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Poured money into SETI? Which money is that? SETI hasn't recieved meaningful public funding for a long while, decades. As a species, we spend more on makeup glitter than we do on searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

The vast majority of seti is about combing through data from other projects. Basically zero telescope time is used for actually looking. Every candidate signal (ie BLC1) is discovered after the event. And zero telescopes are actively listening for repeat signals.
This is a great first step. The more fabs that are built here, the more supply chains that feed them will follow. Supply chains tend to follow the manufacturers where feasible. This will eventually improve things even more for the other high tech companies in the state as they do move supply chains closer to production. Texas has been making some pretty substantial long term investments in the last few years. If you don't plant trees today, you won't have shade to sit beneath 20 years from now. The best time to start is often yesterday. These things take time and a great deal of capital and I'm glad to see some places are moving forward.
My last startup was spending stupid money on AWS services and horizontal scaling for an app which had, when I left, about 100 users and maybe 2 concurrent at a given time. And they had been doing this since before I joined when the numbers were much lower. The complexity was idiotic and no one but the devops guy who set it up could grok it. We still managed to have frequent downtime
> y'know what'd surprise literally none of the poors if you told them?

Because apparently all poor people all the same in your mind.
This is pretty neat! The compression rates and encode/decode rates are impressive for such a simple rule set.

> SIMD acceleration for QOI would also be cool but (from my very limited knowledge about some SIMD instructions on ARM), the format doesn't seem to be well suited for it. Maybe someone with a bit more experience can shed some light?

I don’t know about SIMD encoding, but for decoding at least, the core problem is to make some unit of the image (pixels, scanlines, blocks, etc) independently addressable (readable). The current format is complicated due to pixels of different sizes; there’s no way to know where data for pixel 1000 starts without reading all preceding 999 pixels. You could build a prefix-sum array of pixel indices, but that will fully undermine your compression.

One question might be how well does QOI work on independent scan lines or blocks? Is the compression still pretty good if the look-back window is limited in size and restarts every once in a while?

To make a GPU capable format, the very first thing you would probably need to do is separate the tag bits from all the other data, so a thread could identify the pixel type by direct lookup into the tag buffer. It then needs to know where to go to find the remaining data, so you’d probably need at least one byte of data that could be used to reliably locate the rest of the data. I don’t see an easy way to make this happen for separate pixels, but it might not be bad if the image is encoded in blocks or scanlines.
still need to power the esp so you'd maybe need mains AC-DC PSU.
CATs are implemented in a turing complete language called Chialisp https://chialisp.com/docs/puzzles/cats/
My favorite example of such is https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-7/.

$20 doesn't buy as much today as it did in 1800. :-)
i don't think our biggest industry is watch nowadays.. but i agree with your explanation!
> I'm not quite following the distinction you're making here between young and old

What I was getting at is that the vast majority of people dying in the ICU are 60+. So scaling up ICU's isn't gonna do much for them. Scaling up ICU's to cater for the <60 group (plus non-Covid hospitalizations) on the other hand, which you as well mention are more represented now with boosters, we could simply ease up on restrictions, not worry about the minority of unvaccinated people, and let this run its course much quicker than what the current "plan" allows for.

> multiple specially trained nurses per bed

How much training? Just brainstorming here: Wouldn't a 2-6 month (paid) intensive course be enough? It's not like you'd need to specialize in everything, just common symptoms/issues related to Covid hospitalizations. And after that you'd have a guaranteed well-paid* job for as long as this lasts. Throw in a college education like the military, if we're talking the US, for good measure.

Just seems like there could be more done so much more in this area.

*) this would of course include paying these people properly, which could be done through government subsidies

edit: We thought the vaccine would take care of this whole thing but now after it's apparent it won't, we need to think of better solutions.
What rotten tomatoes considers the "best films of all time" is laughable across the spectrum.

Some gems from the top 10:

4. Black Panther

6. Parasite

7. Avengers: Endgame

9. Knives Out

10. Us

Its surely just coincidence that the half of the best films ever made in human history were produced in the last 5 years.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/
Does it? If required_length is 10, it allocates 12 bytes, and writes element 13, which is byte 26 and 27.
I always assumed his anti-crypto writing was related to being in the Haskell community and a lot of Haskell community really going all-in for crypto at some point several years ago. I think because the problems were interesting and the type of hard that Haskell people like.

It's news to me he has other reasons to dislike crypto. I didn't know about adjoint, but that is very curious. I wonder which came first, the distaste or the financial company.

I suspect his opinion would be the same regardless of adjoint.
For someone interested in robotics and automation, what types of groups/jobs would one look for specifically in this industry? Also geographically where are these types of jobs located?
McDonalds and Taylor have a very close relationship.
I suspect there needs to be some newer patterns in open source build systems that help the cloud-based IDEs become a "thing".

It's the build systems that give me confidence that my IDE choice isn't some permanent lock-in. I almost always add .gitignore rules to never check in preferences from anything made by JetBrains, and you know what? It always seems to work fine. For example, my Java project structures are defined by Maven and Gradle, not IntelliJ. IntelliJ uses those conventions.

For this to _really_ take off, I sense we just need to be able to bounce offline or online if we want to. And the way that's going to happen is just via the build system defining the structure and workflow.

This could happen, but it requires a lot of build work that I don't see happening right now. At least, not in the open
This reminds me of a debate that Tucker Carlson was having, wherein he mentioned that, if he were king, he would immediately ban self-driving trucks, reasoning that truck driving is the #1 employer of non-college educated men in the US. I don't think Carlson thinks such a ban would be advisable in the long run, but there's certainly a point to be made that destroying the livelihoods of large swathes of the population is not something to be trifled with. People aren't fungible, truckers don't become software devs overnight, if ever. There's a cultural aspect to it too, which I think UBI will not fix. Take the coal mining industry in Virginia - there are families there that have been miners for generations. At that point it's become a matter of pride and a centerpiece of their culture, not just a source of income. Cash payments from the government cannot replace that. I grew up surrounded by the abandoned mills left after the collapse of the textile industry in the South. Although a few have been converted into lofts and trendy bars, many remain empty and it hollowed out the communities that grew around them. Parents sent their children to the cities to seek other work; when they get there they lost the old support structure of parents, extended family, friends, and Churches. The kids have no friends to rely on, the parents go into nursing homes as they've no one to take care of them, and there is no transfer of culture. These are the issues that conservatism should attempt to address - instead we get wal-mart patriotism, hyper-libertarian off-shoring of jobs, and neocon wars in the name of evangelical democracy.
All carrier aircraft are typically brought into the hangar for several hours of maintenance after every flight. But if necessary the F-35B can be immediately refueled and rearmed on the flight deck and sent right out again in a matter of minutes.

Maintainers on a carrier can do fairly complex repairs, including engine replacement. If they need more working space in the hangar then other aircraft can be parked temporarily on the flight deck.

The F-35 is primarily a strike fighter so supersonic speed isn't that useful. The biggest problem with flying at supersonic speeds is it drastically increases fuel consumption, and the F-35B has a very limited fuel capacity. British carriers have no tankers.

As long as an aircraft is still in active production the design phase is never "finished". Updates will continue for decades. The F-15 design is about 50 years old and it's still not finished.

The F-22 production program was cancelled in 2011 because there was just no funding available. It wasn't possible to fight the wars in the Middle East, and procure more F-22s. Something had to give.
Who balked? Apple anchored in Ireland and got an amazing deal. I doubt they balked at that.
I feel you. I have been attacked once and it truly frightened me. I still think most dogs cant be held as most people are to incompetent to care properly for a dog. So my point of view is more that having those dogs in the first place is perhaps a bad idea.
IIRC postgrest starts a transaction for each request, and inside of that sets the variables. I've done some testing to make sure that variables do not leak between requests.

See the local option here for more options: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-admin.html...

If using the role-mapping feature of postgrest it works similarly, only setting the ROLE instead of the variables.
web3.js has been around for at least 5 years. Think how much the WWW evolved in that amount of time.
Problem for me is if I settle, I start to settle every step of the way and 0.95^n is pretty small when n is not small. If you settle here and there you already can have something that’s 10% of the optimal thing. It’s a lot worse if you make a habit of it. I see some honour in sitting with my failure and struggling to be optimal than settle. I know it’s holding me back and that it’s mentally and emotionally taxing but I’m more terrified of descending far below mediocrity.
What's the likelihood that the other $39M is parked with the prosecuting agents?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-federal-agents-c...
The King James Bible (1611) is still under Royal Prerogative in the UK
True but opening foreign bank accounts is difficult and like western countries physical cash can be legally seized by authorities even if it was acquired legally.
> Linux distribution is a distribution, not a vendor.

I don't understand what you mean here. Do you think that the Debian is not trying to provide a full OS, they are just curating a set of popular packages?

I think this is patently false, as most distributions typically take clear decisions to standardize and maintain particular OS components, such as choosing a particular libc (glibc in most distros, musl in Alpine), choosing a particular init system (systemd vs System V), particular network management demon etc.

However, instead of taking additional time to create and commit to a backwards compatible Debian SDK, Alpine SDK etc, they then package all of these OS components the same way they package popular software.
The easiest (and probably the only) way to prevent a war with China is to convince the US to not start it.
Stablecoins are dangerous because they have the potential to change the current selection effects on the elite. For one thing, stablecoins subvert the ability of the Federal Reserve to print money and give it to their friends at Goldman Sachs et al --- normally this is supposed to result in their friends have a larger fraction of money than they previously had. You start with 1 dollar, David at Goldman Sachs starts with 1 dollar, you each have 50% of the wealth in the "nation." David and his friends start printing themselves money, soon they have 99 dollars and you have 1, and you can't compete because they'll lock you up with violence for being a "counterfeiter." That's how inflation works.

When there's stablecoin, you just put your dollar in stablecoin before they print the money, the dollar inflates, stablecoin goes up proportionately, you spend the stablecoin and things remain fair.

This obviously curtails the ability of the ruling class to reproduce itself. More than that, if the pool of people getting billions through stablecoins is more random than the pool of people who got rich on the dollar, then the ruling class will change to be more representative of the population as a whole.

This could cause massive cultural changes, consequently.
Having worked in Fab, the supply chain is already in the US+EU+Japan. About the only change in last 5 years or so is Intel's ability to compete in lithography process and get sufficient yield to stay competitive in pricing. Lithography is one of the 400 or so steps in Fab processing, but arguably the most critical and a bottle neck. TSMC does not have a lead in every single of these 400 steps, in fact quite the opposite.

Anytime someone says "impossible", I would take that opinion with a grain of salt.
IMO, street photography is a low art form. It's walking around without a plan, snapping random snapshots of people and expect some meaning to come out on its own. The creation process is regulated to pressing a button and some minor processing.
Perhaps similar to throwing buckets of paint at a canvas and seeing what comes out.

It's usually derivative. Someone alone looking sad because that's their resting face. A black and white high contrast photo of an old person. A homeless person. Political street art (that someone else created).

Some exceptions of course, like Humans of NY where arguably the main part is the backstory and writing behind the people they capture with permission, but that's more portrait photography than street.
When you start thinking about politics/geopolitics from an "interest group" perspective, instead of a national perspective, you will understand all these. "Nation" is just a concept that we put up together as a "framework". It means a lot for common people like us because we simply have nothing else to rely one, but not much for different interest groups (I'm talking about banking, military, lobbyists, industrial conglomerate, those big shots).
The redist installer is recommended but not required.
Keyword there is percentage.
> ask someone of the FSF group what "open source" means and they'll say the obvious meaning is you can look at the source code which is what makes "open source" different than FLOSS

Completely wrong. FSF considers the “open source” term to have the meaning as ascribed to it by the OSI. The FSF does not want to use the term itself, precisely because it can lead to misunderstandings.

The definition of “open source” is universally agreed upon to have the OSI-defined meaning, except for some people:

1. Intelligence community people, who have long understood the term “open source” to mean a source of intelligence which is not itself secret.

2. People who, without having ever looked it up, assume it means that the source code is available for reading. These people are simply ignorant, and should be using the term “source available” instead, since it means exactly that.

3. People who want to be able to use the “open source” term for their software to gain goodwill, but don’t want to actually give all of the freedoms it should guarantee. These people are dishonest shills who try to confuse the debate in order to get away with fraudulent labeling.
"As deaths due to covid increased, the percentage of deaths due to car crashes has decreased"

I somehow think that doesn't mean we made any progress in car/traffic safety. And should not be used as an argument to dismiss/minimize the impact of traffic fatalities.
The way it was once told to me:

Old developers have left. New ones come in. The systems the old devs built suck, so the new team convinces management to do a rewrite. The new devs don’t really understand the problems encountered by the old ones so they repeat all the same mistakes. New system, same problems.

The lesson we’re supposed to take away “no one should ever do full rewrites”. It’s a stretch, but IMO the proper takeaway should be 1) really understand the old system and 2) have a very good reason before doing full rewrites.
Yes encoding might benefit of course, I was more considering decoding speed I suppose.
Remote IDEs will not prevent theft, of course. But they certainly can do things that make it more difficult than simply dragging and dropping a folder onto a flash drive.
This...but did Samsung quietly negotiate a "any further energy supply f*ck-ups are 100% on YOUR dime" deal with the State of Texas, or what? By several accounts, the TX grid got darn close to collapse last winter - at which point "ERCOT Op Center is next door, and we get top priority" would not get you a single erg.
>So the Chinese have UFOs and we have a war with China but we are moving chip production to all these countries you mentioned to prevent the ongoing war with China?

Is it China's UFOs? I don't think so.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/elon-musk-says-the-fighter-j...

Elon is 100% correct the fighter jet era is over. Did you know Elon was on Trump's tech council? https://www.engadget.com/2017-06-01-elon-musk-leaves-trump-c...

>I’d like to give you the benefit of the doubt here though. I think if you were able to be a little more clear I’d at least understand what you intend to say, but I find your comments here a bit confusing.

The blow your mind factor is hard to address because of the roswell factor. I 100% don't believe those UFOs are extraterrestrials.

>Who isn’t talking about it? Assuming you’re talking about poor relations (“Cold War”) and/or loving chip production. It seems to me to be pretty common knowledge and is widely reported in global media sources and the Internet. Don’t the links you provide demonstrate that?

I guess I didn't make that clear. Obviously it's being talked about.

I guess step back for a second. The war with china is obvious. I never even talked about cyber aspect of the war, its not relevant exactly. A nuclear bomb is going to do more in the war than some BGP route stealing tech. The irony of it all, it's China's capitalist zones that are going to be robbed for 'common prosperity' at the same time that the cold war kills those zones like Evergrande situation.
I'm afraid that the war against crypto was lost once Wall Street decided to join the game. Crypto will not go away regardless of utility or externalities.
>> The photo doesn't look censored but the consent issue goes away.

No it doesn't. What post-processing you do is up to you but that doesn't change how people feel about you taking the picture in the first place. They have no idea weather you're going to blur them, enhance them, throw the picture away, or what. Like the author said, it's legal and you don't need consent. The real trick is to not be creepy about it but that's not universally defined.

I was at the marina one day and saw a dog chasing a stick in the water. Lots of splashing about. I stopped and took a picture with my big honking camera. I was careful to get just the dog and not the woman that was throwing the stick, but neither her nor her husband could have known exactly what I got a shot of. Nobody said a word and I moved on thinking how odd it could seem to do that. A friendly comment about what a great subject the dog is might have helped calm any discomfort they may have had but I didn't get the impression it was an issue. Was it to them? I dunno.
No you can redistribute them, that's why they are called redistributable. See here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/determining-whi...
We're not saying it should be illegal, we're saying it's creepy.

The general rule is you can go down to half your age plus seven years. That makes anyone over 36 creepy for dating a 25 year old.
It depends on what you want to do.

If you want to work on one of the processes in the fab (metrology, chemical vapor deposition, photolithography, etc) then an engineering degree (especially chemical engineering) may be your best bet.

If you want to design the chip architecture, then computer engineering is the degree path you want. Samsung has their own chip design subsidiary in Austin too, over on Highway 360 in west Austin, if I remember correctly, called SARC.

Austin Community College has associate degree programs designed for technicians.

I was a software engineer responsible for many of the internally-facing enterprise systems, as well as the intranet. I worked with all of these engineering departments on many different projects, so I had exposure to and visibility into many functional areas and processes of a truly global, high-tech manufacturing concern. In one of the random ways the universe has rolled the dice in my favor, one day a recruiter called me and asked, "Would you like to work for Samsung?"
Don't forget checklist and alarm fatigue. When an alarm goes off every 2 seconds "Check air intake" because of changes in atmospheric pressure etc... When a checklist is 200 items long and your commander is asking why you aren't in the air yet. Organizational failure, when every other pilot in the wing is waiting to taxi because they skimmed the checklist and you are still checking freeze plugs and fuel.

Anyone in charge of this sort of mission critical stuff has to be willing to take it on the chin to ensure safety. If top brass isn't willing to take "safety" as an excuse for a delay or cancellation it's just going to propagate down and cause an accident.
I’m just confused about this. Isn’t most money system digitized already? When we buy stuff online it is indistinguishable from digital money, and the bank as far as they are concerned is seeing numbers on a screen from a database, which is backed by fractional deposits.
Yep, it was intended as a joke, halfway between a citation of The Matrix and the known joke about the Scottish black sheep:
https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/3.htm

Of course bees can communicate between them, and probably also wasps.
Not your keys not your coins. Unless you trust some central authority to take care of you, which you should by now understand that doesn't always work, and when it doesn't work, it's usually a spectacular failure.

So to answer your questions. Although possible, no reconcile is the pure spirit of a trustless network. Now? you make sure to avoid custodian services and keep your keys safe. or stay away from crypto until/if it becomes as ubiquitous as the Internet.
I could be mistaken but it looks like the $5,000 is from the CA Computer Crimes statute. For larceny (theft of personal property) in CA the bar is even lower: $950.
Also although I don't mention it in this article, I am the CTO of a competing fintech firm
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