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>in Cocoa and GTK?

This is reason enough. Already you now have to build the UI twice because there is no GUI framework that actually looks good on all OSs. You see this all the time where apps made on linux but technically work on macos just work terrible or look super ugly on macos.

You also have to remember windows, ios and android. When you build something targeting web browsers you only have to worry about screen sizes rather than OSs.
> more people would rather exist outside society

The "society" created around the routines of most corporate jobs is artificial, inauthentic, and provides material comforts. Having death staring you down during a pandemic for this long is a good motivator for letting go of baggage, including said jobs, especially if material comforts were the main reason to stay in it.
how to deny battery level access to apps ?
never seem to actually say who should be stuck doing all the labor

They are probably not actually closet misogynists or anything like that, they probably just haven’t thought that far ahead.
In other threads, someone was asking about same type of images but stored as a pdf or as an archive, as those are not part of iCloud Photo category.
It would be strange not to extend this search even further, including iMessage and what have you.
What solution is politically viable in the US though? There is serious resistance to almost anything.
The article mentions vaccination, but it also mentions that Israel is going to have to go back to masks and social distancing. It is my understanding that this situation happened partially because they stopped wearing masks...
There was a prior study that mentioned the efficiency of the vaccine alone was somewhere in the 60-65 percent range without masks for the BioNTech vaccine, about a 33% drop in efficiency is nothing to laugh at.
I don't know much about California but it seems that most of the dam potential of the state has already been exploited [0].

This is the case for most developed areas.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-water-st...
Is that how scientific modelling (ie., modelling of non-computable functions) works though?

It's not necessarily that squaring precision leads to a "better model", its that it fails to be a model at all without that precision.

Eg., consider a climate model with effects at the first-decimal place, and 10th decimal-place of some measurable quantity vs. time.

The effects at the 10th dp. could aggregate to overwhelm the effects at the 1 dp.

It isnt that the model is better if it can "compute at the 10th dp" -- its just wildly inaccurate otherwise.
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10x is a lot if the market follows a winner takes it all model.
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PostgreSQL, FreeBSD, Debian, rails all have superb docs.

Also, the software quality is high. This used to be the case for Apple and windows sdks. Not anymore.. now it’s “read the code“ or stack overflow
I really recommend getting into StarCraft 1 BroodWar AI development using BWAPI. OpenBW is open source and there's a thriving and helpful community around bot development. A lot of tournaments / competitions and video casts too. You won't regret it. Search for the SSCAIT Discord link. (I am on mobile and don't have it handy).
One thing's for sure, the US & Canada were founded by multinational corporations for the benefit of multinational corporations.

IIRC not public corporations but with royals and noblemen for partners.

After so much time people are bound to draw different conclusions sometimes.
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The lastest report of IPCC brings more data and confidence about extreme weather. The key number is that their probability has increased by a factor of 150 wrt. to pré industrial era.
Natural systems lowers entropy by healing. There are fluctuations, but human intervention may be preventable when humans are rational and empathic.
Interesting read, but as a programmer I wonder.. Who builds a feature that allows users to input arbitrary strings, turns them into unchecked commands from a process that runs as root and has no logging and after all of this doesn't realise this on the spot with the hands still on the keyboard that this smells like trouble? If any collegue of mine would do this I either suspect a backdoor or incompetence on such scale they shouldn't have the job in the first place.

This is like seeing a four inch crack during the construction of a bridge and still pressing on till it collapses. No, it actually is like planning a four inch wide crack into a bridge and finding it through a random inspection a year after. It should not only never happen, it should never even have been considered.

I understand that implementing a quick "do whatever you want"-feature might be practical but:

- anything that could get arbitrary strings from network input (or from anything other that has network input) needs to be validated and sanitized

- anything that dispatches commands on a machine from user/network input should run with the lowest possible privilege

- whitelisting is always simpler than blacklisting, but never understimate what a few whitelisted unix commands with arbitrary arguments can do. Maybe writing your own simple DSL is better for such a use case. It could even turn out to be a selling factor if it has a nice GUI
How so? It's certainly been the dream of the "elite intellectual left" that they can counter blunt, misleading propaganda from the right with carefully crafted arguments refuting the disinformation. The problem is that such arguments inherently fall on deaf ears. The intended audience recoils instinctively at carefully crafted intellectual arguments. Parent poster has come to the horrible, but well reasoned, conclusion that the solution instead is dumbed down propaganda of the same quality but with a different message.
Meh - I find the idea of overloading what function application means very counterproductive. You can say that function application is just a special case of Kleisli composition and the syntax should really mean Kleisli composition, but really that's just the statement that a lot of things behave as composition in some sense (which is why category theory works at all).

> Denotationally that's all `!` is! Indeed we can choose to think of `!` as syntactic sugar, but that's optional. You can instead give it an immediate denotation instead of having to desugar things first. The reason we use `!` to denote the absence of Kleisli extension rather than its presence is because most of the time you care only about its absence. Otherwise your code would be absolutely filled with `!`s.

I think it's worth tugging at this thread. Even within our effectful/imperative DSL block (which is what I see do notation as), most of the time we don't actually want to do effectful Kleisli composition. Most of the time we want our function application syntax to denote regular function application. For the same reason, I don't find Moggi's approach compelling - in theory you could understand the denotation of a do block by understanding the whole thing as Kleisli composition and then algebraically simplifying, but in practice that would be far too complex for humans. (In the same way, I felt Frank was completely the wrong approach, because I don't want to push a maximal bundle of effects in, I want to pull a minimal bundle of effects out).

In many cases I'm skeptical about using do notation at all - often using the applicative or arrow combinators expresses the denotation more clearly, putting us in a position where it's much easier to apply algebraic laws - but where I think it does succeed is in letting you mix a minimal piece of operationally-understood effect into a procedure the bulk of which is still denotationally-understood, and, ideally, lets you view that piece of code from both perspectives at the same time. So the way I'd approach it is "what is the simplest/most restricted possible set of effectful-compositions that allows us to express everything we want", and current do notation mostly fits the bill.

As you say, there's a lot of proposals and efforts to relax the restraints of do notation and offer a more expressive way of working with effects, but I've always found they lead to code that was confusing to maintain. So in the end I bite the bullet and say that yes, I will refactor the whole call chain if it turns out it needs the current time somewhere at the bottom (or else I'll decide that accessing the current time is not an effect that I care to track explicitly at all), because although it's more work up-front, it's ultimately the only way to avoid ending up with code that's confusing to read.
Actually providing support to users would require hiring a lot of people and maybe actually empowering them to take actions that were helpful; but, probably empowering them opens security concerns, so they'd just tell you to use the self-service things that are probably broken anyway. So that option is not a good use of Google's resources.

Moderating a community self-help site well requires a lot of people too, so just leaving it to the community seems like the only option for Google.

I've seen a lot of companies try these sites, and they start with real employees putting real responses, but it quickly spirals into unanswered questions and terribleness. The only ones that work are where there are lots of company paid moderators keeping things focused and productive, but I'm sure management thought community support was going to reduce support costs.
Another marketing pet peeve that I have is term "blazing" fast. I think it's so overused now on any new tool's landing page posted online that I instantly just assume that it is, in fact, of relatively average speed. Are there no other synonyms for fast these days?
But that intermediate AC is square (not sinusoidal) which means the transistors spend almost no time in the linear range, which means they generate very little heat. And the frequency is much higher than 60Hz too. It's a very different kind of AC, with much more controllable and more efficient electronics.

Transformers still have their place but they're still basically big dumb (uncontrollable) chunks of copper and iron.
I plugged your numbers into this mortgage calculator[0], and it looks like the payment on a 30 year loan of 500k with 20k down @ the average interest rate is less than your rent payment.... and you'd then be able to sell the asset when you move.

It doesn't sound like your landlord is doing you any favors.

0. https://moneysmart.gov.au/home-loans/mortgage-calculator
You're right on the price, but I compared retail to retail since there isn't really something like a barrel of crude water.
it appears someone should make it free. i bet someone beats me to it.
0.2MB seems fine for a fully featured web app. Loading up the average website today typically loads tens of MB for an index page.
It's frequently much more energy intensive too. Cars are a lot more efficient than horses and dishwashers are more efficient than hand washing.
Dairy farms use far more water the focus on almonds is a result of dairy industry propaganda.
knuth.
> Employment, and employees, are not fungible - why do people (and more importantly: the news-media and the people elected to direct the economy) continue to speak of it as though it is?

I've seen this mentioned a few times on HN. I find it a confusing concept.

My position is 100% fungible. I write code to solve problems. There are thousands of people that can write equivalent code to solve the same problems.

I'm legitimately interested: can you expand on how my position isn't fungible?
on my simple games I essentially do this which seems to work but I have concerns about it cascading out of control if a frame takes too long. any tips for dealing with that? so far I just aggressively profile to make sure my game logic has a good time buffer before it hits my timestep.

const TIMESTEP = 1/60;
let since_last_frame = 0.0;

function update(dt) {
since_last_frame += dt;
while (since_last_frame > TIMESTEP) {
tick();
since_last_frame -= TIMESTEP;
}
}

function tick() {
// handle game logic at a fixed timestep
}
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How do I get Off of your announcements/notification/mailing list?????
I believe in absolute truth but that is increasingly unpopular in an increasingly relativist age.

However, I don’t trust any broad society wide effort to censor anything. Even if it works well now and the deceiving evil people of today are muted it WILL bite us down the road when evil people use the precedent and mechanism to silence truth.

I would rather we spend our time educating our people to be rigorous thinkers vs controlling what they are exposed to.
I see. The current entry started 9 August 2021‎. It's been going back and forth.

The 1 September 2020‎ entrying adding him was almost immediately reverted. The 4 September 2020‎ entry re-adding him was reverted 23 September 2020‎.

> never about letting the virus spread unchecked

Meaning you disagree with Tedros' characterization but agree with the other critics? RationalWiki's entry

> This approach was never really tested so the critics are not proven correct.

Some things are unethical to test. We don't have double blind tests that parachutes work. https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459

The RationalWiki entry for the GBD says the same thing a different way: "reasonable-sounding calls to "just give it a try" ignore that you don't need to try things which you know won't work and which have foreseeable negative consequences that are impossible (or at the very least, extremely difficult) to reverse"
Semi-jokingly: if they are happy, then why are they leaving?

I hope that most are going to explain it better than “unhappy”, but at the end of the day we all want a better future for ourselves.
> The British spent 200 years in the country building institutions and culture.

That is a sorry description of colonialism.

Your theory of "cultural development" also doesn't explain how Germany chose through elections to turn itself in to a Nazi state.

As an aside, Zakaria is a talking head, part of the news as entertainment complex - sticking to the mainstream narrative as close as possible while trying to appear insightful at the same time. He is neither a historian, economist or sociologist and is a known plagiarist. Why would anyone want to read his books?
A mathematician was exploring a proof, and was shown that the avenue of inquiry they were making could not possible lead where they wanted to go. As a consequence they stopped investigating that path and potentially, as they were shown why that path was invalid, can see possible ways around the problem.

Perhaps the most effective thing a person can spend their time on is pointing people along paths likely to lead to success, and guiding them away from dead ends.
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Poor Zuck. Can't have a day in peace from the people who want to control public discourse. The internet had a great run though: 20 years of relatively free speech.
I'm glad that you agree that the US has a systemic inability to build all types of infrastructure like nuclear.

But it's a bit unfair to call my questions about the supposed success of France when you are the one who brought up the topic. I have searched for cost numbers on the Mesmer plan a few times and came up dry. Yet I still hear it as evidence that nuclear was cost effective and a good idea, without any numbers or data attached to it. So if it was cost effective, where are the numbers? And why did they stop at a fraction of what they had planned? These are earnest questions, directly on topic, directly about the feasibility of constructing nuclear. But I'm not surprised that nobody has the details, as I've never met a nuclear advocate that has investigated it as much as I have and could provide me with a single new fact. I am very interested in all potential solutions to climate change, but I don't see how nuclear could be one after three history I have learned and the recent track record with construction. Nuclear as climate solution does not have enough basis in fact for me to be able to support it.
The thing is, I don't want to buy this apartment. I don't trust the local builders enough for that and I believe that it will devalue faster than my rent payments. I also don't plan on living here for more than a few years. That calculator puts me at $537/week in just loan repayments for 30 years and does not include strata fees, council rates, sewerage fees, building insurance, etc.

To buy a property means paying tens of thousands in taxes each time you buy. If I stay here for 2 years and sell I would pay more in just taxes than the entire rent would have been and I am on the hook for any issues with the building or changes in value.

And I am perfectly happy to pay a known weekly amount which is well within my budget and put my savings in to other investments which don't tie me down to living in a particular place, do not require taking out multi decade loans and are easy to sell back for cash later.
This is me getting to grips with trying to be productive in Debian after years of Windows. Mostly it's going very well.
https://text.npr.org/1028452988

> California’s $6 billion almond industry, which produces roughly 80% of the world's almonds.

> California almond production grew from 370 million pounds (nearly 168 million kilograms) in 1995 to a record 3.1 billion pounds (1.4 billion kilograms) in 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. During that period, land planted with almond trees grew from 756 square miles (1,958 square kilometers) to 2,500 square miles (6,475 square kilometers).
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Why not charge based on typical "packages" containing a certain number of interactions with the service?
I think you'd be better served by using something like OpenCL. especially if it was already running on simd core then it should be relatively straightforward to port to openCL. the mental model to follow would be to think of a gpu as a collection of identical simd machines that are programmed in simplified version of C.

thinking further, if you have never programmed gpgpu processors you may be better off porting your code using NVIDIA CUDA (assuming you are targeting desktop graphics). it had better tools and overall a better ecosystem.
So, did my grandfather. He also went on strike and got shot at by Pinkertons.

However, working in a modern steel mill is a far cry from that. Even back in the 1970s (which is several decades ago please note), "Get the book" (operating manual which specified procedures, training, safety equipment, how many men were required, etc.) was a standard retort when managers ordered you to do something dumb. And the union protected you when you told the manager to go pound sand because it was outside the manual.

Amazon warehouse workers are schlepping around heavy stuff--just like many old school manufacturing jobs. And get crushed, injured, etc. just like many old school manufacturing jobs. However, they have zero protection and not much training and no backup to tell managers to get stuffed.

Now, would I trade a programming job for a steel mill one? Absolutely not. Would I trade an Amazon warehouse job for a steel mill one? That's not as clear to me.
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He was also offered to front $2b of the development costs himself after NASA went from saying there'd potentially be multiple winners to saying there'd only be one. I honestly don't think return on investment is his main concern with Blue Origin
My point was that focusing on an empty string as the hill to die on was a touch artificial.

My argument for why not, is that I don't think it pays off for most uses. You will wind up putting a ton of logic into the types, but then you have to do a ton of logic to correctly serialize into the types you have.

Do I think there are times/places this could pay off? I'd hope/expect so. But where the data hits the wire is likely not where you can set many of these constraints such that your type system can really help with them.
It's amusing because the commenter writes that there's a huge amount of the population who can't handle nuance, and then writes them off as never being able to change. Which is a statement without any nuance, just a gross dismissal of a large ill-defined subset of the population.

Though not themselves, because they consider themselves as the elite who must somehow save the world by trickling out Voltaire memes.
How do you distinguish between disinfo and being wrong?

What if the “authorities” are wrong? Is it disinfo to say so? For example: Is suspecting a lab leak as the cause of Covid disinfo, misinfo, wrong or right? (We dont know yet a lot of sites flag it as misinfo) same for the CDCs flip flopping on masks. Would predicting a catastrophic collapse of Afghanistan 2 weeks ago been misinfo?

Obviously all of these are nuanced and thats the point. A binary classification is rarely appropriate but highly tempting.
See my other comment, I actually did laugh. Your comment dismisses a large portion of the population for not being able to understand nuance, while completely lacking nuance in the gross dismissal of an ill-defined portion of the population.

And it's irrelevant whether you feel the comment was for me or not. Put it in a forum I can't read next time.
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OT but i like your username.
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Are they doing the Tesla method of handling refunds for Bitcoin purchases? That seems like a great way to hedge. e.g. if someone pays in Bitcoin, the seller reserves the right to either return the original BTC OR the original cash value. That way if BTC goes up you can issue refunds in USD, and if BTC tanks you can issue refunds in BTC
You’re right this was my experience in Europe as well. I should’ve clarified most people in the US are getting lonelier.
> you had to subject yourself to random inspections by the company's Sociological Department

And now we have ideological inspections.
Yawn. When celebrities get married or remarried or divorced or redivorced, it's on Wikipedia in seconds.
Real interest rates will certainly increase if Fed increases nominal rates.

The real rate is of course the inflation adjusted rate, and Fed policy has been one of the prime drivers of higher inflation.

If they weren't printing 120B a month, or monetizing government spending, real rates would go up. Treasury yields are artificially suppressed by their bond buying.

Beyond asset purchases, simply raising short term rates would immediately dampen inflation, though has economic consequences as well (slow business activity).

Unfortunately the Fed seems more interested in supporting markets than doing what's right for the longer term health of the economy. Wealth inequality has been primarily perpetuated through monetary policy... Though fiscal plays a role too, of course.
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Lest we forget , social networks are/were designed to exploit loopholes in our psychology [0]. Everything wrong with social networks can be derived from this :-(

[0]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sean-parker-facebook-takes-adva...
> Even if we got fantastically lucky and were able to build a practical (magnetic or inertial) reactor in 50 years, by that time improvements in energy storage and transmission technologies will have allowed renewable energy to dominate, and no government would be crazy enough to permit it to be built.

Not so sure about that. Vast solar and wind farms are eyesores and are not environmentally benign.
I had the misfortune to have my first visit to London during the Falklands War. I'd always wanted to visit Parliament during Question Time, which is usually easy because it's so boring. But this was when Margaret Thatcher was having her memorable confrontations with Labour over the war, and there was a long line to get in.

Never saw it. But Wellington, NZ has an accurate copy of the House of Commons for its own Parliament, so at least I saw that.