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If I decide to throw in the towel in my business and go and become a well-paid AI researcher at some big company, which companies currently have anything like Facebook's AI team or Google Mind, but aren't a) in the Bay Area, b) FB or Google? Netflix seem to have a decent AI team, although they're in the Bay Area.
Upvoting you just due to username
It's possible the excavation is exploratory in nature. It might be hard to know how stuck the bow is without digging a little.
We use TeamViewer which offers multiple user keyboard and mouse control and it is awesome. We can pair or mob and handover control instantly, we usually set a 5-7 minute timer and rotate through the team to keep everyone engaged.
This might be the kind of life for some but not for me. I cannot handle the bribery and unspoken rules and such. It's a fascinating diary entry but it also makes me feel so anxious just reading it.

I cherish being able to have my guard down at almost all times.
Yup, thanks for sharing this! That's why I mentioned apt as an example. It's an upfront time investment (I think I spent hours trying to figure out how to suppress apt messages) so I can understand why it's not appealing, but you do it once and then it's so much cleaner forever after.
This is starting to really resemble how people build ships in Space Engineers. :)
3 weeks of continuous helicopter operations for what? Ship doesn't need to be empty.
Portland is a city with a significant homeless population that also has a lot of little neighborhoods that are similar to the 20 minute concept.

You don't see the homeless population in those areas at nearly the same rates as downtown or near the areas where encampments are.

Thus your assumption that these areas will attract homeless populations would appear to be inaccurate.
You don’t speak for me, so why are you writing “He resigned because” here?
> I used to stay up till midnight or 1am as often as not.

That's not a night-owl (midnight I mean, 1am might barely be).
its perfectly reasonable to ask for it, and perfectly reasonable for them to say no :) i also wished they offered up the code, instead of dropping two measly bullet points. but they dont owe us anything
>and I think that's what he wanted to show).

It wasn't. The test was whether reencoding was what's important, or the codec used. I'm the one that asked the question Dylan was kind enough to try and answer, your further testing would not answer my question any better.
It would be a lot shorter to "just" dig a canal in front of the ship and park it in there forever, but would still probably take too long.
I tried a bunch of them (Inoreader, Feedly, Oldreader, ttRSS) before settling on FreshRSS. It has a beautiful interface, don't need to use a dedicated mobile client as the website works perfectly and is self-hosted. Marks all the boxes for me.
>The disk filled up, and that's one thing you don't want on a Linux server—or a Mac for that matter. When the disk is full nothing good happens.

I found a bug with time machine where it wouldn't delete local copies properly and filled my hard drive until I couldn't do anything. The OS slowly stopped working. At first I couldn't copy or save anything, then deleting files made more files. It was so bad that the `rm` command eventually wouldn't work from recovery or the local OS. I could do nothing. I had to format.

It happened again and I learned to manually delete the time machine local snapshots, but it was crazy how hard it was to recover once it took all my storage. That bug is fixed now.
Touchscreens in cars were seen as luxury so once they became super cheap they threw them in every car with few no-screen options whatsoever. This was cemented in 2018 with a mandate for backup cameras[0] and, when you already have a screen, it makes little sense to only put a screen for the camera unless that's the market segment you're targeting (which, in itself, is small since most people are fine with touchscreens). Unless mandated, profit and sales will trump safety systems every day.

Tesla-esque huge touchscreens are taking off because other infotainment systems have been the absolute worst UX of all mass-market software since forever. Tesla fixed this and is gaining market-share fast, so traditional automakers are trying to prevent more people from switching to Tesla by emulating these selling points (and some recent Mach-E footage shows that the infotainment isn't on the same level, although it is faster than SYNC 3[1]).

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_camera#Mandates

1: https://youtu.be/kqHmbrE11eg?t=40
I was in the army, they had a certain budget for bullets. Last day of the year we shoot the rest because if not they would get less next year.

We shot so much we destroyed some of the rifles, apparently that was better than getting a smaller allocation next year.
Company?! I'm looking for a good Clojure team to join.
Save Theme should prompt to name if it's Untitled.

It's not super obvious that every theme is created as Untitled and rename icon only shows when you hover over the title.
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Cryptographic literature often mentions one-way functions, but I don't think I've ever seen the phrase "one way encryption" in a cryptographic paper. It's not a phrase used by cryptographers, except rarely to describe encryption using trap door one-way functions such as RSA.
How long do you think it would take to unload 20,000 40-foot containers via helicopter?

I'll start with my guess: A long time
Those were what, 300kiloton’s ish? So if we go to 1+ megaton we’d be good. Seems reasonable if we go up to 3-4 megatons, maybe we’d even end up with a big enough crater one of these ships could pull a three point turn next time?
Have you ever tried to stack containers before? Or had to airlift something via tow on a helicopter? You can do the latter (I watched it happen in the military), but the former isn’t happening from a helicopter, not into a floating barge anyway.
I was more on a sociological/existential plane but I take that information too. I wish I'd read this kind of economic books rather than supply/demand or finance
Very doable, “just” a bunch of moderately tricky compiler work. Will happen at some point. Things that would make it happen sooner: someone interested in compiler work decides to do it; some company decides to fund it.
> Why do you care that someone uses a car?

Because the elderly and young can't use them, the poor sacrifice too much to have one.
I think you've overestimating how much stuff an explosion removes, as opposed to breaks. Explosions are very good at making a functional thing not function anymore, but they're not as good as you think they are at evacuating an area.

Look at the aftermath of the Beirut explosion. The metal frame of the building the explosion happened in is still lying there.

The blast radius of an explosion scales with the cube root of the energy of the explosion. So if you want to make the hole twice as big, you need eight times as much explosives. To create a hole the size of a large container ship, you'll need a nuke. A pretty big one too. The Ever Given is 400m long, the crater left by the Trinity test (22kt) was 390m across.
I’d like to understand why this hasn’t happened before. What was special about this ship, this passage, etc.?
You mean those tiny helicopters that can each lift thousands of tons of super robot mass, right ? And they can do that while flying in perfect formation! ;-)
That’s an O(n) car key search, if you instead asked the question “are my car keys in this half of the house?” you could perform a binary search O(log n).
I tried to keep tabs on him after he left MS and I'm surprised to find out he ended up at Amazon. He was obviously able to make theory real-world applicable in a big way. LINQ changed my entire perspective on programming. But on top of that, he's an excellent teacher/leader. Why didn't he have any speaking engagements while at Amazon (at least that I can find)?
It's not necessarily a need for more housing, but more affordable housing and possibly rural communities built around portable housing units.

In my area there is a lot of housing available, but the housing market rate has gone up so much that people with available housing don't want to rent it out to people with poor credit that have been adversely affected with financial issues, and if they are renting it out they aren't going to go below market rate. They'd rather it sit on the market for a year or more, all the while they can claim tax breaks and funding.

There is a lot of rural land as well. If you're homeless or struggling, unfortunately there is almost no place you can go in America with the exception of a few places like Slab City where you can basically inhabit some land and setup a basic shelter. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of landowners somewhere that maybe owns 1000 acres of land that they use for their leisure or the government, and they definitely don't want you on their property even if you're a nice individual just looking for a place. In America, you're expected to work and buy your freedom of the necessities of a basic shelter.
There is already an sqlite4 but they haven't done any work with it for a long time.
It is as it's lifted though, right?
Why didn't anyone think of this before? Internet commenting is over folks. This guy realised its not productive.
Does this make it easier? There's 20,000 cans onboard.
I would say, "unbelievable!", but sadly, yeah this garbage is only going to grow like a cancer.

So, no. Not for me.
I am similar. It was easy but also relevant to everyone around me. If I can "more easily" make things help those around me, well ok.

Also, when it crashed or went wrong, I wasn't fazed by "X big thing may not happen now". I was already trying to figure why it did that.

And often I fixed it, ran it again and then people around would relax again as "X big thing could resume".

But man, large business sure knows how to suck the fun out of things with bureaucracy...
With levers you trade force for time. How long would a lever like that take to complete its arc?
I remember in Android one year the focus was on slimming down the memory usage. Of course we found an app that shall not be named the allocated a chunk of memory on startup just in case it was going to be needed later.
Its most likely irrelevant. The reason why you see front so high up is because all the vessel's weight forced and smashed itself against the shallow water. At this point, rather than not the fuselage is damaged, and attempt to "ease up" the weight could only make it worse. I have been working enough around cargo vessels and at this size its never "oh he hit something, just put in reverse and you good to go". Similar if you ever get stabbed with a knife - hope never - but if you will, do not attempt to remove it on your own - you need to see a specialist who knows how to remove object it without causing internal bleeding, etc.

This vessel is most likely trash at this point. Time is of essence because tidal is pushing it against shallows and since its not perfectly centered it will eventually tip and with these amount of weight, not much tipping required for the whole thing to snawball. At this time they are figuring out how to quickly remove (save) as many containers as possible. Most likely will happen with another of these monsters to "park" close by and one by one will move the most expensive cargo first.

Another option I got from my buddy who is doing this stuff for life, is suggestion to dig up a whole big enough underneath to actually sunk the whole thing. This can be done in less than one week and is fastest most "stable" option. At this point they are not looking at saving this one vessel, but rather how to get the canal to operate again asap. You probably know it from driving on highway "move aside accident vehicles" is the most important thing to do.
"people who play video games for extended periods of time report being happier." As we all know, if it makes you happy, it's good for your well-being. Now, go eat all the sugar you can while doing zero exercise and playing video games in between porn sessions.
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Newport News Shipbuilding had the old Enterprise CVN 65. May be slightly contaminated.
Search was also the feature I missed in most replacements. Pretty happy with BazQux these days, though.
That which they can get away with is the precedent for the new normal, aka acceptable.

Companies like Amazon and Facebook re-write the norms of individual consumer and worker dignities in their favor, and then push to make them global. Because people will dismiss objections to these changes as contrivances.
Right. But OOP makes it central, and builds around it, while FP de-emphasizes it in preference to ADTs.

Strings are a good illustration. Instead of an abstract polymorphic String type, Haskell provided a concrete String type as an ADT. This proved too inflexible, which is why we have Text, lazy Text, ShortText, etc. Compare to NSString which also has multiple representations but hides them behind a single polymorphic interface.
I assume you're The Person that Googles the answer to every discussion you have with your friends rather than having a little fun with it.
The keybindings are bound with evil and displayed with which-key, but the spacemacs special sauce is the keybindings themselves. There are probably thousands of them across all the optional layers. They're crowd-sourced essentially. So you don't have to set them up manually for each language/tool you work with, you just add the layer and get sensible defaults out of the box.
Thank you for posting that it could be just the thing to give inspiration to someone who needs it! Keep up the great work!

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What about setting off a nuclear bomb underneath the ship?
> The purpose of this is to keep the OS feeling responsive, since it allows it to bring up the window immediately, rather than leaving the user staring at a screen with nothing happening for several seconds

Wait, you only get one of those? As of about a month ago on my computer, launching calc.exe takes 5-6 seconds for anything to happen and I'm then greeted 1-2 seconds of a loading screen after the window appears.

I've taken to just leaving an IDLE shell open at this point.
I definitely don’t understand this paper to be what I thought the headline meant.

I thought the headline meant that generally AI systems would end up having color systems which distinguished blue and orange more readily than taupe and beige.

But the paper doesn’t seem to talk about that, except in the abstract - the paper instead seems to report that the more complex the ‘allowed’ grammar, the more specificity AI can have about colors. And, by the way, that’s true for human languages too, and you can train a grammar that’s close to the info-theoretic limit, which by the way is what you can say about most human color languages.

It seems to me like you could train an AI to report hexadecimal for colors pretty easily, so I remain confused about a lot of details, most of which seem to be embedded in the referenced paper “Efficient compression in color naming and its evolution.” I haven’t read that paper. Without reading it, I’m not sure if the networks developed just carried over concepts from it, and thereby got similar segmentations (and the graphs look kind of similar to me, but not exact or anything), or if there is something fundamental.

All that said, it would be REALLY cool if alien intelligence-like assessment of colors saw things the way humans see them, that would be rad. I just have no idea if this research proves that or not.
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We were chatting to the DraftBit team about working on the Swift client together, but we have both been a bit busy.

I don't have a timeline for it yet, but if you're interested in helping build the rest client[0], let me know and I can give some more details.

[0] https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-swift
Won't work. Thermobaric weapons are very good at killing people, and breaking equipment, but aren't particularly good at evacuating material.
You can click on the little gear icon in the top right of the screen that renders the logs and then "View Raw Logs", which is a raw text dump. It's perfect and fast.
He was replying to stevenhuang, not you directly.

stevenhuang said "Reencoding the same input file as h264 again but using FFmpeg defaults would probably yield similar file size reductions."

So, it looks to me he was trying to refute that "using H264 again would yield similar file size reduction".

If you think it's not, that's fine. Not something worth debating.
or just 1.
That's actually even a technique that has been used in these places in the past - Egypt used it when attacking Israeli fortifications on one of the banks during one of the conflicts in the past, just washed them away so they could cross with less resistance.
A WIP tool, browser or offline, to evaluate what amenities are within a 15m walk or bike ride: https://a-b-street.github.io/docs/side_projects/fifteen_min....

And a whimsical arcade game based on the concept of Santa delivering presents, but having to stop by a (hopefully nearby) cafe to fuel up once in a while: santa.abstreet.org
Right. As I've been saying from the start of the thread.
I'd imagine it is riskier sailing all the way around Africa than through the Suez, right?
More road space means people living further from one another. People living further from one another means exponentially more energy consumed to move mass further distances. Hence roads cause a huge externality of pollution.
If youre a (seemingly) rich foreigner in a poor country, what do you expect?

Per capita GDP in Egypt is $250/month. For a guy on a yacht $5 or $10 dollars is no difference. For the other side, its a substantial percent of their earnings. They understand the differential, which is why they will press for more.
I understood your claim for what it’s worth. That’s why I cited Swift structs. They’re objects in the historical sense, functional in the immutable sense, and provide explicit inheritance semantics. The rest of my response was about achieving the same purpose without implementation inheritance.
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Mike isn't at Instagram anymore, he is working on something new.

Of all the angels we met though, he was definitely the most technical. We chatted about Postgres scaling issues and some obscure challenges that we would have to overcome.
How does using proposed solution prevents a 2am wake up call? Your monitoring/alerting does, this just makes it easier to recover already broken software. And btw I’ve been carrying pagers for more than a decade so well aware of all the organizational dynamics here. Best way to prevent this is have devs carrying pager too (amazons “you built it you run it”) - and magically your nighttime oncall is much more pleasant ;-)
Wherever the anchor attaches is likely to be designed for quite a bit of force.
> It's not necessarily a need for more housing, but more affordable housing

No... if you simply increase supply to actually meet demand, prices will fall. This affordable housing nonsense is a complete red herring. Affordable housing is a lottery solution that helps a handful of folks... and in many cases isn’t even affordable. America needs to stop trying to fix all these issues with these one off solutions and look at the bigger picture. Just build more homes. Go look at places like Japan where housing is affordable... it has nothing to do with mandated affordable housing which NEVER works.
Let's step back. I think your approach work really well if you model state machine for internal usage.

However, Redux is meant to be for UI work, which is a side effect. You cannot control side-effect. You cannot guarantee that user will not try to turn switch off twice.

Even in idiomatic Redux, the switch case for reducer always include `default:` which mean everything else go here.

As you said, the Redux FSM models a car lock button interface which is exactly what Redux try model.
I disagree. XAML is by far the best UI framework I’ve worked with.
That's not what exponential means.

Cities also rely on roads, just in a different way; they require road networks to bring them food and manufactured goods, transported at greater distances than similar products in rural areas.
Yeah that’s not even close to realistic. Almost all wealth in modern USA comes from services with are mostly in or close to the cities. Slightly suburban yes, what’s called suburban in the U.S. nope. Almost all wealth transfer is from cities to rural and coast states to inland.
Cool site. I'm a bit annoyed that sites can seemingly overwrite your clipboard without confirmation, on Android at least!
We're talking about a rope around the equator, right? Circumference = 2piradius is the same as circumference/2 = pi*radius so three more feet of circumference is 1.5 more feet of radius.
Hey, sorry, I'm really dumb here. How would one use this?
Very good point. You definitely have leverage showing up to a booking meeting with head counts. What guarantees do you have they show up though? I played a few gigs where we thought we would have more numbers. In fact that experience lead to us youngsters turning towards getting a college education instead of playing to an empty room. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for what you all are up to. My experience was 20 some years ago so it’s totally different now.
It doesn't have anything to do with a pi though. If you had a cube-shaped earth and the same rope, you would need 80ft of additional rope (instead of 62ft for a spherical planet).
And my point is the company lying about a necessary evil of logistics is not much of an issue when compared to their corrosive employment practices.
Also don’t forget how unevenly applied market forces are: if McDonald’s started charging 10% more for a hamburger they’d lose sales to Burger King a LOT faster than, say, Comcast or Oracle because the products are basically the same and most customers can switch almost effortlessly whereas you have to be especially mad to trench fiber out to your house or migrate every database in a large enterprise.

Any business with a natural monopoly, high migration costs, etc. can support a surprising amount of inefficiency even if most of their customers find the experience unsatisfying.
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Do you think playing video games a lot is comparable to excessive sugar consumption or sedentarism in terms of harm?
There was this bbc show were they host was trying to find the most humane method of capital punishment. He found a few that would be acceptable.

He tried to introduce them in Texas, they were like the whole point is that they suffer.

Edit: I think it was this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband...
How come?

XAML is intuitive and powerful. Android XML seems like an afterthought.
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Now let's get some further federal protections at all levels restricting property theft by the police (aka "asset forfeiture"; I suppose when a cop murders you they might prefer to call it life forfeiture).
Since we presumably load it in our browser, it seems a bit silly to withold the source?

Maybe it’s too much of a pain for people to reverse engineer?
The letter in support of RMS is misrepresentstive at best
It appears as though you click on each button and see what color the button turns. If the button turns red the site doesn’t have the permission to do what the button says. If the button turns green then the site can do what the button says.
You won't have to worry about the last insert row id anymore. `RETURNING` was added recently. Enjoy the speeeed.
Not my best but as I said, I was genuinely confused about the benchmarks.
The mouseover effect on the HTTP/HTTPS toggle is very annoying. It makes it hard to ascertain which mode you're actually in while the cursor is anywhere near it.