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I can't tell if you're sealioning, or just ignorant.

So I'll be charitable and assume you're just ignorant, being HN and all.

Half of the most-western EU members, including Italy, Greece and Spain, essentially give all their tax receipts to former civil servants (like PR does.)

That would be bad enough, but after the African economic migration to EU states, another burden of an additional 10% has been added to total welfare payments in most of those countries. So they're ruined economically. The EU doesn't need the Jones Act, since they keep shooting themselves in the feet.

There's a long (about 10 pages) 2019 interview/expose with PR officials. If I find a link, I'll post it.
NVMe is natively a multi-queue storage protocol, so there's no reason for the application or OS to collect IO requests into a single thread before issuing them to the lower layers. The normal configuration is for each CPU core to be allocated its own IO queue for the drive. But multithreaded synchronous (blocking) IO often isn't enough to keep a high-end NVMe SSD properly busy; you run out of cores and get bogged down in context switching overhead at a few hundred thousand IOPS even with a storage benchmark program that doesn't need any CPU time left over for productive work.

With a sufficiently low overhead async API (ie. io_uring) you can saturate a very fast SSD with a single thread, but I'm not sure it would actually make sense for a game engine to do this when it could just as easily have multiple threads independently performing IO with most of it requiring no synchronization between cores/threads.
Privatizing profits and socializing losses. A staple of modern entrepreneurship.
Parallel Compilation Experiments in C++Builder and Dev C++
CI builds should be locked to exact versions anyways, for the sake of reproducibility.
Great idea if you only visit about:blank but a content blocker has heat pump level efficiency when it comes to removing clutter. Assuming you actually use your browser, that is.
> Conversation at Mon Jan 15 01:16:36 2007

2007.
And so does bitcoin!
> I just use an HTTP client that does not automatically load resources nor run Javascript.

For interest, what do you use? A standard browser with plugins, or a specialised client?
Can I ask what you're using to view video/photo from your home server on your/family phones? Thanks!
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That's the biggest impact on society it will have imho. It's the end of accountability. Everything becomes plausibly deniable.
I strongly doubt there's that many places where you can build some hydro plants which haven't been used yet. At least there's approximately none in Europe.

That's fine as a philosophical thought but in reality, all the hydro capacity is already used.
Exactly the fossilization of the institutions more interested in maintaining the status quo. You saw the same in the Roman Empire which stagnated.

The chaos of the mess of Europe forced innovation and exploration of ideas at the cost of immense amounts of wars instability.
I think you're mistaking Fukushima for the tsunami that caused the incident at the nuclear plant.

Let's not forget the sheer magnitude of the earthquake/tsunami: most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, tsunami waves up to 40.5 meters

This fact sheet [1] from UNSCEAR (united nations agency) shows the impact of the nuclear incident itself:

* Cancer rates to remain stable

* Theoretical increased risk of thyroid cancers among most exposed children

* No impact on birth

* No discernible increase in cancer rates for workers

* Temporary impact on wildlife

It's a short fact sheet so I encourage you to read it completely

In comparison, the tsunami itself [2] killed over 15,000 people and still 200,000+ live away from their home

[1] https://www.unscear.org/docs/publications/2016/factsheet_en_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
What happens if they go bankrupt? Does anyone know what plan B) is for people getting their electricity from this company?
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Whoa, what a (refreshing) blast from the past.
It is so sad and misguided from Apple. I remember when OSX 10.0 came out. A nice Apple UI on BSD core! I immediately rushed to buy an Apple laptop, my first Apple product ever (only Linux/Solaris/otherUNIXs before that).

Been on Apple desktops ever since. But the decline in the last several years has been sharp and no longer tolerable to me. I'm still on a Mac dekstop but I'm on 10.11 and will never upgrade. As OSX becomes closer and closer to an iOS-style user-hostile walled garden, I'm not interested. It'll be back to a Linux (maybe, BSD) desktop after this machine no longer works.
The article does not explain why nuclear must be part of the energy solution. In fact, the argument seem to be that nuclear has been the target of fear mongering from environmentalists and therefore nuclear must be a part of the energy solution which is a fallacy.

Germany has decommissioned numerous nuclear plants (Energiewende) and yet its GDP is up and its coal consumption down. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c... Critics said it couldn't be done, except it was done. Critics claim that Energiewende isn't popular, except surveys show that it is supported by a super majority of Germans.

The main issue nuclear power's supporters ignore is that nuclear is much more expensive than renewables. According to LAZARD 14.0, the cost for wind is $26 to $54 per MWh and $129 to $198 for nuclear. https://www.lazard.com/media/451419/lazards-levelized-cost-o... Furthermore a nuclear plant costs billions to construct and is an investment that takes decades before reaching its break-even point. That's not something the market is interested in, despite record-low capital costs around the world. Should the tax-payer subsidize an energy source that is already at least four times as expensive as wind which may, in a decade or two, be ten times as expensive?
I have start noticing it as well after stumbling on some interviews with Jordan Peterson.
Beyond battery efficiency, another pro that WiFi over Bluetooth is the security.
Hi, I'm the OP and wanted to say that Quillette is a right-wing magazine portraying itself as an lbertarian centrarian magazine. If Jordan Peterson was a magazine, this would be it.

Yet, with this article they managed to shot themselves in the foot. Quillette sees itself as an intellectual post for intellectuals, yet the only intellectualism they manage to bring on is the one described by Steven Pinker: anti-progressive.

Before posting it here, I posted it on a facebook group and the reactions were instant: some making fun of the people waiting to get offended and a great majority getting offended only when seeing it was from Quillette or simply by reading the title.

Even though Quillette managed to self-describe itself without pointing obvious fingers but knowing their history, it was to be addressed to left wing media, the article is humorously accurately describing both extremes of the same narrow American spectrum of politics and social life. If you don't fit a box, you clearly fit the other and need to be attacked by it.
I would (probably) spin up an ingress-controller on ports 80 and 443, using hostNetwork, then use Ingresses from then on (and as it's a single-node cluster, just create a wildcard DNS A record, and possibly an anchor for other CNAMEs to point at (depending on DNS server) pointing at the IP said ingress-controller is running on).

Does mean that anything that upsets the ingress controller is an outage, but for experimentation, that's probably OK.
I saw this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbrT3m89Y3M

I hope they get adopted and maybe even replace the old ones plus coal/gas powered ones.
Like all issues with climate change and energy, you can't stop at whether it exists or not. Gravity storage just does not scale to the point we want.
I'm no expert but does this have the same risks as an open resolver? Are there ways of running a pihole openly for others to the internet without needing a VPN?
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Wow, this is some Old Internet content right here. Hundreds upon hundreds of blog posts about a specific technical content, going back all the way to 2005. Thanks for posting!
Solar and wind do not "work" in the same sense that nuclear works. Nuclear does not go to zero when the wind stops blowing or the sun isn't shining. Solar and wind cannot meet baseload needs in most places. They may perhaps be able to decades or centuries in the future when we get our long-awaited flying cars, but they cannot do so now.
"Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten."

I predict they will "ban" pornography within a few months after such a statement.
The issue with burning natural gas (i.e. from fossil sources) is that it increases the amount of carbon in circulation.
Are the downvotes really hard to understand?

Claiming that renewables are untenable without unavailable fantasy technology is clearly ill-informed. Renewables are already contributing a significant proportion of generated electricity globally - even in the US it's over 20% versus 8% for nuclear. In many European countries, renewables provide over 30% of the consumed electricity. Renewables are already a big part of electricity generation globally despite the lack of star-trek type batteries.

Then the poster turns to politics, suggesting it's just hippies and liberals who have prevented the triumph of nuclear. This is also clearly untrue - the main reason nuclear has all but been abandoned as a source of electricity was decided by the markets - it's just too expensive - without massive government backing nuclear is not economically feasible. Until the 80s, government support was justified because nuclear expertise and materials had military uses but without government support, there hasn't been a single privately financed/build nuclear plant anywhere.
Well, it kind of is the general expectation, unfortunately :-(

For many people if you're 40+ and you're not higher up in the hierarchy, something is wrong.
Everybody can do whatever they like with their time. But if they want their exotic CPU architectures then they can support them themselves, no?

However, demanding mainstream tools to lag behind because of said exotic architectures is unrealistic. At one point we all want to progress and advance our craft, especially the one that pays our bills.

I'm not against multi-culturalism. But we can't have it at the expense of everybody else outside your small bubble having their tooling hampered and/or lagging behind on features that a lot of us need for commercial work (and not only, I'd argue).

Backwards compatibility is like everything else: it can't be praised as an absolute value and damn everything else.
"Still not pointy enough. Oh, and make the next one gold. I wonder if rhinestones would work for heat shielding - check it out."
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> analog techniques used in contrast-tracking

aka edge detection :) I don't remember if it was the Sidewinder or Walleye that eventually dropped in a CCD (or both), but I know that the Maverick (which is technically older than Walleye) got along without a CCD until the GWOT - when it finally upgraded. The Javelin actually beat Maverick in that regard, having a 64x64 sensor 10 years earlier - able to handle scaling and perspective change for the 2-d designated target pattern.

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a454087.pdf
Ad trackers often use some ISP or cloud provider with many other customers. Which network ISP assigned to a given customer is not public information. Even if a company has own AS, blocking it not always an option: Google, Oracle, IBM and others potentially can use any IP in their networks for Ads, but too big to block.
Honestly, there are few usages of the terms "deregulation" that aren't bastardized.

It very rarely refers to a removal of laws. Deregulation can mean a change of laws, change of regulator, establishing a regulating consortium... etc. One deregulation doesn't necessarily have anything in common with another.

We've reached a meta stage where "deregulation" means the types of policies favoured by the deregulation camp.

It's not like Texas' grid is actually unregulated. They have their own regulatory structure. It's just kinda sorta supposed to behave like a unregulated grid would... if that sort of thing was actually possible.

Extreme results in extreme conditions are more or less intentional. It's never going to be economical to prepare for 10 year events to avoid a few days of lost revenue. That, in deregulation-camp terms, means that it is a bad investment and wasteful.

The whole pricing debacle is a great case in point: "ERCOT triggered the squeeze when it pushed up spot-market rates to $9,000 per megawatt hour"

On one hand, the heart of the "deregulation" idea here is that "regulation" destroys pricing systems. On the other hand, what kind of a laissez faire market has a body that sets prices? In this case, it seems like there is a price regulator that is trying to replicate a failure in pricing systems... when demand and supply curves don't intersect and price goes to infinity.
That may be true for peripherals, but all a compiler has to care about is the core ISA. The board zoo is very much not relevant.
He was not born in America so he cannot be a president.
Charm, yes. But it's very non-functional.

We're all here to get news and discuss them. A title gives an indication about whether reading the article is of interest to me so that I can decide whether to read it. Some clever word play may be funny but it goes totally against its purpose.

Imagine all titles at Hacker News being like that. We could just replace them with "Article 1", "Article 2" etc. which would be terrible but would not lose any further information.
Guidelines to place children in solitary quarantine are 'cruel punishment'
Ask HN: Many Senior developers leaving the company, should I go as well?
Hey everyone,

I work as a Senior developer on a consulting company in Europe for about 4 years. I have nothing to complain about the job itself. The projects are mostly great, I get to try many new technologies, have complete freedom in regards to time.

I also have a consolidated reputation here. My manager has showed through many opportunities that he trusts me to lead important projects. I always get good feedback and a 6-7% raise every year.

The thing is, the company doesn't pay the absolute best salary. I wouldn't say it's bad or good, just a little above average. There are new companies opening offices in my city with way more attractive salaries. This is causing many Senior developers to leave for a +30% or +40% salary increase.

About a dozen friends and colleagues already left to different companies, others are openly looking for a new job. Hiring is not so easy here, so I imagine these people will be replaced with mid developers, maybe even junior ones in some cases.

This is making me reconsider things. I could either stay here and leverage my good reputation to grow here in the direction I want, or just jump ship and start from zero (but with a way better salary).

Has anyone gone through a similar thing? How did you decide which way to go?
Aren't those basically 90% of the Lisps used in production environments, though? :-(
Yep, I do it semi regularly myself. If I spend a bunch of time finding the answer to something that should be easy to access knowledge, I make a question and answer it. The questions page has a specific checkbox for doing this.
The "too hard to prove cause" is for attributing individual cases. In any particularly case - just like with the link of smoking and lung cancer - it is impossible to say if lung problems were caused by coal plants.

Statistical estimates of the amounts of deaths and lung problems coal power plants cause, however, can be much more accurate. And they bespeak hundreds of thousands gruesome deaths from coal every year.
Agreed. At first I thought it was about work-life balance (!).
The state could nationalize the company, and provide electricity as a govenment-run utility?
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I read in a history book that human beings managed to coordinate entire empires that stretched across continents with out digital electronics.

Facetiousness aside, I'm flabbergasted that I'm reading people on HN defend these kinds of abhorrent data collection and retention polices and using the difficulties of coordinating 18 people as an excuse for them.

It's like some cyber stockholm syndrome where people feel the need to make justifications for the behaviour of malevolent entities that they have wilfully shared their data with. The requests are so unbelievably intrusive that they remind me of the Ivy League nude posture photos[1]

I give it 6-24 months before we're reading a story here about a mass data leak from Little League or something equivalent like Boy Scouts of America or whatever.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League_nude_posture_photos
I do some projects that require WebGL and a good understanding of OpenGL makes life so much easier. WebGL from what I understand is based on OpenGL ES 2.0, and knowing how to write custom vertex and fragment shaders is important for my work
It seems that this is debatable, as a simple google search turns up completely opposite conclusions, such as this: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-10819027
If you don't like the supermarket or farm, you can shop elsewhere. The infrastructure that brings food to our tables is roads and railways, the power grid which brings electricity to refrigerators and freezers, and water and sewage utilities.

A supermarket or a farm are not part of our infrastructure. They may be "vital" but they are not infrastructure.

You (as an individual) can't really comparison shop for infrastructure, unless you want to move.
It seems like this was a technical limitation more than a business one. Apple had to do some very non-standard stuff for 5K and that's when they stopped supporting the target display mode. See the article as well - the only was the author could get it work was with two display port connections, so if Apple were to support target display, they'd likely have to put in two display ports in the back just for that.
It would be better to provide sources for some of those.

Also what do you mean by "baseload business models"?
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No. I want to define global behavior and don't want to rely on all applications doing that. Application windows are the objects on screen I want space between, that space should be visually reliable and consistent independently from the applications design and color.

I don't even want to convince people this is right way to do it and just want to make clear there are different perspectives and for some visual composition is more important than information density on screen. I get this might be important for a laptop but running three 4k displays I find it important to clearly visually distinguish all the things on my screens at a glance and also to enjoy an uncluttered but spacey desktop.
"four times as expensive as wind"

This isn't a valid comparison, since wind isn't capable of base load supply.

You would need to factor in storage costs to make the comparison valid.
> AFAIK, cloudflare only flattens CNAMEs at the root level

Cloudflare nameservers also flatten CNAMEs pointing to workers.dev (a domain they own), for example.

My intention was to point out that nameservers that flatten CNAMEs render DNS-based blocking ineffective.
That's hilarious. Out of interest who in the company did you email?
You remember well.

Here’s the thing though. In that transitory phase between DOS and Windows one often has to “drop to DOS” to run some software, and even assemble “Boot Disks” to provide a customised stripped down environment, especially for games.

The joy in this particular piece of software was that not only was it obscure and poorly documented but that even once you figured out it was required it still broke some games that required access “all” of the lower 640k which often left you with a choice between not having sound and not playing the game at all ...
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Isn’t nuclear power really expensive? Solar and wind I think are just materially cheaper than anything else even including construction.

I’m looking at the Lazard 2020 Levelized Cost of Energy report here: https://www.lazard.com/media/451419/lazards-levelized-cost-o...
This is the side of privatisation that gets ignored. When private companies screw up, who gets left with the bill? Private companies have no incentive to be ready for really big problems because they know they’ll get bailed out, or just not have to pay.

Privatise the profit, socialise the losses.
With all the extreme weather events, wildfires, and sea level rising that will be caused by climate change, I would not be surprised.
I would imagine it would rather be a chapter 11 kind of route, restructuring the company but the assets producing electricity are not going anywhere.
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Interesting, hadn't seen the virtual table feature of SQLite. I'd have to do some benchmarking but that could be worth switching to in future for perhaps getting fresher data.

Yes, at the moment there's a batch job to download your calendars and convert them into a SQLite DB. Then, all queries are done directly on that concrete DB (read only).

Originally I was using https://github.com/dolthub/go-mysql-server which is quite similar to the virtual table feature (you just provide a struct which implements some getter methods).
Unfortunately I found it a bit slow though (it had to call back into my table many times for even simple queries). Might just be a problem with that implementation and not a limitation of virtual tables themselves so thanks for pointing it out!
How do they control what job will you take next?
You don't have to be born in America to be President, but you do need to be a natural-born citizen.

Of course, the idea of amending the Constitution to remove that requirement to clear the path for a particular candidate (not that long ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger was mentioned) has come up before; current restrictions won't necessarily apply indefinitely into the future.
My main issue with Nuclear power is my lack of trust in regulators over time.

Nuclear done well is safe, clean and has an extremely low carbon footprint.

But, where profit incentives exist, lobby groups exist. And the US government has shown itself incredibly pliable with enough donations and time given.

So for me, give it 10-15 years, or less, and the safety margins will erode over time as people get too comfy with the new normal, and like always happens, be it Boeing, Texas power systems or the like, I have a nasty suspicion bad events will start happening at a scale previously unseen, with companies not doing their due diligence and lobbying for concessions and bending regulation around expensive but necessary precautions.
Customers are automatically moved to a Provider Of Last Resort (POLR). No interruption in service, but (likely) dramatically higher prices.
And in "full screen" mode, it auto-hides the menu bar. Unusable for serious work. No way to show it by default, either. Absolutely obnoxious.

All of these design affordances point to one single driving usecase: media consumption. Actual productive work is not a consideration.
Great explanation. Thanks
Batteries are also getting cheaper and improving in capacity at immense rates too no? It seems like a double whammy against nuclear, unless there’s something I’m missing?
In Scheme,

(define (foo bar) ...)

is equivalent to

(define foo (lambda (bar) ...))
It was a fine machine, and though it was weaker than its competitors it was ahead of the curve. You say “repackaged Amiga 1200” like that’s a bad thing. The Amiga was the premium home personal computer of the early 90s and only ever died out because of mismanagement at Commodore.
Whats the remedy? apart from reducing the size of the organisation