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The ferry is typically much more cramped than the road. Cars, bikes, motorbikes, trucks, tractors, diggers all have to be able to get on board without interfering with each other and without trapping anyone in their vehicles. Even with a willing and cooperative population this gets occasionally difficult, especially when tourists or other people who have never travelled on the ferry before are involved.

> Without crunching the numbers, it seems possible that an autonomous ferry could be made cheaper than what an equal distance of road on land.

The existing ferry is already considerably cheaper than a road bridge would be. It seems to me that an autonomous ferry would merely shift the work to development and maintenance of the system and add risk.
All you need to learn to program is a computer, an internet connection (a 56kbps dialup is good enough) and certain intellectual aptitudes (such as motivation, an average intelligence, etc...). Almost everybody who has these characteristics is already a software developer or a doctor or a lawyer or an accountant or you name what, or they are too young to get a job. Mind, I haven't written "everybody", I'm sure there are some people who, for whatever reason, have been unlucky and ended up in low paid jobs, but the notion that we have a treasure trove of potential scientists and software developers and doctors in Job Centers' queues is patently absurd.

On job training regimes, universities and bootcamps don't do a great job at training developers, and almost everybody spends their first 2-3 years effectively in an informal on-the-job training regime.
>Not being able to use toilets is, [...], but it probably adds to the feeling of being disrespected.

Words like "dehumanizing" and "disrespected" are being used but we also have to remember that truckers are not the only ones that care about bathrooms. It's also the workers in the office who don't want to be dehumanized by cleaning up an inconsiderate trucker's piss and poop.

As someone who used to clean dirty public toilets as part of my first job, this old video showing the owner of the company how to clean his office toilets has always stuck with me. He even cites the common problem of truckers leaving a mess for office workers to clean. Deep link:
https://youtu.be/XlHWkdfZmb4?t=2m59s

Sure, many truckers are considerate and clean up after themselves but the few bad apples ruin it for the other truckers. The office workers don't want to deal with disgusting bathrooms. Until we have robots in the future cleaning the toilets, there will be somebody getting dehumanized by cleaning up poop & piss.

What are the office workers' options?

- clean up after drivers (dehumanizing work)

- deny bathrooms to drivers

I feel bad for the good drivers but unfortunately, some disrespect the office workers because someone else's bathroom is not the driver's problem. What's the solution to avoid dehumanizing people?
Since the start of the year I've been on a meal plan given to me by a dietician, and have lost nearly 20kg.

She did a genetic profile which guided her. In my particular case it is mostly seafood and green vegetables, but I can see how it can be different for other individuals. She also did blood tests and track my insulin and cholesterol, and prescribed several supplements (Omega 3s and Vitamin Ds and so on).

As she explained it, the purpose of the supplements is to encourage my metabolism in a certain way so that once I reach my target weight I can deviate from the meal plan without gaining weight again.

I also have an exercise program. According to the genetic profile cardio exercises won't have a big impact on my weight, but I need to train with weights instead to build muscle and control my body chemistry.

It's been easy to stick to the plan because of the lockdowns. I can see how it would've been more difficult to stick to it if I had to go to the office and be among colleagues.

I'm very happy with the results. It is hard to think how terrible I felt before and just thought it was normal.
Just be aware that that counts as you giving notice and it might affect your options.
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One interesting aspect is that living organisms are in thermodynamic non-equilibrium, while most dead matter always evolves towards equilibrium.
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Thanks for clarifying. That was very poor use of the word 'efficiency' on my part.
I've encountered this and I thought of some reason:

- it's easier to be distracted
- it's harder to read gestures and expressions, worse with group meeting
- with normal keyboard and mouch / touchpad even touchscreen, it's harder to sketch
- while small, there is latency and it can be distracting enough

IMO it's easier if the communication is one way at a time, not both at the same time.
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Actually, I think barge transport is a much larger contributor than rail in the modal split of hinterland operations in Europe. Both Rotterdam and Antwerp have huge barge modal splits and large hinterland terminals, often trimodal.
From the comments: "@chx: I already have a master's thesis. This was harder."
This is so true. I've been pushing VR meetings as an alternative to travel for workshops in these Corona times.

But people don't even grok it unless you strap a headset on them and give time to get familiar with it. Once you do that you always hear "wow this is powerful, I forgot I was here"

For us VR enthusiasts this is a given. For others it's a gimmick until they experience it. Like Morpheus said "No-one can tell you what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself". Only through this experience as a VR advocate I have I seen the truth in that.

This is why I'm happy Facebook is so all-in on VR. They're doing this really hard work for us.
Depends on your commute.

For obvious reasons people who have long commutes are most vocal about always working from home, but that is just another optimization/choice you have made in your life. For me commute doesn't cost anywhere near 5% of my time, but I have also made a conscious decision to live close to my office.
I see a lot of the office politics players (less competent workers) are worried about their jobs going abroad.

Fear not. Your jobs will be taken by foreign (or local) workers with better skills anyway. If anything, try and become more competitive and brush up your skills.
There is a meta vision (pun) that is bigger than a "leftist vision", in the sense enlightenment and humanism is a very deep well that originates much more than the debate about particular economic system designs, capital formation, ownership and employment contracts etc.

It feels as if abusive societies are the norm (and we have seen that in breathtakingly dark glory with the ascent of surveillance capitalism) but the historical pattern seems to be pointing to the gradual discovery of tools (institutions, behaviors) that eliminate these local minima. Alas it may not be happening fast enough to prevent drifting into a bottomless pit.

The main current issue with the "metaverse", imho, is not who will control it, but is it actually a breakthrough communications technology that is worthwhile developing to its "full" potential? Its "wow" factor feels really gimmicky. I am thinking that if it feels like a gimmick maybe it is a gimmick. But I do acknowledge that a combination of preliminary implementations and not have discovered yet the use cases what would really make it worthwhile may change the picture at a future point.
Whenever some collectible is "fetching whopping prices", your first question should be if someone is buying from themselves.

Especially when the next sentence suggests the rise in interest may be illusory.
I cut out sugar, most carbs, got more exercise, more sleep, removed stressful things and people from my life, got a wide spectrum of essential and non essential amino acids, got more than the RDA of all the vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, enzymes, polyphenols. I cycled up and down various molecules to increase certain protein pathways, increased autophagy, nrf2, ampk. I clamped excess gluconeogenesis with berberine. Removed deformed proteins with a several enzymes like nattokinase and serrapeptase and a few related enzymes. I ignored many dogmatic mantras and slowly ramped up d3+k2-mk7+magnesium+garlic extract to remove excess calcium from my gut and cardio vascular system.

That is what has been working well for me. It may not work well for you.
> I believe the majority of code is slow because it's written without any consideration at all to performance.

That can both be correct. I use a std. data structures for many things even if some prefix tree might be better for the operations I perform on a set. I don't think about that in most cases since computing power is cheaper than the additional work. If performance becomes a problem, I can optimize later.

Advent of Code isn't a realistic performance metric. Working software is for most software projects.
I think a common mistake is to think civilization are wiped-off in a cinematic event like the Fall of Constantinople.

Actually, what happens often is that a civilization degrades slowly over decades and centuries. It was once a leading power, but it is now a medium power with far less relevance. One good example is Spain going through a long decline after being probably the leading world power.

In an era of nuclear weapons, you do not take cities anymore, but you could see countries that do not share the West ideology become more powerful, and progressively, develop all the new technology and have the most influence.
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carbon is probably the only atom with enough chemistry for that complexity to manifest. half of chemistry is organic chemistry
There’s a deeper aspect to this and that is that meritocracy is a fantasy. People skills trump almost _everything_ else, including black hat people skills like dominating a room.
The modern equivalent is probably Nampla (Thai fish sauce). Bit of an acquired taste, but once you acquire it, nothing else will do.
> One interesting aspect is that living organisms are in thermodynamic non-equilibrium

On what scale?
Can you provide some sources/references please?
“…that'll be pretty impressive to my mind, to basically enter a completely new market segment for them and have a product that's even worth discussing.”

Sounds pretty normal to me. Why would a company enter a new market if they don’t have a product people want?

I can’t think of any company that launched a new product by announcing “We don’t have anything competitive.”

Am I misunderstanding your comment? (Or reality.)
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That you describe doesn't lead to "whopping prices".

And if there haven't been collectible pumpers in your hobby before (a doubtful claim), it's all the more attractive for them to be the first.
> This finding supports the authors' original hypothesis. Corrosion on the surface of the glass (due to the hot and caustic water circulating through it) plays a key role, since this releases silicon-dioxide molecules into the solution. This in turn acts as a catalyst to speed up the chemical reactions between the nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen atoms that ultimately create organic molecules. In addition, they found that the corrosion on the glass also forms millions of tiny pits. The authors think those pits could serve as tiny reaction chambers, also speeding up the rate at which organic molecules form in the experiment.

1. It's known to be a catalyst in the chemical reaction

2. They believe that the tiny pits in the corroded glass also speed up the reaction. This could explain why the material of the flask matters.
> MZ: I think it’s really important that basically if you have your avatar and your digital clothes and your digital tools and the experiences around that — I think being able to take that to other experiences that other people build, whether it’s on a platform that we’re building or not, is going to be really foundational and will unlock a lot of value if that’s a thing that we can do.

A digital identity registry/provider? Did they finally recognize that gamers or people in virtual worlds want to escape their RL identity?

Or is it just another hopeless try to enforce their digital "singular identity" authoritarianism?
> I think we should use phonetic transscription

We do, it's called IPA and Worcestershire is /ˈwʊstərʃər/.

Using something similar for actual normal writing would be difficult though, it would hide all the etymological linkages between different European languages, and even obscure connections within each language.
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Can you back this up with some documentation please? Did that expert testify?

> It's just that people's preconceptions about evil oil companies screwing indigenous communities get in the way of thinking about whether it's actually true.

But even if I believe what you said, that preconception would still be true. It would just be a state-owned oil company instead of Chevron. So why are you saying that here?
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It is a strange phenomenon, in that it is so nonsensical, yet so ingrained and self-perpetuating in a way. I can actually agree that it qualifies as a "duty", because it's something the people who make up the corporation honestly feel morally bound to. The idea seems to have become sort of a load-bearing neurosis in the Modern Yuppie. If and when we, by some act of cultural psychiatry, remove it entirely, that's a lot of personalities that are going to just crumble, and I don't know if there are enough hiking trails in California for the finance dude(tte)s in sillycon valley set to all find themselves again...
The world can't seem to get enough objects of pure speculation these days. But "seem" is crucial here.
> If it could run Xcode natively it would be so much better

That made me think, Apple must have some internal prototype of Xcode for iPad? Creating iOS apps on iPad could be a killer 'Pro' app, convincing people to choose a Pro version over the regular iPad. Maybe they are worried apps created on iPad wouldn't be quite the same standard as apps created on regular Macs?
And the axioms?
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Interesting that the story assumes a legible AI for the robot. If its behaviour was the result of a deep learning neural net, the story plot would necessarrily be quite different. There would be no talk of understanding the robot's calculations or tweaking the program parameters. From the perspective of today's AI efforts the programming in the story seems antiquated and unrealistic.
Can’t you just be MetaNotes or something like that? Is that still too similar? Given you can prove you had the name already.
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It’s fascinating to me that society was willing to accept laptops that could not safely be used on a human’s lap for so long. My ‘old’ 16” MacBook Pro could probably cook an egg.
> Should humans resist the formation of human meta-systems? Human/robot meta-systems?

No. I'm saying humans should not lose abilities or features because of it. We should be able to live comfortable lives and still maintain peak physical and mental performance. Any changes in our nature should not go against that.
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"Worcester" violates practically every convention of English spelling and pronunciation. Is there any other word in which "rce" even appears, let alone is silent?

[edit] Farce. Faaaaaa. Larceny. Lonnie?
Or maybe people will look into how those that shutdown more severely avoided the problems.
Why? That’s what insurance is for… the less govt is prepared for 100 year floods the less people live on flood planes.
I question the intelligence of a human species that does not reproduce.
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I didn't say developers "gave up", but even as of 2019 it didn't seem like things were moving forward in any meaningful way.

Even just for OMEMO support, we all had to compile a plugin for libpurple/Pidgin, and it didn't even have full UI support so was very difficult to use when things didn't work automatically.

We used a gajim but iirc, to get OMEMO support we had to compile that too.

But I'm truly glad to hear the ecosystem has improved - I would have much preferred to have stuck with XMPP. But in 2019/2020, Matrix offered all this and more and worked very well. It was impossible to make the case for us to stay on XMPP.
I think we should consider changing the name of the program. The current name conflicts not only with Facebook but also with the current popular concept of the metasverse.
Government can’t even let private sector build houses for 1 year demand. I don’t forsee them being able to manage anything on 100 year timescales.

Just look at the climate change stupidity, any city in the world could build a 6 foot sea wall and give the middle finger to climate change in a year with minimal cost but instead we have all manner of stupid at an international level.

I used to live in a city that was in a rainforest and would run out of water like clockwork during the two months of the year it wasn’t bucketing down rain. It even had mountains with snowpack as a backup but they could never figure out how to build a dam an extra 6 feet higher so we wouldn’t run out of water. We had enough money to buy people heroin but couldn’t figure out how to not run out of water. There was never a heroin shortage, always plenty of that, they’d just buy more but if you wanted to water your lawn, get rekt bud, we don’t have any water.

To be fair regarding the heroin, it did cost about $500,000 per person to obtain enough heroin.
I'm a hardcore Linux user, but this is a simplistic vision.

Ubuntu still runs a broken Bluetooth stack by default (and they've ignored the reports). HiDPI/multimonitor support seems to be insufficient (based on reports; I don't suffer from it), and there is a sadly realistic long list of issues¹. To say that "Linux has all the utilities you will ever need" is false for a non negligible amount of users; some unique programs are not available on Linux (even Office documents can't be fully handled on Linux with 100% confidence of compatibility).

With that in mind, I personally think that Linux is mature enough for light users (browsing and non-professional Office usage), which I suppose are a significant amount of the userbase.

¹=https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...
I actually lost 20 pounds since the start of COVID. This is due to me eating a small home-prepared sandwich for lunch instead of a full meal on most week days.

I also eat a fruit every morning at breakfast.

At night, I have a full balanced meal but with no special restrictions. I sometimes enjoy fried stuff, good cakes.

In my experience, replacing a full meal by something small is a good way to lose weight.
Even benevolent private equity forces companies to operate on a 3-5 year time window where the PE owner needs to maximize returns over the period.
Inevitably results in lots of conversations along these lines. “Yes that would be good long term but we are not investing in that because it won’t add value before we flip the company”.
I mean technology in a general sense. But for J&J specifically, there's always the chance that a fast moving biotechnology startup will outcompete them.
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WebGPU is enabled by default in Chrome on Mac as part of the WebGPU Origin Trial (https://web.dev/gpu). We didn't really test on M1 Macs but several people reported it just works.
Absolutely. I was watching Alan Kay's "Inventing the Future" talks recorded a few years ago, and this was a thing he referred to in passing.

In recent month's, every time I run across the whole "OO is evil/dead/horrible" meme (esp. common here) it turns out to be someone talking whose experience of "OO programming" is limited to C++/Java and their relatives. If your only exposure to OO was those (and similar) languages, then, YES, OO is horrible and weak and full of leakiness in the abstractions. It's a bit like saying that coffee is horrible when all you've ever tasted is cheap-and-nasty instant made from acorns and floor sweepings. C++ and Java (I can't comment on C#, never having used it in anger) are the palest, anaemic shadow of OO programming.

Rant done. This addition to Swift might cause me to look at it more closely. (I don't have any reason/desire to touch the Apple grow-tunnel (as opposed to ecosystems, which are natural and open.) My thoughts have also recently run along lines of "What if we made every message to an object as if it were always remote (in another address space)?" In other words, for decades we've been trying to make RPC calls look (to the programmer) as if they were "just like local calls" and with justifiable lack of success because remote really is more wrinkly than local. So what if, instead of trying to make "remote" look/behave/imitate "local" we went in the other direction and make all calls look like remote calls? It means we have to think about all the failure modes and partial-failure modes of remote calls all of the time. Only, for local address-space calls, they're going to be much more reliable in practise. Is it worth it? Can we bring down the cognitive overhead to an acceptable level?

I'm interested to see whether this Swift effort/initiative approaches this idealised/simplified description.
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It's unclear to me if they're using the FPGA only for rapid-prototying and the end-user version will ship with an ASIC, or if the end-user version will still contain the FPGA. And if the latter, whether the FPGA will be user-programmable.

Looks cool, but I'm pretty sure that as an end user I would not feel comfortable reprogramming the board management controller of a $5000 dollar piece of equipment.
I have also heard several people knowing Tim Ferris mentioning he does not work at all 4 hours a week.
For Tegmark, that's enough to argue reality is every possible universe of mathematics.
This guy is used in chapter 8 of jeff Sutherland book.
Can't find a good general intro, but these articles take this viewpoint:

https://science.mit.edu/life-away-from-equilibrium/

https://www.pnas.org/content/114/3/423

Edit: Here's a good intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10cVVHKCRWw
I thought the article would concern the results of 4 hour workweeks in companies or some sort of data to back it up. But it's just another ego massage piece filled with enterpreneur buzzwords and get-rich-quick schemes.
I have seen that retraction comment when it came out, and I've quoted it myself here several times over the years. That said, you are being overly harsh. "Bottom of the list"? Give him a break.

I'm no Kahneman "defender", but you have to read any of this kind of behaviour research as "advanced opinion pieces" by biased humans.

And also bear in mind: it is a 40-year synthesis of his and Tversky's work. Yes, priming-related studies and a few others don't replicate. And that "disbelief is not an option" is of course terribly distasteful and overconfident. That doesn't mean everything in that book is bunkum!
I was interested in reading this book but I ended up not getting it after reading the reviews. Did you find it enjoyable to read?
PBR hard coffee (and similar products) are comically expensive for what they are which means the wrong people don't buy them which means the avoid the stigma.
If you read the article you will find that your question is answered in there.
Yes thats it.
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