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Sure, but it's difficult to make newcomers understand why the language still has those nasty behaviors.

In essence, it's very expensive to risk losing backward compatibility or to make large portions of js software obsolete just to remove some bit of language ambiguity.

It's very frustrating but it's true for all languages out there. Same concept when linus torvalds yells "YOU DON'T BREAK USERSPACE". Backward compatibility almost has its own philosophical chapter on software design.

Also remember how painful it was from switching from python 2 to 3. I guess a solution would be heavy usage of linters, typescript or other compile-to-js solution, but in the end, a lot of developers are just wishing very hard for better solutions.

Personally I am really not willing to become a professional JS dev. I'm too perfectionist and nitpicky to have the courage to suffer so much for such thing. Deep down I know it's a bad choice, but I'm too lazy.
We need nuclear to bridge the gap, and actually let us phase out coal. Yet there's so much fearmongering over it. It's killed far fewer people than coal per energy unit, but people still freak out about it. I'm Canadian, and the people I know who are the most anti-nuclear are the ones from the main fossil fuel province. Even if they don't live there anymore, are against fossil fuels, and have an engineering degree, they've had the fear of nuclear ingrained into them.
I had the same story as you. I was setting up my mother's laptop, and of course they are pusshing 'S' mode. The narrative is that for security reasons, S-mode will only allow things from the Microsoft Store to be installed. MS knows this, and to disable S-mode so you can install something like Chrome, you have to create an MS account. No matter where I looked, there was no way to disable S-mode without creating an account.
In pure mathematics, you can get perfect precision with non-terminating fractions. For example, 0.(6) + 0.(3) = 1 is true. The decimal (or binary) representation is just "syntax sugar" for the actual fraction - in this case, 2/3 + 1/3 = 1; or, if you prefer, 10/11 + 1/11 = 1, or 0.(10) + 0.(01) = 1.

Note: I'm using a notation for infinitely repeating decimals that I learned in school - 0.(6) means 0.6666666...; 0.(01) means 0.010101010101...
Did it in 2005 though?

I think Python also has async / await support today.
The current behaviour about climate change looks a lot like the behaviour we have seen about Covid-19 a year and a half ago: the changes today are not seen everywhere nor often, as was covid in the first months, only local in China, and everyone was like "it's gonna be ok". Then everyone started to panic when it got to their door. So when heatwaves, sea risings, ... will hit hard those big actors like China, US, Brazil, ... things may change. In the meantime, why would they care, it's somewhere else, someone else's problem. Why would they break their economy?
I use Linux in my main PC, both to work on programming and to play games. I've been familiar with Linux and using it on an off for more th as n 15 years.

Nevertheless, my days of advocating for others to use it are over (I even used to frequent comp.linux.advocacy!). People that are used to Windows will have a very hard time moving away of it. No matter how easy the migration path, there will always be something painful. The path of least resistance will always be running Windows. And in addition even the most polished Linux versions have issues. I've run them all. They are nice, but once you get into an obscure singular case, the console dance start. Wifi, sound, bluethoot, video, media-keyboard or mouse, fingerprint reader. There's always something.

We People who have been using linux for years are already used to it: google for a couple of minutes, open the terminal and copy/paste a bunch of commands. Sometimes it works, other times we compromise by not using that feature that doesn't work.

For people used to Windows this is very painful.
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The french "engineering schools" are actually considered the elite scientific education in France. They are infinitely more selective than universities and provide much better job options. Equating french engineering school with US community college makes no sense whatsoever, and saying "a university graduate has more job options than a graduate from those other schools" is plain wrong (in France).
You want an even darker pattern? Try requesting the windows telemetry data from a PC which isn't logged in through a MS account. You'll spend weeks going back and forth trying to explain to their support agents that you can't login to the website because you don't have an account. Frustrating doesn't begin to describe it. I've still not been able to get anything from them despite a 30 email chain.
can't wait to go to Italy and order deep dish
The pepperoni pizza thing is not people 'demanding' something different, it's just people incorrectly translating the menu and getting something other than what they where expecting.

And does mayonnaise anywhere have sugar in it.
I actually had a copyright claim filed against an US Air Force band of the Pacific composition and recording. Which I got from them directly and had used because it falls outside copyright (and I like their work).

It did get rescinded when I forwarded a response from a surprised representative. But YouTube still immediately flags those works as copyright belonging to a party that reproduces those recordings. regardless of that being impossible.
> If you buy anything at $X with intention of "hodling" it to increase it's value, unless you have a plan (i.e. I will sell at $Y) then you are just holding on to nothing.

I don't think that's holding on to nothing just because there's no exit plan in place.

If I invest 30k in index funds that are managed by my bank, with the expectation that the value will rise and thus beat inflation, i wouldn't say that I'm holding on to nothing.

Similarly, if the value would rise to 35k over time, but something (like an economical crash, or any reason) would have me withdraw my money before that, I think it would be fair to say that my actions made me miss out on the total value of 35k.

I don't see how the case of Bitcoin is that much different - most people won't have sold at its highest point, but the average value has indeed increased bunches compared to when it was not popular.

I don't think you always need an exit strategy for every investment you make - wanting to diversify and perhaps beat the inflation seem like valid goals, regardless of whether you're putting money in index funds, are buying BTC, or are burying pots of gold in your back yard.

Volatility and risks are probably another story, though.
As an American who goes to restaurants in America in heavily tourist populated areas, I can assure you that you are hilariously wrong. Non-americans are not superior in any way to Americans in this regard (and many others).
I know no internet connection used to be solution, but I thought there was an option to bypass the ms account requirement during setup for the last couple years?
Oh no, I'm just going to have to hope they won't ask for it before Proton (or something) starts supporting it :)

But you are right, a time may come when they will want Windows. Although my wife's computer runs it (needs it as a teacher), so they may use that for Win only stuff. I'll deal with it when the time comes.

I could do a VM with GPU pass-through and Steam client... Although that may also turn out to be more than I'm willing to invest (and essentially you still run Windows). Or maybe I'll dual boot...
You are correct and I agree very much with this statement:

>life in poverty is worse than life with climate change consequences

Nevertheless, let us not ignore that China is doing significant steps already. It is not enough, but it is a trend into the right direction:

- world-leading production of renewable energy with twice the output from solar, wind and water compared to the number 2, the US

- renewable sector is growing significantly faster than the fossil and nuclear sector combined

- largest manufacturer of solar/photovoltaic tech

- almost 50% of global investments into renewables are made in China

- largest electric-car market in the world

- Green Wall of China has created 4.000.000.000 tons of sustainable biomass since 2003 (increased tree cover rate in China by 15%)

Those are significant steps and must be further followed and even accelerated.
> the necessity of changing national borders

Is there any reason to maintain nations with changed borders? I feel it's more likely we would abolish or abandon most existing states and form refugee societies in the habitable regions
The mining equipment hasn’t been scrapped. They’re shipping it to other countries with less regulation so they can get it up and running again.

Miners aren’t throwing in the towel. They’re relocating.
Oh my goodness, this is an awful idea. Oracle just runs hosted Exadata for OCI last I checked.

RAC requires shared block storage and L2 private network. Cloud SDNs and storage require gross hacks with horrible performance consequences. Even “modern” virtualization is painful, but can work.

Oracle isn’t going to fix all the bare-metal spaghetti assumptions in their clustered DB stack, and has been pretty clear about that.

This could be useful for throwaway dev/test environments. Or maybe for apps that aren’t performance intensive or critical that are in “maintenance mode” and folks want to lift-and-shift. But they’ll probably spend more time on that than fixing/replacing/retiring the app. And all will require smaller data sets than what I see with big company legacy systems.

And typically those systems are using Oracle to access data populated by another system, which makes me die a little inside.

Pretty clearly a play to get big companies into GCP contracts, more than anything real.

It’s to sell to execs who want to do the cool thing without paying to fix the old thing. ahem Thomas Kurian cough.
How old does something have to be in order to be "tradition"?

The idea that before some certain point a culture was "frozen" is usually ahistorical. Certainly true for cultures of the Italian penninsula, on the Mediteranean providing easy access to wide swaths of land and peoples, part of a former empire that spanned continents.
I have also seen some projects where the maintainers do not suffer fools lightly. Pick the wrong project and you would be in for a bad time.

I for one wish my university had a few extra classes that were 'practical'. I eventually picked up those skills because I had to. I am not talking 60+ hours of it. Like 5-10 would have been more than plenty. Those skills would have been directly applicable to everything I did while I was there as well. Something simple like 'what is source control', 'practical examples of code organization and refactoring' would have saved me more than a few times in college.

But yeah picking an opensource project to dump these skills classes onto will end up as a bad time. Unless the prof/ta is in the mix and helping that project. From my exp from some profs, that is not going to happen.
To some seeing records such as these fall is heartbreaking. It’s agonizing and vexing when you wonder what can you do to help slow down climate change? The reality is we aren’t doing nearly enough to slow it down and the Earth is gradually destabilizing. We see insane cold snaps such as those that impacted Texas this winter, and at the opposite end of the spectrum heat waves unlike anything humans have ever experienced before. The worst part is these will continue to get worse year after year while greenhouse gas emissions rise. Imagine the record high temperatures falling this week and year. In 5 years or 10 years they might even distant memories as we continue to see records broken and the planet become less livable.

The worst part of this is Earth is all there is for us. There is no where else to go. We are this tightly interconnected ecosystem where all beings are completely bound to one another. Our home is surrounded by darkness for millions of miles. There is no option B. There won’t be, that’s just the way it is. Mars won’t be option B. Don’t kid yourself. If we don’t right the course on greenhouse gas emissions with urgent changes to limit emissions now, then we will have lost the habitability of Earth. I can envision us having to live inside year round without being able to go outside. Does this feel so much like a remote possibility now? It seems year over year temperate days become more elusive. Fires. Droughts. Extreme weather events. Floods.

The destruction and extinction of entire ecosystems hangs in the balance of our climate. The crazy thing is we can stop this. But only with urgent individual and society actions and sacrifices now.
OTOH, our FB friend count has never been higher!
Governments seized a lot of BTC in the past. As soon as they have physical access to the owner, it is seizable.

Bulgaria seizing 213K BTC: https://www.coininsider.com/bulgarian-government-owns-3-bill...

The US seizing 73K BTC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54833130

are prime examples.

More recently, US getting back some of the ransom paid: https://www.fastcompany.com/90644461/stolen-bitcoin-is-hard-...

In fact, seizing property can have many complications and be very hard(ownership structures, occupant protection laws, debts and obligations etc).
3x the price isn't too bad. Plant based "meat" is usually a bit more expensive than regular meat, and for some people paying 3x to get "real" meat without the need to kill an animal will be a worthwhile trade. Add in the environmental benefits too and it could give some people some peace of mind.
> Cryptocurrencies are far more democratic: every time a transaction is submitted the network votes on whether or not it is valid using consensus mechanisms like proof of work or proof of stake.

When the votes take money or resources, that's not democratic.

> Fiat currencies are far less democratic: we can only vote for the people that will control them, not for what they will actually do with the currency. In the UK we do not vote for any positions in the Bank of England.

It's still representative democracy. You broadly know what politician's platforms are with respect to taxes, priorities, etc. If they do stuff you don't like, you vote them out.

> Monetary and fiscal policies can still operate without control of the currency, see Eurozone members having local policies. All it means is that they can’t arbitrarily print the currency.

So you lose your largest levers so you can make rich cryptowhales happy. Not good.

> You misunderstand NFTs. It is not about intellectual property, it is about property. I can prove I have ownership of any token instantly and trustlessly.

I don't respect your ownership. Neither does anyone else. When your keys leak - and they will -, you don't own it anymore. I'll much sooner use actual laws with records to buy my next house or car.

> Many cryptocurrencies have negligible energy usage even over the entire network: see Nano.

None of the major cryptocurrencies do despite claiming they would for years. I'm not holding my breath.

> Even in Bitcoin, how is the energy usage a “waste”? It is holding the entire network together.

When it's a network that many of us think is pointless, we're simply scratching our heads at this.

> Monero’s development of RingCT and Bulletproofs+.

More crypto junk and not a cure for cancer.

> And that is ignoring the fact that these brains are reshaping our entire financial infrastructure.

It doesn't need changing! We're increasingly building tools to serve the underbanked, and we need the government to continue with AML, KYC, etc. They serve a very valuable purpose of stopping terrorism, preventing bribery, etc.

> Not really. Even if quantum computing was possible now Bitcoin would still be usable.

If Satoshi's keys, or the Winklevoss keys, or Coinbase keys leak, it's game over forever.

> And advancements are being made across all cryptocurrencies to secure them better.

Better hurry. I don't think you realize the clock is ticking. If quantum beats you, it's game over. The network has no value when the trust and ownership can't be proven. Once crypto can attack keys, parties can't prove they own the address. Even if the network is forked or reverted, it's forever broken.
I've only installed PRO versions of Windows 10 and you CAN setup a local account even if internet is plugged in. It is however, hidden behind a few clicks so you must actively search for it.

EDIT: maybe I'm wrong now, as other comment says they changed it a few months back. My last install was somewhere in Dec/2020
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The profitable mining equipment isn’t being scrapped. It’s being packed up and moved.

Miners have no interest in simply giving up on profitable mining gear.
> This is absolutely a best practice in some corporate environments for DLP.

No, it's not, and this attitude is a major cause of resentment among technical employees.

The "DLP" industry, in general, is a solution in search of a cause. If you can't trust your employees, you'll never be able to stop the determined ones.
If someone asks for a software/OS recommendation, "get better hardware" is generally not the right advice.
5k burgers a day is a long way from mass production. It seems completely reasonable to expect a 70-90% price drop from scale. Until then selling at a premium to people who love meat but don’t want animals slaughtered seems like a viable.

Where things get interesting is if it actually becomes cheaper than farm grown meat. Over half of all farm land is devoted to meat production, even a 50% switch to lab meat would have dramatic knock on effects. On possibility is a dramatic increase in bio fuel production.
Those are some awesome videos from Mars. Why is there no coverage of this in US media?
In the example, you are not really naming your variable usefully. You are merely transcribing from a one letter variable to its abstract name.

You can do that in a general function, where the general concept is expressed, where it would still help me to understand your code and search for concepts and terms online, in case I do not understand what is going on.

However, in many contexts it wont be merely an "einstein_tensor", but something that has a meaning in the specific context. Ask yourself what you are doing with that einstein_tensor. What is it used for? Is there a real-world equivalent to the thing you are looking at in the code? Those are the names you should choose in a non-general context and that is why naming things is hard.
Your body is easy to seize
I am no expert on it but apparently some of the natural pre-industrial-human trend does match with the timings of ice ages/glacial maximums and glacial minimums, on hundred thousand year time scales.
The issue is that they don't give the user a choice to NOT login.
There is good reason to be skeptical about a purported loneliness epidemic

https://greyenlightenment.com/2021/04/30/skepticism-about-lo...

1. high rates of domestic violence and divorce

2. humans are endowed with the ability to rationalize abstractions and form imaginations , unlike other animals. This makes in-person social interactions less necessary.

3. the purported loneliness epidemic is more of a creation by the media than reality. By writing hundreds of articles about it, people will be influenced to believe it is real.

4. people are voluntarily choosing to be alone. Being alone and watching Netflix or using a smartphone is perhaps more enjoyable to group activities like bowling. Or that online communication is replacing real life communication.

5. many ppl engineer their lives to minimize social interactions and pay a premium to do so, like stadium box seating, man caves, vacation retreat homes, etc..
So it's not just me! It's weird though, because I can still eat it no problem. One of those weird things like cheese where it smelling bad doesn't make it unappetizing.
It is for flat roofs only I believe. However, Montreal does have a lot of "plexes" and small apartment buildings with flat roofs.
I accidentally bought the brand that is more common in Britain (Flying Goose). It wasn't as spicy as I expected so I put a fair dose in my tortilla and now I can't even think about it without feeling nauseous because it was way too salty and garlicky. The British variant apparently has 5x the amount of salt, is less spicy, and tastes strongly of garlic. And yet it uses the exact same visual design of the bottle, pretending to be the same thing.
How is this "political correctness"? While I like silly and vulgar things, I don't think you need to be an SJW to find it annoying that every time you discuss your coding project with an English speaking or international team using Coq, everybody else erupts to a pile of giggles. It would probably be even more annoying if I was a women who used it.
I take it you have never seen British or German tourists in Spain.
You're not wrong about what you describe.

But maintaining relational state between things is really annoying in general. You've mentioned one of the trickiest jobs there is, it's really hard even with purpose built databases.

Doing it in an imperative environment is just hard.
It's initial popularity was apparently through SE asian "ethnic" restaurants catering to immigrants too, it seems like?

But yeah, in the end we like what we like -- I'm a non-immigrant American, I definitely liked the huy fong one the first time I tried it (in the mid-90s?), and still do, and I'm not ashamed regardless of how "authentic" it is. :)
Somehow Locke managed to qualify as a physician, teach (as I recall it) classics at the university, and write the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Not half bad for a lazy man.
Bitcoin is naturally deflationary. It encourages saving over spending, which suppresses frivolous consumption. I'd be curious to see how this compares to the energy consumption required to produce all the useless junk most people buy (including myself sometimes).

I unironically believe a deflationary currency is the only way to avoid climate collapse. That could be Bitcoin or something else, but what it can't be is a central authority who has the option to infinitely increase the money supply to maintain 'economic growth'.
This might be a confusion about what "gradual typing" means. Typed Racket is a sound type system, and not just best effort. You get real compiler guarantees.
So your theory is that the hundreds of climatologists who've peer-reviewed co2 sensor data/papers based on information from mauna loa have all wilfully disregarded the existence of the volcano and its gases? That's interesting.
If anyone in Istanbul wants to hang out, details on profile.
Billionaires buying up all the real estate to ride the price wave is not "honest work"
From this chart, I'm still amazed that the massive behavioral changes in 2020 due to pandemic had seemingly no impact on CO2. Makes me think personal transportation in the US is not worth bothering about if we care about global CO2.
I tried Manjaro recently - just in time to run into the Nvidia update disaster (black screen on boot, broken X-server due to system update). And no amount of fiddling with the config files and nouveau / proprietary drivers brought the system back into a usable state. So back to Ubuntu it was...
I've been increasingly under the impression that there must be lots of us in this sort of situation (in my friend circle it's 50%).

It's definitely not supposed to be like this, but can't really grasp why.

It might have something to do with a lack of overarching common purpose/leadership. Some react to this by becoming religious, embracing the inborn affinity for magical beliefs ("follow God's voice"), but it would be ironic if I tried it.

In the end it seemingly comes down to every man for himself. Good luck.
Good talk!
> "We are hiring a solidity developer": how is this related to IPDS?

Likely they're planning to charge for the service. (speculation)