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> 6. There were tons of ironclads already in European fleets, there had just never been a fight between ironclads! Europeans watched the Monitor v. Merrimack battle & adapted their fleets & battle doctrines accordingly.

These were very different sorts of ironclads. The British and French ironclads mostly resembled traditional ships, at least at first glance. They had steam engines but also retained their masts, and had broadside guns rather than turrets (except for the ill-fated HMS Captain..)

The American ironclads were more bizarre, superficially resembling submarines, and weren't particularly seaworthy (unlike the European ironclads.) The USS Monitor in particular was a novel design; mastless and steam powered with an armored turret, a shallow draft and low freeboard (similar to earlier ironclad floating batteries, but a lot lower). European navies subsequently started building their own 'monitors'.

The monitor class of ships were eventually pushed to the side by pre-dreadnought battleships that derived more from the traditional and seaworthy European ironclads than from monitors, with some lessons learned from monitors. See the HMS Devastation particularly; mastless and steam powered with armored turrets, but with a hull that was actually seaworthy unlike monitors.
> except, say, a francophone who chooses McGill for that reason

The French schools actually have an interesting dynamic. Having worked with a few French Canadians here in the Bay they pretty much all told me they never considered going to an American school (or more generally working for an American company) due to their perceived language gap. It was later they figured out that if the whole room understands you then maybe you don’t have a language gap.
What? I'm not dismissing their work.

I'm just saying there is no direct financial incentive for 32 million GPUs to move over to it. If there was, they'd be on that instead of ETH.
I have learned here at HN names for lots of effects / phenomena. And started to notice these on my daily life.

What you described here is greatly related to The Gell-Mann Amnesia.
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SIGGRAPH is behind the times. SIGCOMM has been open access for years.

It's a shame too since SIGGRAPH runs ACM's most popular conference(s) with many thousands of attendees and high registration fees ($875 "discounted" pregistration for a virtual conference? are you kidding?) and can almost certainly afford the negligible costs for digital publication.

Well here's hoping we'll get real open access for everything by ... 2025. ;-/

Until then: google scholar, sci-hub, or donate your $99 to ACM.
Still won’t save the quality of their shitty originals. They should go back to acquiring licensing to actually good shows, which ofc I image they can’t because everyone else decided to make their own platform to host their shows on exclusively.
The problem is this:

One day, people who think like you will come to power and decide that under their administration, [activity your livelihood is based on] constitutes “extracting value from the system” and is no longer permitted.

Maybe you are a golfer, or a restaurateur. But “what you’re doing is solely about enriching yourself.” Your fine cuisine is not feeding the poor. It is immoral to play golf while children go hungry. You have clearly become wealthy while doing nothing for the greater good.

They will come to you holding guns and demand that you cease your activity, and hand over your “wealth” - maybe your house, your savings, the food in your pantry, the clothes on your bank, maybe your wife or your daughter.

“We will take back for the People what is theirs” they will say. If you refuse, you will starve in prison, and they will take your life anyway. If you accept, you will starve in the street.
Its strange but I never worked or can imagine working in such an environment.

When coworkers would learn I'm searching for something else they either understand me and/or try to persuade me not to jump ship. Why should they, lol? And if I go they wish me all the best as I would do to them.

And actually just the same for bosses?
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It's amazing how many people see this happening, acknowledge it is wrong and severely dysfunctional, and then turn around and claim that everything will be better when the government runs everything in the economy.
> how completely bonkers it would be to ride on a steadily-degrading spaceship

For a moment I thought there was going to be a twist at the end where you describe the people who stayed on Earth.
You mean the country committing war crimes daily and threatening the world with nukes?
When the product is a car, which has a rate of 36,000 accidental deaths (I don't really care whether or not they are decapitations) per year just in the US, then your standard of "more than one is criminal negligence" is ridiculous.
They still both don't work as well as linux packaging.
And all else being equal, I'd wager that you're more likely to be hit with a browser exploit visiting a hacked site than a non-hacked one.
INAV – navigation capable flight controller
Agree, I’ll do literally anything than buy into this nonsense. You can take your crappy devs that memorized Leetcode problems and I’ll stick with people who solve actual problems and can demonstrate it.

Leetcode isn’t a good measure and will be phased out in coming years as this is realized.
I can see a cash-only undeclared job or even like theft or drug dealing being being big temptations.
Not as bad as you might think. If you have a longer time horizon, you know that the war in Ukraine will end, Putin will cease to be on the world stage, grain will flow again from Odessa, Europe's dependency on fossil fuels (Russian, or othewise) will be permanently reduced, ushering in an accelerated adoption of green tech. Inflation will ease, and we'll be off to the races again.
No no, you need to package that into a convenient slogan. How about “vote blue no matter who”?
Definitely take a shower right before departure. Your ass will thank you.
Strange. I'm able to view the video in an incognito window.
It's not about the "concerns" that we should be worried about. We should also be worried about not perpetuating a gigantic scam.

Honesty is not just about "I wasn't the one profiting from the bad thing". It's also "I'm willing to call evil/immoral for what it is".
Lol exactly, get a mission for Christs sake
Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old
Lived in Nottingham, I beg to differ on the Lenton Blvd side. I would here a siren at least twice a week.
However, noise in NYC is much worse and you hear sirens, motorcycles, cars revving, etc. all the time in most large US cities.
Framework does not ship internationally yet. System 76 does.

But if I’m buying a laptop for work why would I get a laptop from a manufacturer that has no presence in my country? What am I going to do when things go wrong? Unfortunately, it may be better to take a punt on a manufacturer with global presence.
Your comment seems to me somewhat unsubstantiated declaraction of stereotypical evil. That is, it isn't really saying anything we haven't already heard a lot, nor providing any additional context nor basis for it.

Complaing about downvotes is among the surest ways to accumulate more downvotes, on HN. It's explicitly discouraged by the guidelines [0]:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ah, ok. Sorry, I misunderstood. Yes, we’re on the same page. As usual, a good balance is necessary.
If you have too much abuse in the system trust breaks down and taxpayers won't support it anymore.
The same way OBS can expose a virtual camera? I believe it's the v4l2-loopback driver, but I'm not sure.
Or we could chose a number of WAY safer fission reactors for the same cost and same power output (Pick your favorite Gen IV reactor).

We also don't end up creating a literal nuclear weapons manufacturing plant in every nation that wants to use this (since the "fuel" for this reactor is constantly detonating nukes).
It's interesting how difficult it is nowadays to field a million man army
I think parents should be allowed to hit their kids for being ungrateful little runts.
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your dog will not look for a simpler impl before making one.

your npm's dependencies authors cat will write a small wrapper and wont know about yours.
> The reactor walls are supposed to emit more than enough tritium to satisfy your needs.

Didn't know that fusion generators produced its own fuel! If it produces more than enough, then the excess tritium is considered radioactive waste?
More centralized digital currencies with regulations backed by central banks have a pretty big potential to disrupt basic banking services. Most problems of cryptocurrencies can be solved with a trusted third party. The question is only how long banks can lobby against that.
I think it's mostly a "no bootcamp grads" filter.
Yet the government will approve trillions in assistance to corporations without ever reading the bill
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hebrew-university-to-open-acad...

From 2016 - "The university is mired in debt amounting to nearly NIS 13 billion ($3.4 billion) over employees’ pensions."
It's happening mostly because the politicians advocating for these dysfunctional policies are ignorants corrupted by their business friends who really don't want people to feel safe enough to ask for more money.

At least here in Europe. Speaking from experience.

We have several people directly profiting from several ineffective policies targeting disadvantaged in the local Parliament.
And the reason why Britain wanted those raw resources was because it was the epicenter of the industrial revolution. Manchester was nicknamed "Cottonopolis"... full of cotton mills driven by water and then steam, and connected by the first inter-city railway. Cotton picked by slaves in the U.S. south was the main source of raw materials for these factories.
I spend a lot of time remoting into fresh *nix systems, so I also almost don't have any aliases, with one notable exception : ll (aliased to ls -lah).

It's just so engrained into my muscle memory that I do it without thinking about it most of the time.

And the workaround I found for it is adding a macro on my keyboard (through QMK but can be done with anything) that just types out 'alias ll="ls -lah"\n'.
If the house is old enough that a 1.8m person can't stand up in it, unless it has tremendous cultural/historical value, it should probably be torn down and replaced with a newer building.
And it may be worth observing that, as far as I know, this sort of thing is totally unique to programming. No other branch of engineering does it. I've certainly never had to do any unusual prep for an interview--though, admittedly, my handful of jobs since just out of grad school have all been through people I know.
> Results are not impressive until they are :)

True! I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from trying.

On the other hand, I think it would be a huge mistake to trust that fancy learning approaches will solve everything so we shouldn't try and improve access and labling. Getting better there is still by far the most high probability of successful impact, imo.
You can do it with WebRTC just remember that it is meant for low latency video connections. The trade off is a higher bitrate and no caching.
I prefer it to all of those that I've used, which is a lot of them—for the specific use case of managing the tools I use on my workstation.
Wow, good point! I suppose the thermal printers that I've hacked around with are probably very dated in comparison.
That's a good question, and I don't know the answer.

However, whatever that need was (to hedge against the British) should have been completely necessary, and really goes to show you just how valuable a strong diplomatic corps can be to a country.

The British wanted to be pro-Union. They wanted slavery gone. They didn't want to have to station huge numbers of troops in Canada, or large numbers of ships in the Atlantic.

Silly, unforced errors by Seward & Charles Francis Adams (the American ambassador) antagonized Britain throughout the war & made them unsure of their North American holdings. Ridiculous. Union diplomats should have been talking peace & partnership with Britain from day 1 of the conflict.
Cultures that accept LC are more likely to make your life terrible.

I work for a company that pays well and doesn’t do LC because of all the obvious reasons, and that is a representation of the culture.
old.reddit.com works fine here. Perhaps it's either you or you're on the wrong side of some new A/B testing?
There's a 'Graphics Programming Weekly' newsletter

https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-week...
I just tried it. Can't 'goto definition' for dependencies for Go or Python, so that function is almost useless for those languages IMO.
Yes, the russophobia of that country is a tragedy.
Well, ask why that was the case for starters:

I could posit a few things, assuming the intent was 'serious' debate and not just any amateurish attempt to prop up unequal-in-quality ideas:

1. Arguments to support it were so thin, that doing so would look fundamentally poor contextually (e.g. you can make an argument for Leave, but not any of the ones that were used to sell the idea, because logically they were either outright daft, or any arguments that could be used would have exposed underlying emotional, not factual, underpinnings that in light of day would appear either unsavory, or at the very least, self-sabotaging and indefensible under anything OTHER than agit-prop.

2. Given the political media environment, it became a third rail no self-respecting academic would want to touch (e.g. most academics won't argue for flat earth theory even as a mock exercise)

I don't know what drivers for the debates were in play, but I suspect that depending on the seriousness (or lack thereof) would have played a key factor.

There is also the simple idea that arguing for something that has no defensible premises (read: it will improve the economy when it won't, it will secure borders when it won't, etc...but will appeal to certain reactionary political contrivances. As a person who has historically leaned center-right on security and economic aspects, I had the same issue in the US over "the wall", an idea I found deeply stupid, still find even more stupid, and ultimately a boat-anchor that only bigoted imbeciles will support reflexively, regardless of cheaper, more effective alternatives existing...because goddammit they need the theater of 'winning' more than actual effective policy).
I'm gonna finish two Leetcode contests (virtual) by Sunday evening.
Fixing up my Guitar strings as well.

I am also searching for a good Java personal project to work on. Suggestions are welcome!
It’s even worse than you think. The military is constantly trying to close bases and get rid of weapons that aren’t needed to save money. But Congress blocks them at every turn. That’s the whole “government doesn’t create jobs. But don’t take away our make work military jobs.”

The military leaders have also been saying for years that our increase debt is an existential threat.
My key takeaways:

* SSI is run by the Social Security Administration (SSA), and it is a basic income of sorts given to some people who have little or no other income

* While SSI and its asset cap are obviously not taxes —the government is paying out money, not taking it in —there’s a similar property to many tax systems: as you make more money and become more self-sufficient, you lose some of those gains to government policy

* You really do have to play “hot potato” with your money, never saving more than three months of income (assuming you get the usual benefit) at a time, unless you can divert your money into a category that’s excluded from the SSA’s definition of resources

* So to manage life as a disabled SSI recipient, you might need to carefully separate out your different types of spending between your ABLE account and your ordinary checking account —which still can’t get above $2,000

* “It's making all disabled people into accountants, because you have to be one to follow these rules."

* That $2,000 limit is not indexed for inflation and has not been updated since 1989
Exactly, yeah let’s all keep going along with this nonsense cause ya know?
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And it seems like it accomplishes the exact opposite. I dated a girl who worked in a drug and rehab facility and she'd constantly complain about how the people who actually worked and tried to improve their situations on their own weren't eligible for any help, but there were a set of regulars who were deadbeat losers with no desire to get better who would essentially use the facility as a hotel. I'm not saying the losers shouldn't have access, but having a job should not bar you from getting help.
Vote red till your dead. Lol
That is far from the only question.
"Not every debate has equal evidence on both sides"

Don't tell that to the side with a deficit.
If we want to help people, I think the first step is to assign each person/family an advocate. Someone who looks out for the person in need and reaches out to them. That person could help navigate the bureaucracy, explain to people their options, etc.

Sadly, most people have to advocate for themselves. They have to research what they need to do to get benefits, try to figure out how to navigate the poorly designed system, make calls, fill out paperwork, submit documents, etc. Poor people may not have the mental/emotional energy to go through all this.

I know, I know. Sometimes this is the system behaving as designed. The government makes it hard for people to get benefits so it doesn't have to pay as much. Such design is despicable.
This may not actually be the case: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...

I've done a decent amount of drugs, and I've been around people who have done a hell of a lot more, but I recently had a friend develop a meth problem, and I have to say, there is something remarkably different about how issue compared to what I've seen in my life.
I've been on the prowl for libraries like this, too. https://rete.js.org also looked pretty good.
Then it's a good thing we're not focusing effort on long-term solutions. We're spending a lot more money on rolling out renewables than we are on fusion research. That doesn't mean we should cut out long-term solutions entirely.

If we want to fund more renewables than we are now, then the place to cut back is the many fossil fuel projects that we're still investing in. Until we've done that, I think any positive effort deserves applause instead of complaints about focus.
The issue is these limits aren’t tied to inflation. 2k in 1920 was a significant chunk of change 2k in 2022 is close to the benefit being handed out.

As such simply raising the limit doesn’t solve the problem, indexing the original limit to inflation would.
Why not Gen III+, these are ready to go whereas most Gen IV reactors are still in the drawing board possibly early prototype phase.
Intel configured the chips such that they turbo boost so high that they overheat and downclock themselves to compensate.

Still "no" level of understanding? If there's something incorrect about my statements, feel free to correct me -- I do want to learn more, and I'm certainly no expert in CPUs. But it's just flat out rude (and against the contributor guidelines, I believe) to comment like this. Build other people up, don't tear them down.
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Yup exactly, that’s the whole thing. They want people who will devote their lives to meaningless tasks
The Sun doesn't shine for half of the day in most places on Earth. Or when there's clouds.
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> We’re facing a catastrophe. I and others have described elsewhere that the path we’re on is much, much worse than even the most dire of predictions the IPCC makes.

There are a lot of processes we don't fully understand so your claim is hard to substantiate. Also, if that was the case then a lot of people would probably just accept their fate.
How would you solve this without the government? I can't see why private companies would be incentivized to do this. And the reason this is dysfunctional is because the government doesn't go far enough in extending benefits. If there was more budget allocated to these benefits then we wouldn't have this problem.
Software to organize my billion photos into categories.
It certainly does necessitate the need. Apps and use cases keep advancing, which introduces more complexity, which requires faster CPUs, which requires better technology to fit that into the exit power budget. This is... why OEMs keep putting faster processors into new products.

Consumer battery technology isn't advancing at pace with increased compute.
Lot's of disabled people have medical bills in the 10s of thousands. If you have a cutoff below that amount, it makes it so that they can't afford to not be poor which is a shit deal for everyone.
"Choice" implies that abortion is some optional activity, directly supporting this red team narrative of convenience. Putting the focus on individual choice carries little weight with collectivists/conservatives, especially when there is an imagined second person involved. Meanwhile from someone in the position of needing a medically necessary or medically prudent abortion, the situation is anything but a choice.

The politickers have chosen the strongest statement to rally their own group around, but what it has actually done is create a potent straw man for opposition to rally around.
Here I was feeling bad that a feature I designed and released had some edge cases around a small browser feature I hadn't fully considered.

This article is truly inspiring - I guess shouldn't be so hard on myself if the very government that runs this country is constantly [m]ucking things up time after time. But hey, the people affected are only the poor and the disabled who make up the bottom rung of our society, so who cares right? If anything 33 years was a blazing fast turnaround time.
The sun is a great fusion reactor, it's just too bad the transmission lines go down for so many hours every day.
Using PG for years and this is the first time somebody made me aware of this, so thank you.
This headline, the article, and most of the comments here seem to be going out of their way to present this as a way bigger change than it is. As is clear even from the preview, this is a change to the curriculum of ONE CREATIVE WRITING where second-year students now won't be required to write sonnets as part of the curriculum for that ONE CLASS. It's not about courses where students learn about poetry forms, or all the classes in the department, or even about what the students learn in the overall curriculum. The full article makes it clear that first year students will still learn about and be required to write sonnets.

Even if you feel like Hacker News bandwidth is well spent on topics like creative writing curriculum design (and I clicked the link so I'm not saying it's not), I'd hope the specificity of that interest in the topic would yield a comment section with some thoughtful analysis from folks who read the link and spent some time thinking about the topic at hand.
You can't do that. It's important to redistribute inflation every year in the budget so that you explicitly "help" your target demography and newspapers can write about that. /cynical
Well, normally, but you can write it directly in the text format (.wat). It's doable.
> If we want to help people, I think the first step is to assign each person/family an advocate.

The first and last step is to just give them cash. Give everyone cash indiscriminately. If we want to help people.

To ensure the the wealth is not being transferred from poor to wealthy, you have marginal income/wealth or marginal sales tax rates.