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Carl Meyer, a Python developer at Instagram, has ~recently discussed open source contributions to Python he has worked on.

He specifically describes “strict modules” and efforts to improve the efficiency of Python imports at 16:30 of this episode of Django Chat:

https://django-chat.simplecast.com/episodes/django-instagram...
You can use Chipsynth SFC to rip and play back SNES samples in any DAW: https://www.plogue.com/products/chipsynth-sfc.html

Also, many SF2 soundfonts for SNES games already exist and use authentic samples. The SNES adds a low pass filter, which you can approximate with EQ, and it has an echo effect that can be replicated with a short delay.
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Am I missing something obvious? How does after school study have any connection with birth rates? Is it something along the lines of "a less educated population is more likely to have more children"?
Banning cram schools isn't going to slow down overachievers. If anything it will allow them to do something more creative with their limited time than repeat the same kind of problems with a slight twist time after time to never make a mistake and gain that extra 0.1% of time efficiency to increase the amount of time to verify their answers at the gaokao.

If you're opposed to banning this on an ideological ideal of freedom that's one thing I certainly empathize with, but I honestly think this will greatly benefit overachievers at the relative détriment of middling students.
So https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroir is just marketing?
If AES is broken before your iPhone is destroyed then you have bigger problems than somebody reading your data.
They have a video but it’s kind of buried on the page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPI8U1uSJUs
This comment has summed up what it has taken me decades to arrive at ("the path to enlightenment"). Thank you for posting it, and I hope others can learn from and use it to grow with less struggle than those who learned through more tumultuous and higher cost paths.
Thanks for the correction, I must be misremembering a second hand story.

I found lots of photos from the 50s trying to find more info

https://www.cera-chicago.org/Blog/3315468
You would use a fixed amount of iron and recycle it. It's not like you need "fresh" iron for every use.
There is a limited amount of entries to top universities. This kind of tutoring is thus a zero sum game for competition for limited college spots.

Therefore, by cracking down on this industry, there is a chance to actually reduce the cost of raising a child, which is the main impediment to natality.
Well that can easily be switched just by the variables... for example:

isolation factor (ie, lockdowns) vs depression rates. When isolation factor decreases (lockdown releases), depression rates increase. Negative correlation.

Social contact (ie, lockdown releases) vs depression rates. When lockdowns release and social contact increases, depression rates increase. Positive correlation.

If it was straightforward coordinate plane values like to describe the slope of a line, you can't really easily reverse the correlation just by redefining the variables.
Canada Post does this. Post offices are everywhere, so it's reasonably convenient. For example, when I applied for student loans in Ontario and when I opened an online bank account I had to go to a post office to verify my identity.
> What if GitHub bans you?

This is one of those things that I was talking about them sympathizing with.

It's unrealistic. If you're getting banned from github or a cloud provider maybe you should reconsider what you're doing.

> You're faster, but I have better negotiating power (ie: less costs) by threatening to switch vendors.

Okay, but AWS isn't expensive as it is. If you build to the way these resources are meant to be built you can seriously minimize your costs.

I've seen plenty of lift and shifted apps get their costs dramatically reduced once redesigned in a "cloud native" architecture. The lift and shifted design was in the thousands of dollars a month. Rebuilding for AWS resources brought our costs to almost literally nothing on this same app. I'm talking $5,000 a month to $5 per month.

So I have a hard time following the premise that you'll do it cheaper with an on-prem or self-managed system.
> Axios reported that as much as half of all unemployment insurance paid out has been stolen.

I can't help but notice that people tend to talk about unemployment in terms of percentages instead of in terms of dollars. While 2020 was obviously an exception it looks like the US has paid out generally around $30billion most years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W825RC1

Lots of companies make more than every year in pure profit, not just revenue. Apple and Google made more than that last quarter:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FB/facebook/gross-...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/gros...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/gross-p...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/gro...

These companies are all doing the "Double Irish" tax dance, so how much of that profit do you think is flowing back into the USA? I feel like if it were really about the dollars we would be fighting these corporate tax arrangements instead of trying to make poor peoples' lives even worse than they already are.
I can’t follow the math but he seems to be talking about general relativity in empty space, and he seems to be talking about classical electromagnetism not quantized. So it doesn’t seem to be the holy grail of quantum general relativity, in any case.
Ah, right, Windows, forgot about that one! So, Windows you’re pretty much always going to have to install something anyway.

For almost all of the BSDs, Linux distros, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, countless others, you’re going to have both bash and Perl interpreters included by default.

I think installing python is generally quite reasonable! It’s just not as ubiquitous, so if you’re looking for a one-stop interpreted language that most people will neither need to install or worry about the interpreter version, then a baseline old version of bash or Perl is a pretty good bet.

Although really awk probably also deserves consideration in this regard, given that you will even have it on embedded Linux where bash and Perl are not. I don’t know enough about awk to comment on its general utility for doing something like neofetch, however.
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> "100 hours" is not a meaningful number for a battery.

It is a meaningful number... in the grid scale energy storage market. It's a term that summarizes many of the complex properties you mentioned. For a given energy storage technology, there is a certain duration that it tends to be most effective at. For traditional lithium ion batteries, that duration is about 4 hours. If you want to use lithium ion storage for longer durations than that, then you're making substantial sacrifices in cost effectiveness, utilization rate, etc.

Obviously one of the huge areas of research is long duration energy storage, to smooth over energy availability fluctuations that last weeks or months. Some might argue that Form Energy is addressing medium duration energy storage, and there isn't really any technology suited for true long duration energy storage yet.

If Form Energy's technology works out, then they're saying they've developed a battery technology that is 10x more cost effective than lithium ion on a per kWh basis, but that the technology cannot discharge as quickly as lithium ion, which makes it better suited for medium duration energy storage. You could do the same thing with Lithium Ion, it would just be cost prohibitive... 10x as expensive, supposedly.

What I've shared above is my understanding from following lots of news about green energy tech for years now, but I'm not an expert who can answer a bunch of additional questions... but your comment about 100 hours not being a meaningful number isn't accurate. It is meaningful to the target audience.
I don't understand what you're getting at. I bought this X220 about a year ago on Craigslist for $100 and installed Debian on it. The main app on it whose resource use has bloated a lot since 2011 is Firefox, and that's a persistent sore point for me, since it's the web that has bloated rather than just the browser. The other stuff I use (mostly Emacs, Python, and Xchat) hasn't really bloated. I have a Thinkpad X40 (from 2004) that I used for similar purposes but its hardware eventually got too flaky.

I would say I keep a lot more data on the X220 (using a 0.5TB SATA SSD) than I could store on the X40 which had a 40GB PATA drive. It had USB2 and SD card ports though, so I could in principle have added a high capacity SD card or whatever. The X61 of the same era is still a viable machine and I think it had a SATA drive slot, which means it would be pretty usable with today's ssd's.
No, the contribution is taking into account actuation limits with novel algorithms. A known map with perfect state information is not sufficient.
It contributes to the perceived expense and pressure of having a kid. Having kids in Chinese cities is really expensive due to all the extras parents are supposed to provide them with, the government is trying to eliminate those extras.
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It does not, but UTC does.

The GPS broadcast contains GPS time and enough information for receivers to obtain UTC from GPS.

> Information in subframe 4 of the NAV message includes the relationship between GPS time and UTC, and it also notes future scheduled leap seconds. In this area, subframe 4 can accommodate 8 bits, 255 leap seconds, which should suffice until about 2330.

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1736
Wish I could answer more questions, but honestly the best way to learn more about our battery is to get involved! In addition to all the roles you'd expect on hardware and operations, Form also has openings on the software team (full stack, data eng, data platform). https://jobs.lever.co/formenergy
This is one of those topics that I noticed the symptoms of but didn’t sit down to conceptualize and connect all of the dots. This article clearly ties together all the loose ends and even goes as far to offer potential solutions. A great write-up
Mine doesn't. It opens a search result in an embedded browser, which claims to be "powered by Chrome" when you open the three-dot menu. (Android 8.1.0)
China has the opposite problem of the US: too much pressure on kids in school. Elementary school student have hours of homework every day. They have to learn competitive maths and brain teasers in the tutoring schools too. Ironically, all their effort is in vain because all the tricks they learn in elementary school will be useless once they grasp high school math. The reason is simple: 50% of the middle school students won't pass the high school entrance exam and therefore have to go to vocational schools. Therefore, parents try every way possible to send their kids to elite middle schools so they can get the best training by the best teachers.

There is also a secondary reason: Chinese high schools teach too little. For instance, high school maths do not cover calculus or linear algebra. In the meantime, only 50% or so high school students could get into university, and about 1% will get into the elite ones (search 985 universities, if you will). Naturally, problems in the National College Entrance Exam become tricky instead of deep. To be honest, they are not that tricky for mathematically inclined, but they are tricky enough for the general public. As a result, students go to tutoring schools to learn how to solve all kinds of hard problems, which again, are not hard any more if they learn more advanced concepts in college. Case in point, the most challenging problems are usually about analytical geometry, which US does not even teach because calculus and linear algebra render this 19th-century subject in a way obsolete.
Colorado sent me an unemployment benefit debit card. They get some credit for using my actual address (some scammer was hoping to steal it from our mailbox, I guess?) but they should have noticed I’ve lived in California for a decade and have literally never been employed in Colorado.
I think that is not so easy but I haven't looked into it too much. Only a limited set of phones work with it and I think their functionality is also limited. I do have a Nokia N900 from around 2008, but despite its coolness it has never really been usable (too slow and too small).
>>In those cases were I dealt with the origins of "Europe" I started even earlier than the Sumerians: with the end of the last ice age.

I applaud your breadth. The vast majority of instructors I've had prefer not noticing the broad trends that cultivated the soil for its people to prosper.

>> In view of this, is the distinction between history and prehistory still appropriate?

Great question- I'd say we do it for historical purposes!

>>If Greek culture travelled both towards the West and towards the East should we not put more emphasis on the Greeks as something that unites Europe, Africa and Asia instead of claiming them primarily for Europe or a Western world?

This is a world I know little of, the connections between Greece and Asia. You've piqued my interest in the subject; any good reads that deal with it?
An Uber driver once told me:

“Knowledge isn’t power, application of knowledge is power.”
"I think the issue is more with capital appreciation."

From the commercial landlords I have talked with SF, the lease term length is the main contributor to vacant retail spaces. When a retail shop moves in the lease term can be 5-7 years. Retail shops invest up to 50-100k fixing up the space - they need the guarantee they can rent the place for a lengthy time. Thus, the landlord needs to be sure the retail tenant has the capital and credit to last. So, landlords will hold out - rather than risk a bad tenant for 7 years. And quite frankly, there just aren't enough business models that work in retail spaces. If you have a brand new tenant with a 7 year long lease - this could also wreck your chances of a sale if the new owner wants the space cleared out.

Also! Commercial tenants have the protection of LLC (or c-corps, etc) - so if their "Grape vape LLC" doesn't work out - they can just walk - and as a landlord you can't go after them personally.
> walk a developer through building a rough clone of Mastadon

There are already full featured clones that federate. Pleroma and Pixelfed for starters. There are also multiple alternative frontends for both Mastodon and Pleroma. Granted none of those are walkthroughs but they do provide full featured examples in multiple languages.
+1

The joke is misplaced. It has nothing to do in the official description of the game, among the first lines read by customers.

Personally I thought this was some sort of typo or weird expression, because the developer doesn't write English well.
Hmm, perhaps its something that changed in more recent versions then. My phone has one of the Android 12 betas on it. I certainly do remember this being a thing though, but not in a while.
> This will cause no issues

It will most certainly cause some issues.

I worked somewhere that sold a software appliance back in the day. This software appliance did a bunch of ETL and ran analytics processes. We had a leap second that caused all the ETL jobs to stop working. 400 some appliances in different data centers that we had some connectivity through a VPN. It was not a fun experience but it has always kept leap seconds and time problems in the front of my mind.
If egalitarian means teachers pick the winners and test performance is irrelevant.
Sounds plausible. More educated people have less time for children, and they don't need children so much to take care of them later in life. But what this really sounds to me is that Chinese government is afraid of people getting smart and saying screw this totalitarianism.
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> Because they flopped.

Sorry, but this is just naive. Volkswagen has 26.5% of the European EV market in 2021. If the MEB platform is a flop then I think Volkswagen will very much like to continue that flop.

> Teardowns of the ID.4 have shown that MEB isn't even a real EV platform. It was all hype.

I don't know what that's supposed to mean. I don't think you know either.
The release of the latest stable version of K-9 Mail (5.600) was in September 2018, nearly three years ago. It "died" (but didn't really)

More info: https://k9mail.app/2020/06/01/Whats-Up-With-K-9-Mail.html
A Linux distro with a focus on simplicity and the concept of less is more
Burn it.
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It's quite hard to predict short-term trends. My guess is that the economy will be mostly fine. We might see a little slowing after the reopening and we may see some more volatility in the markets as central bankers become less accommodative and perhaps have to respond to inflation if it continues to push higher.

Debt (assuming you mean public debt) is a longer-term concern. Personally I doubt we'll see world leaders looking to address debt levels for another 5-10 years.

The pandemic will probably be in mostly the same place in 6 months. Infections may pick up a little into the winter months, especially if there are new variants that are more resistant to the current vaccines. However, my guess is we'll have another round of vaccines coming which will keep deaths at manageable levels without having to fully lock down again. That said, fear will remain high enough that politicians can continue to push through their surveillance agendas and continue to erode personal freedoms as they see fit.

Globalisation will become continue to be challenged as tensions between the US and China continue to escalate. Again, this is a longer-term concern, but I'm sure we'll see some notable progressions in that direction over the coming year.

My guess is that social tensions will continue to worsen. I personally believe that multi-culturalism will fail long-term, but in the short-term we'll continue to see problems like racial tensions escalate in the West. We'll also continue to see unrest as the divide between rich and poor continues to grow, but luckily for the rich the media and political class will be more focused on dividing us by race so a unified voice for working class voters will be impossible -- poor white voters will continue to vote republican and poor minority voters will continue to vote democrat, neither have an incentive to do anything but pander to their racially divided electorates.

Long-term we're done for. I suspect there are too many technological advancements coming and too many geopolitical risks for us not to screw something up. My guess is that the West will eventually enter a cold-war with China while social unrest will continue to rise. Politicians will respond to these threats by revoking more and more of our freedoms. Eventually something will break whether that's civil war (unlikely IMO), a hot war with China (more likely, but at least a decade or two out) or some technological disaster (genetically engineered viruses, AI, autonomous weaponry, etc).

My advice to everyone is to enjoy this period of history. I think these next few decades are going to test us more than we've ever been tested before as a species.
There's definitely a generational divide with LVB with what people most associate him with. I'm very much in the TNG generation, but with a dose of Roots.

And then, of course, there was his classic guest shot on Community.
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In Québec we learn analytical geometry, it was actually tremendously helpful for me to excel at Calculus and Linear Algebra. I don't really think it's obsolete.
> Once regarded as a sure-fire way for aspiring children (and parents) to get ahead, after-school tutoring is now viewed as an impediment to one of Xi Jinping’s top priorities: boosting a declining birth rate.

I'd like to know where this explanation is coming from. Is that something that the CCP actually stated somewhere, or is the the author assuming?
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I still can’t believe Apple gets away with their browser rules on iOS. Yes you can have default browsers now, but they are still built on what Apple says so.
> If you manage to compile the kernel with clang, in theory you can even get cross-language LTO.

Note, that there is still bunch of unsolved issues [1] in LLVM to allow all building all of Linux kernel. The efforts had stopped for some years but recently gained steam again, though a lot of time was wasted before.

[1] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4068
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I assure you, these kinds of schools where you repeat over and over the same math problems are not going to give you the perspective needed to consider a change of worldview which will make you reconsider your societal structure. They only grind you down and make you tired.
Well I am not familiar with the law but if it doesn’t specifically mandate some sort of warning or sign then it’s not surprising pharmacies want to cut costs as much as possible. You can vote with your time and wallet and go to a more upscale pharmacy with presumably better service.
> Chinese government is afraid of people getting smart and saying screw this totalitarianism

You people can really spin anything China related to a conspiracy. The Cold War propaganda machine has worked really well. Get a grip.
Jony Ive and Prince Charles will save us all with design, apparently
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We know that it has been a very, very slow process and we don't really know where and under which conditions it happened.

I hope that you are right, that we might be able to replicate portions of it. It might help us understand something more about what we call life. It might also help us understanding alternative forms of life that might exist on other planets.
Could one use emulated SNES to do the same thing?
My unpopular opinion is a little boring. The common element is GDP-first economic management and everyone is cheating with inappropriately low interest rates. Instead of nations putting their people first, countries manage to this (inappropriate) metric and then imply that this benefits everyone. In this way China is following the same script as most Western nations.

Where I live the externalizations are going gangbusters, and I believe this to be true in most other places. Boomers are insanely rich with decent property portfolios (bought before the interest rate plunges, then used as leverage to borrow more and buy more after the plunge) and their children - even a lot of successful ones - can barely afford shoebox apartments with sticker prices fast approaching one million dollars. The stock market is long-term up despite their being no rational explanation - no significant increase in dividends - other than the large increase in money supply due to the cheap rate to borrow, not to mention all the other insane financial "instruments" invented after the official interest rate hit near zero (QE, emergency "loans" to the super rich that will likely never be repaid). Businesses are enjoying ridiculous valuations but yet complain about their staffing costs. The total absence of any real increase in the median salary. (I know here on HN we worship the overachiever with six-figure salaries at FAANGs that start with a number > 1 but it is sociopathic not to consider the life experience of average or "normal" people in our society. They are our neighbours after all.) Insane immigration levels in the presence of declining prosperity for citizens is another side-effect of an inflation-driven economy.

This explains why the birth rates are low in Western and prosperous Far East nations (China, Japan, Korea). And how the birth rates for newly arrived immigrants declines from that of their home country. The side-effect phenomena are strikingly similar.