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The owners of these two properties, many of the home owners around the country, many commercial and other building owners, as well as the building and insurance industries all have possible profit motives.

I'm not going to argue whether government is better or worse here, but it's actually not uncommon in the agricultural industry for similar kind of action being taken against invasive pests that is led by producers' associations which are private organizations. Including very long term action for example there are cases of land being bought up so as to cease farming activity on it indefinitely to prevent pest spread (e.g., with Panama disease in some places).

Arguably it also should not have depended on generosity or public service to deal with the problem, the land owners should have been fairly compensated.
is cardboard airtight?
I just made a script to right-click and save all the olive gardens.
I update once a day manually. I build a few packages, but I rely on linux-tkg for the kernel and pull the rest from AUR using git. The Arch Linux package maintainers are very reliable, rolling release is just better when testing is reliable. No big surprises.
Is it me, or do they appear to be cheating a little on this test...?

The test is designed to test the case where a small overlap causes a traditional crumple zone (designed for full frontal collision) to completely crush and intrude into the passenger compartment. Tesla has solved that by causing the car to deform in such a way to bypass the obstacle.

But I bet if they did a test with slightly more overlap, but not full frontal overlap, it would do really badly.

Really, this is a case of engineering to pass some very specific tests, rather than engineering something that's good for use in the wider world. cough dieselgate cough.
Getting pregnant too early again is not recommended. The body of the new mother should get some time too fully recover.
It is meaningless mathematically. It’s as meaningless as the parent talking about log32(n) because of course log32(n) = log n / log 32, so there is just a constant of 1 / log 32 being put at the front.

I think the subtext is really a statement about constant factors. The parent is saying “if trees are wide then lookups are cheap” and I am saying “if trees are wide then updates may be expensive” (to update an immutable binary tree of size n, you must allocate log2(n) nodes of size (say) 3. To update a 32-ary tree you need log2(n) / log2(32) = log2(n) / 5 nodes of size 33 so, as 33/5 = 6.6 > 3, the wider tree requires more allocation for updates.)
The gold given to baby Jesus was made in a neutron star collision
I'm not denying the existence of organizational debt.

I'm saying managers justifying how important and difficult their jobs are by pointing to all the organizational debt they deal with are missing the point.
They are selling NFTs. They are making money, albeit not a lot, on the back of the goodwill of the Olive Garden brand. I think this is distinct from true parody say paying to watch a comedian who makes a joke about Olive Garden, or a free site that makes a joke about them.
I think people forget that the iMac really didn’t save Apple in the long term; the iPod did. Money and production knowledge from the iPod enabled the first iPhone. And the iPod was not based on NeXT-derived technology. (Until the iPod Touch, after the iPhone).
I guess having more languages works better if you have a microservice architecture. I tend to think of microservices as mostly good for solving organizational problems (namely, the need for everyone who works on a monolithic binary to agree on releases), and so don't prefer to use them if I don't have those problems.

That said, I still don't really understand why you'd use TypeScript on the server at all if you need C# for other services; the advantages (faster builds?) don't seem sufficient to cover the costs of additional investment in tooling, inability to share common code, etc. (even assuming that training and/or cognitive-switching costs aren't an issue). Unless you're running the same code both on the server and in the browser; in that case I would probably dispense with C# but I could see someone choosing the three-different-languages approach, at least until .NET's in-browser story gets better.

For a company with multiple unrelated projects, it'd be a judgment call, weighing the benefits of not being locked into a single ecosystem against the costs of losing economies of scale. I don't think I have a good general principle.

I'm also not super clear on how well C# interoperates with C++; I've used both languages, but not together. The article makes it sound like it only "just works" if the entire API surface is C-compatible, which seems extremely limiting and not like something I would want to do regularly. In particular, it sounds like it'd be necessary to write wrappers on both ends, so that you have idiomatic C++ or C# everywhere except at the boundary. This is what I meant above about C++-to-Rust interop not being good enough yet—it works, but you have to go through C. Is this in fact what it's like, or can C# code automatically use C++ APIs that involve classes, RAII, templates, etc.?

I don't advocate going all-in on C++ or Rust for a typical app, but rather having a setup that allows easily dropping into it in order to optimize hot paths. Performance tuning in a managed runtime is really hard and I prefer to avoid it.
Your comment takes me back to the 90s when fax machines were superior to email.

You're clearly not paying attention to the space.

Everybody in this space is 20-30 years old. Bet against demographics, I dare you.
This is brilliant! How deep can this rabbit hole go?
Gases really like to mix, much more so than liquids. The box contains a baby that causes air movement (breathing and moving), I would be surprised if the box contains substantially different air than the immediate surroundings.
It's an equipment shed. Most telephone exchanges are pretty bland boxes. In this case the brutalism is functional rather than a soul crushing architectural circle jerk.
Making satire about Olive Garden would be fair use. Using Olive Garden to make satire about NFTs is not fair use.
I’m not seeing how a pistol would help here. In most circumstances that I can think of, drawing a weapon against a shoplifter—to say nothing of using it—is more likely to result in charges against you than the thief. Unless you can prove you were in imminent danger—you tried to stop a thief and they produced a weapon, say—I think a lot of juries are not going to look kindly on your decision to brandish a weapon in a crowded store or street. The risk of harm to bystanders is too high. (And a gun isn’t going to be any use against a thief who’s already gone, or apathetic cops who don’t give a damn.)

I don’t have any problem at all with people resorting to lethal force as a means of self defense, and if this was violent crime we were talking about, I’d probably see it differently. As far as shoplifting, I do believe that a community of armed, on-edge people looking for criminals is likely to be more of a threat to public safety than the criminals themselves. I think more effective surveillance and forceful prosecution—as well as whatever social measures can proactively reduce crime—is a better approach here.
Radar altimeters use frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) and the bandwidth is 20 to 170 MHz (the larger the chirp, the more accurate it can be).

It's extremely difficult to have a 170 MHz wide filter at 4.3 GHz with a brick wall response out of band.

https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/compendium/...
I think if I said Thread.Sleep(1388) - this will slow the reading programmer down as they will think "why 1388, is this to avoid a race condition" and distract them from whatever they are trying to do.
Sorry, what do you mean by "types can safely be erased on compilation"? What would be the runtime representation of a C# struct in JavaScript?
Bone-Eating Worms and Other Surprises from Dumping Alligators in the Sea
> That's a drastic oversimplification. Typically, both debits and credits are entered into an accounting program as positive numbers, and it is the nature of the account being debited or credited that determines whether the number is added to or subtracted from the account balance.

This is both technically correct and incorrect. You're right about the nature of debits and credits, but practically every accounting software I've ever used (I'm a CPA) represents credits as negative numbers. The software just assumes that the user knows that it's actually a credit, not a negative number.
What? Do you have any proof of that?
The gameplay between the two seems fundamentally different though.

Also, you mention above that Universal Paperclips is not really an idle game anyway. So are we focusing specifically on Paperclips or on idle games, especially if Paperclips is not the best exponent of the genre?

I still struggle to understand the conflation of management games with idle games. Not that Factorio is really a management game either, since it's actually a programming/automation game (where you have to do the actual programming, not click to tell someone to do it for you).
NFTs. Look 'em up.
My wife ordered a sprinter van 9months ago. Was built in September, got stuck on a parts hood and still isn’t here.
BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) is hiring a head of marketing
This user appears to be trolling. Engagement may not be intellectually rewarding.
A cushioned cardboard box is enough for a newborn. Its weakness could be moisture and high flammability. But aside from that it is perfect.
What is the critique of Olive Garden here?
I dislike this article whenever it comes up in that it conflates the NSA activity at the site (TITANPOINTE) with the building in a very confusing way. The building is not an NSA building, it is an AT&T building. The NSA is a tenant, along with many other organizations who use the building for meet-me and internet exchange purposes. It's absolutely true that the NSA has a concerning relationship with AT&T that has evidently allowed them to conduct widespread surveillance at telephone switches, but this article seems to be making a case that the building itself is an edifice of the NSA... which is no more true than an Amazon data center.

It is interesting that the building is nuclear-hardened, but it was started in 1969, which was about five years after it became standing policy for AT&T to nuclear-harden all major long-lines facilities. It's not at all unique to this building and is unrelated to the NSA, nuclear-hardened AT&T exchanges can be found from major cities to small towns across the United States (Farmington, New Mexico, for example), and a large portion of surviving microwave relay sites are hardened. The general standard was roughly for a 100KT detonation at five miles, but some facilities were built for more. The motivation was survivable telecommunications after a nuclear attack, which was primarily a requirement of the US Government which relied on AT&T to build out AUTOVON as a survivable C2 and continuity of government system (and AT&T was generously paid for this work). Alongside AUTOVON, AT&T designed and operated systems like ECHO FOX which provided telephone connections to Air Force One and other national emergency command post aircraft. The end-user client here was mainly the POTUS and Strategic Air Command (later Army and Navy components of the triad), not intelligence.

The choice of architect was a fairly simple one, he was, at the time, a notable architect who was friendly with the federal government (who was in part the client due to AUTOVON and other C2 programs, not intelligence) and had prior experience working on hardened facilities like embassies.

It feels like the author chose this rather confusing way of presenting the issue, conflating the physical building with NSA activity that occurs in it, mostly just to weave in the architecture criticism. The building itself is very interesting, but really does nothing to advance the NSA story and rather seems to suggest that the scale of NSA activity is far larger (the whole building!) than it really is (generally thought to be a single suite on one floor, and far from the only suite occupied by staff of AT&T tenants). What the NSA has seems to basically be an office space, cage, and cross-connect agreement, which tons of other tenants also have... the NSA is just unusual in that the cross-connects go to interfaces configured for lawful intercept (which is more a telecom term of art and not a judgment of the legality).
It's not just structure.

A shocking number of managers don't even manage. They just run around putting out fires caused by a lack of management. Organizations can get stuck in this mode and it's really hard to pull them out of it, for sure, but just because someone's navigating a stressful and dysfunctional organization doesn't necessarily mean they're doing a great job at management.
The joke is by thinly veiling as a joke, they can get a lot of traffic from HN, and a backlink, which will help with their SEO and social media, as well as maybe get some sales from HN readers directly.
All the way down to wonderland and white rabbits and red Queens is my quess. With an NFT of the Chesire Cat's disappearing smile at the bottom.
It seems to me that the plane-based altimeter hardware here is incredibly antiquated; honestly, it seems incredibly vulnerable to jamming and attack scenarios, not just interference from 5G.

Now, it's reasonable for aircraft manufacturers to say "hey, in the absence of guidance, we haven't had the time to improve this hardware, let's ensure that the replacement timetable and the 5G rollout timetable in landing pathways are well coordinated." And if guidance is indeed absent, that's an incredible failure on the part of regulators, and one we should hold them to task for.

But it's another thing entirely to try to say "5G around airports should be restricted indefinitely." The OP article doesn't give enough detail to determine what it actually is that manufacturers are proposing, but one imagines that if a timeline were specified in their proposal, one reasonable enough for the manufacturers to publicize, it would have been reported on.
I would think so. Starbucks was likely evaluating who put the surpringly well put together satire store up, and whether it was just creating good press for them. And then comedy central(or maybe Absolutely productions) heard SB noticed and decided the joke run its course and it was better to avoid a suit. Eventually though, I assume Starbucks would also decide the joke run its course and it's more important to protect IP than let some production company keep running the joke.
Well you're on the last page so not that lucky
I can’t believe how outrageous ETH gas fees are still. Currently $35 to mint a breadstick.
JWST launch postponed to Dec 25 due to weather conditions
Well, back in Europe we don’t call ourselves “white” :]
I wouldn't call them weaknesses, but I think we have a number of bigger changes that would improve ST.
I’m curious: what is your opinion on markdown? Or is that included in plain text?
Yea I’m confident the US military has the resources and expertise to fully compromise tor, but it would be extremely difficult/costly. I just believe it’s not worth their time to map every single tor user to an identity. Stuxnet was done to disarm the nuclear weapons program of a hostile nation state.

US intelligence already has plenty of surveillance capabilities and imo they’re not gonna waste their hand targeting non enemies of the state who just want privacy or even organized crime rings who are just chasing a profit.

Frankly it’s easier to catch high profile criminals with more conventional means.

And just to reiterate: my position is not that tor is bulletproof against the most powerful military force in history. I’m just saying it provides a much higher degree of privacy compared to using a simple VPN provider.

Anyone can help strengthen the network by operating nodes, donating money, or assisting with development/documentation!
Also not a lawyer but I think the problem here is that the thing being satirized (NFTs) is not Olive Garden and so they don't get protection from the olive garden copyright. Eg this satire of the OJ Simpson trial done in the style of Dr Seuss: https://www.imaginelaw.com/cat-in-the-hat-parody-infringes-o...
Nearly 40 countries have already adopted rules and deployed hundreds of thousands of 5G base stations in the C-Band at similar frequencies and similar power levels—and in some instances, at closer proximity to aviation operations—than 5G will be in the U.S. None of these countries has reported any harmful interference with aviation equipment from these commercial deployments, as the Federal Aviation Administration recently confirmed.[0]

[0] https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1103192305940/211103%20CTIA%20E...
33rd Anniversary of the Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing
Could people sell their souls as NFT? I’ve always wanted to say I own some souls. In the afterlife, these people would have to follow me when I arrive and be obligated to follow me forever on whatever adventures and activities I conduct there, and of course obey my commands.
Does anyone know how big of a deal it is to not have radar on newer Tesla 3s and Ys? I don't know which month was the last one to have radar, but it was some time in 2021.
Oh I meant suggesting it in the United States. I feel like it would not go over well, unless of course you or your SO are from Finland!
I thought most of the 9/11 passenger calls came from the eye-poppingly expensive satellite phones in the seat backs.
That would be truly free unlimited (NFT) bread sticks!
To chime in on the pity party; ordered a Ford Mustang Mach E at the start of April 2021. Original estimate was 3 months to delivery. Currently the delivery estimate is 10 months, but no one seems to be able to tell if that's real or not.
Common Lisp let’s you write e.g.

(list-length '#1=(1 2 3 4 . #1#))

But I think that isn’t what you mean.
>1/6/21-2/3/21

Do you mean 2022?
I live in a zero-Covid world
Man, even the one in Kenner (New Orleans) memorably described by a Yelp reviewer as "The 9/11 of Italian food" is sold.
Doesn't "unruliness" in the form of the dramatic misbehaviour we've seen, sometimes including assault, indicate a lack of trustworthiness? Someone might not have had the forethought to sneak something on the plane but still try to cause harm. Certainly we revoke people's other rights for far lesser infractions.
Yes, it is often a matter of sympathy, atmosphere and ambitions more than actual learning.

Many years ago as a grad student I was a teaching assistant.

One year I was instructing two classes.

One was an ordinary class. It was all very pleasant, cozy and relaxed. Students would often bake cake for the class.
But I had trouble teaching because most of them did not do any homework and did not read the textbooks much. They all liked me. One even said in class that he would try to get me again next semester, meaning that he knew he would fail the exam. Which most of them did.

The other class was a special class for students that had failed the previous exams and because the curriculum had changed this was their last chance. They were a lot more motivated. And they were quite critical about me as an instructor. At one point they even made a complaint about me be because I had tried to prove a theorem on the blackboard and failed because I made a silly mistake. They were absolutely right that I messed up that proof. But we did handle it in that same class and had a good discussion about that theorem and how to prove things. And their critical attitude kept me on my toes.
I worked hard preparing the classes. And the classes were focused and tense.
In the end, except for one that fell sick, everyone passed the exam with good marks.
They have unlimited breadsticks but what does that mean?

There has to be some kind of limit!
There actually tends to be avionics interference from mobile devices, especially outside 2.4GHz band (which is a "junk" band because of airliners - unlicensed use of 2.4GHz band exists so that airliners could use microwave ovens).

Airplanes actually aren't tested for mobile phone interference unless the plane is going to explicitly allow use of in-flight wireless internet. Yes, with modern devices, you have much less risk of interference, but interference happened in the past, and the rule stays mostly to lower the amount of loose, hard and heavy devices that become possibly dangerous projectiles in case of Rejected Take-Off or a crash.

After all, it's easier to put a "theatre" on than try to use reason with barely mentally present (on average) and possibly unruly passengers.
Yeah, fair points. You could imagine trying:

(1) Ask "Will Google+ institute a real name policy by X date"? [This may not be useful to know.]

(2) Ask "How many users will Google+ have on X date with a real name policy?" and "How many without?" [Potentially powerful, to the extent that they're accurate and decision makers trust them.]

(3) Ask "What will the app rating of Google+ be on date X?" [Prices in all factors, so can perhaps reveal the effect of policy changes before they happen.]

I don't see prediction markets replacing OKRs or strategy planning, but rather complementing them, kind of like A/B tests and user studies. There's still a lot to figure out!
> The iPod showed Apple could make compelling Consumer electronics XNU

I don't know if the iPod used XNU. Using the same kernel as OSX in mobile was first adopted with iPhone by the Scott Forstall team in lieu of a custom mobile OS approach by the Tony Fadell team.
The iMac saved them from bankruptcy. The iPod rocketed them to massive profit.
I just mean keeping your job, but to the post above, I mean realizing that because there is no inherent virtue in a for-profit job, there is also no "corruption" simply because there's too much bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is typically in service to a functioning large organization being able to remain large and reliably make money; it's fine.

If you want to do some good in the world, it's a lot better to put up with the bureaucracy and instead direct your energy to some worthy local political cause or something. Trying to make your employer a force for good is a poor plan, because as an organization whose goal is profit, it will never be sustainably motivated by the desire to do good.
More like this is a brilliant Social Media marketing campaign and huge bit of free PR for OG.

I'm suspicious it was made by an agency at their behest.
There’s quite a few plain text apps. I am hovering between four right now. Markdown format but still plain text. Obsidian would be the most known of these. Then also Noteplan 3, Keep It, and Devonthink
I ordered a Ford Transit van back in May 2021. They're currently scheduled to start building them in January. No idea when the delivery will be.
> lies in the fact that the book recognizes three key aspects.

They weren’t central to the story. FH didn’t waste a lot of ink on them. They formed a backdrop to the story because they should be uncontroversial ideas to anyone with an understanding of ecology.

If FH really wanted to write about ecology he could have spend a much greater proportion of the brook talking about it, when all we have on Sandworm ecology from FH himself is a handful of paragraphs spread across six novels.

As for the effect on Native populations; this wasn’t in the book at all. The Fremen are clearly based on Nomadic desert peoples like the Bedouin - people who swept to power seemingly out of nowhere and established their own sprawling Empire.

Lastly, if we’re looking at FH books on the human impact on ecology, we should start with The Green Brain which was explicitly about ecology.
If you think you can describe the physical world without any irrational numbers, when one of the most basic (the ratio of the area of a circle to its diameter) is irrational, I think you're probably mistaken.
HighSea? BeamSea? BeSeaGe? DejaView? Let's brainstorm here
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