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#2 - remember the hype around VRML and how we would have virtual words in the browser?

I remember working with Silicon Graphics gear back then and the 3D guys were quite enthusiastic about it. Of course, we had all devoured William Gibson’s novels like Neuromancer so we were naturally attracted.

We even built some 3D desktop apps as portals to the wider internet. They were too static and too hard to build so the Internet with HTML had much more pull for producers and consumers as well.

In practice, I think the 3D stuff that really worked at the time was more games like Quake and avatar-based web apps like Habbo Hotel.

It would still be fun to go back and read Jaron Lanier’s writing from that era.
> Economics are immune to guilt, you have to find another way to penalize the behaviors you dislike or incentivize the behaviors you want.

Aren't articles like this part of that "other way"? The start of the long path to regulation.
Random access on SSDs is still slower than sequential access though, even if not as slow as on HDDs - there is more than seeking that comes into play.
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The fact that Red Hat exists and there are corporate-paid maintainers of packages like the Toolchain kind of contradicts this article.
Theoretically, gold could be piped into a black hole which is the physical equivalent of /dev/null. :-)
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I love the hardware/software analogy of a fuse to an assert statement; going to remember that while writing tests :)
Do you think most gold investors are hoping to turn their bullion into conductors?

Incidentally, Bitcoin is also rust-proof.
This is incredibly dismissive of any harmony that is based on equal temperament, or anything that isn’t the harmonic series. I don’t think that’s justified - a lot of jazz harmony only sounds good in equal temperament. For instance, minor 6 chords are going to sound terrible.
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what else is there in robotics?

You are either building killer robots like Boston Dynamics (morally reprehensible) and drone striking the middle east, or helping people make things with production line robots.
I didn't see this as asking for anything. The blog post is both instructional, ie here's what happens, and an explanation. I just don't see how this notion that a person should be punished forever is helpful to anyone. He's paid a hefty price why continue to pile on? Also just because he created victims doesn't mean he himself isn't also a victim. Do you really think he deserved death threats? Do you think it was ok that overzealous people (such as a lot of the people in this thread) thought it was ok to terrorize his wife as well?

Many people convicted of actual felonies don't face consequences like this. This guy has been convicted of... nothing illegal apparently?

For some reason on an individual level people are willing to forgive someone for their past transgressions, but as soon as it goes to a public forum everyone needs to talk about how this person should be vilified forever to signal what a great person they personally are. To twitter mobs, any transgression against a protected group is grounds for permanent ostracism, even if the transgression is pretty mild by societies standards. I don't think we should be encouraging mob justice. 1000/1000 times in human history mob justice has always gone way too far.
That provides important context. However, based on the news, Epic has not been honest in their marketing of this feature. If you provide something that is less harmful but still harmful, you have to disclose that the real solution would be something else - fixing the insurance system, liabilities?
SoftServ has Elixir devs working remotely. Could be an option => https://www.softserveinc.com/
> Except that DAX and EuroStoxx 600 are so correlated that it doesn't quite matter.

That is actually an argument for the bigger index, not the smaller.
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> P.S. - And where do they keep getting this 'fiat is going away' bull from? I honestly don't know anyone in crypto that thinks this? Yes, I see crap on youtube pumping stuff like this - is that now what the bar is? "I saw it on youtube" ?

I've seen several comments here on Hacker News that has this WTF-level of cryptoboosterism. Certainly anyone who seriously argues "but you forgot to account for the energy cost of nuclear carriers in propping up fiat currency" gives off the same vibes as "fiat is going to crash once we realize it's all funny money."
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I see the first rhyme (Ramp / Clamp), but perhaps I'm missing another level of ingenuity in the title?

Regardless, the article was very well written, "Muscled bucatini of a body" is just hilarious.
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I thought we would have different debugging tools.

Specifically, I thought languages would be designed around debugging use cases. The fact that we are still using debuggers and loggers and printlns to debug blows my mind.
Several of the comments here echo your father's sentiment to some extent. How did a CS degree pay dividends for you in the 90's as opposed to majoring in math, a hard science, or engineering and learning to program on your own?
The syntax seems generally fine (Python's type annotation syntax is shoe-horned to minimize changes to the parser--if you're allowing yourself to rewrite the parser, why not improve the type annotations? Indeed, why not stick to a more Rust-like syntax in general?). I would want the ability to restrict the standard library and builtins (no I/O) a la Lua. Also, if the type system involves a borrow checker, I'll pass (borrow checking is cool but it doesn't make sense in what is ultimately intended to be a configuration language).
Or to leave key executives and tech leaders with some shares.
I'm a fan of Newpipe, as it's available in F-Droid.
It means they likely have an advanced energy source that might benefit all of humanity.
I doubt you'll see any performance difference between Delphi and C++ (even with the most optimizing C++ compilers) outside of heavy number crunching anyway.
Video _should_ take over from lectures, but there needs to be a model to properly replace it. On my part, I think it's an utter waste of the teacher's time to keep repeating the same lecture over and over, when he/she should be doing exactly the conversation and engagement part. It's just we don't have a good, universal model for this. I'm sure lots of places tried and succeeded, but for some reason no particular way of skinning this cat got out to become well known.

Partly, I suspect, is because 80% of the value of education is signaling, so any "revolution in teaching" would be just optimizing the 20% left.
At the very least, test it in virtualbox.
When the jaws open wide and there's more jaws inside, that's ... a moray?
Didn’ someone later confirm that there is in fact physical buttons below the touch screen, because you can’t actually use the touch screen with cloves on anyway.
This was my reaction, not to mention, while everybody takes the week off, the work will pile up with nobody working.

Nothing like coming back to the office after a week off and you're already back up to your eyeballs in work, the moment you step back into the office.
To parent's point, currently the risk is all pushed on the customer.

We wouldn't accept that on any generic customer product. We'd recall whole fleet of cars if they had severe flaws that directly affect their performance.

There might not be viable alternatives, but there should be at least something from CPU makers to help swallow the pill.
It really sucks for people like you at the moment, and I really feel for you. Saying that, being happily married but with two small kids (both under 2, for most of lockdown) was no joke either.
“ or wild economic gyrations stemming from desperate attempts to stave off said deflation.”

Seems certain as it’s already begun and once it has begun there’s nothing stopping it.
> it's ultimately subjective... and I don't have the energy this morning.

Fair enough, but I've never seen anyone make either of the talking points that you claim are common, and they would be very silly things to say.
I don't think anyone actually uses Brainfuck. They were being sarcastic.
> This to me sounds like someone dismissing the harms caused by a Church

Hm. It does? My point is not saying anything is not part of "scriptural canon", merely that "CRT" as described is not actually taught in schools nor is it a clearly defined category.

But honestly, philosophical schools of thought are not very reminiscent of the Catholic church, which you seem to be making allusions to.

Sometimes analogizing can obscure the point, I think you have reached this point here. (:
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Hi everyone,

Last year, I was lucky enough to sign a book deal with The Pragmatic Bookshelf to write an intermediate level book on Python. (The Pragmatic Bookshelf is the publishing company founded by the authors of one of my favorite programming books: The Pragmatic Programmer.)

Having written Python most of my professional career, I wanted a resource that I could give to engineers who might have deeper experience in some language that wasn't necessarily Python. I wanted to help teammates newer to Python quickly discover its virtues (and limitations). I think there are tremendous Python resources available online, but wanted to capture another perspective to help teammates level up their skills.

The book ("Intuitive Python: Productive Development for Projects that Last") went through a beta release this spring, and was officially released this month.

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lol here comes the FUD
https://youtu.be/69O4PXzAQ5Y?t=24
Another one along that line that I've seen over and over: "smart" hardware vs. "dumb" hardware. Back in the days of analog modems, we had ones that were built on dedicated modem hardware, and the "Winmodems" that were basically just a DAC and an ADC. Or, the smart laser printers with built in PostScript interpreters vs. dumb printers where everything gets done in the driver.
Yeah a lot of the explanations have a pseudo-scientific flavor to them with questionable mathematical hand waving.
It looks like this will support more than 500 by calling the batch API repeatedly in a loop (the bulkWriter API is likely doing similar).

If you really want to address the issue of a growing userbase I'd highly recommend moving off of Firestore as soon as possible. It's really very inefficient at things like bulk updates (e.g. whereas in a SQL database you could use an UPDATE WHERE, in Direstore this is impossible without first reading every document than writing it back)
You don't risk the machine catching fire by itself but rather someone setting it on fire by letting you wash their clothes that are designed to ignite it.

Or perhaps more accurately, someone spoiling your clothes by putting a dye in their pocket and letting you wash it in the same batch.
It's a personal comment about my imagination. How else am I supposed to take it, if not personally? If the OP didn't want me to take it personally, they should have not made a personal comment.
"certain or public services" was the phrase the parent used. I just said the same rules apply as before. Maybe you are better off asking them for examples.
I wonder if completely abstaining from any red meat for a year would be enough to reduce whatever antibodies are being created to the point where you could eat red meat again.
> Economics are immune to guilt ... Regardless of the solution, moralizing is ineffective.

I'm just gonna quickly point out: This is simply not true and I'm surprised you'd make the claim.

PR is a huge deal for most companies, and public shaming through press coverage is a very effective way to raise awareness of issues and push for change. Nike, for example, didn't address issues of sweatshop labour out of the goodness of their hearts, nor was it technology or government action that caused them to reform their practices. It was pure, simple public pressure that did the job.
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Beliefs are often a bit too crude relative to the modern rational mindset we should encourage in ourselves and others.

A scientist may, in casual conversation speak about whether they "believe" in aliens or not, but if you ask them to be precise, they'll correct themselves and talk about probabilities and possibilities, not beliefs.

The thing that bothers me about the "do you believe" question is that it seems to exclude this moment of hesitancy and letting things sit in "superposition" of possible outcomes.

I.e. if you ask someone "do you believe in God" and they answer "maybe I do", you might consider their response sarcastic.

Another problem with "do you believe" is that it often targets very broad and very fuzzy concepts, that everyone understands however they wish, but we insist on calling by a common name. It's very crude, and doesn't help further the debate.
> languages like python usually have shorter time to market at the cost of it running slower.

Let's see the data on that. Then let's see the cost of maintenance vs Java.
Good one. I will remember that next time it's Friday.
If this is forbidden, then how are so many corner stores employing immigrants?
Don't spread blatant lies. Look in demographics section in the sidebar here[0] and you'll see that Russians comprise 65.3% of the population.

"Crimean Russians are not exists" - lol.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea
Great idea, and good luck with your app!

Could you talk a little bit about technical challenges that you may have encountered during development?
This is a misleading title at best.

Deloitte US (article is about Deloitte UK) has announced a hybrid model.

Most US employees will fall in a 30-50% "co-location" range. Co-location is defined as any time 2 or more employees (or clients + employees) are in the same room at the same time. Deloitte does a lot of on-site work with both corp and gov, so if they want the Deloitte consultant on-site, that's still going to happen.

From inside the company, it's feeling like a lot of the back-office stuff is going to be remote first.

Leadership has been explicit about NOT ALLOWING employees to move outside of commuting range of a Deloitte office.

I'm personally in the lower co-location model, less than 10% "co-location". Given most of my team is in the north-east, and I'm located in south-east, I may fly in twice a year to have a few days of lunches and "planning" sessions with my team.
let’s say your shop is open 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. 1670.5 = $56. let’s say you’re getting robbed once a week, which may be realistic in certain places, and each time they take $150 worth of cash and products. if the service can prevent one of those, it’s worth it.

a more realistic calculation is whether you’re making enough profit per hour to afford the 50c extra
> I tend to see Windows and Office as fundamentally the same business though, along with development tools, i

What? Windows, Office ( cross-platform since recently) and dev tools are totally different cash cows.

The ring of death ( = console) isn't even related to the cash cow in consoles. It's the 30% commission on 60€ games.

Anti-competitive behavior for not releasing it to other platforms in the past, doesn't mean it's "just an add-on".
If the USA was smart, they’d capitalize on this and start creating sticks and carrots for US manufacturing.
That is necessary for climate.
BD was once under Google/Alphabet's control - then they let them go, what does that mean?
Was their robotics efforts not useful to Google's own research branch?
Did acquihired the talent and then resold what was left to SoftBank?
I have no clue...then SoftBank sold it again..
What I know is surely BD must have gone through a lot of turmoil (acquisitions) for such a small company (300ish employees?) since its inception!
What does this do to billing?
But even then, do you trust yourself?
But they are not using it in a gendered way, and doesn't that actually help us recover a term that has legitimate uses?
They could also produce a fake vaccination booklet, or fake Covid test result. I'd guess both of these would be easier. All will result in forgery charges if caught. I think the chosen approach is pretty solid for the purpose.
How is the idea of UFOs even a "conspiracy theory" anymore?

UFOs or UAPs are now a verified phenomenon that seem to be observed fairly regularly by trained military, "every day for a couple of years"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBtMbBPzqHY
Applies to the US (and maybe other countries, I don’t know) but I can’t overemphasize how much flight capacity the us military has.

We got incredible access to military jets in USAF ROTC (Air Force officer training in college) even before we got our commissions or had a security clearance. To get on base and the airfield there was a mild background check, but we were essentially civilians in fatigues that had been vouched for by our detachment’s Lt Col. Getting to literally run around the empty deck of a KC135 then pop into the cockpit and (under extremely careful supervision) operate some of the plane’s controls was a surreal experience. I didn’t make pilot and so did’t ever have the chance to fly in the training slot of the two-seater F15 (my dream), but I did get the opportunity to at least put my hands on the controls of several other USAF planes in-fight including a few jets.

You don’t have to be in ROTC. Getting a ride-along in a military jet as a civilian is not as easy as showing up and asking for a rode, but also not impossible. The military has the cash to put up planes for non commercial reasons and they consider these publicity flights a powerful public relations tool.
Every Air Force base has a PR department that is always looking for positive stories. If you can come up with something that would lead to positive PR for the Air Force, they will totally let you ride along on a training run. I met a guy on a C-130 who was doing a ride along because his IT firm had a program where Air Force vets got some special consideration when they applied.
I can see the benefit.

My worry is the selection effect that can potentially occur when focusing on dispassionate discourse.

Namely, people who are close to an issue, people who are most affected, and people who do not have much stability in life (ie. a lost paycheck or whatever can mean a big deal) seem to me to be the most likely to have trouble engaging in dispassionate discourse around a subject that affects their livelihood. At least, I imagine I would. But those are exactly the sort of people it is critical to engage with when deciding things around these issues.

I want to have "civil" discourse, but I don't want it if it means weighting the discourse heavily towards people who are removed from the actual issue or have relatively low stakes.
I know for a fact that at least some teams at Google are hiring for full-time remote right now.
The issue here is that every washing machine of even remotely the same quality has more or less the same issue, regardless of manufacturer. So, you return it to the store. What do you do next? Spend even more going to the laundromat, even though you need to travel and it takes just as long once you're there?

The remedy for an entire industry's product performing to a degree less than advertised is a class action lawsuit (good luck getting more than about five dollars for something like this), not returning the products for a refund.
I expected VRML or something like it to become a really popular thing, and/or to see an open VR metaverse become popular and more-or-less ubiquitous.

I also thought that RAD tools would continue to stay popular.

Personally I still think that stuff will happen, it's just delayed by people's stupidity/ignorance.
> Systematic animal torture sounds dystopic.

I agree on principle but I'm not sure what you mean by "systematic animal torture". For example, for me industrial farming is just that, but small-scale farming (where herds are no larger than a few dozen animals, for cows, more for goats and sheep) are not.

So I think we'll disagree on that. Basically, I think some people find eating animals dystopic regardless of how it's done, while I don't.
It's because the DoD was ordered to release everything (sans classified stuff, I suppose what shows off too much of our own abilities) they know about UFO's by June 30th. This somehow got in one of the COVID relief bills from last year.

The report is supposed to come out this Friday. Some congress people saw it last week, including the classified stuff that will remain classified, and pretty much just shrugged after the briefing.

So all that is at least why the media has been talking about this so much lately.

I'll also add that Sam Harris said he had someone from the DoD, or at least connected to the DoD reach out to him about "How do you go about revealing evidence of alien technology to the public". Sam's stance on this possible revelation has been "The source is legitimate, but we'll have to see what they actually come out with."
There is a third option which is that it's all a psy-op. Either way the way we are thinking/talking about this is insane.

Eric Weinstein has several great threads about this, but I'll summarize some of his points. The military itself is saying it's aliens without using the word alien. It doesn't matter how you read this story, it should be the biggest thing. If there's aliens, it's the biggest story in history. If the military is pulling the wool over our eyes in a psy-op, it's a really big story. If we've been significantly outclassed by a foreign military tech, that's a huge story. But we're not talking about it like this. If it's aliens or enemy military, why are we not collecting our greatest scientists/physicists to work on this?

None of it makes sense no matter which narrative you think is most likely.
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> an easy way

That's the key phrase, and it means easy way for front end web devs, those who have forced the entire toolchain to dance to Javascript's tune because everything would be easier if we had one language to rule them all.
Not as scary :-) but if you are looking to move into a similar space to FaceBook, having "Face" in the name is probably not a great idea; first since it sounds copycat and unoriginal, second you risk catching the eye of FaceBook's (well-paid) lawyers. Good luck!
Who is supposed to stop saving that money and how do you convince them to spend it now?
If all the extra room is to the left of the player it won’t affect gameplay much
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Situations like this happen often enough. The 2012 Nissan Leaf shipped with a regenerative braking configuration that stressed the battery too much leading to in-warranty replacement. Nissan issued a recall that patched the software to reduce regenerative breaking capacity leading to reduced range and reduced warranty replacements.
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The iOS app store link takes me to a page that doesn't fully load for some reason?

https://imgur.com/a/e78nPvc

Other pages load ok in it, and I tried some other links. But maybe it's just me?

(using safari on ipad)

(similarly, searching for "spark bible" brings up nothing)

Is it region-restricted? I'm not in the USA.

EDIT: ah by using the footer App Store link I get a page in the App Store with a dialog saying that the app isn't available in my region. I tried using both links again, and yeah for some reason the floating footer link shows the informative error, but not the upper one. Spooksies...