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> You can sometimes get away with 10x slower code but not 100x slower.

That Python and other languages in its speed class are still used for new projects in production demonstrates that you can, often, get away with 100× slower code. But, sure, you can get away with 10× slower more often.
I'm in the same boat, and it's really amazing how quickly things change. I was explaining to a coworker the other day how much more optimistic we were in the 90s, and when he casually mentioned that he was born in 2000, I suddenly felt really old.
Also, read the book instead of responding to the title. If you want a response to the idea of the end of history, read the end of The End of History.
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>Printing money makes bubbles.

You're not wrong...
>Org-mode is characterized by a flexible and versatile system with adaptability to different workflows, making it comparable as an Evernote alternative. It is at once simple and complex., which helps it to compete as an Evernote alternative.

https://www.slant.co/versus/8769/15790/~org-mode_vs_notion

There are a thousand reasons to invest in Emacs and org-mode.
It is a personal choice.
I like the speed and extendability.
It is serious investment and requires remapping of ideas and habbits. But the last thing that I will part of are Emacs and Kynesys Advantage.:)

Company-wise I choose to use this:
https://joplinapp.org/

You can always learn about Org-mode:
https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/
I found it very hard to motivate a lot of the other features. Many people don't use and don't see the value of tree-based development. See this feedback from a user: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/issues/6

So I decided to focus primarily on features which everyone understands, such as performance. (Of course, many people then say "why do we need this? git rebase is already plenty fast", but they get the principle.)
"Cuties" was fine, but a stand-up skit is where they draw the line. Glad they have their priorities straightened out.
Did you seriously unironically advocate for being a 'sigma male'?
That's an interesting line to draw! Do you think this also extends to stuff like firefox or java vm, or are you only focusing on "system" software with that analysis?
The build quality is excellent. It isn't quite as good as a MacBook, but I'm willing to take the hit from A+ to A- for the repairablity.

It's much better than any other laptop I've used aside from a MacBook Pro. The screen does flex a bit but unless you're actively applying torque to it, you won't notice. It's totally fine when opening and closing it.
The top performer is not necessarily (and, in my experience, is seldom) the best negotiator.
Having a bias is not the same thing as being wrong
It arguably makes sense for it to be made abundantly clear what caused a mass exodus vs. a pile of disorganized but disillusioned employees quietly parting ways piecemeal, if part of your goals is to actually effect change.
the Oculus Rift supported this when I last used it 3 years ago, it was pretty cool to see your desktop rendered within the VR space
I'm not a lawyer but my understanding in the United States is that a person in a public place has no legal expectation of privacy. If you are in public and someone takes a picture in which your face is visible and then upload that to Facebook, I wouldn't expect that to be a violation of my privacy nor would I expect Facebook to allow an unknown person to request the picture's removal.
Indeed. I had the good fortune to work with DilDog before he co-founded Veracode. I count him in the top ten of talented co-workers across a three decade career.
Fire all thousand of them and call it good.
For those who haven't seen the special, the core of the controversy appears to be Chappelle mourning his friend, Daphne Dorman. She was a transgender standup comedian who opened for Chappelle and defended his comedy against the Twitter mob. She killed herself shortly after she was canceled by the mob and Chappelle set up a trust fund for her daughter.

Chappelle paid tribute to her in his special, but he did it in an offensive way. But given their relationship, the tribute was probably something she would have approved of and her family has defended Chappelle's tribute: https://deadline.com/2021/10/dave-chappelle-the-closer-defen...

Most of the outrage appears to come from people who haven't actually watched the special and are taking Chappelle's quotes about racism and LGBT issues out of context.
A couple of interesting 42 links:

42 is the largest answer to the Diophantine puzzle, solved by using a "world computer"

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-sum-cubes-solvedusing-real-lif...

Douglas Adam's 42 puzzle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27...
It was meant as a joke, but those videos are pretty hilarious.
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Those would probably be not so great matches for NixOS because they don't support the container stuff that systemd does, you would be throwing all that out.
Does anyone know what the demands are?

Very confusing, it was Chapelle's final special with Netflix, and it has already aired. What would the 1k employees like?
Cool camera tech, but in regards to automotive safety uses…

>[Car makers want in-cabin monitoring of the driver to ensure they are attending to driving even when a car is autonomous mode.]

Automotive EE, I can tell you with certainty what our customers do not want. It seems pretty obvious to them that their images will not stay in the vehicle, and your car will snitch on you.
Faster transaction times result in tighter spreads, as HFT firms compete each other on the price-time priority queue. HFT firms compete against each other on time, and while yes, that's a zero sum game, the end-result to the broader market is useful.

An analogy might be something like Uber and Lyft competing with each other for clients and drivers. From the perspective of everyone else, it doesn't matter much if they ride Uber or they ride Lyft. But the adversarial games that they play against each other [Uber and Lyft] are beneficial to both riders and drivers. Perhaps a duopoly isn't the best example, so you may extrapolate this to any industry where there's a sufficient amount of participants to keep things competitive.
Code size always matters, except for all the times when it doesn't. Or when something else matters more.

Code size matters less than it once did, now that we have bigger and smarter caches. But bigger, while sometimes big enough, is never big.
I'll be watching this with interest, hoping that Netflix leadership follows recent pushback against the woke mob. We can no longer tolerate sanitizing the web of the things a small minority are offended by. This was the message that Chapelle delivered, and this is peak irony.
I don’t remember the last time I used the right shift key! I must use it sometimes, I just can’t think when
Resurrecting the Giant of Giants Genesis Adventurer
If you have a parser for systemd unit files then you might have a chance to get that to work.

If the whole reason you're doing it is to migrate back to upstart's syntax then it seems that would be not so useful, you might as well go in the other direction: write an upstart generator for systemd, and then you can just plug that into ordinary NixOS.

Edit: Actually I think at some point NixOS did support upstart? Not sure whatever happened to that.
No. That's exactly how teenagers think. Except the quirk has to be a protected target, i.e. disability.
I think this quote refers specifically to one of the Iranian/American journalists who posted just one tweet about snow in Tehran during the nationwide protests in November 2019 (aka "bloody November").

In any case, reports about Iran are a little different from the Kardashian discussion. The goal of reports about Iran is not to gain viewers, but to convey a false (good) image of Iran. At least that's what many Iranians believe. Check out #NYTimesPropaganda on Twitter or this [0].

[0] https://medium.com/@iranfactrecords/open-letter-to-the-new-y...
Why does it seem like the controversial statements that are being picked out are what is being fixated on? They seem to intentionally ignore the surrounding context of the message he’s actually trying to convey.
Keyhole also had some money in them from In-Q-tel which was also a heavy Google investor at the time. They wanted the concept of a searchable globe for intelligence purposes.

Also the founder of Keyhole, John Hanke, came from the MUD world and now responsible for Niantic and the Pokemon game. A true visionary of blending the real and virtual worlds.
Using batteries to get renewables to 100% is bad systems engineering. It's cheaper to use something like hydrogen for the last 10-20%, and for seasonal load leveling.
Thanks. Wonder why they can't put a description on the GitHub page?
Unpopular opinion on hn here but Dave's trans skit hinges on his audience not knowing enough about trans people for him to get away with creative character assassination. He openly condemns their argument against Rowling as goal-posting make believe and in doing so lends his approval to her documented and open transphobia.

If anything it should be an indictment of how he treats his audience in 2021. There are plenty of hillarious trans jokes to be made but He needs to do a better job of reading the room. When you punch down in your sets, its bullying not satire.
Lightening up is the one thing people like this are unable to do.
... DilDog is this you?
According to the lawsuit, McClendon and Michael Jones had access to the code of Terravision: https://artcom.de/news/artcom-sues-google/
> What would you say if Netflix called their bluff and just fired all the people that walked out?

That would be a pretty awesome outcome - Netflix shouldn't have to change their programming (which is generally largely uncontroversial for the most part - I mean when is the last time they truly pushed the envelope? Maybe the OATS STUDIOS and original Black Mirror content?) to satisfy the permanently dissatisfied members of these new-age social movements that attempt to force people to say things that they don't agree with for fear of getting 'cancelled' among other outcomes that are socially negative.
If this is example, I am not sure I want to learn. Lisp whilst is a high learning curve at least it is not verbose by nature (many writing is but not the language).

This is hard to follow.

More examples needed.
Somewhat random question: What kind of run time do you get out of a battery charge with PopOS on the framework laptop? I've seen some comments from people who were unhappy with theirs, but maybe PopOS has some better tuning?
As a paying Netflix customer I kindly request all them be fired ASAP.
Damn, I need to update my resume quick!
To be fair, cuties had a lot of controversy around it too. As with such matters, that's long forgotten in the world of twitter and people have moved on to the next thing.

This too will pass.
> made each parameter interpolable, turning our engine into a generic chart morpher that can continuously interpolate between any charts that can be described on its interface. After that, we analyzed these transitions and came up with rules that make them self-explanatory and easy to follow for the viewers, and finally, we embedded these rules into the engine.

Clever! An interesting approach. Lots of data vis lib builders (myself included) have added half-baked chart type transitions, but always as a tertiary concern. It usually comes out not so impressive. Your examples look lovely.

It seems like you are betting that there is demand for animated chart types if done much better, and so your focus on that as a first concern may lead you to some new primitives that others have missed.

Years ago I made a similar run but not as sophisticated, eventually dropping animations and building my own static charting lib (and then even dropping that, and making my focus the Studio/Language). I gave up on animations for 3 reasons:

1) The most immediate was during dev time staring at animating charts all day started to give me migraines. May have just been a coincidence, but there were definitely patterns of animation that you don't encounter in nature ever, so I wasn't sure if it was visually healthy.

2) Microsoft's SandDance (https://microsoft.github.io/SandDance/app/) blew me away. I was working from a similar first principle: always show all the data particles and higher level shapes (like bars/circles/etc) are just particles aggregating together. Mine was 2-D only though and much slower.

3) I figured if SandDance wasn't gaining too much traction, as amazing as it is, perhaps there wasn't so much demand for that approach. Maybe you'll discover something different.

Are there certain scenarios where you think your animations will allow telling a better story? Your example page is nice, but I don't see examples of the animations adding value to a story. Or do you think that animations are helpful mostly during EDA, and not at story telling time?

In my iterations I eventually realized making the data pipelines orthogonal to the visualization was the better architecture (basically copying dplyr in Javascript). This seems to be the way most of the JS data vis world is heading now, with Arquero and Observable heading that way. Is that possible with your lib, or do transforms have to be tightly coupled because of the animation component?
> easy enough

Do you mean that it's easy to say "I quit," or that it's easy to kiss your next paychecks goodbye with no other approved recourse, despite the fact that you were employed by a company that you and thousands of others saw as perpetuating injustices toward a minority?
I think you could do it in such a way that you only restrict the ports available for alternate mode display output, and everything else still works.

I don't think it's rude. It's about choice, just make sure it's clear to the users what sort of peripherals they should expect to work.

That said I think it would be almost more fun to put the arm computer into the USB C module.
michal-z, how do you survive month to month having left your job?
Brain vat, cliche thoughts. I wonder if people weren't burdened with a daily job/9-5 schedule, would they go insane. I'm just rambling.

There are personal goals still.
> What would you say if Netflix called their bluff and just fired all the people that walked out?

They work at FAANG. Pretty sure they'll be able to get new jobs very quickly.

I suspect people involved with work stoppages who aren't protected via a union are keenly aware of the possibility of being fired and have deemed it worth the risk.

> This reminds me more of the student protests we used to see, where they wanted to walk out of classes or miss exams but also wanted special treatment so they didn't fail the class.

Umm, why not compare it to just a normal labour duspute strike action? This is literally a text book example of the type of action organized labour takes when its mad about something.
No "walkouts" or resignations though. I did cancel my Netflix membership - I can't and won't support normalization of pedophilia.
Uranium is very common element. From your linked article :

> If one is willing to pay $300/kg for uranium, there is a vast quantity available in the ocean.[63] It is worth noting that since fuel cost only amounts to a small fraction of nuclear energy total cost per kWh, and raw uranium price also constitutes a small fraction of total fuel costs, such an increase on uranium prices wouldn't involve a very significant increase in the total cost per kWh produced.

So countries could build known
and will tested reactor types to decarbonize world electricity production.

Further, given weather calamities due to global warming are detected, having dispatchable power less dependent on weather conditions is super important.

Eventually we would need to remove co2 from atmosphere as well, which is requires additional energy
> What about AMD?

Good news, suspend resume has been broken on my AMD ThinkPad, at least for me, since kernel version 5.10 came out although it didn't really work reliably before either.

Whenever, I dare enter systemctl suspend, my screen goes blank, fans start spinning at the highest speed. A hard reboot is needed at that point. The journal is filled with these error messages.

[drm:amdgpu_ib_ring_tests [amdgpu]] ERROR IB test failed on gfx (-22)

EDIT: Looks the author of the blog post isn't able to do suspend resume on his AMD ThinkPad T495 either, which is good news.
People are so lamely political these days, it's hard not to see this as slacktivism. I hope the internet virtue signaling echo chamber dies off already, and all these people get fired.

Then at least they can see themselves as heroes in their "I'm the main character" stories about how "politically active" they were when they write their books.
> What would you say if Netflix called their bluff and just fired all the people that walked out?

Isn’t that explicitly illegal in the Us? Lol
My 800th Day of House Arrest: Lawyer Who Exposed Chevron Speaks Out [video]
The missing context in this article is that two trans employees were suspended for attending a zoom meeting they were linked to by a director. One of those employees had written a twitter thread critical of the special on their personal account.

The second thing to note is they fired an organizer of this protest claiming that they leaked how well this special did (broke even basically) just a couple days ago.

This is obviously going to have a chilling effect within the company no matter what the intent of the special or the executives was.

More broadly, Chappelle seems to have a lot of empathy for his trans friend, but the actual effect seems to have been a fresh supply of TERF ammunition for the next few weeks. The 'discourse' around this is pure poison, and he probably could have predicted this based on how the last special went.
Hit my line Netflix recruiters, I know you're watching :)
> but he did it in an offensive way

I find this part of the statement to be a falsehood. He did it in a comedic way, which was part of the point he was trying to make. See: https://nypost.com/2021/10/15/airplane-creator-slams-joy-kil...
> repeatedly dismisses the concept of a gender identity altogether

Er, no he didn't.

And the 'Team TERF' thing has at least 7 or 8 minutes of context around it.
The Second Life architecture was never a good approach to a virtual world, so it's surprising to see this project still going.

It looks like despite the very long list of technical shortcomings, there isn't really an alternative to date?

VRChat isn't comparable because you don't host it yourself and content + speech is all heavily controlled.
Unless it's a substantial number of techies and developers, this will be mostly a moot effort.
Excellent point by point dissection of a FUD article that shouldn't have even appeared on the first page of HN like it did previously today.
They're viable in a lot of cities, at least pre-pandemic. They could likely just dump all non-profitable cities and be in the green very soon. They just spent a lot of money getting a foothold in future markets. You know... investing... like a business is supposed to do
That is not what people are taking issue with. Regardless of where anyone stands on the issue, much of the special was about LGBT people, and the bit about his friend could hardly be construed as the most offensive part.
The way it works is by using a smart contract so that content and payment can be exchanged simultaneously and payment is only delivered when the hash of the file matches what is expected.
> If you don't like the company's decisions, you should stop working for the company - easy enough.

While I don't agree with the aims of the employees in question, I should point out that unions came about because your advice does not work. The only way to stand a chance against organized capital is with organized labor. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603398
There is enormous potential for off-river pumped hydro storage, though. Geography that doesn't have much if any natural water flow can still hold vast amounts of water in enclosed areas.
If incidents like this have taught us anything, nobody can take a joke anymore.

Everyone is like a big exposed nerve, and also somehow an adult.
> While that's significant, replacing all fossil fuel usage for power production is significant.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

Replacing fossil fuels outside electricity generation will require large amounts of electricity. Hydrogen production using electrolysis, electric arc furnaces, battery charging, etc.
> if we are to believe the likes of the WHO and the UN

This is central. Incidentally: WHO is an UN agency, they aren't really two sources and work the same way.

There are many studies about the amount of deaths related to nuclear accidents, and their conclusions vary widely. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl:_Consequences_of_the...
Author here, happy to answer any questions. I also recommend you check out the rest of the `git-branchless` suite, which contains other helpful tools, such as commit graph visualization and a commit graph undo feature: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless
Its really tough being a comedian. Generally, in society there are lines drawn over which you must not cross. Comedians typically get to push those boundaries under the guise of comedy or free-thinking or equal-opportunity racism or bigotry. Generally, I am totally supportive of that as it is thought-provoking and conversation inducing. It's better to bring uncomfortable subjects out into the open and make fun of them rather than have them be taboo subjects that should not be discussed.

So ultimately, the meta view on all this is, yes, lets have a conversation. Maybe its a heated one, but lets not "cancel" people while were at it. Let the free-markets determine who should be cancelled.
> I suspect people involved with work stoppages who aren't protected via a union are keenly aware of the possibility of being fired and have deemed it worth the risk.

I think you vastly overestimate the amount of forethought that humans apply when following the herd. Just look at all the Jan 6 people who are completely floored that there might be consequences to their actions.
The TV Show "Billions" had a line: "What’s the point of having f you money if you never say f you?"

That is what I need to see. Does Netflix have a spine to fight back against such nonsense?
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That's because you can put out there why you like a language and people will upvote you. Dump on other people's choice in a systems language and you will likely suffer some down votes. Cheeky has a price.
This seems more complicated than just traveling in an off-road vehicle, and for not much gain.
The only positive mainstream review I’ve seen of his special was not all that positive, but that it was really a Rorschach test for your political leanings. What are the chances not one mainstream outlet had a positive review, was it really that unfunny?

He makes jokes about Jews, and Blacks, and Whites, that are completely overshadowed by Twitter (which is not a real place) claiming it was entirely anti-trans.

No one is claiming it was his funniest, but there was a subtext there. That it wasn’t about them, but about him. He’s not wrong at how successful without violence the trans movement has been compared to civil rights for blacks.

I thought the goal was to be offensive at the beginning and end with the message that canceling comedians for jokes is bad for everyone.
Adding a transmission line increases land values in rural areas, since it makes the land more suitable for siting renewables.