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The Polish proposal is so strange I find it hard to believe it's in good faith.

Look at a map: Poland has a long common border with Western Ukraine, but instead it offers to fly the other way, to Ramstein, more than a thousand kilometers from Ukraine.

Once the planes are in Ramstein, what do you do? Fly them back to Poland? That makes no sense, and according to the article, the idea is that "the Polish government would sidestep the logistical challenge of getting the jets over the border".

That leaves the three other NATO countries bordering Ukraine: Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.

But Hungary refuses to let lethal weapons transit its territory en route to Ukraine, so strike that. Slovakia shares only a short border with Ukraine - about 80 kilometers - and it's sandwiched between Poland and Hungary; too easy for Russia to watch.

That leaves only Romania. How do you get there from NATO territory? Not through Hungary (see above), so you're left with a ridiculous roundabout route like Germany -> France -> Italy -> Greece -> Bulgaria -> Romania.

Do they all agree to it? Why in particular would Romania be willing to tackle "the logistical challenge of getting the jets over the border" which Poland (and Hungary) won't touch with a bargepole?
How can US be stunned if they've been discussing the MIG transfer for at least 7 days as has been reported. This is clearly a PR move that will only lower the trust in the US.
I like the runtime generated enum code so that I can be somewhat lazy with generating options for <select>

const options = Object.entries(MyEnum).map(([key, label]) => { key, label })
> in person interviews. Usually a full day with the company flying you out to their location. This would be a mix of culture fit, tech questions, meeting the team, etc.

Why would you count that as 1 interview? It's always an exhausting 4 hour marathon of algorithms, data structures and systems design rounds with 4 different people, frequently split over a couple of days.
It's great to see cross-distro activity in removing the burden from distributions of packaging different builds of u-boot.

I use Tow-Boot on my Pine64 RockPro64, with a plain NixOS aarch64 installation. Bliss!

Thanks Samuel and Martijn!
In general, assuming you have an easy-to-use QR scanner, it's easier to scan a QR code than type in a URL on a phone, especially a complicated one. A couple examples I've run into recently:

- Lately it's been pretty common for restaurants to replace their physical menus with a QR code on the table that links to their online menu.

- When I've taken COVID tests recently, the site gives me a sticker with a QR code that links to my results page.

- I encoded my wifi network/password into a QR code and printed it out, so guests can just scan it to join, rather than have to scroll and find the right network and type in a password.
According to the theory, gender and biological sex are not inherently tied to each other. You might enjoy reading this essay if you are interested in learning more about this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/02/18/typical-mind-and-gende...
https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/tiredlit.htm
Ok but the you don’t buy fast fashion because you’re worried about not being able to buy it later, you buy it because it’s hot now.
Only 3,000? chuckles in American
Isn't that the point of webassembly? Just seems like we are still moving in the wrong direction on trying to move the whole of NPM in to the browser web apis, rather than building a solid base you can build anything on.
As others are saying, try putting it in the freezer.
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Thank you. I am so smart.
You're absolutely right but most developers will also have a hard time moving between language families. For example a self-taught developer may have gone though javascript, python, java, go, and swift... but then get punched in the face by Lisp or Haskell.

The reason I single out self-taught developers is that many CS paths will push though a broad degree of language, or at least interpreters and compilers, such that its less of a hill to climb.

I am a self-taught developer with this problem. But I still enjoy diving head first into new languages. It just takes awhile.
"So many Canadian fighters in Ukraine, they have their own battalion"

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/exclusive-so-many-canadi...
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Every year I try to pick up a new technology/language to learn (this year it’s Flutter/Dart) and create a project to get the hang of it. The language itself is never the hard part.
I started on my Blender journey just a few weeks ago and I've been delighted by it so far. Blender is really a creator's dream come true.

Blender Guru and CG Geek are my favorite Youtube channels for Blender tutorials and they both make it easy to get started with Blender with short and practical tutorials.

While I can only create some basic shapes so far, I'm really impressed by what is possible based on the tutorials I've seen. I'm looking forward to getting into rigging and animation soon and start with some low-poly and eventually more higher-resolution models and animations.
> They know they will become the "sick man of Asia", isolated and weak, if they keep the current trajectory -- a massive reversal from just 50 years ago.

Better to have a culture worthy of defense than to defend a cultural wasteland.

Population growth figures aren’t a good indicator of societal healthiness. We can’t afford to mistake wealth for safety.

If Japan is the “sick man of Asia”, the whole world is sick.
> Nintendo with its lockout chip held an absolute stranglehold on supply of NES games that came out

Yes, not only did Nintendo possess the unilateral authority to decide which games got published, but Nintendo was the sole manufacturer of the game cartridges.

This meant that Nintendo decided when those cartridges would be manufactured, and set an upper limit on the quantity. (Plus, they required you to pay for the manufacturing in advance.)

The fact that they controlled the manufacturing schedule meant that they might delay your cartridges if they had a first-party game in the pipeline which might compete with yours.
> He was banned for misinformation regarding the Covid-19 vaccine...

Your summary of his work is grossly overstating the connection to mRNA vaccines — it's about as accurate as saying someone who contributed to ViolaWWW was the inventory of React — but he's definitely a great example of how politics can cloud even an accomplished scientist's judgment. Fortunately for the rest of us, however, the scientific process doesn't take past accomplishments into account and his later non-rigorous claims were quickly found wanting.
I print ‘three-sided cards’ that have a photo or art reproduction on one side, some documentation on the back, and more information if you scan the QR code. One series of the cards are ‘music cards’ that will play a song, another application is ‘constellations’ that let me stick anywhere from 3 to 40 cards on the wall (so far) and you can see the back sides and other narration by scanning a code.

So my use cases are (1) I am demoing the cards for people, and (2) I give the cards away for free (If it wasn’t for the supply chain crisis I’d be creating a new card design every day) or put up an installation somewhere and people interact with them. Either way I want it to be very easy for people.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-27274086
The hell of it is, I have to respect this perspective at least a tiny bit, however unwillingly, because at least you apparently don't default to wholesale murder the way people typically do. Congratulations on clearing the lowest possible bar, I guess? But you're talking to someone who once spent half an hour at the kitchen table carefully disentangling a mud dauber who'd stumbled into a blob of cat fur and couldn't free herself on her own, and then gave her a drop of sugar water and hand-carried her outside. That's my default when it comes to these small, smart animals who face danger from us through no fault of their own, and I really don't know what more can be fairly expected of me here.
You're missing the point, it was never a logistical issue. Poland wanted to avoid giving the migs directly so they proposed that they would transfer the ownership to the US for the US to transfer to Ukraine. Even better if you mix all the planes from other NATO countries to lower the risk for any one particular country. The planes can then go to Ukraine from the US removing Poland from the deal.
> can't code "hello, world!"

Is hello world now code for hard level leetcode problems?
IntelliJ Community Edition is free. I don't use the paid version so I'm not sure what I'm missing.
> What's causing people to believe that the latest round of attrition is any different?

The Great Recession

The Great Resignation

The Great Dying (due to COVID-19)
Interesting. I don't think I've ever considered Svelte a "language" in the sense it's being used in this article. More like a compiler or maybe framework written in Typescript, which is a superset of JavaScript. I only say this because I'm not sure I'd experience the same cross-language interference with syntax and semantics described here. Not an expert, but isn't it just compiled HTML/CSS/JS with some custom components and templates?
I think a lot of people like the idea of upheaval and a fresh challenge. For some, the daily grind doesn't play to their advantages whereas maybe apocalyptic survival of brawn does. I imagine the reality would never be the adventurous romp they expect when tinned food dwindles and plants aren't producing because temperatures have dropped...

Probably also depends on the scale. There's the $x00k bunker with air/water filtration and shelves of long-life food, or there's stashing some tins and having a rough idea of where you might go if it came to it.

The TV show Last Man On Earth does make it look kind of fun (no radiation, no zombies)...
FWIW hardline tech priests view the machine god as separate from the emperor. Hardline imperium officials view the emperor as separate from the machine god. The official party line is that the emperor and the machine god are the same, with the emperor perhaps being an avatar.

It seems like both sides are fine to have them be reconciled, but it's an important narrative gadget that can be used to get humanity to fight itself in-universe.

Also interesting is that humanity's "lost" technological progress seems to eclipse some of the other races in the W40K narrative, with even the Tau (space dwarves with robots) and Eldar (space elves with crystals) freaking out when humanity brings giant robots, because the sheer physical impracticality of a gigantic human shaped robot is noted, with nobody aware of how they continue to work.
Depends on the screen size. On a 22" screen, the difference between 4k and 1440p equates to 200dpi and 133dpi respectively - if you can't see the difference between 200dpi and 133dpi, I'm sorry, but you have either poor eyesight or glasses aren't doing their job.
This is the most conflicted article that I've read in quite some time
Displaying a QR code on a screen is a quick way to beam a URL to a phone or tablet either from a PC or another mobile.

You can put up a QR code to point people to the web app which controls the IoT functions in a space, music system, etc.
I'm not sure if gcloud or azure would help. I run two servers on hetzner which is way cheaper than azure/gcloud they would be better off there.
I literally just scanned a couple while at the doctors - one to check in, and another provided a url of a form to fill in.

They're also in some restaurants where you can get to a menu to order from your phone.

You also scan QR codes for use in two factor authentication apps.

Covid has normalised QR code scanning in Australia - we have to do it at certain venues in order to show our vaccine passes.
It’s true that txs take more time and money in POW chains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum, but it is certainly not true of many many other cryptocurrencies.

For example, Terra is a Proof of Stake blockchain with negligible fees and a 6 second settlement time. It is currently widely used as a payment system in South Korea.
I've been programming for (the last) ehh 15 years. (more if you count logo and a few other things).

> Mostly I think this was because each new language came with some valuable new insight in how to do my work

I don't know if it's true for other people, but it's true enough for me that I gave a talk on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgWAWwF6pNY

(note, I haven't actually watched the video yet myself....)
That's true though modern breadboards tend to be good to the low mhz range in my limited experience. Building breadboard computers in the 1-10Mhz range is well documented online.
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> Aren't they more afraid of violence and threats from the other execs?

Is Amazon Cosa Nostra nowadays? I find it hard to believe they'd be more scared of other execs than the government..
That's naive and shows a huge dose of racism and double standards. 183'000 civilians died by american hands in Iraq. Who did anything to pressure companies providing services to us citizens so less lives would be lost?

Who boycotts Israel for its apartheid, or Saudis for killing thousands and founding international terror. What about Uighurs or Rohingya?

The world is showing nothing but double standards and hysteria.
A similar, but IMO easier to understand and implement algorithm is Xenocollide: http://xenocollide.snethen.com/
I remember seeing an episode on how some doomsday preppers were burying prefab underground shelters on their property and stocking it with food/water/weapons/etc. There was this guy being interviewed who smiled and said he wasn't stocking anything, but he wasn't too worried. He said he'd mapped out all the prepper locations around his property and if things went south - his sons would harden their tractors with steel plates and pull those things out of the ground to "harvest" the goodies within.
I’m self taught, have written some compilers, and have written Haskell in production. I’ve also done the better half of SICP so a bit of Lisp there too. The only way to learn a new family of languages is by writing code - I’ve not found any prior knowledge that’s really helped me go from Python to Haskell or whatever, except the general skill of writing software.
Incredibly helpful, thank you! I actually just found your blog post on this. I happen to have a 2008 Corolla with the same issue, so my guess is that the sensors are very similar.
Does the M1 Max throttle when hit with hitting CPU & GPU at the same time? 14 inch would be most interesting to me.
I hate IntelliJ too. I don’t like any IDE for that matter. Emacs is muscle memory and nothing can emulate how it works properly. Emacs is so much more than it’s keybinding, yet that’s the only thing IDE/text editors attempt to emulate—and they never even get that right.
> Honest question: for what reasons do you ever need to scan a random QR code?

In the past two years, due to COVID, a lot of restaurants and dining establishments got rid of paper menus and left people with "here is a QR code, scan it to see the menu". This is the most common situation I've encountered this in. It wasn't just a few restaurants that did this, it was heavy majority of places here (Seattle).
Where are these available? I just checked all the links on Nvidia's webpage for a 3060 and they are all out of stock...
> who like it do

Snark/not-snark: what about those languages where the fans still don't like the tooking? (looking at you, pip)
> their recommendation was challenged by the NASA SRB managers. And after an offline discussion the SRB vendor came back and had changed their opinion that it was safe.

Yes, because the Thiokol managers overrode their engineers and said it was OK to launch.

> And the NASA SRB manager never brought up the o-ring temperature concern to the rest of the management team.

That was probably because NASA had already classified the O-ring issue as a Criticality 1 flight risk, which is supposed to mean that a failure could result in loss of vehicle and loss of life and that the Shuttle can't fly until the issue is resolved--and then waived it. So it wasn't as if the O-ring issue was a new one or that NASA wasn't already aware of its seriousness.
"how many ways you can get there in two steps from v1" If it's not obvious, v1=3, v2=1, v3=1, v4=1, v5=1, v7=2.
> The first mRNA vaccine experiments were carried out by P. Felgner, J. Wolff, G. Rhodes, R.W. Malone and D. Carson. P. They completed a number of mRNA vaccination studies that resulted in nine patents on mRNA vaccination with a shared priority date of March 21, 1989. One experiment documented that NEF (an HIV protein) mRNA vaccination in mice, followed by HIV challenge reduced positively stained cells by 2-fold and p24 expression was reduced by 50% at eight weeks

Is this inaccurate to you? Because there are 9 US patents that say otherwise.

> Your summary of his work is grossly overstating the connection to mRNA vaccines

Yeah, he only ran the first mRNA vaccine experiments and designed the first mRNA platforms is all.

> it's about as accurate as saying someone who contributed to ViolaWWW was the inventory of React

Terrible analogy, Malone worked directly on the first mRNA vaccine experiments.

> but he's definitely a great example of how politics can cloud even an accomplished scientist's judgment.

Or it's a great example of how politics can cloud your judgement of scientists going against the status quo. It's not new.

> Fortunately for the rest of us, however, the scientific process doesn't take past accomplishments into account and his later non-rigorous claims were quickly found wanting.

Truth is being arbitrated by tech monopolies and politicians, not mRNA scientists like Dr. Malone. The scientific process is not being followed by Twitter.

The scientific method needs criticism, it's strange to ban dissent in the name of science.
Women statistically choose to preserve their health more readily than men. Whether it is going to the doctor more frequently, using tobacco and alcohol less frequently, performing extreme sports/stunts far less frequently, driving safer, even choosing less successful means of suicide. This is at least part of the reason women live longer than men.

Even in a completely non-sexist society, high stress jobs may just remain in the domain of men for this reason. Granted, not all men - men who value their health closer to the level the average woman does isn't going to do well in the field. And women who value their health closer to how the average man does will do better than other women.

But I'm not really sure how this could be restructured. How can you prevent someone from destroying their long term health in order to get ahead at work? You like to spend some time with your family, or to sleep for 8 hours? Well, my family just sees me as a dollar sign, and I can get by on 4 hours of sleep, so I'm just going to put all those hours into my work. How can someone with a healthy schedule possibly keep up? Even instituting rules about only checking email/logging in during work hours won't help that much, because I can just put more thinking hours into the problem at hand and show up on Monday with a stack of ideas, whereas the person who spent time with their family over the weekend will be starting fresh.
I'm curious to know what you found limiting about Vital's free (as in beer) offering. Other than fewer wave tables, presets and a limited number of text to wave table usages per (Day? Week? I'm not sure what the timeframe is) I am certain there is no difference compared to any of the paid offerings.

If you're interested in soft synths that are FOSS, you might want to check out these as well:

Vitalium (a completely FOSS fork of Vital, in a similar vein as Chromium compared to Google Chrome

Helm (developed by Matt Tytel as well, just like Vital)
Surge (XT)

Zyn-Fusion (a FOSS additive synth)
Lots of restaurants and bars switched to QR codes for their menus and that alone is a good enough reason to have native scanning.
They became very popular during the pandemic for restaurants to offer their menu as a scannable QR code instead of distributing and sanitizing hand-held paper menus. I think this is becoming less relevant now.

They're popular for street-level advertisements for (concerts, events, clubs, jobs) to provide a link to more information without the consumer having to type a url into the browser. This is more important if you don't want to pay for a pithy high-level domain as a landing page for the thing you are advertising.

I have also seen them for easily entering WiFi credentials to your device on a new network.

They can be used in museums to link to self-guided tour information on the artwork/exhibits you are looking at. This used to be done more with rentable/loanable walkman+headset kind of devices, but makes more sense to do on one's own mobile device now.
I agree with what you say. I am a small number of years behind you professionally, and yes some come and go and a couple of languages I learned no longer exists.

But I could never grok OO, but at least in my case that is not an issue, especially these days :)

Back then, learning new languages was a non-issue, it was the logic you had to understand.
My issues with OpenCascade and CGAL is that they are hard to compile. Any project using them is kinda a pain to build. This hurts developer adoption and puts up a barrier between the end users and the developers. In OSS, that barrier should be much more porous.

Rust projects (which Fornjot is) build nicely almost everywhere and can trivially target Wasm. Being in Rust will get a whole lot more folks involved in the project. One need not support every feature of OCC or CGAL.

Dated is the wrong term, it reinforces the temporal bigotry in tech.
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Arguments from authority are useful, valid, and important as the basis for science…we don’t spend our time arguing about the heliocentric model, the periodic table, and Newtonian physics because of them.

Appeals to authority are fallacious when the authority has expertise in a field other than that in question: McCarthy’s authority on writing, doesn’t lend weight to his opinions on skateboarding, animal husbandry, and nutrition.

One of the most common self serving fallacious uses of authority is I-have-a-PhD.

Here the PhD-fallacy wasn’t this-is-what-works-for-me. It was McCarthy is wrong followed with a bunch of noise over scientific method instead of listening and learning.

My initial comment was performative erudition (HN’s sine qua non) to place a top comment’s sophomoric exposition in context…so yes, I didn’t think much of the comment. But with the bar on the ground, I didn’t expect the follow up to go under it.

There’s no need to apologize.