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I re-watched it since I am once again thinking about programming languages

17:15 "Slavoj Zizek likes to say that obsessional activity is doing something in order to do nothing" which to me sounds like pursuing a goal without ever wanting to achieve it, liking the pursuit more.

41:10 C++ is an obsessive language

So by this measure, Izzy Muerte developed a effective strategy for themselves, since they are a self-described obsessive working in an obsessive language and says they wasted 10 years of their life on C++ while accomplishing very little. So, success?

I laughed at this point at 34:55 "Closure is what I call the ultimate perversion language" because Rich Hickey comes across to me as a subversive disciplinarian (no offense intended)
Meh, China is probably the biggest county in DOTA (just as Korea with SC). The piece has very interesting points, but the author eagerness to criticize every single thing about China (ironic, because he complains that the Chinese are petty) clouds his judgement.

Also, I dont know in which world he lives (I suppose most of his friend were Asian-Canadians) but your average westerner cannot name even 1 single cultural production of Taiwan. In the case of South Korea, most of the stuff they are known for (mainly KPop, and great movies/tv shows) has been produced in the last 20-25 years when the country reached an economic level and show business know-how that allowed them to flourish. China is not there yet.

China produces lots of good stuff, that for many reasons (distribution, advertisement, political hostility) are not known in the west.

Just one example, this is a fantastic TV show. I even say it is the best show I've watched in 2021, and you can watch it, legally and for free:

https://www.iq.com/album/the-bad-kids-2020-19rrhl1l3l?lang=e...

The quality is there, it needs to be more wisely advertised. Lots of mediocre productions too of course, but that is just Sturgeon's law in action.
I only somewhat agree.

First of all, it depends if you have to commute to an office in some industrial park (even if it's only one or two days a week).

Then there's the question of where your friends live, whether you regularly do activities outside the city, etc. Zipcar and Uber definitely make it easier not to own a car. But my observation of people I know in SF who don't own a car is that they make ample use of both Uber and regular/short-term rentals. People can definitely get by but it's often by adjusting their lifestyles and activities in that you just don't do things that are hard to do.
I mean, all domains are really vanity domains. This just gives people more ways to be vain, which is all anyone really wants.
This short article offers wild opinions with no understanding of history or any meaningful analysis. The authors also clearly have an ideological axe to grind (I mean, come on… the CATO Institute?)

If there were any facts presented I’d say they lie, but since they’re just talking about a made up fairy tale, it’s only a silly piece of fiction. I feel stupid leaving a comment warning others.
Sure it is - food, clothing, architecture, design. What else am I missing? Moreover, when taking this into account how does it change the original post’s point?
Freedom *noun* the power to act, think and speak as one wants.

I can physically attack you if I want to and in your very own words my freedom is infinitely more important than your health.

What is confusing you?
I'd be curious to hear others chime in, but I feel like the situation is very similar to this article talking about games. Do you want to get pixels to the screen/file? Shaders and materials (authoring or implementing)? How commercial renderers are organized? My job is mostly using commercial tools, but a lot of us have made toy renderers, read books, and taken classes to reimplement the fundamentals.

It's been awhile, but a few common, imho approachable, sources are:

https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki - a rasterizer that starts with drawing a line

https://raytracing.github.io/ - a basic raytracer that incrementally adds features

https://www.pbrt.org/ - I've heard good things from people who have gone through the whole book. I haven't taken the dive, but thumbed through it and jumped around.

I wouldn't dismiss realtime stuff, either. Often, the concepts are similar but the feedback loop is much faster. I liked the UE4 docs on shaders talking about pbrt and the simplifications they chose when implementing it. There's a bunch of resources out there. I don't think single source is comprehensive. I say, start with something simple and find resources on specific things you want to know more about.
Gregorian Calendar
It took less then 2 days to shutdown chaz/chop once it became politically feasible to do so.

As soon as those 2 kids were shot (1 killed) in the jeep by chop's security and the whole thing was caught on surveillance footage [1] it was over. It's hard to watch that footage and come away with "yeah lets keep this exactly the way it is".

[1] https://youtu.be/_K0tXOBPMHA - 12th and Pine in Seattle if you want to lookup the area on google maps.
Is it someone's responsibility to periodically use the environment as real users?

Without this, there's no value in running a duplicate environment like this. Automated tests won't capture human interaction perfectly...
Lurking in a sibling thread is Colin speaking with Drew Houston (of Dropbox fame):

> we're in a similar space -- http://www.getdropbox.com (and part of the yc summer 07 program)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35088

In an alternative universe, Colin joined Dropbox and their UI would have been much more hardcore with better the whole product having better support for other OSes than just Windows and macOS!
> HN is a negative and cynical place today. Discussions about future developments are dominated by the bad things that are happening

Funny you feel this way because I've seen the opposite. Any real discussion of the severity of the issues facing us getting quickly flagged and down voted. A bit of cynicism is okay, but saying "look we're in big trouble here, and tech might not be the answer" is met with pretty strong aggression.

For example any article about serious problems related to climate change is immediately flooded with "this is fine" comments, and anyone proposing that we may be facing severe problems in the near future is down voted or flagged immediately.

HN cannot handle the possibility that our future is not as bright as we though when we got into this industry. A bit of mourning is completely understandable, but the rapid denialism on this site make visiting here an exercise in cognitive dissonance.
If x is a huge number, then elimination can happen. Floating point numbers store a mantissa and an exponent, m^e. When you have a huge number the exponent will be large. So the mantissa can not express the tiny number anymore.
The analysis is very questionable - Latin was not used to disseminate information as widely as possible, it was used to exclude common man from even being able to read the bible, and to keep the church in power and let them make up rules as they go.

This is why Protestantism has emerged, and wars have been fought over the issue.

As powerful as a catholic church was, it was never comparable to a nation state - it never had a standing army, the pope was regularly in conflict with various kings and didn't always come out on top.

Nothing on the list is new: East India Company was the original transnational corporation that had won wars against countries, supernational organizations like the League of Nations have existed for hundreds of years, and private currencies existed before bitcoin and blockchain.

Corporations will never supersede governments because they benefit from them. Governments bail out corporations every time they fuck up - and I am not talking about 2008, the British Empire bailed out East India Company in 1857 when they pissed off everyone in India and could not deal with a rebellion, US bailed out the coal companies in 1921 when they executed several miners for unionizing and miners started shooting back.

Most folks clamoring decline of a nation state seem to know nothing about past experiments in private policing, private currencies, private armies and others. Inevitably someone starts fighting back, or a natural disaster strikes, and then companies run for protection of a nation state.

To put a line under it all, nation states have armies and people willing to die for them, I have never met anyone willing to die for Wallmart, and I don't think I will.
There are exceptions to that rule, however - Maintenance releases. Node, Typescript, Java, .NET, and I'm sure many more obvious instances I need not list.

If you "just" increment you leave no room for showing patching in your versioning strategy.
I bought a LOT of .biz domains, turns out carriers often block people from receiving SMS messages containing email addresses at these TLDs, without notifying me or them.

Probably because they're often used for spam? (I bought em because they were cheap.)
No. You buy health insurance.
Needs a follow up of "re-enter password" I think?
You need to justify the marginal benefit of force vaccinating young healthy people. That conversation never properly happened. First it was "that's not even being talked about, fuck off antivaxxer" then the next it was "are you kidding me we already decided this for you, fuck off antivaxxer". You can believe that vaccines are beneficial at preventing serious illness while doubting if they ought be required to a recovered young populous.
What is that distance? We can just make odds reflect that.
Just because you didn’t expect to encounter a word, why would you assume the author dwelled on the choice and consulted thesaurus specifically to impress you, and it didn’t come as the most appropriate word for the occasion like your choice would to you?
For a good time, peruse [1].

At Google, I was running the Cinema Club (in-person only showings of movies on DVD every Thursday night). I came across this movie and loved it. It had 4 stars from Roger Ebert. How you gonna beat that? Lots of people including me wanted to show it at Google.

It turns out that Ms. Paley had figured her 12 songs from the 1920s must be out of copyright, right? Wrong. The songs were not, and the publisher asked for (if memory serves) $40K or so per song.

Rather than negotiate it down and use that 4-star review to make $$$ from it, she did this Creative Commons thing. But you can't give away what you don't own.

Google's lawyer said No. She did some more complicated stuff, and the lawyer said "I've spent an hour trying to figure this out, and it's way more time than I should spend. So: still No."

It's a fun movie, though. Watch it.

[1] https://www.sitasingstheblues.com/
Suburban land is cheaper to buy but far more expensive to service (water, electricity, roads, etc.) and maintain.

https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-02/inside-th...

Cities are subsidizing your excessive consumption and land use not the other way around.
Again, why would they? They only stand to lose on it, so why do it in the first place?
Why are we even trying to equate the 2 things? The harbor bridge has a very pleasant look and people want to accentuate that, so they have decided to put lights on it so that it can be enjoyed at night. There is a very pleasing affect from things being lit at night. Why why why is this hard/difficult to grasp?

That is so so so different from a group of engineers building a product and totally not grasping that while it technically works, it is not pleasant for the end users. It takes a certain level of asshattery to assume that the devs are going out of their way to make it this way.
> ... only cost cost cost to maintain an aggressive colony that builds processors as only output of value.

Just to correct you here, the only aggressive country between these two is the Chinese side, which is "buzzing" Taiwanese airspace daily to keep them mobilized and exhausted and has built a full scale replica of central Taipei [1] in which the PLA does drills simulating its capture.

That's not peaceful, those are the heights of aggression.

If the CCP wants peace, they need to start showing it with action.

[1] https://thediplomat.com/2015/08/satellite-imagery-from-china...
I mean strings are numbers if you want to be that reductive. The “on-disk” representation of the thing is independent of its real type and properties.

So sure, store a date in an “integer” but if you try to treat it like one instead of a bitfield you’ve made an error and if your storage isn’t wide enough to hold all dates that’s gonna be a PITA later.
> You just dismissed my first link based on an irrelevant claim that countries with high vaccination rates still have outbreaks (duh).

you mentioned the first step is hindered. Which is completely not proven by the fact that countries with high vaccination rates should effectively have a R trending towards zero if the vaccines even worked half as well as they should. Instead you see major outbreaks which completely contradicts the "hindrance" you refer to.

> From what I see you are the one not understanding science and ignoring facts here.

Ad-hominem attacks won't get you points here.
> and at the same time calling me a "monkey brain"

I'm not calling you a monkey brain, it's a figure of speech that the comment caused you to react in a certain way based on emotion. The emotional / instinctual part of the brain is the monkey brain.
I got what you were saying. That certainly may be case, depending on application. It looks in this case like its just definition files being loaded into memory, and if they need to compare that version more than once, doing it as a single operation binary comparison will be significantly faster than continually comparing a UTF-8 string (SIMD aside)
One of the replies suggested that everybody should "take a Sabbatical, pack your things and travel the world" haha
Yep. As I understand, many innocent people take guilty pleas because the time cost of court appearances is unbearable or will cost them their job. I've become pretty jaded about the justice system as I've learned more about it.
Indeed, to write an article with "rise of transnational corporations" without a mention of East India company takes the cake for historically illiterate corporate propaganda.
It's getting more and more used by time but yes,ts not that common. I'm here in Estonia and the mobile carriers -that I used- use (CGNAT) IPv4.
You can tell the writing is very old because it mentions .ibm as an example of super well-known and wealthy corporation. No mention of Google nor Amazon.
> If you are producing code for which VS was designed

That's literally what GP is trying to say: "either you do it the VS way or screw you."
You are aware that those all a research designs, designs optimized to probe the parameter space of reactors efficiently not produce energy efficiently. Huge difference. If everything is designed for energy ROI it wouldn't be a research reactor and have better efficiency today
And those memes are just as bad as your "joke"

If someone criticizing your low quality joke upsets you, maybe you need to find a better place to join that circle jerk.
Right, I agree, to some extent it does. I was trying to give a better outline of the general form of @b3nji's argument, as @Ardon's objection seemed to be based on a misunderstanding.

There is a "pragmatic libertarian" argument too, which goes like this: The mandatory jab is much less costly to civil liberties than lockdowns, and if the virus is not quelled, the political support for lockdowns will only increase.

There is a whole bunch of issues and trade-offs involved. [1] People have strong feelings on this [2], and discussion is often reduced to partisan "rallying cries".

[1]: e.g. see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29759089

[2]: Which is somewhat understandable, some of us have lost loved ones, lost jobs, been down the dumps, felt like being in "house arrest", couldn't even hit the gym, witnessed all the paltering by the media etc.
I had a similar experience a few years ago. Although I soon realized what the deal was, and what the expectations of the screener were (so I could adjust and ‘pass’), it discouraged me from moving forward.

It seems nowadays the process is much more reasonable, but Google is still far behind other FAANG companies in regard to their interviewing process, in my opinion.
Consider learning or improving your golang skills. The language has seen quite significant adoption from all sizes of companies and teams and doesn’t seem to be slowing down. The survey results for 2021 are not out yet so keep an eye out but previous years should be a good indicator for trends. https://go.dev/blog/survey2020-results
Stealing is stealing. 51% attack is just a method to rollback a transaction. No different than ordering stuff and doing a willfully fraudulent chargeback.
You're such a troll. The benefits of tourists to the tourist for visiting a city can come in many forms, and financial benefit is rarely one of them. In fact, it typically comes at great financial cost.
Maybe the people you are referring to are professional trolls? At this point I have little doubt any popular website is infested with them. Globally. It's so much worse than even a decade ago
I assume hedge funds are keeping an eye on interesting attacks like this. Short BTC futures, collapse the currency, cover.

Nvidia wouldn't do this because it might hurt GPU sales.
I think the experience of “Hongkong vs. China” will make strategists in the West wonder how well those arrangements will be held twenty-ish years later.
There is already http://microsoft.bing. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom....
Link to model? Any recommendations?
> to say that it isn’t an incredible achievement is ridiculous

It takes like 20s to search source filenames of large projects, with fast SSD and 64 cores.
I'm not doing it remotely, but have an Odroid HC2 set up as a sort of single-drive personal NAS on my home network. Restic backing up to there is absolutely stellar, including being able to mount a snapshot for selective recovery if needed.

The HC2 is discontinued now, but the HC4 looks like a nice, current option. https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc4-oled/ Maybe I should get one of these to take to my daughter's place.
> the honey must contain no pesticides and if you keep bees around the property of other people they will ingest pesticides from flowers on those property, since pesticides are so commonly used.

I think this is a very common misunderstanding. The bees are allowed to forage on organically-cultivated crops, and farmers can use a whole range of 'natural' but also 'certified' synthetic pesticides on them.

Producers of organic food don't seem to mind too much that people assume organic food growing doesn't involve the use of pesticides.
Have you been to a party? Of course they’re “allowed.” They’re just not popular. Most people dislike reading anything school-like but watch tons of TV.
> the Navy explained to me that it was balanced out because I was underwater and not receiving radiation exposure from the sun

With the greatest respect to the Navy, I smell more fish than in the seas that submarine travelled through.

My non-scientific understanding is that sun exposure is UV radiation exposure which causes skin melanoma. Meanwhile with nuclear reactors, UV is not the problem and the problem with exposure goes deeper than skin melanoma.

My feeling is you received a standardised "policy explanation" rather than an entirely scientific one. Happy to be proven wrong with links to scientific fact though !
I would imagine that compromising the network like that would tank the value of those currencies.
Thank you, that solves the issue!

This seems to be something in Vim rather than a NeoVim-specific setting, as I tried the same thing with the standard Vim and it worked the same. The scrolling feel in the Terminal isn't as smooth as MacVim, but it's still pretty good.
NL as well, one record after another is broken. Today I saw some very confused wasps and bees flying around, in 15 degree Celsius weather.
As it happens I am a naturalized South African - married to a black woman who had to endure apartheid.

I recited your argument to her and I am quoting her response in saying… “you are a f-ing idiot - I had no choice in being born black and I had no way of becoming white to avoid the consequences of apartheid. The unvaccinated have a choice - they are just choosing not to exercise it.”

You have falsely equated the two scenarios by
abstracting away the thing which matters most: the choice to improve your situation.
yeah, vaccine is marketing-speak. We should call these shots something else, because that's not what people typically understand by the word "vaccine". But that ship to fight on the name has sailed for a long time.
I created a toolkit to evaluate many different speech recognition engines.

https://github.com/robmsmt/SpeechLoop

Comparing speech systems can take a long time esp for a dev who doesn't have the background in audio/ml. How do you know which one will work best? Will new shiny transformer model perform well enough? Most end up using one of the big tech companies existing API to throw their data at. Whilst this is convenient, I think that it's a travesty that opensource speech systems have not are not as easy to use. I was hoping to change that to make it easy to evaluate and compare them!
You can see it here: https://radar.braintapper.com - it's hosted on the cheapest possible VPS, so it's obviously not scalable (was public for friends and family, but I guess we're all friends here, haha)

The original (buggy) prototype, which was static and stored data in the browser (eventually I added syncing via PouchDb/CouchDb) is here: https://bt-apps.github.io/braintapper_radar/
The nation-state (in the sense of “Westphalian sovereigns”) will survive as long as (1) global capitalism survives, and (2) nation-states are convenient tools for the capitalist class to exercise power through while distracting from their own role.

So far, digital technology seems to be reinforcing both rather than undermining them, so the nation-state seems secure.
I used VS for years across a couple of C/C++/C# projects, and it was second to none with one exception.

The exception was Xamarin/Xamarin.Forms. Seriously, congrats to the Xamarin people for getting that project going, but it was (at least into Xamarin.Forms 1-3) more than a little hacky and extremely frustrating. Granted, it kind of had to be though given that it was intended for a broader audience targeting completely different platforms, and at least initially didn't have a lot of MS support iirc.

I think the issues surrounding cross-platform targeting were/are less a problem with the IDE itself than what it was/is forced to work with. The whole iOS "code in VS on Windows, but build on a Mac" was a nightmare, I don't know if things have gotten any better.
I think you've identified the reason: the US war planners see advantage to some "limited" nuclear exchange and are already flirting with the idea of it (not sure what gives them the confidence that it will stay within their limits if they escalate to nukes). The temptation is going to be irresistible if things start looking bad for them (and I think in a more conventional war China enjoys an advantage here purely from geography).

Even from the Chinese perspective, once they're in an active war that threatens their basic territorial integrity, who knows if they can really stick to NFU.
>Small towns I drive through now are full of angry people who seem to want to be left alone. It’s incredibly sad.

I would love to know how you determined that.
Your line of thinking is a typical ad hominem; you should evaluate an argumentation based on its merits, not what the meatball behind the online handle happens to do in his free time.