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> Germany is specially interesting. They have on the forefront of green revolution. I can't even remember the amount of think pieces hailing Germany as this amazing government lead push to green energy. Germany was held up as the global model over and over. The amount of times I have heard talk about German investment in solar is almost mind-blowing.

Unfortunately the last two cabinets (8 years) did a poor job in continuing a most promising change to more renewable energies. The business lobbying that took place at that time is unbearable.

This graphic[1] (in german, but you get the idea) shows the expansion figures for renewable energies and it is clearly visible how photovoltaics in particular have been severely limited since 2013. Absurd rules were created, for example a levy for privately generated photovoltaic electricity. Or artificially created requirements to keep plant sizes small.

After laws were changed in favour of large investors, fossil energy companies now adorn themselves with large projects, although a large part of the expansion is still done by private individuals.

After an entire industry has been destroyed, there are now complaints that there is a lack of skilled workers and that the number of new installations cannot be increased quickly enough. It all makes me want to puke. We could be somewhere completely different today, but greed and lust for power prevent us from doing anything good for the general public.

[1]: https://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/EE/Redaktion/DE/Bilder/G...
https://rpilocator.com/ is handy for anyone looking for them in stock anywhere.
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Possibly because several of its cities are badly damaged, that the Russians have occupied Mariupol and are in the suburbs of Kyiv?
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I still (after over 30 years as pro) develop stuff for fun on the site. I don't see that as work (and I don't see my work as work either these days either).
About a third of all Uranium is either mined or at least refined in Russia.
> We must take in mind that National Geographic is basically a photo and travels journal depending on advertising, not a fully scientific journal.

Since all I really see of National Geographic these days are the 'special issues' at the supermarket checkout going on about the life of Jesus or the latest alternative healing trends, I basically ignore them now. They've had a very sad fall from grace.
As everyone knows by now, literal full self driving (as in get in your car, tell it to take you to the other end of the country and wake you up when it gets there) is entirely out of reach to current technology, and will stay out of reach until we design new sensors and possibly general AI*.

So, the current goals must be to achieve something similar in certain well defined limited conditions, and with reliable automatic checking that you are still within those conditions - hopefully conditions that one is actually likely to encounter. Until we have that, letting self driving cars on public roads is a menace.

Current self driving cars are at best at the level of a driver going through their first driving lessons, and one with very bad eyesight at that. Having a human act as the driving instructor, theoretically prepared to step in whenever the AI makes a silly mistake, is not enough to make these cars as safe as the average (non-drunk, non-sleep-deprived) human driver.

What Mercedes seems to be doing is responsibly pushing the state of the art further. Having a car that is safer than a human driver without depending on your constant vigillance is a huge step forward. Obviously, this only works in certain conditions, but the car itself detects when those conditions are no longer met, and gives you quite ample warning to assume back control.

* Elon's shameless lies about having your Tesla act as a self driving taxi and generate a profit for you while you work in the coming years have well been put to rest.
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There are others like this. This is the one I can recall now . Basically the proxy mitm a Js agent which is pretty much vnc for your browser. You only get the view of the headless proxy sandbox rendering whatever page you requested . So if any escape happens it happens in an isolated disposable compute managed by the proxy

https://www.broadcom.com/products/cyber-security/network/web...
The only thing I disapprove of is when I feel that the copy is cheap and lazy, and on the internet, without acknowledgement of the inspiration.

> I find originality has more to do with where they get their inspiration than what they put into it themselves.

I'm not sure I understand how you're separating a person's inspiration from who they are. If I'm inspired by something, it's because it talks to me as a person. If the person then creates something, how have I not put the inspiration (myself) into it. They are one and the same to me.
It is pretty green compared to the alternatives. And if we wanted to we could build breeder reactors that stretch our nuclear fuel reserves to a few hundred years at least. It is an open question whether 100% nuclear is cheaper or more expensive than 100% renewables though.
You want to apply to Spotify, under the condition that you get “advanced access” to their songs DB so you can run some advanced queries that the app doesn’t allow you to make? That would be the basis for your employment there?
And now Putin is destroying a country of 40 million people because he believes that this is what WE have planned for him. With good reason. We probably do.

Yeah we do love a good 3rd world blood orgy. We will keep loving it until one day it spills over to where we live.

By that time it'll be a decade or so too late.
Reading the comments again, by "making money" I did not mean earning money like the crazy guy still having an income from assets he acquired in the past, but being able to make new deals, start successful companies and so on.

But I understand what you mean. I disagree that "rich people becoming out of touch/crazy" is as likely as you make it sound. But of course it is possible.

Nevertheless, usually there is only the track record of their past to evaluate a persons authority. You can add a small discount for "may have gone crazy", and of course attribute the luck factor, but that's it.
>But how can such person be considered boring?

Consider a continuum from Boring to Exciting.
Now place these jobs on them:

- Firefighter

- Rocket Scientist

- Data Analyst

They are more boring, ergo, they are the boring jobs.
Anything badass...
To continue nitpicking, the letter U did not exist, either, so the the name was written as IVLIVS.
But wind turbines and photovoltaic panels are also neither green nor sustainable (especially when you take into account all the mining and the CO2 involved in their manufacturing and transportation, and especially when you take into account the backup system e.g. gaz or batteries to compensate for their intermittent nature).
The only incentives I’m aware of are meeting the SBA size standards for small business, which are maxes from 500-1500 depending on your industry.

https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2019-08/SBA%20Table%...
Okta hack puts thousands of businesses on high alert
Always missed Pascal’s typed scalar ranges.
Anecdata plus one. My exact experience tutoring high school kids. Some could totally solve the problem, but the inability to remember the basic facts to start with meant getting the wrong answer, despite an impeccable logic trail.

The cost in time to derive basic facts that would have been instantly available had they been memorized also harmed the ability, especially on tests, to get to the end within the time available. 'Drill and kill' has its merits and, if done right, gives the kids a sense of accomplishment and progress.

If you start with the wrong facts, or missing facts, you don't end in the right place.
From my point of view, the actual act of driving is not that difficult (after the first 50k miles or so). The issue is the mental effort required to continually pay attention to what's going on to drive safely.

Tesla's system still requires me to pay attention to what's happening to exactly the same degree as normal because I might need to intervene (and in fact makes it harder to be ready to do so). All it does is take away the (to me) trivial aspects of pressing a pedal and turning a steering wheel.

Whereas this system introduces a set of circumstances in which I don't need to drive at all. No need to pay attention at all. And it's the most tedious form of driving there is - stop start traffic on a motorway.
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As someone who has worked in pitch recognition for a piano app, I'm doubtful that autocorrelation can work. Typically, the energy in overtones is much larger than the energy in the base pitch, which is also why phantom bass works so well in EDM.

Also, the plucking sound when the hammer hits the string is much closer to pink noise than to its actual pitch. I'd expect an autocorrelation to have plenty of false positives there.

FFT with remapping between bins works well. The remapping can accumulate the energy of overtones into the frequency bins of possible base pitches, thereby resolving the ambiguity.
> but it kind of waters down the meaning of tests.

From the C2Wiki:

> UnitTests are programs written to run in batches and test classes. Each typically sends a class a fixed message and verifies it returns the predicted answer.

Which already is very "watery" afaik. And a snippet that verifies something does X, fits this perfectly. Your approach may "violate" many other testing- best-practices and even "rules", such as "tests should verify only one thing" or "each branch should have one test" or "tests may only go through public interfaces" and whatnot, but I consider it TDD, as long as the scripts and snippets are written before any code. And if written afterwards, it counts as automated testing, though with a broad definition of "automated, I guess.
There are vastly worse things to be than boring.
The EU gets 20% of its uranium from Russia, and another 20% from Kazakhstan which, despite its recent refusal to participate in the war, is still deeply tied with Russia.
I talked about Software based solutions that is also why I referred to summation/consensus based systems like the Shuttle had. I even believe
they used different programming languages, since of course compilers can also have bugs.

To use an example like seL4, is formally proven correct against its specification. But how we got the specification itself correct?

"Hidden Fallacies In Formally Verified Systems"
https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/62855/BOBE...

How seL4 or CompCert protect me against against hardware issues like ECC errors, or the Pentium FDIV ? [1]

To humbly quote Knuth:

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
What did "View Image" do? I only know "Open Image in new Tab"
Indeed. Can't have a better aero pedigree than that. The Wright in Curtiss-Wright are THOSE Wrights.
I think for many people the definition of boring is:

- anything that I don't understand

- anything that forces me to think
Looking at the webshop, I don't understand how they can justify these prices. Yes the object is cool, but in its physical form as sold here it would pretty much function as a fidget toy. Is it somehow expensive or very difficult to manufacture with the required balance attributes?
> How many people would really risk up to 7 years imprisonment (my countries max) to make a bit of money?

The prisons of your country are full of such people.
I'd be interested to know what legal structure they're using here.

Does the system legally act as an "insurance policy" that will indemnify the driver against any damages claims from a third party? Does it have a monetary cap? (Car insurance policies vary, but might only cover $250k, which actually won't cover many multi-car accidents).
Why are both gentrification and white flight supposedly bad? I'm a bit of an outsider to this whole topic but to me it seems like a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Even if those people just give up and try to isolate themselves from the rest of the society to some middle class concentration camp it's called a "gated community" and also bad.
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They might, but they fail to disclose any kind of pricing for dedicated servers on their website and just send you to a “contact us” form instead. Hardly promising.

Note that OVH is primarily focused on dedicated servers, a VPS host isn’t comparable.
They are you're just ignoring it. 'Morality' is always presented in a binary context of morale/immoral and many of the examples in the article fall into the same pattern. You don't need to advocate centralizing power when discussing moral frameworks because it's implied in the conversation that hypothetically power will be centralized around the 'moral' viewpoint. For the same reason all morals are inherently supremecist because if they weren't they wouldn't be labeled the moral course of action.
What are they doing on a controlled access highway?
For me it is a joke, because the RPi has a long history of being an unreliable plateform.

Exemple: powercut and memory cards corruptions, etc...

So, if I had to design for military specs, I would probably bet on some other more robust platform.
Had the same thought. A security breach in January, and only now are the details of the breach are revealed (by someone not related to Okta). In other words, Okta would never have revealed the security lapse until this leak.

One can only imagine the many security breaches that are never revealed (from any company).
I had a similar view as a kid, driven mostly by the fact that I wasn't very good at memorisation. I found that I could get by in maths without it, eg. deriving the quadratic formula by completing the square rather than memorising it. I didn't value memory much as a tool in maths.

After having studied maths and physics at university and worked as a programmer in a mathematical field for 20 years (and studied much more maths in my spare time), I now see my poor recall as the limiting factor in my abilities in maths. The main reason I don't think I could ever have been a professional mathematician is that I would have reached (and have reached in my own learning as an amateur) a ceiling.

I have maths books that are beloved to me, that I have read multiple times (actively, working with pen and paper as one should) and which I will enjoy again in future. But the concepts in those books do not remain in my mind. I don't reach a point where the structure of basic linear algebra, say, is baked in.

I am good at the problem solving, but maths is an edifice, one people have been building onto for millenia. I explore that edifice, and keep returning to my favourite bits of it, but the portion of that structure that is resident in my mind is, and I think always will be, small. It's a window, and as more comes into it, more slides out. Everybody must have such a window, but I know others have much larger windows than me. And that's fine - I'm a programmer, not a mathematician. But I think it's something I would have benefitted from understanding earlier in my life. Perhaps I would have set about "learning to learn" differently. Rote memorisation and active curation of memories already formed could have benefitted me greatly.
Once the application hangs, it won't listen for WM_CLOSE (win32), WM_DELETE_WINDOW (x11) or any other event and won't handle that event. Painting decoration then is purely cosmetic.

Mutter, when it detects non-responsive application, will ask whether you want to kill it, or whether you want to wait a while.
> Those are some big caveats that mean that you won't be able to use this in most situations

It still seems like we need to adapt the roads to autonomous vehicles and not the other way around. In the UK, and there's no indication of it whatsoever at the moment, I hope we never end up with the US's crazy car-centric town streets where as a pedestrian you can only cross at crossings, and if you get hit by 2 tons of steel, it's your fault.
Except the fire damaged other buildings and spread lead all the way to Germany.
That's complete nonsense, unless you're asserting that Kazakstan is in Russia.

Russia produces about 5% of uranium, and uranium is reduced to yellowcake on site but it is generally enriched by the country using the fuel (eurodif being a pretty significant exception).

Furthermore uranium has a bunch of advantages — aside from most of the known reserves being in advanced economies (namely Australia and Canada):

- because it's dense and stable (unlike gasoline or natural gas), countries can have years of enriched fuel in storage, meaning in case of supply issue they can easily wait out

- ramp up of existing mines (or opening out of new mines) to compensate for one supplier shutting down or being blackballed, because

- uranium requires very little infrastructure between the mine (which ships yellowcake) and the enrichment plant, yellowcake is transported in 400kg drums packed into standard shipping containers
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I am using Apple Todo but im not sure how i can use it in a kanban style to organize my private life
> all the way to Germany

For reference, the border to Germany is about 250m from the building https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11917092
Definitely talk to the lawyer before talking to a journalist, and ask them about talking to the journalist! And if you go the public-attack route you should have a careful strategy and plan before you start, because you lose control of it after that.

A journalist is not in the business of helping you, they are in the business of writing what the person who signs their pay check wants. Keep that in mind. They will ask other parties to the story for their side of it. Journalists also spin, twist, omit, and sometimes even lie. All that is before the public makes their opinions about the story or reposts it on facebook. And even if you do get a favorable and sympathetic story, there will always be some people who don't take your side of it and will question it or even become quite unhinged about it especially if there are children involved. You need to think very hard about what you want to achieve before you go to a journalist, and possibly even engage a PR agency to advise you if this is part of a legal or lobbying strategy.
I don't think the NHS has a page about fan death

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pre-menstrual-syndrome/
Besides the things others have said, some major innovations started as corporate-sponsored pet projects. Gmail is a commonly cited example. I believe many of 3Ms successes (including post-its) also belong to that category.
What people think is extremely influenced by pop culture. Programming was boring, coding is cool. Investing is boring, VC is cool. Being a lawyer was boring, being a lawyer is cool.
Which law in which state in which circumstances?

If a knife salesman tells me his knives can't hurt people, and signs a contract saying he'll assume all liability, I am nevertheless liable when I stab someone with it.

The judge will say you damn well should've known you couldn't go to sleep in a car you're operating, and are in fact culpable for your negligence.

"But Mercedes said!"

"If Mercedes told you to jump (or drive) off a bridge..."
Outsourcing auth like this just makes too valuable a target.
If you had looked a couple of days ago, the UK (for example) would have been a lot greener as the wind was blowing. Today is especially bad for wind which, unfortunately, does mean more gas.
Probably not, most people will let fear, ethical considerations, etc. take a back seat if they are given an opportunity to work on truly "world-changing" research and technology, and politicians can be ea$ily per$uaded with the right incentive$.

I don't want to imply that it would be unethical either, because I haven't thought about it and just don't know; and while it seems like taking the cynical view is prudent at the moment, ultimately I imagine we (humans) will succeed in making these ideas a reality, but it will no doubt be a bumpy road.
If you write software that no-one uses I guess its fine to write it using brainfuck on a atari, I guess.

But I consider myself a user too. I consider myself-in-ten-years a user too. I'm sometimes still maintaining some crap that I wrote 20 years ago and boy I wished I didn't cut that many corners back then.

Tight coupling brings a large range of problems, loosely coupling a large range of benefits. The only two major downsides of loosely coupled code that I have encountered, are when the coupling is done at the wrong place: poorly abstracted code is worse than not-abstracted code, often.

The second downside that in order to properly (un)couple code, you need knowledge that you often lack at the point of writing (often resulting in downside #1) and that gaining the knowledge can significantly stall a project (aka: we cannot start building because we haven't found the perfect model yet).

Other than that: loosely coupled code is much more fun to work with, for one, which makes that I like working on some projects, bu really dread working on others. Having fun, alone, is enough benefit for me. Even in my private one-off-tools (which then turn out to not be one-off but are dragged along for literally decades, sigh).
Unlike natural gas though, uranium is easy to stockpile and doing so is pretty standard (IIRC france keeps 2~3 years worth of fuel stockpiled, plus a 5 years strategic reserve), and there are no new pipelines to build and install if you look for a new supplier, it's "just" a question of that supplier ramping up production or opening mines for whatever price they are interested in. The steps inbetween are pretty much standard international shipping in intermodal containers.
The law in the one country this currently is offered in, I'm not sure why other places would matter.
At Google scale that would be if a service is not working, we just deprecate it...
this is such a poor analogy
Modern operating systems failed to provide proper sandboxing for apps. May be because of their legacy or may be because it was never their focus. Imagine opening Apple iOS to all apps without restrictions. Vulnerabilities will be infinite. Android formally allows side-loading but do you really dare to install untrusted apk? I do not. I'd be super cautious about that. I don't trust Android security model. But I'm not super cautions to visit some site. I trust browser security model. And don't even talk about Linux or Windows or macOS, sandbox is just not used by majority of apps and users are not even aware about it. macOS probably the most advanced in that regard, but the first thing I do is install macports which have access to /usr/local, where's your sandbox now?

So even without portability, chromium OS is superior when it comes to sandboxing. Users are much safer using web apps rather than native apps.

And portability is, of course, extremely important aspect as well.

Chromium OS is a good future. We just need bare metal performance.
Given the choice, I would absolutely go for the plumber that spends some of their time practising difficult plumbing jobs and doesn't just do routine cases. Even if they are 15 % more expensive. I honestly believe they'll be much better equipped to handle anomalies, should they occur.
You used the “just” word there. Minimizing the difficulty of complex problems is a good way to discredit yourself.
The car will probably detect construction zones on its own. Tesla's already do that (and have since at least 2019).