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haha, thanks for correction
I thought physics is described by mathematics.
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> Which English dictionary do you consider better?

I generally rely on the OED; my bookshelf dictionary is the Concise Oxford Dictionary (it's not "concise"). But the OED is also descriptivist. In the full version of the OED, they give multiple attestations for each meaning (citations, dates, author and so on). That means you can form a judgement about how to use or interpret a word, quite independently of the definitions the lexicon proposes.

I don't know of any English dictionary that isn't basically descriptivist. But I think M-W is pretty far along the descriptivist scale.

I used to have a copy of the Chambers Etymological Dictionary. That was good, because it provided an explanation of every definition it gave. Even if the definition was dubious, you knew why they were offering it.

I don't hate on descriptivism; usage needs to be described. It just pisses me off when a dictionary defines "literally" to mean "not literally", in the very words of their definition of "literally".

You seem to have pretty good mastery of English, if it's not your mother tongue.
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> peak physical condition

A lot of our ancestors where not in a particularly good physical condition because of how horrible their nutrition is.
Interestingly Mozilla seems to be doing the opposite and naming more things "Firefox". But I don't think they're an example to be learned from when it comes to these decisions.
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It is literally impossible to ship “production quality” devices that actually support a decent amount of formats.

Of course there will be bugs when you’re consuming content at the very bleeding edge. I’d rather still fight with getting some Dolby stuff to work than not have it at all.
> This is the real corruption here. No way to make a thorough clean-up of 16 billion liters of toxic waste water with that amount of money, let alone compensate the victims. Do you think this is justice? Do you think this agreement didn't deserve to be overturned?

This is how things work in banana republics. The state sacrifices the health of its citizens for the gain of the state, which basically operates for the benefit of the political elites.

State-owned oil companies partner with oil majors, usually because they lack the expertise and capital to exploit their own resources.

In this case, the state-owned oil company owned 62.5% of the consortium. When Chevron's subsidiary exited, it made an agreement with Ecuador under which Chevron's subsidiary performed the environmental remediation the state required and was released from future environmental claims.

This is really straightforward legally. There is no legitimate legal basis for this agreement to be overturned, which is why multiple courts have refused to recognize the judgment, and why multiple countries, including Canada, Argentina and Brazil, have refused to allow collection of Chevron assets in their countries upon this judgment.

If international law allowed corrupt courts to overturn valid legal agreements for any reason, or no reason, it would threaten the stability of the global economy and the economies of banana republics like Ecuador would be even more avoided than they already are, which would also hurt the Ecuadorian people.

The Ecuadorian people affected by this situation should first and foremost be angry at their corrupt government.

> Meanwhile Chevron's lawsuit against Donzinger ended up in a several million dollars fine for a single individual.

Because the court found that he used illegal tactics (fraud, bribery, etc.) to obtain a judgment in Ecuador. Injustice, real or perceived, does not make another injustice permissible.
> It’s a shame they decided to improve upon the existing hardware and took much longer than initially expected, but that’s what life with rockets used to be before SpaceX showed rapid iteration is a better path.

Uhm, I think you're simultaneously doing a discredit to past rocket development and giving an easy pass to the mess that is SLS with this statement.

It's just shoddy project management and prioritizing collaboration with as many big donar aerospace companies as possible as opposed to what works. There is playing it safe and then there is just being complacent. The SLS is complacency personified.
Getting on the front page is hit and miss - this was interesting yesterday: https://bengtan.com/blog/open-secrets-hacker-news/

For what it's worth I didn't read the article and come away thinking well of Chevron. I'm sure it's biased, but I read it and was shocked by his treatment, came here to read more.
Dehumanization?
Legacy reality. Good one.
I nominate Synfig, which is a 2D vector animation tool. This is the most mature opensource tool in its category, but it still needs a lot of work to be able to compete with the commercial offering.

https://www.synfig.org/

https://www.synfig.org/donate/
I wish this article referenced the data used in the sentence where it claims certain facts.

Such as the first sentence:
“Close to 100% of people who take antidepressants experience some form of sexual side effects.”

Says who?

There are certain studies referenced but when other claims like the first sentence are made, I’d like to see where they got that conclusion.
Ah, you're completely right, the compiler couldn't hid or assume away the aborts as they would now be part of the spec.
Those folks have been actively abusing international laws, sponsoring cybercrime, and responding with “so what?”

That’s what. Deal with it. Build your enclosed cheburashka internets or whatever. I couldn’t care less about hurting their feelings.
We’re all just pretentious chemical reactions.
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its not "whataboutism" its the "oh facebook is the single biggest threat to x, y &z" its reductive and plainly bollocks.

if Facebook was editorialized, then yes, it would be the leading cause of x, y & z. Facebook is a reflection of society. How do I find out about some nefarious actor on facebook? through news, its pretty rare that I am organically exposed to that stuff.

Take Tide pods, that was a total moral panic driven by American TV. The "death bird" panic was driven by UK daytime tv. It got to the point that my Kid's school was showing the image to my kids, saying that it was ok and that its not a problem, and that you were never going to die, all the while having an expression of repressed fear.

Facebook is a Social Phased lock Loop. You have to engage with the extreme content for it to continually be shown to you.

I dislike Facebook, they have made some strategic failures. However this _obsession_ with facebook absolves everyone else, which is both the point and the risk of this stupidity.
> I have read more than enough reports of both happening

Wow, that is insane.

> (see e.g. https://www.trucker.de/nachrichten/transport/lkw-fahrer-klag...

:S That sucks.
German and Dutch straightforwardness only goes one way. Try talking to them back with the same straightforward way they talk to you, and see how they react.
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If I'm remembering this case correctly, Donzinger's own expert paid by his side even concluded that the toxic waste they were trying to get Chevron to pay for had to have been dumped after Chevron's involvement had ended when the subsidiary was solely owned by the Ecuadorian government, he withheld that evidence from the court, and there were internal documents from the discovery process confirming this. 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.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
I only currently get ads when streaming youtube on the TV, even though youtube on my other WAN devices do not get ads. Looking at the pihole logs the TV hits cdn[dot]samsung[dot]com only, so I assume it is proxying YT requests via a Samsung service. Blocking the cdn endpoint disables all internet features, including Netflix, Amazon Prime etc.

Previously, about 18 months ago, the pihole blocked all ads from YT on the TV. So something changed... I don't have the pihole logs from back then otherwise I'd check.
> how important is the launch window when you start thinking about bulk transport to Mars?

Launch windows aren't just about time of travel. They are primarily about the energy required to get to your target.

You can in principle launch to anywhere at any given moment, but the required energy will be much higher. So high in fact, that a Starship-type spacecraft would be unable to make the trip due to lack of fuel.

Hyperbolic trajectories require higher energies and the exact amount involves solving partial differential equations that depend on the exact orbital configuration (i.e. date and location of launch), so I cannot provide a general answer as to how much more fuel would be required.

Suffices to say it would take more fuel than a Starship is able to carry and a hyperbolic trajectory would require en-route refuelling, which is basically impossible since the tankers/fuel depot would have to move at the same speed.
This is true only for a few actors that represent a fraction of email traffic. However they break the system for everyone since even a 5% chance of having your email going to /dev/null is way too disruptive for most people.
I suppose the same reason why qwerty still reigns supreme despite being a purposefully inefficient layout, people know it.

On a similar note I was talking to someone recently about touch screen phone keyboards, and how compressing a qwerty keyboard onto a (relative to the size of actual keyboards) tiny screen with very little haptic feedback seemed like an awful idea that was used early on because it was easy to understand and since then we've just kind of stuck with for no reason. The person I was talking to agreed, and we were thinking of ideas of how it could be improved. Later I was talking to a my two brothers about it, who are more a bit more normal, and neither of them thought it was worth the effort at all (and they're probably right), and thought it was pretty daft thing to care about.

Long story short, if it aint broke, don't fix it I suppose
Future wars or future walls.
in some accents they rhyme because of the cot-caught merger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger
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> speak a proper dialect (not mutually understandable with regular Polish speakers)

a language's dialects are mutually understandable by definition IMO, if they are not, then those are not one language's dialects but (dialects of) different languages.
Based on their example, in practice the decision is between dealing with reality and following management framework dogma at all costs.

Game theory offers amazing insights, but it doesn't really deal with internal company politics, the power of business consultants and the desire to obtain silver bullets.

Could it be that quarterly/annual budgets make one assume participation in a finite game, rather than infinite? That's precisely the kind of thing the author of the tweet chain seems to be describing.
Why do you think VR sucks and you hate it?

Just got my Quest 2 a few weeks ago and I'm loving the shit out of it. (I still have some issues with it that I'm overlooking of course)
Isn't Roblox what Meta wants to achieve?
HyperNormalisation is a great way to describe it and would fit too, however nobody knows it today, which is a shame. Regarding, woke as a term, the term meaning changed along the years. As i used here, was as the Economist described it[1]: "outlook on a host of issues as well as on race". For me sounds like whoever produced this video, had a checklist of groups that should be seem, maybe yes giving up on the complex "real world" and built a simpler "fake world" to avoid bad PR on Twitter (which is per se, a fake world).

[1] https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/07/30/...
There's honour in doing something that you truly think is right despite it being difficult, scary or miserable. Many people who go to war are psychologically scarred for a very long time.
It still might be!
if you go that route, ketchup share a very similar lineage as well, albeit it picked up more transformations along the way, it still carries the name as legacy.
> 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.

Interesting. Photo please, anyone?
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Those updates don't get installed at boot time. Modern Windows installs most updates in the background. The only ones that require a reboot are the big ones, every 6 months.
> not sure

I am absolutely certain that nobody should own it.
> X11 for macOS is dead

I don’t think this is nefarious. X11 is a klunky GUI, at best, compared with pretty much everything else out there. It really can’t hold a candle to more developed GUI systems.

I was never interested in Swift as a server language, but that’s mainly because of the “chicken-and-egg” thing, as it was not supported by server infrastructure. I love the language, itself.
Note: he is a fraud, albeit a cute one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aUx7ajQrys
I think so, sometimes. But honor needs to be understood as something that arises in the minds of others when they appreciate some admirable thing someone did, usually a wise but painful trade (e.g. their life for some worthy principle)

That's not to say it's always there. Often people just end up in conflicts, and then people are shooting at their buddies, so they fight. Maybe later they get an award for what they did, but from their perspective, they were just trying to help their friends.

Like anything, once it becomes a recognized thing, it will get misused by devious people to manipulate others.
We have such a limited understanding of life that calling it “just” anything, at least with any degree of confidence, seems unfounded.

Our definitions are somewhat inadequate and full of edge cases and blurred lines. It doesn’t mean we should dismiss them out of hand, especially since the circumstances of life’s origin are so mistifying.
It's not in-human if you can't trust your drivers to do their job honestly. It won't be used everywhere but if you constantly wonder why some drivers seem to deliver far less than others and then it magically disappears once you install monitoring, it "proves its worth".

It doesn't sound nice but when margins are paper-thin, it is not surprising.
Facebook, Meta, whatever it's called, I won't touch it with a ten foot pole. I'm a major VR enthusiast and a developer but I dumped my Rift as Facebook's tentacles took hold of Oculus.

I can't say I want them to fail because VR is exciting, but I do hope other companies can catch up and do R&D of their own.
True. Most business apps I've seen seemed like people did serious research into how to write the worst code from a performance point of view. Gazillions of wrappers upon wrappers, tons of indirection, data being copied and recopied thousands of times, creating FactoryFactoryFactories just for the sake of it.

If people would pay more attention on how the data flows instead of Uncle Bob and GoF, they would not only end up with a cleaner software architecture but also with more performance.
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Mycomment is in response to this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14946079

There are no axioms or postulates in sound mathematics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vlU-PJeIk672bFwZyULD1ASTRFF...

Greek version:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NE11KH6eMGF1ZOFPrt1S3ur3WvL...

I will be publishing a complete revision of Euclid's Elements in the near future. Become a subscriber to my channel to stay informed.
The sad consequences of the combination of a number of causes:

1) ridiculous rat race to the bottom in pricing by customers always going for the cheapest trucking supplier

2) inter-European right of free movement and work - which means that in Germany, there are truck drivers at domestic minimum wage (9.60€/h) and truck drivers from e.g. Romania for a less than a quarter of that - 2€/h (https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-konsumgueter...).

3) a serious lack of unionization among truck drivers - hard to contact people when they are constantly on the road

Right now, people are actually looking at the plights of truck drivers because of the crunch, but I can guarantee you nothing much will change and especially no one will bat an eye at the situation once the crunch is over.
If it only affects individuals, it's trivial to circumvent. Have a holding company under your control "owned" by a bunch of people (who are well paid for that role, but have no control. You could even do it the middle eastern way and use extended family for that). Besides, I'm personally much more worried about Blackrock than I am about Bezos, or any billionnaire.

But "doing something" while doing nothing. That, I imagine, is the intention.

any tax rule can be circumvented, because the US allows international share ownership ... which they in fact do:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielmitchell/2012/05/11/faceb...

So this needs compromise, talking. The main talking point of these founders seem to be that they want to maintain control of these companies, and choose their successor. Do we care about that with this legislation? Why not give them that?
So we can take a third(?) attempt at keeping our social lives out of the hands of for profit megacorps.
@mods please change link to non-biased source!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/28/chevron-lawy...
Interesting point of view; deskilling is definitely going to be a thing for a lot of these type of jobs.

I've had some fun with the Euro & American Truck Simulator games, which if a laid back style of zoning out style gaming is your thing I can totally recommend. Check it out on Steam, if only to be amazed that people would actually want to play this. I have hundreds of hours in this game and I wonder myself :-).

So, not a trucker but I can sort of appreciate what truckers need to deal with. Basically, the game comes with some automation to make the hard parts easier for beginners. But of course with AI, that's exactly what might become easier in the real world as well. What's left is just enjoying some trucker music and staring out of the window.

What's hard with trucks:

- Mastering all the mechanical and pneumatic systems and preventing damaging the truck by e.g. over torquing, using the wrong gears, and just generally knowing what to use for what situation. A lot of this becomes a lot simpler with electrical engines (no gears, excellent torque) which are much simpler to operate. Simpler here of course also means that autonomous operation becomes much easier if the vehicle is simple to operate.

- Backing up a truck + trailer in a tight space. Half the problem here is simply lack of visibility and situational awareness; which you can partially solve with cameras and mirrors. And this probably is a frequently causing damage to trucks. More a question of when than if it happens. Cars with park assist already exist. So, AI can definitely help out here as well.

- Making turns and navigating narrow roads. This is just largely learned on the job but also something you could assist quite easily.

- Dealing with dangerous / special cargo loads. This requires certifications and knowledge about e.g. regulations, procedures, etc. Unlikely to completely go away with autonomous driving. But still, the driving part might probably done more safely by AI long term.
Thank you for that. Exactly the answer I was hoping to get.
Toki Pona is simple enough that you don't need the book to learn the language. The books ("pu" and "ku") are not a prescriptive manual but more like a descriptive dictionary, and indeed, a recent census [1] shows that those books weren't the most used learning materials.

[1] https://tokiponacensus.github.io/results/#how-people-learned...
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It’s weird how this was the headline of the article but it’s only mentioned very briefly right at the end of the article with very little explanation.
I wouldn't give Kahnemann that much credit.

From Thinking, Fast and Slow:

> The idea you should focus on, however, is that disbelief is not an option. The results are not made up, nor are they statistical flukes. You have no choice but to accept that the major conclusions of these studies are true.

These sentences alone put Kahnemann at bottom of the list of people anyone should listen to. This is the opposite of how you do science especially when we talk new research in something as difficult to measure as human behaviour. Not surprisingly, a lot of the studies in Thinking, Fast and Slow don't replicate.

Kahneman has acknowledged this and admitted it was a mistake[1] while simultaneously saying:

> I am still attached to every study that I cited, and have not unbelieved them

And the book is still sold with the paragraph saying that disbelief is not an option.

[1] https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
I’ve been using Swift to develop Apple software since 2014. I’ve released quite a few apps, written with it. Before that, I used ObjC. I’m extremely happy with Swift.

As far as adoption goes, many large codebases are likely still ObjC; simply because of hysteresis. Major architectural shifts take a lot of time, money and risk. That’s one reason I don’t feel that much urgency to jump on the SwiftUI/Async stuff (but I like what I see). I’m interested in shipping, and shipping is almost always a couple (or more) steps back from “the bleeding edge.”

In my experience, there’s not much of a downside to waiting for tech to mature and stabilize, other than not having jargon on my CV.

Swift was unusual for me. I started learning it, and releasing apps in it, right away. It was a gamble, and it paid off. There’s lots of folks that are probably just getting started with Swift, now.
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I work in embedded systems and generally I think the priorities still are:

1. Correctness
2. Readability
3. Performance

A lot of people worry too much about time constraints and performance, at the end of the day, correctness is the most important, readability second _specially_ if you are consulting and leaving that codebase behind for someone else to maintain. Performance is important but only to the extent that it is specified.

So many times people write performance enhacements for functionality that has no hard real-time deadlines.

If the performance objective is not in a specification then the optimization is not adding value (other than personal satisfaction).
Pretty sure the contract includes sharing of Amazon customer data.
> Our "domestication" has historically been more that we've gone from a generalist species to a specialist society.

Outsourcing violence to the police is a huge step of domestication.