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> On 3 November 1993, he (Douglas Adams) gave this answer on alt.fan.douglas-adams:

> > The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker's_...?
TypeScript does not output obfuscated JS. The output is completely human-readable, even if certain things don't match the source exactly. TS explicitly tries to stay in line with JS, syntax-wise.
Right, the problem is that you quickly run into the "miracle occurs" territory.

The square root of a number takes us from an area to the length of the side of the square corresponding to that area. The cube root is the same for a cube. What is the 10th root of x?

It's a number that, when multiplied by itself ten times equals x.

OK. How do you compute this number?

The best I can offer at this point is, for simplicity, a brute force search or, for faster results, a bisection search algorithm.

In other words, the "and then a miracle occurs" moment is right there. The fact that I can key these numbers into a calculator and get the answer isn't the kind of explanation I want to use for my kid. I don't want to say "once you get here you pick-up your calculator", because the legitimate question then might be "If it's magic, why don't I just pick it up at the start of the problem?"

To be clear, I don't mean "miracle" as anything other than "this shit is hard-to-impossible to explain or calculate by hand". That said, you could probably run through a quick bisection search by hand and likely converge on a low error answer in 2 to 5 cycles.

The meaning of of the e root of b explained with exponentiation and the exponentiation is explained with the root.
I've found that to be exactly the case. Once you are able to freely hypelink your notes, the ID isn't really helpful. It's the first thing I dropped from mine.
As someone who successfully raised one puppy (disgustingly shameless clickbait: [1]) I can recommend a critical principle that applies to software developers as well:

Only positive reinforcement: for the dog, you don't even express disapproval when they mess in the house. You just carry them outside, plus express wild approval when they do it outside.

I don't recommend picking up your developers and carrying them around, but you get the idea.

"But they have to learn what's bad, too!" you're saying. Yes, but they'll notice that you're not doing that "wild approval" thing for certain behaviors, and instead showing them the correct one. They're a lot smarter than laboratory rats. Most developers are as well.

But the overriding reason is: you want the dog to be happy. Because then he'll make you happy.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GhuA-XPj932SRtnVLReOBYXt0wb...
> To represent lots of different information to humans in a concise view, you need a lot more than Markdown is capable of.

[•••]

> Better tools for composing documents already exist.

Such as? Honest question, and a hope you don't mean MS Word or Google Doc.
Agreed. It's a form of jargon, which is effectively never a recommended (communications) tool. If it was the best-fit tool, sure then so be it. But too often the jargon tools are more about being elitist than anything else.

Or maybe I've been at this too long, and too naively still optimistic?
In the 90's I chalked it up to "surround or 5.1 marketing" but it might have been something else https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/3d-audio
Perhaps it might be better to compare Maine to other rural states like Idaho or Montana rather than, you know, Florida.
Even if you're against trans people, in an online forum, normalizing calling out pronouns allows cisgendered women to say "I'm a woman and would like to be called as such" without it being disruptive or cause men to view her as pushy.
I think that's true for many things Netflix does, but wrapping the seeking event handler for HTMLMediaElement with private state specifically to catch unexpected seek events seems like it would be known to break 3rd parties. That's fine, of course, they aren't claiming to support a public api. But it doesn't seem accidental or some oversight.
Gender: Bitch

Pronouns: Who's a good girl

Ethnicity: Rottweiler
Comment sections are no fun if we’re going to assume good intent of people we don’t know. I suggest we ignore this reasonable explanation and start a frenzied campaign against this obviously malicious change.
This is just plain nonsense and is bordering on being paranoid and delusional behavior similar similar to what you'd see from conspiracy theorists.

If you ever tried looking at the compiled code, or tried playing with the settings, you can see that typescript is able to output code which is nearly your original code copied, just without types. It all depends on which compilation target you choose. If you choose es3, it will be full of polyfills. If you choose esnext, it will be basically your code.
For interpreters, that's highly likely to be true, especially if they are mainly spending time in switch tables or executing basic opcodes.
Better drivers would help more.
Damn, took me a moment; I'm so used to seeing 0x41414141 (AAAA) that I didn't notice you were talking in base 10 ;)
To the authors of such blurbs about scientific breakthroughs: please cite the exact paper you refer to within the first paragraph, including a hyperlink. Using a generic phrase like: "... a team has demonstrated a way to detect errors in the setting of a quantum bit..." is not enough information to unambiguously understand what the author of this piece is talking about. In paragraph 7, the author of the blurb mentioned the name of the relevant scientists for the first time, after the blurb quoted a number of other scientists, included a link to a previous paper, and the reader still doesn't know which paper this blurb is referring to... I guess that even an AI-based blurb generator could learn some simple rules about being specific in crediting the source that inspired their writing.
Website for Upcoming Security Conferences
As other user commented, cooking books meant to be read rather than used as reference material are actually written like that.

Makes me wonder if that's the difference, do people not check math papers unless they are specifically interested in that very proof or such?
He just wanted to make sure the right couldn't use nuclear as a campaign point so he said France would focus on SMRs. They're still reducing their nuclear power from today's levels to about 50%, so their long term strategy isn't affected by this play. This is not surprising. Having as much nuclear power as France has at the moment is not the most optimal energy mix in today's energy landscape.
It takes me about 15 seconds to boot my computer. But do I need to start the computer each time I do something on it? No, I leave it on.

Similarly goes for other things you use but takes "too long time" to open, leave the thing open and you just have to switch windows to access it.

And if you think Obsidian is a note taking app, then yeah, it's not the right tool for you, continue using Vi/m. But once you grow out of it, you'll need a knowledge base instead, and for that, Obsidian is lightweight.
Odd that there's no video introduction. The first hit I found on Google had two ads and was a guy basically wandering around the app as if he had never used it before.

> Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

This doesn't help me. I use a directory of Markdown files powered by VS Code to take notes already - ever since Evernote began getting bad, which was a long time ago.

What does Obsidian offer beyond that? I can't tell from the page. I'm not asking for an answer here. Instead I'm noting that the page itself doesn't answer the questions that I have as a current Markdown-notetaking user.
I thought people liked separating content from representation --- isn't Markdown's approach going against such philosophy?
for no additional output, sponge over tee! sponge is useful in some cases where redirecting output is annoying, and it can construct pipelines reading/writing from the same file.

Found that one way later than I'd care to admit. I use tee $FILE > /dev/null <EOF quite often in some situations where redirects get ugly, and sponge is a nice util to tidy up the invocation.
Isn't the idea behind supposed paleo/ancestral diets to limit your food to ones that resemble what one could forage or hunt for? If age in the range of 1000+ years is the criteria, wheat and other cultivated grains should be fine, but they're usually excluded.
Thanks, seems like godot works well in Ubuntu also, which I was primarily use. Will take a look.
I see it the same as telling colleagues they are fat etc. It is rude. If you keep it up when they ask you to stop likely you get fired, even if you are right.

Anyway, in my opinion if they make a bigger deal out of it than if when you call people fat then it is just politics. But I still wouldn't do it myself, just like I don't call people fat even if I think they are. If they push me then I will tell the truth, but if they push me to hear my opinion about their pronouns or gender then it is hard to say that it is me bullying them rather than the other way around.

Edit: But I think this was originally about being forced to show your pronouns online. Not sure I'd like that, seems pushy and bullying to me. I'd rather people not have that information, even saying they/them is information that I am not comfortable showing my gender, why would I want to give people that information?
The term "worship" isn't limited to the worship of any deity alone - as the quote itself indicates. It includes worship of things such as beauty, youthfulness, fame, wealth... or whatever that consumes your thinking
The ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is indeed asking what is 6 multiplied by 9. (42 of course, as any well-read high school student could tell us.)
Thanks for the suggestion, will look into it.
Thanks, OS games clones seems interesting. Taking a look now.
Clean your own house and wash your own toilet. You, not me, are the one who has to live there, anyway.
> Wind and solar each provide close to 3x the capacity nuclear ever did.

The difficulty is that the renewables don't provide baseline power.

Ironically, this baseline is now sometimes coming from French nuclear power plants.

I respect Germany's concern about nuclear, but the Energiewende hasn't always been practical.
Forgive, not forget, so to speak.

Or at least pretend to.
TMTOWTDI = there's more than one way to do it
I don't think Firefox and Chrome run extensions/plugins in private windows without you first allowing them to run. That might be the case here.
HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (2015)
Yeah, the macro-based lambda calculus is pretty slow, since it's essentially an interpreter upon interpreter upon interpreter! The first one is preprocessor, which executes Metalang99, which executes the final calculus.
I think in 10 years it’ll be a requirement to have a catalytic converter on every stove.
The transport losses are by far the smallest part of that. HVDC is available at 3.5% loss at 1000km as a standard product, but if building it at the required scale was trivial we’d be doing it rather than talking about it.
A Mach 5 passenger plane is a crazy idea that might just work
Interesting. It probably only works among close friends. A celebrity don't want to share her messy pictures, and people don't want to see messy pictures from complete strangers.
Lauded Spanish female crime writer revealed to be three men
But that still has all the problems associated with why M1 Abrams are suboptimal for infantry.

1. Very slow rate of fire -- It takes time to load the weapon.

2. Low number of shells -- an M1 Abrams only can carry 40ish shots.

3. Extreme heavy weight / armor is redundant -- 70-tons means really big engines, really big engines uses a lot of fuel.

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I'd say the "heavy vehicle" that is actually designed for infantry are the M2 Bradley IFV. Less than 30 tons, a smaller 25mm chain gun with 900-rounds, armor still too thick for small-arms fire (but not redundantly / absurdly thick like the M1 Abrams).

The 25mm cannon is still capable of firing those "anti-trench burst rounds" that started this thread, and a faster rate of fire would be more useful than a bigger, slower 120mm boom.

Things like the M1 Abrams exist to kill things like the M2 Bradley. Sure, the M1 Abrams has some tricks (mainly the 50-cal secondary gun) to deal with infantry, but a lot of its features are straight up redundant if there's no enemy armor around.

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A lot of military weapons, maybe most of them, exist to beat the strategies that beat lower level tactics. Ex: F22 is designed to kill airplanes, but cannot serve as a close-air support fighter very well.

A civilian might have to worry about a Predator Drone (seemingly the main weapon we use to kill targets from the sky). But civilians don't have to worry about F22.
I'd wonder if it would be easier to introduce a totally new API along the lines of ruby's ractor API[1] that enables thread parallelism while keeping existing Thread behavior identical as with the GIL. Tons of python code relies on threaded code that is thread-safe under the GIL, but would completely blow up if the GIL was naively replaced.

[1] https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/doc/ractor_md.html
I think the notation is very much needed because it quickly becomes a tool for thought and communication. This is very much the case for every spoken language and other areas, such as music. Your point, which is quite correct, is that the math might not be explained well enough and internalized to the extent where the notation becomes a language for students beyond the simplest levels of mathematics.

A kid can learn the notation for whole, 1/4, 1/8, etc. musical notes and their positions on the staff very easily. An immediate relationship is created to the key on the piano or the fret on the guitar. I have been to math classes where the professor simply vomits formulas on the blackboard for one hour and you are left to figure out what they hell happened. That is a problem. Not the notation. The way math is taught.
Design doc the proposer linked: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18CXhDb1ygxg-YXNBJNzfzZsD...
I have seen and written Python code that spawns various threads with shared mutable state. Is it possible that some day the same code would run in parallel? That could be a terrible (very) breaking change. I'm not against allowing in-process parallel execution but please let it require a new API.
There is no way that this will ever be legal in the EU.
> “With HTTP, you search for locations. With IPFS, you search for content.”

Well, that's the difference between an URL and an URI, right? HTTP seems URL-oriented while IPFS seems URI-oriented.
Mandatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/664/
Ask HN: How do you see the world?
I've always seen it the other way around.

We can keep solving the engineering challenges, but the universe might simply not allow us to get a return on investment with every additional qubit.
> importance and novelty of the work

That's there for playing the grant funding game. It's a waste for people who care about the content of the research.
It was the rise of phytoplankton that created the atmosphere necessary for human life.

It will be the collapse of the phytoplankton that will eliminate the the atmosphere necessary for human life.

Humans won’t be around to see the planet warm.
Umbral calculus
There is something I've never seen in a voting system before, but I'd love for it to take off.

Slice open an orange along its equator. Looking at this slice you have a shape kind of like an *

Each of these wedges can have a different tag. Those wedges facing up would have a positive value, and down a negative.

The site the orange slice voting system is used on can easily decide the number of wedges that make sense and the tags associated.

Instead we get binary or unitary choices that don't really mean much.

Edit: Image for example

https://i.imgur.com/0uVQl3s.jpg
I agree with everything you said in the first two paragraphs. But string theory is not “motivated by nothing but cool looking math”. String theory is the generalization of quantum mechanics to higher dimensional fundamental objects, i.e. beyond particles, but in many senses the string theories that are well understood are just quantum mechanics in a different suit and hat.

It is already known that many of the most physically important quantum field theories are actually string theories if you rewrite them in different variables (this is called AdS/CFT duality), especially for understanding their large-coupling behavior string theory is the only tool available to analytically understand the theory. So string theory being completely wrong would be as surprising as quantum computing being impossible, for the same reason as you gave for QC. It would indicate something profoundly wrong about something we think we understand well. Its not impossible but the case is much, much more robust than the general internet understands.
A challenge with any such project, is that most code running on the old micro's took the processor clock speed as an implied system constant. So, timing of things like video refresh, and sound, would become unworkable if you tried to change the clock speed. The Apple ][ had a very particular clock speed, to implement a video controller that shared the memory bus with the CPU.

I know that I'm guilty of managing the timing of some peripherals by using loops full of NOP instructions.

As processors have gained more hardware features such as sophisticated timers and memory controllers, it has become easier to write code that runs independently of the clock speed. In the case of old systems, it's probably possible but might require access to the original source code.

Some early PC-compatible motherboards with higher clock speeds had a front panel switch, so you could run the machine at the old speed for software that needed it.
The point totally missed here.

The logic for share awards initially was to align the interests of shareholders and managers. The problem here is: you have founders often with supervoting shares, they usually have a huge role in appointing the Board, and they are basically looting everything that isn't nailed down from minority holders.

The big change was Musk's package. When that happened, all hell broke loose. It is a crazy situation because he already has a huge share in the upside of TSLA, but now he is taxing minority holders too.

If anything, this is going to get worse because the rise of passive investing has left the market with essentially no corporate governance escape valves (and, although it is basically verboten to mention this now, changes in "board hiring policies" are having the same effect...if you know, you know...it is not possible to say this explicitly on the internet).

But this is nothing to do with rewarding success or aligning incentives. This is just majority holders who control management and the Board looting non-controlling shareholders. In the cases where this isn't true, for example AAPL, the CEO pay is just wildly out of proportion to the amount of value generated...it is just insane (you are actually seeing tech-oriented PE funds make money from taking public companies private because they are able to gain control over stock-based comp...how crazy is that). Making comp wholly dependent on the share price (as in the Musk deal) is also completely inappropriate because, as a first-year finance student can explain, the stock price is not composed solely of company-specific risk.

Just generally, I don't think executives realise this is going to come back to bite them. I am an arch-capitalist but this isn't capitalism, it is feudalism. The economic system in the US is rigged totally. The level of inequality and unfairness that exists in US society has never been sustained by any society. Executives are creating the machine that will end them.
Transitory inflation with transitory being the interval described by (T_0 aka now, T_inf aka heat death of universe]
WireGuard is hipster crypto. It's for people who think SSH is too user-friendly. It's for people who think every application should ship with a microkernel. It's for people who think that replacing 1000 users' cryptosystems all at the same time is a walk in a park. It's for people who think normal users won't post their private key in a Slack help channel. It's for people who never refresh or revoke a private key. It's for people who think "Enterprise" is a starship, and "Federation" is what the starship belongs to.
> Food is gone.

Wow that’s a pretty big change! I need to give it a play now to see how it feels.
> So the first question is, do you live in such a universe? Is He there, or not?

If one cannot falsify a god's existence then can it be proven to exist?
All I got was this after 15th question:

Sorry, something unexpected happened. It wasn't your fault. But, it may be temporary.
Try refreshing this page. If the error persists, contact help@condorsay.com.

Not cool as I was forced to sign up with Google and wasted almost 10 minutes doing it.
It's unclear. It's proceeded by a discussion that the question may have been garbled. So we're left with two possibilities:

1) The ultimate question was 6 * 9 = ? and the universe makes no sense at all.

2) The ultimate question was 6 * 7 = ? and the universe has no deeper meaning.

Both are possible, and the ambiguity suggests he wanted to say both.
Isn't that.. Already the case? The gil doesn't prevent thread switching in the middle of python code.
>> If it wouldn’t disappear then it’s not a cost that can be attributed to the current financial system.

> That's a pretty clear absolution.

Not even close. You seem to be interested in attributing blame. My comment is about causality.

If your assumption is that the financial system is the cause of imperialist oppression, then you will also be likely to believe that an alternative financial system can be the cure.

I think that’s naïvely utopian. If Bitcoin is money, then powerful people will use it the same way money has always been used. At best you might reshuffle who is in power, but ultimately it will just be a case of “it’s my turn with the gun now”.
That was my first thought as well. I use Python to whip up quick scripts and enjoy not having to worry about shared memory, even when I'm using concurrency. I'd hate to lose that.
I'd add a scientific bent to those pursuits, if you are so inclined. Get into the habits of thinking like a naturist in the Age of Humboldt vein. A local library, for example, recently held a "DIY Telescope" night. And I always get personally nostalgic whenever I see a young child of today heading out to the fields to test an Estes Rocket ;)
One of my highest priorities for a personal knowledgebase is that my system can continue to be essentially unchanged for the rest of my life (hopefully another 50+ years), just as my current archive of notes goes back 20 years.

The Lindy Effect[0] would say that plain text files have already existed for more than 50 years, therefore are likely to still exist another 50 years from now.

That being said the Obsidian team are making progress towards adding WYSIWYG, so you will soon be able to edit visually while keeping the files stored in a readable plain text format.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
As a pseudonymous cat, the issues I've seen aren't being required (not just normalized) to supply a pronoun, but rather being expected to supply a human name to the KDE project for copyright tracking purposes.