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In your video you show the force in red being applied somewhere up top. What is this force? What applies it?

Your force sideways is actually from the ground, on the tyres. This acts on the CoG (or better to call it Center of Mass), so if this CoM is above the tyres you get a torque, because the mass doesn't instantly accelerate, but resists the force. This torque then needs to be countered by having more force on the tires on one side than on the other, which when you take into account things like suspension, causes body roll, or in the extreme case the car lifting wheels on one side completely off the ground.

If you put the center of mass below the car then think what happens not during turning, but during braking. The center of mass will swing forward underneath like a pendulum (think of what happens to something hanging from the rearview mirror during braking) and if you took it really far down you could even get the car to do a wheelie while braking, which is of course ridiculous.

If you want the car to be completely flat during turns, acceleration and braking then you need to put the center of mass at the ground level. This way when you turn and the ground puts a horizontal force on the car at the contact points with the road (ie. the tyres), it goes through the center of mass and there is no torque generated. No torque = no body roll.
> Let’s take off our cynic hat and put on our optimism hat with some kiddish imagination mixed in.

> We watch movies right now on a screen, in front of us. Surround sound takes us a step closer to feeling like we’re in the movie. Some theaters have gusts of air or water droplets during certain parts of the movie to increase immersion. Now, imagine watching a movie around you, instead of in front of you. It’s the same reason the Harry Potter rides at Universal Studios are so popular. The feeling of a Quidditch ball racing at your face while you barely dodge it is just thrilling. Now imagine you’re able to experience this with your mom, who lives across the world, and you guys are able to share awesome experiences like these together. FaceTime has taken a huge step forward in connecting people and the next logical step is something like VR. (Teleportation is the end-goal, I guess)

This can be built right now, no need to invoke the metaverse as a requirement.

I do think the deep interoperability side of the whole metaverse schtick needs some more thought though. Like why doesn't it exist for the web today despite attempts like Gravatar? Or why doesn't it exist for games? Interoperability isn't just hard because we need common standards but because it doesn't fit the aesthetic and/or money making ambitions of the companies who would support it.

Then on standards it just ends up laughably naive, we will build common standards together but Meta should do it? Has anyone looked at the web standards lately!?

A non-corporately owned Metaverse won't happen for the same reason we couldn't build the Internet again today. All the power is concentrated into a few companies and they're not going to share it out of the kindness of their hearts.
most people I ran at work into were not specially educated, nor empowered, they coast along trying to fit in their work waiting for a bit more money to spend on not super important stuff.

A tiny example about power, woman in charge of my office bowed down in excuses after a lawyer insulted her for his own mistake. This is the sort of power people still don't have and that no book will teach you.

now, to be fair, my experience is only that, if so I wish I could live in yours :)
Was there nobody else who made power efficient chips?
It's not that I'm nostalgic for analog, I just don't like the new version because it's basically a fraud. Presenting itself as analog when really it's just a skeuomorphic presentation of a cheap digital music player.
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No, it is not the same. There is no 'there' there when it comes to the so-called metaverse. VR is constantly in a state of iterative failure: it solves problems no one has and does so rather poorly. The only thing that is different now is that there will be a big company throwing its money into the metaverse bonfire of value, but if there is one company I want to see pissing away time and money chasing a delusion it is Facebook.

Back in the pre-dot-com era I worked at a company that provided Neal with a lot of his background info on how a metaverse might work and many of the plans and guides this company developed remain relevant and interesting. We are still a decade or more away from hitting any of them on the technical side and the open social questions that we were able to wave our hands over at the time are now much more important to the conversation. Unfortunately these discussions would raise uncomfortable questions for both Facebook and most of the proponents of this new metaverse.
You seem to be in agreement with me then. Higher nominal rates will also lead to lower inflation, thus pushing real rates even higher. So a hike acts on both the inflation side and nominal rate side to push real rates higher.

But speaking to the immediate circumstances, the fed primarily influences the short end of the rate curve. (Once QE is ended)

If the fed were to surprise hike interest rates this week, you can bet yields on the long end of the curve would come down.

Because the market would anticipate a hike in short term rates leading to end of inflation fears, and potentially triggering a deflationary event due to the surprise nature of it.

E.g. recall the times when the yield curve becomes inverted.

You can see over the past two weeks the yield curve has started inching towards an inversion. Actually the 20yr and 30yr inverted for the first time ever last week.

It's only speculation to say what this means, but to me seems a pretty obvious signal that the market expects the Fed to have to tighten faster than they're saying to curb inflation.

E.g. look at how quickly the 2yr has risen, while the 10yr has been in decline

Of course this inversion move is almost entirely due to how slow the Fed has moved. If they had moved faster, there would be less concern with a tightening. Now they may be late to the game if inflation pressures don't begin to ease soon.

We may actually be at full employment already, due to lifestyle changes leading to permanently lower labor force participation rate. In which case the Fed is years behind the curve on tightening. We'll know after a few more employment reports.
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How soon, or just if, fully autonomous cars will become a reality is another issue and discussion. IMHO, they will become a reality at some point. and that will have a profound impact.
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The process is roughly:

Put comforter in tub

Fill tub with cold water

Add laundry detergent about halfway through

Swirl it around with your hands (make sure you wear gloves, laundry detergent usually has bleach in it) and make sure at some point every part of the blanket goes under water. My tub is larger than most tubs (lip to lip is just under 6' long instead of 5' long) and it still can't completely fit in at once.

Drain tub

Repeat previous steps with cold water again but no soap this time to rinse it out

Let it dry out for a couple days

Enjoy clean comforter
I’ve made 3 apps with Ionic and Capacitor (2 released, one large that I abandoned).

While it’s great the enormous draw back is reliance on crappy community plugins and using old Cordova stuff to access native features.

They have nice premium stuff behind the enterprise paywall but they don’t offer prices and make it pretty clear that they’re not interested in speaking to a small indie dev.

I eventually abandoned my “big” project on Ionic due to this issue. This was about a year ago.

I looked at React Native and that seems to at least have more options but I’m not sure if it will be better.
I won’t defend that remote but the good news is that Apple TV doesn’t ship with it any more. It’s back to a much more normal one.
Can you please show me this wonderful magical standard of PWA that Apple doesn't support.

Or maybe you mean Apple doesn't support some standard that you randomly decided is a must for PWA?
> Wasn't this known from day 1? COVID-19 vaccines were never going to give us sterilizing immunity.

Absolutely not. It's trivial to go back to earlier this year and find public health officials promising that the vaccines would stop transmission and infection. They may have even been somewhat right until Delta took over (perhaps precisely because it had an evolutionary advantage against mass vaccination?).
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I'm incredibly surprised they don't. We do, precisely for that reason. Any cloud needs SHTF contingencies, you can't get cocky.
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>how exactly does the M1 chip affect the final UX?

Everything runs faster, cooler, quieter and battery lasts longer. Is that not part of the product UX?
I know nothing about farming but there's a global manufacturing shortage right now that is making new parts and new machines scarce, which puts a lot of pressure on the used parts market. I'm guessing there's not much special here and that it's just participating in the global trend.
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Even if 90% of military tech is fake (and I think "fake" more usually means "we think it works, but turns out it doesn't"), the other 10% can completely tip the scales in a war, to disastrous effect (to the loser). History has a lot of examples of technology which seemed preposterous until it completely turned the tides of battles or wars (radar, tanks, mustard gas, atomic bombs...)

Drone warfare is pretty clearly in this camp. Not a lot of people followed the Armenia / Azerbaijan war last year, but Armenia was fighting a war from 10 years ago (trench + urban warfare), and they got slaughtered by armed drones. It was a wipeout.

Nobody wants to be the Armenians in the next war... and often that means wasting a lot of money figuring out what the next breakthrough is.
That's interesting considering Germany had (more or less) one of the first queer centers in roughly the form we think of them now. I wonder what could have led to that and a diversifying concept of gender being wiped out of the language and culture...

I kid. Of course it was the purges leading up to WW2. I think they would have eventually developed as robust a concept of gender as we have today. It wasn't that long ago that we only had a concept in English of two binary sexes with gender being bound to secondary sexual characteristics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissen...
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O(n²) is only dangerous if you’re scaling past the point where the n² behaviour outweighs any constant factors and lower order terms. When n is small, a fancy algorithm with lower big-O complexity could still be outperformed by a brute force O(n²) one in practical situations.

On the other hand, a poor choice for a critical algorithm working with a large data set could easily increase your costs by orders of magnitude, so if anything I’d say the example I gave (assuming you meant the AWS costs one) was conservative.

I agree that we shouldn’t be careless about being wasteful, but big-O complexity rarely tells the whole story when it comes to performance.
So they just sat around and were poor all day? All the rich culture being brought through the generations, it meant nothing?

I grew up on a farm. It was run pretty much by manual labour up until even the 30's and beyond. Even while tractors and various forms of farm automation became pretty commonplace by the 50's and 60's, they still used age old techniques for preserving hay by drying it on metal threads well into the 80's and sometimes even until the 90's.

My grandfather still used the scythe on his fields as long as he was healthy enough to work in 80's. He much preferred the ways of old, and never even bothered installing hot water, much less a water toilet or a shower, in his house. Yet they had time for a lot more holidays back then than we do today.

Sure, there was lighter kinds of work you could do while socializing, such as knitting or even baking bread. But then a large amount of people actually thoroughly enjoy doing those things, including woodworking or even hunting or fishing. Is it leisure or work? Well, it's hard to say when you're also dependent on it for survival.

These days the fantastic progress of "social media" is making sure I have to answer messages from my boss even on weekends. I don't really think of that as "progress"...
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I still get a _little_ annoyed at myself for not keeping at least some of the ~60BTC I mined in April-June 2011 (early enough that I have Mt. Gox support emails answered by Mark Karpeles). I basically come to the conclusion that it was going to be a flash in the pan, so offloaded them as soon as they were mined.

That said, I would definitely have sold them long before their current price, so I don't see it as a great loss.
The role of drones in a big conflict is a tactical warfare again regaining critical importance.

Mid-sized drones are an unkillable airforce, following the front-line, with very small logistic footprint.

This way, nuclear countries cannot simply nuke your few airfields, and deprive your force in the field of air cover, and then bomb you with impunity with cheap bombs.

It very much means, a big conventional army can now get a decent chance to reach your capital in case of continental conflict even if you nuke all their airfields, and supply caches.

In fact, a lighter force can now have much bigger chances to win than a heavier one, burdened by expensive toys, with huge demand on supplies, which will run out of fuel in a day if the supply chain is interrupted. A tank without fuel is just a bunker with 50 cal. on top.
Its a walled garden when you're not allowed to leave or bring your friends in, no matter how nice the stuff on the inside is.
It's a tradeoff the user can make, not something the STL needs to generically know like std::string does. If you look at inlined_vector (or similar implementations), the static size is specified in a type parameter, not something automatic. So just have it be 0 if you want it to behave like std::vector does currently. As such, no downsides to adding this to the type other than the ABI breakage. Default the size to 0 and you preserve API compatibility, even.
Exactly spinning was a fulltime job. https://acoup.blog/2021/03/19/collections-clothing-how-did-t...
These suggestions are pretty useful, and most would apply in other teaching domains as well. Thanks for sharing.
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> Workers have way wayyy more power than people think

Explain? Individual workers are quite weak. A lack of large scale workplaces in the service sector make organization hard. Overall weak demand and lack of competition makes "capital strikes" in response to worker unrest especially easy to pull off.

We are seeing more strikes now precisely to do stimulus checks making 2020 a better year on average for bottom quintile workers, and increased demand further making labor markets somewhat tight for the first time in 20 years.
The top federal tax rate on long-term capital gains is 23.8%. I'm not sure where your 15% comes from.

Calculation of capital gains does not account for inflation. Taxing a nominal increase in value over multiple years at the same level as income makes no sense.

I resent the implication that I am indoctrinated in some parochial ideology. Especially considering I'm not even American.
It's part of WebKit itself, so shared by Safari, yes... Igalia is the #2 contributor to WebKit behind Apple with ~16% of all commits (we maintain a few official ports, including the one used for embedded devices, WPE WebKit). Sony are also significant contributors to WebKit. So, it's not an academic exercise, no. Apple WebKit engineers have been quite supportive..
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> I regret that this is generally false. Once you have async, you have race conditions and reentrancy issues

Can you get more specific please?

My experience is 100% from Ruby where I've worked heavily with threads in the past, and with Async Ruby for the past 18 months.

From what I can tell, threads require a great deal of locks (mutexes) and are frustratingly hard to get right - because of the language-level race conditions.

Async Ruby has been refreshingly easy to write. I have yet to encounter an example of a race condition.

If it helps to bridge the language gap here: from what I know Async Ruby is similar to Go's goroutine model.
No doubt that still happens but I don’t know how common that is? There is a lot of race-baiting going on in the press which may give a skewed perspective of reality. For example, research shows that white police officers aren’t more likely to shoot a black suspect than police officers from another race. [1] But that’s not what the media tells us. The constant focus on race also makes people paranoid. “Was that guy just a dick or was he racist?”

But that is not the point. A black man that went to Harvard and is now working for Goldman Sachs has more in common with a white Goldman Sachs employee than with a black factory worker. They read the same kind of books and newspapers, drive the same kind of car, live in the same kind of neighborhood, …

[1]https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15877
I wonder if we'll see any impacts from this on the Pi 4 applications that are presently borderline when it comes to performance, like N64 emulation.
Yeah, not a whale, but an early miner.

And if he mined a block, chances are he mined others (this was doable on a laptop back then), but impossible to know because coinbase coins (minted with the block) aren't linked to anything.

They're as clean as a BTC can be.
I also wish to thank everyone here for the kind words. (Justine here btw.) Also Nils, awesome book! Glad I had the opportunity to cite it in the blog post.
Very true. Working in tech industry is an incredible privilege that I cherish and am amazed at. It's also why it pains me to see the K12 education system in the US has failed so many students who could have learned enough and been inspired enough to get into STEM fields.
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Hi dang, I have a question about this. A while back I posted "Code Checking Automation [video]", but I couldn't help but feel the original title was quite vague. The video itself is about QuickCheck and more specifically, property-based testing.

Would it have been kosher to add, maybe, "(QuickCheck)" or "(property-based testing)" to the end of the title to disambiguate, or did the original video authors screw themselves over with their vague original title?
> paying property tax

Exactly, this is point I was trying to make. Policy can have an effect on the market. It is more than just supply and demand like noduerme was suggesting. An example is London. There is a large number of empty housing owned by non-residents because they can avoid a lot of taxes and its a good place to park money. If there wasn't preferential treatment for non-UK residents then the housing market there would look a bit different.

Also buying up housing assets could be a long term strategy that would benefit the owners in ways short term would not (change of policy 10 years later, increased population because of migration laws, etc.)
I have 2 desks and 1 standing desk. All of them are equipped with a docking station + equipment.

When I want to move, i just unplug 1 cable from my laptop and plug one back in at the wanted destination.
Your statements in this thread have assumed we have no info to work with (as far as estimating p goes) because we have no understanding of the mechanisms behind how life came to be. But this ignores the evidence that we are here, which is info that can be used in a Bayesian framework to estimate p. The fact we exist, as well as information about how many billions of years it took for us to evolve, contains significant information about p.
I recently changed over to management after being a principal engineer. I miss my regular dopamine hits. Now feedback can take weeks, months, or longer. It is a change for sure.
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Or just catastrophically malfunction. What % of ICBMs launched from silos in the Midwest will fail and land inside the US? What % of those actually trigger?
> That and other elements of rational choice theory are not unfalsifiable

Can you give an example what could you do to prove me that you do not maximize your utility? I mean, regardless how stupid thing you come up, I can always say "but that's what you chose to do, so that obviously was your preferred course of action and obviously you were then maximizing your utility"

I really hope there is discussion whether rational choice is useful, but the problem is that that discussion does not (yet) descend to the level of MBA economics and below. And that is unfortunately the level where politics are made.
I think my spouse spends that much time navigating online shopping and searching for deals for clothes
Wasn't there friction when using nvidia's proprietary drivers, as Nvidia's video acceleration depends on VDPAU compared to Intel/AMD using VA-API?

The only reason I haven't made the full change for Linux yet is because I watch a lot of Twitch.tv and the CPU usage hits 45-50% on average even at 720p.
> Before they start selling chips I would rather they open iMessage to other platforms to eliminate the bubble color discrimination.

Outside of the countries where iOS is on par with Android (I think US, Canada and UK are the only ones, maybe also Australia) in terms of popularity, I don't know or have seen a single person using iMessage, of course there's a lot people using iphone outside of the mentioned countries, but absolutely nobody uses iMessage.

The whole discrimination of the color bubble seems to only happen in those countries were iOS is the same or more popular than android and people is actually using iMessage.
And intelligence, skilled labor, organizational capacity, and especially wisdom.
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