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> it could handle more than a couple of centuries of exponential growth of energy consumption.

That rather depends on the exponent and the time period. The minimum for “a couple of centuries” is 200 years: 1%/year for 200 years? Sure; 1%/year for 1000 years or 5%/year for 200 years? 2-2.5 times global solar irradiance. I think that’s enough to raise the temperature to boiling, and I don’t think there’s enough nuclear fuel to do that (but I could be wrong about both).
Send a second bomb into the cloud shortly after, ignite and disperse it from within. Poof!
you do realize that the public school system in america had had pseudo-mandatory vaccines for a while now right?

In fact, the list of vaccines required has changed over time even!

Somehow we all managed to cope with that for the past 20 or so years….
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> why is PagerDuty of all companies promoting this?

To drive traffic and increase sales of PagerDuty. It reads like pretty standard content marketing to me.
After learning for years, I settled on Jack Bogle's reversion to the mean, and put 75% of the money in VOO, and 25% I do stock picking.

I check this stuff once a month (I'm not in the US, can't have admiral shares), and than forget about it.
I'm shocked there _still_ isn't a browser-within-a-browser that renders to a canvas element "product" available yet. I've been expecting it for years. A cross-platform browser environment that prevents user control (no ad blockers, complete control of the "UX", no copy / pasting, no printing to PDF, etc) would be a hot seller to a particular kind of web property. Your existing development pipeline works (since you're still rendering to an HTML5 "browser") but you don't have to worry about users exerting any control over the experience.

Throw some Widevine at it, some DNS-over-HTTPS-over-websockets with pinned certificates, and you've got a VM on most consumer-grade devices today that's completely outside user control. The users don't have to be tricked to install anything-- it'll run inside their existing browser on their PC, Mac, iOS device, Android device, ChromeOS device, etc. It's not "trusted computing" but it's close enough.

This sounds completely awful, BTW, but I totally see it happening. Accessibility (and other minimum-viable-product features) are out there in permissively-licensed open source software just waiting to be integrated. It's only a matter of time. Nobody should make this, but somebody will succumb to the easy money and do it.
Yes, they can - vertically.
> Storage for 3 months

The parent comment said overprovisioning and storage. With enough overprovisioning, you'd need storage for half a day at most (keep in mind that the parent thread was talking about pure solar with storage, not wind). The question on this sub-thread is: what would be the optimal (minimum cost) balance between overprovisioned solar and storage, and what would be the cost of that solution (the question was about 1GW, but it probably scales almost linearly), with similar reliability to pure nuclear (I'm assuming this pure nuclear scenario is overprovisioned too, since it has to deal with refueling pauses and the occasional electrical faults)?

(Of course, except for very small isolated networks, a real-life solution would not use only pure solar and storage; adding other things like wind to the mix would probably decrease the cost while keeping the same reliability.)
Here's the moment, unclear if you have full control but I don't think it locked you in to watching..? https://youtu.be/nHXtv11ZAH4?t=184

yes here's a clip of someone saving the scientist: https://youtu.be/e_l84_7jDoU?t=163
We can perhaps now just shorten it to "the man". I think at one point it was generally used to refer to exciting tech companies where people got paid really well and had an almost unreasonable standard of employment (meals provided for them etc).

For the most part those companies have grown up and stuff like free coffee and fruit has become the standard across most offices.
Stop with the conspiracy theories. There are no "anti-nuclear folks" in this thread. It's a bunch of people looking at a balance sheet and trying to decide on how to prioritize energy spending. And nuclear doesn't fit. Maybe it will. But it doesn't. It's not there. If you have $100M to spend on non-carbon electricity right now you build a wind farm, not a reactor.

That's the problem you have to fix. Make something people want, basically.
That wasn't the point being made. The person I was responding to explicitly said that sniffing dogs are secretly trained to respond to handler gestures. They're claiming that drug sniffing dogs are a charade, basically, and I used a shining example of their lack of knowledge on this topic to demonstrate a valid dismissal of their point.

Are dogs used to get warrants fraudulently? The answer is absolutely. It happens all the time. But the idea that sniffing dogs are fake is ridiculous, they are carefully trained so as to not respond to handler wishes (dog trainers are aware of this trait also BTW), deliberately signalled or otherwise, even though sometimes they might do so. And making the simple claim that they bark is enough for me to know that someone making authoritative statements on the topic hasn't a clue what they're talking about.
That sounds like an interesting book. I’ve never really played an MMO and never understood the appeal. I’d log in and not quite know what to do. I’ve just had the same experience with New World. Do you have some of your writing online somewhere?
I have to agree. It's more about changing habits, efficiency savings, and replacements.

Let's take a simple examples: meat. There's quite a saving to be had by everyone eating less meat, but that doesn't mean we eat less food in general... It's just replaced with something else less harmful to the environment.

Another example would be plastic, I've starting seeing more use of those bamboo trays for food containers. Plastic knives and forks are being replaced with wooden ones. Etc
I don't even know where to begin, so instead I am going to pose a question that will hopefully lead to you re-evaluating your views:

How do you reconcile the concept of land ownership, inheritance, and rent-seeking with your world view?
Listing large numbers and then saying "if only we could get this small percentage" doesn't make for a solid business plan, and it doesn't make a solid energy plan either. We're talking about insane amounts of land, for one thing, and ignoring distribution for another. Plus "80x more than we need" assumes a fixed level of need forever, humanity capped off, the book of progress written and closed.
Fingering is largely a planning problem. If your RH thumb is on C and the next note is D, it's obvious you play it with 2. But if the next note is the B below, you'd have to do something awkward to play it. So having your RH thumb on C is wrong and you need 2 on that to play the B with your thumb. Unless the next note is the A below. :-)

If you look ahead a bit at a line of music, you can sort of anticipate how many fingers you'll need in the direction you're going and that helps plan which ones to use. But as others have said, knowing how to play scales contributes a lot to your planning skills.
Yes, you can use simple methods like this in every facet of life to have perfect knowledge of all situations. It's truly a marvel that everyone doesn't know everything.

My favorite trick is if someone blinks twice in 10 seconds I know they ate something with garlic today.
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> They could ask permission first

No, they must.

> this sort of telemetry is a nothingburger

I strongly disagree, what runs on my computer is my business and if Wacom wants to know, they can ask, and I'll tell them 'no, sorry that is not something you need to know'.

It's called consent and it's not up to Wacom to decide that I will think it is a nothing burger.

> in my opinion, as unpopular as that might be on this forum.

That's the whole point of consent: some people give it, others withhold it. You are just as entitled to your opinion as I am to mine and that is why they should ask, it's not that you get to decide for me that it's a nothing burger, just like I won't decide for you that it isn't.
I wonder if this would work for my hospital CT scans I've had in the last ~5 years. They all come on a CD, with a software program loaded onto it with the scans to view it in. It would be cool to be able to 3d visualize it all
> “People made fun of the Wright brothers,” he said. “People made fun of Thomas Edison. We have to be a little bit bolder”

Not sure an underground commuting tunnel is quite the same as the beginning of flight
And OP, this is an example. This is exactly the point.

Stopping at the phrase “meme stock” and being so arrogant that they are never going to get it.
Adding 1 to n existing objects (n => n + 1) increases the risk super-exponentially (n new collisions possible).
What point and click/text adventures do you play?
Last I checked, ytdl when used standalone has poor behavior with live: it will fetch the live stream, but if ytdl gets up to "current time", it considers the live stream complete instead of continuing to capture it in real-time.

This may or may not affect using mpv's ytdl integration (where mpv internally calls ytdl to obtain a stream).
Weight is beautifully simple, but the process of unloading 100lbs of pumpkin to be weighted & loading them back in your cart might be a significant driver of the queue latency.

Grocery stores pipeline the unloading & loading steps.
I though @1cvmask was arguing that chemical weapons weren't used in Syria. After reading the replies, it seems that they were arguing that the chemical weapons attack was carried out by someone other than Syria. I misunderstood "faked" to mean that no chemical weapons were used rather than that Assad was framed for using chemical weapons.
Pseudo is doing a lot of work in your reply, as there as always been a very easy exemptions, religious or otherwise. The recent movement has been too close those exemptions (see maine & the supreme court), and so now this resembles force more than procedural hoops.
The issue that concerns me about nuclear power isn't so much weapons (they tend to be well-guarded, and it's hard to make weapons from reactor fuel), but decomissioning.

The UK was one of the first countries to build nuclear reactors; no UK reactor has ever been fully decomissioned, and from what I can see we haven't even got a strategy - WP says they're still working out whether decomissioning should occur over a 20-year or a 100-year span. The UK's first nuclear reactor, Calder Hall, was built in the year of my birth, and decommissioning is estimated to take well into the next century; my grandchildren will have died of old age.

You can stand next to a thermonuclear bomb without a mickey-mouse suit; you can even open it up, take the components out, and render the weapon unusable, fairly easily. Nuclear reactors, not so much.

I have grandchildren under 5. Until we've proved that a reactor design can be fully decommissioned, I don't think we should build more. That's not a problem that I want to dump on their shoulders.
Basically, it means 'without blinking'.
> Yes that course was real. You can wake me up at 2 am and I can recite "Terra Terrae Terrae Terram Terra Terrae Terrarum Terris Terras Terris".

Interesting. My high school German classes involved repeating "an, auf, hinter, in, neben, über, unter, vor, zwischen" until everyone remembers it and that didn't really mean that there wouldn't have been conversation practice. Maybe it's the Latin language, I have heard similar stories from others too.

I guess it's possible to learn music theory without staff notation if you really try to do so, but to me it sounds just incredibly stubborn to not make the connection between the notes and the lines that dots are drawn on. The connection between the sounds and the letters is much more arbitrary than the connection to dots on lines and you don't seem to have problem with it. If anything, the note that's either H or B depending the culture is written the same way on staff everywhere. And if you're afraid of C major, you're not really getting away from accidentals by just using letters instead of staff notation.

Edit:

> Staff notation is not inherently logical and representative of patterns in 12 note equal temperament. It's just an archaic system we are stuck in though others have been proposed

Most music in European tradition is written in diatonic, not chromatic scales, and while equal temperament is common, it's not all there is. The staff notation with key signatures is just too handy for writing down diatonic music to ignore. Of course it's not a perfect fit for other tuning systems but from "let's play the riff in E minor pentatonic" I'd guess you're not thinking about going atonal or outside 12-tone system either.
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Good answer

It’s possible that Linux gaming is about to become huge

There’s an old (7 years?) Q&A interview with Linus Torvalds where someone asks him about "linux on the desktop". After ranting about the craziness of packaging apps for all the different distros he specifically says Valve could be the company that drives standardization for that.

Thought it was interesting that he forsaw valve getting so involved in Linux back then.

Excited to see the effect of SteamOS/SteamDeck on the Linux ecosystem in general
Well, similarly, you might not need that singleton instance if you just import it where needed. Maybe then it's enough to just pass the data from the singleton instance to all the things that need the data.

I think dependency injection is mostly a tool to allow multiple people to work on a single codebase. Rarely would you need it when you're doing stuff alone.
Ask HN: How is Netflix able to prevent screenshots on Chrome?
The other day I tried to screenshot a funny frame in a Netflix video to show to a friend and the image came out black. I tried both the `prtsc key` and the `Snipping Tool`. This got me wondering is JavaScript able to interfere with the built-in OS printscreen function ?

I was using Chrome on a Windows 10 machine, and in the end, strangely enough, I was able to take the screenshot on the Netflix Android app.
> I understand the booster is the same formula as the existing shots. Which means the boosters will do as well or worse than the original two shots.

The booster being the same formula does not, in any respect, mean that. There are quite a few vaccines that are given in multiple similar or identical doses and provide stronger and longer lasting protection after the later sides.

My guess (purely a guess) is that the actual problem with the Pfizer vaccine is that the sides are too close together. The Moderna doses are spaced farther apart and (preliminary, unreviewed) results suggest that it works just fine even six months after the second dose.

I would not be at all surprised if a booster dose of either mRNA vaccine after six months gives essentially lifelong protection. I also would not be surprised if it didn’t.
> How else would you establish political pressure in a democracy?

Non-violent civil disobedience?
Yeah I get that, for me there were enough interesting things to offset the cringy bits.

Just off the top of my head, I remember being intrigued by the robots-trying-to-be-human thing, and how consistent they were with the fact that you're an android. For example, removing your OS chip actually killed you, which is one of the 26 possible endings iirk. That and the dynamic combat and the smooth mix of different genres were enough to keep me going.
With JS, you can easily mock a whole module implementation so to use DI so that you can mock the injected entities during testing feels unnecessary.
expensive real estate is already working as a child tax. you want to raise kids - you need a bigger house, and with prices skyrocketing fewer and fewer parents are able to afford a child
> I’m becoming concerned about how much we are going to pollute space in the coming decade due to Starship

You should be a little more concerned about the pollution on Earth.
It’s possible, but doesn’t seem that way to me. That explicitly mention field damage and so forth but don’t mention unsold pumpkins.
What a confusing article. Zuckerberg is the name I associate with Facebook. Meta is the rebranded name for the company.

Meta.org is a thing that was supposed to "...give researchers, patient communities, science societies, and research organizations more ways to discover the research they need." Being involved in research I have never once heard of this thing.

What connection does this have to the rebranding of Facebook? It's the elephant in the room that this article lacks the common sense or courage to address.
I won’t say whether it’s better, that depends on a lot of things. But the point is inversion of control[1]. Some say DI promotes separation of concerns and modularity, or improves testability by making substitution easier.

To me the value depends a lot on circumstances like overall complexity, likelihood of change, availability of comparable test substitution mechanisms… and more than anything magic. I don’t mind direct DI—as in, passing dependencies to things. But I generally dislike magic DI where some framework passes dependencies based on some config or usage pattern. Those frameworks are often difficult to debug and more trouble than they’re worth.

1: https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html
Freedom means that you should get to choose. Car accidents kill and injure a lot of people every year. In some demographics (young people) it's actually one of the leading causes of death. Should we ban driving and force people to either walk or use public transport? It'll save a lot of lives from car accidents after all.
Let’s Put to Bed the Insulting Notion That Elon Musk Is a ‘Crony Capitalist’
Why are you in a position to make those judgements?
I interpreted that as no branches, only loops.
There's no starship 2 with 10 times the size of Starship in the plans.
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On that timescale I expect us to engineer antimatter-based energy storage. Or do something literally incomprehensible — a thousand years ago we didn’t have the language to describe the language to describe relativity.
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You mistakenly think that "ethnic discrimination" is distinct from racism when it's not. Racism:

"prejudice, discrimination ... against a person ... on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group."
It's not. But it makes you look smart, and helps you justify your salary to other engineers.

Management don't give a toss, as long as you deliver value (features and fixes) on time.
I have no idea. I generally assume markets with many participants that have existed for many years and with seemingly no regulations, are the way they are because various constraints of nature have tended towards that solution.

One would need to know what a typical amount of waste is and the cause of that waste to determine if there is too much waste and how to fix it. But I am guessing whatever waste there is now is a pretty optimal amount of waste unless there is some new development that reduces the volatility of producing pumpkins.

Farming in general is like that, since so many variables are outside of peoples’ control. You have to aim for extra even if you are not projecting to sell all of it, assuming the cost of making the extra is absorbable.
You’ve got some good recommendations here. To them, I’ll add: don’t procrastinate endlessly. Find a plan that seems reasonable and start now.

If you want to keep learning, feel free, but I’d set a date no later than Jan 31, 2022 to have made your first investment according to the plan.
Keep this in mind as you are learning:

- people trying to sell you stuff will say things like “if you believe X has the potential to become the next dominant investment trend…”, because they make money on selling you speculative advice that is essentially worthless

- when people say “the market”, they generally mean broadly diversified indexes like the S&P 500

- no one can beat the market over time with any continued success, and anyone claiming to be able to do that for you wouldn’t need your money to make gains for themselves

- whatever you invest in, pay super close attention to the fees, because the higher the fees, the lower your returns will be

- internalize the phrase “time in the market beats timing the market”, and learn what it really means

- If the only thing you ever did was invest in a total market index fund with low fees, you’ll probably be pretty happy with the results over time
yeah i agree with that, but i think Ableton prices are still bit ridiculous given they make a new version every year or so
That is not really a good argument as you can also easily mock imported singletons in node.
It is a bit dirtier but totally possible.

Dependency injection was developed for languages that could not easily do that (like Java). It is just a design pattern that isnt that useful in python or js. You can decide to follow it if you think it will make your code cleaner/more readable.
Stay away from active investing. I run a fintech investing app and the only investments I have are whatever my 401k is doing. I don't know and don't care about anything else the market is doing.

Why? It consumes you. When you're actively investing you become a slave to CNBC, futures charts, and 1 minute tickers. You'll start waking up at 4am to watch the premarket. You'll spend an inordinate amount of time chasing returns that, in all likelihood, will end up less than tracking the market, to the detriment of your family, health, and career.
Compostable but are they all composted? Where I live, yes; but in other areas they go inside a plastic bag to a landfill where the bag won’t break down for many many years.
I don't mean to be callous but I'm not sure I'm drawing a direct line here? How does my comment imply I want some interruption in your wife's insulin supply?
I really liked the storytelling in Hypnospace Outlaw, where you're just an onlooker to a pseudo-internet and can learn details from peoples' pages and mannerisms.
Some of those reading this may find it shocking or humorous - but in the real world people encounter discrimination and there are no boxes to check to flip one’s appearance, accent or name

I rationally detest reverse discrimination as much as anyone

But I see the situation colleges are in: they are last in line in an unjust system.

60 years ago black kids couldn’t go to some white schools ffs

At admission time colleges can’t do anything about an applicants upbringing, immigration status, nutrition, Or the countries racial injustices, redlining, etc

The problem comes down to this: it’s easy to discover reverse discrimination because it is explicitly written down in admission policy

It’s hard to rail against pervasive institutional discrimination because it is hidden away in personal biases

Anectdata: as an immigrant from a developing country I have found the US incredibly welcoming. I’m white with blue eyes, you’d never think I was an immigrant.

One time when responding to a craigslist ad for a rental the other person hung up on me when hearing my foreign name - saying I’d probably thrash the place.

That was the only instance I remember. I can’t say if my name has helped or hindered me in other job or rental applications
Spend less money on spy satellites and more on spies. I wonder how many agents the CIA are running in China?
> More generally, space isn't safe for blue team anymore.

SpaceX bringing massive capabilities of orbital launch makes blue team stronger than ever. There's no competition anymore.
Is it a two-letter word or common abbreviation, or just two random letters?
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SecondLife cracked this 15 years ago.
And it's easy to script up all your settings/tweaks to move to new machines or survive re-installs
Buy some VOO every month. Keep doing it. Don’t look at prices for the next few decades.