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This quote seems really pathetic to me personally. One because it feels defeatist and ignores bounds of progress made against a problem that is simply difficult. Two because it highlights specific problems for which carlin has no personal culpability.

Organizing civilization is hard. I have no doubts the council of intergalactic ministers had a difficult run as well. That is the nature of nature.
the arrogance to think that human civilization will make it through this unscathed, or even deserves to.
I certainly feel the same way about remember ideas in diagrams. A napkin/notebook drawing is so much better than using a design tool with a mouse.
Letters change shape depending on where they are in the word, so almost certainly! :)
That would be almost every PC up until ~2000-2005 unless you got a very expensive high end sound card.

You can still get that today with bad power design or user error https://youtu.be/KQTt-7F3MYw?t=317
Gmail embraces BIMI to authenticate emails with verified logos
> I'm not radical anymore

Nice try;)
By "c#%^", you mean "cunt", right?
Some of that research is also unreproducable BS, but that's another rant. I agree, though. Combining teaching and research into one job makes no sense, especially for how much the students pay.
Wayne Dyer used to sometimes take diametrically opposed criticism of his books, photocopy it and send it to the other party — together with the four simple words:
"You may be right."

Here's the other envelope:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27697973
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27528350

The modern day equivalent to the old internet isn't YouTube or Facebook. That's the equivalent to Cable TV.

It's rather the private Discords, Signal groups and maker spaces, grassroots efforts like EleutherAI and what other cool stuff young (and old) people are doing these days.

Depending on how close you look, 2021 internet is everything as cool as it used to be in 1990. And yes, I was there.
They didn't switch to RISC-V. The added RISC-V. Their recent releases have been a mix:

September 2019: ESP32-S2. Single core Xtensa LX7.

November 2020: ESP32-C3. Single core RISC-V.

December 2020: ESP32-S3. Dual core Xtensa LX7.

April 2021: ESP32-C6: Single core RISC-V.
“I don’t make mistakes” — classic. :-)

I’ve implemented a sheet-music rendering engine in clientside JS for my product Soundslice. Everything’s totally responsive, meaning the music is re-engraved on the fly based on your browser window and various preferences. More info here: https://www.soundslice.com/help/en/player/basic/100/resizing...

For anyone interested in tech details, I gave a talk about it here: https://vimeo.com/304099149
Well, two different things can be true at the same time. Also, this seems less a problem with licenses and more a problem with getting and renewing them. Which are two related but different issues.
It's a combination of factors. If your farm depends on water, and it's a drought, it's hard to think of the long term when your may not financially survive the next few years. Droughts and other natural disasters have also occurred through all of human history, so scientists have only been able to say "this might be related" instead of "it was definitely caused by" climate change up until the last few years.

There's also more than willful denial considering the amount of propaganda that tries to claim that climate change either isn't real or is grossly exaggerated (there are even efforts to claim that it will be beneficial). The channels that tend to push this also tend to be very popular in rural areas. This isn't even just a climate change things- the same groups of people claiming there's a labor shortage also try to deport anyone who doesn't look like them.
Why is that a good thing? Humans, their livestock, and their crops have grown to dominate much of the land. That reduces biodiversity and makes for a less resilient ecosystem overall.
Maybe I have a different use case, but I feel like Windows 10 is mostly ok about this. I actually like being able to just log in to my Microsoft account in order to bypass having to find where I put the authorization key. Once the OS is authorized, then I just turn off all the telemetry/cloud services/etc. and it runs smoothly and without fuss. I don't think there's any requirement for it to be online in order to function other than update downloads. I might be overlooking something, though.

Edit to clarify that I do not have to use Teams, thank goodness. That garbage is awful.
Years ago, I ran into a similar problem working on a program that was doing named entity recognition to assist humans with data entry. We found that, for our purposes, there seemed to be no (realistic) accuracy threshold beyond which the tool would save clients money, because double-checking the machine-generated output was inherently more work than doing it by hand.

So we pivoted the product to being something you would run on full auto, for situations where you didn't need a high level of quality. I'm not sure if that option is available to programmers, though.
Replies to your questions are good. I'd say the yield downside is the most glaring. Farmers really can't afford a have a self-imposed 'bad' year while they try to adopt new practices. Bankers and lenders (which farmers rely on for operating loans might not even approve--IDK). It absolutely takes some trial and error as no 2 farms are the same. This also hurts testing things out in a smaller scale on your farm. You need to borrow/rent equipment or buy the equipment. But when you buy equipment without the scale, it basically adds overhead (with additional risk to the downside for yields).

People don't like to admit it, but yields under current intense monoculture, fertilizer happy are best-case scenario. This is obvious and intended, we're squeezing as much yield as possible without care for long-term consequences. Those yields might not be achievable under regenerative practices (but they might be in certain farms). For some reason, we have this mindset where we can't give up any yield, but in reality, if the economic models and government subsidies were redesigned, we absolutely could.
Yup. Showing up is basically always a thing, because even if it’s not an official channel, you’ll end up bothering someone until they help you solve the problem.

And I think most people want to help others, but even if they’re selfish and don’t care about helping anyone, they’ll help you if you’re persistent and physically present.

Like the classic parable of the persistent widow: Luke 18:2-5

“He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”

I guess this is one critique of exclusive remote working: it’s pretty easy to end up ghosted by someone in the approval chain for something.
Yeah it isn't a big deal. That's why your able to call someone perplexing to their face on an internet forum. You're clearly not doing this in real life.

>Some people see black and white everywhere.

Very unlikely someone is actually like this. We see gradients with our physical eyes with brightness and saturation, we hear gradients with sound for volume. Our human bodies are tuned to analyze and perceive gradients. It is fundamentally impossible to see black and white everywhere.

These people only see black and white in certain topics you are discussing with them, and it is not automatically "perplexing" that they disagree with you on those topics.

People like you are everywhere as well. What type of person are you? Someone who accuses people who disagree with you as people who see things only in terms of black and white.

>It's an internet forum, so no big deal, but you've gone on quite an accusatory rant without actually reading my comment properly.

Not only am I accusatory. But I'm accusing you of something that is 100% true. And I would tell you this to your face in real life. Think about it.
In theory a linked list has lots of attractive features as a data structure and when LISP Machines were a thing that theory translated into reality pretty well.

Today losing data locality hurts really badly. Rust does provide a linked list, for the handful of cases where that really is what you wanted, but almost always even though in theory a vector should be worse, in practice it's better.

For example if you build a toy system with a thousand small integers on the list, you might reason that removing the 500th via a vector instead of a linked list would be awful - you'd need to shuffle 500 of them forward compared to just swapping a pointer. But wait, on today's hardware the linked list approach involves about five hundred dependent cache misses. Before you find the 500th on the list to remove it, you have stalled the CPU for so long the vector implementation would have already finished doing its shuffling of 500 items forward in memory and moved on to something else.

Now, if your list has 500 million items in it, and you often want to remove just the first item while appending to the far end, a Vector is indeed a bad fit. But there are still better alternatives than a Linked List, Rust provides a Deque but unlike the one a Lisp-enthusiastic professor may have showed you in data structures class, it's actually a similar structure to a vector not a linked list.
“Tact” isn’t something you really need to study for years to get good at. Basically, you need to have a difficult conversation in about 0.1% of the interactions you’ll ever have. So, avoid anything tough in the other 99.9%.
So I felt that way for a while then I realized the trick was configuring the Extension Shortcuts for Multi-Account Containers.

I use Ctrl+Alt+J to open up my first container, Ctrl+Alt+H for second container, etc. Once I did that it became very easy to open up a container seamlessly and I started getting more mileage out of containers.

As a disclaimer I also consider it a workflow failure if I have to leave the keyboard to reach for the mouse so YMMV.

I also have mapped CapsLock to Ctrl.

EDIT:

Forgot to mention the containers I have are
- Work
- Work Test Users
- Work Admin Accounts
- Personal
- School
- Professional Social Media
- Online Gaming
It needs to include those, but it can't be limited to them. If you don't also reduce CO2, then you'll start getting worst-case scenarios in the range of over 4C. That will cause damage that can't be fought with breakwaters and hardy wheat. That really will cause people to just start dropping dead from the heat in vast numbers.
> Writing... is not that. Yes, you can rush. But it's slower, and I find that it helps me stay on single lines of thought. There's no manic jumping around, edit here, edit there. You can write the words, slowly even, and ruminate in their meaning.

I really like what you’ve said here. This rings true for me as well. For years I was on a hunt for a better note taking app. I tried everything from a basic Mac notes app to Sublime Text to more niche tools like Omnifocus. Every time I ended up writing out the most critical notes by hand in a spiral notebook because it was more effective for me personally to retain that information.
Not GP but I use containers a lot. I have 3 profiles: default, work, and (OSS project shared accounts). It helps a lot if you have sites that are only-one-container. For example, I never open Google Analytics in my default or OSS container, so that one can get defaulted to my "work" container. For sites that you need to open in multiple containers frequently, it's a bit more cumbersome, but there's secondary addons that you can use to add hotkeys, just search "container hotkeys" or something and pick what you like.

Then beyond that there's just a lot of "reopen this site in...."

Also sometimes I just leave certain tabs open for days at a time that are in the right containers, so that helps a lot too.
Organic and regenerative ag are built on the assumption that crops must be grown in open air soil. The reality is that crops can be grown in open air soil and, if they are, regenerative ag in particular is significantly better for soil longevity.

That said it is not necessarily better to produce all crops in low density, high volatility, season dependent environments. Some material % of crops can move to more intelligent indoor settings where yields are higher, weather isn't a factor, and production yields can be scheduled without risk of weather impact. I'm actually a partner in one of these high volume operations in Montana (randomly). Uses less water, has zero soil impact, requires little to no chemical agents and is predictable.

What I hope will continue is crops that are capable of producing profitable and predictable yields in indoor environments will move more and more in that direction. This could serve to reduce soil stress and leave soil for crops that need more space (e.g. tubers) and livestock to aid in improving soil longevity.

Note this is not a plug for vertical farming. That's an entirely different mirage of financial engineering.
Human civ will probably not survive. Deserves is about as grey as individuals committing abuse driven by their own victimization
I don't really have any tips, it is more painful/friction-full than Amazon (which is in other ways deteriorating into it!) I agree. I've only used for things where I've suspected they're commodity dozen-'brand' 'drop shipped' items, and the AliExpress price has been enough cheaper for me to bother with it, and risk worse/non-existent return/refund experience (worst case could always charge back I suppose if bothered enough).

A lot of the time though, Amazon is O(tens of pence) more expensive, and I just view it as a cheap insurance. (Amazon's returns/replacements is great IME; AliExpress's is unknown to me and frankly I assume it's bad, and for the sake of tens of pence don't want to find out.)
I've heard a few locals say "Well, at least the crabbing will be good next year."
I dont know about curing cancer but if he is using less chemicals than the risk of causing cancer is greatly reduced. Food from healthy soil is more nutritious which makes it more satiating but it isnt magic.
You forgot Texas and Florida in there
Would disagree with the automated comment. Most thing in regenerative ag are just as automated as conventional ag, unless you're thinking of something specific?
Hungry Animals Chasing People in Hindi
Exactly - it’s not a normal market and there are hard limits preventing it from ever working like that, no matter how many people desperately try to pretend otherwise because it’s personally profitable for them.
I believe it's more like: here's 1.5 million dollars that you can use to explain to the IRS how you're paying for a new house. If you give me 2 million in illicit cash, I can use that elsewhere and the IRS doesn't care because I already have 100 million dollars in assets.
> It’s the study of the “mind” (not brain). It’s very basis is the study of a pseudo-religious phenomenon

So you don't believe in the existence of qualia?

That's a pretty strong philosophical position.
> "How will I use this thing when I'm at FAANG, and if I won't then why am I even learning this?"

Maybe college has changed since I went there, but a similar question was asked and the professor responded with "you are free to drop the class." It was a required class for a CS degree and when the student pointed this out, the professor said that it's still freshman year, feel free to switch majors and that they should shut up because they were interfering with everybody else who (unlike them) were actually trying to learn something.
Damn, this web design is stunningly gorgeous work in service to a stunningly dumb joke.
That's fantastic, and there needs to be more people like you. The problem I'm seeing is:

> China isn't doing anything, so why should we?

If the entire human race comes to an end, the last two gravestones will read: "the guy in the other grave is to blame."
He's failing then
Man, that Jibo toy makes me sad. I feel like Amazon realized that they didn't need the screen or the character movement to accomplish 95% of what consumers were interested in: voice-controlled task automation. The Echo and similar devices make more sense, but I would have liked to see what Jibo could have become.

In some alternate reality the world is full of expressive robots... and probably doors that sigh when you walk through them.
"I say let the world warm up, see what Boutros Boutros-Ghali-Ghali thinks about that! We'll grow oranges in Alaska."
Utterly baffling how so many people openly exhibit sociopathic tendencies so easily!! No shared pain for those negatively impacted whatsoever
> I can see most used cartridges going for ~$25-40. Is an unopened cartridge worth many more orders of magnitude? Possibly, but it at least raises a lot of eyebrows that there’s something else at play.

Yes, that's exactly how it works. The unopened package in near perfect condition is considered extraordinarily scarce.

It's the scarcity factor via grading that is being applied. That's obviously a graded Mario 64 package, not just a stray cartridge (of which there are zillions of copies as you note).

The supply, in the collectible world, is thus considered to be exceptionally low. You're talking about a sealed box, top notch grade. There are only a small number of those still in existence.

Here is the image of the graded Mario game:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12EF3/production...

It's a 9.8, which is a very high grade for a vintage video game box. As far as the collectors are concerned, that's a very scarce item. The value is in the condition of the box and that it's sealed. Without that, you could just buy the item on eBay for ~$30-$50.

You see the exact same outcome in the comics world, for graded comics. And it's identical to the quality + grading = scarcity aspect in baseball / basketball / pokemon cards.

1969 is Mickey Mantle's last year for Topps baseball cards. There are a lot of copies of that card in existence, relatively speaking. You can buy it ungraded for $100-$1,000 depending on the condition you want. If you want a PSA 10 of that card (there are only two)? Be ready to pay $500,000+. That's the same exact scarcity by grading mechanism in action as with the 9.8 graded Mario cartridge, it's because there are not very many of them in that condition.
If the "right way" leads to

- Wasting your time and your company's time.

- More complex code which is harder to maintain in the long term.

did it ever deserve to be called the "right way"?
Taking Disk Snapshot in Azure
Title is wrong. The article is about MS Teams.
I did a little more Googling and it's, of course, more nuanced than I thought. Even in Iowa, which is probably more conservative than most places, the attitudes are shifting:

https://www.extension.iastate.edu/news/iowa-farm-and-rural-l...

I think a big difference is the belief of the cause of climate change, a large percentage of farmers believes it's mostly or partly due to natural variations.
> markdown plus extensions with useful information (like links) does not qualify in my book as markdown

Almost every useful markdown system extends markdown arbitrarily. Markdown is standardized much like SQL is — a standard exists, but it standardized very little; mostly just defining the look & feel of the extensions
I used to find conspiracy theories enjoyable. I used to listen to the Art Bell show on the radio, and stories about aliens and the Illuminati all the time. But now that conspiracy theory has become so mainstream that my life is actually affected by the collective will of delusional pinheads who believe that vaccines are a New World Order plot to harvest their adrenochrome, Jewish space lasers control the weather and Chinese communists stole the election for Joe Biden, they just aren't fun anymore.
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Yeah… that one kinda makes me sad. I agree it’s different from the others.
The conspiracy side of my mind says it's likely by design.

The fossil fuel industry used solar to attack nuclear back in the day. I'm pretty suspicious that a lot of that is happening today. Distract with minor issues while the big ones go unaddressed.
You believe that a theocracy without women's rights, gay rights, free speech, or secularism is more left wing than the United States because it has universal healthcare, and that the Democratic party is conservative compared to Ayatollah Khamenei?
Yes, that does seem reasonable
> I think the real issue is they were branded as a killer feature but in reality their usefulness is a little more niche than a mutex.

Agree - and many people are surprised to learn both: a) how fast mutex ops are in practice, and b) how channels use mutexes under the covers.
The function signature was determined by Copilot. The author just wrote the comment above the function and the word function, then let Copilot determine what the signature was and how it would be implemented.
Interesting! TIL.
Yeah, early humans were only capable of extincting megafauna. Today, we're doing dozens of species per day! We'd be much more impressive as a species if we didn't limit the use of DDT, CFCs, etc
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I'm speaking specifically about individuals people vote for among the hoard in any given party or set of parties. For instance, my grandfather who thinks all politicians are crooks, believes almost everything Trump says, and my girlfriend who likewise thinks all politicians are liars, takes everything AOC says as gospel. Both disagree with a lot of what the respective parties do, or want.
> Chemicals like roundup where so effective they changed agriculture production in unforeseen ways

And some of those changes were significant positives not only for agricultural productivity, but also for the environment. The biggest of these is the reduced or eliminated tillage... tilling the soil several times a year with heavy machinery was the biggest contributor to soil degradation and even outright soil loss.

First, after tilling, some of the soil literally blows away with the wind. Second, organic residue in freshly tilled soil decomposes rapidly to CO2 and Methane, versus healthy untilled soil where a significant portion of it would decompose to long-term stable humic and vulvic substances... so we have a double negative where we're increasing the global warming contribution and decreasing the capacity of the soil for retaining nutrients.

I've dabbled in farming, and I'm no fan of glyphosate, and certainly not of Monsanto, but I think it's important to point this out because certain knee-jerk reactions, like "ban glyphosate" by themselves are only likely to make things worse. If you ban glyphosate for example, one of two things is likely to happen... 1) it will be replaced by even worse chemicals, or 2) people go back to frequent tilling. There are no quick fixes to industrial agriculture, the only solution is to move toward highly integrated regenerative approaches, and these are by their nature much more complex and labor intensive. It's great that there are more and more people doing that, but big ag keeps them operating at the margins of our food supply.
Copy (and edit) one from a competitor until you can afford to pay for your own
I agree with most of your comments. I would like to add that a LARGE chunk of rural (truly rural) economic rely heavily on Big Ag and selling those products.

From co-ops to seed dealers, chemical dealers, people to apply and plant these chemicals and seed. Equipment (Deere, Case)...if these people vanished, rural america would suffer GREATLY. Locall replacements for these jobs/companies is not clear to me.
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This is somewhat depressing because of how unusable it is. With baseball cards, you all you could ever do was look at them, so you lose nothing when they're encapsulated. With videogames, it's sealed (at least this one), and unplayable. You're not even sure if the cartridge works.