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It's nothing new. There were numerous classifieds Shuttle missions 30+ years ago that are still classified. People have more or less figured out what these missions were, but they're still classified and and a lot of the details still aren't known.

Interesting anecdote from one of them (STS-27):

> The day after Atlantis landed, the 1988 Armenian earthquake killed tens of thousands in the Soviet Union. At an astronaut meeting Gibson said, "I know many of you may have been very curious about our classified payload. While I can't go into its design features, I can say Armenia was its first target!" As military astronauts laughed and civilians cringed, Gibson continued, "And we only had the weapon set on stun!"

(Turns out it was actually a synthetic aperture radar recon satellite, not an earthquake machine.)
an AI that could solve any solvable problem I wanted. seriously, it would be cool to have some kind of AI that generated a 3d world based on what you describe.
Just some credit where credit is due.

I measured the system malloc crushing all other mallocs on some workloads and they were the kind of workloads that some folks run every day.

I measured the system malloc crushing most other mallocs on memory efficiency on most workloads. System malloc is really good at reusing memory and has very mature decommit policies that easily rival what I came up with.

So there’s that.
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In my experience, scientists do not like anything that they perceive as "soft". I like to say that the hard sciences are actually the easy ones and the soft sciences are actually the hard ones. (As it turns out, Herbert Simon also said this.) The point is that when you discuss things like design, complexity, architecture, systems thinking, etc., I've found that this does not stick, so to speak. Scientists do not see beauty in form equaling function. In my experience, scientists like learning about things they consider science-y enough for their tastes.

This is all painting with broad strokes, but in my experience, the most interesting intellectual conversations I've had have been with people with the least amount of degrees. I always feel when I talk to someone with a Ph.D., they're afraid to let it be known someone might know more than them and if that happens, then it's suddenly something that's not important.

The book Disciplined Minds gets at this some. It's part institutionalization and other things. My gut feeling is that it's exacerbated by publish or perish culture and the push to always be right. So people that are brought up through that are intellectually risk averse.
>Cities are full of drug addicts, homeless people, and empty shops. And crime. I don’t even like going downtown for leisure.

Was it always like this or has this gotten worse because of the pandemic?
I work for a large, non-tech, Fortune 500 company in the Midwest. When I was interviewing here back in January/February of 2020, they insisted on making all tech workers work in-person out of the Chicago office and even paid me a relocation bonus to move back to Chicago. After having spent my entire career at various startups across the country, some of which were remote, it seemed a bit backwards and old fashioned to insist that everyone work in-person, but I rolled with it since I wanted to move back to Chicago anyways.

Ironically, my first day coincided with the March 2020 lockdowns, so I never ended up going into the office. Since then the company has hired engineers from across the country and contractors from around the world. Leadership has mentioned many times how nice it would be to have everyone back in the office, but it's simply too late at this point. We're too distributed to bring everyone back. I worked out of the office recently and I was literally the only one there.
Excessively concentrated wealth with investors who then ran out of legitimate products that could offer decent returns and forced them into riskier and "more complex" assets?

I don't know if this really works, but it does seem like overcapitalization is causing a lot of knock on effects in the economy. Housing prices being a prime example.
Imo because rarely is a commute to work perfectly ideal. Mine is risky on a bike, so if I were to bike around my neighborhood instead its a lot safer. Also, imo, walking around my mostly residential neighborhood with a warm mug of coffee is a lot less stressful than piling in a car and sitting on a congested freeway for 50 minutes.
Good write-up! I applaud your use of dictionary compression! We've done a lot of work to Zstd to make it a powerful tool that opens doors to new and better compression integrations.

One correction: the "dictionary" in Zstd is sort of a misnomer. It's (mostly[0]) not a data structure. It's simply a concatenation of substrings that occurred frequently in the samples provided to the trainer. When you compress with a dictionary, that content is used as a prefix against which matches can be made (as if you were doing streaming compression).

This is an important observation because it allows other patterns of dictionary compression. Zstd-trained dictionaries can be used with other LZ77 algorithms (like LZ4) and they will be useful there as well. Or, because dictionaries can be totally unstructured content, you can use one piece of content directly as a dictionary for another. This is useful for example for use cases like you mention, where you store multiple versions of a document. You can compress one version using another as a dictionary, which produces a compressed object which represents the delta.

One other note is that I know of at least one other database that uses dictionary-based Zstd to compress chunks: RocksDB[1].

[0] Zstd-produced dictionaries do actually have a structured header (described here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8878#section-5), but the bulk of the dictionary is unstructured.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/Dictionary-Compress...
Armchair astonomer here. If the bodies involved in the collision are already in stable orbits around earth, most of the debris from the collision will remain relatively true to its orbit prior to impact, though the force of the collision will spread the debris apart over time. Any orbits remotely close to earth will decay eventually, but that would depend on quite a few factors: it is possible small debris would remain orbiting for quite some time. The small stuff is what worries me the most - objects less than a square centimeter.

A head on collision would be incredibly violent and would disperse a large cloud of debris over a large area - some of that would fall back to earth quickly. This would be incredibly unlikely, given that most objects above Earth orbit in a relatively similar set of planes and inclinations. A more likely scenario would be two similarly inclined orbits overlapping, with the satellites or debris impacting shallowly and at relatively (to orbital velocities, that is) low energy. It wouldn't take much to shred apart much of the more delicate instrumentation orbiting above our heads, which would similarly endanger more sensitive equipment, and so on.
From its inception, PageRank performed well even on documents linked without PR in mind, so the latter seems unlikely.
> Especially if you have an Ivy League degree, come from an upper class household, and like to be surrounded by similar.

Right, so, entitled. Sorry if I don't cry over their entirely self-induced money troubles.

> SV isn't full of the same type of people that you'd find in software in BFE. It's a different class of people entirely. It's more similar to doctors, lawyers, and IBs.

And as arrogant as everyone outside of SV thinks they are, apparently.
Because Leibniz was German, and thus knowledge of the word's relevance to the topic might be useful in further reading?
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> You have no idea what could happen to you. This actual fact...

Sometimes beliefs are more important than facts though. People in general may not have the depth of understanding you do.
I was aware because I clicked plus[1] and pressed ctrl-v to put my firefox line in. And it broke because Chrome is "being helpful" by forcing structure in the UI, so it instantly turned into a lot of crossed out lines with yellow warning triangles, and there's there's no visible delete option, no context menu delete, it doesn't respond to the delete key, and Chrome's F12 is just so much more user-hostile than FireFox every time I touch it, like they're kinda forced to have one so people can develop websites I guess, but they'd intensely rather nobody had a good time because that's a potential loophole people could use to remove adverts.

Compare that to FireFox which just has a text box and you can type into it, or delete out of it.

[1] with that delightful UX where it's /invisible/ until you wave the magic cursor around in the right place.
Oh, nice! I didn't know about this. Thank you!
I have several times. Generally I can just say "you can write anything before the @ and it still comes to me" and people understand it though. It doesn't need to become a big discussion about how email works and they've probably forgotten by the end of the interaction.

Maybe once or twice I've given my address to a new friend as newfriend@domain.com and it's lead to at least a small discussion about it.
I use "contact@" for when somebody who isn't a friend wants my email address. I have a separate, private address for people who actually matter to me. Everything addressed to "contact@" immediately gets marked as read and saved to a separate folder so it doesn't clutter my inbox.
I don't think we are moving to a world where all companies are remote, or a world where all companies are non-remote. I think it will be bi-modal, where people choose which type of company they would like to work at.

I know people who strongly prefer being remote and those who strongly prefer working in the same space, and the world has room for both types of companies.
The entire cross-platform path is extremely rocky. Let me give you an example:

My home automation system runs as a .NET Framework WinForms app written in VB. I'm interested in moving it into two directions: I would rather run it as a service, and I would like to be able to run it on Linux. VB .NET works on .NET Core in Linux environments, without a UI framework like MAUI, this should be trivial to accomplish both... right? RIGHT?

Visual Studio happily provides a .NET Framework template for building a Windows Service (for C# or VB), which my app could work under pretty easily. Or there's a Worker Service template which is cross-platform .NET Core (for C# or F# only... for no technical reason whatsoever, Microsoft just didn't want to bother)

The Windows Service template provides basically the scaffolding entry points for every way you interact with a Windows Service, you can pretty much just paste the code in for what happens when the service starts and stops. This is straightforward and easy and you can tell was designed by the same sort of people who came up with the WinForms editor: It's simple, it's obvious, and anyone can do it. I wrote my first practical Windows service one day, and it was done that day.

There's instructions for turning a Worker Service into a Windows Service here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/wind... I think it's safe to say, this is not simple or straightforward in any way (especially since "Rewrite the entire worker class" is a step here...

And that gets you back to... a Windows-only service? What the actual heck?

So here's what I am mind-boggled hasn't happened here: Microsoft should have a cross-platform service template (in all supported languages, please and thank you), and it should give you entry points for starting and stopping the service and such which are all pretty much the same between operating systems, and then it should handle the scaffolding to translate it to the appropriate OS out of the box.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been on a call w/ a room full of people & a PolyCom system... and then the Zoom meeting is hosted on some asshole's laptop mic.

It's hard to do the right thing sometimes.
Don't get me wrong, I totally believe if you somehow get somebody from FB support to talk to you, that person would care about your issues, at least to a measure. What I am saying is that for FB as an organization it is a very low priority, so your chance to get to that person would be very low, and the investment made by the organization to make that easy and to empower that person to actually deliver the solution would be minimal. It just wouldn't scale otherwise, especially with the marginal value of each user being so low. If each user's marginal value is $1 per year (I have no idea what it is in fact, just as an example), it makes no sense for FB to spend more than $1 on all support efforts for that user (actually, much less since $1 should also cover everything else for it to be profitable). How much support time and care does $1 buy you?
Just wondering what specifically you do
I've been doing that for a very long time and never had such an interaction. Definitely not to the level of "It's been a decade of trouble and totally not worth it".
They don't require all employees to be superheroes. They've identified the key roles needing to go above and beyond and then focus on hiring high-quality employees. Superheroes not required. That's how you make it sustainable.
more than half of the folks who have offices in NYC that I spoke to - told me that they just feel uncomfortable travelling in the train after recent incidents.

This is in addition to other issues discussed, but atleast 2 people who were planning to go back now have indefinitely postponed plans.

It really is not that unsafe (sporadic incidents) but stacked along with other disadvantages, folks just dont want to go in.
"The truth is no one really sells your email – at least no legitimate companies. "

Of course, because legitimate companies used to sell your cookies, which basically are going the convey the same information about your profile.

Now in the cookieless era of CDP platforms and identity stitching, having different email addresses may be more useful.
Oh no sarcasm no, just that turing tarpits are about bare simplicity of form and function, so I'd see turing tarpit editors close to ed, and on the far side.

A heavy, pondering, editor I'd associate more with the rube-golberg type of esoteric language, where your first issue is actually achieving things at all, then finding out what you achieved (or did not).
The "benevolent" God flooded entire countries, sent some bad stuff to Egypt, and did many other "horrible" things to random groups of humans. But that's all part of his plan that we cannot comprehend. (Maybe they were not faithful enough, or not from the right chosen People?)

So I'm not sure this proves anything.
> The truth is no one really sells your email – at least no legitimate companies.

Yes, but legitimate companies leak data now and then. I get metric tons of spam to dropbox@, linkedin@, myspace@, moneybookers@, etc.
This is, btw, a great time to plug "bropages". Manpages give you in-depth documentation on what each option does, bropages the idea is to give you a synthesis of an actual task being done with those command options, then you can mix-n-match to fit your use-case (if necessary).

http://bropages.org/ffmpeg

The antidote to ffmpeg's arcane command-line has always been finding someone else who already did it and seeing what they did differently. There are, of course, many ways to skin the cat in ffmpeg, but you often just need to see some finished, working commands and start from there.

You could of course build that on a wiki somewhere, ffmpeg does have various examples in their docs, but bropages is a place to curate that sort of stuff.
I think one big problem with Rawls’s position is that it has no room for desert (as in, the idea that people can deserve their fates). His thought experiment wants me to consider the risk that I be born a very bad man. But why should I want to design my society for the benefit of the dishonest, the slothful, and the wicked?

I want a society designed for the benefit of the good, of the excellent, of the virtuous. We should of course have humanity and mercy for everyone.
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Only the greedy and stupid assume a 20% yield is risk free.
There is a particular problem in Los Gatos on summer weekends when everyone wants to escape the Bay Area and go to the beaches around Santa Cruz. Southbound Highway 17 comes to standstill due to idiot timid drivers who slow down going uphill and constantly brake around curves. Then the navigation apps route drivers onto residential streets to try and save a few minutes. It gets so bad that local residents are literally trapped and even emergency vehicles can't get through.

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I tried googling "black bar font" to find what the extension dev is using without downloading the extension, but gave up when I saw the Google results and realised how unlikely I am to find "font which doesn't need downloading and installing or hosting which renders normal characters as black bars".
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Those little interactions count as awkward? Jeez. Try having a weird last name and get back to me.
Same here - moving to more telework, but not "remote". Still expect people to show up in a common location for meetings and the like, but not 4-5 days a week.

I Work in MD/DC/VA area where traffic can be very bad so this can help younger co-workers with families who typically have to live further out. They did create a formal remote work process for those that want or need to come to the area. This includes new hires during the pandemic who may not need to relocate right away (or at all).
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Another big Thumbs Up for soma. I like DroneZone for entering the outer aura...
Judging by the "imaginary" characters, I believe this is the Socratic method.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
I also have an Eufy doorbell camera and am very happy with it. The image quality and people detection are great. The only quibble I have with it is that it won't use the original doorbell chime. It will only use the Eufy wireless chime even if wired to the original for power.
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Yeah: Microsoft Maps on PocketPC. Pffffft!
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The problems weren’t simplified. The problems were collected together into a single large platform.

However, as with most large platforms, they require ceremonies and priests (devops engineers). Someone has to make the offerings.

Much as people would like to believe, you don’t reduce complexity, you just shuffle it around and there’s an exchange rate. Even with solutions like Fly.io, you’re not getting rid of complexity in aggregate, you’re paying them to manage it (I.e. the exchange rate).
What about the fuel/transportation cost?