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> You will never be able to produce enough power just from solar panels on your roof

What do you mean by this? Our solar panels produce enough electricity that we never* draw from the local grid. We have a 4,000 sq foot home with 8 people living it. At least a few people are home all the time. We have 2 AC units and 2 furnaces. We have an electric water heater.

* Well, we surely do at night, yet we generate so much more than we use that the credits from the overage feeding back into the grid more than compensates for whatever we use at night. Our monthly electric bill is never higher than the $12 hookup fee.
I expect an extreme version of this to be the future. Not just many cores, but many machines. My ETLs at work run on a spark cluster and are specified across programs organized in a separate DAG. That’s the kind of “program” with lots of head room to improve.

I’d bet future many-machine heterogeneous-resource languages will make that a lot easier.
I want to know what “devastating” means. Removing SWIFT was supposedly going to be 5% off GDP (but that probably assumed all banks).

Is this 8%?
Russia has previously stated they'd guarantee Ukraine's independence and sovereignty.

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

Dictators are liars, and accepting "I'll stop hitting you if you do X" from abusers only works in the short-term.
Makes sense, thanks for that perspective
> Ukraine did down multiple Russian fighter jets.

Well, the ukranians say they did. It's a weird war where both sides are using the same equipment, so when a plane gets downed or a tank gets blown up on video, it's still unclear whose plane or tank it was. I expect both sides just market whatever videos and photos they have as the other side's casualties.

One example that has been disturbing me was the video of that truck that was attacked by what looked like Ukranian civilians, who shot the driver and the occupants. Except, it turned out to be an Ukranian truck. So was it russian special forces in an Ukranian truck (seems a bit unlikely to me) or was it just a case of friendly fire? It seems clear that friendly fire has been happening, since all the more recent photographs of Ukranian soldiers have prominent (and quickly applied) yellow or blue tape on their uniforms and helmets.
Many things can be sold to the public, but it's particularly hard to sell a steady stream of coffins, and especially so if you can't showcase significant military gains.
For fun, to learn new ideas how to approach program design, or just because as language geek, " you need to collect them all!" :)
The US banks I worked with would just overdraw your account (up to an amount), then, overnight, reorder the transactions so the big ones came first and all the little ones came “after” the account went negative and hit you with hundreds of dollars in overdraft fees. I don’t miss the early 2000s.
Macron is fighting a difficult reelection race, and as Germany hems and haws over its own ties to Russia, Macron is trying to present himself as the leader of Europe.
Any incandescent bulb aimed at your head will help you feel warmer, even a 60-75W. I tested this with a 75W halogen to make sure it wasn't necessary to use higher wattage.

Also in lieu of heated keyboard and mouse, a laptop that is doing something energy intensive will put out 100-200W; some through the keyboard, but also to the nearby areas of the desk. I know it's not ideal for how a lot of people work, but i've gotten used to it. I also use a trackball instead of a mouse so i can just put the trackball near the laptop exhaust and keep it warm too.
It is usually niche languages, which are ahead of their time and coming up with interesting ideas or get rid of annoyances of entrenched languages. I want to be free of the annoyances of the languages, which I use on the job. I want elegance in expression and to be able to do things very cleanly.

There is also the aspect, that many only learn some mainstream language and do not look further. This in turn limits what is used in many workplaces. It is simply people not further exploring and educating themselves. I do not say, that they have to do that in their free time, but I myself, in my free time, do not want to be limited by mainstream choices, like I would be in most places at work.

I also need new interesting things in my software life. The ordinary stuff bores me. I try to learn more things. There are many things to learn from niche or at least non-mainstream languages.
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Like it hasn't already? They are already spending massive reserves to keep it up after the initial drop from the invasion.
Renewables + storage can provide synthetic baseload, and likely will be able to do it more cheaply than new nuclear plants would.

https://model.energy/
No, your point doesn't apply to anywhere in "the Western world". It depends on local weather, if there is wind or not, the amount of humidity, what kind of isolation your house has, but one of the most important is how many hours of daylight there are during the winter where you live.

We used to have a guy in my country who was telling us to wear a warmer coat during the winter to compensate for the complete lack of heat. He's no longer with as after 25 December 1989, but people still regret him.
Putin's decision to go to war backfired quite a bit.
Speed and space (of course!) help, but with terrible O complexity, it doesn't really matter how much memory you have or how fast you are. The search space gets big too fast.

e.g. changing the question, reasoning by analogy

How do we have insight, a hunch straight to the answer? It seems obvious that it's like DL; socially distributed search across people; trying out different things unconsciously... but the truth is, we don't know how we do it. We're like steam-punks saying it's obviously like a mechanical device, or Edison saying it's obviously like electrical relays. We just think in terms of the tech of the day, and by persona; introspection and observation. It's not science. It's maybe science fiction.

When we understand Strong AI, we will already know.
The problem with CNN isn't just unbalanced reporting. The site has turned into a tabloid over the years, full of advertisements and "my wife left me for bigfoot" stories.
What is the turnaround time for this to get implemented and what is involved from a technical perspective? Configuration and some buttons, changes in a process only, or are some software developers called in?
What can Russia do? Putin lacks the ability to respond proportionately in a way that doesn't hurt Russia as much, or more, as it does NATO.

Putin wants a "might makes right" world. Well, he's getting one, and he gets to live with the consequences.
Getting into djing was incredible. We had a friend working in a local music shop, they had gigantic rooms filled with guitars and pianos, but once djing became a thing they started dedicated a little angle to pioneer and Cdjs.

They let us playing on 2 cdjs 1000, with an Allen Heat mixer. Deadmau5 was the most played there, 2010 was an amazing year for electronic music. People kept increasing, things started breaking and we had to find something else. I've worked an entire summer 10 hours per day to afford two CDJ 900, then I bought a Reloop DJM and started organizing parties.

Those years will always remain in my heart. The energy, the people, I just think that some experiences will stay within your soul for the rest of your life. But if there's something I'll never understand is why the business world behind music and entertainment in general is so rot and broken. Maybe drugs, maybe the desire to get easy money, most of the people involved in parties just want to squeeze people for money, from location owners to PRs. If you don't have the guts to enter this "Mors tua Vita mea" cycle you're getting ripped off and left behind.

Your only hope was finding those two or three trusted friends and fight together against the rest of the world, until the last breath.

God, I miss those times.
Looks like the Ukrainians, at least as of today, have NLAW shoulder fired anti-tank missiles which are a hell of a lot better tan the RPGs the Chechens had. Apparently you just need to shoot over top of the tank, and don't need direct line of sight. There a some videos up on twitter of them in use.
EROEI (Energy Returned On Energy Invested) is the only thing that matters.
I think ‘live in a virtual world’ is not compelling. VR experiences, like theme park rides, need to have some story other than ‘accumulate stuff.’
> The OS of the iPod was Linux-based?

It wasn't. For those who didn't read the article: Apple was considering (not very seriously) replacing the iPod OS with one based on Linux, as the existing OS codebase was such a mess it was bordering on unmaintainable.

Obviously, the idea was not implemented, but it was this proposed OS that would have been "scaled up" to the iPhone.
His connections (his dad is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering) had more to do with that than hard work.

Getting out of purgatory was also competitive.
The big thing here is that blockchain is a solution in search of a problem and none of the applications that have been mooted have made sense. I have no doubt that it's going to collapse, but I wouldn't dare to put a date on it. I was pointing out the absurdity of it 10 years ago and it's still sucking people in. Then again, people still get suckered into Ponzi schemes 100 years later so ?
An overview of the blockchain development lifecycle
They are buying back rouble like crazy, they burn billions of dollars per day in foreign exchange
I actually understand how reality works, rather than drowning in the irrational, hyper emotionalism of: the world is gunna end if we face off with der Russia, The PuTin will Killeded us all ten times overs with the big nukes. Aka ignorant Reddit thinking.

The most important thing that can happen right now is to aggressively begin confronting Russia. They are weak, the invasion was a very bad idea, and they have zero global support for what they're doing and mediocre support at home for the invasion.

There is only one way to stop Putin and that's military confrontation. NATO is vastly superior to Russia's forces, now is an excellent time to cripple them in the field.

Every time war doesn't go Russia's way they're going to nuke the world? Yeah, sure. Good luck living in that universe. You know, we really can't defend Finland or Sweden or the Baltics (NATO), because hey Russia will nuke everybody, so they just get to keep taking territory at will. Time to go ahead and shut down NATO (you know, the organization that was originated specifically to stand off militarily with Russia, its primary reason for existing). No, time to start standing up to Russia in the field: this is what NATO is for.

Ukraine is doing the job that NATO ought to be doing. At the very least we should be helping them dramatically more than what we are now. Don't like the idea of direct confrontation (no-fly zone) - fine, then flood Ukraine with weapons at a much faster pace and put Russia in a position of having to declare war on NATO to stop it.
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Then the next question is this: why did those 50% even bother to try? Reselling for less btc (or fiat) keys that would soon be revoked? Has piracy decayed to the point where desperate consumers would really fall for something like that?
Political corruption.

You may think I'm joking, but one of the fuels that meets Pensylvania's Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard is "waste coal":

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0894192090344333...
I agree with you but in the world of widespread terrorism, tax evasion, money laundering, fraud, crime and rogue states and regimes, dictators etc. banking secrecy does not exist. With some kind of open and transparent banking network banks could vote to allow or disallow transactions respecting privacy just like Bitcoin does with pseudonymity and also "catch" bad guys who do aforementioned stuff. SWIFT prevailed because it standardized banking payment orders but no regulator really and fully knows what happens and flows inside SWIFT network. DeFi(Decentrilized finance) could be better than traditional finance if it implies transparency which is safe and useful at the same time.
You think it's easier to invade a country in home territory, while they had years to prepare between the previous invasion and now, than it is to defend against some attack that Ukraine might hope to mount against Russia? That sounds... unlikely. It's apparently also what supporters of Russia are saying, so I doubt this is the whole truth, even if there were a grain of truth to an all-out attack being "self defense".
I think most people who are interested in programming languages would do well to start by making toy languages. There's a lot of pressure in trying to make something "useful", and you're almost certainly not going to succeed at that on your first attempt anyway.

The list of prerequisites in the article is extensive, overwhelming, and largely unnecessary if you're just getting started. Most of the concepts that it lists as "prerequisites" are ones that I finally understood while implementing a toy language, not stuff that I studied ahead of time.
Awesome... so we just need a computer that's about 200x faster than what we have available today. So 20 years from now.
Are you certain of this? Under a previous incarnation, I've had a heavily upvoted comment administratively grayed & sunk. I'm sure the admins here are also human.
> increasingly/rapidly less geopolitically formidable

From utterly dominant economically and militarily to still being pretty much utterly dominant. Some decline.
BitTorrent made itself less relevant by relying on end to end networking and symmetrical links, neither of which panned out.
We own 3 Teslas, have a large 4 ton heat pump, heat pump water heater (50gal), a pool pump, and an electric induction stove. Our home is fully self sufficient using rooftop solar, and we consistently produce excess energy sold to our utility.
I think Russia has enough control over their home media that it actually can produce two separate narratives: one for the West, other domestic.
its at least interesting how neither of these organizations cared when the US invaded Iraq, and Russia followed roughly the same playbook we did in declaring a pretext.
Most relevant measures:

"First, we commit to ensuring that selected Russian banks are removed from the SWIFT messaging system. This will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally.

Second, we commit to imposing restrictive measures that will prevent the Russian Central Bank from deploying its international reserves in ways that undermine the impact of our sanctions.

Third, we commit to acting against the people and entities who facilitate the war in Ukraine and the harmful activities of the Russian government. Specifically, we commit to taking measures to limit the sale of citizenship—so called golden passports—that let wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government become citizens of our countries and gain access to our financial systems.

Fourth, we commit to launching this coming week a transatlantic task force that will ensure the effective implementation of our financial sanctions by identifying and freezing the assets of sanctioned individuals and companies that exist within our jurisdictions. As a part of this effort we are committed to employing sanctions and other financial and enforcement measures on additional Russian officials and elites close to the Russian government, as well as their families, and their enablers to identify and freeze the assets they hold in our jurisdictions. We will also engage other governments and work to detect and disrupt the movement of ill-gotten gains, and to deny these individuals the ability to hide their assets in jurisdictions across the world..."
Per unit or amortized? My impression was that long-distance high-voltage transmission lines can be expensive and logistically challenging to get built, e.g. NY/Quebec line thing, even if it eventually evens out. That's less relevant if we're talking the greening of already-established infrastructure, but the hyper-local nature of some forms of renewable generation could be a big advantage in physically isolated areas with rapidly growing populations, like right now in much of the mountain west. Maybe it'd let you get away with something like two high-cap long-distance lines instead of four, even if total grid isolation is unrealistic (and probably undesired) - i.e. if we're stuck building new infra anyway, may as well take advantage of new technologies to minimize the expense and impact of that new infra while maximizing effectiveness.
> It's only Europe and the US. South America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East don't really care and aren't going to "#PrayForUkraine".

Even the Taliban made calls to stop the military aggression

https://qz.com/2133634/the-taliban-is-calling-for-peace-in-u...
Nearly every app I have tried to run on GrapheneOS has worked fine.
> on a selfhosted server most spam - if not all - i receive is from gmail addresses, not from selfhosted servers who are easily denylisted if they start sending spam

And most - if not all - potential GSoC contributors are from gmail addresses. So again, I don't understand how this could be a general solution to spam.
If you saw the sign-in banner then likely you haven't seen the content and instead comment to complaint about paywalls or walled gardens, be it Facebook/Reddit/Twitter. It's distracting from the main discussion.
If you aren't seeing it you aren't looking. It is admittedly weird, you reflexively think they are right wingers, but dig a bit and you see they are pro-Palestine, pro-Venezuela leftists who see the same conspiracy to start a war as the fringe right:

https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1497607142894968834
Not sure which platform you’re on, but if it’s iOS, Tweetbot has an Open In Tweetbot redirect function.
https://archive.is/uWwFB
It will mean little or nothing to Russia. They’ve been working on autarky for years.

If the EU wants gas it has to offer something material in return. Or Russia won’t supply the gas. Why should it?

A country exports in order to gain imports. If there are no imports on offer then the people engaged in the export businesses are better engaged producing import substitutes.

Or war goods.
Yeah you’re right. I guess I’m saying that you gotta build a few toy languages before the big one. I don’t think you can read all of the material in the blog, then go build a language that people would actually use. Ideally you should concurrently read the material, work on a toy language, and work on an existing language.
We can model that under various cost assumptions.

https://model.energy/
That’s not really a double spend issue, though. Usually the blocks are found within a very short time between them. Unless the double spender is coordinating with a miner, orphaned blocks are a non-issue. It’s 51% attacks that would be the real problem.
Yup, I've fired plenty of WWII era 7.62x54r out of my M91/30. No issues with it ever.
This is now impossible with modern weaponry. Sure, it is still a valid tactic for short term, but 5 days would be hard let alone 58 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai...

The blue area is not limited to Europe and the US.
really no gas is being used for any heating? what’s your typical daily production/consumption in winter/summer?
> keys that would soon be revoked

The BTC acceptance didn't even vend keys, it was just access on the primary steam account.
With no RBF how will you prevent TX's from getting stuck in a high fee environment? I know BCH thinks block space should be unlimited which means TX fees will never get high but i don't think the economics works out there.
thats not explicit though!
I'm pro nuclear. But the fact is right now nuclear is too expensive. It just can't compete. With the new generation of small modular reactors, it might become competitive, or it might not. We just don't know. We simply can't bet the house on nuclear.

But if the private sector wants to pursue nuclear (be it fission or fusion), I'm all for it.
What happens when winter comes?

Europe is heated by gas from Russian pipelines. If nordstream 2 had come online they were going to get 80% of their fuel from Russia.

Alternative energy sources weren't ready for the load and post Fukushima there were huge pressure to shut down nuclear power.

We've been painting ourselves into a corner for awhile.
No, not at all. This is a leftist group opposing support for Ukraine. The "analysis of history" is just the rationale. I don't care about the rationale, and that's not the point.
It was indeed.
I think it does, there are levels of fraudulent activity. Calling "simply" doesn't mean to make it benign.
It's in neither organization's wheelhouse to care about politics. USA was capable of paying its debts during and after the invasion of Iraq. It should be clear to everyone that Russia is not.
Well, I assume that "full capacity" includes gas they decided to sell to Poland when the construction of Baltic Pipe started. They might not have enough to supply the whole Europe, no argument here.
You let the user do it twice then ban them from using bitcoin payments?
Out of curiosity I tried digging up information surrounding the continued use of carburetors on the M1 while the R1 was shipping w/EFI, considering there were multiple articles written at the time including quotes from Rossi. But this was all I could find:

https://www.motorcycledaily.com/2002/02/27february02yamahamo...
Drug dealers in the UK used to use inveterate gamblers addicted to fixed-odds betting terminals to launder cash in high-street betting shops.

Terrible rate of return, but the rate of return doesn't matter that much if you can't spend the money otherwise.
yeah I agree in part that we should probably not have celebrity presidents but he is definitely qualified for the job and has a law degree so it's not like he's just an actor. now on the other hand our celebrity leaders I can generally do without.
I agree. Statistics are not self evident. If you want to live a long life, build a nuclear power plant, don't smoke and wait for the lights before crossing.

Similarly, there was a person eaten by a shark at my local beach last week. Everyone is asking 'how can you swim?'. The last death by a shark was 1963.
It will only boost SWIFT alternatives like CIPS[1] and Russia's own SPFS [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Border_Inter-Bank_Paym...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPFS
It is also used as microkernel for Meadow boards running .NET.
If I understand correctly, only some Russian banks are being removed from SWIFT, so OP wonders why can't they can't all just funnel transactions through the ones that are still connected (I guess it opens those banks up to being sanctioned too?)
You can't teach a right person nuthin'.

It's only when a person is suspect in their conviction they are open to accept new information.
I appreciate your perspective. Yet, the west is playing the same game that Putin is - what line is too far to cross? The west has already armed and continues to supply Ukraine, which is probably part of the reason Putin's assault is struggling. I'm sure the west is also supplying satellite and other intelligence to Kyiv. So the "intervene and I nuke you" line has already been crossed, depending on your definition of "intervene".

AFAICT nobody is suggesting putting troops on the ground in Russia. Nobody in the west has any desire to conquer Russian territory.

There's a big spectrum between "stand back and watch" and "march troops to Moscow". Obviously "supply Ukraine" is already in progress. "Bomb Russian logistics convoys in Ukraine" could be too. Hell, the west doesn't even have to admit it. "We have no idea why your tanks are flaming wrecks, maybe their car warranty has expired?"