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I’ve been putting everything with a recycling symbol in the recycling waste. I find it reprehensible that it’s not recyclable.
I like this comment. It's an interesting question. It's understandable why we wouldn't want to use the same CPUs for 50 years or more given their history of rapid improvement, but on the other hand, engineering things to "heirloom quality" is important for sustained growth and for sustainability in general.
with good mainline (Linux) kernel/driver support... x86/64 has that unless they start to fragment it.
I don’t think it’s a small effect. There are something like 300 million tons of plastic waste per year, which is about 1 Gigatonne of CO2, or about 3% of global emissions… more than global aviation!

If we cut down all sources of emissions to zero, that would mean humanity using non-fossil plastic (like PLA or electrolytic syngas derived regular plastics) would be carbon negative.

The cost of PLA is about $2/kg, or equivalent to about $600/tonneCO2. About how much Climeworks currently costs for direct air CO2 capture.
I would like to understand the significance of each bullet point under "Specific features of Mēris botnet".
> and not having any recovery codes

An alternative might be to use something like Shamir's Secret Sharing to split the recovery codes between a dozen mutually-unknown friends in different jurisdictions, such that the secrets held by some threshold of them could produce the recovery codes.

These friends would have to be trusted to only hand you their share if they meet you in person in their jurisdiction, and should perhaps also first tweet out that they were doing so, in order to warn anyone whose security might depend on your encrypted data not being compromised.
I think you vastly overestimate the skill level of enterprise developers. Enterprise may pay a lot but they also hamstring developers in some interesting ways which tends to attract people who are better at the political game than the tech. The high pay attracts skill just the wrong skill in many cases.
Unless perf has the standard clause allowing use of later versions of GPL. That would make it GPLv3 if linked against libbfd.

Unfortunately it does not.
That's a great conspiracy theory! Hear me out before you downvote:

This could be the reason the WHO has been scaring everyone for the last two years for something with such a low mortality rate. Or maybe even why American tax dollars were spent on gain-of-function research in a laboratory in China!

Maybe this was all a tax payers funded friendly fundraiser to beat cancer with mRNA!

I'm sure tons of smart educated authoritarian people wouldn't refrain from manipulating entire populations for such a noble goal.
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That makes sense. I would not have thought even a poor country’s bank would agree to that. But it does not seem to be a problem in El Salvador today.

The situation is also getting better based on this report linked in Wikipedia:

http://www.remesas.org/files/exclusivityWP9.pdf
I think we have to apply an appropriate degree of scepticism to these statements. ‘Are interested’ could have a broad range of meanings from happy to receive a presentation from Intel sales upwards. ‘Want’ sounds like they are keen to have x86. Given x86 is supposed to be a key part of their offering I think they would have been more positive if they could.
That joke is very complex. Let's not forget that it's about people that lost a war not long before it, that had plenty of them killed by the Romans, and are forced to support the empire with taxes (that go mostly to Rome, not to local improvements).

The way people represent the joke, as if they had no reason to oppose the Romans is a joke by itself.
This makes me wonder: how do we re-acquire rational debate on the merit of ideas as opposed to whole-sale dismissal on the grounds of who we think a person is?
On a related note, I think the most errors I've seen in sizable C++ systems has been operator overloading for things like '=' and '=='. Too much hidden magic can occur.
^ If you are talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution that's Nov 7th / October 25 on the calendar system Russia was using at the time.
If you were going to design a standardised protocol for transactions, I wouldn't start from bitcoin, which makes all the wrong choices around identity, authority, anonymity, where to place the load, how to verify transactions etc etc.

Open banking is a much better approach to federated banking.
Good points all around. I think OpenCog has a lot of good ideas, but I won't claim that it's the "be all, end all", as of today. That said, I think to some extent the statement "there just wasn't enough rigor and coordination between the compoents" may be true exactly because that is the central challenge that still remains to be solved.

At the very least, I think reading Goertzel's books[1] and looking at OpenCog is a good introduction to the issues at hand in a general sense.

Totally agree on the causal learning thing. And that's an area that also seems to have had a resurgence of interest and activity lately.

[1]: Here I specifically mean Engineering General Intelligence, Volumes 1 & 2
And you also learn Scheme! I haven't taken course, but I've used profs online resources from it for self-teaching and they are great.
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I start to believe that all-in-one tools is eventually wrong for your work process. It's not specialized, limited, not modular, for particular workflow; you bend your whole organization's teams into it.

But too many services also introduce data integration problems (usually via APIs, 4 services may need 3 pipes). I wish there were "Managed Database Table as a Service" that provides authorization and authentication for apps/services to connect to. SaaS products connect to available db tables that user provides (assume B2B here), now business can choose a bunch of SaaS integrated together via database, get rid of all apis work.

Imagine Design tool, Issue Tracker, Git host, CMS read and write to your managed DTaaS. Painless automation extension. All teams use tools made for them specially.
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Also every provider offers different things, at different costs, etc. So it is up to providers to build solutions that are easy with a given language or framework.

We aspire to build a convenient service for Python/Django and there is a long road ahead.
All of them is a slight exaggeration. 999 out of every 1000, definitely.
yeah I've got a ZV-1 and been looking at the ZV-E10 reviews, it looks nice.

the only thing putting me off is that it looks like they move the USB/HDMI ports to the other side from the ZV-1 so, if you flip out the screen, the cables will obscure the screen.
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> externalities accounted for

Well yeah, that's kinda where the problem is. How do we price in all the different kinds of externalities for cotton bags and plastic bags in a way that is consistent and everyone agrees with?

Debating these externalities and how they should be accounted for is exactly the hard problem the parent comment was talking about.
> International bank transfers as well. Most of the time they are uber slow, depending on the country could take multiple days.

International bank transfers between the U.S. and El Salvador arrive on the same day if done before noon.

The local currency is US Dollar and the US is one of the largest trading partners.

So every bank that offers international bank transfers has U.S. correspondent bank accounts with the big banks like Citi, Wells or Bank of NY.
The Resin code was designed to help with recycling to determine what can be recycled.

It says so in the article you linked. It's the last column on the first chart.
> you can't prove that the "free space" is actually not just normal freespace on my HDD.

Isn't normal free space supposed o contain at least partially recoverable traces of deleted files usually? I think we need a file system that wipes everything deleted (including file names!) and replaces it with random data by default.
> A company might as well spend months of their experienced developers' time while making them mentor the more junior devs and invest a lot of resources in this, as well as have more overhead to their development because of needing to spend longer on QA and fixing bugs introduced by these juniors, for them to just turn around and leave when they've gotten the seniority that they desire.

There's simple solution to people leaving - just pay them above market rates. In my current company, a manager had this crazy idea, and what do you know - a lot of the key people he hired (most of them were excellent to begin with, as when you advertise above-market pay, you attract some pretty great people) are still with us 5 years later, and are being the pillars of their teams and of entire departments.
That's something most of us forget. I was wondering why you wouldn't just do a bank transfer, it's cheap and everyone have a bank account, but that's because I happen to live in a country where the EU ensures that I'm not paying insane fees and where you legally must have a bank account.

Personally I'm still not sure that Bitcoins and Western Union should be part of the solution. It seems "simple" for a country to just cap feed and ensure that everyone have access to banks.
The (not so) hidden cost of sharing code between platforms
> But they're no where near competitive with plastic because the production cost doesn't account for the total lifecycle.

I don't know what you mean by this.

If you bottle stuff into PET bottles (the usual stuff, being shredded after one use), then you have to buy one new PET bottle for each bottle you produce.

If you bottle stuff into reusable glass bottles (98+ % returned intact, cleaned and reused), then you mostly don't buy new bottles, just replacements for bottles falling out of the cycle (reuse limit reached, not returned, broken).

Why and by what mechanism would the price of a single new glass bottle account for the lifecycle of the bottle? It just doesn't make sense to me.
Surprisingly I've found this isn't quite true for match vs. search in python. You would think that searching using a regex starting with a ^ anchor might avoid scanning the whole string but it will do so anyway. It makes a huge performance difference if you miss it.
> Workstation running CDE/Motif?

Yes. "CDE" itself stands for "Common Desktop Environment". (Wikipedia says it was "part of the part of the UNIX 98 Workstation Product Standard", and if you remember the 1990's like I do, it was, indeed, supposed to be the "standard" desktop for Unixes.)

P.S. Linux isn't a Unix.
I never graduated from college. I also worked at Google for 7 years and never once got that vibe from my coworkers. It probably varied by office and I was in the Chicago office. But even on my somewhat frequent visits to New York or California offices I still didn't get that vibe.
The competitor to CarbonAds you are referring to is probably CodeFund. We ran CodeFund for almost 4 years. Even though we shut it down, we left the code open source (https://github.com/gitcoinco/code_fund_ads). Please feel free to use whatever you want from the project. Also, you might want to watch the video demonstrating how the project worked here: https://berry.sh/codefund-demo/

Good luck! It's a wild ride you are embarking on!

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that escalated quickly toward the end!
> However the main problem is still consumer knowledge of whats recyclable.

Strongly disagree here. Expecting average consumers to know the difference between polypropylene, polyurethane and polystyrene etc..., just by looking at something, is beyond the pale. That doesn't even take into account bonded materials, like paper coffee cups lined with plastic.

The "main problem" is manufacturers / supermarkets using any kind of packaging that is not recyclable by default, and vague / ever shifting standards from one private waste company to the next on what can be recycled.

There should be a massive tax on using non-recyclable materials for ordinary packaging, and it should have a mandatory skull & crossbones style symbol to show that it is hazardous to the environment.

On a positive note, Ireland just pushed through legislation to accept all kinds of plastic in recycling bins this week: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/household-recycl...
A better link: https://techtaiwan.com/20210909/tsmc-gan/
No. They were made to help communities separate plastics into those that can vs cannot be recycled.

That's why they are on the plastic, and why they have the recycle shape.
I had a girlfriend who had mixed feelings and gave it up as well, because at the time she had no way of verifying the purity and suspected she was usually getting a dose of cheap stimulants in addition to or instead of MDMA. The dealbreaker was that after one experience she suddenly developed a severe teeth-grinding problem. It persisted for at least several years afterwards; maybe longer, since I haven't spoken with her about it in a long time.

I was always too cautious to take drugs from unknowable sources, but based on the positive things she said, I'm curious about therapeutic uses of MDMA and would be open to trying it with my therapist, if I had way to be confident in the safety and purity of it. I think the only way I would feel comfortable would be if it came from a pharmaceutical source, so I probably won't be trying it any time soon.
Has nothing to do with "real life". They could either win money, or lose money, that's how volatile bitcoin is. The fact they got lucky and transferred in moments where they made money, doesn't make it a better "real life" scenario. Just makes it a lucky scenario, anecdata that might have been the complete opposite.
Birthday present.
I don't know if "rushed it" is the right terminology here, it was mostly built in the 90s and then kept being repurposed and delayed for 30 years.
Finland has that system for glass bottles. Plastic bottles also are in system but those are shredded and aluminium is crushed. Used to be that they were washed and re-used, but I think there were some calculations that it was worse than single use... Or might have been some EU thing...
> Are people actually getting confused by this?

Yes. Until about 3 minutes ago, I believed this symbol meant "recycleable", and just assumed that it's another case where producers can't (or don't want to) agree on a single symbol scheme.
At this moment we are not fighting for the niche of Production grade databases with failovers and all these valuable things.

The feature to back up at least postgres is planned, fail overs , replication, etc is not even planned yet. There are companies that have whole departments working on managed DB offerings, sadly – we don't. yet :)
So basically your solution is to give everyone in El Salvador a bank account and for the government to subsidize their remittance fees. Because if you're using banks, someone is paying fees. Someone from the US still has pay a fee to wire money from their bank to some endpoint in El Salvador.

The banks are literally the problem that Bitcoin solves, not the solution. Banks = fees and censorship.
Burying plastic is likely the best solution anyway as it's a CO2 sink. It's a great way to sequester carbon.
No. That is the case of Linus Torvalds not using the standard "or later" clause. He has his (bad) reasons.

The incompatibility is caused by "lack of restrictions" clause. Without that, GPL becomes essentially BSD with all the corporate thievery that entails.
OpenAPI can be used to describe the vast majority of extant APIs in the wild today. It was build to describe APIs. AsyncAPI, like GraphQL, imagines a new ecosystem. This article constructs straw man arguments against OpenAPI without making a particularly concrete case for AsyncAPI.
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If you can just do that then why does WU exist?
Agreed. This is extra bizarre considering their own documentation on the purpose of IAM unique IDS states:

>"However, every IAM user has a unique ID, even if you create a new IAM user that reuses a friendly name you deleted before. In the example, the old IAM user David and the new IAM user David have different unique IDs. You can create resource-based policies that grant access by unique ID and not just by user name. Doing so reduces the chance that you could inadvertently grant access to information that an employee should not have"[1]

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_i...
Yeah I’ve never seen an employee recommendation not lead to at least an interview. This is one of the biggest lasting benefits of my MBA — if I’m ever out of a job, I can just find a company I want to work for and I probably know someone relatively influential there. It’s sort of a professional courtesy to recommend business school classmates even decades afterwards. These network effects are also why there’s often a bimodal distribution in outcomes between “top” schools and the rest of the pack.
Yeah - sounds like probably around 40 customers wanting stuff like that. No one's saying otherwise.
Killing something alive is different to not creating a life. Asking me to kill myself is a rather poor attempt at a gotcha.

The better question is why aren't you having children as often as possible if you think life is worth while. On average any fertile couple can produce around 12 children, if you're not on track to have that number of children but think that life is so grand then why aren't you?

The difference between you and me is that you're ok with not creating 9 to 11 lives during your reproductive age, I'm ok with not creating 12.
> All of the "scientific work on" ISS is done with crew literally pushing an "on" button

Why is this relevant?
> In short, if I lost 1% of my electrons, I would not be a person anymore. I would be a bomb. A Coulomb bomb, if you will, with an energy equivalent to that of ten billion (modern) atomic bombs. Which would surely destroy the planet. All by removing just 1 out of every 100 of my electrons.

The Chicxulub impactor struck with the force of ten billion Hiroshima bombs, and while the world underwent a mass extinction event, the planet itself was fine.
TransferWise is the competent version of what El Salvador is attempting to do with Bitcoin.
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if it’s as easy as having your bank send money to someone else’s bank, why does western union and transferwise exist?
The "or later" clause is a backdoor. Not wanting backdoors in your license doesn't seem like a bad reason to me.
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There are "simplified bank" accounts that are very easy to open in El Salvador. They are basically open to anyone and charge few fees. They can even be opened using and app, a photo of the ID card and a selfie.

It is also possible to receive a remittance from family using the app by filling a form with two textboxes: 1. MTCN/Remittance code and 2. Remittance amount.

Those who are under 18 cannot access this service though.

The salvadorans living in the U.S., even if they didn't enter the U.S. legally, usually have bank accounts too.
I've never heard of Craft, but it seems to be a Mac thing?

One of the best parts of Notion is it a actually works pretty well on every platform. So that's not very helpful.
Energy transfer losses are pretty marginal around 2%. Compared to labour availability, shipping resources and products; and land, it is not so big deal. Unless it's very energy intensive industry.
Solana has had quite a month.

https://www.notboring.co/p/solana-summer

>Solana uses a Proof of Stake consensus mechanism plus Proof of History, a decentralized source of time that Solana Labs CEO and founder Anatoly Yakovenko told me is “the implementation of the arrow of time in math.” Sounds mind-bending, and it is, but what it means is that transactions on Solana are verifiably ordered without all nodes needing to agree simultaneously. That’s what makes it so fast.

At the rate it's been growing, relative to other major coins, it could be a top 4-5 coin very soon. It currently sits right behind Binance Coin and Tether at #6.
https://www.coingecko.com/en
The rate of steam generation can't be controlled in the same way as electricity, no?
As I think about it, I suppose electricity generation also can depend on large amounts of moving water - maybe it would work by having extra capacity that is 'bled off' when not needed.
I think more than a few of us are familiar with the mess of bad capacitors that made their way into products throughout the early 00s. I still see this from time to time, but I remember the first time I encountered it -- I had purchased a $200 SageTV Media Streamer (v1) and it failed a few months out of warranty. I replaced it with a v2 and put the v1 in the basement.

Then Google bought SageTV[0] and they stopped producing software/products. Meanwhile, I wanted another TV hooked up. Taking apart the device revealed capacitors that -- even though I had been unfamiliar with the issues -- were obviously bad -- one had leaked all over itself, others were bulging.

I hit up ebay, repaired that, and thought about the growing pile of unreliable/broken hardware in a room that I had been putting off salvaging. That weekend, I repaired about ten LCD monitors -- caps in the PSU all around, one old plasma TV, 5 ATX power supplies and two NetGear 1Gbps switches. EVERY single one had varying degrees of damage. All but one power supply was functional again.

[0] The product was a TiVo for PCs and was among the best. Google purchased them as an acqui-hire and -- I think -- used portions of the software in their STBs for Fiber. They later released the code open source.
Because different cities have the ability to recycle different types of resin. So the number in the middle of the symbol is used by the recycling plant to separate what can and cannot be recycled.

The ridiculous part is that recycling plastic generates more carbon that making new plastic, and burying it is actually a great way to sequester CO2.

So the entire plastic recycling effort has been discovered to be counter-productive.
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> First, it creates a cryptocontainer of a user-specified size, filled with random characters. To create the first volume, the program archives the user-specified files to the beginning of the cryptocontainer and encrypts it using the first key.

This is problematic; key reveal gives important metadata hints as to size and location of other volume(s).

This could be redeemed by encoding offset and size parameters in the key. These could be randomized or fixed at initialization.

Great ambition, I'll be keeping tabs on how this evolves.
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What is a good source to get an understanding of all the Licenses and their relation?
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The book When Breath Became Air by Dr. Paul Kalanithi tells the story of his dying. I found it very liberating to learn more about the process from a trauma expert. I'm also slowly making my way through a more medical book currently called How We Die that outlines the actual body processes of the ways we die. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49286.How_We_Die
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> Providing better financial services at lower costs.

How can anything than runs a blockchain offer a service at a lower cost? It can't. The only competitive advantage that crypto has over the financial sector is that crypto is by and large operating with disregard for financial regulations. Let's see how long it's gonna last.
would Bedrock fit the bill? https://bedrockdb.com/
No, it uses Bitcoin transactions that are updated interactively between participants. Transactions are signed with your private keys and can always be settled on blockchain.