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So unbounded nondeterminism is basically hypercomputation? Then I assume one can write a program for the theoretical Actor model that computes a function on every natural number, is that right? Or that it can solve the halting problem for Turing machines, since if it is stronger then it, the halting problem of TMs is no longer true for them (is replaced by their own halting problem).
Hilarious and often quite truthful
I don’t think that’s true in the slightest.
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Often being for and against things creates a logic of its own, especially when things are contentious and doubly so when they're political.

Military spending is popular. Civil aid aimed at similar causes is extremely unpopular, even when the sums are far smaller.

I'm reminded of French classes, in my education. We learned French for four years. None of us spoke French at the end of these years. I brought up this fact to teachers, parents. When I grew up I spoke about it to friends, who were language teachers.

The idea of giving up, canceling French classes, simply because it was failing to teach kids French is mostly seen as appalling. OTOH, a priori, I'm quite certain that "teaching French even though kids won't be able to speak French after four years' would not be a popular idea. "Learning a foreign language is important."

I agree that the war on drugs is bad. But, I also use illicit drugs myself sometimes.. and it is considered normal in my social circle. That makes it easy for me.

For someone that considers drug use immoral, or terrible in other ways... "I am against drug use" will usually translate into support for whatever anti-drug policy is going. Efficacy is just rhetoric fodder.

We're just not that rational, even less so at the political level. "It works" or "it doesn't work" aren't anywhere near as important as "I am for/against..."
What's bad about that? It's obviously testing understanding of scoping and side effects. It's not hard if you understand those things and confusing if you don't, which seems like the kind of question you'd want on a "general coding assessment", no?

The only thing that bugs me about that question is that "the output of the following function" is confusingly worded. It's the sort of question that a competent candidate might get nervous about and start to overthink: wait, that isn't a function, it's a code snippet. The function here is foo – so maybe they mean "what's the output of foo"? But then what does "the output of a function" mean? I suppose they mean return value? Is this a trick question to see if I remember what push returns? Damn it, does it return the entire array or just the pushed element?

That's what my mind usually does with questions like that and I'm far from the only one. Since the goal of the test is to screen for basic competence, it ought not to filter out people who could answer the question perfectly fine if it were being asked clearly, but who also perceive corner cases and ambiguities. Such a skill should make you more likely to pass such a test, not less. Therefore the question ought to say something like "What does the following code snippet write to the console?"
Author here. So you guys are the reason of the huge spike on my website today?

I should mention that the "rules" there are completely opinionated and reflect what I understood as the biggest problems I had (and still have) as a software engineer.

Also would like to clarify that "via negativa" is a general principle, but of course won't work all the time. As a matter of fact, I refrain myself from excessive modularization whenever I can. In the end, software development is about delivering the biggest value, in less time, without compromising quality and maintainability (or at least being aware of the costs).

A nice side-effect of this semi-virality is that I get to read a lot of nice additions to the original 5 points. This post is calling for a sequel...
A lot of lifeforms survived the meteor that killed the dinosaurs. Almost 100% lifeforms would y not survive even 10 minutes on mars on a best sol.
That appears to be a fake quote fabricated decades after that person’s death by an author seeking views.
It's odd to have different AppleCare pricing for different laptops, but it actually does make sense that they're charging less for Apple silicon. It presumably costs them less to repair/replace these devices than Intel-based laptops.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe, 1992

1992.

The internet was the domain of colleges and government institutions. The Eternal September would begin one year later.

1992.

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System just came out to most of the world, with North America getting it the year before and Japan two years prior.

1992.

One whole year before Doom would come out.

1992.

Windows 3.1 when it was still a DOS shell was released.

We were beating our heads against 386 processors praying for 486s, hopefully with the math coprocessor so we could actually get something done.

Even then, we knew. And now it's nearly 30 years later and it's just as true then as it is today.
I know some people who can talk about their psychological struggles and remain likeable (it's some kind of charisma superpower), but other people where it's just a massive bummer (myself included). Step number one of getting along with people has been masking my internal state where possible. That lets me get by. The endless pit of despair and hopelessness that long-term depression can present, as with many chronic illnesses, it can just be a massive downer (especially when there's literally nothing the other person can do - why burden them with knowledge of my pain more than necessary?). And I can be likeable and fun to be around, and I appreciate it when I know other people who are struggling internally manage to play along also in their own way [ I know it takes them a lot of effort and I appreciate it deeply ]. This is how making it work works for me.

Though I guess I can appreciate the principled approach of the person writing the article, that would be a disaster for me given how I am (and I don't think it reflects badly on my social circles). I have to struggle to not be a happiness vampire, and this would tip the scales.

>I’ve been in therapy on and off and I’m taking meds (and no, yoga, essential oils and exercise are not sufficient to treat mental illness)

Often neither is medication.
I'm reminded of the 'Information Bubble' section in Wait But Why's 'A Sick Giant's essay. Essentially, once upon a time the big media outlets had an incentive to reach a broad audience. The biggest megaphone had to appeal across the political spectrum. Then, cable news, the Internet, etc. balkanized journalism. Everyone could easily shift themselves into whatever bubble they wanted to pretend was reality.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2020/01/sick-giant.html
Unless you're locking these people up forever, giving them a timeout solves absolutely nothing. Evidence-based prevention and treatment are the clear answers. No one is claiming addiction isn't a problem. We just simple want to actually address the problem instead of enacting feel good measures that either fail to address the problem or actively make it worse.
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I've been looking at circuit breaker level power monitors, and one of uses that seems interesting is the ability to see if your oven is drawing power. Some systems allow you to enable geofencing and trigger a push notification if your phone leaves the home wifi range wile the oven is on.
Yet I can't get a 0% interest load anywhere. How does this benefit anyone other than large institutions?
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Well, we can already see they screwed up a basic piece of code in the IRON smart contract, so is that really so surprising?
> There is no study or research which shows that library fines function as a mechanism to encourage timely return of materials. Instead, they serve as an economic barrier that impedes access to library materials and services for the financially disadvantaged people within our communities, particularly minors.

As a high-school teacher, fines were a major reason many of my students didn’t use the library. Sometimes parents get library cards in a child’s name (I’ve done this) and then abuse it (I don’t do this, because libraries are such a valuable public resource and I’m not so stressed that I can’t easily act on my values). Sometimes the students are scared of facing the fines, thinking the librarian is going to act like a cop. I’ve helped a few students go to the desk and ask about the status of their account, and each time they were palpable relieved at the kindness and understanding of the librarian. Sometimes the debt was simply forgoven.

I both donate money to my local library and let fines pile up because I can afford to. Far more pressuring to me is a notification that another person wants what I’ve checked out; that lights a fire and I either hurry up or return it before I’m done, adding it to a list for later.
I've not looked it up, but I assume the reasoning of replacing parking minimums with affordable housing is that if you sell only to rich people then they'll still buy cars and then clog the roads around the new building that has no parking provided.

Whereas less wealthy people buying an apartment near public transport will actually use it, and therefore not be adding traffic and pollution externalities onto their new neighbourhood.
depression eventually gets you to the point that you can't work no matter how critical that employment is to your well being you just stop showing up or quit in a mental breakdown. sick leave is a nice alternative and i agree it must be nice to have that option but when you say "feeling depressed" vs being depressed i think you have the wrong idea about it.
Lots of businesses taking payments online get the overwhelming majority of their sales from visitors with a "first-world perspective". It can make complete sense to blanket-ban TOR and other signs of bad actors at a cost of 0.1% of your sales (not an unlikely figure).

I like the idea of an open free-for-all Web, too, but I don't expect businesses to stop doing this, given the incentives in play.
What drug would be next to target on the list of "good candidates for decriminalization" after marijuana?
While a good thing, a losing battle in my opinion. You can perhaps convince your local authorities to not build another prison here this year, but somewhere else another prison still got built. There isn't enough people who give a shit, and an alarming amount of people who are rock hard for cruel punishment as a good thing.

Unbuild the existing prisons.

John Brown didn't write letters, he burned down plantations.
Diversity of skin color is not meaningful change in the slightest if all the policies stay the same. They're just hiring different faces to say the same things.
The similarities to elm make this language intriguing. What I'd really like to see is a compiler in webasm that compiles Gleam code to webasm.
The problem with Triplebyte IMHO is that what the originally promised, while a great idea and concept, it cannot scale. Also after interviewing with them for a role in their company I got to realize they don't know how to conduct interviews themselves.

I used them two times. The first one was very early on, where I was given a home assignment and interviewed on it by Aaron himself, if I am not mistaken. The dude was awesome at interviewing, and knew exactly how to probe to get a better understanding of your skills.

That was when they were promising that you can interview with them so you don't have to do technical interviews with the companies. I thought it was an awesome concept and could really reshape hiring in the tech industry.

Second time was a couple of years ago, where the model has already changed a bit. Passed the first round and one of the companies that I could interview for was triplebyte themselves.

What a disappointment! The only difference in the interview process than the rest of the companies was that they gave you a laptop and asked you to do practical coding instead of whiteboard generic algorithm solving.

Some of the interviewers themselves were junior members of the stuff with 0 experience in interviewing.
Without further clarification, when I read "compiler" I translate it as "standalone program which takes source code and emits exactly one binary which executes the program".

It can be a much broader term, for example you will run into people here arguing (with some justification!) that a "transpiler" doesn't exist since it's a mere subset of the broad definition of a compiler.

I'm just reporting on the mental image that calling such-and-such a compiler forms in my mind's eye. I expect I'm not alone in that.
Use /etc/hosts based blocking, e.g. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

This way you become mostly invisible to the ad and malware industry, no matter which browser you use.

Have JavaScript toggle next to address bar and keep JavaScript off by default. Most cookie banners will disappear.

Use Reader mode for daily news browsing. Most things will disappear except for main content. And it makes Internet less addictive.

The difference between swimming and drowning is subtle - flailing your limbs frantically vs relaxed movement. To many complex solutions will make us drown.

Consider swimming instead :)
I'm sure you didn't do it on purpose but the "because I was feeling depressed" part to me makes it sounds a little condescending. Depression for many isn't just something you "feel", it's what defines everything you can and can't do.
Why do you hold this view?
Amoung my friends when we used to do ACM programming competitions we called it “Off by equals error” since it was actually a fairly common issue in those types of programs and it was useful to have a name for it.

“I think you are off by equals here”
That Paris thing is certainly bad, but it looks rather like a backside, which often are not pretty. From the other side the buildings look nicer: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8230784,2.3662426,3a,75y,136...

Tolouse is not pretty - one of the Corbusier's or Corbusier-inspired crimes, but at least it does not have the scale.

That said even a tall and long building doesn't have to be dramatically bad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falowiec#/media/File:GDANSK,_F...
Ignorance or not understanding the money transmitter rules is not a defense.

Focus directly on the entity doing the money transmission in this case- the smart contract IRON. They take in USDC and give out IRON and TITAN. IRON and TITAN are money substitutes. Money transmission includes anyone by any means conducting exchange of one type of money for another. Functionally that is what this contract is doing. The code didn't write itself, there are people behind it that released it, and they wrote it to conduct money transmission (a specific purpose). You don't even need to bring ethereum into the conversation to prove they are in violation.

I'm not sure I understand your comment about 'war on X' but I think it is a problem when there is an arbitrary application of these laws and unfair dealing that we see by regulators within the crypto industry. Maybe this is natural (self interest), and maybe it isn’t entirely their fault (limited resources).

I saw a twitter thread from a lawyer saying the SEC doesn't determine if something is a security, the courts and congress do. Then why are we obsessed with the SEC’s opinion? I speculate that we just need court cases and we do not need the regulatory authority to bring the court case. Maybe that is the problem to solve.
Is it safe to say speculation is about what to do with instructions following conditionals, and OoO is about what to do with instructions following non-conditionals?
It seems weird to say that is the reason

In most states (including CA) the percent of minorities in jail for weapons offenses is as disproportionate to the population as drug offenses. And today in states like CA - 50% more people are in jail for weapons charges than drug charges.

Is the reason that drug laws/weapons laws exist to disenfranchise people? Or is a true problem in society that in theory would be good to address - and powerful people are indifferent to people who end up in jail.
When monitored, sure. The approach I would guess an OCD specialist would use (I’m not one, so this is only a guess) is to have the patient dry their hair, leave the bathroom, and wait as long as they can bear without checking to make sure they turned it off. Then, some time later, have them do it again, and try to wait longer. Repeat until they can go to work without worrying. Letting them take the hairdryer with them until they can do without it seems like a good addition to ensure they can get through the rest of the day.
The best thing I got out of Triplebyte was a great piece of written negotiation advice, from a recruiting specialist that has, presumably, since been laid off.
Any one state is incentivized not to do this alone. It only works if everyone does it at the same time. In addition, if every state did this, states could break away to increase its influence.

That doesn't mean that this is impossible. There seem to be two ways this coordination and prisoner's dilemma problem could be resolved. First, by a constitutional amendment (unlikely) or second in a similar way to the National Popular Vote.

National Popular Vote is a bill with the goal of making the winner of the popular vote the winner of the presidency. The way it works is that states pass a law to give their electoral votes to the winner of the popular votes ONLY until enough states with enough votes pass the same bill.

This bill currently has been enacted by 15 states (195 electoral votes) [1]

[1] https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/
Yet another example of Republicans literally ruining democracy.
Built before WWII is the key. Inner-ring streetcar suburbs tend to have some local resources: schools, parks, library, small overpriced shops. Anything after 1945, forget it.

Some metro areas demolished all of theirs, or developed too late to have built any. Rust Belt is surprisingly rich with them.
I'm only adjacent to that part of the industry, but from what I hear process still maters _but_ the situation has changed in a couple interrelated ways:

- The number of players with top tier fabs has shrunk to three (TSMC, Samsung and Intel), everything above experimental volume on a <12nm feature size is coming off one of their lines. TSMC is all foundry-for-hire, Samsung does some of their own designs and some for-hire, and Intel is mostly their own products but currently expanding their foundry business. Strictly, Intel is a little behind at the moment because a couple of the process bets they made have proven difficult to get ready for volume production, but they're still ahead of everyone else.

Getting onto the hottest, newest process is still an in-house thing for Intel and Samsung, but for everyone else (Apple, Nvidia, etc.) it's basically a question of who offers TSMC the most lucrative deal.

AMD and IBM both divested their fabs (and hence most of the world's SOI process capacity since they were the two players heavily invested in that) into GlobalFoundries, who have since dumped most of IBM's old fabs to OnSemi. They aren't doing anything strictly cutting edge.

- The era this article was written in was right at the end of truly, holistically hand-tuned at the transistor level designs. The level of abstraction required to deal with the scale of modern chips is more reliant on standard-ish cells and automated design tools (provided at large cost by the CAD vendor and/or Fab owner to match the process being targeted) with some local optimization on performance critical parts. That kind of levels the playing field because it means everyone is getting some access to the fab-specific details through licensed cell libraries, pre-tuned IPs, process consultants from the fab owners and companies like Cadence, etc. and no one is really hand-tuning big logic parts.

- The hardware IP market has exploded. For example, among ARM processors, the magic in "Apple Silicon," other than paying for priority access to TSMC's 5nm capacity, is that Apple (and about 10 other companies) are building their own hand-tuned ARM cores on top of an Architectural License to which they add their own special sauce, while most players are licensing "off-the-shelf" cores (this is the "Cortex" brand) from ARM Ltd. and integrating them.

- I'm only talking about microprocessor-relevant fabs here, there are a handful of bleeding-edge hot shit fabs for processes suited to other things, like the fancy GaN fabs for high power/high frequency switching applications.
From the article:

"[EDIT: I’ve since learned that the developer(s?) behind this are already the laughing stock of the DeFi community, having wrecked each of their 3 previous projects (now 4) — though this might be their biggest hit yet]"
> I was safe and patient. But I would be aghast to see it in action today.

Do you think that's because you believe things are less safe now than when you were a kid? Or is it because societal norms around risks & children have changed?
>Perhaps the simplest thing to do in order to disrupt the supply.

When you're removing supply, but not disrupting demand, a way will be found. The real answer is to legalize & sell it, no more drug dealers, remove the overdoses because it was cut with fentanyl, no longer fund gangs = less homicides
Depression is a major illness (ICD-10: https://icd.codes/icd10cm/F329), there is nothing slight about it. Getting treatment and going on leave if you have the option is definitely the right thing.
Now you know what OP meant by “fake”
One of our engineers made a Siri voice command for this using the built-in iOS Shortcuts a few weeks ago; maybe give Shortcuts a look? Might be less trouble than opening Xcode.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4b1fc970b5314a2b93edb50e7cb...
Looks like it, his Wikipedia page [0] does mention "In the same year, he was involved in starting one of the first public Internet service providers in Australia, Suburbia Public Access Network"

Which matches the contributor's email domain name suburbia.net

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange
You gotta find a balance but talking about it regularly, whenever you realize it affects your behavior is a good way to deal with depression. It also helps others to deal with it better.
And yet the ongoing use of heroin demonstrates that this does not work well enough and condemns people to suffering or death.
The fact you are happy your sister is in prison and not in a treatment facility says a lot about you.
No, I _know_. It is, after all, my mind.

Possibly, for yours, you need a doctor to rattle off 10 questions and write down your answers.

But me, for mine, I am content to read the 10 questions written by the doctors for me to interpret myself.

The fact that you don't realize you are being offensive is just so... chef's kiss.

Please continue your crusade against negligence elsewhere. You've added absolutely nothing here.
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Although you're being downvoted, this is a growing sentiment among researchers and others near the field. There are calls to improve measurements of a society's wealth, as well as individual.

Current headlines use the broad statistics, such as the most exclusive unemployment stats, that don't really capture what's happening on Main Street.

The reporting on the economy barely pokes at issues and are generally just looking for general correlations, such as "Stocks do X as Y does that," or "GDP is doing X while Y is doing Z."