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Only leading-edge chip production. There are tons of chips made by other companies.
Hey we have the same uname almost uwu
I'm often cynical about why Google services don't work as well in Firefox as they do Google's own browser.

I'm of the opinion that blaming Firefox for this is the same as blaming Linux for hardware manufacturers not writing drivers for Linux.

If Google wanted its services working in Firefox then they would.
I'm 35 now and while I do feel like I've stagnated, I also find myself quite experienced, knowledgeable and unflappable. I'm actively rejecting hype driven development now, instead of letting more enthusiastic devs talk me into going for solution X.

I mean, I resent the fact that the more enthusiastic devs sell a solution that a business does not need, get paid a lot more, and fuck off before they have to deal with the consequences of their decisions.

Anyway, I now work at a company where I'm actually one of the youngest. It's a company that split off from CMG where they were involved in a successful product in the mobile network industry (an SMS gateway I believe? Brought in half a billion a year) where they worked for 20 years. They're now close to or well past their fifties, some are definitely on the home stretch to retirement, but they're still happily hacking away in C and flexing their decades of domain knowledge.

Contrast that with previous jobs I've had where I and my colleagues were devs-for-hire with little investment in the domain of our customers, or investment in long-term solutions.

I've picked Go and React as my tech for development, because it needs to run and be maintainable for at least the next decade - the company and its products are nearing their ten year anniversary now, and the existing tech is even older than that.

I mean I don't expect myself to be here for another ten years, I already have the itch to go work elsewhere (and it'll pay better too), but still. I don't want to leave a company behind where I know they'll get stuck down the line.
As far as my understanding goes, federation already solves the problem of data leaking, doesn't it? I mean, that's what you are describing, the data does not leave it's source, you (the algorithm) have to move to the data not the other way around.

That's exactly as I understand federation: the (original) data never leaves the home organization. But because everyone uses the same data model + algorithms (and those are choosen to enable combination of the output from each federated processing site) the results can be combined into a single outcome.

So, if data leaking is already solved for by keeping the data locally, why would I employ HE? Unless maybe the participants should not be able to look into the algorithms itself?
Human visual perception doesn't need physical accuracy to be fooled. Often it can only be a hindrance.
It already works that way in some sense
> The longer you are in the industry, the less time you spend googling stuff.

Only if you stay in your comfort zone. Memorising all the symbols in Framework X isn't going to help when you have to use Framework Y.
That's true, MP3 is by far the most widely supported lossy audio format (except presumably MP1/MP2, since MP3 decoders have to support them), so it will live on for a long time, although Opus is the best one nowadays. Just like with PNG and JPEG for images, which will live on for a long time even though we have WebP, AVIF and JPEG XL. And AVC will probably live on for a long time even though we have HEVC, VP9 and AV1.
Tesla's claimed energy usage is around 180Wh/km.

Running your gaming rig for three hours a day at 500W (1500 Wh) would therefore be the equivalent of driving 8km (5 miles) in a modern electric car. Still ok comparatively.
Fundraising norms are getting a little weird out there
The author approvingly references the US Supreme Court ruling that incitement must consist of speech that provokes imminent lawless action. Is that too permissive a system for you?

To me it's clear that there are limits to what one should be allowed to say. Especially, people should have the right to stop associating with an individual that is saying or has said dubious things.

Those are two very different things. Freedom of association is generally considered to be a _part_ of freedom of expression, not something in tension with it.

And why is it clear to you? What line can you draw between legal and illegal speech that can't be misused by the government?
What Happened to Clubhouse?
Cross platform GUI apps besides electron are basically dead at this point. No one wants to deal with Qt's weird licensing.

At this point effort should just be spent optimizing electron IMO including just using the latest version.
It seems to me that, without the pro-rata term, a founder could forcefully dilute an early investor by selling newly issued stocks at a low price to himself or his friends.

Am I missing something?
You mean germany that turned a net importer of electricity in the summer of 2019? When the sun was shining brightly and the wind blowing?
Sure, but not to the exclusion of heating different things. Which I understand to be the point of the CICO hypothesis, that the type of food doesn't matter if you only care about weight loss. See the Twinkie diet for example.
The latest UK medical data for the week of 7th Oct reports possible reinfection on page 18 as less than one percent of 5.9 million, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/.... That's the upper end of the estimate. The strictest, provable numbers for reinfection, based on genetic sequencing, are under 300 cases = 0.005%.

Intramuscular vaccines are explicitly stated by the CDC and manufacturers as not providing sterilizing immunity. They only provide protection via serum/blood antibodies, against serious illness. Recovery from Covid infection (of vax or unvax) provides nasal/mucosal immunity that can stop future infections in the upper respiratory tract. Future nasal vaccines may provide sterilizing immunity, but injections into the deltoid muscle do not.

Other data sources on reinfection would be appreciated.
I agree in the general. But what I've seen is that type safety is now being taken to quite some extremes; that type safety is given a much higher priority than delivering software. I've seen this at multiple organizations now.
Can light gray text on light gray backgrounds please stop being a thing?
Absolutely do not forget the crocs, they're the ones who can and do kill people who they cross paths with. Which is becoming more and regular as they expand their territory.
Interesting piece. Thanks Aaron!
NaN and Inf are not numbers.
And that wonderful reliance on Russia.
Good for them, at least some don't buy into the idiotic fear around nuclear energy
" The number of new developers isn't much higher today than it was already in the 90s"

All the data suggests this is wrong by any order of magnitude. The web was an absolute game changer.
if you compare that with an inefficient electric heater. Otherwise, your gaming gear will consume way more electricity for the same heating power than, say, a heat pump.
My impression is that the top 20% of the job market pays competitively, while the bottom 80% doesn't.

The average developer writes and maintains custom software for large organizations. While that kind of secretarial work is useful and necessary, it's not particularly valuable and doesn't pay that well.
France has heavily invested in nuclear power in the last 60 years. And nuclear in France is extremely costly (budget overruns, etc). So they desperately need someone with money to be able to go on with nuclear energy...

(but well, I much prefer more (safe, not the old junk plant 40km from where I live) nuclear power than inhaling the particles emitted by burned coal).
Note: don't use typeof x === 'object' to check whether something is a valid object, because it will return true for arrays as well.

Arrays are objects, so this is expected behaviour.
> Unfortunately SO has some significant network effect

What are some of the specific issues that's causing? In my own experience I've used SO frequently for answer seeking but never contributed due to the barrier of needing to accumulate points first and not wanting to spend the time to do so.

Re: Sqwok, it's small right now but there are a good amount of people checking in on it regularly as development progresses.
Yachts don't rely on solar. Sometimes they have solar but only as a small auxilary system. They primarily rely on propeller regen where the prop flips into drag mode stealing a fraction of a knot from the sail-driven ship. I've seen some yacht owners try to install a small wind turbine but it's not worth the trouble because of the noise it creates. They also tend to have at least one gas generator as an emergency backup.
Of course they do. They have a tight grip on most fuel mines from their previous colonies, where they exploit workers and the countries economy to keep energy prices low. [1]

I think nuclear can be part of a healthy energy diet, but not at the expense of less privileged countries.

[1] https://www.mo.be/en/opinie/france-destroys-north-niger-will...
Why do they have to do this? Are reactors affected by outside temperature difference of ±20 degrees centigrade?
This might be true if you're walking up a hill but its not true if you're trying to go to a specific place (restaurant/shop etc) with opening times via any mode of transport.
> Today

Do you think that the common people of Rome, when given the choice between a house that'll last for 50 years, and a house that'll last for 2000 years but costs a multiple, would have chosen the latter? How many houses from ancient Rome are still standing today?

Taking this into consideration, do you still think that optimizing for the foreseeable future – as opposed to hundreds/thousands of years into the future – is a modern phenomenon? Do you think that the Romans, had they had ready access to today's technology (steel rebar, Portland cement, and the knowledge necessary to use it), would have built the Colosseum the way they did? Or did they build it that way out of necessity, because they lacked alternatives?
Someone on Twitter pointed out that it has larger repeating patterns too https://twitter.com/Zergfriend/status/1408184663420510209?s=...
So is this an unusual thing or are their more states in the federation where this is done?
Does anyone have real source or more information regarding the cost of the steam side of a nuclear power plant? Combined Cycle Gas has taken over due to the easy mechanical energy from the Brayton cycle reducing the size of the steam side but it would be nice to see the some actual data on the costs instead of Hacker News level certainty of "The number I typically hear is that it's $1-2W to build"

For example this top comment from "Activists who embrace nuclear power (newyorker.com)" talks about it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26213984

Articles like this miss the main point and instead focus on culture war material. There are plenty of sites that would happily accept more nuclear being built, but all other forms of energy have undercut the cost of nuclear. It's no longer cost competitive, and places like China that adopt a "let's try everything and see what works best" approach have heavily pulled back on nuclear.
The issues aren't safety, waste, and environments opposition. There are plenty of climate hawks that support nuclear too. It's all excessive costs.

They briefly mention the cooling retrofits for Diablo Canyon in San Lui Obispo, but they don't mention that they bids from Bechtel to simply build a modern cooling system were all billions of dollars of expense. Just the cooling system is more expensive than alternatives.

And this is a trend we will see in the future. For primary generation of electrons, steam based thermodynamic cycles are pretty much obsolete. The number I typically hear is that it's $1-2W to build, say, a cooling system for coal steam. A nuclear plants cooling is pretty much identical. Solar and wind are going to undercut that cost very soon.

So the name of the game is now storage. Attaching four hours of storage to a solar generation farm, just enough to get through the duck curve, is now slightly cheaper than coal.

The best estimate of what the cheapest possible future grid looks like is: solar/wind capacity at 4x of total demand (thermal generators are roughly at 2x on the current grid), with 3-4 days of storage. This translates to world with abundant energy, at certain times, that's generated at zero marginal cost. There are still lots of transmission costs however. The future of energy is all about spatial and temporal arbitrage of renewable electrons.
Your comment gave me perspective on how far down the rabbit hole my media server has taken me, as I was nodding along to everything the parent poster said having encountered similar issues with FFmpeg in the past.

Niche knowledge really can creep up on you over the years as you gradually encounter problems and work to solve them a few hours at a time.
Yes, Jews should be exempt from this culture war. The fact that they're vastly over represented has everything to do with them being way smarter than goyem and nothing to do with schemes or honesty!
This is pretty interesting, how much has since 2017? Probably the new hooks but other than that?
A common example of repeated convergent evolution:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
So when the LEGO™®© folk are arguing that "LEGO is always an adjective", they might mean that using it as an adjective noun is the correct thing to do, rather than claiming that "LEGO" by itself is an adjective? I suppose that since "LEGO" is the name of a real concept (the LEGO system) it's unavoidably a noun in essence.
Why can people see shadowbanned people anyway? Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose? As is pointing out that they are.
Your behavior is not that different from asshole car drivers that think they own the street and are aggressive towards cyclists.

It is on you to ride defensively and make sure you are on an appropriate speed to avoid accidents with pedestrians, not on them to avoid you.

> when there's an underpass the law is to go on the sidewalk

So, get off the bike and walk.
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Funny how people who claim to be so rational and to make data-driven decisions apply quotas for genders, skin color, sexual orientation etc. while there’s evidence that those kinds of policies are actually counter-productive.
> In short, anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, to claim their freedom, need to be reasonable.

Reasonable according to whom?
While this is a positive thing, it seems to me that as long as plastic containers are properly disposed of and make their way to incineration plants, their environmental impact is minimal. So the measure won't have a huge effect in reducing plastic waste or carbon footprint. However I can see how it might be favorably viewed, and net you some political points.
And if you're blindly supporting what your government muppets are throwing at you in a simulation of competence you are a believer.
mm Germany, famously reliant on renewable gas and coal
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Marking questions as "stupid, irrelevant, lazy etc" is SO's way of maintaining site content quality. Though they do get a bit aggressive at times, it's actually a good thing. A site without that just turns into Reddit.

AKA Shitpost Central.
Swarm: A resource-gathering game based on robot programming, written in Haskell
no. You reduce output if there's a surplus of other sources and the market conditions are unfavorable
I wish we had more things like this in the UK.

Amazon have won with reliable and dependable next-day shipping, but often the items you get are awful quality. Yet you "have to" order from Amazon because delivery from any other website is usually "8-10 working days" or an extra £8.99 for next-day of £15.99 if tomorrow happens to be Saturday or Sunday etc, or they require a signature and won't leave it so you end up making an hour round trip to go get your parcel from some warehouse somewhere because they refused to deliver etc .. Fuck it just get something from Amazon. Sigh. I want to buy decent quality stuff from other retailers but their shipping is really spoiling it.
Just dropping you a line to say that you sound like a good man.
The focus of Ada is not on safe arithmetic only, it's on functional safety at large: the code does what it is specified to do and nothing else.

Ada shines in its specification power, how developers can express what the code is supposed to do (strong typing, ranges, contracts, invariants, generics, etc.). And then you can either check your code at "compile time" with SPARK [1], that provides a mathematical proof that you code follows the specification. SPARK also proves that you don't have buffer overflows or division by zero for instance. Or you can have checks inserted in the run-time code which greatly improves the benefits of testing as every deviation from specifications will be detected, not only the ones you decided to check in your tests.

In terms of memory safety, Ada always had an edge on C/C++ because of the lower usage of pointers (see parameter modes [2]) and the emphasis on stack allocation. Now with the introduction of ownership in SPARK it's getting on par with Rust on that topic.

[1] https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-spark/chapters/05...
[2] https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/subp...
Burying it seems to make sense and I know it’s done a lot - but is there any risk it would be crushed and leak? I mean a once in a 10,000 year event. And if it does leak, what would the consequences be?
I did, in the beginning. But then I learned better ways of achieving the same guarantees, other methodologies to "prove" (not as in "formal proofs") that my program works as it should. Once Clojure.Spec appeared it was a no-brainer to start using it, and now I want Clojure.Spec in all languages, much rather than static typing.
The Green party in France is as divided on this question as in Germany. The current impulse is led by the current center-right government. Germany, with the same kind of government, decided to go all in for gaz (mainly from Russia).
How much of that is replaceable though? Most of those are Intel/AMD/etc chips that you can't just drop in another foundry to replace.
I once got a package in less than 24 hours from a normal online store and still remember the delivery person rushing up and down my stairs. I felt a little embarrassed and would gladly wait a day or two if people in logistics could work at a normal pace without stress.
I agree that we need to diversify our power bets. However, it is prudent to evaluate our options and if necessary push one option over the other if we know the other has severe problems kicked into the future. For example, we incentivise Solar + Wind a lot more than we do already if the safety risk from Nuclear waste is too high.
> Physicists like power as much if not more than politicians.

An ambiguous statement in this context :)
> Europe, where public transport is really practical, and cities are built for density

Hmm, European cities weren't built for commuting or public transport, almost all of them were laid out in the medieval era for walking. They then acquired one or more railway stations in the 19th century, creating commuter ring #1 and becoming an order of magnitude larger, and may have been partially redesigned for cars in the 20th century, creating commuter ring #2. A popular conversion was demolishing the medieval-era city walls and replacing them with a ring road. Some were entirely flattened during the war, although generally rebuilt on the same plan.

Now most American cities were by comparison entirely designed for commuting ... by car. The problem with car commuting is that once you're over capacity it slows down the experience for everyone. Public transport just jams you in physically, which was uncomfortable before the pandemic and now just a nightmare. An overcrowded train is not slower than an empty one. (Subway throughput can be embark/disembark limited, though)

The difference to me seems to be the walkable core. That in turn depends on norms about use of public space and perceptions of public safety.

I'm slightly biased, but I think the Edinburgh New Town design with a couple of modern adaptations could be the ideal even for the 21st century. Grid layout, four to six floors, high ceilings, decent size windows, wide streets, occasional shop on the corner or restaurant in the basement.

("New" here means 18th century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Town,_Edinburgh, not "new" as in postwar new town or medieval New Forest)
Reprocessing has been mostly blocked by the US due to proliferation concerns, but it reduces the problem enormously, since you then have new fuel plus some very nasty waste that decays on more human-friendly timescales.

For reference, the amount of the very nasty waste produced by a lifetime's electricity demand for an average European citizen (so you probably want to multiply by 2 or 3 for future usage), immobilised in glass, is about the size of a hockey puck. A very deadly hockey puck mind, a kill-you-from-twenty-paces hockey puck, but a solid hockey puck.

You know what we haven't figured out? How to even re-concentrate the several tonnes of dispersed waste product fossil fuels put into the atmosphere for the same number of kWh, not as an accident but as part of normal operations, and that's currently wreaking havoc everywhere.
I still don't understand why Apple map is so bad compared to OpenStreetMap given that they contribute a lot to it (they are even the biggest company contributor to OSM). There must be a reason, legal or something, but why don't they just use OSM as a default for places they didn't map by themselves?

[1]: https://www.gislounge.com/openstreetmap-one-of-the-worlds-la...
Oh, no, we actually know these techniques really well.

Even a quick Google search for "theatre acoustics design" shows a lot of cool stuff.

Often, modern buildings are just lazily designed. Kind of like houses that forego hundreds/thousands of years of ventilation knowledge because you can just slap A/C everywhere.
> my project manager asks me why we're not using sequential IDs, and I say it's a best practice according to the documentation, he'll happily accept that answer even if neither of us understand why it's a best practice.

I have to say, I think I would be happier with an answer like "because it avoids hotspotting according to the bocs"

This limits the applicability of the "don't use sequential IDs" rule to where it actually helps.

Otherwise, the rumour spreads, and later you find teams doing huge damaging work arounds to avoid using sequential IDs, in contexts where hotspotting is totally irrelevant (perhaps because they are not even using Firestore) all blissfully unaware, because they they think they are following "best practice"

I've seen this happen so often in large companies, the words "best practice" let people abdicate their professional responsibility to _think_ and it's quite dangerous IMO
Looks more like a drone to me (ie, there's no useful load).
The fact is that nuclear is extremely expensive, and only gets built where there's huge government subsidy. The subsidy that renewables get pales in comparison to nuclear subsidy. Take the UK for example. Here we have a relatively free market in electricity generation. It's been possible for decades for a private company to build a nuclear power station, but nobody has. The only ones planned or built have enormous subsidies where the government has run roughshod over the free market. Nuclear just doesn't make economic sense.