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The 6502 isn’t manufactured with modern processes and technology. It’s still stuck in the eighties for that sort of thing. So basically everything even a few years newer will be smaller and more power efficient.
Anecdotal but I've heard from friends about scheduling (and other) issues with SWA. And when I flew SWA two months ago they had to put me in a hotel for a night due to a 6 hour late flight making me miss my connection. So yeah I'm guessing it's really what they say it is.
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From by the submission a few days ago, this comment linked a substack that claimed they couldn’t make it an official union action because it was about the vaccine mandates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28825929
I don't see how anyone is forced to rely on billionaires, and if anything I'd rather rely on a billionaire than on a politician: one of the two has actually done something.
I live in South Florida and the weather has been exceptionally normal the past couple months. This past week, absolutely no medium or heavy storming or winds occurred in South Florida. Also, no other airlines based out of Florida had these issues.
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Again, no other airline was impacted by this? Only 1 of 11 SWA hubs are in Florida[1], there is no way 50% of their aircraft go through Florida on any given day.

Continues to not make any sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines
To a first approximation, Fukushima did not cause any harm. I view the plant iself as a success story, given ancient reactor design etc. etc.

I think a lot of half-paying-attention people confused the reactor and the tsunami. Of course the news coverage and in-hindsight-unnecessary evacuation didn't help either.
I disagree. The first bullet point is pretty alarming
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I have my share of gripes with MS daily, but some of the comments here smack of user error and the “old man yells at cloud” headline.
Only if we want to exclude 99.5% of people. Plenty of successful scientists are also bad at statistics.
Drug cartels are successful as well.

The real problem is that legal work isn't being rewarded. Simply letting your money or real estate idle is a much better bet than actually investing it in an economy with slow population growth.
It’s worth noting and celebrating when we can do something like power a rocket without having carbon emissions intrinsic to that process.

It’s the same argument against electric cars - “oh, well the electricity might be made in a coal plant!” Sure, but we know how to solve _that_ problem, it’s this _other_ one we’ve been trying to figure out.
> To be fair, Windows 10 will be 10 years old at that time and their PC will be over 11 years old which is an eternity in technology time.

To be fair, the PC won't be that old. Every single machine with Zen (1st gen Ryzen and Threadrippers), for example.
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Great iq test. Ask people if they think “it’s the weather” is the true cause.
>> Mr. Sinek is not a neuroscientist, and has not studied or researched the complexity of this aspect of our brain. But, he knows something you don’t: mentioning neuroscience is a great way to convince people you are more knowledgeable about something, and to make your arguments more convincing. This effect was recently demonstrated by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, who showed that use of irrelevant references to brain science was an effective way to lure people into thinking that complex phenomena are simple, and easily explained by, well, the brain.

Er. So. Like artificial neural nets for example?
It was pushed for mainly by his coalition partner (the green party) and none of them work for russian oil companies.
Anti-nuclear is a very big movement in Germany and the majority of the population don‘t want to have them operated.
I will note that GP mentions "We the People" are fighting each other because the talking heads tell us to. I contend that this is on purpose. A casual glance through Rules for Radicals shows that social friction is a tool for social change. With that noted, let's talk end game.

There's a common (almost cliche) line of "bad times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make bad times", which appears superficially true. Consider the Weimar Republic, or Imperial Russia from about 2 centuries ago. Both appeared to follow that pattern. The fall of Rome kinda fits that, too, if you squint.

The hallmarks of "bad times" appear to be increased law and regulation, increase in law/regulation complexity, non-dependable money supply (inflation was an issue in all three of the above scenarios), dilution of national identity, and so on. I'd argue that what underpins those changes is eroding morality. A perfectly moral people need no law, and their money supply is uncorrupted. As morality decreases, the necessity of law becomes apparent, and so the increase in law and regulation. As graft increases (which drove the need for law and regulation) the money supply becomes corrupted, fiat.

The collapse of empires (make no mistake, the United States is a cultural economic empire) is typically sudden, violent, and bloody. All three scenarios all featured a lot of death in a very short amount of time.

The end for the United States will likely be the same. Inflation will destroy what's left of the propped up economy. People will start to go hungry, their housing and livelihoods will be threatened. As soon as the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy is in question, people start to rebel. You see some of that already with anti-vaccine riots. People believe their bodily autonomy is threatened. Definitely their livelihoods are threatened (this game of coercion -- get a vaccine, or you can't even work -- that Australia is playing and that the US seeks to implement -- is pushing people out of their comfort zones).

Are we in the end game? Dunno. We won't know until it is the end. Sudden, violent, bloody.

[edit] misplaced asterisks [/edit]
I remember some big protests in the Aachen region against Tihange and Doel in 2017/18. I would say there is some concern about these plants.
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> yes Bezos is a horrible person

For the crime of making tens of thousands of people millionaires, providing people with what they want the world over, living the American dream, and hurling Shatner's body into the void?
You have to be careful with these statements. Reading them from a legal perspective, they say very little.

For example, they may absolutely not have been terminated for writing this memo, but for circulating it or refusing to take it down.

Similarly, 11 complaints and 7 warnings over two years could all have occurred in 1 month and be the result of said memo.

Not saying that is the case, but just pointing out that these public statements always designed to support the company position and seem definitive, while actually committing to nothing factually.
What's silly is not embracing new ways of making your art a revenue stream so that you can live off of it.
But Microsoft can do that too? They can compile one version of each DLL for SSE2 and another for AVX or whatever if they want, same as any other vendor. It's not like they can just turn off SSE2 for everybody, because it would break every program, and even new programs may use SSE2 instructions in combination with newer x86 extensions. Even if they did (and I'm not sure it's even possible in x86), I don't see how it could increase security anyways; any new Spectre vulnerability or whatever is probably going to be just as exploitable if not more so using AVX load instructions as SSE load instructions.
Before deploying new code, ask yourself and at least one other person “If this is going to cause a major issue, what would it be?”

I love a premortem, but this isn't quite how I do them. I prefer to start long before a deploy, before a feature hits sprint planning. By asking my team "What could go wrong if we start this?" we often uncover some of the unknowns that can derail our engineering effort. It's particularly important to get the quality assurance team involved that early too, by getting them to think about how they'll test the feature - QA should be about implementing processes to assure quality after all.
Bad weather in some regions can certainly affect flights in others. If planes in Florida are needed on the west coast and cant leave because of the weather that affects the flights on the west coast.
But that's really not a great place to use this argument - this isn't surveillance infrastructure or encryption backdoors where yes, once it's built a) it will be used for nefarious purposes b) it's really hard to get rid of. Game sandboxing is already very easy to achieve(at least on windows) and doesn't require any special software to be developed or deployed. It's all part of the Microsoft GDK and is already used - a recent game that is deployed like that is The Ascent, which deservedly got into a lot of shit over it, because the Gamepass version runs poorly compared to the non-sandboxed version on Steam. Likewise, other games that have done this suffer for it and publishers shy away from it, just how aggressive DRM gets a lot of pushback and publishers either don't include it or are forced to remove it post launch.

That's why I'm not really worried about this tech "spilling" to single player games to protect MTX or anything like that, but I'd really really really like to see it deployed as aggressively as physically possible in online competitive games.
No. But I'm glad you seem to be familiar with this.

So its funny you left out the countless proposed, failed and later repealed attempts at wealth taxes in Europe.

If you want a very simple example, just look at how Sweden killed their markets.

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

Countless business lost, lives damaged and millions lost, just because someone wanted to introduce a "tax" with "good intentions" without thinking.
I've heard that airlines don't face penalties for weather related delays/cancellations. It would make business sense to try and attribute it to inclement weather as to avoid paying fines and related fees.
If he were to come out and say "Mars is the stepping stone that I can do within my lifetime, and Venus is the real goal we can only think about once we establish the demand on Mars, probably after I'm dead", that would be great and I would have more respect for him.
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>Considering MAD existed and most nukes would have been dropped on the US and USSR, not Germany, I don't think that's the issue. We and the russians had far more to worry about than the germans.

Completely wrong. A NATO-Russia war could have been (and still could) be fought entirely in central Europe. This might include tactical nuclear weapons, delivered by short- and medium-range missiles and aircraft. This is why it was said that "In Germany, the towns are only two kilotons apart" (<https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/12/11/n...>).

To put another way, it's possible to realistically imagine a war in which Germany is hit with nuclear weapons but the US and Russia aren't. It's not realistic to imagine a war in which the US and Russia are hit with nukes but Germany isn't.
This is probably another recent example where a system that operates with very little slack can have massive failures due to localized perturbations in network dynamics.
That's true that it quantizes (aka bins) the samples, so it isn't right for tests that need to be 100% sample-perfect, at least vertically speaking. I suppose it is a compromise between a few tradeoffs - easy readability just from looking at the code itself (you could do images, but then there's a separate file you have to keep track of, or you're looking at binary data as a float[]) vs strict correctness. The evaluation of these tradeoffs would definitely depend on what you're doing, and in my case, most of the potential bugs are going to relate to horizontal time resolution, not vertical sample depth resolution.

If the precise values of these floats is important in your domain (which it very well may be), a combination of approaches would probably be good!
Would love to hear how well this approach works for you guys. Keep me updated :)
It's still the best system we've ever had (without the crony part). I'm all for making it better, or even replacing it, just not with something that has been tried before. Especially something that's been tried and failed many times, at the cost of millions of lives.
Coal plants release ash into the air and groundwater continuously, in the course of normal operation. This ash is around five times more radioactive than soil.
"Not compatible with some live TV streaming services."
No way with the Green Party part of gov. They've literately started out with "Atomkraft - Nein danke" stickers in late 1970s. Mostly seen on cars, then and today.
> Believing otherwise requires either the existence a common error or a conspiracy.

Both of which are common.
Also see Olkiluoto 3 in Finland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...

"The main contractor, Areva, is building the unit for a fixed price of €3 billion, so in principle, any construction costs above that price fall on Areva. In July 2012, those overruns were estimated at more than €2 billion, and in December 2012, Areva estimated that the full cost of building the reactor would be about €8.5 billion, well over the previous estimate of €6.4 billion."
US/NATO doctrine was to use tactical nukes in the event of an invasion of West Germany. There were tactical nuclear mines, tactical nuclear bridge demolition charges, tactical nuclear artillery shells, etc. In the 50s the US reorganized around a Pentomic division [1], which was effectively highly mobile battlegroups too small to be worth nuking since the assumption was that any reasonable sized formation would get plastered.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomic
>why would there be so many mediocre code boot-camps?

I would assume for the same reason there are so many ads that say send for my amazing money making secrets book and learn to become rich! Or on the other hand because there is no real connection between the ability to get people in to take your course in the hopes of getting a job and the actual ability after the class of those people to get a job.
Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft is what I’ve heard of as the some of the best companies for coasting at. Obviously it will still be a bit org/team dependent. Check out threads on Blind.
It's possible to make zero carbon electrofuels. The question is a matter of excess cost and scalability. Right now the price of "clean hydrogen" is eight times the price of dirty hydrogen. [1]

That's a rather exorbitant difference. Maybe in the future, the difference will be more manageable and scalable. As it stands now, there's a lot of work to do.

Note, this is super important to solve because battery power doesn't work for heavy things, such as large aircraft, shipping vessels, etc.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-shot-summit-b...
Except... what's going to happen is that "not enough" will get done by then, and the world won't end overnight. So what's the point, exactly?

This is like the death cults claiming The World Will End At Exactly... - and it doesn't, and the whole thing fizzles out.

1.5C will suck. 2C will suck more. Etc. But it's not like there's some magical point where it won't suck.
Microsoft's guidance (last I looked) was that Windows containers (e.g. the non Hyper-V ones) were not a security boundary, only Hyper-V based Windows containers should be considered to provide isolation.

That has the slight clash with the fact that Hyper-V containers are not currently supported under Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/wind...):)

For more depth on the challenges of securing Process isolation containers with Windows https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/04/who-contains-... is a great read.
Ask HN: What if code comments were not supported?
Crazy idea here :)

The better I get at writing clean code, the less comments I need to use. What if there was a "compiler mode" where comments were forbidden. Or maybe you are entitled to a limited number of comment words per file.

Could that spur programmers to write better code?
Again, the article clearly addresses this. What is the incentive for both Southwest management and the Pilot's Union to lie?

“Flight delays and cancellations occurred for a few hours Friday afternoon due to widespread severe weather, military training, and limited staffing in one area of the Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center,”

“The big issue is that Florida is roughly 15% of our trips, but on any given day, upwards of 50% of our aircraft lines flow through Florida,” Jordan told TPG. “You’ve got all those lines that just stopped in Florida, so you’ve got a lot of aircraft caught up in that,”

“We’re not hub and spoke, and we do very little out-and-back,” Jordan said. “So when you stop a line, you’re stopping a line where the aircraft is attempting to flow across the country.”
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old system needs to be replaced
I somewhat doubt a large scale sickout occurred, but being anti-COVID vaccine and anti-COVID vaccine mandate for continued employment are two separate issues.
I said that many times to my friends, Musk has created an entire tech ecosystem that supports human life on Mars.

The gig with the android is the last piece: there are dangers in space, where humans are not safe. This is where this comes in place.
Or another one taking a doomy photo with a bible in a church in the middle of a protest.
The quality part is not really true anymore. Sure, Lego is still the gold standard but the competition is catching up fast.

Arguable the Polish company COBI offers higher quality than Lego. The pieces stick together much stronger and they are known for using prints instead of stickers for details on the models.

The Chinese competition is getting quite close as well and newer models might have closed the gap already.

Of course what is keeping Lego alive is licenses. If you what to own a officially licensed Start Wars set, you have to buy Lego. Though the prices are getting ridiculous.
Instead coal plants working normally slowly pump more radiation into atmosphere than occasionally exploding nuclear plants...
>"Why would they lie?"

If it would be prudent to do so, and if there is enough reasonable doubt that they could get away with it.

Edit: This is the rationale for telling lies, twisting truths, or otherwise being dishonest. I'm not actually claiming they were indeed lying, just giving a cynically Machiavellian answer.
> The main problem here is that if Williams Sonoma was not advertising on that search term, Lodge and Food52 etc etc would, and then those companies would be above the Williams Sonoma organic placements.

When you put it that way this sounds like racketeering.
> for the betterment of the user experience.

Giving Activision kernel level access on a private device, what an improvement.
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We need to get away from the idea of "the Science" altogether because it's an incomplete abstraction and prone to corruption.

What is valuable are specific principles like dedeuctive reasoning and the scientific method, upon which we've built our greatest achievements as a species.

Trusting "the Science" without understanding what that really means is basically just another form of religion, complete with its own priesthood and people who demand that whatever the priests say must be taken on faith because it's moral and good.

Philosophers have observed that this blind belief in "the Science" is actually worse than belief in religion. Because while religion roots its authority in the divine (which either doesn't exist or chooses not to get directly involved), the church of Science roots its authority in men. Men declare a truth and a morality based on what they claim to be scientific, then go on to commit atrocities they rationalize from it. The greatest mass murderers in history were atheists like Stalin and Mao. They were the little gods of their own secular personality cults and they committed genocide on a scale that had never before been seen.
Well, seems you are pretty wrong[1].

There's plenty of highly educated people that respect both science and engineering, but do not support mandatory COVID vaccines for a plethora of reasons.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-09/southwest...
How about

- Germany trying to find a nuclear waste deposit since ages (that doesn't have to be evacuated due to ground water later on)*

- Failed nuclear plants we're deconstructing since ages and are paying millions every year to do so

- Nuclear fuel expected to be depleted in the next 100 years

- State and taxpayers always having to pay for the disasters of nuclear plants, while the gains are going to the companies

- French nuclear plants that had some interesting failures in the last years, while we can just watch and hope they're treated correctly. Meanwhile you're told "nono, everything is fine".

Theoretically nuclear power can be effective. Practically we're using corporations that want to profit and have a human factor. So no wonder it's not safe to operate in reality. The next fukushima could be at your door, with your government then also claiming the radiation to be safe, because they can't afford to keep people out of their work and houses for so long.

No nuclear company is insured for the real amount of money they'd have to pay for the next fukushima or Tschernobyl. Because there is no insurance for that amount of money.

* And USA still pouring money into a final solution for a underground storage

Also I don't give much about USA and their regulations. It's the country with stories like these:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-...
And oh wonder:
https://truthout.org/articles/evidence-of-fracking-chemicals...

I could even suspect USA influence to prevent more solar money to china or gas/oil money to russia.
Wind and solar in europe aren't going to get them off of fossil fuels anytime soon, while nuclear has had that capability since its inception.
> these aircraft, which could arguably be considered antiques at this point

They ARE antiques, no “arguably” about it.
They legally aren't allowed to do it, officially or unofficially. So the union cannot "take credit" for it.
Can’t kill anyone onboard.
Cost is irrelevant if you can’t store the energy generated. Nuclear is predictable and carbon free. Look at France.
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You are conflating unsafe with unknown.

You are ignoring the difference between a disease which is highly contagious (therefore difficult to avoid) versus pregnancy complications that are easy to avoid because they aren’t contagious diseases.

You are also projecting typical ethical concerns around medical research on pregnant women and the mounting body of evidence that COVID vaccines are safe for women who get pregnant after vaccination. It turns out it is easy to study this after billions of doses are administered. The CDC is currently studying the effects of these vaccines on pregnancy: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommend...

“That’s just one among many”

Perhaps some of the “many” might stand up to scrutiny…
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What's even "equity training" ??
Dont conflate science with capitalistic empire built on top of it
No I'm suggesting that there shouldn't be a mandate for those who can reliably prove they have had covid.
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