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I want to get rid of the “gifted” connotation.

I was a so-called gifted child and it honestly made me feel sick and guilty. “Do I really deserve this? Am I really gifted? What if I don’t reach my high expectations, will the rest of my life be a disappointment?”

I know that others have similar feelings. Being called gifted and special messes with your psyche almost like being called inferior.

But also, whenever a kid is easily completing all of his work so it’s just busy work to him, he should get harder work. Otherwise you’re wasting their time.

There are kids who spend all their time on schoolwork, literally have no exercise or social life, and yet their grades suck and they’re not even smart because their “homework” and “studying” is rote memorization and garbage. I feel really bad for those kids.

My idealistic recommendation for his education should work is this: give each student work until they learn, then give them harder work. Also let students have some choice over the type of work, and try to make problems as interesting as possible, while still making sure each student gets a general education and learns important key details. Each student spends X amount of time on schoolwork, like a full-time job, then they have other activities and free time. Some students will get more work done in the same time period, and advance further. Once the students grow up, they know what academic path or career they should take based on how far they’ve progressed.
Learning calculus forced me to learn how to learn, which I use everyday. Maybe something else would have eventually taught me how to learn, but for me, calculus was my first experience of being able to tell myself I was right instead of relying on someone else to tell me I was right.
I agree with you but please, no more outrage. We have enough outrage. Be a proponent of something without being outraged about it. It's not doing any good to be outraged and it's exhausting.
I’m comparing Windows PC (i7-6700k, nvme) with MBA m1 and MBA is noticeable faster in just everything. Compilation time of JS and Java code is literally 2 times faster on MBA M1 than on desktop i7 CPU.
This is a complicated topic, but mostly boils down to how _many_ schools are funded by property taxes, which means that growing up in a property-poor area often leads to underfunded, dilapidated school experiences.

I grew up in a ghetto and went to a school that ran classrooms in trailers and had dilapidated power delivery and sports facilities. See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28450844 for more depth.
Policies and ideas like these are the problem with "inequality" framing. If your target is inequality, squashing the top is a perfectly valid way to achieve that. Whether or not anybody on the bottom's situation is improved by that squashing is an after-thought.
What I think gets lost in this debate is whether or no 'gifted and talented' is even an accurate abstraction. Even if you think that some students are smarter or more capable than others, it seems like the ultimate goal should be adaptable education, no matter if you're faster or slower than other students. 'gifted' kids with extreme ADHD may be no more able to cope in a generic 'gifted and talented program' than someone without inborn talents.
Banning private schools is a completely different matter from banning public schools’ gifted programs, as is being discussed here. Apples to oranges.
First, it was a two-way street. Syphilis, for one, is believed to have originated in the new world and have been brought to Europe post-contact.

But Europe, Asia, and Africa combined was a much bigger population pool, so more opportunities for mutation and transmission leading to more types of infectious diseases.
I am not sure when Slowlaris term was introduced but I tried OpenSolaris many times on the same hardware that I run FreeBSD and it felt slower for each task ... from the boot process to typical tasks involved.

But I always liked SUN Solaris for its features and solutions.
There is no direct comparison, so unfair to call them slower or worse. Both these services are for running your own private server and for browser IDEs to be thin clients. You can configure the server with your language tooling, build scripts and whatever else. You can also pause and resume your session from a different device (since a majority of business logic is handled by the server).

vscode.dev runs fully in your web browser, and files are read from local disk. There is nothing in the cloud. So yes it is faster, but serves a different use case.
I think this kinda makes sense to me — the M1 Max has the same cores as the M1, just more of them and more of the performant ones, if I understand it right. The fastest work on the fastest core, when only working on a single core, is probably very similar.
Was just about to ask the same question. I can't come up with a single Android app I'd like to run on desktop. Is it just an app development thing?
This is like a faint callback-reference to a Robin Williams stand-up bit which called Viagra a pill that would make you "harder than Chinese Algebra".
But now a lot of infrastructure runs on coal. You can use wood instead and have this carbon captured and reused in the next 10 years or you can still burn coal while awaiting a perfect solution.

We have surplus of farmland due to farm efficiency. We have more forests in EU now than we had 10 years ago. Switching to biomass is a good step because every ton of wood that emits CO2 that will be recycled is better than 0.6-0.8 ton coal that gets burned now and adds carbon.
The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100), 2021 Report
This is indeed cheap. The alternative is marriage that's gonna last 5 years and cost 1 million. That's 4k or 4 hours (discount for large order) per week - more than enough for most men who are able to marry such women. Sorry for my cynical view.
If they wanted African supply of an mRNA vaccine, why didn't they just use The Odin's completely open recipe https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-25/one-bioha..., which was based on the Moderna vaccine. But, why would they want such a vaccine in Africa in the first place? The storage would be impossible anywhere outside of really rich medical facilities, and even that is not necessarily feasible. Why not go with funding vaccines by HDT bio, which have made mRNA vaccines but with metal particles in the outer lipid layer to allow for storage at fridge temps https://pipelinereview.com/index.php/2020090175739/Vaccines/... or something else?
Great interview! I've always thought it was really neat that Walter posts here semi-frequently, and it's really fascinating to get even more of a peek into the mind of such a creative individual.

Now I really need to get serious about starting a project in D so I can learn it properly...
To clarify a point that was brought up elsewhere, Windows 11 itself only requires that your hardware supports Secure Boot, but Valorant's anti-cheat will require that it be enabled.
Thats one thing that the "Apple Tax" crowd never mentions. Yes, you can get another brand for 1/5th of the cost, but the specs aren't even close for 1/5th of the cost.
Except they aren’t upgrading everyone to know calculus. They just aren’t letting smart people take calculus more quickly.
Yes, but it is not required that a type system has a singular top type. It is entirely valid for a type system to have any number of types which are not in any sub- or supertype relationship.

And once there are two types T1 and T2 which are neither subtypes, nor supertypes of each other, and 2 expressions A1 and A2 of types T1 and T2, and a statically undecideable expression p, then statically typing "if p then A else B" is a problem.

And yes, I agree: Most if not all practical type systems will not accept an if-else statement if they cannot unify both branches of the conditional into a single type. Which makes sense. Because you have to act on the result of the expression, and then it needs to have some common type.

But on a purely theoretical basis, it is entirely possible and valid to have an undecideable type system. Which, btw, happens for a lot of languages: https://3fx.ch/typing-is-hard.html . There are C++ programs which are provably impossible to type at compile time.
Just a reminder. The goal isn't "fair", the goal is "equal". If I can't get ahead, then neither can you.

That's the moral of Harrison Bergeron.
"Harrison Bergeron" all over again.

It's astonishing to me. I'm handicapped, but I would never want to drag people down to my level. Occasionally, it becomes useful to remind people that "no, that isn't an option for me," but this just seems to be an urge to make everyone equally miserable if we can't all have it wonderful.
Not for using the clock no, charging people for reading time would be ridiculous :) The clock is only the first step to simplify time zone thinking. If people like to use this, I do have plenty of ideas on what to build on top of this.
I'm not sure the outcome you actually want here. Failing students for not performing at gifted levels is obviously not the outcome anyone wants.. What exactly should the gifted students be doing?
I took Erik Maijer's course on Haskell, and enjoyed it quite a bit, though I haven't written a line of Haskell. D makes available a number of functional language things, like transitive immutability, purity, and lambdas. Haskell went a bit too far with minimizing the syntax, as redundancy in syntax makes for better error diagnostics. Otherwise it's a nice language.

I attempted to write some code in OCaml, but failed miserably. My (short) programs would fail with incomprehensible (to me) error messages. Trying different syntaxes just produced other messages. Other than the OCaml book, which I had, I couldn't find any helpful information online. I gave up on OCaml. OCaml may actually be a great language if it had a better compiler and far better documentation.

I know nothing about F#, Idris or Agda.
This is a little ridiculous. You expect elementary school students, now removed from their gifted classes, to "push the entire standard of education up for everyone"? I think they will be a little too concerned with Minecraft and Roblox to support your grand ideas of social justice and moral responsibility.
> I don't think there are any billionaires without equity.

That becomes the crux of this. "Billionaires are bad" is a discussion about the system that actually allows them to exist, rather than the people themselves.

Warren Buffett has made a ton of his money using state-backed monopolies like real-estate. Land ownership and exclusivity, even when the land use is unproductive, is a human construct after-all.
Morally, yes. A patent needs to have utility for the quid quo pro to make any sense, it's the end products that have utility. Patenting necessary intermediates without disclosing the end products serves to retard innovation by everyone else without giving them the reward once the temporary monopoly expires.

Legally, I would not be at all surprised to find out you were right.
If you can install fdroid, that would be great!
On my Linux system I could, if I wanted to, write programs in (the subset of bash that is) Bourne shell, awk, plain old 1970s vintage C, implement text filters in sed... all these are antique things that don't need a vibrant user community. They just need to work well enough to support existing stuff written in them, and for an occasional quickie script by old farts who know how to use them.

Why should Perl be any different? It'll be decades before a practical system won't have a Perl 5 compatible /bin/perl on it. So if I know Perl well enough that I can hack something up in 5 minutes, and Perl is there and works, how is it alive or dead? It just is. And that suits me just fine.
I was in one of these programs - enjoyed it. At the same time, it created a kind of divide between the students who got to take a special day off every couple of weeks, and those who didn't. It could have been done more tactfully.

I think it would make sense to just let anyone join these programs, and make it difficult enough where students who aren't a good fit wouldn't want to join.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/kernel-7-x-i9300-hybrid.3...

backported 4.2, which includes some of the 4.3 changes as well. supports lineage. 4.1 is a version google supports till 2024, so I'm assuming 4.2/4.3 is going to be even later. So, you got a phone from 2011 that's going to run a modern kernel and latest android till after 2024.

> And to illustrate what I mean by ancient

yes. I would love to see an iphone from 2011 that's going to be running the latest ios and apple kernel after 2024.
According to Wikipedia, he died in 1020.

So technically, you're correct. Which is the best kind of correct.
If there IS no predictable tactic, and anything is going to depend on the skills, connections, and approach you bring to the job, then saying 'go dive in the ocean' will at least help someone find treasure, compared to saying nothing, or something so vague no one could be sure if it even applied?

It's up to the recipient if they find it useful or not.
The top percentile has much, much more ability to influence society than poorer people do. And with more power should always come more responsibility.

To suggest that there's equally distributed chance, ability and responsibility is perverse; it flies in the face of reality.
Even in WW2 it can be argued that the Allies biggest advantage on the western front was the USA build Liberty ships, which were built really quickly and mainly used for supply.
I dunno. It would be pretty sweet to not have to bring a laptop with me when I travel / go places. Just whip out the iPad, open a browser, connect to remote host, and get to work.

The caveat of course is that this supports connecting to a remote host.
> I've always wondered why this wasn't a two-way street. Wouldn't native people also have diseases to share?

They did: syphilis! But the Europeans had far more diseases to share because there was far more animal domestication going on in the Old World. And most of our diseases came as a result of that animal domestication, so they had already spread through the population which developed immunity in the millennia between the first human infection and the Columbian Exchange.

> Usually the smallpox theory is presented in a way that removes agency and culpability from the conquerers. It's always struck me at remarkably convenient and quite unbelievable; they were an idyllic people in some welder land without their own diseases, oh really now ... we're talking the Caribbeans here

Typically I hear "the smallpox theory" presented as "Europeans killed 90% of Native Americans including by disease" as though Europeans collectively set out to exterminate Native Americans. To be certain, there was a lot of brutality and genocide and even some deliberate spread of disease, but no European could have credibly believed that the disease would spread throughout the new world to such effect.
> Then compare that to the number of successful businesses with absolutely junk tech that do silly things like appear in the S&P 500

And now look at the few firms at the top who broke the 1T barrier. All tech focused, almost all lead by engineering and engineers at the top.
Oh, please!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/apl 266 questions

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fortran 11,855 questions

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/forth 262 questions

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python 1,817,529 questions

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c++ 741,496 questions

LISP: 6,615

javascript: 2,285,941

java: 1,805,413

c#: 1,503,129

php: 1,417,981

etc.

If "underwater_basket_weaving" was a tag it would likely get more questions than APL, Forth and LISP combined.

Let it go...
It also works on mobile if you tap the fav icon.
There are some folks selling some, only $499.95 up front, hah.
This is not accurate. Individual epidemics did not have mortalities even approaching the 90% range. What actually happened were dozens of epidemics over decades or centuries. Moreover, outside the Northeast, Columbian epidemics are closely associated with persistent European contact and colonization.

It should also be noted that human populations are incredibly resilient to epidemics. In the absence of "other things", populations suffering catastrophic virgin soil epidemics will typically rebound to pre-epidemic levels in decades. It's not a sufficient explanation for the centuries-long decline of indigenous American populations. The black death was no less severe and successor epidemics continued throughout Europe in the 15th century, yet we see nothing like the demographic collapse of the Americas post-contact.
Any time someone suggests that the Republican Party and/or the NRA actually cares about my Second Amendment rights, this is the first thing with which I immediately respond.
Not really. There shouldn't be "gifted programs", because they're not actually measuring "intelligence" but "how much money do the parents have to create extra schooling"

What about this, why not have __every__ school provide personalized education to each person? Do we not have the money for that? Because we are __the richest country__.
There are slight variations in materials, processes, etc.

End result: some chips just end up being better than others.
It may be late in October, but I guess some people don't appreciate horror stories of actual development jobs that exist. If I could find a way to package that and sell it as Developer Haunted House experiences, I imagine I could make a quick buck.
Biomass takes 5-10 years to grow. Given that it can be used in many coal furnaces it is imo the best "now" solution.
>You may dislike me

I said nothing of the sort.

>but your fantasy blame game

I did not blame you, only addressed the narrow point of Mozilla "flying high" in 2014.

>cannot excuse Mozilla outcomes lately

I said nothing about Mozilla's recent history.

I get that the tech community has not treated you nicely so I guess I understand reading things defensively, but that doesn't inspire good faith discussion.
We do indeed use Chromium, though patched for security and privacy reasons (see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...). I don't see how that's an ethical or technical mark against us, however. Early on we did tests with Gecko, but soon found that if we were to build a compatible (with the Web as it is) browser, we'd need to do so with Chromium.

Your claim that Brave collected donations on behalf of others is quite misleading. There was a bit of confusing UI in our early tips interface (called 'Payments' at the time). We clearly marked verified creators as such, but gave no special marking for unverified creators (our approach resembled that of Twitter's blue checkmarks).

Regarding the "donations" themselves, we allowed Brave users to direct BAT from our user-growth pool (that is, Brave's own tokens) to creators. If those tokens were not claimed by the intended recipient after 1 year, they (Brave's tokens) would be recycled back into the system. As Wikipedia records, there were major UI/UX changes made about 48 hours later which dramatically improved the feature, IMHO.
Fixed pie fallacy. We have a shrinking middle class because the middle class has become the upper class, not because the rich are richer.

The top being higher doesn't lower the base. There is more money today than a decade ago.

Merely taking money from the wealthy does nothing to improve the standard of living.
“Steal” is a deliberately inaccurate word there. Especially considering that in your own list of offences “steal” only makes a single appearance. Even then, I’m not sure if “steal” is the correct verb for “non-optimal profit distribution”.

Note I’m pretty sympathetic to the argument that extreme wealth inequality (billionaires) are are symptom of a poorly configured economic system and should be minimised, but your hyperbole is off-putting. And it’s probably hindering rather than helping you make your point.
It's true that some kids are naturally better than others at doing tasks that school and future employers have deemed important. There's no reason to call it "gifted." The word "gifted" carries a moral valence that is completely unnecessary.

Though I completely agree that not providing a track for these kids to go as fast as they can is wrong.
I am confused here. The article is about gifted programs within schools. I don't see what banning private schools has to do with it?
For those of you (like me) who weren't sure exactly how to interpret the rule based on the link above or the original PDF, I believe this Washington Post article from today also summarizes it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/commerce-de...
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> Other countries can and probably will nationalize the vaccine production and not pay Moderna licensing fees, or offer a take-it-or-leave-it pittance.

That's just lazy: wait for someone to do the hard work and then just copy. Why not invest in research instead and contribute something?
> I think they will be a little too concerned with Minecraft and Roblox to support your grand ideas of social justice and moral responsibility.

I mean other than the fact that this is extremely dismissive, again, Finland is the example that did get rid of all this crap and is doing pretty well for itself.
That’s because all of those schools have such huge endowments that their financial aid programs are insanely generous. They can afford to waive tuition entirely for families making less than ~$150k/year, with a generous sliding scale for families making more.

There’s simply no need for merit based scholarships because they are affordable to anyone who can get in. ~50% of people at those schools pay full price, so their financial aid is not just some token program.

If you can get into an Ivy-tier school, it will almost certainly be more affordable than your local state school.
I have a tattoo of a Perl camel, and of a Ruby ruby. I loved Perl, but to me anyway, Ruby was 95% of the good stuff of Perl, with 5% of the downsides. Some of that last 5% of good stuff was things that you could even argue isn't actually good stuff, but I like it anyway. ($_ is my go-to example for this.)

"Why not {Ruby,Python,PHP,JavaScript}?" is imho the question that Perl has to answer, and hasn't found one that enough folks find compelling, it seems.

This thread is making me so nostalgic... it's hard to overstate how influential Perl was on me.
Chiplet isn't a silver bullet and without compromise. You will then need to figure the memory configuration and NUMA access. Basically the Jade 2C-Die on chiplet analogy doesn't make sense unless you make some significant changes to Jade-C.

Jade 4C-Die on a single die only make sense up to 40 Core ( 4x Current CPU Core or 32 HP Core and 8 HE Core ), unless there are some major cache rework there aren't any space for 128 GPU Core.

But then we also know Apple has no problem with only 2 HE Core on a MacBook Pro Laptop, why would they want to put 8 HE Core on a Desktop?
Slow down, Karl.

I'm a founder. I can tell you, external funding is as generous now as it's ever been, and in my network there are YC alumns (and 2-time alums) that would disagree with your take.

Also, we are in a golden age of bootstrapping, you don't need to raise to get a company up and running.

All this to say: Maybe just possibly capitalism isn't so bad? My dad is the manager of a gas station, and I am the founder of a startup with financial security. Anything really is possible when you work for it.
I wonder if this means they no longer have to write "Instagram from Facebook" and "Whatsapp from Facebook".
Well, there were around 3000 Spanish conquistadors. Could they really conquer the whole Aztec empire (5 mln people) without alliances with local tribes?