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Because as I've said, I'm not comparing solutions, I'm comparing problems. Rust solves the isolation problem in a completely different way. Go also solves the isolation problem by enforcing it at a language community and best practice level, rather than rigidly enforcing it in the language. Now, I personally wish it had something more like Erlang or Pony, but, at the same time... it's doing fine without it and completely satisfying my Erlang use cases in real code, better than Erlang did. Not perfectly, but fine. (I rather prefer channels as a default to Erlang's message passing, which in both my opinion and experience has the "unbounded buffer" problem in that messages can build up in a queue forever.)

Message buses solve the message passing requirement. You can get a whole range of solutions from "just sling vaguely JSON stuff around" to "here's a whole strongly typed protocol", with a whole array of options on persistence, clustering, language support, etc., a whole array of options around how synchronous they are and what guarantees they provide, rather than Erlang's one exact solution,

You're kind of demonstrating my exact point here... it isn't that the exact Erlang solution shows up in other languages, the point is that the problem space that Erlang covers is now covered in plenty of other languages, in all sorts of ways, many of them better for some task than Erlang's one point in the space that was selected very, very early in the exploration process. This was not the case 20 years ago. It is now. And I don't particularly think Erlang's coverings of the problem space are the best. People not already deep into Erlang aren't evaluating whether or not some solution is exactly like Erlang, they're evaluating whether the solution is a good solution on its own terms, and once you remove the "must be exactly like Erlang" clause there are a lot of better choices for every element of Erlang, except arguably, the integration of all of them together.
I maintain that most of what we get from the Web and computers, as individuals, is barely better than what we had before, and not enough so to justify its costs. Shopping very much included.

For some context, I grew up very much "OMG wire my brain in, let's get this future shit going!" Years of watching that future develop, and some reflection, have almost entirely reversed that sentiment, for me.

For example: are streaming services convenient? Yeah, of course. Am I actually happier with them than I was with the library, rentals, and the occasional purchased movie? Marginally, if at all. (but I have Internet service for the handful of things it actually is highly beneficial for, so, may as well use streaming, too)

Is shopping online convenient? Yes. Am I happier than when I just had way less idea what was available to buy, and there was more friction to indulging every little purchase-whim? I really wonder. This one may not just be marginally better, but net-harmful.
So you answered his complaint about the use of "slippery slope fallacy" by deploying the "whatabout" fallacy and created a strawman.

Nicely done, nicely done.
Category 0. would be "policy that rewards the coalition of people who keep you in power." Reason and principle are rhetorical distractions. The rule is to take from the people who don't and give to the people who do. It's not even an abstraction, it's just politics in its most essential form.
I think if you write something which says 'I am biased', the burden of proof is now on you to show hiring managers that it was all a bit, rather than on them to demonstrate that it wasn't.
> I do not think that has a substantial intersection w/ the competitive effects of this proposed acquisition

My understanding is that MGM has a large holding of copyrighted media, and therefore substantial interests in protecting and extending the rights and terms afforded by copyright law. For example, they have led consortiums of large entertainment companies in the past to bring copyright lawsuits to the Supreme Court (MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd).

My other understanding is that Amazon is a very powerful corporation, that has complex interactions with copyright law already (they are a distributor of both physical and electronic media through Amazon Video and Amazon Music; they are a content producer through Amazon Games studios and Amazon Original Series [also already built on the back of other acquisitions]). This acquisition gives another significant interest in copyright protection to an entity that is already extremely powerful.

We're going to M&A our way to another Mouse on the copyright front (which was also built largely on the back of "mostly-harmless-at-the-time-but-problematic-in-aggregate" acquisitions), until massive swaths of our cultural expression are owned by a very small handful of organizations.

I suppose maybe a disconnect we have is there is a non-financial "consumer welfare" question that I don't see being asked. Consumer welfare is generally only approached from the financial perspective of: "what will the financial cost to a consumer be to obtain the rights to consume media"; I don't see anyone attempting to defend consumer welfare from a _cultural_ perspective of: "Which entities do we have to ask permission from in order to interact with important elements of our culture and society?"
I got an iMac Pro. I have similar feelings, but for all that it's certainly doing the heavy lifting I need right NOW.

Feels like wanting to be both on the cutting edge of performance, and running/developing for a Mac, is damn pricey. However, I'd rather have it this way, than sit with my current machine being the best you could get. In some ways I am gratified that Apple is busy making last year's news feel really inadequate.

You can be damn sure I'm devoting a lot of effort to promptly supporting the new architecture. I've already got literally hundreds of M1 builds for my Audio Unit plugins out. I chose to produce native versions of EVERY product, no matter how old it was: rather than make a new product and only release that for M1, I treated it as the same as the 32/64 bit transition, and re-did every product in the whole library.

If we're going to get absurdly capable Mac computers, I mean to be categorically included in that equation.

For now, I'll enjoy my very costly iMac Pro that's still very capable… AND the M1 Macbook Pro at a fifth of the price that outperforms the iMac Pro at a few things already.
Nothing about StimulusReflex pushes you away from this approach. This all comes down to the developer.

StimulusReflex is built on top of Stimulus. The point of SR isnt necessarily to write less javascript, its an easier way to sync client and server state and have a single source of truth.

Use SR where SR makes sense, but just because you have a hammer doesnt mean everything is a nail.
I think the audiophile testers are usually more concerned about the sound-stage than they are about the compression considering the market the Airpod Max's are aimed at - particularly for Bluetooth Headphones.
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Totally agree. I've been in this industry since 2001 and never, ever had a performance problem which couldn't be solved with just thinking what your code is actually doing. The bottleneck has been always the database, or the network, etc. The only problem I've had with threaded languages is running out of threads/processes due to making external API network requests, etc, but you learn to not block threads by using jobs, etc. And worst case, more hardware has been always cheaper than more developers due to less productive languages (hello Go! :wink: :wink:).

You are not Google.
Bingo! The more energy a system has available the greater capability it has. For example, if a mining community is able to generate cheap excess power it opens up possibility for local smelting and foundry industries.

I think of each community as a game of Civilization. As you progress you unlock higher rungs of the tech ladder. Exporting your raw materials to later import finished products made from them is a waste of resources and stagnates the local industries at the raw material stage.

What industries could be developed in your community if the power was available?
Protecting form data, ajax, etc which the site doesn't really have.

SSL can also stop your ISP infecting content, but if they're doing that you've got a crap ISP.
Of course this means the game had to be simple because there simply wasn't enough CPU time available to do anything complex.
I bet somehow, I'd still manage to get it to beachball on everyday common stuff like loading an IDE or Safari or something...
Just a couple of days ago, the #1 app in the Top Grossing chart on Play Store was "Funny Voice Changer", which is a sketchy app aimed at children that gets you to sign up for a 3 day free trial then charges $280. It has a 4.1 stars rating with mostly obviously fake reviews. I see now it's down to #29 on the chart, but it's still there.

I understand vetting everything manually would take unreasonable amounts of manpower but maybe you should check that literally the #1 grossing app in you store is not a scam?
Replacing hardware is much easier than trying to make backups of embedded systems.
That driver was just for the 3060 LHR. The 3080, 3070 and 3060 Ti LHR will require newer drivers. It's still possible for NVIDIA to mess up and release a newer driver without those limitations again, though.
Isn't it the case that physical height growth occurs during sleep? That's more evidence that sleep is a whole body process.
I don't have a source but owned MBPs and Airs from the first up until USB-C, and I had more than 3 different power adapters including USB-C for them. But you may be right and I remember differently.

But I might confuse those with display adapters.
Hydrogen needs to be a game changer to command a redirection of investment and effort for consumer transportation.

Even if it offers 20% better range and some allegedly better refuel experience (H2 people keep handwaving that as "solved"), that wouldn't justify the gigantic infrastructure switchover cost.

Electric vehicles can use the grid. That's a massive advantage for infrastructure readiness and scalability, even if the current grid isn't ready for full EV consumer transportation.

EVs can use home solar as well. Easily scalable, adds redundancy and alleviates load to the grid.

H2 would need a huge buildout of hydrogen generators, transporters, refuelling. EVs are so far ahead of all of that.

By the time any significant H2 infrastructure was out there, it'd be 10 years even if they secured 100s of billions in financing yesterday.

In 10 years, the alternative energy / solar / home solar / grid / battery / storage economic proposition is likely to be 50% cheaper in real dollars, and possibly even better.

It's the same problem nuclear faces.

Sure, throw some money at places like aviation or maritime shipping.

But it's just distraction, because I think the oil industry knows that the hydrogen will come from natural gas for the foreseeable (10-40 years) with some "future switchover" to "green hydrogen".

Green hydrogen smacks of "clean coal". Granted the physics/engineering for it are a lot more realizable.

But everyone should see that for the shell game it is.
Yeah, nope.

Consider the amount of energy wasted right now and also in similar "industries".

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-uses-less-than-...
I see where you're coming from; but isn't it more the case that the kind of audit you get depends on the kind of error/fraud you have in your return?

My understanding is that the majority of "working class" audits are around tax credits and that the IRS knows to a moral certainty that there's a problem due to internal inconsistencies in the filing itself.
On the other hand, with Georgism the government needs to know how to assess land value. It does make those assessments now, but it's bound to become more politicized if all revenue is coming from land.

I also wonder if practices would emerge to make it impossible to know who to send the tax bill to.
The truth is that "they" (sorry) will do everything they can to extract the highest fraction of consumer income they can. I'm in a market where before streaming it was basically all FTA which means that I have no idea what to expect. In a market where cable fees already meant a subscription to otherwise unavailable content, I'd expect that number to end up a lower bound of typical spending.
Sounds like a shell game to me. You know what isn't? Burning energy, using a simple hash function to measure how much energy was burned. Simple, effective, safe. Energy usage is a good thing, actually.
I figured as much. Oh well, for serious listening I'll just get that lightning to headphone jack cable and plug it into my Schiit stack (Modi / Magni Heresy AMP/Dac)
Do you think young African-Americans lucky enough to have never had the N word used as racial epithet against them ought to ignore other parts of the community that tell them this is a very painful term and they should not throw it around causally?

What right do you have to reclaim something that was never a source of harm for you to begin with? Doesn’t that make you just another set of bullies metaphorically shoving people into lockers?
Unless you're a big or medium sized org, fixing an issue that is seen by less than 0.01% of visitors is probably waaay down the priority list on the backlog
The new Macbook Pro sounds amazing. The 64gb RAM possibility suggests a lot of things, some of which confirmed by the artlce, such as

a) a different processor design than the M1

b) different RAM modules that Samsung doesn't have in existence, so who and what? or, a different chassis design...
a pollution tax will not work. That just becomes the price of doing business and that cost is factored into other areas of the business model. Even worse, it just gives more capital to inefficient governments
False positives would be a really poor user experience. In fact, I'd likely uninstall and never look back if I encountered that type of issue.
I imagine that this, in addition to WebAssembly, could lead in the future to playing more complex games from the browser with the benefit of being platform agnostic (in kind of device, hardware architecture, OS) as long as the browser, the OS, and the hardware is compatible. Am I wrong?
Sure, but it's not a big concern as it's not that common.
I don't think that Dr Dre gets to evaluate the performance of Apple employees who are women (or Korean, etc) simply because they have a JV making headphones.
Can anyone explain the relationship to the Firefox "Electrolysis" initiative better than this[0]? It looks like Electrolysis was just making the browser kernel <> IPC layer and now Fission is actually divvying up the processes by origin.

[0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Thanks
How does that number compare to the actual amount of wealth and income they individually generate? 38.5% seems incredibly low given the gross disparity in wealth between the top and bottom.
Consider not rabbitholing into a narrative and understanding reality:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-uses-less-than-...
It could be a change to firebase, those other apps may be using another push provider.
I have this same problem. Sometimes I send many emails out to a sales team, asking for details for how to get their service and simply get no response.

We don't even get to the point where they know I represent a relatively small company.
I think "Hackers & Painters" was after ViaWeb as well, a book I'd consider technical. I'm sure there are more technical things he been doing since ViaWeb also.
You can be a big success either being or pretending to be a big asshole but what is the argument that this should be consequence free?
I used to be of this opinion but enough ISPs and other intermediaries will happily MITM http (and DNS) if they can to inject ads or redirects to affiliates.

With modern hardware and letsencrypt, getting SSL going is about close to free and less effort than what most "just text" sites do for their content.
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> While banning such payments might remove the incentives,

They'd pretty obviously not; companies are already forced to pay a fine (or a ransom, but it's money spent) and it obviously does not incentivize them to properly secure their network. Adding a fine to pay to the government on top (or, more cynically, a tax) will not change much, except that stricken companies now get hit harder, as you said.
This is the most infuriating thing ever. Plus checkouts that rely on constant popups for authentication and confirmation which usually get blocked too.

I basically have to switch to another browser to actually checkout on anything because there's so many things I'd need to disable to get them to work.
errata corrige: ... that is not and will not be possible.
I think this ignores why the "lab leak" theory was being squashed in public:

1. There was no evidence

2. The conspiracies going around in early days prompting the response was that China manufactured the virus as a weapons and/or released it on purpose.

3. There was no evidence

People were reading the WHO reports as information was coming in and they were talking about no transmission outside familial groups and saying "Ahah! The WHO is in China's pocket, they were lying about the virus!" or "They are incompetent and don't know what they are doing!". Zero understanding that the reports were pretty much just raw information and analysis on what was known at the time.

This was just over a year ago peeps, but people were forgetting like 2 months on haha.
I’m mainly using Sony and Jabra gears with iPhone, when I turn them on they reconnect, no issues, except some headsets tend to cut off when the virtual line defined by phone and headset runs below surface of my torso for more than couple inches long.
There is no need for Bitcoin to use PoW. Bitcoin can continue to exist using a different algorithm to establish distributed trust. But since you brought up Bitcoin, yes, I would say that it provides little value to society in it's current state. It operates primarily as a speculative investment rather than a true currency.
> Banning PoW cryptocurrencies removes money that is currently on the side of "don't pass climate legislation because it will harm my PoW cryptocurrency business" from the table. That makes passing future legislation easier.

Does it? And, do you have data that backs this up? It stands to reason to me that PoW miners only want cheap power; they don't really care too much how it gets generated. Considering that the cheapest power source you can build out today is green energy, it sounds like a win-win to me for them to put their money into "advocate for more cheap power."
Knowing that someone is a man doesn’t mean knowing their pronouns; gender identity and pronoun preference are correlated but not 1:1 tied. It is somewhat inconvenient that the long traditional use of “they” for semantically singular cases where the correct pronoun is unknown has become blurred by “they/their/them” becoming a reasonably common preferred pronoun (especially among the nonbinary but also among some who identify as men or women), so its use to avoid the risk of an incorrect specific pronoun can be misread.
Such "very deadly" voltage is in operation for decades very close to your house, yet it is somehow profitable. Granted, the cables aren't usually manipulated by consumers. But the currently used car chargers are deadly already if you manage to do the things you describe. The cables and connectors are constructed to prevent it, this is very old and well-understood technology.
Facebook is net-zero emissions.
I'd wager they have a good grip (at the federal level) on what tax revenue should be if everyone was paying as expected.
> I am so very weary of this nonsense being taken seriously as sage advice.

Agreed.

In fact, in the featured article, the author makes reference to the hard science achievement of Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA as follows.

> And moreover it's clear from the story that Crick and Watson's fierce nerdiness was integral to their success. Their independent-mindedness caused them to consider approaches that most others ignored, their overconfidence allowed them to work on problems they only half understood (they were literally described as "clowns" by one eminent insider), and their impatience and competitiveness got them to the answer ahead of two other groups that would otherwise have found it within the next year, if not the next several months.

Pointing to this as an example of fierceness producing contrarian success completely ignores the sheer amount of luck that contributed to the timing of Watson and Crick's discovery. Given a different roll of the experimental dice, Watson and Crick's method might have had temporary setbacks that resulted in their names being relegated to footnotes.

As luck and effort would have it, two of the most ornery scientists of the twentieth century will figure as pioneers in the annals of science history.
Well that would probably fall under incentives. Generally I think that the most waste is to be found in the incentives and dis-incentives categories.
I'm not 100% sure but I'm pretty sure that the sanction laws cover proxies like that.
Don't forget the billionaire problem either.

Proof of Stake as setup gives all the power to people/companies who have large amounts of liquid assets.

Consider Amazon, they keep a rolling window of cash in-between when an item is sold and when the seller gets paid. This effectively gives them billions in interest-free capital. If this were Etherium, it would translate into huge amounts of voting power.

Likewise, if/when people deposit their etherium into banks, those banks can then leverage that "free" capital to grab huge voting stakes that wouldn't otherwise exist (because no person living paycheck to paycheck has the equivalent of 100k sitting around).

This leverage simply does not exist with proof of work.
See my other links in this thread showing airplanes engulfed in fireballs.

The idea that jet fuel is safe and doesn't burn in crashes is very, very false. Remember those fireballs when jets crashed into the World Trade Center?
The audio myths workshop, old but still gold: https://youtu.be/BYTlN6wjcvQ
> Fundamentally, the proof of work system locks in longer chains because of all the work that was done historically.

VDFs used in Ethereum's hybrid PoS replicate this property to large-enough extent. In case of PoW the resource you MUST spent to replicate the chain is electric energy, lots of it. In case of VDF it's mostly time. So one can imagine launching multiple "fake" chains using stolen/bought private keys, but such chain will get banned via software upgrade immediately after detection. Very hard to pull off, impossible to pull of multiple times.

EDIT: my bad, stolen keys will get banned by the network immediately and automatically. They break "equivocation" rule.
One method I use is to get the md5sum of files and create a manifest which is just a sorted text file with the file-names and checksums. If you create a periodic manifest, you can create a function to send you the diff of what files have changed. i.e. cat two files, sort and uniq -c them. If a filename has 2 or more hashes across multiple passes and you did not expect it to change, it should become obvious. md5sum is sufficient for this task and faster than sha256sum.

Another method would be to use rsync in "--dry-run" and see what changed that way between your backups. If you have sets of files you know should never change, you could filter on them as a canary.
Mozilla Position Paper on the EU Digital Services Act [pdf]
Everything in this universe is analogous to Proof of Work, it's the most natural system out there. If there is a base monetary layer for the internet, it should be Proof of Work based (and Bitcoin, because it's got the most work done to improve the technology + network effects).