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I really believe that in this communicational context - in these pages -, statements 'A is B' should always be accompanied by relevant sufficient (for the context) justification. There is legitimately no 'A is B', there is only 'One can state that A is B owing to C'.

Otherwise, anyone here could state 'Neurons function through lightbeams (full-stop)', 'Neutrinos are Leibniz's monads (full-stop)', 'Filippa's Republic is better than Western Democracy (full-stop)', 'Smith is wrong (full-stop)', 'The ratio of circumference and diameter is clever (full-stop)'...

If anybody stated 'A is B (full-stop)', another could come up with "No it isn't". We would be at Monty Python's Argument Sketch - a parody of the "drily strictly professional" soulless¹ spoilt cheap service associated (in some cultures) to brothels.
If you're at 20% capacity it costs about 5x as much as when you're at 100% capacity. With nuclear almost all the cost is in building (and decommissioning) the plant.
Amazon retail breaks even, despite similar goods selling ~15% cheaper on eBay and ~30% cheaper on AliExpress.

Amazon has the advantage of scale and integration (which is a big advantage in the logistics world), yet somehow still can't seem to outprice these other platforms.
Swift explicitly knows the difference between this construction and an actual string literal. Its type system considers "Foo" to be a StaticString, while "Foo \(something)" is merely a String, because it will need runtime allocation to calculate the actual value. A StaticString is actually a cheaper representation as well as needing to be distinguished for this reason.

So a native Swift API would be able to distinguish and refuse to let you provide this String where a StaticString is the appropriate thing, I am not an Apple expert to say whether this would be possible / easy for the NSLog binding, if it was possible to do this it should have been done.
The title is "Sx truths", meaning there's no room for argument, interpretation or nuance. It's not his opinion, they're not observations, they are truths. That sets the tone for a strongly opinionated point of view, that ultimately failed to provide suficient proof for most of its examples, making it a rant.

And rants are fine, but trying to present it as the profound observations of a veteran with 20 something years of wisdom that shits on everyone's favourites without many arguments ("The Last of Us [...] having a story as good as a medium-quality zombie movie" is not an argument) comes of as toxic.
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> And if we had a new spec for irc, would we need Slack/Discord/MS Teams/etc? They could then all talk to each other. We shouldn't be trying to reinvent the wheel, we should be using these older services in our platforms.

The reason we have all those separate systems is not that there are no alternatives: irc could have evolved with a new spec, but there is also XMPP (Jabber)... The reason is that all those systems like Slack/Discord/MS Teams do not interoperate with each other is that they are developed by companies that need to make money, and they want to force and keep users on their systems.

I think email is the only communication protocol that is still very popular and works across providers. I don't think it will disappear anytime soon. At this point, email providers cannot lock their users into their own system: no one can imagine that you'd be only able to email other gmail accounts from a gmail account or other microsoft accounts from a microsoft account.
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I disagree. Alphabet has no clear connection to their current or future business plans. They don't even own alphabet.com. Meta on the other hand is the best possible metaverse name and was announced alongside a $10/billion year VR budget. It was a smart rebrand as Instagram and WhatsApp have just as many users as FB and Oculus (now Meta) may soon too.
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No and no. "driver changes for Vulkan 1.1 conformance have already been merged in the upstream v3dv Mesa driver"
It's interesting to see the learning/development styropyro documented with in videos. If you like this one, his other videos might be interesting too
In this case, it'll end with the current generation of children, because toys like the one we're discussing here have nothing in them to create lasting memories. They cut the things that made the toy special out in the redesign.
At least for Firefox, you can look at the browser error console (Ctrl+Shift+J) to always see error messages, even if the script failed to inject.
There you go again, responding with insults rather then arguments. A debating in a forum that is about debating articles about technology shocking.
> As most observers know by now, Confucius Institutes present themselves as cultural organizations in the British Council mold, but their task is to advance Beijing’s political interests on Western campuses and beyond.

I think that's what the British Council does too?

quick quote from wikipedia:

> The role of British Council in Burma in 1947 came under scrutiny with release of classified documents to a BBC investigation by journalist Feargal Keane into the role of dissident British colonial officials in the assassination of the then Burmese independence leader Aung San (father of Aung San Suu Kyi).[83] The BBC programme quoted from a 1948 document sent by the Chief of Police in Rangoon to the British Ambassador stating their belief that there had been British involvement in the assassination of Aung San and his Cabinet for which one of his political opponents was hanged and that "the go-between" had been a British Council official named in the programme.
Just an anecdote, but I remember my aunt and uncle farm. No economies of scale at all. My uncle would leave to work, and I remember my aunt's day. Prepare breakfast for kids. Let chickens out. Go to shop (on foot, they had no car) bring necessities. Go tend the vegetables garden. Cook dinner. Take care for elderly mom. Uncle back from work, it's 3pm, she was already busy for 9 hours. I think at this point she allowed herself to watch TV.

I know it's from 1990s, but it feels weird to claim that 15th century work was less, when you would not be able to buy a shovel in a store...
While you can burn the fuel until very few long-lived isotopes are left we don't do that currently. Nuclear reactors also turn relatively harmless Uranium into much more active elements. Just mixing the waste back into the rocks you got the Uranium from is not a safe storage method.
There was a story to Kingdom Come: Deliverance that went beyond "my parents were killed by baddies, and luckily I was recognised as a badass because of the plot, now I'm going to become more of a badass, and kill all the Cumans?"
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Java, Silverlight, Flash, Web Assembly.

But the problem is that HTTP is more suited to deliver HTML and browsers were designed primarily to render HTML.
Finally, someone who actually understands the user requirements and expectations for the internet.
I like the John Carmack quote:

"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."
Drugs should be decriminalized and later legalized with varying degrees of regulation.

It's happening with Cannabis now, but there is still a long way to go with drugs such as Heroin and Cocaine.
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> We are not even remotely close to living in a "We have too much power" world

Not a "world", but this happens locally in Europe due to wind/solar momentarily producing more than demand. There have been instances with negative prices.

Anecdotally, one mitigation seems to be adjusting the local base voltage to 220V so that peaks due to solar stay below 240V (or something like that).

Nuclear can, at least theoretically, be throttled hour-by-hour over the day to compensate wind, although hydro is probably more cost-effective if available.
That’s just false. Here is an article (in French sorry) showing with real data from the grid how nuclear baseline adapt in real time to renewable production change: https://lenergeek.com/2019/03/07/mix-electrique-nucleaire-tr...
Ask HN: How criticising Facebook became so popular?
Today it seems even main-stream news organizations blame facebook for everything, call the founder "Zuck", etc. But why single out facebook? Why not twitter, reddit, tiktok?
He did say South Australia, which is investing heavily into renewables and battery storage. The thing is that Australia has a huge coal lobby (being one of the biggest producers in the world) and the current conservative government is essentially in bed with them. Incidentally Australia is also one of the biggest producers of Uranium.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29045658
Intuitively, I can see how this helps accurate playing and deep learning of a piece. I imagine it builds better skills in the long term.

However, it seems like it would be a motivation killer. I'd have thought there was more emotional value in getting through the whole piece, to hear each part in context, to "follow the story".

Can you talk about this method's interaction with your motivation? Would it suit an absolute beginner?

(I'm commenting from my imagination rather than experience. I almost always rely on a sequencer to play for me ;-) )
Yes he is successful enough to definitely have right to voice opinion on industry state or criticise it. We are talking about notoriously difficult market to succeed in.It would be absurd to expect him to be only one who ever earned profit in order to comment on quality of stories - both his own and other peoples.

And frankly, playing a game once is enough to give you right to criticism that game story. Playing a couple of popular games gives you right to comment on popular games stories.

"I am not too good and I am still succeeding because bar in this aspect is low" is incredibly fair thing to say. It might be too self depreciating for some people's taste, but we should not require everyone to brag and exaggerate own skills each time they want to comment on something.
> The US killed the Rosenbergs for espionage.

Yes, but it was also a response to the massive number of other spies in both the US and Britain. I can think of a dozen, and I'm sure there's a lot more.

Britain had files spanning years for some, yet did nothing, even allowing them to escape to Russia. (In some cases it was restrictions on their intelligence services, like no power of arrest, but also the embarrassment factor was sometimes too much.)

It destroyed the trust between the US and the UK.
You can hook up a desktop graphics card to Raspberry Pi 4 compute board. It's got 2 lanes of PCIe gen 2.
Its very unlikely you can get drivers working with it though.
BTW the first "Metaverse" is getting a "reboot":

https://github.com/frandallfarmer/neohabitat
I have seen same from my relatives who went/born in the us. They think the rest of the family is beneath them. I guess its a human thing and not Asian issue.
> It makes sense for it to use the well known approach as Plan-A when the options don’t exist.

Not when Plan A has well known well document problems.

> New developments based on new components, however Saturn V-like, are a risk.

Restarting production for RS-25 has risk. Using solids boosters for human space flight has risk.

The idea that magically the picked design has no are significantly less risk is questionable.

In terms of risk to human on the rockets the other designs out-performed the current design and they were cheaper.

> The only novel idea of Ares was putting people on top of an SRB, which was cheap,

I recommend you go back and check out how much Ares 1 cost. It was literally the opposite of cheap. It was a gigantic money pit for a non-commercially competitive rocket that was incredibly risky for human.

> but abandoned when they realised the vibrations would kill the crew.

Maybe the single worst rocket design ever. Despite the issues there were others metnioned.

However the whole Constellation program got canceled because it was horrifyingly badly executed and a bad plan in the first place.

> Back then, SpaceX was science fiction.

By the time SLS was designed they were not. And just because SpaceX doesn't exist, doesn't mean you couldn't do much better then Ares or SLS.
The appropriate constraint is well known and exists in several languages. The magic format strings mustn't be variables. In Swift there's a type StaticString which matches literals like "This is some text" but is not used for any interpolated strings, or other arbitrary variable values.

Of course just because the constraint is known doesn't mean (as you illustrate) that everybody knows about it or makes use of it in their own programming.
Which part of the statement that fossil fuels have been subsidized directly and by not paying for their externalities is wrong?
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> Targeted companies and institutions were restricted from doing business with China.

Academics can simply shrug this off, but for many businesses, this could mean bankruptcy. And China doesn't even have to use this much, as just the possibility will ensure chilling effects restrict what businesses are willing to say.. or allow to be said on their platforms. Imagine a conglomerate, that owns TV stations, and has suppliers in China for their consumer products. Will they risk their consumer division, for the sake of airing an unfavorable news report?
BoringSSL is not versioned and breaks stuff all the time since it's for Google's internal usage, so it's not really distro-suitable.
Btw, do you have a reflex to model music as an abstract mathematical/geometric structure since you have a physics background ?

I'm not even a physicist but I cannot help but to see non linear interpolated curves and surfaces when I hear music. (curvature being somehow related to dissonance).
The DEC single-precision format was close to the IEEE format, the main difference being that it did not have a useful behavior if the exceptions were masked, so they had to be handled correctly.

On the other hand, the double-precision format, in order to reduce the cost in the hardware FPU, had the same exponent range as single-precision, not like the IEEE formats, which have greater exponent ranges in the longer formats.

The exponent range typical for single-precision FP formats is really too small for solving many problems of physical modelling and simulation.

With the DEC FP format, I ran into overflows very frequently, so I had to add various scale factors in many equations.

On IBM PCs, such overflows never appeared, so there was no need to waste time with determining adequate scale factors. The precise reason why floating-point numbers were introduced was to no longer waste time with the scale factors, as it is needed for computations with fixed-point numbers.
No, now you have many private groups with slightly different interest temporarly unified. Once you create one gigantic mega contractor, that group has a much more specific and target interested in lobbying for that one specific program.
It is very easy to look up the history of coal use and see that it had metallurgical applications in antiquity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#History
While I agree on your general point about "diversity" in games I'm pretty sure HZD was before that topic became an issue.
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The reason nuclear is unpopular is that it is expensive. It's more expensive than coal and gas typically. It's also very slow to deploy. A decade is nothing. We'll hit 2035 when several countries are planning to be 100% renewable powered in about 13 years. That's not a lot of time to build a meaningful amount of nuclear plants. Nuclear plants coming online recently are not great examples of speedily execution on a tight budget either. Despite this, there are still a quite a few under construction (around 50 world wide). It's their financial performance relative to renewables that determines if we end up with more of them.

The word baseload always comes up in these discussions but its meaning never really gets specified in a very satisfying way. For example in GW needed for how long (i.e. GWH). Having such a number would facilitate a discussion about alternate ways how we would get that power more cheaply. That's not a debate nuclear proponents like having because it focuses attention on poor financial performance of nuclear relative to just about anything else.

The simple reality driving a lot of the decision making is that you simply get more GWH per $ with solar and wind. And not just a little bit; the difference is massive. And you get it much quicker too. And it's far less risky from a political point of view.

So instead of getting say 8GW with a very big nuclear plant costing maybe 30-40 billion and taking two decades to get built and planned with lots of uncertainty around the process, you can have 30-40 GW online two years from now for about the same amount of money. That's based on a price of 5000$/kw for recent offshore wind installations. A couple of hundred GW of wind came online over the last few years. The investments in renewables are massive and for good reasons: it delivers results quickly and prices are trending down.

Offshore wind is actually relatively expensive compared to solar and onshore wind. But also relatively reliable. People put solar on their roofs for less (2-3k/kw) and solar plants are even cheaper but of course less stable sources of power. Add batteries to the mix and other forms of storage (ammonia, hydrogen, thermal mass, pumped hydro, etc.) and there is no lack of a "baseload" that can't be planned for and mitigated. It will have a price and a certain capacity and that's what needs to be debated in Glasgow. It's a conference about allocating massive amounts of money in the next decades. The stakes are high both in financial terms and in the outcomes.

Nuclear might be part of this if the price is right. But the whole nuclear or nothing attitude is just not a very productive argument. Many countries that have the option are still doing some nuclear of course. But far less than what they are allocating for wind and solar (in dollars and planned GWH capacity).
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Not for me. This:

// ==UserScript==

// @name HN test

// @version 1

// @grant none

// @include https://news.ycombinator.com/\\*

// ==/UserScript==

alert("hello"

shows nothing in a userscript, but:

Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list test.htm:23

in a local page
If I wanted to send email from mike@warot.com, I'd simply use my DNS specified MX server, and it would sign the outbound email (I'd have to log in, for the email to be forwarded). Any forwarding server could check the signature against the MX specified server and get the public key for the domain. If the signature didn't match, the email would get rejected.

We'd have to agree on standard protocols, but all domains would manage their own keys, nothing would be centralized past the already centralized DNS system.
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> we've had her in some form of music and rhythm class since she was 9 months old

That's really cool, could you elaborate?
I see people using iMessage in a country where iPhone has a whopping 7% market share. And yes,
I'm one of those weirdos who thinks 28 Weeks Later was artistic genius, and that's a hill I'm willing to die on - all those people dying to save an asymptomatic carrier because he's a kid?

Entirely plausible and tragic.
It expands the mind!

Note that Ithkuil III does kind of have the unpronounceable quality - I've heard it described as sounding like a "hacking cough".

But the actual structure of the language is fascinating, and brings a lot of stuff about English into focus. English loves making new words, and the resulting combinatorial explosion makes various concepts unrepresentable. Ithkuil has very few words, but allows you to attach enormous amounts of grammar to them to adjust their meaning coarsely or finely.

For an example of something I simply hadn't considered before, and which Ithkuil expanded my mind to encompass: it even has a grammatical way to indicate a statement that is true because it has just been stated. Search term: the "declarative" illocution. Just as you can adjust a statement using grammar to turn it into a question - i.e. a statement with neutral truth value pending a reply - you can turn it into a "declaration" (no real English equivalent exists) - i.e. a statement with a positive truth value pending the listeners' acceptance. Example: "this court is now in session".
Yes. It's like saying stories in opera are worse than in novels because dialogues in opera aren't realistic and the story is too short :)

You have to play to the strengths of the medium. The less defined the story is the more freedom players have. It's a design tradeoff that makes stories in games different, and they should be judged based on these different media constraints.
I don't know what is not clear about what I said. The person wasn't there, for a rocket launch that clearly implies the facilities where the rocket is launch from.

Not sure how one could interpret that any other way.

And you continue to not provide that evidence for that SpaceX treatment was particularly unusually and gives them a massive advantage (not to mention that by that point SpaceX existed for almost 20 year).
Re the point regarding writing regularly, I built an app to develop my daily writing habit. I’ve been writing every day for almost 2 years, averaging around 800 words per day. I’m pretty happy with it:)

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Which are your low and high ELO baselines? 100 points usually means two times better and 600 points would be 64x times which is a huge difference, unless the ELO is very low, in an area where there a very few players therefore a very low accuracy.
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I'm a collaborative pianist by profession. The discussion of fingering here is interesting. Much can be said about fingering but first and foremost it has to serve the musical intent and I would be surprised if any algorithm could surface those intents because (thankfully) they come from a place that is highly personal and emotive, e.g. the 1st finger (thumb) doesn't belong here because it's too heavy and falls on the end of a delicate appoggiatura.

That said, many fingering choices are practical and dictated by the geography of the keyboard and the oddities of our hand anatomy. Armed with a knowledge of the fingering of all of the major and minor scales, the patterns and paradigms encountered in actual compositions become clearer. I recommend MacFarren's scale book but there are others. Beyond pattern recognition and an attempt to understand the musical intent, there's just trial and error. When approaching a new work, I'll spend quite a bit of time trying options in ambiguous passages. It's time well-spent. Pro-tip: don't write in every single finger number. It creates too much visual distraction on the page. Write in only when there's an inflection point. If you have a descending passage in the RH that is 5-4-3-2-1-3-2-1, let's say, just write the 5...1-3 or possibly just 5...3. String players are the absolute best at this concept, only annotating finger numbers when there's a shift of position or an odd extension.
HZD was released in 2017. I think we were already seeing "diversity" in most media then.
Most people don't care about ipv4 problems, it works. Does ipv6 solves ipv4 problems such as impossibility to extend it in backwards compatible way? Say, I want 256 bit address space... can IPv6 be extended in that way?
The biggest world has 6 users in it. It doesn't seem popular to me compared to something like VRChat.