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> And it seems obvious that a mishmash of solar panels on thousands of roofs pointed in random directions, is nowhere as efficient as a large solar farm.

I don't think that's obvious at all. Solar farms either use up expensive land, or have to be located so far away that transmission costs could be a significant percentage. Solar roofs get both land and structural support for free, thye're located much closer to where the electricity is needed, and can be engineered to double as a roof surface that you needed anyway. They also aren't "pointed in random directions": installers carefully analyze each roof to determine what sides/angles are worth putting panels on.

> A rational system generates the power it needs on the grid that needs it when its needed.

Solar fundamentally can't always generate the power when it's needed, regardless of where you put the solar panels. That said, solar does a particularly good job of powering air conditioning loads: for that solar roofs both put the power where it's needed, and when it's needed.
That was the kind of Socratic point of my question.. I agree 100%
> You're that person in this thread. Congrats.

The other side of this debate is insisting we are actually spiritual and not really atheist and you are calling us out?

I’ve been an atheist for 40 years now. After you’ve been through these arguments in high school debates, philosophy classes, on Usenet, slashdot, digg and Reddit; you start to recognize the signs for when you need to just walk away from the discussion because you are being sealioned or proselytized or otherwise being engaged in bad faith.
You can go on the lichess discord, a lot of mods and admins are online there.
Most of these issues are not technological problems.

Housing is not really a problem outside of certain big cities, and in those cities it's a problem due to corruption. If you can come up with a technology to defeat corruption and make society perfect, you might as well change your name to God.

I'm not sure where you see health as lacking, but it seems to be on the rise everywhere if you ignore the ongoing but temporary distortion caused by covid. Technology certainly can play a big role in making healthcare more accessible and available, but tech will not, for example, get universal healthcare for US citizens.

Income and opportunity inequality is mostly a social/legal issue, and tech has tended to exacerbate inequality rather than reduce it. Like healthcare, tech can improve access for some, but global variation in infrastructure, economy, population, etc. will always leave some people with less resources or opportunity than others.

People being mean, committing crimes, lying, will never be stopped by technology. Technology is an enabler, if you want to stop things you need to reach for social pressure.

Bullshit jobs will only be gone when the expectation that every individual slave away 8*5*350*55 or be worthless scum of society is gone. That's a social issue, not a technological one.
BusKill does not ship with destructive triggers.

The current app is limited to locking your screen. Future releases will include soft/hard shutdown. So, by default, your clumsiness would just mean you have to type your password to unlock your screen. Not a big compromise :)

We do have a "LUKS Header Shredder" trigger (which we call self-destruct as it renders all the data on the FDE disk useless), but we (intentionally) don't include it by default and raise the barrier of entry because of the risk of data loss.

We'll be publishing a more detailed write-up on the LUKS Header Shredder in 2 weeks. You can subscribe for updates on our website (buskill.in) or the campaign directly (crowdsupply.com)
> he's most concerned about keeping the software simple, not making it actually work for real people.

You think your use case represents "real people"? Your problem is so niche it's not unreasonable for the developer to recommend you fork it and maintain your change as a fork for as long as you wish to use it. Real people don't fiddle with their touchpad settings to that extent. It's quite alright for you to prefer more complex solutions as well, but the vitriol towards libinput, a fantastic solution for 99.999% of users is undeserved.
I might be in the minority here but numpads are a must for me on any keyboard. I find typing phone numbers, etc, with the numkeys at the top of the main keyboard to be incredibly tedious.
Yeah see that's what I thought, I feel like I saw a gift card like that through Sephora this year during the black Friday/Cyber Monday madness and I was really tempted to actually buy a gift card for once.
Equity compensation at places like Google vests monthly with no cliff, and it's taxed as income. You get what you see on the tin.
Ask HN: How do you balance personal stressors and a full-time career?
I was recently in this dilemma where my grandfather had a stroke & I wanted to be by his side throughout his hospitalization.

While my coworkers & boss were extremely supportive of me taking a few days off, I couldn't shake the urge to still "check-in" and work whenever I wasn't by my grandfather's side.

I felt the more I was disconnected from work, the harder it was going to be for me when I came back, so I tried to "keep myself afloat" by replying to IMs, emails, and do whatever work I could asynchronously.

Everyone I know (including folks I work with) always say we should strive for a work/life balance, but I feel like that completely compartmentalizing the two is impossible. Especially if I want to continue to progress my career & not do sub-par work.

Maybe I'm just overthinking it, but would love your thoughts on how best to handle this.
Try a good Magnesium supplement, this will bring down your general anxiety and also regulate heart contractions:

> In the heart, magnesium plays a key role in modulating neuronal excitation, intracardiac conduction, and myocardial contraction by regulating a number of ion transporters, including potassium and calcium channels.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29793664/
I haven't read much into it, but since it's Raft, it's most certainly executing all writes/updates as well as consistent reads against a single leader node.

All changes to the database would then be propagated through Raft using a commit log, which would be read and accepted by follower nodes. This is also reinforced by the fact, that nondeterministic operations are supported.

Thus, everything around transactions and CAS's will work the same as it normally does, as it executes on the leader.
Yes they are, and they phone home to China constantly. If you use a DJI drone, you're being spied upon. That's why the US DoD has banned them.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22463946/dji-drone-ban-pen...
I'm admittedly not a fan of Stellantis, but knowing Dodge they'll give the Hemi one hell of a sendoff. They already have the crate Hellephant, wonder if they'll try to cram an emissions legal version of that in a Charger/Challenger/Durango?

Edit: Downvoters, explain yourself.
> lower

Using the word "lower" here implies you're comparing open source software to something (closed source software), in which case you'd be implying that closed source software is engaged with and reviewed by security conscious developers.

If you think that's the case just because you've heard of a few high-profile open source vulnerabilities, I've got news for you...
Carpet, and rugs; hardwood floors get hand polished in my house, we are not savages.
I'm kinda-ok with powerplant consolidation. Do we really need 4-5 different big-displacement V8s? The GM OHV Small Block family is already the go-to answer for the aftermarket; it should be the same for OEMs. Maybe that requires a change in how car companies view IP, licensing, and the value they add as product integrators.
Heavy citation needed here I think.
Some useful data on this mystery; Cloudflare DNS doesn't see very many queries for these _ domains globally. So maybe it's something weird my ISP is doing. https://twitter.com/elithrar/status/1471260615947788290
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> Folks aren't home during peak sunshine.

Work-from-home is certainly changing that. Not to mention stay-at-home parents, etc.
Encryption attacks are being mitigated by backups, but Linux servers don't usually use x.org or GUI do they? This might be why desktop linux isn't being adopted by business, but my point was that we hear of encryption attacks often, but not a single x.org attack that would make migration more pressing. Its living in a nuclear shelter when there is no nuclear threat, and living in an uncomfortable state out of paranoia.

Linux is said to be safer in the public, but if x.org is that bad, is windows actually safer since it doesn't use x?

I think its useful to mitigate problems, without real world examples its hard to care about invisible hypotheticals, especially at the cost of lost functionality.
I've got a side project where I'm building a tablet based around the CM4, and one big issue is that none of the RPis can suspend to RAM. If I stick with the CM4 (I may switch to one of the two rk3566 boards mentioned in TFA, which hopefully support suspend), I'll probably end up having my tablet suspend to disk.
Why not let the AC run during the day so that it remains cool on free electricity, and you don’t need AC at night.. No?
I wonder about this, I heard same claim before. I however owned 2 of them over the last 5 years(moved a country and did not bring first one). Fact that I bought the second one kinda tells the story.

Honest I never had any issue with them.. maybe if you have a huge house? Or really thick carpets. I find it incredibly convenient and it works well enough, convenient means you can use it every day and do not need to get through that barrier of getting something out of the closet. I have the charging station mounted next to the fridge and honestly I will never buy another kind of vacuum.
You can't import your own custom ringtone on iOS?

What possible justification could Apple have for such a limitation? "Security" again?
My main takeaway from this is that getting rich isn't worth the trouble
Ok. I asked about services, not software one can buy, but anyway... how much did you pay for your email client? Group Chat messenger? VoIP soft-phone?
Truly the power to serve.
With over 6 billion doses taken worldwide it's currently about as experimental as aspirin.
You must mean something other than CO2? Catalytic converters aren't intended to reduce CO2.
Tbh. I doubt that it makes a huge difference.

Some of the best/easiest ways for someone with experience to find vulnerabilities is to throw automatic analysis tools at it. Many of which do work on binaries/disassembly, too.

Don't forget that in many cases it's not too hard to disassemble binaries.

Sure having the source can make it easier, but then things being open source also means that non evil actors might look at you code and help you find/fix problems before they become big. Which I believe somewhat balances it out. (for larger/widely used projects).

Like imagine log4j becoming known because of multiple supper wide spread attacks happening all over the internet, instead of getting known and then fixed and then mass attacks happened because updates take so long. And the log4j vulnerability is totally discoverable without source code. Idk. who found it but I wouldn't be surprised if someone ran into a non-security bug triggered by it and was, hey, wait a moment. Even if it didn't happen like that, it totally could have(1). Closed source would not have helped at all. At best it would delayed it and then made the effects worse due to coordinated wide spread attacks before there is a fix/mitigations.
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You want to look at t2linux.org. There is nothing to circumvent, it's just that some of the drivers aren't upstream yet. NVMe has been upstream for years, so you won't have any issues doing a vanilla Linux install with an up to date distro, especially on a Mac Mini (the bigger issue is no upstream keyboard support on the T2 laptops).

I'm working on Wi-Fi for M1 Macs this week and that particular patch will be useful for T2 Macs too, so hopefully that will be upstream in the near future.
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Keep reading. I've seen a lot of these clause's lately that have limits placed on them in another clause further down that, for example, makes clear that things you do that don't relate to the company business on your own time and equipment are not covered.

But if the totality of the agreement doesn't carve out exceptions like that, don't sign it. It's egregious overreach.
Whether something is breaking or not is not always clear-cut. For one thing, changes can become breaking in retrospect sometimes. For example, in C#, renaming a method argument wasn't breaking until the language introduced named arguments in calls.

There are also changes which are breaking in a very non-obvious way, to put it mildly. For example, in C# again, adding any new member to a class can break existing code that happens to pass implicitly typed lambdas to overloaded methods, because overload resolution involves checking whether the lambda body is valid for a given candidate - thus, adding a member can make a lambda ambiguous. I'm not aware of anyone actually treating this as a breaking change for semver purposes, though.
5 and 4 are the result of 3 which is the result of 2 & 1. Both housing and healthcare are heavily regulated which makes it difficult to apply the tech growth model to them. I wholeheartedly believe the "Tesla of health insurance" could blow every existing healthcare company out of the water, but the industry is so over-complicated that executing such a feat is nearly impossible. Housing is even worse because zoning is a matter of local government, so apart from staging a coup to take over the government there is nothing any company can do, which is why the issue has been so consistent over the last few decades.
Not only that, but LogMeIn itself was then sold to a private equity[1] company shortly after in 2019. I was iffy when LogMeIn bought them, this made me switch to Bitwarden.

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/lastpass-parent-company-sold-to-p...
I think in the US there are also a good tax breaks for creating 'farms' on your land. Since we give so much subsidy to the industry. IIRC lot of billionaires will get sheep grazing or something like that to claim their mega mansions as farms. I thought I remember Marc Cuban is an example but can't find a quick source. So maybe my memory is wrong on this one.
cool! i suppose even with limited metadata with e2ee, you could probably do a quick study to get a sense for how many calls could switch (how many are 2 party, how many aren't behind nats, etc) and maybe even get a sense for how much could be saved in operation costs.

interesting privacy considerations now that i think of it though. p2p would trivially leak the existence of a call between two devices, but i suppose that given the right taps it would be possible to correlate through server streams based on timing data anyhow.
What do you mean "new companies don't want to make ICs into managers?" Where else do they get managers from? Do they only hire managers from outside? In the companies I've worked at, there has always been a lack of ICs keen to step up into manager positions.
Sailfish finds Reentrancy and TOD bugs in smart contracts
This is great! Where are the archives stored? Locally on the streamer’s machine or on a remote server?
That V6 is a lot cheaper up front, has a 0% chance of needing a $1500 turbo thrown at it in the mid 100k mile range and probably gets better fuel economy if you drive it with the skinny pedal on the floor all the time. You're not the target customer. People who only buy single cab 2wd trucks in white and a half dozen at a time are.
A lot of it is how the cooling and lubrication is set up. Many turbos use engine oil lubrication and cool the bearings the same way, which can easily degrade oil additive quality prematurely, since that bearing is heated by 1000*F exhaust gases and running around 200k RPMs. Change your oil early (~5k miles, earlier than most manufacturer recommendations) and use full synthetic and they should last. Oh, and don’t run right up to the redline constantly…
It increased CO2 emissions? The cat doesn't touch CO2, it only affects unburned exhaust gases. And CO2 is a primary emission, if it was "significantly" increased then you would also see a significant increase in... fuel consumption. Where else would the carbon be coming from?
> Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
Really?

Most of the costs for using the NGINX AMI + t2.nano come from software (0.29/hr), not EC2 (0.006/hr).

That's like the worst instance you could pick to prove anything about the performance of your platform. At most you're telling me your AMI costs half of NGINX's... Which still is a lot more than just running Ubuntu with a free AMI.
I've read the meaning and I can tell what the numbers mean, but it's still less intuitive than percentage.
Which ones in particular do you disagree with and why?
On the other hand, the answer to "when can I run a compiler or JIT runtime on iDevices" has historically been "never", and I wouldn't be surprised if that answer eventually applies to Mac devices too.
The last time “macros in Clojure” came up, I searched through some of the libraries I’ve run across to see how often they’re used and, as you suggest, it ain’t much.

Re-frame has just one, and it looks like it’s used for testing. Clara-rules has eight that are used in the library, which implements a forward-chaining Rete rule engine. Core.logic has a handful, and that’s essentially “prolog inside Clojure.” So clearly those libraries get a lot of mileage out of data and functions, with just a dash of macro.

I have yet to reach for them myself, and I can’t imagine a situation where I’d need a macro instead of a function. I think they’re probably great for library developers who are smarter than me, and I’m happy to leave them to it.
Thankfully being looked at is not sexual assault.
On the server Overpass is hosted on. I'm considering moving to some sort of object storage when Cloudflare officially releases R2. I'm also looking at deploying my own instance to Fly.io at some point in the future.
For me, the battery-powered vacuums do what they say, but you need to fuss them a lot.

The lever to dump the contents broke after a year, so it works but doesn't stay attached to the handle. I have to be careful opening it to avoid dumping the small bin in the big bin. It doesn't click back on without some force, so you can be pushing it around looking like it's working while there isn't actually a seal, so it pushes the dirt around the floor.

The filter clogs at the slightest provocation, so if you don't wash (and dry) it daily, it will start pulsing uselessly until you do. It doesn't work unless the filter is bone dry.

The high-powered speed busts your eardrums; my children scarper when I use it for even a few seconds and I find it painful. It burns the battery up in under 3 minutes.

So it is fine but there are a lot of trade-offs that you have to learn about.

I still keep their mains-powered vacuum too, which is a lot less stressful. Also because I like pain, their robot Heurist 360, which is generally awesome except for 5% of the time when it gives up in the middle of a run for no obvious reason.
That's great, I'll switch when its not a skeletonized version of the functionality I use now, I hope there is an easy way to import global hotkeys in my current programs, and have widgets or GUI support. I tried using ctrl and up as a hotkey in the compositor for instance and it never worked in dbus when I tried last week.

I just mentioned GNOME because I actually really dislike it, and was forced to use it for good tablet support with wayland, they broke those plugins I used.
Xcode 13.2 (and maybe earlier) contains a project template for a "Swift Playgrounds App" in the iOS category.
As a language, it’s quite nice but slow. Runtime speed is so-so, compilation speed is awful. I really wish it were actually swift!

Feels very similar to Kotlin on the whole.

It’s definitely being adopted by Mac and iOS developers for apps (although the only real alternative is Objective-C). And there are a few build tools and the like using Swift -- many with installation instructions for Linux! -- although I think on a very small scale compared to C/C++, Rust, Go, Java and Node.

If anyone’s seriously using Swift on the server, I’d be surprised (but interested to hear about it).
Might have been more NOx, but the presentation also referred to COx. I’m not an emissions specialist, so I might have misinterpreted parts of it. Or it could have been related to combustion efficiency in addition to reaction efficiency.
Cool! I agree that using prepared statements is indeed the best way to handle this stuff.

There were plans to build out the binary protocol in Trilogy as well, it just hadn't been wrapped up by the time it was made open source. And if I recall, that branch fell pretty far behind. Maybe now that it is OSS, someone can contribute that :)
I'm still not sure I understand. If there is a working proof of concept for the exploit that is published, would you still consider that an invisible hypothetical? To me, it's not, I would like to have those patched. As with meltdown and spectre there may be functional tradeoffs, but when significant money is at risk from security vulnerabilities then I'd usually expect security to win out.

The attack vector for a trojan or ransomware can be a GUI system. It can be anything really, the malware just needs a way to get into the network and then it can cause more trouble and spread to more nodes.
It is possible for the two following statements to be simultaneously true:

* the ability of collaborating groups of humans to achieve/produce scales super-linearly with the number of humans[1]

* the growth of human population is causing problems, and is likely to cause more problems in the future

One reason is the scarcity of resources[2]; another is that "humanity" as a whole is not collaborating with all of itself.

[1] actually, I don't even think this is true, beyond some limit - but it's true for small groups

[2] which could be mitigated somewhat by fairer allocation of resources, or by process changes to focus more on fundamental needs; but, still the fact remains that the resources that we have access to on Planet Earth are limited, and access to extraterrestrial resources are extremely expensive