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See my other post in this thread for some reasons making C++ "The One" language to learn.

You mention;

>I am average in many but not an expert in one

This is exactly why i am always wary when people give me a long list of languages they "know". They may know the superficial syntax but not the commonly used "idioms" of the language which is what is necessary for fluent expression in the language. This takes time and effort which i would rather spend with a single language and try to truly "master" it as far as possible. The situation is exactly analogous to learning "Natural Languages". You may be fluent in one or a couple while knowing a few introductory phrases/expressions in half a dozen more.
Yes and no. I usually procrastinate also when the project or even ticket is too big or I'm not that familiar with the topic and I get a form of "writer's block". In that case, pairing with someone else or try to split the task in smaller chunks helps me. But not always, unfortunately.
I would love to see Clang's ext_vector_type extension features in Zig, it lets you write code like GLSL, including easy swizzling. Add the same thing for matrix types, and the the feature would be complete, no need for operator overloading:

https://www.godbolt.org/z/zWGfcY5a4

Whether this code translates to SIMD or scalar operations under the hood should depend on the target platform and compiler options.
Few more advantages:

- Round-trips avoided.
- Security.
- Data integrity.

The last two points rely on building a public API out of stored procedures / functions / views and disallowing direct access to base tables. That ensures no one can access anything without proper authorization and no one can change the data unless in accordance to what stored procedures allow.

It's just a shame that procedural extensions of SQL (T-SQL, PL/SQL and brethren) seem stuck in the '80s when it comes to developer experience.
> Ubuntu was likely too difficult for Valve to keep modified and up to date for their needs.

SteamOS was based on Debian directly, not Ubuntu. Ubuntu is just what they officially support for the desktop Steam client.
The article seems to imply that it was disclosed last year. Not the details of it, but the high level idea.

Hi think the author should have said instead “but we first heard about the concept last year from Tesla”
No, you just have about 4 times longer to become carbon neutral.
Programmer?
The rest of the sentence clarifies. Usually it's a good idea to read past the semicolon:

"The concept isn’t new; Tesla CEO Elon Musk first mentioned it at last year’s battery day."
Not until it gets its static typing act together, and runs faster than a 1-legged dog.
Though with all other subsidies etc. it's effectively not that different from an additional income tax. To the point where I wonder why they don't just make it part of the income tax.
Confirmed TSMC to Set Up a Fab in Japan. Germany Next?
I think it is strange that family giving permission makes it ok. Would it be ok if they gave permission if he was alive? If not, what makes it ok now?
It is. https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20...
I remember it has plastic buttons, not soft rubber.
TSMC: 5nm to Be 20% of Revenue, Chip Shortage Persists into 2022
Of course! I actually know of this divisible by 3 rule, and use it to test out all numbers, like 87, 111, or 69, but somehow forget to apply it to 51…
America is cancelling itself. At least this is prolly the best possible outcome for the rest of the world. Indeed dystopian what they describe here, yet it seems so realistic and 'normal' these days
Looks like a cool device also to use as a remote control for real life objects:
- drones
- robots
- LEGO MindStorms/Powered Up/...
Communism: a theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.

You can have productivist communism (marxism of sort) where the mean of production are owned by those who use them. Worker-owned companies and in fact small startups without VC money (those exist) are marxist in nature as long as every new worker is offered a share.

I saw an increase in worker-owned companies in my country, and i think it's the same in the US, is this what you mean by communist incursions in the west?

Or are you talking about another form of communism (anarchism maybe?)

(edit): to be transparent, i'm for a form of communism where the workers own a percentage of a company. whether it's 25%, 49% or 51% is up for debate and i don't care if the percentage is low.
The way you are supposed to use Postgrest or Postgraphile is to provide only views and stored procedures as the API. These views and stored procedures are layered over your data schema and should be the only way to query or change the data. This way you can make API changes without requiring migrations.

The point is that instead of having queries that return tables that you then map to DTOs for serialization, you have queries that return JSON directly.

Another way to accomplish the same thing, if you don't want views or stored procedures, is to use a library like jOOQ that does much the same thing in your Java middleware.
Constructive mathematics by it's nature does not use LEM. The idea is that proof of existance must be done by construction of the object in question. LEM implies DNE, which means existance can be shown by showing non-existance is not the case.

EDIT: Apologies, misunderstood.
Ahh classic. If you have tons of cash and fading dominance just buy up some other market players and screw ‘em up real good (in corporate terms).

At least that’s typically how these things go. I hope it’s different ‘this’ time.
They say people stay with Youtube because it pays more, but it also allows casual viewing, which gives a chance to grow an audience. Most Facebook links lead me to signup pages, but Youtube is completely navigable without an account, whether or not I block ads.

Maybe that makes no difference to artists, but if they're going ad-supported anyway, they might as well stick to a platform that hides them less.
As for line of sight, you can get most of the way there with a pair of teleprompters.

They use something like a lenticular screen and a depth of field camera to give angle dependent perspective. I'm not sure how important this part is compared with line of sight.
It reminds me of a former colleague joking about NIRS being "one of the most complex ways to generate white noise" during an experiment :)
Just watch it.
You can count rational numbers and everything countable is the size of infinity as natural numbers.

Google ”counting rational numbers” and ”different sizes of infinity” to learn more.
It sounds like you’re misreading the quote. He is not saying noxious branches should be pruned to protect non-noxious ones. He’s saying do not prune them, instead let them fight it out and see which one bears the best fruit.

This quote is from the The Report of 1800 [1], where he goes on to say:

> Had “Sedition acts,” forbidding every publication that might bring the constituted agents into contempt or disrepute, or that might excite the hatred of the people against the authors of unjust or pernicious measures, been uniformly enforced against the press; might not the United States have been languishing at this day, under the infirmities of a sickly confederation? Might they not possibly be miserable colonies, groaning under a foreign yoke?

He’s crediting the formation of the United States to speech that was “noxious” to either the British parliament or the Confederate states in power at the time. This noxious speech was absolutely a risk to the extent that sedition acts were being threatened. He’s advocating freedom of the press even when their speech may excite hatred.

[1] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-17-02-020...
North Mediterranean area, Catalonia or French Riviera. France is one of the best natural defense (alps) countries with the atomic bomb. Spain is self defended by the sea. You have The Pyrenees and The Alps as barriers. Access to water, rivers.
The argument turns circular because while climate models predicts climate change, they have variations and do not predict local weather. They can imply higher risk and using statistics you can say there's a very low chance these events (magnitude and number), is due to normal weather alone. However, statistics won't tell the whole story. Since everything is changing permanently, there's only one time a dam will collapse.

The best people to ask would be credible climate scientists who publish in peer-reviewed journals. For example:

https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/

If determining wether a bridge is sound or not: Do you run statistics over how many people get safely across, and run trends on random internet searches? Or do you invite specialists to assess the bridge?
"gotten hold of" aka "looked it up"
For me it is Windows desktop and Linux servers. So far I had no business case to develop for other mobile and somehow do not feel sorry for it as I am in no rush to bend over to things like approval from App stores etc.
Completely with you on 3. This is the most dangerous one - its like not wanting to hear bad news or give bad news. I have found myself doing this with health issues.

1 and 2 can be helped with a bit of discipline and perseverance.
I am arguing in good faith, based on facts that I know:

I ran a one-day workshop to teach women to code (now https://shecodes.com.au/) based on discussions with female coders about their experiences getting into the industry. These workshops are always oversubscribed, and always there are women there saying "if only I'd received this kind of encouragement when I was younger".

I've seen multiple female colleagues harassed by male management until they leave the industry. Again and again, I've heard female colleagues talk about the discouragement and difficulties they've experienced in the IT industry. I've never heard a male colleague express this. From everyone I've talked to it seems to be a universal experience from men that they have been encouraged to learn to code and join the industry.

These are facts. They may be anecdotal, but that doesn't stop them from being facts. I am not making them up.

The US has a problem with gun violence. This is a fact [0]. I think it stems from the high rate of gun ownership in the US. That is an opinion, though it is supported by correlation [1]. I think it's fairly clear that I'm expressing an opinion in my original comment, but I'll take your comment as a caution that I need to be more clear whether I'm expressing an opinion or a fact.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death...
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828709/
From what I’ve read it has to do with the way the plant has to cope with water. Water needs to flow through the plant, which means you cannot put it just anywhere. At the same time the plant cannot be prone to flooding and its design must be such that even with a meltdown the radioactive material will not reach the water table. Both of those are not straightforward near abundant supplies of water.

Maybe you could have a universally implantable design, and maybe you could train people with the relevant skillset. The point is: we haven’t, and we aren’t, so other ways of generating green power are easier and cheaper. Nuclear will play a role for sure (the climate crisis is such that we need to do all the things) but it won’t cover more than 10% of our energy needs. I would be glad to get a rosier outlook on nuclear though.
What's yellow and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice? Zorn's lemon
>But is it truly practical to use in 'higher-abstraction' apps like web or mobile?

Yes absolutely. Once you become familiar with the language the barrier is not that high. Familiarity trumps everything else.

That said, since i am not a Web/mobile developer i had collected some resources to help me learn how to use C++ for Web/Mobile apps, you may find it useful;

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/cross-platform-mobile-and-w...

https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk

https://medium.com/@ivan.mejia/modern-c-micro-service-implem...
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The huge investment in lithium-ion has stayed ahead of any materials cost advantage (so lithium-ion has been cheaper for all applications, in addition to being better for applications where density and weight matter).
I agree fully that it is not a permanent solution, nor a possibility to replace all food with a single different one be that seaweed, insects farming, hydroponics, or other non-traditional forms. I do however want to highlight that food is cultural thus peacefully changeable. We can extend the window much further than just what currently exploitation of farm land do. Aquaculture is just one of the more likely approaches since it is already part of some cultures, although quite small ones in term of populations.

It is an interesting question if a new world war is more likely than a major cultural change in our diet.
True, and Tesla is so far behind competitors when it comes to self driving that they knowingly push the envelope, because either they succeed, or they kill their customers but hurt all self-driving companies. So both scenarios work to their advantage and they just pay the minor fines and compensations to the people the kill in the process. And the Elon posts some Tweets blaming the people who got killed and his fandome happily cheers.

There is a reason Waymo is progressing at what looks like snail speed from outside observers, and that reason is that it’s the only ethical pace for development and testing of what could eventually become broadly available fully autonomous vehicles.
I am following some missinformation telegram groups for fun. And one thing I dont understand is that these people are actively going out of their way to blinden their eyes whenever someone says something that doesn't fit their narrative.

There is not one channel I am part of that does not constantly post contradicting information and yet the same people sit there to agree.

The admins only care about their herbal affiliate links, they rarely engage in discussions.

What I am saying is, it's the people that are to blame.

No one who is willing or able to do their own research, or who does not have some kind of brain damage hindering them should be very well able to fact check and realize what these groups actually are.
Crafting rolling releases for a Quarkus CLI application
> we decided to make the service free

> One of the problems is that there is very little funding

I think your problem is self-made.

> Not sure how to reconcile the two.

Accept money in exchange for the value you create.
Creating a Reactive CRUD Blog App with MongoDB, Quarkus and Panache
People pay the ransom because they need the data more than the money.
I think those are good ones because they're definable in ways that we can probably come to a consensus on.

The problem is the term greed is often used in a pejorative way as a proxy for success. If you work hard and achieve a lot and that comes with financial rewards, you are greedy by definition. Add in some snark about how the work hard part doesn't count somehow, and that's the modern critique of capitalism.

Oh, and rent seeking and corruption are because capitalism too and not at all human flaws seen to an even greater degree in every other economic system ever devised.
Can you give an example of a man who was discouraged from learning to code and joining the IT industry? I have yet to find an example of this.
If you want a transistor-count analogy, it's low double-digits. Think 74-series logic.
Oh right. Also hi siraben didn't notice it was you.
>If you, for example say: "Take the smallest element", then I say "One of my sets is all negative integers, it doesn't have a smallest element."

Why would a set of "negative numbers" not have a smallest element?

Negative numbers are also ordered in a number line (-5 is smaller than -2 for example).
Deploying a Quarkus app behind an Nginx reverse proxy with SSL using Docker
Micronaut vs. Quarkus vs. Spring Boot Reactive Framework Deep Comparison
Haven't watched the video.

For me the only thing that works. The only hack that works is having a contract with a third party.

You don't procrastinate on paying your mortgage right. You do it every month.

You don't not show up for work right. Or for meetings right.

You don't procrastinate on paying your cellphone bill/internet bill/paying rent etc.

Why? Because you have contracts with another party and there are consequences if you miss them.

Losing weight? No consequences! That novel you've been meaning to write.. no consequences! Want to learn a new language/do a passion project etc.. there are no consequences to not doing it.

For me I resolved this issue by going into a contract with a third party with consequences if I miss my obligations.

Inspired by a "lock-in" productivity based ted talk which was banned so I can't link it here.
I'm looking at a picture of Altenahr flooded: https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1415629704472760324 https://twitter.com/Zersorger/status/1415654344184188932

Isn't that a floodplain? We know what that name means, right?

When did this plain last flood?

Sadly, "unprecedented" floods should now not also be "unexpected".
It's the set of all negative numbers. That doesn't have a smallest number, because negative infinity is not a number.
Oh no, it’s a bit more subtle than that.

A Thatcher does thatching with his bundles of thatch. A Carter does carting with his horse and cart. But the poor sod who braises your partridge? Just “cook”, not “cooker”.

Somewhat less noble, I thought, and in keeping with Bourdain’s 1999 Kitchen Confidential essay of counter-glamour.

Kinda like Bones from Star Trek. Camaraderie through occupational diminutives.
Yes, the title reads more like click bait, perhaps because the title
"SELECTIVE EXTRACTION OF LITHIUM FROM CLAY MINERALS" from the patent application would not generate enough clicks.

Apart from the semi-novel concept here, the word "about" is used frequently in the patent. It seems very hard to make something useful with the patent, with the uncertainty this introduces.

Is that standard procedure ?
Ah - was wondering why this seemed familiar.

Here's the video from it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63uqBBrHKTc&ab_channel=Freet...
Yeah I mean it's a PC. Depending on the game it will run at 10fps, 30fps, 60 or 1000fps. No idea why OP would say 30fps specifically. There will be games which run at that, there will be games which runs a lot better.
The title of the article is "Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class", GP says they want to avoid that problem, and your solution is to have them charge money?
I have so much trust in the patent system that first I thought they were granted a patent on table salt.
>Its distinctive feature/bug is having no opinion of almost anything

This single phrase has clarified the workings of the C++ standards body like nothing else; When in doubt, add it in!
A very rough ballpark estimate is that you'd need to use at least as much timber as we've mined coal. Probably a lot more since coal has a higher carbon content than timber and we've also burned plenty of oil and gas. That's a mind boggling amount of timber.
Me - my mom was the kind of semi-christian person who considered Computers some sort of evil. I had to do everything against her will and partially in secrecy, and in the end she only accepted it because i ended up bringing money home.

Your "women are weak and need help" attitude sucks.
The intention is to use it with a usb-c dock, which I already own. Will probably buy the steam dock depending on what it offers and if it overlaps with my needs. Or if it is just plain sexy compared to the boring old usb-c dock then I'd rather buy that. The intention is not to get work done on a 7" screen, but on an external display + keyboard/mouse.
https://www.bivacor.com/ has a good explanation and video description of the system. It sounds really promising. The things I was most curious about are, it gets a charge from a battery you carry around on your person like a purse, and, it has a ten hour recharge time and comes with two batteries. I think I'd get a few more spares.

I would worry about something like the battery becoming disconnected when I sleep. Hopefully it has a very insistent alarm to alert the user. I'd also worry about getting mugged and having the mugger demand the battery from me.

One idea that seems cool is if you could manually control your blood flow rate. They say it does change but don't clarify if it's manual change or automatic. If it were manual, it would unlock some abilities. You could calm yourself by dialing down your heart rate or "warm up" by dialing it up.

I hope this technology works!
> The bartender typically doesn't sell your data.

Scammers sell your data all the time. Try going to some third world country to some shady hotel, and the receptionist will tell the taxi driver exactly whre you came from and how rich they think you are, taxi driver will then take you to a scammy club, where they'll already know how much they can scam out of you, sometimes even the police is in the whole scam, so even the police officer knows all your data, before you even see them.
Thanks for you response (and looking forward to the announcement you mentioned in your other comment).

That's so much better than what I could have thought!

Even though my skeptical self almost falls in the "too god to be true" category I see you mention on Twitter, I'm very excited about following Prometheus' progress :-)

BTW: Make sure to let people know when/if human-drinkable ethanol "fuels" from Co2 are available for order! ;-)
I'd say Poland, good defense capabilities, moderate climate, great, modern infrastructure, economic resilience (vis a vis 2008 financial crisis)
Many countries in Africa are import several critical medications from countries such as India where they are produced at much lower costs. Why is USA unable to do the same in quantities so that their poorer population is able to but them at a lower price.
First time I found Facebook was because it was so well organized for specialized porn. You'd find groups for every kink and fetish similar to NSFW subreddits today.

Only a year or so later people here started to use it as social network and I was confused.

Not saying it still is that way, but the way how Facebook works (closed groups where you have to ask for access) and censorship still is slow and uneffective I am sure it is still a preferable platform.
A few other oddities were born out of this too. For example, major universities using two letters with a full-length alias (eg UK.AC.OX & UK.AC.OXFORD - seeing .ox.ac.uk is still the more common today), and also the British Library ending up outside of a top-level element 25 years before anyone else (UK.BL became bl.uk and british-library.uk).

A lot of what's weird in the UK's hierarchy is simply because NRS predated DNS.

(Other trivia - NRS contexts did 40 years ago, what SRV is still trying to do today. And a huge number of govt sites still serve their dns records through ja.net, which is a nice nod)
>neo-capitalism

The term doesn't make much sense, it was likely coined by people who do not understand our economic system. Capitalism never went away, it's the dominant system we live in now and have for centuries. There isn't anything "neo" about today's capitalists.

As for some of the promoters of Austrian school teachings I agree with you they aren't the most charitable types, however the theory itself just looks at the economic system the way it works - there's actually less social judgement in Austrian school thought than other economic schools. Which is why it's less popular. A rational and neutral approach when it comes to macroeconomics does not have mass appeal.
Their PR strategy is to take problems people thought were impossible to solve in the next 10 years, and solve them (Go) or nearly solve them (StarCraft 2, protein solving)
Yep, my first thought was, I'll have to pay license fees now for putting salt on my meal.