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Can someone explain why during the start of Covid lockdowns, gasoline prices didn’t drop to $1.00/gallon? There was no demand, and plenty of supply. The simple supply/demand curve of my high school economics memory, seems to imply prices should have taken a dive to virtually zero. Sure they went down, but nowhere near what the models I’d learned would predict. Just a rant that lit up inside my brain every time I filled up during that time when the streets were as empty as any zombie movie.
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It's still very much used at SkipLabs. In fact, it's the language that SQLive is written in: http://sqlive.io

Unfortunately, we use a proprietary fork of SKIP, so that's why the OSS project looks dead.

We might open-source our version some day, but no plans for now.
> you could write your own scheduler or use a library

I never wrote ray tracers, but in my experience the best way to parallelize things is usually “none of the above”.

C++ runtime has a built-in scheduler, OpenMP https://www.openmp.org/ If the algorithm needs to dynamically spawn tasks (graph search, flood fill or similar), Windows kernel has another one, see SubmitThreadpoolWork API.

These things tend to work better than third-party libraries, and are way easier to consume than developing custom schedulers.
So long as you are a US citizen because ITAR
But then your boss/manager can’t spy on you!

I think most of us are lucky enough to work in companies or roles where that’s an acceptable option, but many others are not. It’s gotta be a cultural company change or one driven by the product team at Slack.
They've published the results code audits and network audits here:

https://bitwarden.com/blog/bitwarden-network-security-assess...
This is correct. The Patriot was an anti-aircraft missile that was retrofitted to kinda sorta be adequate for ballistic missile intercept. It was a proverbial dancing bear -- it was impressive that it worked at all, never mind that it wasn't very good.
Highly recommend World Without Email by Cal Newport on this exact topic: https://www.calnewport.com/books/a-world-without-email/
The difference is we see better versions of the Model T in use every day, whereas we don't currently have a rocket that can take people the moon.
Brian's schtick boils down to pointing out that sometimes, economists say things over and over again just because they, themselves, have heard them said over and over again - with the added trick (making it much more valuable) of proposing something better-researched than what they keep repeating. I guess that's my point, that this may be one of those. It'd be usual for him if it was.
We have an unofficial policy in my company that all pertinent information should be in the first message specifically to avoid the scenario you mention. Highly recommended.
If you mean pages, then you refresh to get new or updated content.

The update/refresh process can be automated but adds complexity. This might be worth it in a a dynamic multi-user application or for a feed of information but adds no value in most cases.
I've used Twist. It's a good piece of software, but I think it's too work-focused.

Consumerization of Enterprise is real - people don't want work to feel like work. Even Slack is more of a social tool than a work tool [1]. So, I think that the key to building a great work-focused tool is to start on non-work use cases - such as social groups.

Looking at Twist - I don't think it emphasizes usability, users in multiple workspaces, quality notifications, easy onboarding, and group discoverability. Take a look at the nav - it's built for hundreds of people, but groups will start with far fewer than that, and churn before they grow. Plus, it's entirely a logged-in experience - how many beloved forums are logged-in-only?

Twist is a good tool for certain uses - but I'm going for something more generalizeable.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/slack-is-...
Yeah, I think the author could do well with just muting slack for a few hours a day, and hand out his phone # for emergencies.
I think this would be a good reason for mandatory open sourcing all tech as result of a company failure. That might not make it possible to replace or fix implants still, but at least it gives you a fighting chance.
> To begin with, near nobody uses Firefox today. Very succesful, and sustainable.

215 million MAU is still a lot of people: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
Conveniently, pure deuterium fusion (D-D) is easier than D-He3 fusion, and the output of D-D fusion is half He3, and half tritium which decays to He3 with a 12-year half-life. So if we can get net power from He3, we can make He3 from deuterium and generate energy in the process.

D-D fusion does produce neutrons but they're much lower energy than D-T neutrons. Fusion startup Helion is working on a hybrid D-D/D-He3 reactor, saying the combination will produce only 6% of its energy as neutron radiation, low enough so they can do direct conversion.

They've built half a dozen reactors, and now they're working on a seventh that they'll use for a net power attempt around 2025. They recently had a fundraising round led by Sam Altman, and raised $500M with another $1.7 billion of commitments based on milestones.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/05/helion-series-e/
The vast majority of work is plumbing, but there are still new things.

What matters isn't making new things, it's making new things that work, and bringing them all the way to completion.

The vast majority of innovation isn't exciting discovery, it's coming up with tests to convince yourself you actually did what you thought you did and sharing those results with regulators. That's the difference between Theranos and GRAIL.

I just built a tardigrade detector neural network; nobody has done that exact thing before, and now i'm talking to the world's leading tardigrade researcher because my tool might be helpful in answering an unanswered important tardigrade question.

But thousands if not millions of individuals worked over hundreds to thousands of years to bring us that tardigrade detector; all I did was take advantage of that to label 100 images! I've tried being an ML researcher; my conclusion is the best models are distilled from postdoc tears, and we merely retrain those models without pain.
Ah, King Canute is born again, again he will fail to turn back the tide. 'How ya gonna keep them down on the farm, after they've seen Paree' was a popular song as WW1 ended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgqVCJpRqWQ&ab_channel=RRead...

It applies to work from home, let companies be the judge of their workers work product - why should politicians even try to force them into the dual NYC commute and the fast fatty food lunches - it is apparent that many are going to change jobs instead of enduring that daily grind - and they are going to move further away, better home, more land nicer neighbours lower NYC house/land/condo prices = politics indeed.
Yes. https://nmap.org/book/osdetect-methods.html
The United States banned crude oil exports from the 1970s until 2015:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_and_Conservation...

https://ballotpedia.org/Crude_oil_export_ban

It didn't seem to affect retail fuel prices very much either way.
The root enabling factor was not only the reinforcement learning, it was the simulation. Put differently, any environment that you can simulate within sufficient accuracy, you can derive robust and efficient control by reinforcement learning.
Yes, I see this problem as well. People need to be told that they don't need to ask if you can ask... just ask.
Holy Jesus, that first chart tells a tale. The range of dense dots is from 60% to 130% almost throughout working life. Some of us are burning 2x what others are burning. Oh, man, dude. That's wicked variation after adjusting for non-fat mass.
> “You can’t exercise your way out of obesity,” […] “you can’t outrun a bad diet.”

While this article is being a bit dramatic and possibly understating the impact of exercise slightly, I feel a little dumb that I didn’t know this earlier. It took me several decades too long to understand the obvious, that exercise is for building strength, and losing weight happens by eating less. I tried for way too many years to exercise my fat off, and it never really worked because I’d unconsciously eat to compensate. Once I tracked what I ate, exercise actually became more effective.

A lot of people know this already, so it’s not busting everyone’s myths, but we also do have a strange narrative surrounding exercise and weight loss that I bought into. It makes me wonder if we’re physiologically wired to be allergic to the idea of less food, from an evolutionary perspective, because being hungry is literally risking death to our alligator brains.
Welcome to MS Teams...The chat platform for *YOUR* people, and not *Those Others*! lol

> ...Maybe someone from HR worried about secrets being shared in a chat?

Your phrase there immediately made me think of that Catbert evil HR director character from Dilbert...which is exactly the kind of thing he would want to have setup! :-)
Insulin pumps can significantly improve ease of managing this, and are even used with toddlers. They also offer much fiber control than the 0.5u delivery mechanism the author is using for manual injections.

My wife switched to a pump many years ago and it was, instantly, a life-changing experience, granting a level of freedom she had never had before. (Instant being roughly 2 weeks of adjusting to a different insulin delivery schedule)
That sounds plausible. The heavy water in your morning shower could provide all your energy needs for a year.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/01/nuclear-fusion/
I take it you’ve never watched “The Wire”
Finally some numbers! Thank you. So again, this sounds like more evidence against an economic advantage of fusion over fission, is that correct in your opinion?
AIX is usually deployed because there is a requirement for DB2, from my experience. You can use it as a clustered hypervisor too, the tooling is fairly decent. It is a LOT better than HPUX (which I think has always been absolutely terrible) but not as good as Solaris.

It was already “dead” when I first worked on it more than a decade ago. I think it’s a lot easier to replace with Linux than mainframes too. Doesn’t have a really good moat.
I don't want to feed your pessimism too much but I think the general culture of being too reserved with funding and testing is going to do more harm than that.
Heavy water is not a radiological hazard, but it's toxic [1]. I doubt there have been definitive experiments on humans (for obvious reasons). I wouldn't try substituting it for ordinary water.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Effect_on_animals
It would seem to me that the burden of proof here is on you. And you should be able to prove it, if it's happening.

Write a script that looks at the first N pages of the "New" listings. Count the number of posts that are flagged. Run the script every hour. After a few days, you should be able to either support or disprove your hypothesis.
It's so dead that even the Facebook copyright at the bottom was not updated
One has to be very careful with socratic techniques, they can quickly become trite, patronizing and segue nicely into splaining. They are extremely useful and help give space to the state of things, but if the people you are interacting with ever felt like they are being led down a garden path, it can feel like a big setup to getting owned. This advise comes from working on teams where the socratic method was used as a setup for being made a fool.
Via SF&F Stack Exchange, a short story from 1990 with a similar premise: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/260530/ai-controll...
> Combining this with the fact that Everest climbers are apparently eating 10K+ calories a day and then up to around 20K on summit day, I have to wonder how these facts jive...

The estimate is probably off for extreme circumstances and those people probably aren’t fully digesting and using all of those calories. The accurate number would be interesting.

I too have found that cardio isn’t very good for dropping weight, but packing on some muscle does a lot to shift body composition. Maintaining more lean mass simply requires more calories.
I regularly do group calls on Meet, Zoom and Teams, and find Teams the worst. For some reason the propensity to speak over each other is a lot higher in Teams than the other two.
Switching Megatorium to invite only nerdy video site
I am pivoting https://megatorium.com/ from a wide open Youtube competitor to a niche and nerdy video site.

The kind of videos people have uploaded already:

1. Old playstation gameplay and tweaks
2. Insane workflowy productivity sequences and hacks
3. Music production done with off the beaten track equipments.

These are the kind of videos I love to watch and luckily these are the kind of videos which have a hard time finding traction on Youtube these days.

Also switched to Linode and Dokku instead of Heroku and deploying with Github actions.

Still transcoding the videos manually with FFMpeg so that I can play around with the sizes and make sure it looks good instead of building something at this stage.
I believe you... I just don't know if (fastfoward mayop100 (years 5)) will necessarily agree with you.

So many founders have said the same, and ended up selling saying "you can't hold us to what we said X years ago, circumstances are different now".

But good luck. I hope like Fastmail you can build a profitable business that can last decades.
(offtopic)

I'm reminded of Alastair Reynolds' sci-fi short story "Weather"

<spoilers follow>

The twist of the story is that the alien/incomprehensible starship drives are controlled by an embedded, augmented, disembodied human brain. I've long felt the gimmick was a bit silly because what system would require an actual human brain over a normal control algorithm.

Well...
> Combining this with the fact that Everest climbers are apparently eating 10K+ calories a day and then up to around 20K on summit day, I have to wonder how these facts jive...if they can really temporarily push the limit, for how long, etc.

Yeah, I'm not convinced the article passes the smell test.

Michael Phelps discussed his diet extensively, suggesting he ate 10k a day while training. Other athletes talk about similar meal sizes. This suggests that once they stop exercising (thus eventually losing lean muscle mass and requiring less calories) that they would not see a change in their weight, yet there are a lot of old fat athletes (possibly just of a certain generation) out there.
If you're talking to workers from another company, they're going to be bound by what I can only call "loyalty" to not tell you why it happened (what are they going to say, "we think our boss is dumb and he made us do this?") and instead will make up reasons, doubling down on it and starting an argument where one side has a duty to be disingenuous. It's a mess, don't start it.
So it's successful enough for the gene to spread to the whole population, but the whole population dies because the gene makes them easier to eat? Yeah I don't buy it either.

That can be a problem with endangered species and loss vigor, for instance by allowing garden flowers to cross with their wild neighbors, leading to increased numbers in the short term, but a population crash during the next drought, flood, or killing frost, because the garden variety is used to being coddled.

But something that makes them glow? That's going to be selected for or against every single day.
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Sounds like you were just trying to take over one of your employee's accounts...
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Some companies these days have so many interruptions (often in the form of Zoom meetings) that you need to dedicate "focus time" to get any actual work done.
How do his results line up real world data like soldiers needing about 5k calories a day when active. Or athletes like Michael Phelps consuming 8k-10k calories a day while training?
> Combining this with the fact that Everest climbers are apparently eating 10K+ calories a day and then up to around 20K on summit day, I have to wonder how these facts jive...if they can really temporarily push the limit, for how long, etc.

I think a lot of these stats are myths meant to accentuate the difficulty of the task. Pontzer’s book discusses Michael Phelps and the lack of an actual source to the rumours he was eating gargantuan amounts during training.
> it never really worked because I’d unconsciously eat to compensate

The wild thing is he’s saying that’s not true either. He’s saying you never burned the extra calories in the first place.
I believe the author meant "old.class + old.study = 40" vs "new.class + new.study = 27" (where new.study = 14). It took me a re-read to come to that conclusion.
Understood; in truth my biggest specific concern is the ambiguity about whether or not they would comply with non-US regimes. In an ideal world they would (imho) comply with the US but not with foreign regimes. Better to have only one info leak rather than many.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_nose see the citations for real-world examples (and a lot of PR fluff).

Did you ever measure a smell? Can you tell whether one smell is just twice strong as another? Can you measure the difference between two kinds of smell and another? It is very obvious that we have very many different kinds of smells, all the way from the odour of violets and roses up to asafetida. But until you can measure their likeness and differences, you can have no science of odour. If you are ambitious to find a new science, measure a smell.

— Alexander Graham Bell, 1914
When you're burying something, the dirt gets shoveled on after it's put in the hole, so what you're describing might actually still be described as "burying" the lede.
I thought the cost per launch for Starship was going to be even less than the non-heavy F9 because it's more reusable.

> The evidence for this is the relatively few Falcon Heavy launches we've had and are planned.

I don't think that's very good evidence. The first Falcon Heavy flight was only 4 years ago and there have been 3 launches until now. Presumably people design their missions around what's available and proven reliable so I would expect it to ramp up. Looks like there are 5/6 Falcon Heavy launches on the cards for this year.
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(This is a guess, but) I suspect there is a base rate of inelastic demand which either never changes or changes very slowly. This keeps the price from falling significantly.
If they own the IP space they can do with it as they please. They've had it since 1992.

It reminds me of the nouveau urbanists that move into places like SF in droves then instantly start complaining that the little old lady down the street, who has lived in the same house for 50 years, is being greedy and wasteful because she doesn't sell her family home to developers who will build 50 shoebox condos in its place.

I suspect most of the "10/8 ought to be enough for anyone" crowd has never worked on a complex enterprise network. Just because a netblock is in use doesn't mean it has to be routable to the Internet.

The problem isn't with IBM. The problem is all the cloud BS -- the 18,000th food delivery app that no one asked for -- isn't using IPv6. And that's just pure laziness on the developers' part.
read this book: http://raytracerchallenge.com/

I'm halfway through and at 1531 lines in Elixir including the tests via doctest :)
This behavior is caused by the presence indicator. People subsconsiously are afraid that closing Slack will signal to their boss (and team) that they're not working. However, the result is that they spend their days slacking - not working.

Presence indicators are a dark pattern.
> C++ runtime has a built-in scheduler, OpenMP

Is OpenMP part of the C++ standard these days?
You can toggle cell data access, right? But if you have wifi enabled you can’t block an app from using it.
>Nowhere in the US has a marginal tax rate of 40% let alone actual rate at 100K.

PS the highest marginal tax rate in the US is 50.3%.

Federal rate of 37% and California rate of 13.3%.
There's nothing magical about people who have lots of money that make them any better than you - don't let anyone convince you otherwise. It is a common foundation of dictators, to tell you how badly you need them and how one strong person will save things. And as ordinary mortals, who put on their pants one leg at a time like you do, they are just as corrupt, stupid, and biased as everyone else, including politicians, but we lack transparency or any check on their power. That's why we have democratic government: To provide a way to manage power. It belongs to us. Some powerful people would love for for you to hand them that power.

People are naturally narrowminded, seeing their own experiences and interests as universal and essential and others as fringe and optional - or non-existant, because they can't possibly understand all the different experiences of the world. Wealthy people serve their own interests (which are very well-served already, I'll point out). It's like the old supply-side 'economics' claim from the 1980s: 'If we cut taxes for wealthy people, they will do good things for us' It turns out that it made them wealthier, and that was it.

That's why democracy is so important and function so well (relative to other forms of government): Everyone gets a vote and therefore everyone's interests are considered - even the ones you haven't imagined, don't understand, or don't care about. If you want a reliable way to see who will get screwed, just look for who doesn't have a seat at the table.

We do have systems for allocating funds, which include experts and people who study the issues, and public debate. What evidence is there that it works so poorly or could be so easily improved? I certainly don't agree with many decisions, but as I have to share the decisions with 330 million other people, that is understandable. Certainly I see what seem like more objective imperfections, but underfunding AI isn't one of them.

> letting individual rich people ...

Nobody is stopping anybody.
I always wonder how much of what we consume is actually absorbed, specially when factoring gut microbiome and non-soluble fibers.
I would highly encourage anyone to read Pontzer’s book, Burn. I just finished it and found it to be incredibly eye opening and well written. The TL;DR is that we need to think of calories like a relatively fixed budget rather than additive, and that the primary benefit of exercise is that it consumes that budget more than it expands it (hence not effective for weight loss), but by consuming that budget there is less budget to go around for unhealthy things like inflammation, excess hormone creation, etc (which is why exercise is so beneficial to health).
The seventh amendment does in fact lay out trial by jury in civil cases, but it was decided in the supreme court that states were not required to provide jury trials in civil cases; but many of them do provide it until you supposedly "voluntarily" wave it to do things like purchase essential goods and services like a motor vehicle or Internet service.
if you read the linked page, you will see the story and how the nsa replaced the DES algorithm with a completely new algorithm.
People will always prefer asking, as that comes with a built-in lookup table and related links and probably up-to-date information. It's just easier than to spend time sifting through documentation that may or may not have the information they seek.

Don't blame the medium.

Instead, change your response so that they stop expecting your time.