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I am unimpressed by the idea that we can solve this with more technology. Some of those billions of people feed themselves. Theit biggest problem isn't minmaxing an 8t/ha yield to 11t/h. Their problem is getting from 1t/h to 6t/h which is entirely possible with just manure, some crop rotation and good quality seeds that can actually be resown.

The idea that e.g. hybrid rice is going to solve world hunger is absurd.
I have unironically used `#define private public` before including headers in my test code...
As a Firefox user I disagree. Their work on Servo and Rust resulted in many performance and reliability improvements. WebRender for example came directly from Servo.
Is Draytek any good? I've just gotten their AX router as the first installment in a mesh home network - ultimate goal is to have separate VLANs for IOT vs core devices.

Immediate experience has been so so - the router kept rebooting every 12 hours - had to disable the AX interface and keep it wired only. WiFi is currently coming through a Netgear AC access point, which defeats the purpose of the system. I'm thinking if I should switch manufacturers before I get in too deep...
These sentences sum up the article quite well:

"Previous studies have shown that curbing 80 percent of carbon emissions can be achieved by ramping up wind and solar power harvesting installations"

and

"To nail down that last 10 or 20 percent of decarbonization, we need to have more tools in our toolbox, and not just wind and solar,"

The "more tools" may be nuclear or it may be storage, depending on the cost of both technologies in the future:

"Added Caldeira: “Our analysis looked at the cheapest way to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions assuming today’s prices..at today’s price, nuclear is the cheapest way to eliminate all electricity-system carbon emissions nearly everywhere...if energy storage technologies became very cheap, then wind and solar could potentially be the least-cost path to a zero-emission electricity system.”"

IMO, it seems too early to bet on either, so carry on developing both until more data is available.
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Brave is the spiritual successor to Firefox.

Firefox is a glorified Google referral system first, a slow, bloated browser second.

Mozilla has been ruined by highly paid executives draining the organization and the Google search referral income stream.

How long will they be able to coast off of their organization's reputation?
To build and install it, you could have a binary release instead of using cargo.
> doesn't work as well as in Chrome

Did you mean Firefox there?
and they might be wrong in thinking that
Creating an on-premise version of our product for enterprises (as opposed to a pure SaaS version)

Turns out there is still a lot of money in selling technology to large enterprises that they can host and run themselves on an annual licensing model.

We were initially afraid of the long and high-touch enterprise sales cycles, complex procurement processes and enterprise integration requirements (complex permissions, LDAP auth, audit trails etc.) and thus wanted to do a simpler SaaS version with a monthly plan.

But I learned that if you start on the enterprise angle early, you can get some incredibly sticky customers with five, six or even seven figure annual license payments and very predictable cashflows you can raise or borrow against.
Fully agree. Currently I can't even use custom keyboard shortcuts in FF.
Nuclear power may be kicking the can down the road, but burning coal is just leaving the can for our immediate offspring already in their 20s and 30s.

The article says least-cost, we're fresh out of perfect solutions.
I've worked alongside some of the sketchiest of IT contracting firms and I've seen this kind of behavior.

One firm just decided to replace the trained contractors working on my BI team with a bunch of junior devs overnight, no explanation, no warning. The fact that BI management kept employing them says more for the suspected "hello money" I think was paid to get them in first.
So?

If you ask 100 people, 99 will tell you they would rather buy new electronics every year and throw away the old, and they would rider drive a huge SUV than walk or bike.

That doesn't mean it's a good thing.
Paper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28457-8

Here is the design of prototype:

> A circular polyurethane foam (36 mm diameter and 25 mm thickness) was used as the floating thermal insulation. An insulating ring (36 mm external diameter, 31 mm internal diameter, and 6 mm height) made of polystyrene foam was attached on top of the floating thermal insulation. Black paint (245198, Rust-Oleum) was uniformly sprayed on the top of the thermal insulation layer, creating a 31 mm diameter area for solar absorption. Five 2.5 mm diameter macrochannels were drilled through the thermal insulation using waterjet. One of five macrochannels was in the center of the floating thermal insulation, while the other four were in four vertices of a square, 9 mm away from the central macrochannel. A circular copper plate (36 mm diameter) was used as the balancing weight, which was attached to the bottom of the floating thermal insulation. Similar to the floating thermal insulation, five 2.5 mm diameter macrochannels were also machined through the copper plate using waterjet. The total weight of the copper plate was 23.4 g to enable the neutral buoyancy of the entire structure. The convection cover comprised two glass slides (45 mm diameter and 2 mm thickness) and an air gap (5 mm thickness). The solar absorber for the contactless mode was a double-sided black-painted aluminum plate, attaching to the back side of the convection cover.

The $4 estimate comes from replacing copper with something cheaper.
Now that is something I agree on. :)
Marketing is very important. Keep in mind, people need to learn about your app before they install it, not after.

Sales is only important if you're doing B2B, and even then I would be cautious, because sales people are sly. If you aren't careful, they sooth your board and suddenly you will be replaced by one of them.
Chernobyl and Fukushima disrupted more than a few people’s lives.
Making ethanol involves more steps than just letting corn grow on its own, and those steps burn fossil fuels.
"But what about the nucelar waste!" is not hard to grasp, it is a well known misinformation that some people are refusing to let go.
Maybe a little over a year ago, I switched from Chrome to Firefox (phone, desktop, etc...). I didn't really see much difference, and I liked using Pocket. Plus, I wanted to support Firefox.

Fast forward to last week and I'm considering switching back. It's not because of any sites that Firefox hasn't supported. It's because I recently needed to start using a webapp to access to email from $WORK. They locked up email and now my local Mail.app client won't connect to $WORK.

My preferred way of handling this is to wrap the webapp as a desktop shortcut, so the entire site is wrapped in it's own window, etc. I also have a couple of other work webapps that I like to treat as applications. Chrome makes this easy/possible. Firefox does not.

This used to be something I did with Firefox, but now, it's not possible (or at least easily, on a Mac). Firefox was something you could embed. And now, I have no idea.

Small little features like this are where Firefox starts to lose users. Right now I have both running, but I can't see that lasting long.
>Majority of farmers

Statistically people from 1-3 states can't represent the majority of farmers.

>supported small farmers for decades

I guess they therefore can't ever stop subsidizing them, homerun for the economy.

>agriculture is like 80% of jobs for ppl in India

What? (Also, it produces almost no value in exchange for the subsidies, it's barely 15% of the GDP IIRC)
Humans have already spent combined person-centuries trying to crack Linear A, and been able to guess a few words from context. If you use the sound values from Linear B (which can be guessed via Greek), you can even try to pronounce them out loud. Unfortunately, that doesn't help at all unless you can find a related language to help guess more words. If it's a language isolate without living relatives, that would be simply impossible.

However, that doesn't mean that trying to solve it with ML is completely useless. If you can do a century's worth of hypothesis-testing in a fraction of the time to discover that none of them work, at least humans will waste less time trying to solve an unsolvable problem.
Well a lot of conventional farms that are hyperoptimized barely make enough money to get by. It is quite weird how we can't maintain something as basic as food security with a market based economy.
What are you talking about? Of course coal is worse than nuclear power. The discussion is about renewables vs. nuclear.
Very naive question but is it different from what npm, pip, etc. let you do already? Does the app installed this way get more permissions coming from a signed installer? I'm not familiar with OSX security model.
Part of thinking probabilistically is understanding when not to place a bet. You take into account your own technical savviness, your own understanding of blockchain technologies and protocols, the amount of scams and rug pulls and insider trading, and then you can make a decision on whether you want t gamble on something in crypto or not.

But you are right that the casino analogy is bad since games inside a Casino are fairer on average and easier to model probabilistically. Still, that doesn't change my point about thinking of investments as gambles.
David Beasley (@WFPChief) responded to Elon Musk with this plan [1] and it looks like Elon was amenable to it, since we’re now discovering that indeed Elon Musk followed through with the ~$6B donation.

[1] https://www.wfp.org/stories/wfps-plan-support-42-million-peo...
I've been using a VPN continuously since the UK introduced the "Snooper's Charter". VPN usage has risen hugely around the world and it's not uncommon to see (mis)advertising on TV from more disreputable companies like Sophos and NordVPN.

Over time, these positions will become increasingly untenable. If everyone uses a VPN or lives behind CGNAT then these kack-handed approaches to "security" won't be seen as being plausible – the more real users they block or inconvenience the greater the harm to their product and I am sure this is going to go up over time. It's not like a real attacker can vary their ipv4 addresses willy-nilly at any rate...
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Not sure from which perspective your comment comes from. dnf update or dnfdragora updates (if you prefer a GUI) are all done while the system is running.

Sure, distribution upgrades nowadays are just like Windows update requiring a system reboot and a black screen with a useless progress bar to stare at (that's also a pretty annoying relatively recent addition).

GNOME is not my cup of tea. And until flatpak delivers tangible finegrained software sandboxing (at least Android level sandboxing), I'm not really interested in using it for software that's already packaged in the dnf repositories.

I use Fedora because it has newer software, pretty stable in my experience, and my knowledge is transferable to RedHat/Enterprise Linux. But I stopped buying into most of Redhat's desktop innovations a while ago.
Interesting and useful, but I'd also like to know what products has worked exceptionally well. Carrot & stick, you know
There are thousands upon thousands of hosting companies out there, most of which are barely breaking even, and are sold often for not much money.
I've been a recipient of the "we're really sorry but object in bucket X at path Y has been irretrievably lost" email a couple of times.

Once you're storing a few million objects at standard durability it's par for the course.
It's not about deep contemplation, it's about having the necessary information.

If I write down a sentence in a language you don't speak, and make it impossible for you to ever get any information at all about the language it's written in (say, by burning every book about it and killing everyone who knows it), how many centuries of contemplation do you think it would take for your to understand it?

Language decipherment, whether by human or machine, is not done by staring at the words you don't understand. It's done by comparing it to things you do. And here we have nothing.
Putting PV on the fields produces a lot more energy per hectare than you get from energy crops and you don't need fertilizer, pesticides or heavy machinery.
Can't you just export the struct?
Edit: Just tried it and ran into those difficulties. Julia structs appear to be treated as constants, and Revise.jl didn't help (for me).
Solar panels are recyclable https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/...
Many peofessional athletes are not well paid at all so I am not sure I get your point.
Can you disclose which VPN you are using? I sometimes use ExpressVPN + a different browser to protect my identity, but it would be annoying if I lost my account.

The charitable interpretation is that Reddit got a lot of abuse from individual IPs, the IP didn't seem to be shared to them, and they just blacklisted it. I assume they don't generally blacklist IPs from abusive users, since otherwise university campusses would quickly have problems :-).
Doesn't surprise me the slightest, Reddit is not like it used to be. It used to be the underdog where free speech flourished and today it's a chineese-owned propaganda machine. A few users controls the biggest subreddits and most deviating views get themselves either banned or restricted.
Unemployed farmers should just join an afforestation project and produce more farmland.
Mozilla needs to stop focusing on side projects like Pocket and get back to the actual browser.
Might be a function of modern shoes. I can’t heel strike on old or bad quality runners
This. They were struggling to find enough customers to break even. I had the customers but lacked the hosting knowledge and technology.
Mozilla lost the nerds.

Everything that made Mozilla cool or innovative was shafted.
Farming at this scale allows people to eat meat for every meal.
But surely If I created my username & password and they are unique and if I therefore own its copyright, can someone like google copy them to produce a token or other reference that will be used to produce income (for them), doesn't that violate my copyright?
Copyright also protects against use as well as distribution doesn't it?
An example would be if I was to copy a blog post, can I use it for other purposes like using it in it's entirety in a paid teaching class about blogs in general, referencing the words the layout, the subject matter.
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I was a huge fan of this article and Misko's accompanying talks back in 2012 or so, but a lot of this hasn't aged that well. These ideas all assume that in all cases, the class should be the unit under test, and you can see how this plays out in Angular, where the command-line tool will generate stub unit tests for every new component you create. If you fill out those tests with the aim of maximizing code coverage, then what you'll find is that all of those tests will need to be rewritten at the first refactor. On a personal project, that might be an enjoyable way to spend a bit of time, getting to understand your project better, but on a team with actual deadlines, there's not going to be enough time to do that. Either you remove the tests entirely, or you put off the refactor indefinitely.

Class-based unit tests lock you into a specific implementation, providing a checksum on the current behavior, making it as hard as possible to fix an actual bug when it's discovered. Collaborators-included unit tests on the other hand, do not break unless your product is broken. It can be harder to chase code coverage when you're doing laparoscopic surgery on your code, but the end result is that every conditional has an actual use case behind it, and if the requirements change, you can see the name of the test with the bad requirement and delete it.

I still think that a lot of the patterns that make your code testable are still good though. It's not always clear at what level of abstraction you want to start mocking. Do you mock HTTP? Do you mock a martialed API? Do you mock a business logic abstraction that depends on that API? If you use DI for all of these layers, then you don't have to get it right the first time. You have options when you're writing your tests, and can use concrete or mock collaborators according to whatever your current need is.
I said that my knowledge of CDNs is limited but yea I understand that CDN is similar to edge computing. My logic was Moore's law will make everything so cheap that CDNs wouldn't be as needed as they use to be.

>The point of cdns was to reduce the number of distinct resource objects that your browser requested, and that will continue to be good advice in many situations.

In the world of optimized software and computational power abundance(both CPU and bandwidth) this shouldn't be a problem.
This article is 3566 words. 15 pages long when copied onto libreoffice.

I like reading as much as the next person, but this kind of articles is starting to get ridiculous.

It's like, it starts with an interesting but otherwise straightforward title, you click, and then you're presented with a novel. One structured in such a way so as to make trying to glance to find the relevant sections yields zero information. Nope, you are required to read all about how someone grew without a dog and how their grandmother had lovely spots on her hands and her skin was like paper, before you can even get an inkling where the information lies in the article, if it's there at all.

I've read countless articles like this by now, where you go through the whole 'novel', and the information you were looking for is on paragraph 67 out of 103, and it's basically the line "Well, we don't really know."

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Here, let me tell you about the story when I once added 1 + 1 together. You'll never believe the result:

"Jonathan was a keen hiker. When his wife got pregnant in the mid nineties, he could never imagine that his great-great-great-great-great grandson would ever be faced with the 1+1 problem [...]"
200 years before it could be, "Slavery makes my life experience better by forcing slaves to play by the rules and serve me".

Your position is immoral. Coercion of any kind is bad. Approving it for egoistic reasons is equally bad.

You could freely support apps that do use Apple sign in voluntarily, but you like it that the developers are forced to provide it. Immoral and pathetic.
> but what the merits and demerits of each side are.

And who decides that? It's either going to be a tyrannical minority, a tyrannical majority or a literal tyrant according to those who oppose the decision.
Wow, I was not expecting it to make use of google sheets. Indeed, quite powerful for the simplicity of the solution! Good one ;)
I'd wager their impact will be less than that of climage change if we look a few hundred years into the future.

Regardless, both those disasters were more or less man-made. Chernobyl was caused by serious design flaws, and (as far as I know) people who refused to admit something was wrong until it was too late. Fukushima was built below the line indicated by stones setup to warn about tsunamis. I don't think there's any doubt such considerations need to be taken into account when building the next-generation nuclear reactors.
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As always with nuclear the questions are cost, time and waste. Until there is an actual breakthrough on (at least) one of those three issues we're going no where.
Yeah, I've had similar problems with ad-blockers for iOS, but they do exist.
> Can you give me an example of a successful long-term nuclear storage facility that exists today?

Sure. The earth is full of radioactive material (also known as rocks) that have been 'stored' successfully for millions of years.
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Personally I don't count "giving it away" as the product selling itself. GSuite - Google Docs, GMail for Business, Google Drive, etc. - has had enterprise sales teams for a long time.
Modern nuclear is actually reasonably good at scaling. It's just that the capital costs are so damn high that you want to run your reactors at 100% all the time to have a chance of making profits.
I think a more justified and nuanced criticism is that Apple is harming the web by tying Safari updates to macOS and iOS updates, which makes the criticism of Safari being the new IE a lot more justified (now that IE has been replaced by the evergreen cross-platform Edge). Safari might get more frequent and broader updates but that's no use when people are still using older versions of macOS and iOS and might be stuck with it (especially with fresh memory of Apple intentionally slowing down iOS devices to encourage buying new hardware).
Amazing reply.

Is there a community for blind developers? I could see that being a helpful resource.
> If you ask 100 people, 99 will tell you they would rather buy new electronics every year and throw away the old, and they would rider drive a huge SUV than walk or bike.

I don't think that's true.

Anyways. We are comparing nuclear, radioactive waste that has the potential to make whole areas of land unlivable for decades if it touches them and stays radioactive for a million years to cadmium, which is much less toxic than nuclear waste, has a shorter half life and in doesn't require us to find a solution to an unsovled problem to deal with it.

How can you seriously compare the two on the same level?
Back-story: I got fed up when I noticed that I was famous for saying ”Sorry! I forgot it!” to friends and family. So I started looking into it and find out that I tried to keep small reminders in my head instead of writing them down. I started trying out different productivity apps but everything i tried out was way too complicated and time consuming.

I could see that I needed something that was stupid easy and without any barriers to get a hang of it and that’s why I created Repose.

I would love your feedback!
For every one of these stories though, is there a 'we pushed too hard too soon, the product wasn't ready, people were already turned off it by the time it was'?
Don't forget that the tech sector is now the biggest industry by far in the US. Not cars etc.

I don't think any beatdown will be meaningful as politicians are very aware of the impact on the economy.
The pure browser business doesn't bring in any money. Browsers are a commodity, you sell them as a vehicle for the real thing. Much like razor handles for the razor blades.

Firefox is a great handle but nobody wants or needs their blades.
Xcode has a good Metal frame debugger, which also allows to step through shader code.

The Graphics Debugger that's integrated into Visual Studio also has a shader debugger (for D3D/HLSL).

RenderDoc allows shader debugging for some backends, although I currently don't remember which one (either D3D, GL or Vulkan).

Nvidia has the NSIGHT debugger, which AFAIK exists both as standalone tool and integrated into Visual Studio and also allows to step through shader code.

Game consoles usually come with their own graphics debugging tools.
Finland is building a long term storage facility[0] that is estimated to open in 2023–2025.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
What the hell did I just witness here? An NFT instructional video?
>99 will tell you that they rather live next to a solar panel or a silicon extraction mine than next to a nuclear power plant or a uranium mine.

I'd guess that most people would rather live near a solar panel or a nuclear plant than a mine. One is potentially dirty and disruptive, the other IS dirty and disruptive.