benefit.
Redmi Note here in Brazil are super popular.
The only alternative for that, it's Samsung, but is not exactly better. I believe Xiaomi devices are still cheaper than Samsung here.
Oh good, you read the first part!
If you live near a Microcenter, they are available in store.

I actually was at the Dallas store with a ticket to buy a 5600X, but left for two reasons: I decided I didn't need to spend $300 for marginal noticeable performance increases, and I didn't want to stand in the checkout line for an hour.
I wasn’t equating them. I think you might be responding to something else in the thread.

I was pointing out that the parts of our food supply chain that are infrastructure and the parts that are market driven are different parts. The problem with thinking that we have “market-driven infrastructure which provides food” is that the system which provides us food is partly infrastructure and partly market-driven, but that doesn’t mean that the infrastructure is market-driven. The infrastructure parts (e.g. roads) and market-driven parts (e.g. farms) are different parts.

There’s no analogy here, I’m not using analogies, drawing comparisons, or equating things.
> 'with chocolate' in a way that meaningfully differs from the speaker's original. It weakens the voiced 'th' to nothingness

I honestly don't hear a 'th' in the original.

> It was surprising, given that the speaker doesn't sound like that in the original.

I disagree. Note that the speaker says "these bread". The three possibilities for those two words—"these bread", "thiiiis bread", and "these breads" with a dropped "s"—would all be weird things for a native english speaker to say for different reasons relating to either wrong pronunciation of "this" or "breads" or the fact that bread is its own collective noun and therefore we typically require separate qualifiers like "these buns" or "these loaves" when separating multiple individual "pieces" (another) into a non-collective. We ask for "some bread" or "a piece of bread", but we don't say "a bread" or "some breads" unless we are discussing categorical types of bread ("ciabatta and rye are breads") rather than instances of such, and only one type of bread is represented in the video.

The Lyra reproduction has a band-pass filtered quality to it, but I find it still remarkably representative of the reference.
Inflation of US currency is dead.
The real death knell is that technological growth grows with population, which means that until some kind of discontinuity is hit the population won't ever be able to hit the carrying capacity before the capacity is increased again. Is there a way to support a trillion people? I can't see one, but technological progress has been doubted before, and rarely correctly.
What's the developer experience like in D? I keep looking at it from time to time but haven't taken the time to learn it (even though I've spent time learning a lot of new languages) I was never sure if there was a big enough community around D to make it worthwhile but it seems to have a lot of the features I want.
I don't think this is a new thing. I was raised in the 90s in a very suburban area and I never heard the n-word spoken and it was always censored when spoken when we read To Kill a Mockingbird.
You really can call SMS a 'graceful degradation' while keeping a straight face? I call it intentionally crippling communication capabilities. Also, just say no to walled gardens.
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His speech elicited a walk-out. It was received very badly and it led to his ouster.

As far as I can tell he’s done well for himself since then, but that’s because he already had a network of connections.

One misconstrued speech was all it took to ruin a chance to lead a premier east coast uni.
How is such a ban any different than multiple independent company owned by the same parent entity (either a company, or an individual / group of individual). Each of these company having exclusive deal with each others.

You can't ban private property Rights / freedom of association.
yeah but I think in the books he has a spell that allows him to see into your mind or something if you say his name so that would make sense.
What you can tell from that source is that most of the income is attributable to AWS—which is global—with most of the remainder being from sales at amazon.com, amazon.ca, and amazon.com.mx. Even if we simplify and assume that revenue from sales at amazon.com is strictly domestic, and the sales from the Canada and Mexico web sites are negligible, that says nothing about pre-tax income for the purpose of calculating US income taxes. For that you would need to know what fraction of their business expenses are related to their US operations.