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VHDLs type system is pretty rock solid it’s based off Ada after all. Which if you have looked at in any detail its a great type system!

I dont like the begin end style syntax and some the verbosity that entails with VHDL. However, I would rather create designs in VHDL than verilog when given the choice.
I understand your gripe about inconsistent spelling, but what do you have against diacritics? Diacritics typically serve to make orthography more consistent in some matter, typically more phonetically consistent.
As far as I remember (might be wrong, I don't have the book handy), the game was written by humans from the cult that formed around the first, lightspeed-bound, communication with aliens, and it was essentially "artist's impression" of the Trisolarians. The game was, IIRC, a recruiting tool for the cult.
"where they suffice" i.e. not always.
Note that concentrations matter, that there is a dose-response curve (more lead => greater impacts), and that the quantities of lead in common products such as paint were insane.

Lead wasn't simply some trace component of paint, but was up to half by weight (dried), or 500,000 ppm in the US (and probably comparable if not worse elsewhere:

White house paint contained up to 50% lead before 1955. Federal law lowered the amount of lead allowable in paint to 1% in 1971. In 1977, the Consumer Products Safety Commission limited the lead in most paints to 0.06% (600 ppm by dry weight). Since 2009, the lead allowable in most paints is now 0.009%. Paint for bridges and marine use may contain greater amounts of lead.

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/leadtoxicity/safety_standards...

Leaded petrol had on the order of 0.5 -- 1 g/l lead, again, not trace amounts, which were discharged directly into the air. Much settled out relatively quickly, within a few hundred metres, as lead is heavy. Still, lead permeated cities and land adjoining roadways and expressways. And still does. Remediation is expensive, natural remediation takes centuries.

At 90 ppm, India's regulations seem to impose a maximum upper bound, and controls for incidental introduction. Given that total elimination is impossible, setting a maximum standard.

The US standard is also 90 ppm:

https://www.cpsc.gov/Business--Manufacturing/Business-Educat...
The thing I really don't like about the builder pattern is that it obscures the possibility space. With named arguments/defult parameters, you know exactly what the fields are you need to consider. With builders, you can wander into an unfamiliar codebase, and you have to read through all the methods on this builder object to understand what's going on.
OT, but how can a value that lives on the heap be const? And how could ownership of a (non-Copy) const be passed somewhere else?
Additionally, an empty element in this context means $PWD
Nope, learn bash. Its the default on every system.
You're not entirely wrong. Aviation is a hobby that is difficult to engage in if you don't have money. But flying those same planes is exactly where your commercial pilots are trained. It takes 1500 flight hours (certainly this number is wrong but too lazy to look up the current ATP minimum) to be eligible for the license to fly passengers on commercial airlines. A substation portion of those hours are as paid instructors.
If you trust her to maintain your privacy, you can relax. If not, why are you at her place?
> If you can't have a unique idea that isn't shit, you shouldn't be a startup founder in the first place.

A taxi service available via a phone is not a unique idea, and it loses millions every single day (Uber).

A company that trades in government issued tax credits for not-pollution is not a unique idea, the Reagan administration invented it (Tesla)

A database sold to end users is not a unique idea, IBM did it in the 1960s (Oracle)

This list could go on ad-infinitum.
I can't think of a worse company than Facebook to be the first one to create a legit metaverse. The appeal of the VR in Ready Player One was that it was created from a core of sincerity. Facebook's approach would create it around their business model, which is arguably poisonous.
The only reason I know Perl is because I'm old enough to have started in the 90s when it was the new hotness. Starting today I'd obviously have learned JS or Go or Java or Rust or Python instead. Perl in 2021 probably seems like some curious antique like AWK, if they've even heard of it.

That is the real problem I think. There is just no good reason to use it, and thus learn it. It doesn't do anything better than the alternatives. It's not "dead" but there is very little new blood entering the scene. It's a retirement home.
Thanks for going through all this so meticulously. I actually didn't know this was possible (although I usually disable optimizations, so that might be why.) Just to be clear, using volatile on the magic number will ensure this is avoided?
Prior to mdn w3schools was a decent way to quickly find info on random HTML tags. Not sure why it gets so much hate.
I think paying for "conservation" on public lands is not nearly as straightforward as the article implies. "conservationists" are not always doing things in the interest of better land use. In Bozeman there's a wealthy neighborhood ($3m+ per house) that outbid the logging companies for the BLM forestry contract adjacent to their land. They claimed it was for natural habitat conservation, but the land has become completely impassable with bramble. It used to be a fantastic place to hike and ski tour in the winter, but it's become so overgrown it's hard to access by human or wild animal. We were really looking forward to the improved access to the land once the forest was harvested. The director of forestry for the area had a really thoughtful plan for harvesting the land. Completely aside from the economic loss from not harvesting, there wasn't a conservation benefit either.
>>Government is less powerful nowadays than it has ever been since WW2.

I absolutely disagree with this. Under what metric and what government are you referring to.

US Federal Government has continually and unabatedly has increased and centralized its power since at least the Great Depression, Taking power from local and State governments transferring it to the Federal Government.

Under no metric can one say government in the US is less powerful today.

>The fight should be against the source of power, not against their powerless representatives.

The Source of government power is it monopoly on the initiation of violence, last I check it was only government with the legal power to steal, plunder, arrest, jail, and even kill people that disobey.

I think it is fine the fight against both
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Bathrooms have a lot of usage in a day. Their units can start breaking down, or the line can face issues. It is pretty simple to call plumbers in Bromley. No matter the intensity of the problem, they will come to your house and get it fixed ASAP. This way, your bathroom does not remain out of order for long.
Right, ad-driven search engines are fundamentally incentivized to provide results that are bad enough that you need to try harder to find your answer, but that are good enough for you not to switch (with a fairly high cognitive barrier to switching).
Great, now everyone will sound like text-to-speech voice synthesis drones
A synonym for this process is “otherize”, but is exactly what you describe.
> penis-free as in beer

Oh do I hope it is.
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If the game is still all about network effect, then all things being equal, the one that grab more attention will win, the ethical one that discourage engagement will lose. You have to have something else.
I just noticed this comment and you touched on an interesting point. I use the term "flamebait" because it doesn't imply anything about intent—only effects. If someone drops a lit match in a dry forest, that's flamebait (because it increases the probability of a fire), but that doesn't mean it was arson. It could just be negligence.

"Trolling", on the other hand, does imply intent. If you ask someone not to troll they will usually reply "but I wasn't", meaning that they had no intent to derail discussion, and since there's no way to refute that, it's a moderation dead-end. So I tend to only use that word in the most blatant cases.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

The important thing for moderation is that intent doesn't matter much—what matters are effects. Our goal is to preserve and develop community, and for that it doesn't much matter whether a flamewar was intentional or unintentional. The important thing is to keep the site from burning in the first place.

Intent is almost useless for moderation because it's impossible to read: only you can know what your intent was, so if you say "my intent was X", no one can prove it wasn't. More deeply, basically everybody believes that their own intentions are good, regardless of how badly they behave. Whatever darker forces may be motivating us, we keep them in the shadows, so we can sincerely say "I was just trying to do $benign-thing" regardless of what the outcome was. Everyone feels themselves to be innocent this way.

The solution is to say: everyone who posts here is responsible for the effects their comments have on the thread. This goes against atomic ideas of responsibility. Most people would say "wait, how am I responsible if others react badly?" But in fact you are, because the mechanics of internet discussion are largely predictable. It's each commenter's responsibility to learn enough about those mechanics for their posts to likely have good effects, rather than likely bad effects. (By 'good' and 'bad' I mean in keeping with the site guidelines or not: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.)

This is what led to the principle that the goodness or badness of a comment is the expected value of the subthread it forms the root of: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... In other words, you actually are responsible for the effects your comments produce—not in a deterministic sense, but in a statistical one. (By 'you' I of course mean all of us.) If others respond badly in a way that could have been anticipated, the bulk of the responsibility lies with the root comment.

I think this principle is interesting because while it points to a notion of communal responsibility which is counterintuitive in our culture, it didn't originate with that. It originated purely out of moderation practice—just observing what works vs. what doesn't work while trying to have an internet forum that doesn't suck.
Despite all their posturing about privacy, DDG is the same as Google. Especially given their founder's history with selling user data.
Thanks for sharing that!
It's a very well-written doc, and IMHO it managed to describe a compelling architecture for the aspects of "web 3.0" that _don't_ scream scammy hype blockchain bitcoin bs. I'm actually interested!
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i think that is over 2-3 years ago , Since nim 1.x documentation is fine , and vscode plugins are out.
It your time to look back now , a lot more stable and complete.
Billion dollar companies have been built on perl[0]. So let us not seek to fix the blame for the past, let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Seriously though, how large a collection of programming language ecosystems does the world want or need? How many equivalent stacks, all solving the same problems with more or less the same patterns and concepts?

Just a thought: Open source communities could benefit from less dispersion of energy and talent, less endless re-invention of the wheel, less endless "not-invented here syndrome"...

[0] https://www.slideshare.net/cmnunes/bookingcom-perl
Not to mention the fact they police content. They'll refuse to associate with anyone they deem objectionable enough for any reason. This will deny sites their revenue and will lead to self-censorship to regain their favor. Nothing kills perfectly good websites faster than some offended person complaining and ads getting pulled.
Also, a quick way to estimate local prevailing winds near an airport is to look at the runway direction. Planes like to land into head winds so if there's only a single runway, those winds are mostly in one direction down the runway.
Stock Chrome has a flag that activates a combined two-tab reading list + bookmarks sidebar. Brave has the same flag, but for some reason the sidebar didn't list bookmarks the last time I tried.

There are actually flags for enabling tab scrolling if you want, and tab squeeze is also adjustable via flags.
While Verilog is not SystemVerilog, it’s more or less a subset of it. And SystemVerilog had much more industry support for design verification. So if I were to design some open source software for HDLs, that reason alone would make VHDL a non-starter.
I don't know. There are some companies that have their own recruiters. It seems like mostly smaller companies.

In my experience, we have used third party recruiters at my company and the quality of the candidates were pretty terrible at times. Some of the recruiters were giving interviewees answers to out common questions. My experience on the other side seems to reinforce this - apparently I'm a great fit for everything...
There is still a great deal of lead in the soil of urban residential homes.
I've noticed my conservative friends have tended to be much more fearful of this stuff. This was especially noticeable during 9/11.
Weird timing considering the community is actually dying right now - lots of talented people have left recently and many of my pro-Perl friends have stopped using for good.
> Are there better ways

It's a question of taste, but the builder pattern can be considered a “better way”, because of how clunky the use of Default can be.

You would prefer an API with easier to read, documented builders than the ..Default::default() call.
Perhaps, as a species, a society, a culture, our value system is completely out of whack in that it remains - at least for a sizable proportion of those in the world who can avail themselves of such 'opportunity' - the "optimal" action to sacrifice a planet in order to gain material/monetary wealth in the short term. I really don't understand bitcoin or crypto currencies but it feels to me like so much opportunism at the expense of, well, life as we have come to know it.
Incoming ICBMs would look very different (something like bright meteors).

Edit: I know, through the eyes of an 8 year old. My city was a target of the U.S. nuclear missiles, so the I had the same fear. Saw nuclear exposions all the time in my dreams.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WagAKBuc_o

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7X89a531CY
Yeah, which is itself a form of condescension, lol.

Gonna start calling millennials "people not of value" and call it woke.
While I agree with the overall point of your reply, it would also be nice if we stopped normalizing some of these fuck ups.

Some errors actually happen due to professional negligence, and we should hold ourselves to better standards than "oopsie, updated a whole column in a table".

Assuming no exceptional circumstances, of course.
It still sticks pretty close to BSD. I am seeing a ton of (entirely natural) similarity since I started seriously playing with FreeBSD
> What do you think businesses do after they “collect sales tax” they pay it to the government.

"Collecting sales tax on on behalf of the consumer for the government" should give you a good clue to what they are doing with that money. Consumers always paying the sales tax, not the businesses who collect them. They are still responsible for paying sales tax even when the business isn't collecting them (e.g. when I go to Portland and buy a MacBook Pro from the Apple store, I am supposed to myself pay sales tax to Washington state).

> What brick and mortar doesn’t charge sales tax and leaves it to the consumer to pay to the government directly?

The federal government created this scenario during the Bill Clinton Administration. It wasn't something Amazon decided on its own. And again, brick and mortar stores don't always collect sales tax (see Portland Apple store above, which gets way more business than is expected for the Portland area).

> You are making the very same bs argument Amazon made in multiple courts and lost, of course Amazon has to collect the sales tax, businesses get sales tax numbers from governments a consumer can’t exactly pay sales tax directly to governments, despite what Amazon tried to argue that’s not how sales tax works, all sales tax is reported/collected/paid based on a business sales tax account.

Again, Amazon didn't make that decision. It wasn't their decision to make. If you want to go after someone, go after the Clinton Administration, the congress that was installed at the time, and the Supreme Court.
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You probably meant it as a joke (it was ok) but since half the comments are not:

"The change in IQ scores has been approximately three IQ points per decade. One major implications of this trend is that an average individual alive today would have an IQ of 130 by the standards of 1910, placing them higher than 98% of the population at that time."

https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence

Personally few things triggers me as older generations bashing younger, everything since ww2 has been easier the older you where and they where the ones raising that younger generation. Bit of typical not-getting-it.
It's honestly making me depressed that this recoining of the term metaverse is being taken seriously and is likely to stick the way "cloud" stuck, and worse, that the things development will be driven by a company like FB. I'm not the slightest bit interested in Mark Z's vision of a metaverse. Instead, I am afraid about how many more wrong turns we can take with how we develop our information technology and apply it across society. The FOSS vision of computing where software progress is shared and acts an equalizer, and where people control their softwares behavior is what we need, not new and better attention-whoring surveillance-economy user-hostile junk. (Now in 3D!)
> if you don't crawl as frequently as google you are reliant on your crawl frequency being quicker than the 'content stealing' speed.

No problem there. If a page hasn't been crawled, it won't be a search result.
The nice thing about this pattern wrt mutability is that the mutability is scoped very tightly to the statement, since it's not often that you'd need a builder to live longer than a single statement or at the very most the lifetime of the builder. Although I've had to allow a builder to live longer than a single statement for things in the past, nothing is coming to mind at the moment. Because Rust enforces single ownership of mutable resources, it's not all that bad.
History - Grade D (due to leaded petrol).
I want it to be a more-simple Linux without so many competing choices or moving parts, and it largely succeeds on that front.
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> Anyone who "notices" should make it all fall apart instantly.

This is the flaw in your logic. How would you make it all fall apart? You have to force Tether to make good on more of its liabilities than it can make good on, but very probably, most of the people to whom Tether is liable are themselves drinking from Tether's money-printing trough, and it's not in their self-interests to pull the rug out.

To make Tether fall apart, you probably need to force an outflow of most of not only its hard currency reserves, but that of everyone else feeding at its trough. That is not an insignificant amount of money, and exactly how much is literally the $1M question.
As I noted in the last piece of my post, I believe there's value in bitcoin being a store of value. It has proven itself there and is a contender to Gold in that respect.

But there's no pretense around gold as having technological uses that require it to have a certain price, or that drive its price due to the technological demand for gold, in a way that people keep claiming for bitcoin tokens. Gold is used in tech applications, but it's not what is generally driving its price.

But insofar as you do want to look at gold's uses, it's pretty easy to link them to KPIs as they benefit end-users/consumers/companies in electronics, jewellery, space, medicine/dentistry.

The fact the responses so far are all comparing bitcoin to gold or dollars as a store of value, not as a medium of exchange, and not as a token or ledger that's useful for anything else (e.g. a notary function, or an open-source finance platform used by most tech companies to exchange value like the internet protocol or email protocol was for exchange of information), seems to me that crypto is not very interesting anymore for entrepreneurs, technologists, developers, users etc.

But rather, that it's just an asset class, one that's highly speculative and volatile vis-a-vis comparisons like gold. Interesting for investors, but not users. Just like gold.

* put differently:
The internet protocol is driving just about every digital tech company. From Facebook to Netflix to Google to Apple. Bitcoin was aiming to be the digital money protocol, but it's not driving the financial infrastructure for any companies or end-users apart from those in a speculative sense.

And that's okay, if it's just a store of value / asset class like gold, but then it should loose that pretence.
That’s not your job, that’s just how you choose to live your life. You reject beauty.
Depends a bit why you're learning shell programming.

If you want to write scripts for your personal use, or maybe for some project you have then I recommend zsh as it's so much more useful and easier. The zsh User Guide is quite good by the way (not updated in a long time, but still relevant).

I you want to write shell scripts at $DAYJOB or some such bash is probably the wiser choice, as it's just more common. Whether that's a good or bad thing is kinda besides the point here; it just is.
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> That's besides the point

No, the point I was making at the beginning was "it's a design tradeoff, not a gimmick". The macbook camera is leaps and bounds better than the super tiny XPS camera they used to achieve a notch-free slim bezel. The notch isn't a gimmick. They made a design tradeoff to avoid going to a terrible camera.
No, I think that deep down they know they don't really deserve the wealth (or at least they understand our society frowns upon privilege, both on left and right). If you are self-made though, you can at least somewhat convince yourself that you deserve it. The exceptions to this are narcissists like Donald Trump.