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Does the idea of working on space mission design software appeal to you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304057
A 1990s iMac Processor Powers NASA’s Perseverance Rover
The 6502 was also in the right place at the right time in the wave of the great "homebrew computer club" era. There were so many DIY kits built around 6502 and 6502 clones. Some of the earliest mass produced (and mass consumed) "home computers" were all built around 6502 and 6502 clones. Not to mention how large a number of early game consoles were also built on those chips or their clones/offspring.

At least a little of hobbyists writing assembly in 6502 comes from nostalgia for early Apple, early Nintendo, early Commodore, etc.

Also, yeah as someone who's undergrad included a MOS 6502 "micro-controller" lab and Motorola 68k "microprocessor" lab courses, I can tell you from hands on experience that the 6502 really was in a fantastic place for writing clean, easy to debug assembly. That was a big time crunch factor in dealing with breadboarded machines where debugging the hardware was an equal or greater challenge. Given the choice between the two assembly languages I know which one I'd pick up again.
It turns out that the strlen() behaviour was present as far back as the 4BSD libc [1] circa 1980, and via the Net/2 releases has found its way into NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD along with countless other BSD-derived libc implementations.

Of course, the underlying vfscanf() implementation that reads from a FILE* simply proceeds one character at a time; the pseudo-quadratic behaviour arising from the strlen() call is simply an artifact of the simplistic "simulate a file using a string" wrapper in sscanf().

[1] https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/usr/src/l...
Modernity is a curse.
Technically you are correct and I used to complain about this myself for years. But it seems like at least for consumers they’re often content to have authentication equal authorization so I feel like mostly this battle has been lost in the consumer space.
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That may be so, but you don’t want to end up being an unwitting victim.

One of the first instances early on on Twitter was that young marketing woman going to South Africa making a sarcastic anti-racism tweet before boarding only to learn after landing a brouhaha was brewing leading to her firing because the mob wanted to see it as racist.
In business, many times the lack of any decision (good or bad) wastes valuable time. Especially for leaders, unblocking teams to move forward has real value beyond whether or not the actual decision is optimal. A great many decisions are reversible. If your decision is reversible (even at some expense), it may be better to just decide and move on. In many cases, you don't have perfect information anyway, so trying to make the right decision causes you to delay the very experiments necessary to get you to an optimum outcome.
Fresh graduates often go into high paying jobs.
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> So, yeah, I can be an asshole.

snark aside. Being perceived as an asshole is undoubtedly subjective. It's going to happen if you don't take care to try and be aware of your audience.

Later he says:

> I’m empathic about suffering but I also very much misread audiences

So we've got a guy who acknowledges he can be an asshole, and acknowledges that he is very bad at reading audiences, and who gives several examples of upsetting people with technical arguments. That is why I think he comes off to others as an asshole.

This is a common problem for aspies, much like blaming thoughtless comments that offend people on aspergers (sp?).
be careful of the assumption.

Humans when they are born can understand 10,000 word sounds in multiple languages but as newborns approach the age of 3 their brains delete the un-sued neurons in the language area of the brain...it's why it's harder to learn languages as we age.
Not at all, I am just pointing out that the previous ethics argument does not seem to make sence
Try to grasp that 'what they represent' is maybe not what you think they do.

The Washington Monument was built by slaves, in the name of a man who owned slaves, in a nation full of slaves. Does it represent slavery? Or that era?

Even though the Civil war was to a great extent fought over slavery - it was fundamentally states vs. states. If it were really about slavery, it very well have been 'sub groups' vs. 'sub groups' all over the US. There were economic jealousies as well.

The statues are symbols of the ancestors of those who were living there, heroes to one side - and that's mostly it.

They are arguably problematically offensive to some, but it's unlikely they are 'symbols of racism' in the sense that this is what White Southerners are inspired by.

If rednecks were driving by, aspiring for the days when they 'put those blacks back in their place' - I would say raze them all to the ground. But that's not remotely it.

What Southerners see in those monuments is just more or less what regular Americans seen in the Washington monument. That's it. Pride, while glossing over the uglier stuff.
I hear this a lot, but it strikes me as being short sighted. That only works if the status quo remains so forever. Maybe 5 or 10 years from now, relations between the Chinese and US governments gets cozier, and part of their deal includes sharing of this kind of data.

Or maybe the US government knows it can't legally collect certain information on its own citizens, but can rely on China to collect it, and then purchase it from the Chinese government.

Then there's the overall argument against: I don't want any government collecting data about me, period. It's none of their damn business, regardless of the chances of me having to interact with them in any capacity.
I dont think it will ever be worth reading a Bari Weiss piece.
Open devtools console, no need for extensions:

document.querySelectorAll('video').forEach(v => v.playbackRate = 2.5)
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The concept is not new, see McCarthyism.

What's new is social media's ability to amplify the voices of a small number of relatively anonymous people to "cancel" someone.

McCarthyism required a Senator to have a serious impact. Now people are cancelled, without there being a clear link back to who, exactly, did the cancelling.
It's just stochastic. A few raindrops always fall in weird places.

Short comments in particular admit many (mis)interpretations simply because they contain less information and leave more degrees of freedom for the interpreter to fill in. For a sufficiently wide spectrum of readers, lots of these different (mis)interpretations will get activated as the same comment lands with different receivers. Some will lead to downvotes. Some of those downvotes will seem perverse and inexplicable.

Different readers have completely different priors. You happened to know that gumby is a friend of Gosper—that naturally collapsed the space of meanings down to a narrow and obvious range of interpretation. But it's not hard to see how a totally different range might (wrongly) occur to someone with different priors. For all we know they thought the comment was putting down Gosper while they were trying to defend him...one thing I've learned from moderating is that it's impossible to predict all interpretations. It's astonishing how unpredictably the same comment can land with different readers. Yet all of this is exactly what one would expect from a stochastic process and enough datapoints.

Usually, fair-minded users see that a comment has been unfairly downvoted and give a corrective upvote (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), and it is is usually enough to fix the problem. That happened here.
Reported vacancy rates (the ones you’ll hear quoted in the media) are usually discovered by asking real estate agencies how many of the properties on their books are currently available to rent. It doesn't include houses otherwise unavailable for rent such as holiday homes or those being 'land banked'.

For some data on Low Use Properties (LUP's) and speculative vacancies in the UK and Australia respectively, see [1] and [2].

Also worth checking out official government statistics for NZ where the difference between the number of households and the number of residences is about 7.5% nationally. That compares with almost half that rate 25 years ago. This change has occurred amidst a property boom purportedly driven by a shortage of properties (really it is a speculative boom driven by a shortage of investment opportunities in the form of residential property).

[1] https://theodi.org/event/friday-lunchtime-lecture-empty-home...

[2] https://www.prosper.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Specul...

The solution to this in my opinion is to remove the privileged tax status of property investors and introduce a wealth tax in the form of a Land Value Tax. Political suicide unfortunately.
Though if one only uses smart pointers they will have to accept the performance hit that that brings -- in high performance situations, this may be unacceptable.
hopefully none of you get hired.
Gradients on grids of pixels/voxels – forward, central, and diagonal differences
> where they cannot call out insults

I never suggested that. I specifically said call it out, line it out, and say you don't agree.
Isn't the actual phone network packet-switched and running over fibre optics now anyway? I don't think you can get a literally analog phone call anymore can you?
That is exactly what this link does, minus the color.
Spoiler alert:

In one of the last books, the 3 main characters teleport to a London pub or something, and then the Deatheaters attack them. And I’m pretty sure the book says they were found because one of them said Voldemort’s name.

Edit:

It was in Deathly Hallows book.
https://screenrant.com/harry-potter-voldemort-name-not-spoke...
My electronic music professor literally defined exactly what this article is trying to describe as "timbre" meaning the overtone sequence (oddly "overtone" and "timbre" are not present in the article?) plus off-harmonic frequencies that are present for any real instrument.

This is pretty well studied, but kudos to the author for trying to explain it again, it's an odd topic. But I suggest looking up "timbre" at least and perhaps updating the article with the terms used by actual musicians to mean exactly this.

Timbre - "the quality of tone distinctive of a particular singing voice or musical instrument"
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Fingers crossed that they bring it back with the M-whatever iMacs when they come out.

100% speculating but I could see it being something that Intel's TB3 chips weren't set up to handle and that's why they dropped.
It’s a power play. Having a word that you can say, but others, under penalty of termination and ostracism, dare not utter, demonstrates that you have some power over them and raises your status. (Some people don’t grasp this dynamic and take the stated rational for the prohibition at face value.)
> I, for one, would prefer, if I have a choice, it to be just my Gov and not a foreign Gov that I consider to be hostile..

This seems intuitive at first sight but doesn't make sense to me: is it your Gov or a foreign Gov that can more likely bother your life?
I don't play trumpet, but I think that is basically what is going on. You can do pinch harmonics on guitar, which silence certain harmonics or even the fundamental while retaining others. It sounds like changing mouth shape does a similar thing on trumpet.

edit: here's a fantastic video on pinch harmonics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWxCdoyol0
Best I can tell, it's some strange complex electronic networked chemistry set that sends data back to home base for mass analysis.

It's all supposedly for humanitarian purposes but I am unfamiliar with the bodies involved so you'll all have to do your own research.
Your thinking rate might be fixed (or more likely, decreasing with time), but one thing you can do, which is not mentioned here, is become more efficient.

This means looking for ways to improve the things you do and finding shortcuts so you have to think less. Most commonly, I do this by looking back at how I did a task and writing down things to help me complete it faster next time. Examples:

- write down the common mistakes I've made in the past and use it as a checklist to check before I push code

- create run-books for debugging issues. This is both for specific areas and general process things such as "Make sure you check all the relevant grafana dashes."

- add questions and answers on StackExchange/Quora when I run into problems/questions that take me awhile to resolve.
It's worth remembering that he was a journalist, not a teacher. I mean, he was acting as a teacher, but he was invited to do so because of his background as a journalist. He didn't have any pedagogical training.

I do think it's relatively clear that something went wrong on that trip. Perhaps he should have been given more support from actual teachers, or perhaps he's just bad with kids and the position was always a terrible fit. But none of that should have significantly impacted his role at the Times, where mentoring teenagers was not a part of the job description.
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Also take into account your eating habits.

Eat lots of healthy fats and your brain will sing. If you eat a bunch of carbs and little fat, you'll likely experience brain fog.
The media, and humanity in general, seems to value a catchy story more than the truth - and the catchy story sticks around a lot longer. Even in the 1940s apparently.

Especially ugly in modern times when it comes to defaming people - a juicy memorable accusation becomes the truth, and anything proving it wrong is not nearly as viral or interesting.
Yes, it was back in the 80's. But even as recently as a year ago I was looking at backup sump pumps, and the ones at the local big box store had the lead battery separate, plus you had to buy the acid in a separate bottle that you add in with distilled water.

I do recall that the battery was split open and its guts had hit the ceiling.
> always bought everything with money I knew I had

You can do this with a credit card, fwiw, but i'm sure i'm not the first to tell you this.

I don't think we should glorify debt avoidance, and avoidance of financial tools (like CCards) as the only, or best, way to be financial responsible. It works for some people, but that doesn't mean its for everyone or should be a goal.
This is silly, just use graphviz:

http://graphviz.org/

it's widely-used, more feature-full and more flexible, at the price of perhaps a slightly less intuitive format (though even that's debatable).

Online editing + rendering:

https://edotor.net/

or here:

https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline/
The author of this piece is Sergiu Klainerman though. Bari Weiss is only hosting it.
This world has gone crazy. On a similar note, did anyone hear the Maoist struggle session with Brett Weinstein on Clubhouse? https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1366428185953501186
Compute shaders are divorced from the graphics pipeline as well. As far as the hardware is concerned, CUDA/ROCm and compute shaders are the same thing.
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> For groups that preach so frequently about global and ecological sustainability, there's a disturbing blind spot for economic sustainability

What you've done is described a position ("redistributing all of the top 5%'s wealth at once"), described the problems with it, and then criticized my obvious blind spots due to this oversight. Forgotten in this tale is that I never held that position in the first place! You are criticizing your own invented argument.

Also, even if I did favor redistributing all wealth in the top 5% of families, a simple back-of-napkin calculation shows that your argument is wrong.

107 * 10^12 (total networth of US households [0]) * 0.619 (share owned by top 5% [0]) * 0.05 (rate of return) / (315*10^6 (population of US)) = $10k/yr for every person in the US just off of the returns from that wealth, which is 5x your estimate. The US Census poverty threshold is making below $13k/yr. If that wealth was held for you until you were 18, that would be every young person starting their life with $180k in savings, which is another $9k/yr with 0.05 rate of return.

Obviously, there's a whole host of issues with this, including some of the ones you mentioned, and (of course) price inflation, but I am not sure how you calculated your numbers.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
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I had thought this was about an actual way to measure "thinking rate" and was super interested in what that could be. Disappointed to have landed on a click-bait-y article rehashing an old point that people make worse decisions under pressure.
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Yep, definitely.

Then the holy grail would be to have bunch of taps-targets running in parallel for a single pipeline, each working on a subset of streams.
> By that I mean not that expressing the meaning of a word is forbidden, not the idea, but the utterance itself. If, like me, you tend to assume that cultures become more progressive and tolerant over time, this is an interesting very strong counter-example. Having a word that you that literally can't say even in quotation or reference implies something almost akin to magical thinking. As if the two syllables themselves, even when stripped of meaning, still have some kind of power.

I don't know that the people who leveled accusations against this guy are completely equating "usage" and "meta-usage".

I do know that there are people who view "meta-usage", particularly in casual conversation, as problematic. The n-word is viewed by them to have connotations of severe power imbalance and violence, particularly in the mouth of a white person. The idea that they should have to hear the word in casual conversation, without warning, whether it's intended to wound or not, is contentious. Intent matters, but so do the words themselves. To put it in your terms, some words cannot just be "stripped of meaning" to some people.

I personally empathize with people who feel this way, despite being a white guy for whom no such word with such visceral effect seems to exist. Even if discussing racism in a conversation, I probably just wouldn't whip out a historical quote from someone that happened to have the n-word in it. And I don't think that's as ridiculous as you're making it out to be.

Nobody is suggesting that contextualized, or (ideally, to some) forewarned, meta-usage will never have its place. But that's not really what happened in this story, is it?
For what it's worth, rumors from last month have speculated that a regular iMac with an XDR-like chassis might be coming.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/15/new-imac-2021-apple-silicon/
I've been very happy with a '5k2k' monitor, I have the MSI Prestige PS341WU. The resolution is 5120 x 2160 at 21:9, and it's basically a stretched-out 27" 4k monitor, so same height and vertical resolution, just wider.

Gives enough real estate to have three 'panels' of windows, and it's all one monitor: I find that two-monitor setups mean I have to either always tilt my neck left and right, or set up one centrally and then really kink to the side to view the other one.
> Honestly, is there anything at 10 USD/EUR per month?

In case you didn't know, a Scaleway C1 is

* 2.99 per month, billed hourly

* 1.00 per month for the network (unlimited) and you can drop that if you have other machines in the same datacenter and do not need direct internet access

* ~ 1.00 per month for VAT (I guess that's 0,00 if you are outside of the EU)

Of course they are not for high performance computing, but there are enough use cases where the performance is prefectly good enough.

I use them for ssh jumpboxes and find their latency better than AWS EC2, which is much more expensive.
> The fundamental problem is that politics needs a career track for people to become good at it.

This assumes that there are people who are good at it. That's the assumption I'm questioning. I don't think anyone is good at politics. Many politicians are good at using their positions to enrich themselves and their cronies, but that's not the kind of "good at it" that we citizens need.