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Yes, it is about optimization. By your own admission, rustc allows you to set -C opt-level, and that would probably change semantics to the desired, but at significantly worse performance.

You don't seem to understand the concept of undefined behavior. What I'm trying to say is that even if rustc generates the correct output, the code could still officially be declared UB, just as it is now in debug mode. If it breaks logic that relies on the exclusivity of &mut, well, that's what UB does, it breaks things.

It is entirely an optimization option.

You're right that I think it would be nice if you could have multiple &muts created from raw pointers, but I'm not asking for that. The reason these things are issues at all is because Rust uses these references for things like RAII (e.g. &mut self in drop()), and there's no way to use raw pointers instead. If Rust provided a way to use raw pointers more easily in the places you need them, this would be a non-issue. But right now, the unsafe/safe boundary is very dangerous in Rust, so dangerous that I'm uncomfortable working in it even though I've worked in C and C++ for over a decade, and it's entirely a self-inflicted wound by the Rust devs.
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I don't know what I'm looking for, there's several stages of play in that clip, is a garyowen where they collide in midair?
You all but certainly overestimate typical technological literacy.

About 5% of computer users have "advanced" literacy, defined as "Some navigation across pages and applications is required to solve the problem. The use of tools (e.g. a sort function) is required to make progress towards the solution. The task may involve multiple steps and operators. The goal of the problem may have to be defined by the respondent, and the criteria to be met may or may not be explicit"

https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/106841164116074208

Even just general literacy and numeracy are ... far lower than you'd expect: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp

An OECD 20-country survey gives the 5% "advanced" technological literacy statistic: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264258051-en

Jacob Nielsen discussed that at the time: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

This is a substantial aspect of my "Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User": https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
Did Twitter make democratic discourse better by banning feminist author Meghan Murphy? I don't necessarily endorse her opinions and I know some people think she's terrible, but I fail to see how locking her out of the conversation improves anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan_Murphy

Meanwhile there are active Taliban representatives still happily tweeting today...

(And I do understand that Twitter as a private company has a legal right to ban anyone they want. My point is about broad societal effects rather than legal rights.)
I'm even more tired of people comparing this place to Reddit when it's nothing like it.
Never heard of them until just now. Looking at the men's "Everyday" collection they sort of remind me of the original Yeezys if you were to take the edge off of them and make them blend into an office park. Not really my thing, but I'm here for companies not using slave labor and trying to use materials that aren't so destructive to the planet.
The ability to appropriately negotiate/challenge/confront/reject authority is critical. It takes practice, you'll screw up, there will be consequences. But if you don't practice and learn this skill the hard way you'll be a victim your whole life.
Thank you! Awesome suggestion, it fully covers the patent-blocking aspect.

Now we just need a "Github for Mechanical Engineers".
"Microsoft formats your kids" really fell flat compared to all the others.
The main link is throwing error 500s. The commenter with the archive link is being helpful to the community. Very uncool to diss them like that.
In my mind, when I see i.e., i think "in other words", and when I see e.g., I think "for example"
Until you ask for help and the very first response is something like "Ubuntu is a very bad example of a linux distro."[0], or "I've never had these problems with Arch", or any other variation of "try a different distro", which is incredibly common advice in the Linux Desktop community.

Not to mention that if you're googling for help on a problem, there's a good chance you'll run into posts about dozens of other distros so, if you want to use their advice, you have to understand the differences enough to know how to translate it to fit yours.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28367789
Because it's been debunked over and over and over. It's just not supported by historical evidence, even by Japanese historians interviewing surviving Japanese officials. Somebody else has recommended in this thread but I will as well: "Japan's Longest Day" makes for fascinating reading.

The reality is that there was a peace faction in the Japanese government who did want to surrender but the ultranationalistic Japanese military was quite firmly in control and was very much _not_ interested in surrendering, even at the cost of millions of Japanese military and civilian casualties involved in continuing the war. (It's worth remembering that the Allied aerial firebombing campaigns had already devastated every other major city in Japan and caused far more civilian casualties than both atomic bombs did; both the Japanese and Allied militaries accepted this as part of the toll of war.) The aim (and preference of all factions) would have been a peace treaty that let Japan keep its ill-gotten gains in Asia. It took an unprecedented direct order from the Emperor to initiate the surrender, over the objections of the military. Even the high level overview provided by the Wikipedia article has excerpts like "[On August 9,] The cabinet meeting adjourned at 17:30 with no consensus. A second meeting lasting from 18:00 to 22:00 also ended with no consensus. ... The cabinet debated, but again no consensus emerged." and "As August 14 dawned, Suzuki, Kido, and the Emperor realized the day would end with either an acceptance of the American terms or a military coup." that directly contradict the idea that Japan was eager to surrender.

And beyond that, at the last minute, a coup attempt was made by fanatics willing to defy even the Emperor in an attempt to prevent the surrender proclamation from being broadcast (the Kyuujou incident).

Does any of this sound like a Japan that was eager to surrender? No, and that's why war historians generally deride this theory, quotes from Halsey, Eisenhower, etc. notwithstanding. Even just reading the Wikipedia article would make this clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan
I do totally get it. I only take an issue with the (maybe unintentional) duplicity of pretending that "remote work in the continental US" can only mean "remote work".
> players saw a decline in blood flow to the brain and cognitive function - the ability to ... perform mental gymnastics.

Avoiding mental gymnastics can't be a bad thing, right?
Exactly. Look at mRNA. Nobody expected vaccines to come so fast, and be so good.
A lot of wealthyish people are borrowing against their portfolios to finance their lifestyles, under the old banker adage of borrow at 3%, invest at 10%...

This kind of lending used to be reserved for pretty wealthy people, and honestly never made much sense in the era of 8-10% interest rates. But now, interest rates are sub-inflationary and there are tons of companies out there willing to give low-interest loans to Joe Consumer. Almost anyone can get a 2% loan against a quarter of your portfolio from online investment firms.

At that point, you'd be crazy to liquidate your investments. Even if your investments did nothing, it would take years of interest payments just to exceed the capital gains tax on liquidating it.

Then there's the fact that most major purchase (housing, cars) can be readily financed at low interest rates without needing a huge investment portfolio.

We might be in a Too Big To Fail moment with interest rates. If they go up too much, a lot of leveraged people who've seen staggering returns might be forced to liquidate their holdings, driving down prices and triggering margin calls on people who are buy-and-hold types, causing a feedback loop.
I don't think the point is entirely semantic. Saying that freedom means doing whatever you want is a very juvenile understanding of the concept. If you generalized that to laws that aren't just about software, but say, about violence, you'd wind up at the conclusion that laws that prevent theft and violence restrict freedom, when in the bigger picture it couldn't be further from the truth.

Restricting other people's freedom to violence means I'm free to walk the streets without fear of harm, likewise, restricting your freedom to close source and sell my software means your end user is free to know what's running on his/her computer.
Are you ready to pay 30% premium for using Apple payment system?
PTFE burns at high but commonly achieved cooking temperatures, the result is a fine particulate in the air. You have to be careful (and many aren’t) to only use nonstick for low to medium temperature cooking.
I assume you're comparing specifically to Linux on the same hardware? Because on x86, installing Linux is usually "flash this image to a USB stick, boot it, and click the 'next' button a lot"
I've definitely seen my share of impossibly convoluted code written in the name of "best practices" (often done because we need to "future proof" against some imagined future use case), but I've also seen my share of properly engineered code that was elegant, testable, composable and easy to work with (code that "cleaved the problem domain at the joints" if you will).

But what I think the author meant is that the incomprehensible abstraction soup is at least in part a result of the "enterprise development" method. If you are solving a particular problem for a particular application you tend to solve the problem in a straightforward way as possible (if you're any good at least). But if you an "enterprise architect" you are trying to create architectures that both solve no problem in particular and all problems at once. So you tend to get complex abstractions that are both complicated to work with and don't cleanly deal with any particular implementation.
He put in the time to qualify for a league pension, then quit then quit the NFL. Somehow this overlapped with his time as a masters student (source, iirc, alumni section of technology review).
Its a few lines of code... for a coder, and even then, its 100 lines of setup, shaders, model loading.

Vs a single tag to embed a model. For a non-coder. You dont have to know how to encode/decode videos to add video to a page.

Im surprised it's taken this long. (Whether it'll turn out good, not sure, but it will definitely be adopted, and fast)
I'm not advocating for the mayor - the velib debacle is indeed one of the many mistakes. She also happens to have been re-elected, so some people think she's not that bad.

However, the harshness of your comment does show that she is extremely divisive.

Furthermore, I've been living in central Paris as an adult for more than 20 years, would you mind being a bit more civil, and not describing me as 'repeating propaganda' (which I find offensive,
If I am honest)?
As someone who always gets the pro version because home has always had arbitrary restrictions and as someone who has never changed the taskbar position, neither of those are reasons to avoid Windows 11.

The reason to not care about it for me is that it doesn't actually improve anything in any notable way. There's no compelling reason to upgrade.
I can say there is only one or two in Haiti. There are a few fast food, but most people cook at home or only buy dinner out.
> Kahneman has had his adversarial collaborations with that other guy who promotes intuitive decision making.

Gerd Gigerenzer, I believe. I'm with Gigerenzer, as his research tends to replicate a little better ;)
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Wouldn't call them the best value, but I love my pair they are extremely comfortable and versatile for matching with stuff. Fashion-wise, they are pretty bland.
Matchmaking alone isn't inherently evil. As you allude to: what's the point playing if you're going to win 100% of the time or lose 100% of the time?

I'm commenting in the context of why China might ban online gaming. If you can learn the strategies that you fight against in a bot in offline play - or exploit the blunders they make - it can still be fun, but there's less variance and more predictability. You'll probably get tired of it sooner than seeing emergent strategies from other players. Until games are built with bots that can effectively mimic the full range of ELO and unique strategies like you get in online play, I think there will be something missing in offline play. Even then, do we derive the same satisfaction from beating a bot?

Partner up matchmaking with engagement tricks like "first win of the day" and other quests that net you some in-game resources like battle passes and you create a sense of FOMO that drains player time (while ensuring active players to keep queues fast). Add in micro-transactions and financial drain can happen too.
Batteries are a massive materials science success story. We are less than a decade away from 1000 mile range electric cars that do 0-60 in sub 3 seconds. These were Bugatti Veyron numbers a decade back, and that thing had a fuel efficiency of 4mpg.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this, I'll ask the marketplace support about it.

Try to search for "EBS Optimizer" in the AWS console and you should find one of my tools most likely to be useful for most people.

If you run EC2 or any other services that use it under the hood, such as EMR, ECS or EKS, it's going to save you a few bucks. It's free of charge below about $14 savings monthly and charges up to 5% of the savings thereafter, $0.7 for each $14 it saves you.
> having a relatively high savings / investing rate is as important.

Balancing that with risk and liquidity is a challenging barrier. What’s your take?
> It's more than aesthetics. Putting a non-commercial license on works, especially software, is a death knell.

I disagree. If you don't do that and Amazon kills your business model as a result, you now have to fire all your developers and abandon the software. Now that's a death knell!

I'm happy to use open source licenses for hobby software that I may or may not continue maintaining. For anything I hope to build a business around, I would never consider an OSI license anymore in this new cloud world. Amazon basically killed that open source business model.
power seeking behavior is certainly a homo sapiens invariant. feeding this beast while containing it is still the stuff of utopias. one would speculate that actually its an instinct that could be satiated in less damaging ways.

but money (or that other favorite punching bag, corporate structures) are really straw men. they are just recent, transient and evolving constructs. it is conceivable that we could do better with improved versions, or even additional such tools that we haven't yet imagined.

there is, in this respect an interesting data point. this other "pandemic" (cryptomania). this too is mostly depressing in the amount of financial / economic ignorance it reveals - but it offers a silver lining in showing how indeed "made-up" the money system actually is, and thus its in-principle malleability
It's the high kick.
Any reason why bringing gendered insults into the mix was needed?
Played with the extension, it does not seem to enable this feature: the option appears, but then there's an error message. Although the other features are fun.
This is really strange - I’m in Germany and I hear for the first time that underwear is treated like this.

None of the brand I wear (HOM) seem to be and I don’t remember that being mentioned on any pack of underwear I purchased the last 40 years.

Is it an US thing?

(and yes, I’m posting about my underwear on hacker news. weird.)
Bear in mind that many younger people grew up with mobile computing first. So they're not as familiar with the "power user" desktop computing behaviors us older people have developed.

Not dismissing that Google Docs overlay may be explained by any of the following: (a) learned behavior from mobile computing that very few things are configurable (mobile apps tend to have far fewer preferences on how things are displayed; (b) pop ups on mobile often don't close when clicked; and (c) they are used to operating with very tight screen real-estate. I think (c) is most likely.

As someone brought up on desktop computing, I fight to eliminate anything that needlessly wastes screen real-estate such as bloated window chrome. But I think someone brought up on small screens might actually feel agitated by "too much" space.
> So what Apple/Google should've done is give larger publishers a volume discount.

From Apple/Google's perspective this is a terrible strategy.

The problem is that, if we assume the Pareto Principle holds, the larger publishers probably generate 80% of revenue on the App Store.

So assuming 5% is operating at cost, you are talking about them probably sacrificing 70%-75% of their current profits (i.e. moving to 5% margin vs 25%, profit for high-grossing apps is probably closer to 1/5th previous rather than 1/3rd).

So they avoid the lawsuit, but they also lose all the profits they are trying to protect anyway.
Agenda slowness is killing me. I need a solution, but honestly I feel like my next band-aid is probably an upgraded computer.

I create a new org file for each client, plus a few extras, and so at this point I have (ls -al | grep org$ | wc -l) 86 such files.

I could speed it up by doing more archiving, but it's useful to have history for long-running engagements in the main file vs the _archive files.

I may decide to move moribund/closed engagement files to a subfolder for cold-storage, but then there's the out-of-sight, out-of-mind problem.

OTOH, I never ever print from Org, and I use Exchange for calendaring, so the other two points aren't a problem for me, at least.
More about La Quadrature du Net :

https://www.laquadrature.net/en/
This makes a lot of sense to me through an efficiency lens.

Facebook could spend a lot of money to get engineers beefy workstations, and then have each of these workstations clone the same repository and build the same index locally.

Or, they could leverage the custom built servers in their data centers (which are already more energy-efficient than the laptops), build a single index of the repo, and serve queries on-demand from IDEs throughout the company.

I could also see an analytics angle to this if it could incorporate history and track engineering trends over time. In my experience, decision making in engineering around codebase maintenance is usually rooted in “experience” or “educating guessing” rather than identifying areas of high churn in the codebase or what not.
I don't want flame retardants in my products. I suspect most of these requirements came from the era when a lot more people smoked. Sure, put flame retardants in oven mitts and things that will reasonably catch fire, rather than things like pillowcases.

Even still, how common were couch fires 20+ years ago when flame based (non-vaping) smoking was so much more common?
> Allbirds is a great business

They haven’t proven that. Yes, they’ve sold a lot of shoes, but they’ve never made a profit and don’t project doing so.

Every money-losing company that raises money has a story of how it will become profitable. It is possible that they do, but they haven’t yet.
That the collision happened close to port is weird in itself. France has its SSBNs stationed south of Brest; the UK to the west of Glasgow. One would assume the individual routes to the patrol areas would be rather different. What would the HMS Vanguard do less than a days travel from Brest?
If everyone is producing electricity, who pays the bills?
It may be a contributor but there are so many "obvious" things that cause obesity in the modern world that a paper needs really strong arguments with a rigorous statistical analysis with confounding factors in order to draw conclusions.

The obvious include: high availability of energy-rich, cheap food, lower amount of physical activity, food designed to be addictive (usually with lots of sugar),...

There is also a strong correlation between obesity and low socioeconomic status, that can be also explained by "obvious" factors, like irregular meals, less physical activity, cheap, energy-rich, nutrient-poor food and poor education regarding healthy habits.
There is not a singular risk. In rugby some risks come from intentional foul play or accidents (high tackles, disguised hits on static players players at rucks and mauls, scrum collapses, etc.) Others come from the constant, somewhat controlled impacts that exist in normal play. These can expose the tackler to the impact versus the individual being tackled.

Any discussion on this topic needs to recognise how the game of rugby union has changed. It rapidly went from amateur to professional, but took some time for the current level of power and fitness to develop. You had powerhouses like Lomu in the 90s, but from the early-2000s you have legions of Ma'a Nonu level players. Safety protocols seem to be pushed down to the junior game more readily than the adult professional game. Much influence has come from rugby league which arguably has popularised particular styles of play that hadn't been used in union.

There is much more that could be written about the historical changes, but it has made a big difference to safety while culturally making it harder to implement changes. Big tackles become what many viewers want to see in the game and this perpetuates both a style of tackling and bulking up that didn't exist before. Line speed is monitored closely and everything to improve this results bigger players moving more quickly which anecdotally results in more serious impacts. Authorities know it, but reducing it makes the game less exciting for TV audiences and there is less money to go around. It's a vicious cycle.

There are clear and obvious changes which can be tested in the game, but pushing these through takes a very long time. A concern some have expressed is around impact/tactical substitutions (https://www.theroar.com.au/2021/08/14/grossly-negligent-lion...). Adding a bunch of fresh players in soccer later in the game is common. The thinking carried over to rugby. It was attractive because you had chubbies like me at the front of the scrum who could perform higher over 40 minutes than the full 80 minutes. When you are adding huge Nonu-types into a game with tiring players then problems can occur. I can't imagine that changes will happen here rapidly.

The junior game becomes an easy place to push changes. The argument is made that children are being protected, but then the changes don't bubble up. Encouraging low tackling under a certain age is good, but tactics need to come along with these rules. Head-on tackles can go higher head-on because you are trying to hold the player up or in place versus taking them down and possibly allowing them a few feet past you to touch the ball down for a try. It's all interlinked.

In summary: yes, but it's up to the leaders to drive changes top down at all levels and accept that they may lose some revenue.

(I played rugby all through school from 1992 to 1999 in Ireland and have followed local global play since. For all the sides of Nonu see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoVpAjSN6Nc and then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdEKqoOdhM0 - but, many other could be substituted in his place.)
apple dedicate its existence to building beautiful things and user experience, it makes painful work much more bearable, at the end of the day I'm just another consumer that wants to enjoy things without thinking about how to build this from source or fix that dependency, plus it's beautiful to look at