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"We weren’t building hyper efficient carbon fiber airframes with high bypass turbofans (Dreamliner)."
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan first created carbon fiber in 1860. Carbon nanotubes were discovered in 1950's. If Dreamliner was built out of carbon nanotube, then I would concede. Like this, meh.

"There is a strong argument that the past 40 years has seen some of the fastest progress in the history of the human race when it comes to making things."

to test this hypothesis, let's stop arguing about somewhat subjective things, like whether fuel injection is more significant than invention of a nuclear reactor, and think about things we can measure objectively.

Think about things we can measure, in the developed world, anything all, from wage growth to energy production to production of steel, by every metric that I have seen, their rate of increase was higher in year 1955 than in year 2015. Feel free to take your pick and show any statistics that disagrees with me.
You mean old middle class, and poor homeowners, can stay in the house they raised a family in?

The only reason my high school educated 80 years old mother in declining health can stay in a home, and county, she feels somewhat safe is because of prop 13.

Her biannual property taxes are still a big deal when they arrive.

I've said this before, but I'm beginning to think if you didn't live through the craziness before Prop 13, you won't ever quite get it.

Prop 13 has been the only blessing most homeowners have been given.

If you want to put income limits on the gift of prop 13 fine, but doing away with it completely would be evil. By income limits I mean the guy making $600,000/year, and a huge bank account, could probally still survive without prop 13 protection.

The 80 year old lady, or man, surviving on 1/2 widower's blue collar pension is another story.

(I'm for means testing on all programs. I'm also for tieing all societal fees/fines---speeding tickets, registration, patent fees, etc. to 1040 income/assets wealth.)
Cars are massively different. Anyone who works on cars in the garage will know that our modern vehicles are very different than the old carburetor and magneto machines.

Drivetrain, running gear, and fuel systems are completely different systems that would be unrecognizable to a 1985 mechanic.

This statement sounds like it came from a software engineer who has never washed grease off his hands.
Copilot also optimizes for speed to a degree. It's akin to advanced auto complete. IntelliJ auto-completion is great. As much as it pains to say this, I don't think I will be as effective writing Java in Vim as much as I am with IntelliJ. The key differentiator is the auto complete speed. Copilot I feel is just auto complete on steroids. It may not be perfect yet, but there is definitely a problem it solves.
Related fact: the US "poverty line" is at the 80th percentile of world incomes. If you're not "US poor", you're in the top 20%.
The problem really comes down to security. Unless you have 10+ million in the bank, you are probably at a non zero risk of having one of the following occur

- unable to retire/aged out of the workforce

- lose house

- lose job and unable to find replacement.

- unable to afford living in your area.

- broken by medical bill/disaster.

- unable to afford education/childcare for children

My partner and I work in well known tech companies, but don’t come from money - we are well off as long as one of us doesn’t get a bad performance review and there isn’t a crash.

It’ll be decades if ever when I have the financial security to consider myself wealthy.
They do, though it's not cheating as such if you're not doing it knowingly. The more general problem is one of 'unauthorised information', and it's not entirely avoidable. Sometimes a position requires an unexpected length of time to analyse, because of the cards you're holding. You're expressly allowed that, but the break in regular tempo leaks information (that you have a decision which is salient) to the other players. That's authorised for opponents to know, but not for partner. The rules provide various restrictions on the partner of someone passing UI to try to prevent advantage being taken, but it's not an easy problem to solve in general.
Anything in a couple hundred dollar range is an impulse buy for small independent car shops if it has potential of saving substantial time.
Please show me a workload constrained by memory latency/bandwidth on MacOS. I'd really love to see how those benchmarks turn out so the average user can decide for themselves.
Most people have never dealt with large resilient systems, and do not understand what "distributed consensus" even means, and what it enables. Hence the derisive comments on this important result.
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What do you use for calculation of signal propagation delay and parasitics when you do layout in KiCAD?
It's the opposite for me. I end up associating low mental activity with work.
The span is simply the way the data is modeled. The way the tracing works is it calls a component called a Span Processor on both span start and end. It would be possible to implement a Span Processor that sends span_start and span_end events to your backend without waiting for the span to start.

In terms of crashing and taking a long time to complete, these are problems that are very difficult to solve on the backend as well. Simply having the start event without the end event is not enough info to say for sure that there will _never_ be an end event. For low data volumes and simple use-cases this may not seem like a big deal, but it gets complex extremely quickly.
Well, I appreciate the warning I suppose. I created this pseudonym to post (what I consider valid but) semi-controversial comments that some find politically untenable, so perhaps I overcommitted to the mission. Although I think you’ll find I rarely start a political discussion in a non-political thread – I’m keenly aware of the risk of polluting the board with that which is why I try to join existing politics threads rather than start them.

FWIW, when my most recently flagged comment has 16 upvotes, perhaps there is something to it. On the other hand, this one you’re replying to was aggressive but I think you’ll find it to be an outlier, and that I have sparse history of personal (let alone “aggressive”) attacks against anyone who isn’t a public figure or trying to be.

Anyway, keep up the good work, I’ll avoid the personal attacks. But I’m not gonna change the perspective I bring to these discussions, so if that’s the issue you can just ban me now.
Apple used to have some of the best-engineered batteries, now they don't. Simple as.
I would guess, "probably not" for a variety of reasons.

First, the ionosphere bounces a lot of radio traffic right back down to the planet, amateur radio operators (like me) use that to talk to stations farther away on planet but it doesn't go into space.

Second the frequencies that do travel through the ionosphere are typically aimed at satellites (geosynchronous or lower) and are scaled to have a level of power that gets there reliably but without an overly large margin for error.

Third, the Sun is a very "noisy" source of RF energy and someone looking this way at us would also be looking at the Sun as well (if you're looking at transits). In terms of radio frequencies that they could perhaps analyze it would require a lot of filtering.

The analysis we've done on transiting planets so far is based on spectroscopy using the star as a huge light source and looking for how that light is filtered by the 'edges' of the planet. (so through the atmosphere of the planet).

If they are doing that, then the change in atmosphere composition over the last 1000 years seems like it would be detectable.
In America, paid off or not, the location of your house pretty much guarantees a lower bound on your kid's future in the richer neighborhoods and unfortunately an upper bound in many poorer ones.
Educated, have good jobs, own a single-family house, pay for their kids' college, save money for retirement – in any other country/culture this category would be known as "middle class".

I fall into this 9.9% as well, so someone please tell me where I can exert this "Aristocratic influence" I have.
One isn’t retired, the other is.
You don't commit crimes against mankind if you are rich enough.
I really don’t think this is the case. One is owning a house, and probably still working. The other is owning a house and other passive income sources, probably enough that you don’t need to work. There is a massive gulf between a million and 20 million dollars.
They're saying "household" remember. If you have ten children, $1.2M can be used up extremely quickly.

Lifestyle doesn't matter. You can be extremely wealthy and live austerely, if you desire. What matters is security, power/influence, and so the ability to pass wealth to further generations.
I love OpenTelemetry, but for Java, I wish adoption would slow down until the implementation catches up.

For example, if you visit the OpenCensus site, it tells you on every page that OpenTelemetry is the way to go now. Yet OpenTelemetry's Java metrics implementation is still listed as alpha, and functionality as basic as tags didn't work when I last tried it.

Or, I've been working with Datadog lately, and I want to add dynamic span metadata. My options appear to be either to wire up the (deprecated) OpenTracing client, or set up a full collector/agent suite of OpenTelemetry processes (whose default tutorial configurations appear to be invalid in places).

worth I guess, but bumpier than I'd like.
have to remember that for polio vaccine the regime is 3-4 doses. So it increases to 3 per 250,000 people.

Going by typical financial calculations in the US judicial system for permanent career ending injuries damages per case could be in the low millions, excluding punitive damages a jury can award and lawyer costs etc .

If manufacturers (many times only licensing the vaccine) held liability their per dose cost of liability would be $1-10 range, the current price of OPV vaccine is much lower than that
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Don’t really see the similarities to evernote, no handwriting support, no inline pdfs, no calendar, no clips, etc.

I think a better comparison would be notion without the plugins, or something like bear and apple notes.
Indeed. Related, the TK section looks to be plagiarized from the writer that the author of this piece cites as inspiration. It's pretty weird.
OpenTracing and OpenCensus have been merged into the OpenTelemetry project. I think OT isn't sunset officially yet, but the future is OTel.
A 20x increase seems pretty significant to me, if that 20X is at the very top of you pyramid of needs. That's 19M of possibly pure play money
Looks like it's found use in automotive applications for tracking down NVH (noise, vibration, and harshness) issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C18AA_nlQN8
If you don't believe there is more to the story, then you would accept that you were badly mislead by the investigation and the reporting around it though?

If that's all it was, just going after a few lackeys, do you think it would have been better if they had come out right away and said "we have never seen any evidence or suggestion that Trump or his campaign was involved in any wrongdoing surrounding the election or Russian collusion, all we are investigating is Cohen and Manafort's finances and taxes? You don't see any problems with how things were conducted?
Depends on where you live. In the Bay Area/New York I'd say the two do have wildly different lifestyles.
The post talks about using libuv which uses event loops all the way down. I'll be honest, this whole line of questioning feels quite dismissive; OP probably knows exactly _why_ they want an event loop design, you shouldn't try to talk them into using granular thread pools.
Nope. $1-2M is not enough to escape the rat race, tbh.
> loss of smell is rare

Not sure if 20% (at least for the original strain) qualifies as rare. And, it doesn't matter if it goes away after months, the question is - is there long term neurological damage from that process.

> reducing oxygen intake via masks

This is not true. Breathing is more difficult but oxygen intake is the same. Especially for n95 designs which have really tiny volume

> I'm also not sure what you're expecting in terms of taking it "seriously"

I mean that there is real chance of serious brain damage and long term consequences due to neuroinvasion. Instead we're thinking of COVID as if its the flu or cold.

> My speculation is that many illnesses like the common cold have similar side effects, but we're only now rigorously studying and measuring them because of the prominence of COVID-19 in the public's mind.

In one of the brain studies, they specifically compared with flu. With COVID, T-cells are found in the brain (i.e. neuroinflammation): https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/14071437500323635... - with flu, there isn't anything like that at all.

And this is precisely what I mean - its in the general mindset to treat SARS-2 like the flu. We think flu, we think fatality rates etc - we dismiss long term consequences, we dismiss long covid brain fog as psychological. I think that's a fatal mistake. It may not be Polio exactly, but it should be placed at similar distance from the flu in our minds.

The writing is all over the wall, but we're in optimistic denial, trying to cope, grasping at any (sophisticated) potential straws.
One fun thing was, when the added a leap second, they added it at midnight Greenwich time, which would be early evening in the US. You could count the ticks and hear the extra second happen.
Socialist busybodies, always concerning themselves with what others spent their time earning, in fear of a situation where normal people have anything of value for too long…

It's always so important to convince each cohort of the population that every step of the ladder above them is absolutely crushing it, probably at their cohort's expense, and they probably deserve to be taxed harder.

After all, what other business does anyone have judging how well others live?

Meanwhile, acorns has raised over $100 million from Black Rock, celebrities, NBC Universal, etc.
Beware with partial commits that they still are still able to build the application atomically.
The only distinction is really that selective breeding is intentional - which is not the case here.

Was it "selective breeding" when MRSA arose due to our use of antibiotics?
2.) is there for individual components (prefix reference with #), but not for schematics. It would be pretty neat though if you could use hierarchical sheets for whole-system design that way, though. Note that you can have multiple PCBs in one PCB file. Kicad doesn't really care.
Most of those people in the Bay Area are not forced to live in the Bay Area. Most have fairly portable professional skills that they could bring to a lower cost area. They might take a pay cut, but they’d still certainly be among the highest income circles in Iowa.

There’s two primary reasons they choose to continue to live in the Bay Area. One is they value the amenities of the metro. Many view Iowa as a terrible fate, even if they are living in a mansion. In this case, they may be “living poor” in terms of housing, but only because they choose to spend most of their income on the luxury good of Bay Area living. Same way, I wouldn’t be crying for a high income guy who’s always broke because he spends all his money on his boat.

Second reason people live in the Bay Area is because it gives them access to very high paying career paths. Even if it’s a bad deal for an L2, by the time they make L6 at Google, their living standards will be much higher than what they could earn in Iowa, even given the cost of living.

This group is best thought of as sacrificing consumption today to invest in their human capital. Much like medical residents, while they’re low paid today, they’ll be very high paid in short order. Again, we really wouldn’t feel two bad about medical residents having to drive a used car for a couple years while they rocket up the career ladder.
First, automatically checking Paxos is very cool. Nothing I'm saying in any way diminishes that achievement.

Next, the result is entirely unsurprising. Paxos is proved correct since its construction was formally derived[1] to be so.

Finally, this is a nice opportunity to highlight the distinction between program verification and program derivation. In general, it's considerably easier to derive a program that has a property than it is to verify that an arbitrary program has a property. For example the halting problem is uncomputable in general and yet it's easy for a competent programmer to derive loops that always terminate. This is analogous to how it's much easier to determine that some large number is the product of two primes when you yourself produced it by multiplying those same two primes than it is to factor the product when the multiplier and multiplicand are not already known.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2016/1...
because i want to be able to to go turtles all the way down with my code. julia being hosted on llvm does not provide that. if you want to do optimisations in julia you must learn llvm[0]. in this sense hosted languages are always a front-end. common lisp is not this

[0] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/llvm/
This is old news. It's been discussed for decades.

Generally the lack of tusks was not definitely considered due to poaching directly causing evolution/selective pressure outside of the fake news media.

ie. Genetic drift - https://blog.waikato.ac.nz/bioblog/2008/08/tuskless-elephant...

What would be interesting here is if genetics has proven it's due to selective pressure and strongly indicates poaching.

Things like removing elephant tusks from live animals (as they do) would increase tusklessness as well. You see this with polled livestock, you have to remove all horns when a few are polled else the horned animals dominate.
So cash in and move. I keep seeing examples of Bay Area "awful", and note that one can get a lakefront McMansion within a 30 minute drive of Atlanta for the same price. Too many wallow in the "feel" and don't leverage their opportunity.

(Yes, I moved 1000 miles. I know the pain of leaving it all behind, and the joy of 2x the house for 1/6th the taxes and more job opportunities.)
Can you imagine the shitstorm if was "visible minority, female C-level executive"?
I've found a slight modification of the ten hundred word concept pretty useful when/if I want to write a simple explanation. Sticking rigidly to 1,000 words introduces its own problems, but judicious use of the principle usually turns out a pretty nice result. I start with the ability to use those 1,000 words freely, and if I want to use a word not on the list, I consider carefully whether the value in introducing it outweighs the cognitive overhead, and/or if I can use words already in the list without loss of meaning, and generally allow words I've used at least once to get used again (so the list grows once I've decided that I really have to use a word not on the list). Additionally, no jargon at all appears on the list, so I often explain a jargon term in terms of words on the list or that I've added to the list, then add the jargon word to the list and keep using it going forward, so it serves as a canary-in-the-coal-mine for terms I should explain rather than start throwing around without thinking about it in that way as well.

It can turn out a surprisingly clear result that doesn't even show much sign of having started with a limited amount of words. It doesn't seem dumbed-down or vocabulary impaired, just easy to read (given that I do use any word that really seems to decrease the complexity of the explanation or cognitive overhead.)

It takes some time, so I didn't do it here, but if I did, this explanation would be clearer!
I guess it comes down to how much you really want to split hairs regarding the DAs comments.

>Delaware County district attorney said Thursday that it was “simply not true” that several SEPTA passengers last week took cellphone videos of a man raping a woman on the train instead of deciding to intervene or call police.”

>At the same news conference, however, the district attorney also revealed that prosecutors are in possession of a new video that was, in fact, shot by a passenger.
This response really strikes me as throwing the baby out with the bath water.

The OpenTelemetry project is focused on Observability use cases and not user analytics/tracking/etc. The fact that of all the libraries, a JS browser library exists doesn't automatically mean the parent comment is "wrong".

I suggest anyone making snap judgements about OpenTelemetry spend a few minutes reading more about the project. This general pattern of comments surfaces every time this project is posted here.
Yes they absolutely are. $1.2M in assets can easily be a normal home in a high CoL area. $20M in assets is either a few luxury homes in a high CoL area or dozens of regular homes. Someone with $1.2M might not even be a accredited investor if most of that is tied up in their primary residence so they don't even have access to many investment options that the $20M person/household has.

A person with $20M assets at 8% earns $1.6M per year. A 20x difference in assets is essentially an entire generation of wealth accumulation..
Yeah but they also chose to bring all those much loved things back to coincide with their mac apple silicon.

Sly but I wouldn't be surprised if they held it back for M1 to make the appeal of the devices bigger.
> the architects of Xorg

Xorg was designed decades ago. The architects of Xorg are dead, retired, or overwritten with their stupider future selves; you're talking about maintainers.
That's impressive. Discoverability and the varying quality of documentation is a big headache for new programmers or people engaging with a an unfamiliar framework/API/library. I really like the comments pointing out alternatives (json or xml) and the static lat-long values.

One reason I've championed the development of visual programming (flow-based, node diagrams, etc) is that while you don't want to compress a big complex program down into a single layer and become unreadable in the process, graphical methods are a great way for people to see what options they have available and just point at things they want to try out.

Instead of struggling with syntax at the same time as trying to find out what they can do with a new API, they can engage in trial-and-error to find out the capabilities and what makes it worth using, then build up their competency once they are clear about their objectives.

I'm looking forward to trying this now that it's available for my favorite IDE, but I'll probably want to set up a hotkey to switch it on and off as I need it. Once I get fully comfortable with something I often find code completion tools get in the way of my flow.
Walt Disney himself had Hispanic origins.
Smaller companies may be a net benefit over the long term. These super large companies tend to become over dominant in their markets and and start engaging in anti-competetive behaviours.
Yeah. CST is a sloppy term; your computer is going to be America/Chicago or America/Indiana/Indianapolis (for the weird one that doesn't use DST), and those are unambiguous. (While researching this comment, I found that Indiana has at least 8 different time zones, so ... good luck with that.)

I don't know if you can type things like "CST" into Debian, but I don't think you can.
I find that really hard to believe. $1.2M in assets will not go far after factoring in raising/educating two or more kids. Certain they will be comfortable, but someone with $20M can really afford the best in terms of home in an urban area, education, and medical care.