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Canadian blood services specifically doesn't allow me to donate blood. Admittedly, I fear needles pretty fiercely anyway so it's not something I'm going to be fighting.

I find it interesting though that the argument to donate blood is that one's blood might be toxic. That giving away your toxic blood might make your own blood less toxic.
or the variation, "the difference between practice and theory is bigger in practice than theory"

An absolute gem of a statement.
I didn't say it was "somewhat untyped." I said it has a very weak static typing system.

Just because "weak typing" means something different in Haskell doesn't mean it can't be used meaningfully (and beyond "bad") in the context of C. C's typing is historically referred to as "weak" because C's notion of casting doesn't distinguish between type and value transmutation: pointer-to-pointer casts don't convert the referent (because they can't), which in turn gives the C compiler very little leeway in proving that the program's types as declared have any particular meaning at runtime.

Compare this to Python, which is "strongly" typed in the same sense: doing `y = str(x)` on `x` means that `type(y)` actually is `str`, and not merely a promise to the runtime. It's enforced, which makes it strong.
100 percent agree. Voting with dollars is the fastest and best way to make better products.

The big studios know how many people are watching their stuff via theft. They are going to keep producting low end crap with studio friendly sponsorships, because piracy will have taught them that is a better business model.

Pay of the things you want to see and you'll see more of them.
That video has been debunked as fake btw, it's riddled with inconsistencies in blood presence, patterns, uniforms.

Furthermore, if Ukrainians are committing war crimes against the invading Russian army which basically has war crimes as their tactics and strategy, they're mostly morally justified. Hopefully they don't.
Netflix failed to buy a studio; you can poach talent but poaching an entire structure is harder to do.

Netflix has spent more on original content than Amazon did to buy MGM, though they apparently have spent less than Disney did on Fox.
Oddly enough launches the day after a Vanity Fair article on the founder made the rounds. Went down an Urbit rabbit hole yesterday for the first time.
For myself I'm on the cusp of cancelling. Mostly just for the slant of most of the content. I'm not interested in paying for my propaganda feed.
A year ago or so there was a video posted about an AI generated video. It was extremely scary. Almost like a emotionless psychopat with absolutely zero feelings towards humans. Anyone remembers where to find it?
Especially if the streaming service tells you it's going to raise prices and crack down on password sharing. It's bringing the customer's attention to the subscription service at exactly the wrong time.

Edit: missed a "the"
That’s not similar to ISP throttling because you’re paying for the scale but a flat fee for any use of that same scale.

The toll road doesn’t forbid trucks or cars painted red just because traffic on the toll road is heavy. Paying for the size of your vehicle isn’t like throttling; it’s like paying different amounts for different bandwidths.

It’d only be similar to throttling if the toll roads charged different amounts based on the contents of the vehicles.
Salt Lake just did this for one of the bridges across I-80. Amazingly the actual swap took less than 24 hours.
The thing that makes me laugh is that these managers insist on people coming into the office because "that's where they're more collaborative and creative". Before the pandemic they wanted to take us all off-site for an away day so we could be more collaborative and creative than when we were in the office!
I don't want to start a language war, given that I like both languages anyway, you should have a look at https://github.com/hanickadot/compile-time-regular-expressio...

However even counting with upcoming C++23 features, Lisp is much more ergonomic for this kind of stuff.
Smurfs were all (but one) male. I wouldn’t read too much into She-Ra. And “same sex couples exist” is not really a political statement.

Now, when She-Ra starts having extended monologues about taxation policy or the virtues of direct democracy vs. representative government, I’ll support ya!
I don’t want to assume anything about your financial situation but I just don’t believe most people would find 2 hours of entertainment for $4 unreasonable. Like that’s just silly cheap.

We live in a world where 90% of the entire catalog of movies ever filmed are available to be instantly delivered to your home in 1080p for less than the cost of a Big Mac. In the 90s it cost about the same not even taking into account inflation or gas to drive to blockbuster and rent a VHS. We are living in the future!
The poor schlub who has to process these probably gets paid hourly and doesn't really care. It's about increasing the processing costs incurred by PayPal, which this will accomplish.
Right but explaining why the reals are different is the tricky part
Well when you spend your money you are literally stealing it out of the hands of my and my friends in banking.
Blowing stuff up tends to leave a good bit of evidence.
The best leaders have people and leadership skills, but have no desire at all for the power and might not even want the position. Two of the best bosses I've ever worked with begrudgingly were put into that position and did an excellent job. Kind of like Cincinnatus or George Washington, being perfectly content giving it all up and going back to a simple farm life.
I'll try. First, what it is: Urbit is a virtual machine OS for server-side applications. If you imagine a future in which it is common for non-technical people to rent cloud server space on which to host server-side applications (say, a small blog, a mastodon node, a minecraft server, etc), Urbit aspires to be a good platform on which to host them.

Second, why it's so weird: it aspires to be "done" someday, as in no new features to add, no bugs left, just stable forever (sometimes called Kelvin versioning). It's design makes no sense unless you understand this; the bespoke languages it's written in are designed to be too simple to have any unexpected behaviors (as opposed to being designed for ease of use or performance).

Third, you can't understand it without being aware that the founder got #cancelled for his (unrelated to urbit) right-wing blogging, so most of the responses in this thread will be from people who really dislike that guy and dismiss urbit as a result.
This concept of "programer is generally dumb, so languages must have features to prevent them from making mistakes", with strong typing falling under those features, is solely an academic exercise that is taught in academia, and perpetuated by people who just wanna fit the mold in FAANG and other big players.

And Python being popular because its basic/beginner oriented is a laughable statement.
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/26/7-years-of-youtube.... Not to mention that all the bleeding edge ML stuff is Python first.

Language adoption directly depends on how quickly people can build stuff in that language, and its an exponential effect, because with speed of development comes more libraries, which in turn allows other people to build stuff that uses those libraries quicker. And the initial speed of development directly depends on the programmer having to manage less things. Static typing, in real world, is often a hinderance because code bases are dynamic, and having to go and refactor code because data definition changed takes time. And if you have competent programmers that write clean code and a good code review and testing framework, static typing gives you no advantage since the time spent fixing issues due to failing tests will be equivalent to spending time fixing issues with failure to compile.
Being a person who works with FPGAs. For all their difficulties, waveforms of both simulation and real-time tapping capabilities are indispensable for tracking what happens before, during, and after an erroneous event occurs. One thing I always miss when going back to software development is some sort of 'waveform' of what the process has done over time and tracking the state of the system over that same course of time.
Admittedly dealing with CPU instructions and a program's function calls and overlapping threads is orders of magnitude more difficult than tracking how a bit is changing in a waveform over time, but it definitely seems like tools are getting closer and closer to something that's equivalent and that's pretty awesome to see.
And they should know this, they're the ones that were on the defending side in Stalingrad and so many other places. That's the stuff nightmares are made of.
> I hear that said a lot, but I doubt it, at least not with those proportions. Those things offer important perspective, but to put it bluntly: George Washington isn't running for president anymore and slavery has been abolished for more than a century. The past is the past and this is the present: there are some commonalities but also a lot of important differences.

Sure, but I doubt someone with a deep grounding in political science, economics, and history, but who'd never heard of either candidate, would need more than an hour or so on Google to decide between Trump and Biden, for instance. Our choices are, as voters, for better or worse, pretty limited.

Frankly, I often make decisions about local candidates or ballot initiatives based on like 5 minutes of research. I doubt any of those choices would change if I closely followed all those candidates and issues and spent 50x more time on them—what might change them is if I'd read fewer, or different, books. (meanwhile, if I wanted to make any actual difference in the world, I'm aware that what I ought to do is get involved with one of the big two political parties, at the local level)
Engineers up the torque to get Lucy's solar array latched
Yeah, after having kids I would way rather make less money and work from home. Right now I'm wasting an hour a day that I should be spending with my girls before they are old enough to go to school. It's heartbreaking.
> I couldn’t even find Seinfeld reruns

Guess it depends on what you mean by "recently" and maybe it depends on region as well, but Seinfeld is on Netflix!
Hello protein powder companies.
+ SPARC tagged integers

+ MIPS branch delay slot

+ Everything about VLIW

+ Everything about Mill

+ iAPX 432 bit variable length instructions
But food at the supermarket, clothes, even water from the tap are all priced without regard to individual income. Why would road usage be any different?

The wealthy are always able to buy the nicest things, and addressing income inequality is a very valid goal. But what realistic alternative is there to the price mechanism that still allows for a level
of individual choice, and permits vehicle journeys that are economically necessary (e.g. tradespeople) while discouraging car journeys that could me made by other means.

As for the minimum wage earner, they are the least likely to be able to afford to keep a car. The current roads free-for-all means their bus journeys are far slower due to the traffic, and more expensive due to the larger number of buses required to maintain frequency on congested roads.

A possible solution to reduce inequality from road charging while still maintaining the benefits of the price mechanism would be to return the proceeds (after maintenance costs) to the residents of the city in the form of transport credits. These credits would be able to be spent on road access, public transport, or cycling as the individual preferred.
My whole family (parents in their 50s, kids in 20s), we use it for fun and family group chats. When it was new it became the defacto IM standard in the kids' age group and it just stuck. Save for straight SMS, which pre-paid users don't like, it's the least obnoxious of the IMish tools, I think.

Outside of the US I mostly use WhatsApp, I suspect if that (or Signal) was more widely used in the US Snapchat would be less popular.
You are stealing the residuals of the actors, producers, stuntmen, grips, and all the other folks that help make content.

Not everyone is a A-List celeb or director.
Right, they had this big mainstream push with being the first Homekit partner with a failed hub, plethora of non-core devices and multiple failed apps. I think they got ahead of themselves going into this mass market and should've stayed a niche player, further perfecting their core hardware and focussing on enthusiasts and home installers. Kind of like Philips Hue did but for enthusiasts/professionals.
This was a great article. This is probably one of the reasons why my son only reads comics that are about Minecraft characters. Why would he want to read superheroes? That is grownup stuff. The Minecraft comics are often odd, have to weirdly combine school age kid concerns with crafting things and wearing pumpkins on your head to hide from endermen, but nobody is nihilistically killing everyone.
Wow, there's a "stremio" button on my TV's remote control? I can't find it. I have a feeling that the definitions of "difficult" and "literally" are unknown to you.
Are US Fertility Rates Starting to Decline?
That doesn't work so well if you're trying to push a social agenda to people who aren't interested in LGBTQ+ or racial "wokeness". Imagine someone searching for all content that doesn't include some form of LGBTQ+. There wouldn't be much of a catalog to watch.
The Superhero Industry diversified and comics are expensive. They went from being pulp to full gloss at the same time that companies started spending less and less on print advertisement. You can totally find books suited for children, with all the characters you grew up with, but the main line books today are for the people who grew up with them, because they can afford it.

The economic argument continues: comic books get turned into comic movies and comic tv shows and comic action figures and that gets creators paid, even if they work for the big two. Nobody is making BIFF, BAM, POW movies. Why should they work against their own financial self interests?

You're not going to walk out of a comic shop with 4 new comics for less than $20 when accounting for tax. Kids don't HAVE to be focused on superheroes, anyway. There are all sorts of comics out there, and most of the youth trade paperbacks are vastly better reading material for kids, because they try to present the material at their level of understanding instead of just dumbing down the mainstream to whatever was popular 50 years ago.
The elites of America use "inclusivity" and race as bait to distract from the very issues you describe.

Notice how we, as a society, spent relatively little time discussing the 2008 Mortgage Crisis and Occupy Wall Street.

Meanwhile news outlets have been beating the "inclusivity" / race / gender drum for _years_.

Time to wake up, folks.
I wonder if this is an example of not knowing your audience (or rather assuming one's self represents a wider audience than it does).

The people vouching for this at Google are likely product marketing managers, public relations folks, social media managers, etc. All they do is write corporate garbage all day, and much like we have "nit"s in PR's for formatting, variable names, etc; they likely have similar reviews that get flagged for "non-inclusive language" or whatever this is. So they have brilliant idea: the Code people use auto linters/formatters that we enable by default (hey gofmt) and everyone loves it, how about we do the same for the Prose people!

Basically: "All I write is corporate garbage, and all the writing I consume is corporate garbage, and all my coworkers only write corporate garbage, therefore everyone would love a corporate garbage-ifyer!"
This literally how the financial system is set up. Consumers provide money to a workforce that provides good and services that society enjoys. In turn, that workforce consumes goods and services providing income to a different workforce.

When you steal cool stuff, cool stuff stops getting made.
Some autism spectrum disorder symptoms linked to astrocytes
Or, don't let your wife's debatable notions of ethics and morality on this subject dictate your choices in personal pleasures of life. Those coins exist in large quantities and not all were robbed. Even the word robbed is a bit forced since it assumes only archaeologists should claim access to any archaeological find or control of any objects on it (even common ones).
If you have the money and time to take classes, I'd recommend which ever of the standard CS foundation courses interest you:

- Programming Languages (and then Compilers, my favorite)

- Algorithms

- Operating Systems

At a decent school with some level of difficulty, you'll learn the big picture while doing fun projects for homework, along with history.

Programming is a craft, not a science, but it overlaps with math in a lot of places.
Patrick H Willems has a great video where he discusses how superhero media has moved away from it's core audience of children and teens. He does a good job of discussing what's lost and presenting a pretty good and fair 'hot take': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dfI_2dscGE

Best part: In anticipation of rabid comic book/superhero fans attempting to gatekeep his opinions, Patrick opens the video by sharing his large - very large - comic book collection and 'nerd credentials.'
CERN has restarted the Large Hadron Collider – and it's more powerful than ever
I'm sure you could find someone to reship product to you... And then you'd just need a stepdown transformer in your wall, and to import US spec everything else to go with it. Totally simple ;)
I have not had to install a driver manually on Windows in a long time, probably approaching a decade. I will concede that Window's boot partition defaults are comically malicious to other boot managers on a system and personally temporarily unplug all drive besides the installation target.

All that being said this feels like a bit of a straw man seeing as your average user (which this entire sub-thread is discussing) does not even know their hardware can support multiple OSs at all, let alone simultaneously. They buy a computer and assume the OS it has at that time is all they can use, and if it somehow ends up in an un-bootable state that they need to bring it to GeekSquad...

Also to imply that the Linux app stores are at all better than the Windows one is a bit disingenuous. About 50% of the time that I have attempted to use them, I ended up with a broken and completely unusable installation of the program. There is some hilariously ambiguous error prompt that shows up and the real error is written out to some log file mentioning that the installation failed to do the system not using init.d or something about systemd. Oh and the log file is intended to be interacted with through terminal commands and is a pain to even find on disk.
It's amazing isn't it? Like people really think streaming services should care about mpv filters as a real use case for their customers. Incredible stuff.
It feels like this should be titled something more to the effect of, "watch a bridge section be constructed on site and then installed over the span of a year." Noting it as "replaced in three days" feels wildly inaccurate.
Probably verboten because of similarity with Stechpalme/Ilex, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europ%C3%A4ische_Stechpalme or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilex_aquifolium

Also, why should it be known here, as it seems to have been 'rediscovered' only rather recently in the US?
Microsoft is in the process of rolling 'inclusive' checking out, in (at least) the web version of Outlook 365. You can see by clicking the gear icon (in top right) -> View all Outlook settings (at bottom) -> Compose and reply -> Microsoft Editor settings (bottom). It is 'very broken'.
It's literally the job of consumers to pay for the things they consume.
A spurt from making registrations cheap isn't activity or use.
> Running a large media server can actually be pretty costly on power bills these days.

Only if using server hardware, and that isn’t a good way to do it. A recent generation igpu and a low power computer is the way to go. You’ll get 10+ streams out an Intel Nuc, or similar sff pc. The expensive bit is the storage array.
Algorithms for Decision Making [pdf]
It's intentionally obscure code and concepts to sell virtual "real estate" in a closed world.

If that sounds like either "bad idea" or "scam", or both, well, I think that's probably an accurate assessment.
One of the reasons I left google is that their "content moderation team" (the folks who make you take down wrongthink memes) is so far out of touch, that somebody had to explain to them there are people in the world who are discriminated against, but aren't black. They simply didn't know that was the case! And if that's the people who are moderating content...

I said motherboard all the time in meetings and chats, never had any pushback. TBH if I did get pushback on that one, I'd bring it to HR and say the pushback was affecting my ability to get work down.
Agreed. I've seen the app used by so many kids as nothing more than a camera toy. The parents didn't actually use the app.
My friend, the right thing to do is not half ass dispose of extremely toxic chemicals in a relatively populated area. It's the municipal equivalent of burying a land mine in your back yard, and putting a note in your deed that its there.
If they were able to do, shouldn't they instead take debt specially when it is cheap now. Invest that and give you the dividends on both?
Ah, now that is a point. I don't expect consumers to take on my personal union politics. That is the duty of the workforce and their union..

Which is more powerful if consumers don't steal money out of their pocket.

Pay for cool things and you'll get more cool things.
The thing that all these everyman-boosters that have invaded and gentrified tech seem to forget is that people are capable of learning, and with the right motivation, they will.

Can piracy be the bridge to tech literacy? Sure.
>"Is this the real explanation or was it low viewership / subscriptions?"

Potentially, but it does seem like a convenient excuse. As a thought experiment, if it beat expectations and had high viewership/subscriptions I doubt it would have been shuttered using the alignment justification. They would have just kept it and allowed it to be an outlier.
May I ask what the items in your enumerated list have to do with “policing words?”
Awesome work Clark!

Any plans to support Arm in the future? Thanks!
>so what does that matter.

What it matters is that as part of claiming to care about the environment they get rid of the paper towels in the break room. As part of claiming to care about safety they annoy everyone with stupid blanket policies that just cause everyone to break the rules. As part of caring about mental health they involve HR in things that would be better without HR involved.
> But you understand that technology have social consequences?

Yes that is why I started of this whole thread with: > "The algorithm" is irredeemable.

My personal opinion is formed by tweets that where not about the social or societal consequences of software development but totally unrelated events from people I didn't follow.
MS: "We now concede that Clippy was the most annoying, patronizing and flawed UX feature ever created."

Google: "Hold my beer..."
Especially since there is not even enough good content on Netflix to fill 1-2 hours per week. The article nails the central issue: the shows on Netflix are not good.
Rent yourself a workspace. There, your problem is solved.

"My home life sucks" is not a reason to send everyone back to the office.
> Every time one a show is pirated, there is less incentive to spend more money on an entertainment spectacle.

I'm fine with this. Some of the best movies ever were made in the 70s, after the Hollywood studio system collapsed and a ton of money was sucked out of the industry.
Writing “right wing blogging” leaves out the key part of being “unapologetically racist”