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Your translation is incomplete. You're ending with:

> ({ pkgs }) => ({ deps = [ pkgs.cowsay ]; })

But the syntax for declaring objects in javascript differs. It would be:

({ pkgs }) => ({ deps: pkgs.cowsay })

The fact that '{ x = 1; }' is declaring an object, identical to '{x: 1}' in javascript, is important.

It's also worth pointing out that, while '{ pkgs }:' is idiomatic nix, idiomatically in javascript you'd probably just take multiple arguments (so '(pkgs) =>', not '({ pkgs }) =>' in js). The reason nix uses an object there is because a nix function only takes one argument, so there's a fairly common convention to make that argument an attr in order to simulate multiple arguments. That convention doesn't exist in quite the same way in js.
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The watering scheule isn't the nightmare, the insects are.
Node.js hated by developers cause of JavaScript, the most hated language. It's simple.
I would also like to know that. AFAIK the 5500 has the same driver issue as the 5300, but even without a fix its baseline consumption with an external screen plugged in is about half of the 5530's.

Hopefully the fix applies to both models but I'm not holding my breath.
| no one uses Chromebooks except Google employees

There were ~30M Chromebooks sold in 2020[1]. I think many of those were sold to non-googlers.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/749890/worldwide-chromeb...
The alternative is providing a base network that is fully decentralised (and doesn't use a resource based proof system that is terrible for the environment).

Nation states and institutions can build on top of or integrate into this base network rather than building their own walled gardens. Long term this improves auditability and protects these institutions' CBDC networks from censorship.
Not to extract too much from the sample size of 1, but at the time this was filmed this farmer was 87 years old.

He seems to be in really impressive health.
Google disagrees. They might know something you don't.
Absolutely. But I've found that small talk sows the seeds for a much better landing. It's not something I find myself wanting to life hack away. Because often the small talk transforms within a couple of minutes or even seconds into something "Real" or "Unique" (quotes around those words not because I don't think small talk isn't real or unique, but what likely a lot of people might think. Basically, what I mean by "Real" or "Unique" is to say, transcendental.)

YMMV, but it's been my experience that small talk is a skill that you can exercise and has its own value, not simply something to be waited through until you can get to something of substance.
Living in a Northern country with limited sunlight, I've found that generally it's best to err towards too little watering than the other way around most of the year. I've killed many plants by watering them too much in winter when there's lack of light, but most my of my plants have survived quite severe drought when I've been away during summer.
More relevant today than when it was first recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRlPTbKHIPQ
I'm fully aware of careful wording. I'm also aware that to presume some meaning other than what the wording explicitly states as if that is the most likely possibility is not careful. Not only that, to infer something stronger and then imply that it is the actual meaning of that careful wording is simply an assumption not merited by the facts.

> It doesn’t mean there isn’t any reason to look at the potential risks

Yes, that is what the careful wording actually implies. If you'd been more careful with your reading then you could've saved writing the first 2 paragraphs.

> That is, unless you really, really believe microplastics are somehow good for you.

You provided some evidence (that is a generous description) wrapped in some snark that didn't back up your claims. What I believe has nothing to do with that, and to intimate that my assessment is based on belief is absurd, I read the results you "provided" - believers don't tend to bother with facts that might contradict them.

Be more careful with your words in future, that'd be my advice.
I'm a PhD student in CS at Caltech, and a lot of this resonated with me, especially the importance of finding the right advisor - and how random that process is. As the author says, your advisor has a lot of power over you and your career, and you really don't know in advance whether they will be a good fit. I was lucky; while my first advisor wasn't a good fit, I was able to switch to someone really great.

OTOH, some aspects of this post are crazy to me. We get paid $36k/year, way more than the $16k/year he mentioned. Also, our insurance is decent: mental health visits are 100% covered, and visits to other specialists (for example, a dermatologist) are just a $15 copay/visit. I think the insurance costs us just a few hundred dollars per term - annual costs are definitely less than $1k/year. Job prospects are very good - at least 15-20% of our PhD students eventually land a faculty job, often at top 20 institutions. Also, industry jobs pay well; my friends who did ML now make $300k/year straight out of their PhD. Finally, working 80 hours per week is definitely the exception. Most students I know have much more reasonable hours - in fact I think it's possible to do a decent PhD while putting in only 40 hours per week (on average; weeks before conference deadlines are intense!).

People often write about how painful the PhD process is. While it certainly can be awful, I think CS PhD programs at top schools provide much better living conditions and ROI than the humanities programs he describes.
Ahh jeez, this is a good reminder for me to recap some of my old Macs... I have quite a few that still have the original capacitors and it's only a matter of time before one or more of them get damaged by leaky caps! Especially the trusty SE/30!
The document you cited actually supports toomuchtodo’s position:

“The law generally treats a failure to return money that is wired by mistake as unjust enrichment or conversion and requires that the recipient return such money to its sender. Under New York law (which applies here), however, there is an exception to this rule: The recipient is allowed to keep the funds if they discharge a valid debt, the recipient made no misrepresentations to induce the payment, and the recipient did not have notice of the mistake.”

I’m assuming no debt was owed to these random people.
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Based on https://hbr.org/2021/09/who-is-driving-the-great-resignation

"Resignations are highest in the tech and health care industries"
Sorry, no strong point. I was just pondering that the issue is inattention, and imagining google, who spends the most money, ever, on capturing human attention, taking the next dystopian step.
I'm not surprised that a high school computer lab would have been lagging by a few years. I'm guessing I was at a 1200 direct phone jack modem connection in 1985 (which would have been my first modem).
What about Substack?
Strictly the tool for now.
> Basically, FB's killer product is the other users not the actual features of FB (although they're necessary for the collective to not leave en-mass)

I agree. I think one of the hardest things for most people when moving from one actual country to another is leaving behind the people and has been the hardest thing for me when I've decided to delete FB or stop visiting certain internet communities.

While there are many definitions of a state, I just learned that Max Weber defines it as "a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory" [0]. This makes me think more about what a state would look like if it were a human community organized around a digital territory and what that means for the future (and present).

[0]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/
Just looking at the screenshots makes me tear up a little. I loved my SE/30 and everything I could do on it. Wish I'd kept it.
I think you're seriously underestimating how much it would cost to run an operation like this and how little it would return them. As well as how quickly it would be discovered if done at a rate higher than coincidence.
>I've wondered what would be some effective ways to add more user voice in the ownership and governance process of these platforms. Do you have any ideas?

The obvious answer would seem to be structure them as cooperatives.

Allow service users to purchase shares at a nominal value, and restrict voting rights to one member one vote - that is, shareholder votes are not weighted based on how many shares one has, owning more shares would only enable one to earn more interest on the shares' capital.

Alternatively, all shares (or maybe just 50%+1) could be held in trust for the benefit of the users. Trustees would then have responsibility of taking users' needs in to account.
Yep I too err on the dry side by using

1. Planters with several holes that I drilled
2. Soil that I mixed for better drainage

A thirsty plant is better than rotten plant
Not driving into a pedestrian slowly walking on a crosswalk is not saving lives. That was the _only_ example of Tesla reacting correctly to a living thing, all others ended in accidents, death or human taking over. And those were your "good" examples.
> For cities to be able to exist, they need a steady supply of food, energy, and goods brought in from the surrounding areas. Remember, cities are basically parasitical organizations, being both financial, real material, and population sinks on net: they need to constantly import people, goods, food, and money, otherwise the city will not survive.

Nonsense; cities are net consumers of food and people but net producers of goods and money (otherwise how would they buy all that food?), and rural areas benefit from the things produced there (otherwise why would they buy them?).

If cities were parasitical we'd expect areas with cities in to support smaller populations than equivalently-sized rural areas, which is false. You're putting the cart before the horse: why do people go to the city to seek their fortune? Because it's impossible for them to make a living in the country. Why are all the homeless people in the cities? Because in the countryside they'd starve.

The question we should be trying to answer is: for a fixed capacity of resources (land area, water, permitted GHG emissions, ...), how can we support as many people as possible. Having the majority follow efficient urban lifestyles does a lot better on that metric.
This is a critical element of why online discussion forums and anonymity are so powerfully liberating. You can discard the social masks you wear among friends and family, and try different ideas and viewpoints. There's no price to be paid at the judgment of strangers.

It's perceived to be significantly more difficult to approach strangers in the real world, and successful relationships seem to fix people into whatever patterns initiated it.

Successfully developing the ability to approach strangers in real life is more potent than anything online - it can be unhealthy, as with pickup artists, or joining evangelistic cults, mlm, and so on, but socialization at that level seems to be a common trait among highly interesting people.
Emergence: When things interact, they often birth new, unpredictable forms. Therefore, the sum total of a system is more than its component parts. As a system evolves, its structure can transform — just like how water becomes cold water until it turns into ice.
Thank you for an interesting perspective.

Here in the US, Apple will lie to customers and refuse to repair even trivial problems. There are many documented cases of Apple simply lying to customers (ala Louis Rossman).

I had a phone that at 30% battery life would shut down and die. I was going on a trip and really needed a reliable phone. I took my phone to Apple, they hooked it up to their diagnostic software-- which found the battery to be fine-- and they wouldn't fix it-- now here's the twist-- I asked if I could pay (even though it was in warranty), and they said "no." They also said it was the fault of the Facebook app installed on the phone that the battery wouldn't last. I can't tell you how insulting that was-- I had numerous apps in the App/Play store at the time and had developed stuff used at Apple. To be told by a guy who works at a mall that I was using my phone incorrectly-- left a bad taste in my mouth.

I attempted to do the repair myself and somehow bricked the antenna system and had to buy a new phone. Apple got what they wanted in the end... but I'm looking for alternatives.

I owned one of the first Intel mac-books-- it would spontaneously reboot-- Apple denied the problem for like a year.

I owned an iMac which I spent a fortune on, and its GPU died. Apple after denying the whole thing, eventually issued a recall, but not for my specific model even though it clearly had the problem. I ate that 2.5k or so.

I've owned numerous iPhone's with defective home buttons-- the pattern is always the same. Apple delays admitting there's a problem until far after you might have had to deal with it fiscally.

Apple is a bad-faith actor in the end... It would be one thing if they had good-faith service and I could go to Apple for help and be treated fairly... But Apple's response is always the same, "Hey, maybe its time for a upgrade?"
> And then we'll end up with a fragmented CPU field driven by corporate greed.

In marked contrast to the blissful years of the utopian Intel/AMD duopoly? (:
Plants learn and have agency [1]. It just takes a bit more patience to observe.

[1] - https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/commentary-plant-neuro...
Death by a thousand cuts is vastly saner than "Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." when your body is the battlefield.

But most people don't really want to hear that. We hear "big, scary death label disease" and we want someone to promise they can nuke it from orbit. No one wants to hear that we need to care for the body and foster its health while battling this "demon."
It's not an antipattern to use threads in Rust. Where did you get that idea?
I’m 28 years old now and played this as a kid. I absolutely loved it. For me it was way more interesting than Mario 64 because it had 5 characters and a cohesive theme. Mario had many levels that all seemed like their own minigames where DK64 felt whole and like a single world.

Last year during lockdown, I spent a lot of time visiting my mom and broke out the old N64. Starting fresh I finally beat DK64 completely through, something I never accomplished when I was young.

Still today, DK64 is one of my favorite video games ever. The theming was top notch. The different musical styles and decorations are incredibly immersive, and as a kid, collectathons became extra competitive, not boring, especially if you had siblings.
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Her husband was already a successful investor before Nancy went into politics.

And because of their wealth, she could dedicate worked for the party for free for 20 years. Which got her to where she is now.

I would be more concerned with presidents who are known to spread/say things to try to influence the market.
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When you don't have a good argument, it is best to stick with hypothetical situations. As soon as you move from straw men like "imagine three firms" to reality -- let's say, any F500 company -- it's too obvious that your hypothesis cannot be taken seriously.

I don't understand why anyone would want a weak central government. Who's going to be there to bail out corporations during the next crisis?
> root cause

There is a bug for 5500M GPU that causes 18W sustained power draw with one external monitor. It should normally be 5W or so.

The throttling is due to your VRM chips overheating. There is no temp sensor for this exposed to the user.

The VRM chips have no cooling. The high GPU watt draw pushes the temps of the VRMs above their thermal limits with no cooling.

The solution is to put thermal pads on your VRMs to dissipate the heat to the backplate. Completely resolved my issue.

Disabling TurboBoost can also help. Running fans at max speed at all times too because Mac is slow to ramp them up when load increases.

Apparently the 5600M doesn’t have this issue and the 5500M bug is fixed in Monterey. But the thermal pad mod is still amazing. Apple couldn’t do it stock, because there are regulations about hot a backplate can get related to risk of burns.
The military is made up of corporations now. From the Acela corridor to mercenaries who are making up large portions of boots on the ground troops.
I feel you, man. I fucking hate fundraising from VCs. It wastes so much of your time with some of the most mediocre people in the tech industry.

But don't give up. True storytelling is also the key to hire top talents and acquire customers. We just need to practice again and again.

About raise VC$, I think who we talk to is the key.

99% of VCs are hype-driven business sheep with no real return and value-add, unfortunately, they are the loudest in the market. Find the top 1% of investors we deserve to work with is the key.
What happened was that some programming languages, like PL/I, were available only on very expensive computers, e.g. IBM mainframes.

The languages available on cheap computers, e.g. BASIC, Pascal or C, had less features, especially features for parallel processing, which were not useful on cheap hardware.

In time, the cheap computers became more powerful than the old supercomputers. Then many of the features formerly available only on powerful computers were added to the new popular programming languages, but not all of them.

While what were considered large languages during the sixties, e.g. PL/I and ALGOL 68, had a few serious flaws, they also had many nice features that are still not present in the most popular programming languages of today, mostly as a consequence of the fact that while C has taken most of the features it added over BCPL and B from either PL/I or ALGOL 68, it simplified those features a lot or even crippled them compared to the original, in order to allow implementation on much cheaper computers.

Later languages attempted to be better than Pascal or C, which was a very easy target, but their designers did not study what was available in earlier languages, to be also better than that.
Academics discover hidden layer in China’s Great Firewall
But there is a thriving industry of spotting patterns which other people haven't yet thought of. And IIRC there is some evidence that even after these patterns are discovered in the academic literature, they persist for a while, just with lowered returns. The logic of what you're saying is true in principle, but in practice markets are not quite so perfect.
The domestic Chinese market was not able to support homegrown TD-SCDMA without the silicon manufacturing restrictions that now exist for Chinese companies, what makes you think that a company with rapidly outdating chip designs and access only to domestic silicon fabs which are trapped on older 14nm+ processes is going to be able to compete outside of the low end of the budget segment?

Even Intel had trouble surviving on 14nm, hence all the contra-revenue spent to directly subsidize Intel tablets (whether they were $100 HP Stream Windows tablets, or $50 Walmart special Android tablets) to try and not get locked out of that space.
> cities are net consumers of food and people but net producers of goods and money (otherwise how would they buy all that food?)

Let's be careful with our terms. Money is produced in the Bureau of Engraving. What you mean is that people within cities earn a higher income, which is true. Urban populations have higher incomes and consumption. But that means that money is flowing into the city from outside. Every time you swipe your credit card, someone in Manhattan gets a cut. Every time you buy an online ad, someone in Silicon Valley takes a cut. When you buy insurance, someone in Hartford takes a cut. Money from all over the country flows into cities.

So why does money flow into the city? For the same reason that a marketplace makes money or a platform makes money. It is a schelling point, helping to bridge the gap between intrinsic worth and market worth. The app you wrote is great but it wont make any money without a platform to run on. The baseball player may be a hall of famer but his pay will be determined by the stadium he plays in. Cities are generally where various professionals, managers, and administrators concentrate, and these earn higher incomes as they provide support services or organizational services to the rest of the economy.

> If cities were parasitical we'd expect areas with cities in to support smaller populations than equivalently-sized rural areas, which is false

I don't mean parasitical in a moral sense, but in the sense of the flow of real quantities (as we are talking about transportation along roads), because the value add of cities is organizational in nature rather than productive in nature. What we see is that if you create a high population rural area, a bigger city will spring up somewhere in the middle of it, just like if there are more producers, a bigger marketplace will emerge to be the focal point of those producers.

> why do people go to the city to seek their fortune?

Because that is where higher income/higher consumption opportunities lie. Just like why every company wants to be a platform. Or why ambitious corporate types want to be near the HQ. If you are a budding manager or would-be corporate lawyer, do you set up your shingle in Bullhead City, AZ, or in NYC? You want to be where all the money flows so you can be there to receive a cut. That's not to say you are stealing or being lazy. Obviously the competition to get that cut is fierce.

> The question we should be trying to answer is: for a fixed capacity of resources how can we support as many people as possible.

There is not a single pattern. You need a market place and you need producers to meet in that marketplace. Life is heterogeneous.