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>I don't know what Entropy is supposed to mean on the level of individual states/configurations.

The entropy is a property of a probability distribution, not of a state. Entropy is defined as H = -sum(p_i log(p_i)). A 'state' implicitly defines a probability distribution: uniform probability over all the microstates compatible with the state description.[0] In the case of a microstate, the entropy of the probability distribution over microstates consistent with that state is zero - there's only one compatible state, so p_i = 0 for all other states, and log(p_i) = 0 for the compatible state. In the case of a macrostate, the entropy of the probability distribution over microstates consistent with the macrostate works out to -sum((1/N) log(1/N)) = log(N), where N is the number of consistent microstates. That's the Boltzmann entropy.

Sometimes people will write about the entropy of a 'state' in such a way that it sounds like they're talking about the entropy of a microstate -- but what they're probably talking about is "the entropy of the macrostate that this microstate belongs to." It's sloppy to talk like that, because "the" corresponding macrostate isn't unique. There are many sets of macrostates that could contain a microstate, depending on what properties of the microstates one considers 'macro.'

(Ex: 10100101 is a member of both "symmetric bit strings of length 8" and "bit strings of length 8 that average to 1/2". The entropy of "symmetric bit strings of length 8" is 4 bits, whereas the entropy of "bit strings of length 8 that average to 1/2" is ~6.1 bits. And of course, the entropy of "the bit string of length 8 that is exactly 10100101" is zero.)
I was wondering which meaning of the word plays was in play here, I initially thought what, it tricks itself, what has that silly Washington done now, but it is about Washington behaving like the version of Washington one sees in the movies.

Basically it's just like how when I'm programming I do a lot of flailing about in the air with my hands and laughing maniacally, because I saw it once in a movie.
"grrrr, I sure hate how the people providing free recipes for me make me scroll twice to view the recipe"

Super gross framing, especially when you're yanking the content those other people actually created to siphon off their traffic.
Forcing people to work with someone against their will or preference also causes harm, and if society wants to do that it has to justify that the harm prevented is significantly greater than that - which is true for some types of discrimination and not true for others.

If nobody in the village wants to work with Bob because he's an asshole, they should be able to discriminate against Bob (and other assholes) as the social harm of Bob being unemployed and unemployable does not justify the social harm caused by the state coercing people to work with Bob, violating their freedom to choose. It would be harmful (and IMHO immoral) to prohibit discrimination against assholes. Freedom of association - and the freedom of not-associating it implies - is not inherently hateful, it is one of fundamental human rights that should be curtailed only if other alternatives aren't feasible - merely having some reason or some harm prevented is not necessarily enough.
I would recommend New Music Friday podcast from All Songs Considered (NPR). It's great for discovering new album releases.
Nobody wants to do the groundwork of a stable API. It’s a very difficult and thankless job because what people see are the brilliant apps built on top of it.
My parents, who have succeeded to positively-educate us (never a slap or punishment, nor retribution for good behavior; just congratulate good behavior and explain), have always been to the church discussion groups, the family- and couple-oriented ones. It at least gives a framework on what to talk about, and a framework that most other couples are willing to talk about.
How is this different than working around a GC?

There are lots of things you can do in GCed language to avoid allocations and avoid running the GC when it matters.
I deleted YouTube App because of YouTube shots
My Background:
I have been using YouTube since 2008. I am not a content creator, but I still post random videos once in a while. But I can say I am a heavy consumer of YouTube, and it really made a great contribution to my career goals. I am currently a Software Engineer and achieving almost all my goals, all thanks to Google, Stack Overflow, and YouTube. I use YouTube for all kinds of purposes like learning, entertainment, etc.

The problem with YouTube:
In recent years, the mobile app has been flooded with shorts (Short Videos), and they try all the ways to pull us into the rabbit hole and waste our precious time just to compete with other players. Honestly, I am not strong enough to fight against their algorithm and couldn't stay away from shorts. I think the situation is the same for most YouTube users.

Believe your users:
I believe most of its users are there for quality and not for quantity, like Reels and TikTok. Also, YouTube removed the dislike button, and it made it hard for the consumers to find quality content. So I don't understand why YouTube is finding ways to make it harder to find quality content. Is it in the wrong hands?

YouTube has to trust its users and probably create a separate app like for "YouTube Shorts" to pull the users who are into short video stuff. Or at least give users an option to disable shorts in the YouTube app. Until that happens, I am not going to keep the YouTube app on my phone. However, I will still continue to use YouTube on my computer web browser, but consumption will be way lower as I don't carry my laptop with me all the time. I hope YouTube will listen and make the changes soon before someone else comes up with another "Truth Tube"
> Patents on software just shouldn't exist. At all.

> We already have established laws where you can't patent maths.

> An algorithm is just a function.

OP seems to suggest that software is "just math". Everything is "just math".
There is no easy way to know how much the Mac Studio can pull without using a wall meter.

We know that reported power consumption is inaccurate on M1 devices, from Anadtech's testing of the M1 Max, and I doubt it's very different on the Mac Studio.

In any case, the difference is not going to be much.

As far as heating a room, really, I can assure you that you will barely notice 100W. There are screens that will use more power than that (such as, amongst others, the XDR screen). I say this as someone who lived with a 900W power hog of a computer in places where temperature hits 42 in shade.
Very good decision and hopefully more companies will follow the new way of working. It’s not a “one size fits all” situation, for some WFH (or from anywhere) is great and they’re more productive, for others being in the office with their colleagues works best. Companies should allow people to choose and see what works best (with proper management, training, support…).

One other important aspect is the ability to work from any country/city which will greatly help certain locations to attract WFH people or tech-nomads. Speaking for my country, Greece, there are already some islands and municipalities advertising their offerings to attract new people. This is going to be a win-win for all and help with counterurbanization. Sure there are many technicalities still to be sorted out but this is the way to go, this is the way of the future.
Allowing poison in children's toys for the sake of profit is also "dangerous". I don't think the playbook argument holds water. It's arguably easier to avoid the rules if there are none to begin with.
Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine rollout and third wave
Just don’t be mean. I read this a while ago, then observed an interaction at a bar that made me want to respond:

A party kept moving from table to table. I have no clue why. But the waiter would need to go and clean every table that they left, for both basic sanitation reasons as well as COVID. Waiter didn’t know what to do to get them to stop. So he goes to bartender to tell him the issue.

Bartender immediately says to them: “guys, every time you move we have to clean a table so pick a spot“. Party never moves again.

Bartender could have thrown a bunch of “if you don’t mind”, “we’d really appreciate”, “please”, etc’s in, but didn’t. They also could have thrown some less pleasant adjectives in, but again didn’t. They explained the problem, proposed a solution, and left it at that. That’s the “nice” thing, IMO. Anything else is patronizing or aggressive.
Right sentiment (look for a simple solution), but sadly that story isn't true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen#Uses_in_the_U.S._and...
Sorry for being rude but... If you offer code to host the service autonomously we can came and go, otherwise being just able to import/export feeds is lock-in: already read feeds, saved articles, UI etc are the lock-in elements, for a serious RSS user.

If your target is just offering an aggregator like "Google News for the content you want", well, I can understand but for people who want to control their source of information, reducing propaganda and crap of modern websites/services, it's not a real option...
That is so wildly misleading that I am counting your post as a blatant lie.

The actual statement was that the "EEG Umlage" (=surcharge on the electricity bill) would cost about that much in 2004. And that was perfectly true.
you point an ENS name to an address (a public key hash). in a system built on private/public keys, it can be useful as an alias. the “IP”, or address in this case, is my own, because it is directly generated from a 24 word seed phrase.

this naming system has value for myself and the millions of other users interacting within the network.
And often the best thing is to just listen passively.
My uncle (RIP), who was a child psychologist was a staunch proponent of treating his kids with respect and intellectual honesty.

Like most kids, they still got into trouble and had major screw ups in their young lives. However I've never seen anyone who respected their parents more in my life. There were no beatings, no yelling, no destroying or selling of their property as punishment. And wouldn't you know it, when they got in trouble for something they did wrong - they didn't resent their parents for it. They were always expressive that their mistake (or the general view of society that what they did is a mistake) was the problem.

It's hardly empirical evidence but it certainly convinced me.
sure, if you can name the vector I would love it. we just moving italy to spain, so it's not a long trip, but I won't immediately have a car to do it.
Pure Virtual C++ 2022 videos
Everyone wins except people who can't afford a home to live in.
> I believe most of its users are there for quality and not for quantity

Big difference between what you believe and what youtube's analytics knows
Don't worry, you're not the last group, from personal experience I can say people on the spectrum are fair game to descriminate against as we'll
This is how I’m working currently. I go into the office 0-2 times a week depending on work load. When deadlines are really tight I work from home completely for focus when it’s more relaxed i go into the office once or twice a week which I enjoy because I get to spend time with my colleagues e.g having lunch together, shooting the breeze or even collaborating on work stuff.
As far as I know this is incorrect. In most countries working is entirely different to touristing and ‘doing business’ (i.e. selling). Just ask musicians - they have to get performance work visas for every country.

As far as their tax authorities are concerned, yeah, you normally have 90 days or so where they don’t care about your income, but immigration? Almost never. Most digital nomads just get away with it because it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things that customs and immigration authorities have to care about - witness the Thai visa tours etc.
The fact that you have to pay attention makes it significantly harder.

You have to be aware that cycles can cause issues and you have to think about the impact of cycles on whatever you're doing.
Yes, the HR 'org' does not care, I just mean the 'notion' of it.
Nuclear is like a religious thing. No one is actually looking at facts and science, they just have belief that this is a solution or the problem. Look how conclusions from an expert panel are shrugged at as "nuclear is obviously the only right solution", no one cares whether those conclusion are based on science or not.

Personally I don't disagree that nuclear is probably needed at least short term, but it's not a a reason to ignore or deny the problems it causes, some of them are hard to solve, and probably some also even hard to anticipate.
Using enough transition proves that difficulty of not making cycle is going to increase very, very fast.
I'm working through this right now and it's awesome. I've completed the Java interpreter and I'm halfway through the C bytecode stack-based interpreter[1]. I'd estimate I've spent around 30-40 hours with the book.

Throughout I've used both the website and the dead-tree version of the book. The website is great with 2 monitors, but you might be too tempted to copy-paste the code.

The one thing the book doesn't mandate is the use of the Lox test suite, but I think it should be incorporated into the book. It's easier to hack on your implementation when there's a test suite to validate that everything still works as it should at Chapter X.

1. https://github.com/thundergolfer/uni/tree/main/books/craftin...
That is a favorite trope of nuke boosters, but is false. Everyone repeating it knows this:

Germany was always dependent on fossil fuels. They have been adding wind turbines at a breakneck pace, getting incrementally less dependent. Fixing those ramshackle old contraptions would have cost much more per unit power out. They have already built out more wind generating capacity (averaged) than the reactors shut down produced. Germans, anyway, know this.

France is not building new nukes, nor even patching up old ones, because it is extremely expensive, and not getting any cheaper.

When people have to lie to try to make nukes look good, what are they really telling us?
I have bought a copy of this book to support the author, but haven't had time yet to implement any of it. Still wondering if i should do the implementation in Rust or Zig.
Maybe, be nice to kids and don't harm them ? You are teaching and encouraging the behavior "blackmail to get what you want" by doing that.

Instead you could use non violent communication to get by. Tell them how you feel, how you feel hurt by their behavior. Maybe they start talking about how they are hurt being stuck 8h in the car ? And maybe both of you will feel compassion and a way to minimize the damages.
Three little words: Just Use Lisp.

Having written a skeletal macro system for a Smalltalk, I do have a lot of sympathy for the effort he had to go through.
Hey I was wondering what maths are at the foundation of computer science. Could you explain which ones you think are at the foundation?

For context, I’m not sure something like calculus would be a foundational math (though it could be), but something like Boolean logic would be (right?)
Please go up and actually read the post you are responding to. It sounds like you agree with OP but are just being obstinate.

OP is using "fuckability" as an example of something that doesn't get attention to highlight we shouldn't have any special categories and indeed just "treat each other fairly".
Here's one I would add: "Go to jail." Seriously. I spent a weekend in jail when I was about 19. So many life lessons learned in such a short time.
I think the point is exactly what you brought up in your car example:

A mechanic is not an engineer is not a physicist.

A developer is not an engineer is not a computer scientist.

The problem is that CS is a young field, who lacks both trade schools (ie, places to train working developers) AND struggles with the engineer/scientist divide within universities.
>> Dont purchase extra insurance if you are renting a car with a credit card.

Is it really a thing? I also heard this from other people, but it's hard for me to believe that CC company will really pay out in case of an insurance case. After all, their commission for renting a car is 2-3%, and car rent companies charge 50-100% of the rental price for insurance.
Most credit cards that do offer it only offer it as secondary coverage. I.e., it'll first hit any personal car insurance coverage you have, and in that case the card will cover the deductible.

For ones that provide primary coverage, Amex's premium coverage is very good, and will run you ~$25 per rental period (not day, period, up to 42 days), but you have to call (once) to get it added to the card. It doesn't include liability or uninsured motorists, but for just "hey, something happened, the car got damaged, but I don't want to be able to just walk away and not worry about it", it's an easy, braindead option.
I think these are historically for people coming into the country and working in the country at an actual brick and mortar place with actual local people.

If a someone is on a trip abroad and gets a call/email from a customer from another country, they are technically working. Would that require a work visa?

How many emails per day would require a work visa?

The world is changing and laws aren't really keeping up.
Well, "I don't know if I believe anyone is 100% a dick-". Bob may be an asshole precisely because he's being discriminated against and that makes him angry. Our society seems to think that even the worst people, even murderers and thieves and rapists, can be rehabilitated and included.

But I see your point.

And I'm not arguing that no one should ever be allowed to discriminate for any reason. I'm simply flipping the script: instead of the default position being that discrimination is acceptable, discrimination should require justification.

Someone might be willing to publicly say "we don't hire assholes" and defend it. Go for it. It would be much harder to say "we don't hire short people" or "we don't hire dalits" and defend that.
Huh? If you take a look on aliexpress you can find drones that are better in every measurable metric (except ease of use) for half the money. This thing probably has an insane markup.
I found the 4 second rule interesting, but I wonder how this should play out. Most humans break eye contact after 2-3 seconds. It's extremely uncommon to find someone holding eye contact for longer than that. After ~3 seconds, it can be perceived either as aggression or as flirting.
Some CRT's also had an anti-reflective coating. My old Eizo certainly did.
It does not have to, but it more likely will go like that.

> Question is, how far will they go for a piece of candy...

You are here trying to bank on them acting on rational self interest. But, the initial situation was described as "kids are completely irrational". Threat of throwing away candy they don't have adds even more emotionality and confusion into situation. There is even no initial guarantee they would get candy if they behaved.

Irrational kids wont become rational just because they got scared for candy.

> I think more context is needed here.

I actually agree here.
Styrofoam is biodegradable if you think long term. 500 years is nothing and it's very manageable.

If you genuinely come up with something better and are able to get into the market, that's great... but don't try to sell "compostable" as a feature. I don't want my packaging to potentially come rotten.
Can you tell me more about the state lock or link to some relevant details?
I am glad I am not your child!!
>Ideally a place where it is socially less acceptable or inconvenient to stare at a phone, but these are rare.

I would suggest a classroom. The teacher would consider staring at the phone as rude.
The title says "Computer Science", then it for some reason assumes it is more about "Software Engineering".

To me the objective of a CS undergrad course is very simple. If the entire world lost all computers then you should be able to build one from scratch ( with the help of your electronics undergrad friend). In my undergrad CS course I learnt how to built a computer from basic logic gates, how to make it execute assembly like codes, how to design an operating system and other things like how to build the internet starting from some wires. The course is named "Computer Science and Engineering" for a reason.
What about filtering particles which don't have a charge like plastics or biological matter?

I guess you can always just boil the water after it's been processed by the portable machine.
Those specifications are much worse than 30 year old PUR-06. It makes one liter per hour with 20 Watts and fits in your pocket.

I tried solar panel and windshield wiper motor. But direct-drive windmill was much better as wind blows 24/7 on Baja.
https://youtu.be/9xYXWISWv5I?t=390

Durability was the issue. I destroyed three units and average was 200 days / 1000 liters, because all-plastic construction. Found no limits on filter durability.
> Those four things break you free of the borrow checker while also letting you get a grip on the language.

Technically those methods don't break free of the borrow checker; they satisfy the borrow checker by not borrowing.
As other posters note some feed-forward defense mechanism requires a larger dose to elicit a response. Sometimes small doses have a cascade effect meaning A->2xB->6xC etc whereas a larger dose would activate a feed-backward mechanism between B and C.

A classic example is endocrine disruptors (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4036398/), a small dose induces a hormonal response, a medium dose the body fights due to detecting it as foreign and a high dose is just regular toxic. Please note this is somewhat simplified but used as an example.
Cool, some UX tips:
Remove fade ins, fade outs. Takes too long. I use Anki daily and would use this app for longer texts to compare to Anki, but everything has to be optimised for minimum amount of clicks with no fancy effects like fade ins. When you are working with 50 texts a day those pause intervals for extra clicking and fade ins add up and burn time. Add keywords shortcuts like in Anki. Clicking with mouse is too toiling. Space should be used to reveal text and 1 and 2 buttons to confirm if you memorised or not. Add push notifications for daily exercise reminders. Good potential though.
It's strange for the New Republic Staff to be aware of liberal bias in (even movie) media. They are not usually so self-aware.

Are the editors becoming aware of how today's liberals are anything but leftists? Probably not. They're actually talking about director Robert Altman's and writer Garry Trudeau's characters as played decades ago. Because that's what both of them wanted then. And it's safe. And not because that's a useful analogy, but because it's news filler.

Aside: I really do miss Bob Dole, mentioned in the article. And I wasn't generally a Dole supporter. He was sarcastic as all heck - very funny. Only outdone more recently by Al Franken.
I’ll have to dig into it to see how it compares, but https://spiffe.io/ is what I look to in this area.

Not having long lived secrets is the ultimate destination, but we all live with the legacy around us.
Well that was so much better than I expected going into it. 11/10 would read again and do recommend others read.

It’s balanced, introspective, and politically unbiased, the author acknowledges their own bias well in construction of their argument instead of exhorting it as somehow self evident.