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Great story. I feel like many of us from the 90s have similar stories.

I was a CS undergrad, and was introduced to someone who needed a software person. Got hired at $8/hour part time to write VB, Access, and MSSQL software - none of which I had ever touched. Same deal, either I figure it out or he would let me go. Couple weeks later my boss came in, loosely described an application, and then asked if I could have something demoable in 2 hours. He had a client meeting and need to show something to get partial payment. Got it done and almost immediately got a raise to $12/hour. Obviously the place had a lot of issues and was out of business in the next couple years, but it gave me the mentality early on of execute and ship. Good times indeed.

And yeah...I was waiting tables in a fine dining restaurant a month before...
Forecasting demand and scheduling production are very much part of Factorio.
I wrote my own gopher server [1] that works for me. I haven't looked at any other gopher servers in any detail to give a recommendation (unless you want to use the one I wrote).

[1] https://github.com/spc476/port70
That's why we don't use ink devices for those kinds of documents. I have a range of tools that I use for various use cases. In depth reading fiction - Kindle. Casual browsing of large documents with complex layouts and images - iPad. Working on documents - laptop/desktop.

I would almost never mix linear reading with those other kinds of documents so I don't need devices that handle both kinds of documents.
"It's better to be decent in a lot of areas than to be great in one area and terrible in another." - I disagree with this more the older I get.
From the article:

"I am reminded of a conversation I had with the editor of a New Right publication. He expressed regret over the role that the American Revolution plays in American political theology, a “ghost” he wished Americans could “exorcise.” As long as we associate revolution with foundation, he told me, it is difficult to have any kind of “pro-society worldview.”"

I've always taken issue with the term "American Revolution," despite its common usage. Revolution, as far as I can tell, is characterized by an attempt to overthrow kings and clergy and, in later versions, destroy the wealthy elite. What we had here was simply a war for independence from British rule, which is why I am always careful to call it The War for American Independence.

It seems that fixing this label would go a long way toward resolving some of the cognitive dissonance here.
Right, and in such a context you know what you don't know, so you're not asserting facts (equivalently expressing opinions) that will change in the short or medium term because those things which are in flux can easily be pointed to as such.

This is really my point - "opinions changing" = initial conclusions were drawn with inappropriate extrapolation. Why would you write about things you hastily extrapolated and never verified?
> Here is an optimistic way to calculate.

No its a harmfully naive analysis, your "calculations" put the common shares at 10x their stated FMV.
The continuous vs. discrete thing is largely moot in my opinion. The low-significant bits of any model of a physical process are going to be noise anyhow. You can model more accurately if there's some data that's missing, but the fact that the real world is continuous (ignoring that it's really not) doesn't really matter.

We can model many billions of things at once. Take a look at the spinnaker system. Sure, we're not at the level of simulating 100 billion biologically plausible neurons yet, but we can do a few billion and the techniques are likely to scale well.
The maker hub is pretty cool! They have a 3D printer service, where for ~$0.40 per gram you can bring your STL file, and they will print it while you watch a movie at the Cinemas next door. I wish there were more places like this in Sydney.

I have floated the idea of starting a hackerspace in Sydney City with a bunch of friends, but it has never really got beyond the talking phase. The cost of renting a small (~90 sqm) workshop/office space in the CBD makes it cost prohibitive without a large amount of members joining. I wonder how many people would be interested in setting up a co-op for this?
Interesting info, but it's very depressing that the "related tweets" are from people who are championing anti-restriction protests and "conclusive research results that the Moderna vaccine is dangerous".

Great job, @jack! /s
The biggest challenge is getting people to read what you wrote, and care enough to respond.

I started a blog recently where I want to write notes for my writing practice and explore different subjects I'm interested in. Of course it'd be nice if someone had actually read it, for my personal vanity, and all those conversations and opportunities people claim blogging leads to.

But it's not the kind of project it would make sense to drive ads to, or even to niche down and grow an audience around a specific topic, since the whole point is to write whatever "gratifies my intellectual curiosity". But you can't really submit this kind of thing to reddit or to forums, they ban "blogspam" for very good reasons. There's no obvious way to promote it and put it in front of people.

Instead of blogging I could try engaging in conversations here and on reddit (and maybe on discord or twitter), and that, at least HN and reddit, works amazingly well for having good discussions (if not for making personal connections).

But the biggest problem with engaging in social media is that it quickly becomes extremely unhealthy and addictive (in the way that blogging doesn't). I want to write, and I want to talk to people, but I don't want to get addicted to refreshing my profile page to look for upvotes and comment notifications (I do have a big problem with the internet addiction).

I'm not sure what the right solution to that would be. Does anyone have good ideas? How do you make actual human connection over the internet and engage in intelligent conversations, without getting your dopamine hijacked and skinnerboxed by the social media algorithms?

Maybe there's a space for a platform that would encourage thoughtful discussion somehow, and limit the immediate rewards that make social media so addictive. But then nobody would use that platform, right?
Everyone is saying $60k is low but OP never said where they are. $60k could be quite good depending on location
My guess is that less imperative languages is the future. Today all programming languages are basically about exact instructions what to do: languages differ in exactness and creativity of expressing said exactness, but they all share this idea. The next gen languages will let us tell what we want to get at each step, and such languages will differ in granurality of these steps. A basic example: "a=2; b=5; a>b" means "make sure a is greater than b", which is same as swap(a,b) in imperative languages. I know, some would say "ah, that's prolog!" but I don't believe an esoteric language like prolog can win. It must be something javascrptish, understandable by average programmers, and easily mixable with traditional imperative code.
Generally ecology requires multiple species in interrelationship. Not really an ecosystem without inter play between organisms (species) and the environment. I also don't see classes being taught covering space ecology, so I don't feel it fits.
Rights are a matter of human convention. Property rights are as real as any other rights however.
CR has two completely separate and independent scores for cars: the product rating and the reliability score. The product rating is a measure of the quality of the product as purchased and is done by CR itself. The reliability score IIRC is much later, done through customer surveys and long-term reliability tests.
I got tired reading that. How about letting me just push php files via ftp to some outdated Debian machine. All these layers of complexity made me swear never to touch "devops" again.
I would expect that isn’t usage of the phone, but of the car’s own controls.
This starts to get really tricky when you pair the multi-thousand dollars class computer that pumps out a kilowatt of heat under load with equally good monitor(s). I had a hard enough time finding quality DP cables getting 4k144 HDR to go 2 meters to reach across the desk, none of the 3 meter ones I tried at the time worked. 8k120 HDR to the TV was the same on HDMI.

>10 Gbps USB/Thunderbolt are also a pain longer than a desk's length away but not the end of the world. Things like the power button are the easiest, just pop them into some single pin jumper extenders and you're good to go for any reasonable distance.
Article is missing a key topic: how safe, desirable, and scalable are the technically feasible non-fossil alternatives to nuclear power?

It also makes the same mistake nearly everybody does: focussing on electricity generation, which is responsible for about a third of emissions, and falling. It's also about a third of our energy needs.

For example: in shipping, ammonia as fuel seems to be a leading candidate to replace fossil bunker fuel engines. 10 MW - 100 MW nuclear reactors are, to me, more desirable because safer. The energy economics of making and burning ammonia are dire, too.

Reactors as drop-in replacements for gas turbines or for gas furnaces would allow continued operation of district heating systems in cold countries. Building heat is about #4 or #5 on the top 10 emitters. The alternative to district heat, installing electric heat pumps on all the buildings, seems costly by comparison. And they need electricity anyway.

Any technology that is not already in use at the $10 billion scale¹ can't scale quickly enough to help with climate change, without massive government intervention.² So no BECCS, no hydrogen for transport, etc.

Any technology that can't scale to provide at least 5 TW continuous (150 EJ per year) is also a non-starter.³ So biomass is a distraction.

1. Or that is a straightforward, near-zero-research combination of two or three technologies that are already in use at the $100B scale. We have 30 years to get to global scale.

2. We are going to need massive government intervention in order to get iron smelting (over 1 Gt per year, both iron and carbon dioxide) off fossil carbon. The same goes for industrial chemical feedstocks, and other things.

3. Total primary energy supply in 2015 was about 17 TW. If we allow developing countries to continue developing, we're probably going to need double that by 2050.
That reminds me of the time someone told me they were building web pages in HotMail. I was like, “WTF?” And then he spelled out HotMail for me, “HTML, HotMail”. I was like, “oh”.
When I built my house the town made me connect to the town sewer and put a manhole cover on the connection. So I go to the scrap yard to buy a manhole cover. Dude behind me had about 20 manhole covers in his truck and was obvious strung out. No questions asked from the scrap dude. He seemed like a regular.
You greatest strength will be the cause of your greatest weakness. Variations of this can be used if one quibbles on the use of 'cause', sometimes I just put it directly as your greatest strength is your greatest weakness assuming people will make the logical connections.

The most easy to see example of this is in physical traits such as muscle mass, speed etc. Strengthening one trait invariably is the cause of weakening another. The same principle can be observed in organization, mental processes and so forth.
Paying $10k to fix my car right now would be literally taking food off the table for my kids and making them have to do with less over the next year during their prime development. Please reconsider what is actually embarrassing and to whom.
More like, networking is writing for extroverts
Wearable device senses blood glucose and administers insulin accordingly
That’s ridiculously expensive.
The thing is, as touched on in the article, microwaves and ultrasound are trivially easy to detect. So if it was either of those I expect it would have been measured pretty quickly by even the most cursory investigation. Which I think means the most likely explanation is that it’s a solved phenomenon, but the information just hasn’t been made public.
It seems kind of obvious that any regulation that requires changing workflows would ... cause workflows to change. And it in no way suggests why the changes would be a problem, or would be useless, which is what one would usually expect as reaction.
Intentions can be very nebulous. We are not always aware of why we’re doing something and tend to come up with explanations after the fact. These can even change over time. Ultimately we can only guess at what happens in other people’s minds.

Alternatively we can look at the effects of an action. To use your example, when someone says “all lives matter” it, among other things, alienates black people. IMO makes it a lot more clear cut.
They’re all interesting points, but I think we’re a very long way from the satellite industry being a significant environmental concern.

Firstly reusable rockets cut the amount of discarded hardware massively. With expendable launchers almost all of the hardware dropped into the ocean or burned up is from the launcher. The satellite is a tiny fraction. This is a huge win.

Secondly the total mass of satellite hardware burning up is dwarfed by natural meteorites, of which approximately 100 tons of silicates, metals and hydrocarbons enters our atmosphere every day. That’s an entire ISS every 4 days. That’s 600 times the mass of satellites the US launches per year.

The thing is Starship may well increase mass to orbit by that much. Even so, that would “only” double the natural rate of material entering the atmosphere.

Another strategy that might help, for high altitude satellites, would be to move to fewer bigger satellites, with racks for different companies instruments, and with self de-orbit capability. Treat them like orbiting data centres. Starship can certainly handle big satellites, and if launches are cheap then it could be affordable to fit such satellites with de-orbit capability. Or maybe even send a Starship to swallow it up and bring it back.
Maybe someone somewhere will come up with a NLP based solution which will cluster people with similar ideas (by means of their blogs) so that you may find people who share your interests within the cluster or explore other idea clusters. Would be a great way of making friends if nothing else.
> Navigating to find content on the Kindle or Nook is poor, which would be ok if we would be happy with just having ebooks in our hands versus also having emagazines and enewspapers. Once you add the rest of the paper world of content navigation would become lackluster at best.

As a Kindle Paperwhite 3rd generation owner I am sad it is true. e-newspaper/e-magazine leave very bad experience, pushing me away to resign from using it (thank God I have been on trial). I also don't understand why magazines are displayed in such horrible way on Kindle. When I have given my Kindle to a person, who on daily basis purchase a paper version of a newspaper, she said me using it is completely no-go for her, while she has no problem to read typical ebooks on my device.

I wish e-readers will evolve - to be a device that would help me learning, making notes, be a calendar and todolist instead of just only having me entertained of reading an ebook. I am basically looking forward to Kindle being an handy org-mode-like replacement. I would like to have a planner, which could synchronize with some ical/caldav calendar. I would like to have a bit better specs of device, so responsiveness of e-ink keyboard will be instant - I usually have typos thanks to low latency of the display. I would love to make notes separately from ebooks/documents - think like diary, draft notes or just stupid shopping list. I would like to find some method/methodology, which will help me go back to my quotes and in-book notes to extract from them more meaningful way. I would like to have better web-browser or some converter for HN, which will reading (and annotating) articles and comments section on HN pleasant enough. Maybe I am silly, but I believe it is all possible to achieve that in a form of e-ink reader.

iPad can have all of those things right at the moment, but I don't see myself (yet) as a owner of tablet with a LCD screen. Perhaps, I will afford it, because I am already sold on how good VoiceOver on macOS is and I suppose Kindles will never deliver anything close to what Apple can bring in terms of accessibility features. However, I still keep fingers crossed for competitors like ReMarkable [0] or Supernote.

[0]: https://remarkable.com/

[1] https://supernote.com/
I’d love my Remarkable or Oasis to be in color. I’ve used my Remarkable almost daily since I’ve received it and Oasis several times a week for years. Color on either or both would be great.

Even in color, eink devices have largely never been portrayed as an ipad replacement given their largely different use cases. It’s sounding to me like you don’t like your devices in favor of either an ipad or paper book, and while that’s okay, it doesn’t mean there’s no market for a color device.
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Oops, thank you, I should have caught that!
That was the information I was trying to (too quickly) highlight. AWS sig v4 is specifically for authorising AWS requests, it's not portable.

The concepts in the draft are very similar so this looks like the generic internet version of the AWS signing concept. It looks like the draft involves Amazon people too but I'm not sure which one was chicken or egg.

NovemberWhiskey's comment highlights the specific differences better than I.
If we can have laws that bring strict liability for financial institutions who don't know their customers (KYC) for anti-money laundering (AML) purposes, we can bring in laws requiring scrapyards to know their customers for anti-trafficking in stolen property purposes.

Catalytic converters, like many auto parts, have serial numbers on them. Tracking these should be standard practice for scrapyards. Furthermore, scrapyards should be subject to random surprise inspections to enforce this.

Furthermore, the palladium in catalytic converters should be doped with traceable radioactive isotopes and an enforcement scheme put in place to catch unscrupulous smelters who melt down the catalytic converters and attempt to sell the metal on the open market.
It’s been awhile but I’ll never forget turning in a five year old Range Rover. The axil most have been mis aligned or something because the car vibrated so bad we were worried the thing would fall apart. This issue among the many other monthly 2k service visits is why I’d never by one again… contrast that with my two model x - 2017 had to replace the computer which was inconvenient but cost me 0, but did take two weeks to arrive . The driver window would not roll up unless I inched it carefully but was fixed in my office parking lot while at work and was never an issue again. Now my 2020 model x has the same window issue but no computer replacement needed. Before those my model s 2014 - had one recall check on the seat belt. Total service cost of a Tesla for my three cars over 7 years … 0… Range Rover, bmw and Benz all in the thousands many times over… it’s been 7 years so maybe those “high” brands improved? But for me I’ll probably never know
I remember iepngfix.htc. Glad that whole thing's over.
Tesla is probably a bit overvalued but not by much. You are not factoring in how much money printing is happening. A turd with a stock ticker would have a market cap at least into the tens of millions.

Ford with the F-150 Lightning and the Mach-E seems grossly undervalued and a huge buying opportunity. When rednecks find out what “instant full torque” means the Lightning will sell very well.
I think the expectation, at least in relation to the issues CR is citing in this article, is that Tesla’s issues with body assembly are fixable and something the whole company is keen to improve, whereas Ford is not politically or organizationally able to embrace more fundamental changes (electric, OTA updates, moving away from dealers and maintenance revenue.) And of course the expectation is that automakers who don’t move quickly in those directions will suffer.

Personally, I think Ford is able to make those changes and will be rescued if it doesn’t.
The engine dumps heat to the radiator and the exhaust. I think the catalyst does enable exothermic reactions, but it’s not using power, so it can’t get hotter than the outgoing exhaust (although that is pretty toasty). A computer adjusts the fuel/air ratio and timing to keep the incoming temperature and oxygen level in the catalyst’s effective range.

Some models even have a heater to get the catalyst working quickly after a cold start.
We do get house fires in the UK, as you know - that's what the bloody noisy red Denis lorries are for! To be fair, I don't know directly of anyone who has suffered from a blaze here either. I do have contact with several US citizens who have lost their homes to fire or "weather" (it can get quite breezy in Florida, for example)

Our sticks n bricks will generally get you a longer time to get out than timber only but that also depends on safe methods of egress and lots of other factors. Bear in mind that our floors are mostly wooden joists. On the ground floor (US first floor) we plank with chipboard and finish with carpet or laminate or tiles. The first floor (US second) has joists with wooden planking faced with carpet or laminate or some tiles, the lower surface is plasterboard. Our internal walls are mostly stud wall ie wooden too.

It's the plasterboard (drywalling) that slows fires inside a house. Dense gypsum is a really good way to slow fire down. It won't stop it though. Also you need to consider steelwork. My home has been extensively modified internally and we have a lot of "steels" - mainly to stop the first floor from falling into the lounge and kitchen and to hold the roof up. Ironically, we have a C section steel running along the long axis of the house with wooden props to the roofing purlins to assist with additional snow loading. This is in south Somerset! We have modern insulation in a 1920s house which means that snow doesn't instantly melt on the roof anymore. Some of the original roof insulation was hay - I pulled it out myself.

The UK is generally a lot safer weather, earthquake and wildfire etc wise. However we can't be complacent and neither should you. For fire it is quite easy to form a simple home evacuation plan. It will only take you a half hour. Get a fire blanket for the kitchen. Sort out your fire/smoke detectors and test them occasionally. Get at least one fire extinguisher per floor. You can get "water mist" extinguishers that will cover everything in the home apart from self igniting metal fires. I was recommended them by a Fire Brigade official. Get an escape ladder for upstairs if required. You can get single use ones for about £50 that take up a tiny amount of space in the bottom of a wardrobe and hook onto the window cill. Make sure your windows will permit egress!

It is easy to compare construction methods and see one as better but it isn't that simple. If you live in a place where your home is easily destroyed then cheaper and quicker reconstruction is indicated along with quick evacuation. I should also point out that quite a lot of people around here live in mud huts: wattle and daub (mud/clay with straw and horse piss, OK any piss will do) with thatched roofs and a lot of timber.

I could go on ... 8)
> It’s a bit like automated warehouse design

Don't we call that "production systems engineering"?
I used to love throwing unclosed

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into every guestbook and webring submission form I could find. Absolute chaos, in such an innocent and fun way.

These days it'd probably get you arrested and imprisoned for hacking or something.

The web was so FUN in the 90s.
tldr: "fake it til you make it" — even if you never make it you can still become a billionaire if you fake it charismatically.