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> give much more flavor and diversity to the world than what rational thought will ever produce.

I don't know. The religious and mythological concepts such as punishment, judgment, sacrifice, angels, daemons and elves look like a derivative reflection of humans and their society. By comparison, the concepts from science and technology such as force fields, wavefunctions, wormholes and black holes seem genuinely novel and weird.

Personally, I would certainly not give up on the scientific truth - often in conflict with religion and mythology - to enjoy some of that mythological flavor.
That kind of mess, but worse, is what thunderbolt used to do. It would cut off USB signals (2 and 3) when the port switched modes, and downstream USB support depended on pcie->usb chips.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/mjz2pu/usb4_a...
This could have been far more common but Facebook snuffed it out with their maniacal insistence that everyone use their "real" name online.
EVs have been getting at different times up-to and beyond 10k in incentives paid for by others, which also points to not-yet being viable. Between renewables being chosen over nuclear and the onslaught of EVs, we're gonna need a couple orders of magnitude more battery capacity in the coming years. Maybe subsidies for alternative forms of energy storage a smart hedge.
> Slashdot

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
U.S. may act alone to ban Russian oil imports
> it takes a certain arrogance to believe in authoritarianism, that a few elite should be making all the decisions for the unwashed masses. This describes the current democrat party to a tee.

I see you got the names of the Democrat and Republican parties confused. As the 2020 election showed a minority of the country tried to throw out the results of an election to usurp power for their authoritarian...
Feels... yeah... sorta saddening.
> and realize this can NEVER be beat

Ah, the classic "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens".

You can live your whole life in several European countries without ever witnessing corruption. But because America is special, surely nothing can be done!
I suspect that another origin of that "z" is the Nazi's SS symbol: two "thunderbolts" together, visually looking like letters.
>>A version of Taler that didn't allow auditability wouldn't fit the description on its website, correct.

So the reasonable characterization of Taler's design is that it is backdoored, or as per your euphemization, "allows auditability" by privileged state authorities. Taler cannot remove that feature and still possess its defining qualities.

>>That has nothing to do with whether or not it's a "backdoor",

It has to do with the point you made, which is that Taler could remove that feature. It cannot, and I explained why.

>>I think you're being disingenuous in implying that a non-backdoored version of Bitcoin wouldn't allow double-spending.

Bitcoin is not backdoored. You're completely misdefining the term 'backdoor' now. This is a very bad faith argument from you.

>>Theoretically Monero might fit the bill, but given that neither Bitcoin nor Ethereum have adopted Monero's transaction model, it's pretty obvious that the maintainers/community don't view plugging that hole as a priority.

1. Not making plugging that hold a priority is absolutely not the same as providing state authorities with a backdoor as part of the design goals.

2. As a matter of fact, Bitcoin's LN has all transaction onion routed now. Ethereum has no need to take Monero's road to achieve privacy, as its Turing Complete program execution environment enables private transaction programs like AZTEC Network to run on top of it.

>>What you're arguing to me is that Bitcoin is more private because it exposes my information to literally everyone, and not to a limited subset of people.

I didn't say Bitcoin was more private. I said Bitcoin, Ethereum and other permissionless blockchains weren't definitionally backdoored.
Having many small reactors all over the place has been done, and yes poses the problems when people who don't know what they even are find them and try to scrap them https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0931jtk/the-nuclear-lighthou...
I was thinking about that as well….
AlphaFold, GPT-3 and How to Augment Intelligence with AI
And if companies actually cared about their customers and provided prompt and effective customer service. Which includes giving the tools for them(support) to solve the issues...
Isn't it more effort to do the screenshot than a simple copy+paste?
> You make it sound like people who pirate software are trying to hurt creators.

No, I am absolutely not claiming any intention malice. I'm claiming selfishness.

> The means to acquire the software are just too great.

It doesn't matter. If you didn't make X, and the person who did make X doesn't give you any right to X... you don't have any right to X.

They made it. By virtue of actually creating the thing, they morally have all of the rights to decide who should have access to it. If they haven't given you access to it, what right do you have to claim over it?
I teach introductory quantitative research methods to communication undergrads, most of whom have no calculus. (Which is essentially optional in the UK as it's taught at A Level after most students have specialised away from maths).

They don't seem to have a problem intuiting what a plotted PDF is showing. I think that's because in some sense it can be read analogously to a histogram. Of course, they don't have the tools to generate or manipulate one. But that's honestly not something that applied social science researchers have to do often when using traditional methods.
If they answer complaints on Twitter, does it follow that they don't support people who call the help desk, fill out a web form, etc.? Your position makes sense if everyone who complains in social media only does so because traditional support channels have failed them, but I don't think that's the case. For many people complaining on social media is the default first step, and a company interested in good customer support should monitor those channels.
Any chance for a windows version? Or a mobile app? The usecase for a mobile app is more plausible, even given that this is already a great idea.
Replace the metal pipes with plastic pipes, which is already underway in the UK:

https://piperepair.co.uk/2020/08/04/pipe-replacements-to-cut...
Iran plotting assassination of John Bolton, others, even while Biden negotiates
I really like speedcrunch also, another really cool calculator that is more of a language is Frink https://frinklang.org/
As an armchair Taoist, I have a feeling that my impression of your style of thinking is quite similar to your impression of a fundamentalist Christian (or, basically what you've written here about "religion").

Seriously: if you reread your text, do you see no errors (or at least potential errors)?
Right out of the gate, the paper is begging the question by stating that these are 'vehicles.'
The Enlightenment that has always been 17 and we were waiting for it to finally turn to 18? The one that had transparent windows through some plugins or whatever? Hell yeah! I installed it on Gentoo and when I made the windows transparent, I felt like I could do anything! I had Beryl, too, at some point.
You could swap UK with Sweden and your comment would be just as relevant.
Ok, it's a bit of harsh when applied to us, I'm not sure if we are choked out, but the energy crisis is real and high-energy industries are halting and forced to stop their expansion or even shrink their operations.

Another aspect is that energy and gas went from being affordable to a luxury, that's right, a growing chunk of swedes will have to cut back on their use of electricity (how would that even work). The prices on electricity have gone up 400% in ONE year, gas prices have gone up about 200%. Wages have halted since forever if you account for inflation.

I'm realizing the terrifying pace of this just now when writing it out, it's just unfolding in front of our eyes, we are in for one hell of a ride..
When I tutored in business school--mostly related to math-related things (which itself says something about the level of math knowledge among those who weren't engineering undergrads)--pretty much the only calculus that came into play was finding maxima and minima of curves in economics which was both simple differentials and mostly pretty academic anyway. A little later I did some more complex optimization problems but that was done by software (LINDO at the time) anyway.
Why did you change the title?

"California bill would ban the racist term ‘squaw’ in location names"

Oh, it seems to be your MO
I used to read that when I was a child, I am glad it is still online. I am also happy that they managed to finish the story :)
Please point out the quackery/grifting in https://academic.oup.com/advances/article/11/6/1489/5867525?...
AMDGPU Beating Proprietary Driver for Linux Workstations
I worked on a seismic monitoring system for civil engineering structures. We recorded data at 200 Hz (though all the interesting content is in the zero to 15 Hz range). Once I tried this experiment with some of the data from a bridge in a harbor. It was very cool, you could hear so much going on in the bridge.

Ambient seismic vibration is something of a hidden world around use. With a very sensitive accelerometer you can measure the shaking in a concrete pad due to cars a block a way. Looking in the frequency domain things like when rush hour is and which day is the weekend pop out like a sore thumb.
In my high school experience, this was avoided if you had the desire and aptitude to just take Honors Physics instead.

To work around the fact that many of us were still in precalc, our teacher just taught us the power rule, the relationship between slopes of tangent lines, etc., without diving into the "why" of why those things worked.

That said, yeah maybe for the most basic of university of physics the whole "derive it on the fly" strategy works, I guess? But when you get to more advanced courses like mechanics of materials, you'll do yourself the favor and take to memorizing at least a few of the commonly used equations.
> Bases are getting much smaller; there are fewer registered D/R vs independents.

While this is true, the evidence seems to be that most independents actually have a party preference in their voting patterns -- they're what political scientists sometimes call "leaners", e.g., they register (and identify) as independent, but they have a clear lean toward Democrats or Republicans. From the authors of the 2016 book Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction: "The problem with leaners is that there is almost no difference between people who identify as partisans and people who say they are independent and then say they lean toward a particular party. More often than not, we can count on leaners to vote for that party, support the party’s positions, and sometimes even donate money to the party’s candidates. What’s more, leaners consistently support their party from election to election."

https://www.vox.com/2016/1/22/10814522/independents-voters-f...

I think the truly swingable middle -- folks who, for example, voted for Obama in 2012, Trump in 2016, and Biden in 2020 -- is actually a pretty small group. And, it's a small group that's got both disproportionate power at the ballot box and a fairly low engagement with actual political issues. I think I (somewhat reluctantly) agree with your observation about campaigns iterating on social strategy, though, because that tends to be the best way to reach those swing voters: they aren't motivated by ideology or policy preference, but by star power and charisma.
Well, if my paytv CPE experience means anything here…

One brand of electronic countermeasure would cause a firmware write that wouldn’t allow the receiver to boot because you’re a lazy hacker that didn’t lock the flash chip at the hardware WE pin level.

There were a couple of strategies to resolve:

1) remove chip and re-program (not fun on TSOPs)

2) JTAG reprogram (easy and cheap when computers had parallel ports: just some wires and a DB25 connector and the port can bit bang everything)

3) the device does a Power on self test. If it detects a corrupted flash file, it will grab a fresh and clean one from the satellite stream and overwrite your nasty one. You can trigger this by shorting/grounding the right address lines on the flash chip at the right time in the self-test. It won’t pass checksum validation and will think a corrupted update occurred and rewrite it.

That was all for the parallel flash chip (a 28 or 29f series I think).

If it was a serial flash chip like a 24 series, that would be even easier to deal with.
I stopped reading at "Battery EVs have won the clean car race".

No they have not. There's a couple billion ICE cars on the road. They'll have "won" when EVs far outstrip ICE engines.
Encouraging companies to embrace accountability was part of my motivation for working on FeatureAsk.com. Addressing customer complaints simply seems like an extension on it.

I feel like if 10% (or x% where x is subjective) of your users are asking for a feature that shouldn't be too intensive for you to build, (or are facing a problem persistently), then how dare you not build it (or address the problem). And if that's the case, there should be opportunity for someone else to see the problem and come solve it either with an alternate product, or a 3rd party solution.
Good idea, but this is a painful limitation:

> For example, utt does not process data in a streaming manner, but rather loads the entire dataset into memory before processing
Could you expand a bit on what your use case is ?. Is this a cache in front of an s3 data warehouse or something like that ?.
I wouldn't necessarily put it that way, primarily because some of our interviews require less than 20 lines of code! It's a bit more about selecting candidates with the right fundamentals. You don't need to write too much code, but the code that you do write, is it clean? Are you following best practices? Is it efficient? Have you thought about how your new service affects the rest of the system, and what the implications are?

I do agree though that some of our frontend interviews are a bit heavier on code + css and less on systems design thinking.

Btw just to clarify, we have a policy where we won't host any interviews that are just open dev tickets to build a feature that will be used in production. Like, we DO NOT tolerate companies using interviews to get free labor.
I believe in two strategies with those people ignore them or point them to correct customer support avenue.
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Really? Which part gave you that impression?

All I was saying was

0.) this is not a choice where either option is remotely good, both options presented by Russia a terrible and arbitrarily dictated by Russia

1.) to call for what it is, Russia decided their options are to become Russian prisoners, hostages to use against their immediate family, or die by the Russian sieges.

2.) acknowledge that this rewards russias bombing and murdering of civilians, thus encouraging them to continue bombing and murdering civilians.

3.) Russia has repeatedly broken their word, promising to allow evacuations only to continue shelling, so any promises of treatment are worthless.

4.) there are other options some better like China stepping in behind the scenes to demand Putin a cease fire that isn’t violated or much worse options like a no fly zone.
As someone with a keen interest in learning Engineering part time, I found your write ups really helpful though! I enjoy learning math but like to have an angle towards a practical and useful application. It keeps me a little more motivated than pure math learning. With ADHD the concept of being able to build cooler things always keeps me going. But somewhere along the way of learning purely theoretical things for too long my brain just loses interest (not enough reward), even though I enjoy it in the moment it is hard to get to the starting line and take the first step after a while :)
They have someone "playing madman with nukes", Nixon tried that, but relented because it isn't a position to succeed on. Realistically, rock and the hard place is either end the war or end their 'democracy' and have a different set of jerks take over.
Canada's outstanding response vis-a-vis the US is most likely just having a lower proportion of its population constituted by high-risk demographics like black people, and people with diabetes and obesity.
Realistically, we're not gonna have enough batteries. Passenger vehicle electrification so far has been paid for by optimism and subsidies. Renewables are great but they require batteries, that we won't have enough nuclear to provide a baseline of energy once we decommission all fossil burning plants is a foregone conclusion at this point.

In short we're approaching things from the wrong end IMO, burning more fossil fuels for energy generation and moving things that need power density and quick refueling to slow, heavy batteries.
I don't have the data, but let's just say that campaign promises are not credible, regardless of the politician. A whole lot of the promises made are outside the baliwick of the position, and should be rediculed when made, not when broken (mayoral candidates often promise to fix schools in jurisdictions where the schools are accountable to school boards and not city governments, for example. Presidential candidates promise things that would need to be enacted by the legislature. At the same time, a presidential candidate that promises to suggest legislation sounds unambitious).

But what makes me less likely to trust Trump's claims and promises is his consistent denial of claims he made previously that he no longer wishes to make. It's hard to trust someone when they change positions and deny that they had a different positon. Gives very We were always at war with Eastasia vibes.
Because the pay is good. Because people think others will be impressed if they work at FAANG.

So far as I am concerned maintainance programming takes a lot of talent. It is all $1 for hitting with a hammer and $1000 for knowing where to tap.
In ~2015 we had AT&T fiber installed at our co-working space, AT&T had just pumped tons of money into rolling out fiber because Google had recently announced they were coming to our city. The guy who did the install had never done one before and he didn't mount it to the building correctly.

The fiber line snapped and fell to the ground within 8 hours of being installed, I called the AT&T support line and was stuck in a recursive IVR menu where it was literally impossible to get ahold of anyone. After our admin tried emailing, calling the tech directly, calling 6-7 different support trunk numbers and got no response (or was routed back to the blackhole IVR line) we were without internet for 36 hours.

I tweeted the picture of the broken fiber cable and had all the members retweet, we got a response within 5 mins and had someone out within 4 hours.

I just jump straight to twitter now in _most_ CS cases with large companies.
> I wear my lucky underpants to every sports game, and my team always win. If you tell me "no, they don't, that's ridiculous", then are you saying that you will also need to prove that to me?

I bring a baseball bat to every baseball game. One time, I didn't bring a baseball bat, and I didn't hit a single run. Do I have to prove it to you that having a baseball bat helps me hit runs?

Again, it's the person who makes the assertion who needs to back it up. I didn't assert that 'a mask probably won't protect you', I responded to it.
Yup, keep up appearances while they can
"that's right, a growing chunk of swedes will have to cut back on their use of electricity"

This is really something that would have been unthinkable a mere 5 years ago. Sweden, one of the richest nations of Earth, having to be careful about electricity prices.
This article is incredibly low quality and I don't say that lightly.

I agree that names don't mean much. This username is linked to a single GitHub account. The pseudonym I write under is entirely made up. I have no interest in brand recognition or getting hired because people recognize my name. In many ways, I think provenance is a cancer to the proliferation and building of truly good ideas. Instead, I'd rather people focus on the ideas I've presented and debate those - they, with hope, will live on a lot longer than my name will.

Lastly, since it brought up Jane Fonda and characterized her involvement in the war as a "visit": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda#Visit_to_Hanoi

Jane Fonda actively participated in the propagation of propaganda for her own entertainment and brand. She's quite well known in most veteran circles for calling people who had visible signs of torture and abuse "hypocrites and liars and pawns" when they told their stories, then tried to walk that back to, "I'm quite sure that there were incidents of torture ... but the pilots who were saying it was the policy of the Vietnamese and that it was systematic, I believe that's a lie."

History now shows us it was systemic and all she had to give was a very half-ass mea culpa for her photo in an AA gun that was used to shoot down US planes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda#Regrets
Leverage in negotiations is not the same as force.

It’s easy to look beyond the months of negotiations that precede trade agreements when not involved. Or buy into certain narratives crafted to pressure US negotiators, that the US is “forcing itself” on nations. But elected officials from other nations signed on the dotted line after, ostensibly, long debate.
You can certainly make significant headway with some basic combinatorics and basic tables for things like the normal distribution, no calculus needed. This is in fact how most people currently learn statistics.
My prob and stats courses required the calc sequence (US based math undergraduate).
That filth you linked to is scored 0, which I think means it is not visible by default. I think it is preferable to leave stuff like that available-but-hidden rather than to delete it altogether. Free speech is a virtue.