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1. No they don't. Spreading at sub-FTL requires redundant self-correcting technology which can run for thousands of years without breaking down. This is about as achievable as FTL. Nothing lasts for thousands of years in deep space without being abraded, fried, nuked, or physically stressed to breaking point.

1b. Assuming you can solve 1. with some kind of magical alchemical spares-generating technology that never fails, the technology also has to be politically and philosophically stable, with reliable and persistent goals. Otherwise you'll get offshoots competing with each other. Which may mean undermining and perhaps even destroying previous settlements. How much independence is enough? How accurate are your initial models going to be?

2. We don't know that for sure. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. (We do know weird things happen, but we're not putting any serious effort into researching them, so we don't know what they are.)

3. There's no need to think about this after 1. and 2.

Edit: to put this in context, you don't need to launch a probe. You need to launch a complete perfectly self-reproducing error-free space program. Which can also adapt to local resources.

This seems... difficult.
As much as I admire Peopleware, I think on this it misses the fact that there are "negative"-X programmers. Adding them to a team means the team gets _less_ work done, either through endless questions, dodging responsibility, demotivating others etc. In this kind of best/worst metric you end up with above-infinite-X programmers, because the worst you could give a working system to and they will break it.

Once you filter out the worst, I've still seen 10x-vs-median programmers. They have some insight which collapses a buggy, never-complete 50kloc library into a 50 line function plus a call to a SAT solver, or have some deep understanding of the underlying system that lets the whole team avoid spinning its wheels on an impossible-to-diagnose bug. These people are worth 10 ticket-closers any day of the week.
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Wait, cannot they make piloting Cessna 152s as easy as flying a drone? Sounds like a good first milestone before up-scaling it to jet engines.
Everyone ever was supposed to be home before Christmas, right?
Me: I saw some interesting comments by Alan Kay on HN.

Troll: HN is garbage. Quit reading it.

Mutatis mutandis for the author's article. If you have so little idea of how to assess journalists' output over time that you don't even think to mention it in a critique of news, then you haven't really started to read the news yet.

Edit: ah, lemme protect against accusations of No True Scotsman: the author is literally reading the news but is doing so in a superficial manner that an intro civics class would correct.
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It is odd when you agree with half an article.

I think that anything to do with music and transferring files to your iPad or iPhone is an utter mess on the Mac. The entire iTunes project was an utter mess and breaking that up and fixing it is going to take a long time.

I was also taken back by some of the new restrictions on the Application directory with Big Sur but it appears that they aren't as bad as I initially thought and mostly seem to apply to apps that the OS installs.

I think it is great that the author outgrew his machine. They started out as a new developer and now they have brought their skills up to the point that they require a new OS to allow them to maximise their potential. That is an awesome story.

Apple has had to ride a fine line between being a lifestyle device and a computer and I think that there are times when they totally mess it up and lock out things they don't need to. Other times they seem to get it right.

Like a lot of people here I really wish Apple would stop trying to organize my music but I also realise that a large number of people younger than me don't even own music any more.

The number of use cases for these devices is huge and it is natural that the hardware can't be everything to everyone. It used to be the case but so many more people use computers and use them for a wide variety of things that those days are far behind us.
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Not to be a little harsh here, but is it really all that bad? People with alzheimers are basically knocking on deaths door. They aren't even themselves anymore when it gets real bad. They constantly are in a state of of "who are you people being nice to me?" with friends and family. It's like getting upset over a risky drug for cancer patients in stage 4. It's not like in the grand scheme of morality it's going to do much if any harm. And unfortunately, some people need to be test subjects.
It's more granular than that. There are localities where the prevalent opinion is anti-cannabis, and localities where the opposite is true. I am in the state of Tennessee, and I have a family member who believes that a person who buys and consumes cannabis is "subsidizing murder".
Oh yeah you are right no jumped to conclusions. Nice link there, the AOLserver tho was just a web server, not the whole server framework or OS. https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver It was written by some company that we bought. It was also the basis for Greenspun’s excellent book on database backed web sites.

Yeah, and on rereading the original article, the hack was just guessing the passwords to admin AIM accounts. I hope it wasn’t mine! From my perspective that is “works as designed”. I don’t think the TFA was ever put into AIM login, but it was all a while ago. But anyways, nice to seem one of the dumb names I came up with in the press. I also wrote wam (web authentication module), Hermes (messenger of the Gods - like buddy list but where users could add data sources to the list, with filters or alarms), Ewoks (“external web Oscar knowledge server”, an http server that allowed for easy integration into the server message framework we used) and re-wrote morf “master Oscar registration facility”. The original was a custom written no-SQL DB and we moved it to Sybase with sharding.). All C. All event loop based. All really solid infrastructure written by people doing it for the third time. Fun times. Had an actual agile process and brought the coolness of the internet to many people for the first time.
People are lazy when they speak, it's best to understand basically every claim as probabilistic (and meaning "almost certainly") even when it isn't stated as such.

Certainly no-one would make the claim that "there are (definitely) no aliens in the galaxy" when we can't disprove the idea that aliens traveling at the speed of light just reached the galaxy (with our current understanding of physics). That doesn't mean you can't make the claim "there are (almost definitely) no aliens in the galaxy (because I just created the most amazing telescope ever and looked at every particle of matter in the galaxy and there were no aliens there)". The principle of charity demands that understand the bare claim that "there are no aliens in the galaxy" to mean something that is plausible, such as "there are almost certainly no aliens in the galaxy".
Beyond the points others are making about oil/gas being different, major powers don't fight each directly over oil and gas.

At beat up on countries who can't fight back. And even then, its not really to steal oil, but just ensure that it is flowing.

The only real attempt to seize foreign oilfields was the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. That didn't really go well for Iraq. And, on their way out, they scorched earth and lit 80% of the wells on fire.
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I wonder how this will play with Unicode's highly complex combination rules.. (e.g. frowning face + brown texture = brown frowning face).

I bet using ROT on this will lead to unintended consequences because the original characters won't combine but the replaced ones will.

But anyway ROT is a dumb thing to do anyway so it doesn't have any real-world use.
Two examples: LockGuard and Box.

Control is primarily exerted over consumers of your API rather than the actual resources. This can be enforced through a combination of Drop implementations, and closures / lifetimes; the classic example is Mutex's LockGuard. In a GC language (eg Go) they give you defer or finally blocks that can accomplish the same thing, but that is always optional and up to other programmers to remember to do. Compare: you can't typically make someone run destructors in a GC language; you also wouldn't be able to guarantee the destructors have run at any particular point in time.

The one area you have more control over actual resources is knowing when memory is freed. Some people need to know when memory is freed, because they have allocated a lot and if they do it again without freeing, they'll run into trouble. To know for sure, simply use a normal owned type or a unique pointer (Box); when it goes out of scope, that's when its destructor is run. No such feature exists in a GC language, because you can never know at compile time when nobody else holds a reference.

As a thought experiment: in JavaScript with WebAssembly, an allocation in WASM can be returned to JS as a pointer. You need to free it, somehow. Can you write a class that will deallocate a WASM allocation it owns when an instance of the class is freed by the JS GC? (Answer: no! You need a new language-provided FinalizationRegistry for that.)
there seems to be something rotten in the American political system — on both sides of the aisle

There only being two sides on the aisle is one of the main problems. It's an oligarchy, not a representative democracy.
Uh, you left out passionate lego builders (AFOL). I’m adding it for you.
I've tried reading it the way you suggest, but it still reads as a sneer at the educated to me - `of course an Ivy League educated liberal would miss the point`. I agree with quite a lot of the points the author makes, Joe Rogan is a dangerous imbecile, but I find the _way_ he makes those points very distasteful.
Bingo. Also the problem with meta-analysis of certain kinds of studies (say, observational ones) is the file-drawer effect: people don't report negative results. So you can go from a bunch of studies that show an effect (usually small) at marginal statistical significance to a meta-analysis that shows very high statistical significance when there is really no effect there.

I don't think we have to worry about the file-drawer effect much with controversial COVID treatments, though. Do you?
What gave you goosebumps? It's a good article but I don't understand what could invoke that feeling.

EDIT: I guess it's because I'm from Sweden where this is... just how things work. No legal minimum wage but very strong unions that enforce a minimum indirectly through strikes and sympathy actions such as boycotts and blockades.
Xiaoyu for doing stuff like this.
> I will say though, the US has historically had a very hard time taking ideas from European countries and getting them to work the same way here.

I think this is because everyone only sees the upside of the system. When getting down to the nitty and gritty, a lot of sacrifices are made to keep those systems in place, sacrifices that go against the individualistic fiber of American society. To take some spicy issues to put them in this framework :

"Free" education. It's not that free, it's just mostly accessible. European Universities are very lean running operations, whereas American universities are grandiose and more like a vacation resort.

"Free" healthcare. It's also not that free, just accessible and most of the time, overburdened. There are a ton of public health measures put in place to cut costs of it. Just this week for example they announced doubling of taxes on alcohol.

The USA can make it work, for sure. It's the most powerful nation on earth and runs laps around everyone else combined on pretty much every metric. It would take over 100 years of continual USA degradation for anyone else to even start measuring seriously against it. But for systems like this to be put in place requires a serious shift in how people think about society which will not happen in our lifetimes.
Pagan literature has plenty of creepy magical and divine beings. Just look at the Odyssey.
Also that interest is largely (if not totally) tax deductible.
It's weak evidence because COVID-19 observational studies are riddled with confounders due to COVID patients generally throwing everything at it they can to try and stay alive.

The exact same pattern occurred with hydroxychloroquine. Lots of small observational studies showed promise. Then it repeatedly failed large RCTs. It turns out that the people with the resources to use HCQ also had the resources to use other things, things that were actually effective.
Can someone explain this odd (anti)pattern?
I work for a software company, and frequently interact with client-side IT.

Very occasionally, and really only with very process-bound organizations, I run into a Policy that states that software must be installed onto D: and not C:.

No one is ever able to explain what benefit this creates.

OTOH, one lesson I've learned from 30 years in this world is that disregarding norms often exposes you to failures and issues due to brittle code or assumptions made by other tools or whatever.

Consequently, from MY POV, a policy like "apps must go on D:" should have a VERY clear benefit for it to be worth the additional hassle & loss of standardization that it brings.

What is that benefit?

(Now, again, I'm the vendor. If you want to install our tool on the Q: drive it's your choice. Our tool doesn't care. It just seems weird and wrongheaded to me and I wonder what the motivation is beyond "that's policy.")
Sadly many, dare I say, most adults, have an immense thirst for certainty.
Renting or speculation, pick your poison. property taxes participate in the rent, and 30yr mortgages backed by the fed drive speculation.
As a Mac guy I thought that the Windows Phone wasn't a bad device. My buddy had one and it had all sorts of great features but they all worked within the Windows/x-Box universe he was in.

I would have liked to see it succeed if only for there to be more competition.

It also had a great 'copy and paste' feature
I feel like you're expecting a lot from a a container running LineageOS with some integrations into the window manager.

It's a container so the arch matches the host kernel.

In general on LineageOS it's possible to install gapps.

You won't be able to watch DRM streaming services that require Widevine higher than L3 support.
> Instead, you have to manually build playlists inside of itunes while "importing" your music (and storing two copies of it) and then transfer those playlists (one by one) to the idevice and ... it's just insane.

This is not completely true. You can store your iTunes collection wherever you like, organized however you like. You don't have to duplicate anything, although it's true that the default is for it to "import" it.

You can also create an "all my music" playlist which you can sync with the iDevice.

I used to have this setup with my music collection on Google Drive (because it didn't fit on my MBP's internal drive) and synced some of it to my iPhone. It worked well enough. The issue was more that all the music couldn't fit on the phone, so I had to pick and choose anyway.

The real gotcha is that iTunes didn't support flac, so I had to convert everything to m4a.
Even if we get past the emotional click-baitey aspect of mass-media news (and also your jab at capitalism), the fact remains that 99% of news is not relevant to the average person's day-to-day life and is wholly _unactionable_. Meaning, there is nothing you can read on the front-page of CNN that we, the people, can do anything about. (I'll carve out a small exception here for pointers to relief funds for disasters, perhaps.)

"Staying informed" for its own sake is just a hobby. The most utility you can possibly gain from it is arguing your point of view (politics) with other people online or in real life.

Real important events that directly affect me and my family either never hit the mass media, or will be relayed to me through my _actual_ social networks (not facebook or the twitters). National and world trends that might influence my long-term decisions (how to retire, when to invest, etc) don't reveal themselves by reading the news every day, these are things I actively research from time to time via my own means.
China already tried that trick with Japan and it turned out to not be a big deal.

> Even more so if they annex/invade Vietnam.

Don’t you think that will start WWIII in itself? Vietnam definitely won’t go down without fight, and they have a pretty good track record.
I stopped reading news somewhere in 2011 while working at a news site. I was already jaded but the medias handling of the Breivik attacks in Norway pushed me over the edge.

From my experience over the years, if something is important enough for me to know, it reaches me eventually one way or another. Yes, I'm no longer the first to have heard something happened, a new music album coming out or a new version of some technology being released, But I also felt this had very little negative impact on my life beyond small talk topics being a bit diminished. There is some fear of missing out to deal with in the beginning, but I can't think of a major thing I really missed.

But that doesn't mean I don't read news sites at all, just not the "news" section. Whenever there is a significant event, one feels the urge to want to know more now, but in reality there is just not going to be any really useful information available for the first couple of weeks while everyone rushes to generate the most clicks from it. So it is better to wait until some more profound and evidence based articles are being published.

I also adapted the position that I either want to have a strong or no opinion on any given topic. I rather concede ignorance on something instead of arguing on shallow information. If I actually care about it, I do put in the time to try to understand it deeply.
It's also much easier to consume a much larger dose by edible than by smoking. Smoking is sort of self-regulating - if you take hits too quickly, you'll cough too much to be able to continue smoking without taking a break.
Don't forget that the only reason housing works is because the margin calls take years, in contrast to instant (forex, crypto) or days (equities).
I strongly agree with this; while the ORM is great for simple/medium complexity use-cases, it really lacks the flexibility to extend into more complex domains. SQLAlchemy can hit all the Django ORM's use-cases, and also can be used for a bunch of designs that the Django ORM simply cannot support.

A dirty-tracking mode would be great. This is really useful if you want to have code that builds up a list of sub-objects, and then _maybe_ commits them, but maybe rolls back after creating most of the Python objects. The naive Python you want to write is `for i in range(10): foo.bars.add(Bar(i))` which in the Django ORM triggers a DB write for each bar, even if you error out on the 10th Bar.

As you say, another area where the ORM can bite you is the always-on foreign-key-traversal logic. So if you have loaded model foo, then accessing foo.bar will trigger a SQL query under the covers, if you didn't select_related/prefetch_related properly. This is great for simple use-cases and exploratory coding, but can make it very easy to write code with horrendous performance. Naively-coded views often have hundreds of DB lookups and it's hard to track down where these are coming from when the app is complex and especially when you've got _some_ *_related in place, but you're missing a prefetch somewhere.
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Oops I was just writing the same, I didn't realise someone had already mentioned this.

But anyway ROT in itself is a pretty stupid idea anyway, usually just done for show.
Penicillin is also a highly-available, incredibly safe medication that's been given billions of times.

It still doesn't make any sense to try giving it to COVID patients, because there's no reasonable way it would actually help them.

Just because a particular medication is unlikely to kill you doesn't mean it's a good idea to promote its use against a particular threat, when that threat is completely unrelated to what the medication actually does. Penicillin is an antibacterial. Ivermectin is an antiparasitic. Neither of these are likely to be helpful against a virus.
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I can't think of use case for this.
There's a right-wing group prescribing it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Frontline_Doctor...

They're also the ones that pushed Hydroxychloroquine, have connections to the Tea Party, that "demon semen" lady Trump endorsed is associated with them, and they had their leader and their chief of communication arrested due to their participation in Jan 6th.

They're also the reason you'll see Joe Rogan now spreading ivermectin bullshit.
I think it is more likely that WW3 would be AVOIDED because of semiconductors. The world wants peace so that Taiwan can keep building chips.
though I don't feel like the money the government is getting from fuel taxes is used to reduce fossil fuel consumption
Echoes of the Wirecard scandal in Germany, where local regulator BaFin spent much more time suing critics than investigating the company:

https://www.globalcapital.com/article/28mu9tpjsiu015o44foxt/...
Qt switched so many times I had a hard time following. I didn't want to include every different branch when I did know they were using V8 for a while.

I'll still probably leave them out of this post but totally fair to bring them up.
I used the tweet due to the paywall of the Reuters article.

Another user below found the best link, the true original source:

Here's the official report: https://www.nksc.lt/doc/en/analysis/2021-08-23_5G-CN-analysi... (link updated)
You are perhaps right about what is implied here. But I have noticed the same trend outside of the media in general. There's currently an uproar in my town and I've seen 3 or 4 very outspoken people, including hearing it on a radio interview, say that the school board "quietly" reinstated mask mandates in school, and there's a lot of implication of secret, ulterior motives.

But I also don't understand it. You can't "quietly" enforce a policy against every kid in the school, especially if you expect them to come to school with masks in hand ahead of time. And the uproar started after a widely advertised meeting that was broadcast online and that had solicited public comment. There was nothing quiet about it.

I think it's just a cheap tactic used to convey a lack of trust.
I don't think I'm saying anything contrary or unusual for UK. The top left three (structure and ingredients pure/neutral, but not both neutral /hotdog) as pictured I would consider sandwiches.

But I think temperature is a better indicator than ingredients: 'a sandwich' is not cooked (it's ingredients might be, like meat obviously, but then cooled) or hot.

Of course you can have a 'toasted sandwich', but the qualifier's important, it's basically a different thing that happens to share a word - if you ordered a 'cheese sandwich' and it came out toasted you'd be surprised.

Which makes a hotdog trivially not a sandwich, but you could slice up some sausages the next day and have them between slices of buttered bread for a 'sausage sandwich' (which likewise is not a term anyone would use for a hotdog!)