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> sense of me-ness is real

The most important word here is "sense" -- I don't think anyone can argue that the sense of individuality isn't real. But how much of our personal narratives are true, and how much of them do we make up to try and make sense of an otherwise chaotic existence? That isn't a fluffy philosophical musing; it's a core question of human psychology.

Some Buddhist teachings speak of "word sickness", where we spend so much of our lives living in abstractions that we are unable to experience the present moment as it actually is. We've drawn boxes around phenomena to try and classify everything, without realizing that we do this in ways that reinforce our own identities and sense of meaning in the world. We tend to treat the things we are good at as more important than the things we aren't, for instance. So how much of one's concept of self is really real, and how much has been invented to coalesce a sense of identity?
"And if that isn’t enough, Apple is holding states accountable for the authenticity of the program’s identity verification"

Well yeah, who else would verify the identity if not the state issuing the id?
Get a 30" monitor and a multimedia PC like a thinkcentre, nuc, dell micro whatever and absolve yourself of the garbage that is present-day consumer electronics.
7% vs 40%. Definitely a huge difference, but the majority of commerce in the USA is non-Amazon. If you do worldwide it's way worse.

in no way is it a "monopoly." If you look at growth rates Amazon is slowing and others are gaining

not to mention the comparison is foolish to begin with as Amazon doesn't have physical locations. a better comparison is total amount of sales, in which Amazon isn't even the plurality.
> What you're less likely to do is work in an area where your work isn't interesting, contributes nothing significant, and rots people's minds.

Have you head of finance? What I think is that most current tech folks started their careers out of genuine interest, and so think along the lines you describe. But now that the money has really arrived, the balance will shift to the type-A aspirational folks who only care about the highest paying, most highly regarded career, and are looking for some FAANG->YC Startup->Management path. These people absolutely are happy to do whatever as long as they get external validation, and would have no compunction about working at FB as long as it keeps them on the track they planned.
Always has been

Look into SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) - an emerging topic in the fields of DevOps/CICD/SRE/Compliance. Tooling is becoming available to help.
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> This station[0] is now up and running again with all new hardware from a froggit WH1080SE, the new (and improved) Fine Offset device.

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I assume you wring your hands just as much for mountain removal for coal? Or the coal ash ponds so toxic they kill workers by the dozen when they need to be cleaned up? Or the millions of lives whose health is damaged by fossil fuel externalities?

By all means we should have frank discussions of the externalities of various technologies.
Care to elaborate? I've got a dream of someday making an aftermarket appliance control board that could be retrofitted into different types of appliances, offering smart features - Free firmware, Free app, automation, etc (obviously without all the surveillance/lockin bullshit). I'd love to hear what else is already out there.
Amen! I remember frame-advancing the LaserDisc over and over to study how they resolved the shot at the end.
I agree that the better solution would be to just scrap the parking.

I don't think urban parking makes sense (other than parking in/outside of homes).
Posted this same article with two separate clickbaity headlines, is that for A/B testing?
What's this guy saying is "worse"? Just that there's a few extra MB of dependencies? What's bad about that?
Surely it's intended as a more deliberate (not technical) device - seeing his 'reflection' we're seeing him as he sees himself, his self-image. (I haven't seen the film though.)
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Can't make this shit up!
I've got 2 1/4" on there right now, and those drop-out pads are massively overengineered on the Riese & Mueller bikes but I'll keep an eye on that anyway.
I had a box of attic junk that had about 50cd-r discs with Various bits of data. Mostly old Linux ISO's - I can tell you that over ten years in an attic wiped Sony discs to nothing, damaged Maxwell discs and made Memorex discs auto eject. Various floppies from 1990 or later stored in the same box read just fine... So that blew my mind.
Exactly and the crux is how can you prove the download would happen regardless of the ad put out by apple . This is an attribution problem on the ad space and nobody has solved it yet. Google has been trying to push complex attribution rules but they are not in a position to do it because they are insentized to attribute the sales to their own ads.
Windows Key + . on Windows 10+ to open a mobile style emoji selector.
New incompatible protocol, duh! :P
I honestly think it's been the other way around. UI/UX has forced this mess. People wanting it to feel real time, even though it isn't.
> about the NPM ecosystem

"NPM" should be mentioned in thread topic.
> Those things, he thinks, are uncertain. We should worry about what’s happening now in everyday time, to which, in his view, too few are paying heed: The growth of total AI-based surveillance and the disappearance of privacy.

That’s real rich coming from the founder of Palantir
I read some assertions that in Greece there were some doctors who took like 400 euros bribe to make a fake injection, but injected the actual vaccine anyway so that the reality matched the paperwork - from a local perspective, is that true or if so, was it widespread?
> Yes, you could run a civilization entirely on solar if you had a robust storage, conversion and distribution system.

Just don't want to let it become a single point of failure. Earth's history is punctuated by periods of low sunlight at sea level.
surprised JSON5 didn't show up
I, for one, prefer to write python that generates JSON.

- All the flexibility of python, plus commenting!

- json module can test or dump as a flat blob o' text or pretty-printed

#ProblemSolved

#OKjustMoved
Sounds like a good idea for a DAO honestly
This article is no longer correct as 'cache partitioning' in modern browsers stops CDN assets being reusable for different sites in cache.
Personally I think KPIs (particularly when you are asking the question "how do I adopt KPIs") are toxic.

In a non-startup company there is generally one bottleneck that holds the organization back and has to be controlled

https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0...

In a startup company or if you are trying to develop a "revolutionary" product there are usual several bottlenecks that need to be attacked. For instance going to the moon you have to solve problems from a list such as

* propulsion
* navigation
* life support

if you are looking at a 10% improvement you need to find the one bottleneck (e.g. "The Goal") if you need to get a 10x improvement you will hit several bottlenecks on the way there and the writings of W.L. Livingston apply

https://www.amazon.com/Have-Fun-at-Work-Livingston/dp/093706...

When you use goals to "destroy the competition" or "change the world", goals are a powerful technique. If you are setting goals because somebody told you to set goals or somebody else sets goals you are going to drive yourself to distraction.
There's nothing super special about this design. It apparently uses a single "IO reactor" which handles readiness notifications for a couple of other threads. Those might be threadpool, and/or run non-blocking code (we don't know too much about this).

This design is pretty much the same that you can e.g. find in the go runtime (netpoll), the .NET core runtime, Rust multithreaded async libraries, Java nio2, etc.

The only thing that was special here is that they used an APC for waking up the reactor in case new events had to be added. Its non-standard, and kind of comparable to using a signal on unix to interrupt `select` instead of a message on a preregistered socket.
For what it's worth, i missed it when watching the movie. It just feels like there's something weird that just happened but you can't quite tell, like a nice and subtle spice in a well made dish.
I am dead certain ITER is not a good use of funds.

At least, for any public goal. Certainly the people--military contractors, mainly, I expect--whose pockets the $billions are going into may be justified in considering it a good use. Not a single penny disappears; each goes into somebody's account.
Rumsfeld wrote weird.
A huge % of internet users are on slow connections and cheap devices with slow processors/limited RAM, so "a few extra MB" of javascript dependencies can mean 1+ second increases in load time on every page load
Good stuff, I've always been very kind to my bikes, avoid impact on the rims if I can (no kerb hopping, always aiming for the least impact if there is an obstacle on the road). Even so, with these bikes and the mileage they make (my brother wears out a frame every couple of years) it's probably a good idea to up the monitoring rate on the frame, especially at all the weld and high stress points. I've never had a frame fail - yet - in spite of many km on all kinds of bikes but that has also turned this into something of a blind spot so that warning is definitely a good one.
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6j-how-to-set-kpis-and-g...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL6GdUHIBsM
One man’s metadata is another’s data.
I think thats basically all this is.. qemu inside a container?
"I found it interesting that only half their job offers are taken up, that's super surprising to me."

It is not surprising if the goal is not to fill vacancies or expanding needs, but to prevent competing companies from having these people at their disposal. There will be enough offers to cover every possible person who could do this computer-focused work that might go to work for a competitor.

Another explanation is that there is a high attrition rate (e.g., like Amazon) and the company must overcompensate. Thus there will always be high numbers of advertisied positions that are never filled.

A third explanation is the company just has too much money and no clear ideas on how to spend it. (Case in point: Metaverse) Companies tend to sustain higher and higher levels of, for lack of a better term, "stupidity/foolishness" as the cash flow increases further and further beyond the company's immediate needs. Having heaps of cash on hand does not necessarily focus the mind; it can have the opposite effect.
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Yes, but an ad to a competing product would become very expensive, as it wouldn’t convert and it’s cost (cpc) would increase as it is deemed less relevant.

Or the the developer would run their own ad.

But those are very different propositions to a middle man running a ‘genuine’ ad which simply takes a cut.
time to mention the best chilean invention ever (it cooks the rice slower).

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Tostador_Chileno.jpg
> It's also more wasteful as a transport.

This is most certainly true, however with GZip thrown into the mix, it's not quite as bad as one might imagine: https://www.codeproject.com/articles/604720/json-vs-xml-some...

It compresses pretty decently and doesn't have too much of an overhead, in the example it being around 10% larger than JSON when compressed.

I'd argue that if one were to swap out JSON for XML within all the requests that an average webpage needs for some unholy reason, the overall increase in page size would be much less than that, because huge amounts of modern sites are images, as well as bits of JS that won't be executed but also won't be removed because our tree shaking isn't perfect.

Edit: as someone who writes a good deal of Java in their dayjob, i feel like commenting about the verbosity of XML might be unwelcome. I'll only say that in some cases it can be useful to have elements that have been structured and described in verbose ways, especially when you don't have the slightest idea about what API or data you're looking at when seeing it for the first time (the same way how WSDL files for SOAP could provide discoverability).

However, it all goes downhill due to everything looking like a nail once you have a hammer - most of the negative connotations with XML in my mind actually come from Java EE et al and how it tried doing dynamic code loading through XML configuration (e.g. web.xml, context.xml, server.xml and bean configuration), which was unpleasant.

On an unrelated note, XSD is the one truly redeeming factor of XML, the equivalent of which for JSON took a while to get there (JSON Schema). Similarly, WSDL was a good attempt, whereas for JSON there first was WADL which didn't gain popularity, though at least now OpenAPI seems to have a pretty stable place, even if the tooling will still take a while to get there (e.g. automatically generating method stubs for a web API with a language's HTTP client).
So you know how we were talking about Dostoevsky earlier
Just learn about EDN already.
I don't totally disagree with the concept but have you actually been to SA in the last year or two? It makes reddit look like an academic journal. Some of ugliest forums out there.
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> If the major consumers of the highest used frameworks all used the same CDN for delivery and smaller websites that want to use those same framework followed suit this would greatly reduce wasted traffic across the web and make everyone faster.

Except that browsers no longer cache across origins anymore, so this doesn't work, also there are just a huge number of libraries and versions, so even if they did cache it, it's unlikely to result in much benefit.
Me, checks news site, battery becomes drained. But energy is abundant, right?
there's a couple of things at play

* JS's history is all about "quick and dirty". jQuery in older times was meant to paper over the quick and dirty and give developers more convenience, and old JS without JQuery was pretty awful

* we are asking JS to do things it was never meant to do; in particular, the desire for "app-like" experiences and SPAs.

* JS is very backward compatible, which means old webpages can be archived, but also means that all the warts are still around.

* JS interpretation depends on browsers, which means if you want to use some modern features you will have to use some kind of transpiling, polyfill, and or framework to get some consistent behavior on all of them (jQuery in older times, babel today), and the differences in browsers means that these adapters have to be mind-bogglingly complex a lot of times
IMO the biggest problem is that the industry became all about developer experience and neglected user experience.

Doing an analysis of the JS bundled with many major sites is an utter horror show: React is big and bloated, alternatives like Preact exist but no-one cares. React provides The Best Developer Experience so that is what we shall use. GraphQL is the cool thing to use these days so we’ll throw in a giant client library along with all our query text. Sure, browsers handle REST out of the box but that’s not what works best for our developers. We’ll use CSS in JS despite the performance being worse, it’s what our team likes. We’ll bundle a giant CoreJS shim to all browsers even though the vast majority won’t need it. Running two builds is too annoying to set up in our workflow. The site loads fine on my MacBook Pro so why stress what Lighthouse says?

So on and so forth. For years I’ve heard that this isn’t a problem because all the extra developer productivity means they can move so much faster. It’s been long enough now that I’m comfortable dismissing that argument as nonsense. And many users are essentially trapped: for example, I bank with Chase and their web site is absolutely atrocious. I talk to friends and they say the same. But the UX of online banking is very rarely a reason for anyone to change bank so the product folks aren’t going to push for performance. It’s something developers have to proactively care about and as an industry we just don’t.

I hope eventually we see the industry change but for now it really feels like no-one cares. We’re prioritising the speed of the shovelling while ignoring the quantity of shit.
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While hovering, the tail rotor is pushing air into a dirty vortex. A small amount of speed, even just 20kt, will clear that vortex and give more authority. Even today helicopters will begin pitching nose down immediately on takeoff to get airflow cross both the main and tail rotor to clear those vertices.

That being said, I've talked to a few Vietnam helicopter pilots and all of their stories were ... well, exaggeration is a common theme.
That sounds like a fantastic adventure in the works. I you want to have a person to bounce your ideas of feel free to contact me.
I suppose you're right that the formal JSON specification doesn't actual specify what a number actually is. Only that it's a sequence of digits. TIL.

In practice, when you are using JSON as an interchange format between tools and systems it is exceptionally likely that you'll be constrained to 64-bit float as the underlying Number data type. Even if there is no JavaScript anywhere in your data pipeline. I have been burned by this repeatedly. For the record, I have never written a single line of JavaScript in my professional career.

In any case, my dream format would separate storage type from encoding type and formalize implementation extensions.
I would go a level higher and say it is the commercial nature of the web today. The web ceased being only about hypertext documents in the strictest sense a long time ago, and what makes money and attracts consumers seems to be "app-like" experiences and not basic hyperlinked forums or web portals. And their ability to make money only creates more of them.
A tangible token is a ... coin.
So this is an announcement about the launch of the studio, not the launch of the game. This feels like too little info and too late in the game. I’d assume many companies are already working on this for many years now. Considering steam now doesn’t allow nfts for games in their store it seems people are already started pushing such features in existing games.
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Seems to me that YAML just needs type/schema support to be less of a hurdle.

As an alternative, the encoding/decoding roundtrip using protobuf seems reasonable to me, catches the footgun of using floating-point version numbers (it becomes a parse error), whitespace/multiline concatenation being more obvious, and allowing comments (compared to JSON):

( cat << EOF
# yes, comments are allowed
name: "Python package"
on: "push"
build {
python_version: ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
steps: [
{
name: "Install dependencies"
run:
"python -m pip install --upgrade pip\n"
"pip install pytest\n"
"if [ -f 'requirements.txt' ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi\n"
},
{
name: "Test with pytest"
run: "pytest\n"
}
]
}
EOF
) | protoc --encode=Config config.proto | protoc --decode=Config config.proto

name: "Python package"
on: "push"
build {
python_version: "3.6"
python_version: "3.7"
python_version: "3.8"
python_version: "3.9"
python_version: "3.10"
steps {
name: "Install dependencies"
run: "python -m pip install --upgrade pip\npip install pytest\nif [ -f \'requirements.txt\' ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi\n"
}
steps {
name: "Test with pytest"
run: "pytest\n"
}
}
> Theres no scenario where apple can be profitable on this spend when they can only ever get 30% of what the consumer spends.

I mean, maybe if tinder's margin was less than apples, but that's pretty unlikely.
You seem to imply it is ok for people who take the medication to walk freely contaminating others.
Upvoted, because I think it's a legitimate question. I don't think you're actually saying let's stop all long-haul flights and cement production. You're saying that if we actually believed something was an existential risk to civilization, we'd put almost any option on the table for mitigating it, even if only to rule it out. I assume there is a list of sacred things we wouldn't even consider doing without, no matter the cost in human lives. But is jet travel and cheap construction on that list or not? Maybe, maybe not.
I haven't been following FB, and wasn't aware that Zuckerberg could be liable for more than financial penalties. Is it regarding Cambridge Analytics? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/tech...
Too late for this one but for sure there will be more and the capability to spotweld stuff is handy anyway. I already repaired a bunch of electric tool batteries as well as a series of Nikon camera batteries for a relative. Very useful skill this. Thanks again for the pointer.
I had a few dozen CDRs from a couple different manufacturers that I used as backup discs that sat in an air-conditioned dark closet for about five years. None of them were readable without errors. Today none of them are readable at all.
That's why you have both and lint against inconsistencies. This catches errors.
There's an abundance of other evidence that bin Laden was behind 9/11, his claim of responsibility being only the most blatantly obvious one. Claiming he wasn't responsible for 9/11 genuinely requires conspiracy theorist-levels of contrived argumentation.
That Apple would do this is interesting, but more interesting to me is Google's position, and obligation, here. There was a throw-away line in the article about Google "not doing anything about it". What could or should Google do about it? Has Google mediated between competitive ad-buyers in the past? I am not sympathetic to goog in general but it seems like that line puts them in a no-win situation: either they err for not doing anything, or they err for doing something (but not the right thing). Indeed, in this case it would seem the corrective action would better come from Apple than from Google. (Also note this whole play feels like Apple trying to get creative with ways to productively bleed off ridiculously huge capital reserves in a low risk way. It would be ironic for Apple if this blows up into a big thing, but somehow I really doubt it will. )
> considering they only work 9/12 months

I think many teachers (almost all that I know, and all of the good ones) would disagree with you on that. Lesson planning, training/continuing education, scheduling, etc.

> many of them find side jobs

..why?

That is to say, I'm sure most people on here could get a side job if they wanted to. Is there a reason why teachers get side jobs and, say, programmers don't? (Yes, that's a rhetorical question.)
The work Google is doing with fuchsia is simply amazing
New reviews are restricted to paying members and only become freely viewable to everyone, later.
We already devote enormous tracts of land in the US for energy from solar for transportation, way way more than we'll ever need for PV. Fully 40% of the US corn crop goes to ethanol.

People talk about how bad solar efficiency is in turning sunlight into usable energy at around 20%, corn is only able to do 1-2% and then it has to be processed into ethanol. Thus, replacing corn for ethanol with solar would result in massively more energy available for our use (not that I think that would be a good idea or that we could even use that much solar electricity).

edit: And I should add that there's likely to be plenty of farmland becoming available due to water shortages. Think about it, say you are a farmer that has water rights and use it to grow a low value crop like alfalfa. You can put up solar panels and sell your water rights and you don't have to do any work. Or if you rely on groundwater, lease your land for solar for 20 years and let the aquifer recharge during that time.