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You'd need to build an entirely new stage0 system. How would a 15m fairing fit onto the current orbital launch pad?

Not saying it can't be done, just that it's not as simple as just whacking a larger fairing on, there are lots of considerarations to deal with. Perhaps it's worth it for 15m, but then again even a 9m would be a vast improvement from 2.4m
How does it become profitable though? Maybe Musk can fund it as a very expensive pet project, but if the Mars base doesn't produce anything that can't be gotten more cheaply closer to Earth, the money must run out at some point.
I mean, you must see the primal appeal - essentially the posts are "haha, who else does {{COMMON_THING}}?!". Millions of people want other people to know they too are just like them.

Facebook's algorithm is optimized for engagement - but people aren't desperate to engage - they are desperate to be engaged with.
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> Syntax highlighting doesnt require fancy displays.

It does. Text looks better on high density displays.
It will work just fine, they'll get a ton more traffic to analyze. But it won't work for the goal that they claim to have, it won't make a dent in crime (which China has plenty of, at all levels), and it won't stop terrorism (which China also has plenty of, and which of course others would label as freedom fighters).

The only thing China will succeed in is extending the gerontocracy for a little bit longer. But eventually the cost of strongly encrypted communications will drop to zero and then the information advantage that the government has is over.

Think 'Starlink' + a couple of rounds of tech improvement and the GFOC might as well not exist. The question is will the people care? In China, I'm not so sure. In the West, maybe they will, maybe they won't, but I for one will be happy to utterly ignore this if it ever makes it into law. Right now I don't bother encrypting my mail, but if this happens I might drop off the grid entirely, and I'll make it my mission to spread strong crypto as far and as wide as I can.

But for now it's just a misguided proposal by a clueless bunch of bureaucrats.
Doctor Who Feeds a New Mystery by Plundering One from Its Past
That's a book I'd read
Deadheading (employees)
it seems like they were hand made by some artist. first I thought there was some AI/ML going on. But these are too good to have been made by some algorithm
nfttrador.io cost 0.005 Eth + gas for a trade.

As a crypto laymen, is it fair to convert the Eth to USD (~$20), or is that not correct, as traders would have a supply of Eth already, which they would pull from, and not need to purchase.
so those quotations would be unacceptable if they were aimed at any other group, regardless of context and without statute of limitation, correct?

I could make a point by citing some examples here, but I would probably get banned.
The one I use isn't on it, and thank goodness.

I use an email proxy exactly because I'm trying to protect my privacy and to cut down on spam email, as it helps me determine its origin without exposing my real email and let my blacklist or discard that proxy email address.
The 2 Rovers from the last 2000s cost about a billion dollars.
If we can get someone to moon for $2.9 billion (contract that spacex just won), I think that's worth it.
As I've noted in other replies, you'd need an entire new stage0 to accomodate this. Even larger than the 2.0 planned. It'd be have to be made especially for this.
I want to like Tutanota but the UI is really bad. Basic things like search, threaded emails, resizing/changing the viewport are buggy or impossible and there’s no alternative desktop client. I don’t think it’s a realistic option for heavy email users at the moment.
There's no one true convergence. :) Everyone can have their own definition. I guess Purism disagrees, if theirs is a true one.
Didn't work in my version of FF at all, well the demo pages showed nothing.
I think the shock is how old the reports are, and how since then things have not changed, but in fact worsened.
The company is paying you the market rate, i.e as little as they can get away with, not how much value you create. Your location is one of the variables in calculating your market rate.
Who knows , with remote work this may disappear, but I doubt it's what workers in the USA would want. I live in the UK, salaries in the USA are way higher. Then look at India.

My feeling is when people say location shouldn't matter then mean as long as the location is in their country.
>Eventually, I hit on a new strategy. Instead of trying to generate good tweets I just followed people at random. I forget the exact number, but somewhere between 15-30% of the people I followed at random would follow me back.

This is exactly what my teenage cousins used to do (maybe not twitter maybe snaphat?) but with one tweak- they'd go through following people, and then once they'd followed they unfollow them again so now it looked like they were following you but you weren't following them back.
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If you're in this region, a visit to Bethlehem Steel is worth a detour: https://www.steelstacks.org/about/what-is-steelstacks/

Much of the steel for the Golden Gate Bridge came from here.
Nobody does it "correctly" because they try to use it for a bunch of things that it shouldn't be used for - like performance comparsions.

Scrum is only a capacity planning tool. Within a certain context, track velocity. When new work comes in, estimate it then compare to velocity. If you don't have the timelines you want, then you need to consider changing scope.
no, i didn't edit the first one, maybe you meant to reply to svennek.

communitycoins: these are interesting because they'd be small-people-fiat, giving tiny communities the possibility to bootstrap mini-economies and then linking into some federated system according to some rules and based on people vouching for them. notably, they'd be the inverse of todays crypto- nonanonymous, consensus based on trust.

re decaying currencies: yeah, but then you'd need to buy an explicit store of value, and especially if money decays fast, whoever sells that to you will need to get rid of it again. but i think this one would be an experiment in money the same way gopher and gemini are experiments in hypertext

Re your comment: I think it doesn't quite hold, because I can buy shares in the VT index and can then talk about it without needing to hype it - the underlying value is highly independent of people's opinions because everyone eats,shits and dies and so needs the commodities and services provided by the underlying companies (in the long run). I think it is only the most hype-dependent securities like cryptocurrency and Tesla where the underlying is questionable and so bag holders feel the need to defend their investment quite literally (note to all the true believers in either:relax, I said questionable, not nonexistent, if I'm wrong with my opinion you can pay someone to laugh at me later)

Honestly, I think it needs to be specialises forums or side threads like this, any crypto community will be overrun by the moonboys and libertarians too quickly.
After culling the people you would absolutely not ever want to be stuck in a metal can with even for six months, I wonder how many will be left.
> I remain curious about the kinds of practical architectural impact this functionality provides- how often does everyday lisp code signal nonfatal conditions?

From my time programming on Lisp machines (long time ago), I fondly remember wrapper functions (i.e. some macro wrapped around your own code) like "with-open-file" which would open a file and set up proper condition handling to close it on exit, regardless of what happened inside... you could always be sure that the file was closed when control left the wrapper, either normally or abnormally. And if you where creating a file and some exception occurred, the file would be removed and the file system left unaltered (as much as possible).
Watching this really drives home how much being a woman in this era must have sucked.
Clearly the Chinese company Huawei has a sense of humor. It reminds me of the Pentagon gallows humor joke that we lose 100% of the wars that we don’t start. (Pun not intended)

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Trump helped impede the world’s second biggest consumer phone manufacturer by cutting off chips to them and Google Play. I wonder if they will catch up in 5 years and have their own chip ecosystem.
Yeah, but what should happen to the values that would’ve been sent while the computer was asleep, but couldn’t be. Should they be resent as soon as possible after computer wakes up, or dropped? (It probably depends on the exact API and its needs.)
> You can easily have many hundreds of thousands of processes, they are mostly equivalent to threads on Linux anyway (with some minor differences ofc).

Not really. The page-table overhead of a 100k processes alone is going to a eat up a lot of memory - and you don't have that with threads. And with something like postgres the page tables aren't going to be tiny, even with explicit use of huge pages for applicable allocations. The decrease in TLB hit ratio also is very painful. In a lot of workloads postgres spends way too much time in TLB faults, and that's to a good degree caused by the process model (also caused by linux making it way too hard to map executables with huge pages, itlb faults are a significant issue).

That's not to say that a 1 connection: 1 thread approach is the right thing for a pooler - threads area also don't scale great. I think there are good simplicity arguments to be made for a 1 connection: 1 thread model for a database server itself, but for poolers the benefits seem much smaller.
The US govt is certainly still involved in propaganda. For example, NASA helped with The Martian.[1] DoD released a game, America's Army, about 20 years ago with a total budget of $32 million over 8 years or so.[2] Also, Pentagon pays about $10-15 million annually just for the various pro-military messaging we see at sports events (salute to veterans, etc).[3] These are just some examples, but there are plenty more.

[1]. https://www.popsci.com/why-nasa-helped-ridley-scott-create-m...

[2]. https://www.wired.com/2009/12/americas-army-budget

[3]. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/11/04...
Glassdoor is utterly useless for tech industry jobs.

The data is many years out of date and drastically under market.

Check levels.fyi and teamblind.com instead.
Oh, that's fun. You're right, I went straight for luajit and typed in some praise for Mike Pall. Everyone is weird..
After reading through all this, I have no idea what the real underlying issue is. Someone seems to be angry with someone over some incident, but we don't know what the incident was.
You need to tax unearned income as well.
If you're a CS student or software engineer: don't go for a grad degree (MS or PhD). Start work right out of college, whether it be at a startup or FAANG. Get some work experience, savings (and stock if you're lucky), you can always go back to higher education later if you want to, and that work experience will be worth it when you do go back.

I understand some might disagree with this advice, but having done a grad degree 10+ years ago, this is what I would advice my younger self.
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I wasn't aware of this, thank you.
I mean, at that point they could just drop stuff off of the list they didn't like. Does anyone have independently verifiable data to compare against?
They'd need a stage0 systems built specifically to support a 15m large fairing. I'm not saying this will never happen, I just don't think it will be on the cards for a long time, if at all. Basing things around 9m/12m may be a better idea if they want to get something in the sky sooner, rather than later.
E.g., the following used to be a statement in MySQL, at the time I used it; I presume it still is:

CREATE KEY …

It is the primary form of this alias:

CREATE INDEX

which is what the command does (it creates an index; it does not "create" a "key".) But since the form of the command with the correct words is itself an alias, the wrong form gets output any time MySQL self-describes something, generating endless confusion from people thinking a set of columns are a key, when they actually may or may not be. (They might also be a key, but index does not imply key.)

> struggled with functional dependencies

E.g., in GROUP BYs:

SELECT a FROM table GROUP BY b;

where a is not a functional dependency of b. (The statement is thus nonsense.) MySQL will permit this statement to execute, and generate undefined results for column `a` in the output.

In the day I used it, UTF-8 was not the default (the default was latin1, IIRC). Even better, the "utf8" encoding wasn't UTF-8. It was like UTF-8 except where it wasn't. Generated endless numbers of "ah crap, this table/DB isn't UTF-8 and will need a migration."

Simple date math in SELECTS would result in idiocy. (The output of SELECT date_a - date_b was something like "stringify the dates, remove the hyphens, cast to int, subtract" — yes, that sounds crazy, but yet that was a bug I had to work out once. There's a separate DATEDIFF function or something to do the right thing, but the point is that the naïve thing neither errors nor does anything sensible.)

Schema changes escaped from transactions.
As an IT professional you should know to never use fingerprints or facial recognition for logins.
Breakdown lanes are for emergencies. Entering the breakdown lane for a non emergency, such as to check your phone, is illegal in some, if not all, US states. It is also just a generally really bad, dangerous idea. If you need to check your phone, get off the highway.
Hmm. :)
This is partly not your fault, however; the manner in which documentation is provided (or not provided, to be exact) is also complicit.

E.g., there are languages where the offline manual covers 99% of all your needs. I include bash and c, octave, matlab in this category.

Then there's languages that feel the offline docs are best left ad an afterthought, and focus most of their effort either towards funky online documentation websites, or effectively relegate it all to stackoverflow.
Still waiting to be able to import existing mails (would like to switch from protonmail)....
The console says "no camera is set".
(Although the sibling post pointing to my postgres connection scalability post is right - processes are not the major bottleneck at the moment, and certainly not with < PG 14)
Does anyone here actually read the resolution before they go claim that the EU is "outlawing math". This is about punching very small and specific holes in the GDPR to allow service providers to scan for CSAM. It does not make it illegal to create technology that can't be intercepted. It removes the excuse that you can't provide the government with data because that would be violating GDPR.

Additionally, service providers MUST inform you that you they have scanned your data for CSAM: "Service providers should inform users in a clear, prominent and comprehensible way that they have invoked the exemption provided for in the Regulation"
This is essentially what very wealthy people do with their money. They purchase changes in the world around them and so shape the world to more closely fit their own ideals.
How much saved up do you think is a lot? Just wondering
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That also holds for me, which I suppose makes me a slow coder. I imagine that coders like Thorvalds or Carmack don't have these issues and that's why they are fast. In my head its like typing. I 'type' with 2 fingers and always looking. They 'type' with 10 fingers and blind.
Long term, I'd expect non-remote companies to outperform remote-only companies. On-site work leads to more chance encounters, more creativity, in addition to tighter feedback loops.

I'm the founder of a remote-only startup (from before covid, 8+ years), and every once in a few months, we get together for a couple weeks to do some collaborative work, and the teams productivity is an order of magnitude higher, even though we don't overwork. Initially I attributed this to the different state of mind that we bring in those two weeks, but eventually I realized in a well functioning team, excitement just rubs of each other.

We'll continue being remote as a lifestyle choice, but I firmly believe that if we were together in the same room, and spent even half the time at work, we'd be more productive.

Additionally I believe remote is better suited for senior devs, with 10+ years of experience and generally have their lives together. I sincerely believe that juniors, especially those just out of college will hurt their trajectory, as they'll loose the ability to observe and learn the behavior of seniors and adopt mentors. Also some of my closest friends today are those I've met at work in my first job, and have been thorough the "trenches" together with.

Ymmv.
With Google available, there's no upper limit on programming complexity. Before search engines, programming had to be simple enough that people could learn all the necessary parts. That restriction has been removed.
Yes? They might have other useful ideas or opinions that I may benefit from being exposed to. People are multidimensional.

If there is a conference being organized about some technology, I'd like to see speakers who have the most to contribute, on that merit only. I couldn't care less if they march around with armbands on in their spare time. I'm suggesting that more people learn to compartmentalize.
Yes, as you’ve said, some of the mods in the Mod team were also the subreddit mods, and they deleted the comments and locked the threads by their own volition (even without requirement from the Core team, so this reinforces my interpretation). It’s likely that the Mod team wasn’t adversarial with the Core team from the start, but tensions gradually grew as the drama surrounding the core team got unmanageable.
I'm guessing you'll need to know a little bit so that you can sell yourself during the coffee talk. If you are new to the self driving car field you'll probably come across Geohot's startup in the first hour of online search.
Need an option in the survey for "want to use" and then get feedback on what's holding the user back.
Thanks for this! I recently set up a k8s home cluster for running an older game's dedicated servers. This will he useful!

(For the inevitable "why?": One if the quirks of this old game is you can run multiple server instances networked together to work around lack of multithreading in the code- I'm developing k8s tooling to leverage that to scale performance. https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Headless_Client)
>Though many things have changed in the last 70 years, it seems as if the stock market still plays the same role and function today as it did back then.

Does it, though? The cartoon (which was probably a little naive even back when it was made) presents a world where corporations have a duty to provide good jobs and to serve the national interest in times of crisis. It describes the stock market as the mechanism for these corporations to raise money for growth and to share their profits with public shareholders. It talks about how carefully the NYSE vets the companies going public, and how a company must have substantial real assets and profits to be considered.

But I would argue that today, the tail is wagging the dog. Capital uses the market as a way to aggregate more capital, and if it happens to provide some money for growth and some of the wealth gets spread around, that's just a happy side effect. Those considerations are secondary to the game. Companies go public now with virtually no assets other than name recognition, and no profit in sight. There are public companies with billion-dollar valuations and less than 200 employees. There is no implicit or explicit expectation of social value, a company is judged solely on its return on capital, a judgment that will always be weighted towards those with the most capital to begin with. The idea that it contributes to the national standard of living, or can provide some value in a national emergency, doesn't enter into the discussion at all.

The cartoon is goofy, but at least it has a notion of civic obligation that no longer exists.
I thought the Colorado law was about base pay?

Personally I don't care about stocks on a job posting. I consider stocks to be worth 0 when considering offers unless it's a public company with all the information available for me to evaluate the company.

This is because statistically the startup will fail. And there's no way to make a fact based evaluation if it will fail or not until after you are working for them. If you are one of the initial hires it's basically blindly gambling on the founders. The exception being if the founders have previously founded successful startups, in which case you are betting on their experience.
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- Starfield Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-baJwEjUsk&ab_channel=AmirR...

- Starfield Source: https://gist.github.com/amirrajan/508f1a6aaf5352cab579104e61...

- Skybox/Coordinate System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvlRg3GvcLY&ab_channel=AmirR...
Works beautifully on edge on an iphone7
Yep, defining memorization as learning "isolated" facts presupposes that the teacher is too lazy to draw connections in the classroom and explain the relevance of what the students are learning. It defines memorization as something that only an incompetent teacher would utilize, like defining engagement with primary sources as having students read material in dense technical or archaic language they don't understand, without assistance, or defining classroom discussion as asking the students to talk about the material and then going to the teacher's lounge to have a cup of coffee. No teacher would defend the use of techniques framed that way.
I've mislaid my copy of Bill's "How I put a computer on every desk while totally fucking up everyone's idea of what software is, how it could be developed and how it might be used". To be honest, it was a riveting read but I don't really want to get into the sequel "How I became a nice guy and everyone forgot about the terrible things I did in business".
That comes across to me as being thoughtlessly dismissive.

Money helps, but there are a huge number of other factors that are just as important. That is demonstrated by the number of answers here by people that quit without having money, and the variety of stories and outcomes.

I quit my job a few years back, and I believe I have the financial runway to do so, but I am still unsure if it was a good idea.

Not working is weird because most of my peer group works. I have found there are social costs to not working. I find that not working has other significant issues, even though I have had plenty of chance to learn mitigations (I have had multiple job sabbaticals in my life e.g. travelling when I had little money).

I would be happy to work again, if it were a job that invigorated me rather than slowly killing me. Our time is our most valuable asset, and every second our remaining balance diminishes.

There is a certain amount of mystical or wishful thinking while working, about quitting work and relaxing or refocusing for a while. I have found reality turns out to be more mundane.

It is still my ongoing choice not to work, but the consequences of that decision are not quite so clear cut.
That's news to me. I didn't know D had actors but I like it's meta-programming features because it cuts down on all sorts of boilerplate. I haven't used it that much, I just looked into it briefly for some low-level programming projects.
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