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> not having as many whistles and bells prevents high complexity codebases.

This is a thinking error I see extremely frequently from golang proponents, and it has never made any sense to me. If it were true, it would mean that forth would be a great programming language to work in to keep complexity low - after all it is an even lower complexity language.

Having an, as I'll rephrase it, anaemic language really just means that people will either limit the scope of what they write in it to low complexity things, or, more frequently in my experience, will simply not bother handling the potentially complex details of what they're trying to do, because it's simply too painful and laborious. Corner cases don't get handled (can you really justify the extra 200 lines to handle that case?), user-facing edges don't get smoothed off (can you really justify the extra 200 lines to be able to handle float inputs to that option?), things generally just get dropped on the floor. And I don't blame people - I get to the end of a day and the idea of having to write yet another for-loop makes me just want to go home instead.

The hair-shirt philosophy of golang is not one I subscribe to.
But then you have nuclear-powered space lasers, which will scare people.
> Surely the Belgian government is free to decide how to enforce copyright law within Belgium?

Only to the extent that it doesn't conflict with their international obligation pertaining to the subject: in the hierachy of law, international treaties generally stand above national laws.

It's a bit more complicated when it comes to the US, because internally the country has 3 different concepts corresponding to international treaties: treaties in the constitutional sense (covered by the treaty clause), congressional agreements, and executive agreements. The differences are:

* executive agreements (a treaty agreed to by the executive alone) stands below federal law, and can not contradict it (to say nothing of the constitution)

* congressional agreements are essentially regular laws, and thus restricted to the enumerated powers of Congress and the Executive

* "constitutional" treaties can expand beyond the enumerated powers
"Personally, I think the prank would have been fine if they filled the boxes with actual coffee beans." Thats exactly what I was expecting from the title and the mentions of it being "costly". I would have found it quite funny to be picking up a box of coffee from Microsoft and it would work on a number of levels. If it was just an empty box with absolutely no product, coffee or software or otherwise, then thats just kinda lame... I agree with Bill on this one.
We use microhttpd in a few places. It's certainly lean but its API is odd and how to handle POST bodies is just weird.
Yep, and your answer is the better default answer.

Bastion<->app host<->DB

Bastion can talk to the net.

App host can talk outbound but inbound only accepts bastion and DB.

DB can only talk with app host.

Obviously, you harden everything appropriately... But with this arrangement, it's very difficult to penetrate this sort of network. Think of it as a network that as a whole is default-deny.
Theano started around 2007, long before DL got popular or the Imagenet competition where DL outperformed traditional methods by a long margin.
I understand your sentiment but renting housing comes with significant legal protection for the renter. If the renter can't make their payments it is a long process to evict (no landlord wants to evict). This is a long-term relationship between renter and landlord. It seems reasonable to allow landlords to gauge the ability of tenants to make payment. They'd be doing this anyway, at least they're going thru a neutral mostly centralized group of third parties instead of judging from their gut (although that does happen too - but it'd be more biased if you eliminate credit checks).
What if you had a human model (or robot) who looked liked Mona Lisa, dressed like Mona Lisa and was certified as the only recognized copy of Mona Lisa and by purchasing the NFT you were the only one who could have s.e.x with her?
> I hear this a lot from people online. But how realistic is this really? Say we enter 4 degrees of warming. I assume that we will experience food losses in both agriculture and fishing. The expectation seems to be that we will make no adjustments to our supply chains, no adaptations, no restrictions on food waste (currently over 50% in the developed world) or any other attempt to mitigate these factors.

It's hard to put in context the scale of the problem, but you have to understand that certain forces of nature are far beyond our ability to adapt to in a way that avoids widescale misery and death.

The plants and animals alive today have evolved over many millions of years to live in a climate that operates in a certain range, on a certain schedule (seasons). Shifting climate across the planet by 4 degrees C means millions of species will be put into a climate they are not adapted for, and along with other pressures of pollution, and habitat loss, these species will go extinct.

As far as fisheries go, higher seat temperatures will cause hypoxic zones with mass fish die-offs and at a certain level of acidity, phytoplankton can't form their shells and that whole food chain collapses. It also means coral not only will die off, but it will dissolve the reefs.

For terrestrial crops, we have some ability to engineer crops that are more drought resistant and can stand some level of heat waves. Not only that, but the pollinators that many crops depend on will be severely impacted. When droughts wild fires, floods, sudden cold snaps, and the like are frequent and severe, it is very unlikely human kind will be able to sustain agricultural yields in a way that won't result in famines, particularly in the developing world.

There are already parts of the world that are unstable and have difficulty supplying resources to their populaces. Add these stressors and it is all but certain that basic order will break down in those parts of the world on a scale that is hard to fathom.
School cyber-attack affects 40k pupils’ email
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
> hidden jumps in control flow

> reason mathematically about the code, not experiment with it to see if it throws these exceptions or retries

Do you consider `panic` (in Go or Rust) a "hidden jump"?
It is a felony to steal pine needles in North Carolina
I don't think there's an answer to this. It's easy to start with drug dealing and go to "sure, let them report income and it's prosecutor's problem to prosecute that". But jump to horrific crime X, say murdering people and harvesting their organs. Should someone able to partially launder their profit from doing this?

I'd prefer that drugs use (and all victimless crimes) be legal and that those who do actual bad things have a hard time profiting from those bad things.
So what goes wrong with the obvious solution? Treat your tax documents are like a confessional, tax and financial documents found by police are inadmissible in any criminal proceedings (civil is fine), and police aren't allowed to get someone's tax documents from IRS.
Eh? Earthquakes and Tsunamis happen, so it’s a bit weird to remove them from the equation.
You can put other machines with a highly restrictive set of network rules that allow data to cross inside the network and outside the network in very controlled ways.

Email is one such way.
I'll violate my decision to not get into the weeds on this material briefly by offering this very quick summary: whatever all the details are, what's undeniable is the rate at which extraordinary weather events are happening around the world: the rate is increasing, and the rate of increase is increasing.
Maybe, but as I remember it, VHS looked much better than analog TV from the same time. I remember being marveled by how clear it looked in comparison (mostly because it did not have as much noise as analog TV did even with a good antenna).
it's basically what happens when decisions are made only based on ratings to get you through the next 4 years, instead of long term strategy.
You can't be a better Elon Musk than Elon Musk. Don't try.

But Elon Musk can't be a better you than you are, either. OK, there's some overlap. Be you anyway - all of you, the parts that overlap and the parts that don't. You can't do what Musk is doing in rockets? OK. Don't give up in despair. Especially don't give up on all of you because someone is doing what a part of you wanted to do. Take that part of you and find a worthwhile place to use it.
Usually Apple does not invent anything, they design using what other people have invented.

Apple does not focus on research as much as in development. They put billions into factories that mass produce what has been already proven to work.

Multi touch for example was not invented by Apple, Apple bought a company that invented most of the technology and brought it into telephones.

They did not invented Gorilla glass or accelerometers or small hard drives(like in the old ipod). They approached inventors and offered using their technologies in the millions or tens of millions of units.
The ‘brown gold’ that falls from pine trees in North Carolina

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/31/pine-need...

https://archive.ph/UwyXC
According to my brother, Dreamcast game piracy was where the money was...
Hmm yes, unwinding the priorities when processes exit is complicated. But I wonder if simply leaving the priority at its highest level reached would be harmless; it really depends on how much influence the heuristic has.

It doesn't strike me as particularly wrong for a page to still be classified as elevated priority if some higher priority process had classified it as such even if that process no longer exists. At least not for file-backed pages, which are really what I'm interested in, in this context. Chances are good the file gets accessed again in a similar fashion, the priority stickiness could help keep it around.

The "do not cache this" approach is quite heavy-handed and can be problematic if you want some caching for things like producing deltas, or in the case of a restore from backup reassembling from myriad delta files, without blowing out the page cache.

As corbet mentioned the cgroups approach does provide a solution to constrain page cache effects.
We had Windows machines in around 94. They booted to some kind of menu where you could do various things I don't recall...and boot Windows. There was a problem with my friends machine one day and I saw the IT admin type a ludicrous single character username and password to get into this boot menu.

So I used it to have a look around and change the startup message to insult a friend. Then I told him how...and he told everybody. Next day all of the machines had obscene messages, and someone was caught doing it, they said my friend told them, and he told them that I told him. Thanks buddy.

I remember being terrified as I told the deputy head how I 'cracked the code', but I think I just got a detention.
One could argue that it's the transmission of this information that constitutes the paradox.

I.e. if the IRS held certain records as confidential, even from law enforcement, no paradox would exist.
After interacting with the world, we can learn from passive observation. No human has ever learned anything about causation without first spending a while experimenting in the world.
Only ones that you use for business or income. Personal property used for non-buisness or income producing activities is not depreciable.

> To be depreciable, the property must meet all the fol-lowing requirements... It must be used in your business or income-producing activity
Its a power play. No one should dare to resist. rms defied them an uncancelled himself, so they will double down, triple down on him until ge falters. Because if he doesn't, someone else might defy them, too, and suddenly they will be ignored.

So that's why they will do what they can to destroy this vile thought-criminal. You see, he's been a dangerous force in the Free Software community for many years!!
I suspected. Not my department, but I did make a note for feedback. I'm sure there's statistics out there on the general frequency of YouTube ads over time.
They had a joint training Air force operation 2 days ago named "Nile Eagles"

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/egypt-sudan-hold-nile-e...
Brussels police use horses and water cannon to disperse crowd gathered in park
Wow this looks really slick! After ramping up and using Bazel for a bit I'm totally sold on starlark too--it's a breath of fresh air to just use (mostly) python to write all the configuration and infrastructure code. I'm kind of sick of learning some new bespoke, pet language dreamed up to scratch an itch and such--let's just use python and move on to more important things.

My only real gripe with starlark is that the import story is still a bit ugly and unweildly--you have to specify every explicit global function or variable you use, there's no * imports yet. But it's kind of a minor issue in the grand scheme of things.
Preparation for the Y10K problem. Five-digit years is something the Long Now Foundation started using to encourage people to think longer term:

https://longnow.org/about/
> Even where there’s a 99% chance there’s, say, a gas station with video of the thief and their car (=license plate). They don’t even bother to check it out. You really do have to give them everything yourself to get them to maybe do anything.

You might as well have declared your location to be San Francisco Bay Area.
This this this. Sooooo much. This always was flying spaghetti monster level unlikely. People simply do not understand how tightly constrained things like this are by existing evidence. And almost uniquely so.

When experimentalists announced they had discovered super-luminal neutrinos, everybody reacted exactly like all the amateurs here are saying we should: Explore potential theoretical ramifications while being aware that it's most likely measurement error and encourage further study until we're sure.

Not so for the EMDrive. Why? Because the idea that using nothing but electromagnetism you can violate this foundational property of every physical theory since Newton (_including_ electromagnetism) means that somehow your electromagnetic device, while operating well within the range of millions of other experiments out there, somehow triggered behaviour fundamentally different from electromagnetism. Different from the type of theory that electromagnetism is. Different from the type of theory that every physical theory ever found to describe reality is. And yet this phenomenon that is utterly _different_ than anything else we have ever seen went completely unnoticed in the millions of em sensitive experiments performed by everyone from undergrads to international labs over the last two centuries.

In the strictest sense it's not logically impossible that this could happen. But only in the sense that it's not logically impossible that the flying spaghetti monster is manipulating every scientific experiment performed to hide itself.
Tax code deducts from your basis in an item the "depreciation allowed or allowable".

For personal property [such as typically sold in a garage sale], there is no depreciation allowed or allowable, so your basis in the good is whatever you paid for it.
Europe has similarly suitable sites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

The stuff stored in these facilities is not magic. It doesn't get up and run around. The sites are selected to be deep enough and to be resilient to leaks. I'm more concerned with our culpability for melting the world's glaciers and ice caps than the risk of someone digging up barrels miles deep a thousand years from now.
Our biology is “virtually” identical but our brains are not. There is a reason why we distinguish between modern humans (who appear some time between 100,000 and 30,000ya) and archaic humans.
Does the reporter still have the copy?
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How does one efficiency “beam down” gigawatts of energy? Or at all?
I support nuclear but if you're beaming power from space, it might as well be from solar panels. In geostationary orbit you have power 24/7, with 5X more sunlight per day than panels on the ground. The only time your satellite goes into shadow is for a few minutes per day around the equinoxes, half an hour max. Capacity factor is still over 99%.
saw a scary face in the background and nope nope nope nope
Tax evasion is not extra income.

It just means you underreported another type of income in some other form and ended up paying less taxes as a result.
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"There’s the KOMO News footage, which some of us still have on a dusty VHS tape. There are a handful of print articles from tech magazines at the time. And one of us has the audio recording of the radio coverage."

It would be cool if there were some kind of technology that would allow them to share those things, like with people who can't actually be there in person.
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> who ever bombs the shit out of Great Renaissance Dam is going to be popular in Egypt.

Would they? GERD destruction = tsunami on the nile, possibly setting a chain reaction through downstream dams.

Sisi has now managed to beat even Murbarak on getting the lowest rating on record from any semblance of legit polls done nowadays.

Turkey is all over Ethiopia, and Sudan on top of that. And Sisi has a paranoid fear of Turkish involvement, either back home as a subversion, or a direct attack from Turkish African bases.

Turkey staring Sisi down from all sides is by far a much bigger concern to him than Ethiopians waving their MiG 21s at him.

If he has a gram of gray matter, he will not push Ethiopians further towards decision on Turkish military base.
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Yay finally! Crystal is awesome, with the exception of compile times
From the article: The company claims it holds 283 million distinct individual dossiers of 99.99% accuracy tied to “LexIDs,” unique identification codes that make pulling all the material collected about a person that much easier
You don't die from anxiety.
> "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"

No.

You can and should ask as 1) it is at the basis of check and balances 2) it is not an connection that can not be severed if needed.

If you are not willing to look at the dynamic of the relationship, you may help a country commit tyranny: if your country is not willing to help you because of your race / religion / anything else, maybe you should do nothing in return except get the fuck out and grab a bag of popcorn while watching the country go sour.

I say that as I love China, but I understand and support my Gay friends who have decided to never return.
To some degree, I think God agrees with you. That's what the cross means - God trying to prevent sin from killing humanity, at an incredible cost. (I note that I'm writing this on Good Friday.)

But as you were charitable and suspected that I wouldn't like your theology, I recognize that you probably won't like mine, either...
Golang's channels and goroutines are only an improvement if you are coming from JS / Python or maybe also suffered complex pthreads bugs in C/C++.

They are an improvement, absolutely, but not a big one.
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If you're selling at a garage sale it just became part of your income producing activity.
You can't derive income from tax evasion. You already have the income from some other source, you're just evading being taxed on it. (It's like how, if you buy a video game on sale at $10 off, you didn't make $10, you just avoided spending $10 that you already have in your bank account.)

So you've already reported it (or, if you're evading taxes, perhaps you've already decided not to report it, in which case the answer is simply that you have to not evade taxes...).

If you advise other people on tax evasion and they pay you for your services, then that's presumably employment income of some sort that you should report.
I find reading Go code quite the opposite. It takes a considerable amount of time to figure out that the given 20 lines of code actually do `filter f . map g . fmap sum`, for example. Simplicity in the language means _your_ code has to implement the complexity of the algorithm.
It certainly is admissible, and it does get shared with other agencies.

> Under §6103(i)(1), an assistant U.S. attorney may obtain tax returns as part of a non-tax criminal investigation or grand jury proceeding by submitting an ex parte application to a federal district judge. Taxpayers have no right to notice, a hearing, or dis-closure of the application,1 and prosecutors may file simultaneous motions to seal both the application and subsequent order granting or denying the application.2 The district judge “may” grant the order if (1) there is reasonable cause to believe a criminal act has been committed, (2) there is reasonable cause to believe the tax return is relevant to the commission of the criminal act, and (3) the return is sought exclusively for use in a federal criminal investigation or proceeding and the information sought cannot reasonably be obtained from another source.

> In preparing for trial, defense counsel in both tax and non-tax cases need to anticipate that the government might attempt to offer tax returns not directly at issue in the case to show knowledge and intent, unexplained wealth, or even the falsity of rep-resentations made in connection with a fraudulent scheme. While some courts have permitted the gov-ernment to introduce tax returns as circumstantial evidence of some disputed fact...

https://www.maglaw.com/publications/articles/2015-05-21-the-...
... You mean like the video embedded at the top of the page?
Yes that is true in fact even the most basic modems in their line up for 2G can be used as an Application processor rather than as a plain modem.

In this case however it is more like a complete build environment that includes the Linux distribution, GCC and other relevant Linux libraries etc for the distribution.
The real FW for cellular modem is likely never exposed since that may run on a DSP core or an ASIC sub system
In Europe (typical) businesses can deduct VAT they paid, and you don't need to pay VAT on private sales. So effectively you have a sales tax which only applies to B2C sales.
Well, I think that they wouldn't be able to solve the tech problem even if they completely solved any and all team problems, so as far as the end users are concerned it doesn't really matter much whether they can solve the team problem. I think that full self driving almost certainly requires artificial general intelligence, and I don't think humanity is anywhere close to creating that, so all current self-driving car projects will end in failure.

I wonder to what extent the leaders of these self-driving car projects understand that their efforts to create the technology have almost no chance of success. How many of them understand this but carry on due to either wild optimism, or to just make money, or on the principle of "it's not up to me to decide whether to try, someone else is paying me to try"?

The degree to which self-driving car hype seized even the minds of many otherwise smart people in the last decade has been strange for me to see.