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Not really...Either Starlink and the rest fail, and the skies clear up again shortly as failed projects get de-orbited. Or they succeed and there will be many established bases in space for research and telescopes.

It's not like the funds from Starlink are going to be used to build casinos in the desert or something. Every $ earned is going back into building better space tech. So if it fails no problem for space views from Earth, and if it succeeds the result is cheap access to space views from space.
I had a similar experience, they were really cagey even sharing the idea in case I stole it. Searched play store and app store as she told me about it and there were dozens of this type of app already.
Just like a bank, without the security. Have a look like modern banks are done say in the UK - Monzo etc.
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Being able to go below 0 is not tied to having a credit card. Nearly all debit cards issued in Europe can do this to. The only ones that don’t are things like Electron (systematic authorization), but they don’t play well with “fast” systems like motorway tollgates
It's great to see free software projects get stable funding, but I'm surprised to see the amount they're contributing is so low at €30,000/year. Just €2,500/month is probably a great ROI on PR for Adobe.

https://fund.blender.org/corporate-memberships/
> based on out-dated knowledge (the use of the word "minion" in Kubernetes was deprecated in 2014 IIRC).

If they decided in 2014 not to use k8s, how much effort do you expect them to spend on keeping up-to-date with the latest and greatest of a technology that they're not using?
It's not just hobbyists. Earth-based observatories have to contend with light pollution in many locations. And while, in some cases, there have been mitigations, astronomers aren't going to get cities to turn off their lights every night in general.
I'm not as bullish on rail. I love taking trains -- it's by far my favorite way of getting around -- but it's so expensive to set up and maintain. every inch of track for hundreds of miles needs to be completely spotless to keep trains running at 200 mph+. Prior to the pandemic, the trend was on cheaper, lighter, quieter aircraft, with more point-to-point routes connecting smaller metro areas, like Hartford airport or Providence airport growing with more and more routes, cheaper parking, etc. As airplanes continue to develop (electric is probably the future) flying will get cheaper and cheaper. Rail may be the luxurious way to get around, but might not be worth the trillions of upfront investment, when you consider that even small metros can afford to build an airport.
By coincidence Snowden was tweeting about them just the other day

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1416774441539936259

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1416778909358731266
> Can you(Adobe) please also make Photoshop and other Adobe products available on Linux as well ? It would really benefit Open Source community.

How would it benefit the open source community? They would be proprietary binaries, likely only on one architecture.
I've heard this kind of expression differently formulated (I think often by Steven Sinofsky while he was the head of Windows) as the complexity of the software unavoidably increasing quadratically with either time or with feature-count.

So maybe it's less about the # of systems here specifically, more about just the # of "things it does", where most of what it does is connect systems together.
Johns Hopkins APL is not far south on 95 from Baltimore. It does MIC stuff, but is also involved with various space programs. There are a bunch of small and large tech companies in and around Baltimore and Baltimore county. I've worked in Columbia, Linthicum, and Rockville MD. (Rockville commute was insane before the new highway, now it would doable for folks who don't mind driving a lot).

I lived there for 12 years. Generally speaking, Baltimore is good if you want relatively affordable housing. A number of neighborhoods are great for DINKS (dual-income, no kids). Public schooling is a hard no-go unless you really get involved and enroll your kids in a carefully selected charter or magnet school. There are some excellent private schools. Baltimore county has options too if you want something that's more suburban.

As far a crime goes, the city has some really profound problems that are the result of white flight and systematic disinvestment. It was hit hard by the crack epidemic and has not really recovered. The TV shows "The Wire" and especially "The Corner" capture the flavor of the rough parts of Baltimore more than residents would like to admit. As far as safety is concerned, like other big cities, it's not really a problem for folks that would read HN, unless you enjoy hanging out in bars at 2am and getting into arguments with armed drug-trade people. Don't leave anything in your car, get a security system for your house.
This is why looking at the current number of aviation passengers on these routes that's often the most valuable thing. It shows where people think the time savings justify hiring a car/taking taxis.

Clearly not having overheads of airport security will probably reduce the minimum distance required for this, but as a first pass it's good data source.
Certainly some software is engineered! Maybe the software in space ships is a good example where it was written with an engineering process, tested, and then worked “first try”.
Of course a lot of software these days is morally bankrupt and never finished.
I read and analyze a similar piece with same/similar title from foreign affairs. Maybe the exactly same article, but I did not verify.

Disclaimer: I grew up in China and moved to US at age 24 in 2008.

The article exhibits the typical myopic viewpoint of US news reporting. Take the coal powered energy, in the context of carbon emissions.

China constantly broadcast her energy policy, there were never goal to reduce coal consumption, because there are cheap coals in China.

In order to meet the carbon emissions targets, there are a plethora of measurements:

* Higher efficiency coal power factory, where coal can be burned in cleaner generators and produces electricity for consumption.

* Reduce the use of coal for non power use. Like my hometown in shanxi, now it's banned to burn coal for heat. People have to use something close to natural gas.

* Close less efficient coal power factory.

* Increase the use of renewable energy. The majority of the energy use increase are going to be provided by renewable and nuclear power. While coal consumption remain steady.

* Reforestation and environmental projects to restore the natural carbon emissions capacity.

Yet, these articles constantly slam on the non decreasing usage of coal, and pay no attention to the increased efficiency, and the shift of usage pattern from being coals directly to producing electricity.

These are more like non technical but ideology charged reporter not understanding the delicacy of large scale social and economic problem, and refuses even to read some basic public policy documents.

It's seeing a tree while ignoring the while forest.
T-Mobile: helping the underbanked.

The others: profiting from interchange fees. If you can get your card to be “top of wallet” you can get a cut of every purchase a consumer makes. If you are a store, like Target, you can also drastically reduce the processing fees you pay to card issuers by redirecting those funds to yourself.
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> One seat being raffles at a charity auction doesn't quite count.

The person who won that seat didn't actually end up going on the first flight (will go on a later one). Some 18 year old with a dad who runs a hedge fund went. How much he paid was not disclosed.
You're exaggerating. The UK isn't even in the top 10 for alcohol consumption.

https://www.alcohol.org/guides/global-drinking-demographics/
It is possible. If they didn't include well over 1MB of scripts that don't seem to do much but are an order of magnitude fatter than the PNG images on the site.

I don't even know what those scripts are supposed to do. This is a static blog post.
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If you suffering from toxicity, bad culture, intolerance, lack of self-esteem, lost your mojo for funky IT development, then I might be able to help you get your groove. You can make it you try, and forget about the no sayers. Let me take you for a ride.

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If we were in a simulation, would the speed of light be the processing speed of the universe as each area re-renders, and spooky action at a distance be two variables pointed to the same memory location, populated with a lazy-loaded value, with copy-on-write semantics?

edit: seems like it is lazy loaded, so revised my summary.
Fidelity offers cash management accounts fdic insured up to $1M. They do this by “sharding” your account across multiple fdic banks.
This question is interesting because we don't even consider the opinion of the chicken that are being served.
Lumberyard did get open sourced under a different name, O3DE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EM6ZIbBJGQ
Yeah, I was kinda thinking, the last thing the astronomers want is a "global debate". Keep it inside their community and they might get action. Truly open it up to global debate and they're going to get completely and utterly routed on this matter. For everybody else, benefits clearly outweigh costs. Most of the people in the world already live in such light-polluted areas that they'll hardly notice the difference.
I wouldn't, I would put Ludovico more in the crossover/popular music category.
A "module system" should be something beyond a name spacing scheme. So that's the difference.

Re: strings I had a stronger idea of that initially but I wasn't sure, so I kept postponing it, and due to features I added later it's now possible to make strings in userland... probably. I still need to think about this a lot.

But I agree that I should revisit this comparison to make it more up to date. For example an important difference would be that Zig adds quite a bit of UB on top of C, whereas C3 removes UB compared to C.

There are minor things Zig doesn't have like: substructs (I think!), trailing macros (allowing easy "scoping" macros, limited operator overloading (allowing for example userland lists use foreach), type methods are possible to extend by other modules. Then the whole way to do generic types and functions are different, with Zig building it on top of parameterized structs, whereas C3 uses parameterized modules, which creates a bit of difference.
Only when limits are getting breached, otherwise it is one if statement extra on every access. This happens in Java and other languages.
Good point but a bit different. People view climbing Everest as an achievement as opposed to going up in a rocket which even though you need to prepare seems less daunting and a different type of risk.

Not that it matters but I wonder which of these buys more social capital?
Not any maglev train. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev, there are three different types, and even the EMS type can have some variation ("single beam" or "double beam": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HSST-Double-Beam.png). I'm not sure which type is more widespread though (since none of them can really be called "widespread").
> you never know when your account will get overdrawn

How? It’s not that hard to keep track of money in vs money out. I bet most of it is people that don’t understand it takes time for a cheque to clear or people that know an auto payment will overdraw their account but can’t do anything about it (ie: no money).

Overdraft fees should be illegal, especially for electronic transactions that get rejected.
The analogy is tough because as far as I know there isn't an official definition of what a sailor is. Nor is there an internationally recognized registry like the "Fédération Aéronautique Internationale" which keeps track of people it considers Astronauts/Cosmonauts/Taiknonauts, etc.
Your vocal B2C fans go digitally nuclear on you? What B2C industry are you in?
I found it confusing for a similar reason especially when you get into more complicated designs with multiple parts.

I think development could be massively sped up with a little funding. I tried libfive (https://libfive.com/studio/) too which is roughly similar to OpenSCAD but faster to sketch with imo. There was a good discussion here on this topic too if you were interested: https://forum.openhardware.science/t/open-source-cad-and-ope...
> 0.5% APY on savings accounts

How insulting, and yet still better than the competition
Surely I'm not a sailor for having taken a cruise ship. I did, however, participate in the safety demonstration, and packed my bags.

I'm definitely on-board with calling Bezos a passenger.
Square Financial Services is a Utah-chartered industrial loan company (ILC) with FDIC insurance [0]. Savings deposits go here.

Checking accounts are at Sutton Bank (partner bank). I assume the split is driven by Square Financial's three-year supervisory plan w/ FDIC and the mechanics of getting square off chase/wells card rails. Green dot did something similar by purchasing a chartered bank.

[0] https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/bankdecisions/depins/s...
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This tallies with my experience. It isn't early bugs that are expensive to fix. It's early design mistakes. For example choosing the wrong language, framework or architecture.

Dropbox using Python is a good example. Or Python's GIL.
I had colleagues living in Ontario (Canada), perhaps just limited to Toronto? Anyway they had rent increase caps based on age of building which was surprising [1]. Also California has something like this since 2020 if I understand correctly. Some areas of UK also. I'm sure there are more.

[1] If I recall correctly there was a process to apply an above-limit increase if you could demonstrate expenses, say a renovation.
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Rust doesn't allow them either: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Adding .into() works though, which is the recommended method if the conversion can be statically guaranteed (otherwise try_into should be used, which will become easier in the 2021 edition as the TryInto trait will become part of the prelude).
There are many different carbon offset schemes, only some of which involve planting trees or other plants.

But perhaps I was being unfair to the more well run offset schemes.
>Investing in large infrastructure projects is a political deadend in American democracy with term limits.

Nonsense. We built the transcontinental railroad, the interstate system, and the biggest dams and bridges in the world with term limits. The problem comes down to vested interests. Those things were done when the US still had free land. But in a democracy that respects individual rights and private property, you now end up with an inability to do things for the greater good like an autocratic China can still do on a whim.
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Astronomy is nice to have, but it absolutely pales in comparison to the things satellite swarms can bring us on earth. The cost is well worth it, and if astronomy is affected the solution will have to be more reliance on space-based observation.
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Blue Origin only "beat" SpaceX if you allow BO's test flight and disallow SpaceX's - SpaceX was landing their Grasshopper prototype as early as 2012.
You spend it on warfare and throw the rest after some billionaires.
Surely, that's why I added "with the exception of the war (a significant exemption, true)". I only describe Germany in this way because it's the country where I have the deepest roots and speak the language. I am sure this sentiment would mirror across most of Europe, absent the many horrors and tragedies of the 20th century.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I'd like to go back and live in the 20th century, but I do think some ways of life in those times were simpler and better acclimated to human nature.
Could you link to any sources that claim Starlink profits will be used to facilitate astronomy research? Quite an absurd assumption without proof tbh.
That's peanuts for Adobe, not a good look.
Yeah, it's kind of ironic that the modern - and entirely rigorous - direct treatment of infinitesimals comes under the name "nonstandard analysis."

As to the foundations, what Fourier's work shattered was the sufficiency of then established notion of what a function is, which had been limited to what we now call analytic functions; this eventually lead to the abstract definition of a function that we have today.
It reminds me of something I heard as a teenager from an educator...I didn't realize at the time he was mocking us all. The phrase went something like this...

"You all want to be unique right? Just like everybody else."
Would people be happier if they never faced any loss or conflict? I think the answer to that question is clearly no. Forget about the deeper question of what is real "happiness" and is that a meaningful goal in life...

We are resilient and these current conflicts are merely the by product of growth, learning, and building a stronger community and culture.
Sci-hub is great, but it should be your last resort. University librarians have explained this to me, but it has to do with how Sci-hub counts towards access counts of obscure journals.

Unpaywall provides an excellent browser extension. https://unpaywall.org/

If you have time, you can request a copy of a paper directly from the corresponding author. We love for people to be interested in our work, and we would rather you put that $40 access fee towards something that benefits society.
I think you probably nailed it. I’d guess the €30,000 probably generates the maximum ROI on this PR spend.
> That's because for many, leaving food service had a lot to do also with its high-stress culture: exhausting work, unreliable hours, no benefits and so many rude customers.

I didn't realize that rude customers was that widespread.
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I have a bunch of tattoos. My right arm is sleeved for instance. Not saying that to try to get coolness points here (tbh I don't think tats are even considered "cool" anymore...) but to just make the point that I've got some bad ones I'd rather not have. It's gonna happen if you get enough of them. For instance, I found a painting of a girl in Day of the Dead face paint that I _loved_. Got something inspired by it tattooed on me. A big one at that. The artist who painted said painting ended up being Sylvia Ji[0]. Her stuff is now adorning the bottoms of snowboards and displayed on t-shirts. Would I have gotten that knowing what I know now? Absolutely not. Do I regret it? Eh... not really. At the time that I got it, it was a really different thing to get.

I think the point of a tattoo, the thing that makes them so exciting, is the fact that you can in fact get one that was a mistake and that mistake is permanent. Its inherently a dumb thing to do to yourself and depending on how you look at it, that can either be exciting and life affirming or a reason to never ever set foot in a tattoo studio. Knowing that, you can definitely over think your first one and do something like the author is describing. IMO you just own it. Ok so you got something that someone else has. Whatever! Get more. Get a cover up or get it removed! To me it's kind of an analogy for life: messy, complicated, hard to get out of sometimes. Even getting a bad tat is a ballsy move IMO.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Day-Dead-Other-Works-Sylvia/dp/099333...
Sure, but your business address should not be your home.

Thus swat would have to contact your business first before they can get a physical address.
What is the prevailing theory to explain quantum entanglement? Must there be another dimension we cannot access or measure that is not subject to the laws of relativity? (I understand the laws of relativity break down at the quantum level but please ELI5)
I was doing some teaching about chatbots recently and one of the key points was passing over to a human when needed.

The problem is one of expectation. Companies want chatbots to do away with humans but users want chatbots to be like humans.

Maybe we should call them faqbots and remove the spoof pretty girl icon :-)
Getting rocket working correctly is never easy. Just like in IT when things work smoothly, it doesn't look amazing but it takes a tremendous amount of work to get things work correctly and seemingly smooth. A smooth operation is always amazing.

The booster landing looks pretty amazing. The capsule landing went without a problem. The deceleration when the braking chutes deployed looks a bit fast, from 205mph to 150mph in couple seconds. Must be hard on the body.

Edit: Ok, in the post-flight briefing, they mentioned that they didn't anticipate the 5G deceleration on descent and it was pretty hard. Must be when the braking chute was deployed.
For more context on FlowForge see https://flowforge.com/blog/first-deploy/

I'm the investor behind it and right now we plan something open core, a business model similar to GitLab.
Back to the Future, Dan Ingalls and others [http://ftp.squeak.org/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html]

Homesteading the Noosphere, Eric Raymond [http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/]
That would imply that the US can't pay it's debts, but it can by printing more money
Or perhaps, the passengers will be galvanized by the experience and end up taking environmental issues more seriously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

The carbon emissions of Starship already pale in comparison to the reforms we need to pass, but lack the political will to do so.
As the owner of several western hats, I'm curious about Jeff Bezos' hat. What's the story behind it? It does not fit him well. He obviously has the money to have whatever kind of crafted, perfectly styled hat he wants. Maybe something from his family?
99.99% SLA achieved. Jokes aside, I think the article is well written.
Sure beats being called a Nazi.
I call this argument "totalitarian democracy argument". Yes, NGOs and media are not democratic, nor family, corporations, etc... Not everything is and it is fairly obvious that if everything was controlled through the goverment (so in some sense, democratic) it would lead to one party rule almost immediately, which unfortunately seem to be the point in this particular case.

It is also very ironic that in Hungary these independent (i.e. from state) institutions are replaced with ones who's mandate last longer than 2 terms of election - fairly obvious that public control is not the goal, but the exact opposite.
To me this says that C got a lot of things right. I've noticed that even things people complain about, like the somewhat arcane promotion rules to "int" makes perfect sense given the constraints and the expected type sizes. It's not until now that this is somewhat breaking, and that's because with 64 bits `int` didn't follow the normal trend of being register sized.
How does this compare with Octoblu?
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I suppose you just need that one clown to come in and ruin your day. The odds are stacked against you.
I’d probably start here: https://youtu.be/ZuvK-od647c
Government should be, like a utility.
The restaurant industry has known the solution for a long time but everyone wants to pretend it would be too difficult.

Stop the tipping guilt trip placed on the public, raise your prices 20%, and pay your employees a livable wage. The public will still show up to eat in your restaurant.