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Earth is a space ship and we have been mismanaging the resources on said ship.

When we build our own spaceships, we rapidly develop in miniature the sustainable tech needed to really fix earth.

We already have carbon dioxide scrubbers, we just need a vast clean source of energy in order to clean things up, and stop the pollution on net.

Probably fission is a good enough stop gap.

This will happen as soon as the incentive structures are there.

Engineering progress is helping, even if indirectly. Who knows what more energy efficient environment cleansing tech will he developed for spacecraft next. Or power sources, batteries, etc. Technology development is cumulative and crosses over domains.

Spacex is a spearhead rapidly innovating technology. Government mechanisms are a sort of discombobulated rising tide/ pasture of cows, or herd of scared sheep trying to stay on the grazing turf. Assuming gov’s do not get very much more organized, the better the tech, the easier choices the sheep have to make — win wins get things done. We could benefit greatly from tech advances such that gov gets win wins by making green choices. That way the incentives can tilt more favorably more quickly.
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Slovakia suspends use of the AstraZeneca jab for first-time vaccinations
that they'll use it for easier reference value and an option, yes

if its easier for you, just imagine that its for the monocle wearing investment bankers that still want to offer intangible services and settlement over a network
Safari breaks it's debug protocol all the time and is no longer compatible with Android so it's not even really an option for my workflow.
I've often thought that instead of an expensive coffee machine, ping pong table or playstation, I'd like a tea lady (or tea person as they would/should be called now)
I'm not sure that, that "succeed or die" mentality/necessity is really a bad thing, at least in the beginning. I can't speak to space programs, per se, but as far as software start ups, so many of them are great as slim companies who have to produce but fail to transition once they are bought out and become an overlarge, corporate goliath with deep pockets and room to fail. Without the sword of Damocles, as it were, the finish line can continue to be pushed back and the specs can be changed. It can stay academic.
I'm not sure why TVs still use IR - haven't all other forms of wireless moved past that to much better performing standards that don't require direction or line of sight?

Nobody is pointing their xbox controller at the console.
This makes sense to me also, Bezos came out of finance to start Amazon, Musk always was an engineer.
um most people, including me, like to see beautiful people. It make sense to suppress post by the ugly.
Yep

I've been hydrofoil windsurfing (and have tried wingsurfing/wingfoiling as well).

Hydrofoiling has extended the lower range of wind speeds that I can go fast in. For instance, around 10kts wind I can pump the board and sail to get on the foil and go about 20mph. Pros push this even lower, to about 7kts wind speed.

I can also go upwind much higher and downwind deeper, at speed, than I could with just regular windsurfing on a fin. Control is a bit difficult downwind for me, still, but it's fun.

Paris Olympics in 2024 will have hydrofoil windsurfing. There was also a race this weekend around Lanzarote, which was almost 10hrs of racing and 130 something miles traveled on windsurf foils.
A disconnected roku works well once you fumble around and bypass the mandatory setup then activate HDMI-CEC so Google TV can simply and easily power, unpower, and switch inputs without issue.

The remote is simple enough only containing maybe 6 unused buttons.
Writing TikTok off as a platform full of only mindless viral content is seriously misunderstanding what is already going on there. It's already become a place to share your expertise, regardless of the topic. I follow everything from public health experts sharing thoughtful opinions on the day to day of the pandemic, to dog trainers, to seriously skilled woodworkers sharing their talents.

Whether we like it or not, if I were trying to prove my chops in a particular space, I'd be creating content and building a following on TikTok, and sharing it with prospective employers.
What grinds my gears is when an app goes subscription and then jacks their prices. Fantastical 2 was a $50 one-time purchase. Fantastical 3 is $60 per year.

If you switch to a subscription model, your new price better be no more than your expected amortized purchase price. If you use to launch paid major version upgrades every 2 years at $100 a pop, your rental price needs to be less than $50 per year to make up for the lack in functionality. Don't try to be a used car salesman and emphasize the "low monthly payment" when your customers are used to considering the total annual cost.
Absolutely. Human behavior-wise, 10% = "some chance", 1% = "no chance", and .1% = "physically impossible".
I could be wrong, but I would imagine most people consider a dumb TV to be exactly how pre-smart TV's worked: Screen, speakers, multiple inputs, and a remote.
And insurers themselves are good targets, as they give you a validation list of covered businesses to go after, as they're likely to pay out...
Sure, but the existence of individual bugs is very different that picking a very specific bug.

It’s the same as assuming that because someone regularly wins the lottery a specific ticket must have good odds. The space of all possible bugs is so vast, if the odds of every possible bug where as high as a lottery ticket then the software would be unusable. Some bugs are of course more likely than others, but assuming this one is more likely than average requires justification.
Plus Apple's model is opt-in by default. "Find My" has always been opt-in. Buying an AirTag is an opt-in decision.

Amazon announced Sidewalk with a "most Echoes and Ring devices that have never had a feature like this before are going to support it opt-out by default in the near future". Even if they had the best intentions that sort of planned roll out isn't a great way to assuage people's privacy fears.
the best argument I've heard for UBI is that it reduces the overhead of administering the allocation of benefits that we are going to provide anyway. Right now, much administration is dedicated to validating that an entitlement exists and can be proven. under a UBI regime, less of the money would be spent on administration because entitlement is seen as a given. In a way, advocating for UBI is advocating for smaller government. Allocating UBI to everyone and taxing earnings to a greater extent seems to possibly result in less overhead for the same outcome.
Well there is the integer promotion issue, and the integers-have-unknown-size issue.
I don’t think the updated concept in this article is an improvement. It seems to be a regression to the hog butchering style but with a chief butcher who draws a few lines on the pig and then tells his team to go at it while he makes a few of the more delicate cuts.
It doesn't really need to be taken to Twitter. There's almost zero benefit in publicly shaming your colleague like this.
I pay for Jetbrains subscription as well. They offer a bargain compared to many others. There are products I pay 66% of the amount I pay to JB for far less overall functionality. I don't mind subscriptions but I am weary of some of the higher prices. I also don't want to subscribe to everything some things one and done is what I want. No updates just buy it and move on and it continues to work.
How well does that work with the boss?
SoftBank-backed Better to go public in $7.7B SPAC deal
Imagine cruising at 30-40 mph, angled so you cut through waves perpendicularly. Mostly you head straight, but you do need to lazily avoid some crests and troughs, aiming for that sweet middle. You then see a mostly submerged log 30 feet ahead, just barely under the surface.

You now have two choices, steer to the left or right of it. Those split-second decisions have consequences, depending on which way the prevailing waves are headed. Say if you turn toward port, you might be parallel to the waves which you never want to do: they can capsize you. So you don't turn to port.

Heading toward starboard might be a better choice, but it's still not perfect - you might head toward a crest that will definitely slam into your bow violently. Or there is another boat wake you now have to deal with that wasn't a problem seconds ago. In either case, you need to alter your speed to either avoid it or cut through it more gently. You start dropping off plane, cut through a favorable section, and then angle yourself and go wide open throttles to miss a trough. Maybe you rise back on plane before you avoid it, or just slightly afterwards but on most V hull powerboats doing all this is not a problem. In normal traffic, this might happen a few times a minute.

But hydrofoils have two things going against them right there. They have massive drag at lower speeds and thus maneuver poorly in an emergency, taking more time to accelerate on plane or change direction. Then the weight ratio is a challenge: they need a lot of power for cruising speed, so they weigh more than you'd expect and then weight management is one of the primary design concerns. That all means the propeller is optimized for power over acceleration, and that means that these three congruent design choices have painted you into a corner, limiting collision maneuverability. Hydrofoils handle rough seas far worse than any conventional hull shape and more importantly, colliding with anything underway is far less forgiving than striking an object on the bow or outdrive.

Emergencies notwithstanding, being normally outside a propeller's designed operating range and you have cavitation and ventilation problems, which then erode the propellers. And that weight constraint means fewer seats, fewer people to carry, so less efficient per capita.
I think it's the lack of price vetting on Amazon's part that makes me hesitant to buy certain things there, e.g., groceries. That wariness happened after buying several packages of dried beans that were also available at Walmart (a retailer in the US), and then realizing I had paid literally three times the Walmart price.

Now I buy directly from Walmart if something's available there, because I have more confidence that their usual price controls are at work.
App Store stopped over $1.5B in suspect transactions in 2020
Wine and cheese consumption may help reduce cognitive decline
Odd take. I'm talking about a technological option for settlement that will simply exist, not an imagination of ubiquitous use.
Whenever I hear "execution guy" I shudder a bit. There are people who produce a product/service, which I believe is the direction the article is inclined, and there are people who work hard as in checking blocks on an infinite checklist. Both are "execution guys", but they are not the same thing. The difference is goal orientation.

I, personally, find substantially greater value in a person that produces something and is now sitting idle thinking of the next original product to complete opposed to the person who is busy or hard working.
When you’re initiating an interview process and it begins with a video snippet where the candidates “sell themselves”, it necessarily highlights photogenic candidates as well as exposes their ticks. This may well skew hirings toward the younger demographic.
Because it fucking sucks.
I think that’s a feature, not a bug - part of the reason I’d like to tutor high school calculus students is so I have an excuse to revise that stuff again - I finished an MS in math and statistics last year, but it’s probably been 8 years since I last did high school / freshman calculus :)
Looks nice! What language is this written in?
I listened to that TAL recently and how they were treated was outrageous.

But NPR reveals some bias in a couple of instances. For example, they describe how the health officials had to rescind the order prohibiting people from being on the beach because it was impossible to enforce. An unasked question is whether an order to close beaches might have engendered skepticism of public health officials' judgement.
What kind of 'vision' and tech leadership did Bezos bring to AWS? Arguably none whatsoever.
If you really think Kamala Harris is going to solve climate change you're delusional.
Out of curiosity, how much would such a thing cost?

I'd love a 'dumb' display, but it would be hard for me to justify dropping thousands to have one, when I'm perfectly satisfied just leaving the internet disconnected from my $400 'trash tier' TV.

This isn't knocking the idea, it's a genuine question that also kinda ties into the question of how much money mfgs are making from this privacy invasion.
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/ransomware/pol...

By targeting the insurers themselves (their cyber isn't magically better....), and getting a customer list.
Not the OP, but in the kitchen, knifes. Makes a huge difference.

Tips for inexpensive but quality kitchen tools:

The iSi basics silicone spatula is the best spatula that you could ever use, and is like $11 on Amazon. Get the larger version.

Don’t buy non-stick pans. Get cast iron and/or carbon steel, learn how to use it, and you’ll get non-toxic non-stick performance in a pan that you can give your grandkids when you die. Carbon steel is always inexpensive, and with cast iron the price goes up to have a nicer finish but is quite usable even at $25.
How about give everyone a state id first.
If buying a house is your goal, look for property-linked assets.
WWDC is in a month so we’ll see then.
I will be disappointed if there isn’t at least XCode for the iPad. Swift Playgrounds already compiles Swift code on the iPad and has for years.
It's a good talk even if just to learn more about types. It's not even specifically about python.

The result might be surprising, but those are the most interesting results! I note that, so far, nobody has countered this with any evidence, only anecdotes and "surely not!"
I'd also love a return to physical controls, but my concern with the touchscreens is actually less to do with durability and more to do with tactility and muscle memory. Before I stopped driving altogether, I had a car with a touchscreen interface. It had more functionality than other cars I'd driven and I appreciated that, but it also felt more dangerous to operate at times. Dedicated buttons for all the controls might have been impractical, but I think they should have at least gone with the older style of having dynamic function, phsyical buttons along the side of the screen.
I’d say the first step could be switching http-https around. Attempt to connect to https and fallback to http if the user agrees to being less secure.
Three Explanations for the Vaccine Slowdown
> However, note that Rust is a project run by volunteers. We prioritize the personal well-being of everyone working on Rust over any deadlines and expectations we might have set. This could mean delaying the edition a version if necessary, or dropping a feature that turns out to be too difficult or stressful to finish in time.

What a refreshing take! One of the things I have admired about Rust is the effort from the start to build a healthy, welcoming, non-toxic community, and to prioritize personal well-being.
Most of those guys have very profitable businesses designing and building satellites. SpaceX has made launching those satellites very cheap, so the demand for satellites is up.

They're not crying.
One thing that I repeatedly bump into in Rust is the oddity of multi-argument functions. To explain the problem, let's look at another language for a moment: in SML there is no such thing as multi-argument functions per se. There are two ways to write them anyway:

* the function's argument is a tuple (this is the more common way, not only in SML, but also how it's done most commonly in maths);

* currying.

I'm not a fan of currying, because it singles out the first argument over the others. However, the first approach (tuples) is very ergonomic, because now you can pass the return value of one function as an argument to a "multi-argument" function. One application of that is function composition. But another is a simple map. I've lost count of how many times in Rust I had an "o: Option<(A, B)>" and a "f: fn(A, B) -> C" and couldn't call "o.map(f)"; instead the programmer is forced to write more noisy code with lambdas. And lambdas sometimes don't play well with the borrow checker for mysterious reasons (even those that don't capture anything).

Also, I think it would be nice if the compiler generated named discriminants for every enum. Currently, "std::mem::discriminant" returns an opaque "std::mem::Discriminant<T>" (which doesn't have a name). In order to compare discriminants I need to create a full-blown enum value and extract the discriminant from it later. I've worked around this problem by using the "strum" crate, which has a macro to produce another (plain) enum, but having the discriminant type be named "std::mem::Discriminant<T>" (to signal the connection to the original enum) and have named variants at the same time would be the best of both worlds.

EDIT: If I knew more about possible breakage caused by my first suggestion, I could probably start working on an RFC. However, I feel I don't have enough knowledge about Rust to anticipate that.

For my second suggestion I think I'm going to try to propose that. I'm reading the docs on the process now.
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Jobs was very good at getting highly capable "execution people" together, and letting them have as much room as they needed.
I imagine this data is being shared as a PR move in the Apple vs. Epic battle, as well as the upcoming EU regulations changes.
Good luck getting rid of the current admin staff. They won't leave without a fight.
Semiconductors in America Coalition
Yeah, I’ve been following that thread. The storage idea is interesting but I don’t think it’s really necessary. The main thing it would enable is inline allocators that can be stored inside the collection, as opposed to the collection storing a reference to the stack allocation. The cases where that’s necessary, one can use the stackvec or arrayvec crates, which are more optimized than a generic inline allocator would be anyhow.
It is actually more precisely a Scheme dialect. I used Racket for some time and then moved to Guile. I do not find it weird, having used other lispy languages before.

Guile has many useful tools, like OS level threads and also a fibers library, community projects, a good manual, albeit sometimes lacking a few examples, an active community and mailing list and more. Since it is a Scheme, it adheres to a Scheme standard, which specifies many things already. Then it implements many SRFIs, which also specify many things. I guess, that you name something that goes beyond the Scheme standard and beyond the SRFIs "weird".

Could you point out what more specifically you personally find weird about it?
YouTube will pay $100M to creators using its TikTok competitor
The problem with that mindset is that there is a huge difference between leading a greenfield project with very few users and leading an established project that's a major piece of the infrastructure in basically every front-end app. In the former case, the bulk of the work is actually building the functionality, so looking at PRs / commits can make some sense. In the latter case, there are more constraints to consider and a lot of the work is in determining _what_ needs to be worked on, as opposed to actually writing new code. Also in things like project management, fundraising, etc., which don't show up as GH commits.
Love those books. Not often I encounter someone else who's read them. Which is maybe a little unusual as it's not like they're unknown or rare. I guess Napoleon-era naval warfare is maybe a bit of a niche nowadays.
"Eel thing" for erisypelas sounded odd to me as the name for a skin condition. The only references I could find online are to copies of this list, so perhaps it was a transcription error.
Unfortunately mamba doesn't support working behind proxies (so it's a non-starter in most corporate environments) and it's anecdotal but I've had it fail and crash much more so than conda does. It is faster indeed, but there's the other aspect as another poster points out: there's now Mamba and Conda, so instead of having one standard, we now have two. Plus, mamba can't be used for creating and managing environments, so you still have to do 'coda env create ...' for example.
Thanks for the context. Good to keep in mind for the long term.

That said, I’m very thankful that tools like this are being shared with the community, even if it’s less than perfect. It’s great that we have access to so many tools and so much research.
I really enjoyed this satire from reddit a few years back:

> I would prefer them to have no business or coding skills of any kind, so they'll be free to express their unbridled, uncorrupted creativity. I would also like massive underestimates of the worked required to implement their idea and no concept whatsoever of the time it take to fulfill their ambitions. I would like for their creativity to be unencumbered by concepts like "reality" and whatnot.

Link to full post: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/7o6p7v/looking_for_...
Because it's a large article. Apologies, I figured you could find it, there was no deliberate intention to obfuscate anything. So here's the link. It was discussed on HN a few days ago.

https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-th...
Grab anyone else in this thread interested, and pitch it to Wyze as a new product division.

Granted, their products aren’t dumb, but they seem to be very consumer and quality focused. I have loved everything they’ve done.
>and a windup toy car is definitely not converting mass to energy

Ah, but it is. E=mc^2 is always true in the reference frame where the object is stationary. (We assume that we are co-moving with the windup car.) A spring under torsion is heavier than an unwound spring.
For those who can afford it, quitting has become the ultimate form of self-care
I mean realtime inter-node message passing in a tree topology network, with message frequency associated to edges, like shown in [1]. Each nodes might run on its own CPU clocks, but message exchanges occur realtime, progressively faster at each depth, and the system as a whole(what "Autonomous System" probably supposed to mean) runs as a slow but coherent realtime cluster.

Perhaps the idea that message passing has to happen realtime is something obvious or elementary to military/defense/aerospace from technical requirements or experiences fighting fog of war etc., but to me it was dumbfounding new and I guess it might also be for the general public?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:4D-RCS_reference_model_ar...
Doesn't Spectre fill basically all of these requirements? For example, this 4k offering on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sceptre-U550CV-U-Ultra-2160p-60Hz/dp/... There is no smart functionality, just some HDMI ports. I haven't owned one myself, but I plan to when it's time to eventually replace my 10-year-old TV.
> That's a problem. The average person on the street has likely never even heard of Blue Origin, or know what they do, while they most likely have some idea of what SpaceX is and does. There is a tangible excitement about SpaceX.

Why is this a problem? There is only one reason in business why you'd want to grab the attention of the average person...and that is advertising .

Will SpaceX start advertising during launches? Maybe...up until then being known to the average person is not an advantage.

Some people claim going public would enable SpaceX to cash in on its fame by offloading loads of stock to the aforementioned normies...but that practice scares away smart/value money so again...until SpaceX starts advertising during launches the only person benefiting from the social media fanfare is Musk who gets to be invited on SNL to show how socially akward he is.