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I've seen many offhand accounts that repair would have been impossible or nearly so. Yet a previous shuttle survive re-entry with a missing tile in part, it seems, due to a metal bracket being in place behind the missing tile and it did a good enough job.

So given that, would it have been impossible to space walk around the shuttle, identify missing/damaged tiles and shove some spare material in gaps? Could the shuttle crew have not carried epoxies designed for this purpose? Obviously it would be a repair that might not work, but at least give you a chance.

I think about this now as well when I see Starship tests that knock tiles off of it's heat shield just from vibrations.
I've never heard of twisted-pair coaxial.
Yes, it works.

However, the site is .. odd. I'm not sure what triggers it, but if I visit the page from a link on the site, it works, but if I visit that link from your link, it doesn't. Except now, now they both work. Some odd caching artifact? Not sure.
I would probably model "old fashionedness" as a question of "when was this word's popularity peak?" i.e. how long ago (how "old") was the time at which this word was at its most popular (most in "fashion")?
Yeah sometimes I get through. Try refreshing
how does the "provably secure" operating system co-exist in a legislative environment in Australia where software products are required to have govt (and therefore anyone) accessible backdoors?
In a sense they were the only ecological disaster the planet had ever seen. Something isn't a 'disaster' unless there's some sentient observer to judge the outcome. Asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions, floods, gamma ray bursts, black holes... they're not disasters, just events, until someone gets upset about them.
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> I'm also amazed that the shuttle could not be landed by remote control because of a couple switches.

A deliberate, but dubious decision. Deploying the gear before it's time is guaranteed catastrophe-- they decided it was important to not leave this under software control.
What reputation systems ding you for listening on a port? It's not an open proxy/relay or anything like that.
There's also stuff you can optimize like cache efficiency. Sometimes you can do more work on an array than a linked list but the array is faster because linked lists miss cache pretty consistently.
>You def don’t want electric pumps on a rocket engine

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Electron has them and made it to orbit
Every now and then you just randomly look at HN, stumble upon a tool, read the home page and just 20% in you are gasping "OMG HOW DID I LIVE WITHOUT THIS!".

Yep, `jless` is exactly that kind of tool. Instant favourite, and love at first sight.

Extremely good job, thanks a lot for the tool!
I've played Factorio since 0.13 and am a professional programmer.

It bothers me that people see an equivalence between Factorio and Programming. There's some degrees of programming-like problems, such as spanning trees, graph theory, tree-theory, etc. etc. But Factorio is grossly simplified to comp. sci problems in general.

In particular, the Factorio build tree starts at (Iron/Copper/Stone/Coal/Oil) and ends with (Red/Green/Blue/Purple/Yellow/White science).

Most problems are solved with backpressure. The one exception is oil production (Crude-oil -> Heavy/Light/Gas), which can bottleneck other productions. (Ex: if Heavy oil is deadlocked, light-oil is also blocked). But with an "infinite sink" of science (blue/yellow science uses a lot of Petroleum gas), this problem is solved by simply playing the game more.

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Real world programming problems are far more complex. Graphs in fact loop more often, simple trees are rare. Data-organization is far more complex.

In contrast, Factorio has a large number of "valid solutions" because its a simpler problem. Keeping things "simply" a tree with only one multi-output (oil production) really is simple in the great scheme of things.

That said, it is more complex than most games. OpenTTD is more complex when it comes to transportation patterns (path signals, entry, exit, and combo signals, block signals. Tunnels, bridges, etc. etc.). I would recommend Factorio players to try OpenTTD, and see if they can create higher-bandwidth OpenTTD routes than Factorio's simplified train system.

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I know some Comp. Sci. I'm going to make my n-way balancers off of Benes Networks and CLOS Network designs. But I look at "circuits" and see "vector programming system" and not actually a wire-like / circuit system. The things that are "like programming" aren't very clear IMO. Its somewhat rare for me to actually need to use combinators / circuits in Factorio, because the default actions of all entities "just works" most of the time.

Wube / the original designers are clearly good programmers. The system / game they have made "feels like the fun part" of programming, where you connect mostly-completed systems together in a chain that almost always works. That's because the difficult part of design / architecture has already been done for us by Wube.

Actual programmers designing an API for widespread use come across the same problem. You wanna create an interface that's easy to understand and fun to work with. Wube is clearly good at this. But that makes us at best, the "script kiddies" who simply are laying out Wube's designs, more so than actual "programmers" who express ourselves.

IMO anyway. This isn't a bad thing. The fact that its fun despite all this is a huge degree of success from Wube.
I remember reading about a similar dynamic in Harari's 'Sapiens'... the shift to from hunter/gatherer to agriculture being better for 'society' (more people) but worse for the average individual within the society, at least in terms of health (poorer/narrower diet, increased disease, shorter lifespan.)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41587-022-00002-4

Even though nobody is quite sure how it works, it's possible to reverse the epigenetics of a cell back to its original differentiated state and even back to stem cell form not entirely unlike rolling back git commits.
> aliens are there to consume, no less than the engineer.

Same as all other life really.
>If modeling taxonomies of the world is not OOP modeling, what is exactly?

You are still focused on a mathematical property of a square being a special case of a rectangle. Inheritance is not the tool to model such a relationship. Again it has nothing to do with taxonomy.

>Universities still teach,...

The same people teach functional programming with silly recursion examples and linked lists being the most important data structures.

OOP code can be convoluted, but a large imperative mess is worse. I haven't seen any large collaborative project written in a purely functional language, so I can't comment about that.
The Commander Thinks Aloud
https://youtu.be/J8AisTXgAGA
Normally you need to have an honest belief that an individual committed a specific crime in order to be able to detain them, not just that you're aware something happened and someone may be involved.
Because it is. No claims are made now so nothing is provable/refutable. It is faux intellectualism, professional pedantry. We just debate narratives. It devolves into playground tribalism with moral relativism, theres not much to be curious about there.
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Ha! Nope; but I'm glad-ish to know it's not just me...
You are not wrong. Uber is still a multi-billion dollar company that provides useful services to many people. I used them last week to order food. In 2016, Uber was dominating the news cycle left and right. And by comparison, it has become quiet around the company.
The man is plainly over-reaching here, though perhaps it's an expression meant to bolster his public persona, and not an actual representation of his knowledge.

General counsel (at least in the Anglo-American context) means the senior legal advisor to an organization. As attorneys, they are required by law to have admission to the bar of the relevant jurisdiction, and to observe certain ethical standards and practices. This is not a made-up title and if it is that means there's a lawsuit for unauthorized practice of law that hasn't been filed yet.
'Personal' is probably too far, 'private', as in, not the business of the state, is more where I was going with it.

I think in general, for antique societies, they don't have detectives - if a crime is committed, the first problem is, there's no state agency interested in investigating the matter.

The claim that murder was a 'private matter' is from Emma Southon, but it makes a lot of sense to me. Pre-modern history is rife with blood feuds that are basically the 'private' way of preventing murder. The state typically wouldn't have the resources to get involved, even if they did have the interest.

If you imagine the chain of somebody_is_murdered to somebody_is_punished there are questions like: 'who reports the crime, and to whom?' and 'how do you establish the crime actually happened, in the way it was reported?' that are just really hard to answer unless you have a big state organization dedicated to managing stuff like that.
I don't see why such a specialized language may not have a good C or Fortran interface. Also, MPI even allows units written in different languages to talk via messages, AFAIK.

I even suppose that the orchestration layer can be in basically any convenient language, even in Python, while the underlying compute modules may be written in highly-optimized compiled languages; see Thensorflow and PyTorch for hihgly successful examples.
To be fair is more of Solana pretending to sell celebrity NFTs by buying them with its own funds.
You are correct.

DirectByteBuffer only guarantees that the memory will not be moved as a result of garbage collection, for example, when talking with native code.

It does not prevent the OS from paging the whole memory block to disk, or writing it to a file in case of a VM saving its state.

It's just marginally better than using plain primitive arrays, plus there is an extra method to explicitly clear the buffers via ICryptoZeroable, something that I think is missing from stock Bouncycastle.
I initially balked at the high price of things but WOW I've never been so productive using it. And like the analog site says - it feels so good to cross something off.

I also use a similar process and its easy to backlog things that you know you just won't get to today. I recommend this app to all of my friends and +1 for the commenter above.
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It's just worth keeping in mind that by the standard used to call this planet Earth-like, we have four habitable Earth-like worlds in our solar system.
> Every single one of them belonged to the Labor party.

Except for Gladys Liu. :P

I will concede the point generally here, though - Labor's far left faction (and left-wingers in general) do have a weirdly distorted view of China and are more susceptible to Chinese influence and propaganda, and the whole Sam Dastyari incident doesn't help.

Again, though, I don't think that means the party as a whole is corrupt to the core. Labor supported pretty much all of the anti-CCP legislation that has gone through in the last few years, including AUKUS, and I can't see that radically changing any time soon.

>As for Stan Grant
I didn't know all that about him. Interesting. I just saw his aboriginal activism work and assumed he was left-leaning. Thinking about it for one second, I'm not surprised to find out that he simply cares about his community and wants to see them succeed.

>As for the ABC and Guardian, they are constantly pushing their audience to believe that democracy is deeply flawed.

I read both publications regularly, and don't get that idea. They report that democracy is under attack, yes, but they're not cheering for its destruction. The Guardian tends to lead somewhat anti-capitalist (hilarious considering how middle-class their average reader is, literally sucking at the teat of the system), but again they're not proposing China's even-more-unequal system any more than the rest of the world does (which, as you noted, basically stopped happening once they fucked with Hong Kong).
Maybe not the term but the practice:
“The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasms for holy zeal, is always great. The demon inherent in every party is at all times ready enough to disguise himself as the Holy Ghost,”
Web1 was coincidentally distributed[1]. There weren't very many structural impediments in web1 to stop to the centralization that brought about web2. Much of what I see in web3 is a reaction to web2's centralization. Web3 is an attempt to build systems which are inherently distributed rather than coincidentally distributed in order to re-appropriate power and decision-making.

I'm not entirely sold that web3 actually solves the problem or does so in a strictly better way[2]. The value proposition for web1 was, "invest your time and money for access". The value proposition of web2 was a response to the time and money investment in the form of "we'll make the web easy to use if you give us ownership."[3] The value proposition of web3 is what exactly? Is seems so far like it's "You'll regain ownership, but you have to accept these negative externalities." It's still early days. We may yet find a better lens of critique.

1. It was physically distributed intentionally of course, but the digital objects and relations were merely coincidentally structured as product of this physical form.

2. Even ignoring the decentralization of wealth extraction that is grifting and rugpulling.

2. Or more generally giving up power for access.
> didn't understand what federal powers would exist in that situation and on that property

Well someone else linked to them and they seem to be what I'm saying?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/1203b.103

> The person to be arrested has committed in the arresting officer's presence an offense
I did find my city's agreement by querying "cable franchise agreement $ISP $CITY" and was led to a PDF. There is a clause about "Standard Installation" within 125 ft being requirement, but I can't find anything about beyond that; which leads me to think they have reign to charge what they want.

Also requires something about 25 residences per cable-mile, which we definitely would have here. The public school 2 blocks from me also has a franchise-agreement for dedicated fiber connection.
Correct, we don’t know long term effects of Covid, but conversely we don’t know the long term effects of the vaccines either.

Odd that no matter what side of that coin people argue, they forget it applies equally to the other side too.
With revenue in the billions I don't find missing a positive annual EBITDA by 20 million to be enough to put it in the burning money category. The flat revenue over the last 2 years however with the massive drop in net income is interesting though without knowing the background of what's at play there as it was suddenly trending towards Uber levels of burning money if unchecked.
Still, Nethack/Slashem, IRC, Gopher, ZMachine games... get played and launched even 20 years later.
> have the authority to detain or arrest on federal property

...if they've observed you committing an offence.
Unfortunately DGraph is having some serious troubles as a company: https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/quitting-dgraph-labs/16702

Technically speaking though, using GraphQL as a data model is quite limiting: just basic scalar types and a handful of custom types implemented by DGraph (Polygon, etc). By contrast EdgeDB schemas support a much wider range of granular types, constraints, computed properties, link properties, etc.

Perhaps more importantly EdgeQL is a full query language with composable syntax, a standard library of functions and operators, for loops, primitive literal manipulations (e.g. string indexing and slicing), the ability to cast values to different types, subqueries, etc. Basically it's a complete query language contrast GraphQL is closer to an ORM in that it really only supports CRUD.

I think DQL is marginally more powerful though admittedly I'm not very familiar with it: https://dgraph.io/docs/get-started/
I don't really disagree enough to bother arguing. But my thermometer analogy is still the same. You can create situations in which thermometers do indeed show something that actually is an indication of something and that something isn't heat. Thermometers are used to measure heat though.

Anyway, I'll just accept your points. When I tried to think of an analogy that was as silly as "inflation has nothing to do with price" I failed. I can't think of anything as wrongly silly apparently.
Awesome, it does have this provision for 25 dwellings per cable mile, and I have also made some social-media-tweets to our city council leadership and mayor because why not!
The form to request a digital evaluation copy is broken on my phone.
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
The rest of EU is already there
Bookface is private and only accessible to YC founders.
Journalists’ guide to HIPAA during the Covid-19 health crisis
Not GP but it really depends on where you draw the line. Keeping dependencies to a realistic minimum is a very pragmatic and robust decision.
Wasn't there variant of this Doug McIlroy won by getting core below attack limit?
I will never forget that day. It was Saturday morning, around 8:00am CST, and my wife and I were laying in bed, I was barely awake. We were living in East Texas at the time. It was the loudest 'boom' I've ever heard, and it shook the house a bit.
Brand new house; but it's coaxial on an aerial pole line; cable internet not fiber. That's how the bulk of connections around here have worked in my experience. I heard from a friend that CA has the JCB (?) or something that is an extra-governmental oversight board for poles etc.
> vaccinated

I suspect this is an important differentiator.

A lot of us who got Covid before the vaccines have lingering issues.
> maybe the link should be in the form of a question mark icon, similar to what they have at https://m.xkcd.com/

If the help text will be displayed in a little floating window like a tooltip, this makes sense, as the expected UI. I had in mind a short description box opening up underneath the entry and showing the info (as part of the page flow, not floating), and for that case I had the expander arrows [1] in mind.

In either case, the important thing IMO is to have enough interaction area to comfortably click on it without having to precisely hit the arrow/question mark itself.

[1] like mentioned here: https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/5736/138
Or, and hear me out here, they just had experienced trench warfare in WWI (which Mordor is arguably inspired from and which Sam and Frodo had to experience together) and few things ever draw men closer together platonically than being in combat together.
https://thethreevirtues.com/
Well, I think that no one talked about it until now doesn't mean these concerns are invalid.

That said, I think these concerns are way overblown and coverage/conversation is largely driven by a larger narrative pushed by news outlets.
OO runtime dispatch as implemented by C++ via "vtables" of function pointers doesn't even map well to CPUs! The indirection via a data pointer that can change unpredictably is terrible for pipelined architectures. Similarly, this approach generally prevents inlining, especially across dynamic library boundaries.

However, many languages and even C++ with modern compilers can pull tricks to mitigate this. For example, static analysis can often be used to replace virtual calls with direct ones. Similarly, functions can be inlined in many cases, such as a "leaf" class in a hierarchy calling itself.

Languages with "virtual machine" runtimes such as Java and C# can potentially optimise even dynamic scenarios. Java certainly does in some cases.

I think the ideal OO framework would actually be more like what Rust does with traits. Have static dispatch as the default at runtime, but with the traditional OO model of interfaces, classes, derived classes, etc... Dynamic dispatch should be an option, but not the default. Ideally, dynamic dispatch should be used only on the boundary of binary modules such as DLL files or kernel-to-user-mode ABIs.

Note that OO was also designed to reduce compilation times by decoupling implementation from use. So if developer A updates an implementation (class/struct) of an interface/trait, then developer B using that interface can use incremental compilation without having to recompile the usages of the interface! This saves a lot of time for large code bases.

One reason Rust is notoriously slow to compile is because it always recompiles everything -- both implementation and usage of interfaces.

Again, a hybrid approach could work: dynamic dispatch by default for debug builds to enable efficient workflows, and static dispatch by default for release builds for runtime performance at the cost of longer build times.
I probably am making it up, sorry -- it's whatever "cable internet" at say 500mb/50mb speed would run on; as opposed to "fiber" proper, with symmetrical speeds.

I am learning a lot different things than I thought I would by buying a new home :D
With Go, you can do a whole lot without anything other than your database package. This is also true in C# (or was 10 years ago when I used to write it).
Reminds me of grad school where there was literally only one correct way to write a particular sentence or paragraph in a manuscript according to multiple advisors over the years. Frequently that way is synonymous with what was originally written, but apparently the original doesn't have the correct "feel," or whatever. For a physical sciences paper, where no one is a particularly good writer.

Basically, communities seem to get into vocabulary and sentence structure ruts. Deviation means your reviewers are going to give you more shit, at least indirectly.
I dont think perimeter security is dead at all - we are just finally recognizing we need more finely controlled access. Just because a castle has a Keep in its center does not mean it no longer needs its main walls.