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Refusing to hold people accountable enables the rule breakers. You have to decide which party is actually telling more damaging lies, taking more damaging actions, or doing more good, and act accordingly. Because some person who votes for Democrats somewhere said vaccines turn people into alligators doesn't balance out the strong majority of the Republican Party who deny anthropogenic climate change, or at least oppose doing anything about it. Democrats advocating covid measures of limited efficacy aren't balanced out by Republicans saying whether or not to be a disease vector is a personal choice.

Flawed opinions are not all of equal import. Representatives of a political party are not all of equal import. You have to actually evaluate the evidence and act accordingly, even if this puts you on the outs with friends, family, and co-workers.

This all being said, I think the prime driver of partisanship is not analyses of truth or impact but social connections. People are afraid to be exiled from the community they depend on -- their friends, family, co-workers, co-religionists, doctor, grocer, plumber, etc. Just as you can tell a lie more convincingly if you believe it, you can simulate partisan allegiance best by enacting it. If you are going to be ridden out of town on a rail if you are thought to have voted for a Democrat/Republican, then it isn't sufficient to say you voted as the mob prefers; you have to do it. The mob knows this. That's what the Second Amendment has come to be about: having guns to scare your neighbors over to your side. Better to be with the bully than against him.
I've met Patrick Anderson at different meetings around the Lansing area lots of times and always had great discussions. He's opinionated but he can always back up what he's saying with the facts. I'm thinking of buying an electric vehicle and my gut was they are more expensive, now I can back it up.
A header file can check #if __STDC_VERSION__ or __cplusplus versions to make some code conditionally available for, say, C11 or C++11.

#if __STDC_VERSION__ >= 201112L
// C11 feature
#endif

#if __cplusplus >= 201103L
// C++11 feature
#endif
1% of MRR is a huge win. Do you make one-time payments or does it become a monthly grant?
It doesn't need to. The apps simply need to be executing a fraction of the instruction set to be more performant.
A man with two watches has a backup if one breaks.
There's just no political upside to backing down at this point. It won't win him support and might cost him some.

So why would he change his mind? There's nothing to gain.
I took a 2015 MBP to an Apple Store and replacing the battery was fairly cheap - about $175. When you consider the amount of labor it takes to access the battery without damaging anything else, that’s not bad. An independent shop estimated over $200 and said they wouldn’t know the cost until they did it.
I've used Bumble's BFF mode for this and I really like it. It's exactly what you're describing. Fair warning that they only match boys with boys and girls with girls. Which is pretty old fashioned but it's apprently because there were too many guys using it to hit on girls.
DTA not saying if firms certified as cloud hosts have compliance issues
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The second two sound quite interesting. I hadn’t thought about those at all.
I think honestly when the 3 largest cities in the us each have more people than the entire United States did at independence it is worth asking what sort of political reforms are possible
The maintainers would have to do it for every new language version that breaks them, though. The edition system keeps old stuff working without any effort.
Wow Google must have done some major restructuring to cut their revenue in half! /s
The average American in the midwest can still live a pretty decent life on the 50k. An American making 50k in a major city such as San Francisco or New York City is forced to endure long commutes, but can still make it work, somewhat similar to people who commute to London.
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In the rare case that a business actually produces nothing, in bad faith, we call that a scam, and fraud, and people go to jail. The same standard does not exist for "tokens".
At least on my corner of twitter, threads gained huge popularity after a spontaneous event ran by @vgr (of ribbonfarm, premium mediocre, and gervais principle fame) at the end of 2019 called threadapalooza. It's now being turned into a yearly affair. The history is relayed in this thread:

https://twitter.com/threadapalooza/status/130981614713549209...
Yes, because C versions are frozen in time, and editions aren't. Today Rust added brand new features to Rust 2015 and Rust 2018, and will continue to expand them forever (every new feature lands in all editions whenever possible).

Rust editions are closer to source code parsing modes. More like enabling trigraphs in C or "use strict" in JS.

Additionally, textual header inclusion in C makes mixing versions tricky. Rust has properly isolated crates, and tracks edition per AST node (so that even cross-crate macros work correctly with mixed editions).
I'd argue that COVID is a critical health issue that we're still amidst, and Apple or Rust provide value that even their detractors recognize, so their discussion is useful even if it tends to contention.

Trump doesn't provide any kind of value, and is not significantly relevant as a historic figure, so we would be having contention just for the sake of it. If we're allowing this, then there's many demagogue leaders in the world that need coverage about their attempts to gain political support.

I didn't flag this post, but I have no problem if others flag it. It's empty calories to our HN diet.
It’s more like markdown that Google docs

And it behaves more like a wiki than Google docs
I could give you heaps of anecdotal evidence to the contrary but they ranked almost last in a survey [1] and even Musk admitted it was a problem at the company [2]

[1] https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1128625_tesla-ranks-las...

[2]
https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/03/business/elon-musk-tesla-...
New idea's are a dime a dozen. In fact a bigger problem for those that have new ideas is that someone else had that new idea first and did something about it.
I was, Metafilter account and all. Got in trouble for getting a pro-choice piece published in the local rag when I was fifteen. But damn, I am not going to give energy to people who despise me due to the incidents of my birth.
> Isn't this the original concept of Twitter?

I don't think it is. I believe the original concept of Twitter was basically group texts.
> I haven't anything like it in other languages

Perl can do it not only at module level, but at block level within a single source file.
Does the disk usage go down later once the numerous parts are merged or not?

I would assume it does but reading the article implies that it does not.
I would say I have the opposite experience on being only a bit clever.

Being not smart at all usually also means you are ignorant to what you don't know, that life has its merits, Repetitive jobs don't bore you, and happiness comes from simpler joys in life. I wouldn't mind living that way at all.

Being very smart means none of the stuff you mention is hard. Math comes naturally, Crazy smart people need to put no effort to understand complex topics, while their happiness is typically in esoteric goals or breakthrough research, most people don't understand anything of what they do, so either society is sympathetic to challenges or oblivious to what they do. Financially/Socially once they have a safe academic job, the difference of success/failure is not visible to most regular people, even if they win a field's medal or Noble prize most people hardly understand it.

Being a bit clever is the worst of the lot, you understand enough to know how much you don't really know. Constantly you are making decisions basis what you know is poor understanding. Math, subtext, knowledge is all hard, but doesn't look so hard you will completely give up or blissfully don't know it exists.

Social peer groups keep missing that intelligence can be pretty scaled, we can perceive that someone is smarter than us but not by how much. Everyone one assumes there is just one level above them, equivalent to crazy smart. We are therefore accorded with the praise, money and recommendations and also responsibilities of being perceived crazy smart.

I would happily trade to being exactly perceived as I am or less and forgo all the money and praise if I didn't also be saddled with expectations of coming up with solutions all the time.
Nextdoor is a really interesting case because it limits the conversation to people in your immediate neighborhood.

Because of that, it creates an inherent ingroup/outgroup dynamic that doesn’t exist on most social media. In other systems, you have to create that through some kind of signaling.

As a result, that dynamic overwhelms other topics.
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I'd say something about humility, which can be illustrated from many religious traditions; but i couldn't say it nearly so well.
We already have that language but people keeping getting whiny about parentheses, and refuse to use it.
I don't think there is much of an ethical point to "Yeah you're disenfranchised but it was your great great great granddaddies choice!"
Sure, I can back up all of my claims.

For one thing, the argument on the left that gender and sex are not the same and a biological man can become a biological woman is currently scientifically impossible. Men and women are fundamentally distinguished by DNA. Even with genital mutilation surgery and hormone therapy you are only changing about 0.01% of what makes and man and a woman different as every chromosome in that person's body is the same biological sex they had at birth. Setting aside any political or subjective "reality" they are trying to push on to others.

Second, Pfizer scientists are on tape stating that antibodies gained through COVID infection are more robust than those gained from their vaccines. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/5/project-veri...
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To me, this is similar to the same concept of the paradox of choose. Ask someone where they want to eat, and there are too many options too choose from, and they are also thinking about what you may want to eat as well. Provide them 3 options to choose from, and it gets the decision moving.
The author is misunderstanding why the "illiberal left" is discussed nowadays and tries to debunk a number of examples but fundamentally fails.

The most telling is an attempt to debunk a claim by the Economist -- specifically by pointing to the fact that the same survey that finds "68% felt that students cannot say what they think because their classmates might find it offensive" also finds that "74% oppose campus policies restricting political views offensive to minority groups."

That second statistic doesn't really refute the first one, or even mitigate it. It really drives home the point that the number of people who believe in things that the "illiberal left" does isn't a majority of Americans, yet that segment of the population still exerts an outsize social pressure and has greater power in society than their numbers might imply.

The risk isn't that they will come to control political power and implement book banning and the like, but rather that society will increasingly self-regulate in an attempt to appease them.
Or you don't have to be incompetent to be malicious.
The implicit premise itself, that the Democratic political party is monolithic is false. It was an old Woodie Alan joke about not belonging to an organized political party and that is true to some extent - if your group is excluded from the GOP the DNC is the big tent. Before the 9/11 xenophobia US muslims were dominantly aligned with the Republican party, afterwards it was reversed. There are in fact many religious conservative demographics in the DNC for one.

Frankly self proclaimed leftists have a terrible habit of consent manufacturing - both from their own natural bubbles and echo chambers and ad nausuem rhetoric. There is tbe "implicit identity and support" which assumes that universal support of the working class is the natural status quo and any who disagree are puppets of the rich. This abstraction spares them from having to consider the actual opinions of the people who compose it. Their poor electoral performance in even their strongholds highlights that they are a noisy minority operating under the pretense of being a majority.
Why are you commenting on an article that you admittedly didn't read? Even a comment on the contained quoted article you didn't read, seems like a bad starting point for any useful discussion.
Its not like MS had changed how Android works.
C is portable machine code :)
This piece seems to conflate being smart with being intelligent.

Basically being smart means being well educated, whereas being intelligent means you have fast processing speed. Or maybe you have slightly different definitions, whatever, but either way it's confusing to see them being used as synonyms.
The Clang Static Analyzer could probably find this, if the compiler itself doesn't notice.
I think being smart needs solid foundations in order to flourish. Paul mentions getting adequate sleep and avoiding certain stresses, which is a whole science to me.

There is the old archetype of the 'unstable genius' or 'mad scientist' that although they are clever; fail to one day make it and become the person known for $company or $product or $patent.

There are many ingredients needed for the smart person to thrive. Personally I find essays about topics that concern me to be useful, as-well as cross-synaptic thinking otherwise known as 'creativity' or 'joining the dots'.
I learned Basic in the 90s and there was no for, no while, no functions or procedures. Just ifs and goto. Its hard to structure a program just with goto and it's even harder to read it and understand the flow.
The propensity to work hard and be good at planning is just as heritable as IQ. The extent to which you can defer current pleasure for future gain is basically established by the time you're 6 years old, so reaping the benefits of it as an adult is luck.

In another way, yes hard work and good planning is vital to success. But you shouldn't pat yourself on the back too hard for it, and you shouldn't think of yourself morally better than anyone else for it.

(This isn't sour grapes from me. I'm successful and worked incredibly hard for years without much money.)
Hey, thanks for your suggestion!

Although it got me thinking, what's the worst thing that can happen if I have no contract at all?
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Every kid does that. That’s not the kind of critical thinking taught in university, involving research and the evaluation of nuanced arguments, and I think you know that.
I think it looks pretty interesting I am thinking to play it this weekend but not sure I'm looking for like a real good tower defence title but struggling to find anything on steam.
fun fact, you can grow Lignum Vitae in SoCal in certain areas, not just in Florida. San Diego would probably grow lignum vitae well because it seems to like the random humid weeks in Los Angeles and just exists for the rest of the year
Interesting! News to me, the Microsoft documentation I was looking at didn't make any mention of GPU-P but that seems like a perfect fit. Was looking at a old Grid K2 to avoid Nvidia licensing and direct pass through for high use VMs but as we're full Microsoft (for better or worse) their solution probably makes more sense.

edit - apparently while this works on Server 2019 direct pass through is the only officially "supported" option. I wonder if this is a stepping on partners' toes sort of situation?
I refuse to work with all of them.

Until I have to pay my rent.

So, to me, people saying that won't work for Rio or Fakebook or Tesla or whoever, it means they/we/I that have that luxury.

I tend to think of it like I think of global warming or any other problem of capitalism and crimes against humanity -- your job/lifestyle has some (tiny) effect, but if you actually want to have a different world, you have to do the real work of changing 'the system' -- e.g. in the US, that might be pushing for publicly-funded elections, for public media, against dark money, for rich people to pay taxes, etc.

You work for Wall Street? Madison Avenue? K Street?

eh -- sucks for your conscience, if you have one, but it's not making much difference if/when you decide to cash out and become a virtue-signaling city-hippie -- someone will gladly take your place.

I think a good parallel is thinking of the 'benevolent' (Northern) bankers and the 'evil' (Southern) slaveowners. My reading of history suggests the bankers were at least as evil as the slaveowners.

So next time we're lauding Tesla and condemning Chevron...
I think a couple cities did that, and quickly back-tracked because crime shot up.
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If I can make a purchase or get a subscription through Apple I always do because I know it will be infinitely easier to cancel and I won’t have to deal with any shady billing from sites that store your card info. I don’t understand why Apple can’t require their payment methods but also allow the option for external payment. Apple should position themselves like American Express: maybe a touch more expensive but worth it for the peace of mind and ease of getting assistance.
byuu is dead.... That's real sad, he pushed things so far in its higan engine. We'll miss his expertise.
That’s not what was said, but you have succeeded in contemptuous distortion.
Of course there's always Hyrum's Law[1], which can be summed up as

> All observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.

Even minor bugfixes will at some point invariably break somebody who depended upon the broken behavior. So semver really boils down to a human assessment of whether any potential breakage is incidental or intended.

[1]: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
Perhaps we should question the assumption that some people are conciously thinking at all.

Being bored out of my mind in grade school and unable to read anything else during that time just led to a lot of day dreaming and not “productive” or directed thinking. What do people bored out their minds at work/life think about?
I'm just a bit disappointed that HN had to simplify the title to satisfy the audience.

I'm more disappointed that the suggestion was upvoted enough to distract from any substantial discussion.

The title change can bring the discussion back on-topic but this really does feel like a massive brainfart. HN literally decided that a factual number was not appropriate and a sensational milestone is.

If you want to argue, "well, they put the .99 cents on the end to confuse people and make it look like they donated 1.5 million instead" then that really only speaks to your own desperation to twist facts and make them sound favourable to your agenda. You're literally admitting to jumping to a conclusion before even processing the information.

Sorry, I'm just sad that HN decided that they needed to editorialise this specific title.
Are you also feel safer that Apple decides what apps you are allowed to run? For example, in China, iOS users aren't allowed to run Signal or Protonmail apps.

Did it occur to you that if a user is not the final authority who decides which apps should run on the device, he is not really owning the device, but merely leasing it, under some strict terms?
but still, given the size of Toyota and GM that’s remarkable volume. certainly firmly in the mass manufacturing territory. and then you look at their upcoming additional production capacity - this is still not their end game.
GPU-P is also the GPU acceleration infrastructure used for GPU acceleration in WSL2 and for Windows Sandbox too.
This was the first thing I scanned the article for. Without interpolation, my understanding is there's likely a TON of aliasing in the raw output, but then that goes through a 16khz lowpass filter that chops everything above 16khz off - cleaning it up.
InternetBrands LLC is the enterprise version of this.... so I imagine there are companies who buy these sites and just keep them running. Though IB could easily just vacuum up smaller sites too since most sites could just monetize on the webtraffic alone.
I think it would have highlighted issues earlier. In hindsight I definitely has flutters that I maybe should have gotten checked out. That said Apple themselves say that the watch won’t detect a heart attack. Presumably the bar for a device that does that reliably is pretty high.
I think the solution is for Apple to require that all payments at least have the option of being made through the app store payment system, while allowing developers that want to take the time and effort to set up outside payments do that as well.

Consumers can continue to use app-store payments if they wish (and I bet the vast majority would), but developers and companies can no longer complain about Apple's monopoly over payment processing.
With Clickhouse you can use a "buffer table", which uses just RAM and sits on top of a normal table: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/engines/table-engines/special...

Rows inserted into the buffer table are then flushed to the normal/base table when one of the limits (defined when the buffer table is created) is reached (limits are max rows, max bytes, max time since the last flush), or when you drop the buffer table.

I'm using it and it works (performance difference can be huge compared to perform single inserts directly into a real/normal table), but be careful - the flushed rows don't give a guarantee of which row is flushed in which sequence, so using a buffer table is a very bad idea if your base table is something which relies on the correct sequences of rows that it receives.
I feel like we are mostly in agreement. I appreciate you sharing your experience, and keeping your older devices working and useful.

Aside from usability, PDF also has many other drawbacks, such as being binary and not human readable or editable.

Thank you for this chat!
I think the technical side of the industry has known this all along. AI is a dream to pursue.

The business/marketing side of the industry has doubled down on the term. Many industries outside have adopted it as a way to make their boring widget sound new and interesting.

I bought a TV with built in AI recently. It’s just a TV to me. I’m sure it has some algorithms but that word is old and does not sound premium anymore.

Whenever I see an AI startup, I mostly am expecting its really just some guy doing things that don’t scale, like manning a chat bot or something.
If you want to cut people slack, go cut them slack. Here's a question: look around you, you think cutting slack is what's needed?

If you think so, alright then. I don't.
I have not seen the paper, but the process almost certainly does not use any glue.

It must use wood compression at very high pressures, which collapses the cell walls in the wood and results in a densified high-strength wood.

There have been various methods to make densified wood for structural applications, but I assume that this is an improved process, which makes an even denser and more homogeneous material, which ensures that even blades can be made from it.

Edit: According to Phys.org, the improvement over the previous processes is a treatment in a chemical bath that removes the lignin and other components of the wood, leaving only the cellulose, before the compression.

This removal of the non-cellulose components ensures that the densified wood is harder and with less defects than those made with the older processes.