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I think the LHC was the first collider that didn't create any practical application from its main working. There were still spin-offs, but for a few decades the main research topic of high-energy physics has been entirely theoretical.

Anyway, this is not a large problem. Theories taking decades to give you any practical result is perfectly fine. If all of science gave quick returns, it wouldn't need government spending. The problem is that we do not expect practical results on the future at all, and also do not expect the next large collider to bring anything different enough to change the physics into a new, unpredictable course.

Or, in other words, the next big collider (as we can plan now) is probably way too small to matter. It will also be the largest scientific project ever (space and fusion projects included), and larger than most infrastructure projects on the world. It is a pretty bad picture.
Except it denies me the right to purchase support services from the vendor of my choosing. It also denies me the ability to hire a contractor of my choosing to create a derivative of the product or even contribute changes to the product. It further denies me the ability to receive sponsorship from another individual to create a derivative work (This falls under commercializing, but the other two would not be me doing the commercializing).

These are all rights I have with Open Source software that is denied by your non-commercial license. Reading your blog post, you seem to not understand Open Source nor do you seem to understand the implications of your own license very well.
Did you start working since the Windows NT era? I'm curious.

IMHO, windows things aside, the NT kernel is an impressive feat of engineering and I'm surprised it's still going after so many years.
Sounds like the "System 1" portion of Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" from 2011.

"System 1" is fast, reflexive, automatic, emotional, unconscious and easy. It's based on shortcuts and stereotypes, often gets things wrong.

"System 2" is slow, deliberate, difficult, calculating, based on focused reasoning and cognition.

Since "System 2" requires so much effort, most people spend most of their waking lives in "System 1".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman
I think ID3v2 covered well its purpose. It allowed arbitrary meta-data (I think) and provided a standard for embedding even a thumbnail. I think I could have been adopted by formats other than MP3.
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After watching his wife getting dragged out of her car and beaten, raped, and finally killed? Absolutely. Cities died during the summer of love. It’s quite literally over.

EDIT: Loving how nobody on the left can remember the arson, riots, rapes, and murders for Floyd. Don’t worry, we can remind you every day.
Appreciate the feedback!

You could certainly go through a checklist/runbook that got attached to the incident. This is usually the setup most companies we speak with have. However, compliance, consistency, and speed on following that during a stressful incident tends to be quite poor. Tasks like creating Slack channels, Zoom bridge, I agree aren't difficult but not things expensive engineers should be focused on. We want them to focus on putting out the fire and not the admin.

A few things for example a simple doc won't be able to accomplish:

- automatically track incident metrics

- set recurring reminders to e.g. update the statuspage

- auto-archive channels after periods of inactivity

- create incident timeline without copy-pasting

- update Jira/Asana/Linear tickets with incident metadata and action items

- automatically invite responders to the incident channel

None of which are impossible to do manually, just a question of how much time you'd like peoples spending on it. If you have a few incidents a year I agree this is likely overkill.
Never got into Heroku. Didn't see that it was difficult to spin up a server and host services on it.

Today I'd look at Azure or AWS and probably put up an application server behind a CDN. For a low traffic application where I just don't want to think about keeping the server up and the high price per request is no issue (say subscribe/unsubscribe to a mailing list) I'd use AWS API Gateway.

I like Cloudflare's CDN and look forward to their offering getting stronger for interactive applications.
> Perhaps because the the negative consequences are so visually obvious and require few intuitive leaps.

Exactly this. At some point it's not feasible to calculate the impact of a technology's trickle down. Unless the impact is large enough.

I'm not surprised people have such a viscerally moral reaction to deepfakes.

> There are lots of tools that have been built that have arguably done more harm that no one talks about, like port scanning tools

I don't think this is a fair argument against current tools.

If we had some way of accurately measuring the secondary effects of port-scanners, should we start caring? Should we retroactively remove any tools that we later regret? (I don't have good answers to these either)
I’ve never thought about this, that’s interesting, would escaping or coercing params help with this?
> I'd argue that the majority of office settings don't have moments of slack, but rather moments of productivity.

Absolutely. The complete lack of slack in the modern office drives a lot of my stress. I am transmuting that into an long-term win, however: it is driving me to seek flexible working arrangements, working for myself, setting up passive income streams (however small they are) and generally working less. I refuse to give my best years of my life to my work, and will work 2x as hard (for myself, obviously) to partially decouple time from income.

> This same productivity can be achieved in wayy less time than the standard 40 hours/week.

The nebulousness with which productivity is defined based on the context suggests it is not nearly as objective as some would have you think.
Could someone here clarify exactly what the problem is? I don't know what Bottles is, or what it means to be "shipped in distribution repositories". What does it mean to be "unofficial"?
Immediately below the article title:

"Inbound container volumes to the US are reverting to pre-pandemic levels"

The direct answer to your question is, yes.
I wonder if that means current inflation rates are probably COVID-inflated and will drop precipitously?

in which case maybe the Fed shouldn't raise rates as aggressively?

Or maybe there's not enough to really infer anything from this?
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> At least the supermarkets are starting to leave some items empty instead of spreading things out. How many times over the past two years did I think I'd lost my mind when I couldn't find something routine... no, I wasn't overlooking things, the supermarket employees were just trying to make it look nicer. I guess even they started to feel like this was some sort of gaslighting. "Oh, no, we're not out of dried yeast... we don't sell dried yeast!"

It frustrates the shit out of me that grocery stores will move product to fill in empty space rather than make it obvious something is sold out, mainly because they don't move/remove price tags. As a result, items sit over the price tag for another product and it causes confusion.

Customers don't read the small print indicating what the price tag is for, just what the price says on it. So, for example, if they're out of the 50-count Advil bottles, they'll fill in the empty space with 200-count bottles that normally sit next to them. Except now, you have 200-count bottles sitting over the 50-count price tag, and customers will expect the 50-count price.
When you say "that's simply not true", what do you mean by "that"? You linked to a general article with several data points.

When I said "very little", I of course meant relatively speaking. In my experience in buying industrial equipment, very little of it is made in the U.S. aside from things that would be prohibitively expensive (like heavy equipment) or things simply assembled in the U.S.

And in hearing conversations internal to companies that do have manufacturing, the general sentiment has been "not only can we not afford to make this in the U.S., we simply can't make it".
This comment is nakedly just a slippery slope fallacy.
This article goes off the deep end a bit on a tangent about modifying documents to track their history. That play count field in the ID3 tag was a hack and almost nobody used it. The idea was to allow the metadata to be shared between different programs, but it immediately ran into a snag when you remembered that files can be copied and there was no mechanism to synchronize the updates across all copies of the file.

Automatically tagging files with information that might be personally identifiable (bought media from retailer X on date Y) is also the sort of thing that turns off users in a hurry. The possible benefits are far outweighed by the potential problems.
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The license forbids me to hire another vendor to service the product. That is the definition of vendor lock-in.
Sure, the "And finally, minding your own damned business" was probably aimed at the pro-HOA. Honestly, if there's a problem you can't work out with a neighbor, and you don't have a legal basis for demanding anything, then put up with it.

If the homeowner having rights is a problem, I suppose an HOA solves for that, otherwise I don't understand why the pro-HOA view need to be privileged at all.
Sincere question: is this 4-day work week mostly an inflation hedge?

Anticipating huge real CPI cost increases, weighed against net productivity of people working from home, is the bet that you can net the same amount of value and productivity from existing employees in a 20% shorter period, and compensate for inflation by giving them time "off" instead of spending cash on a raise?

Not cynical, just a very wise hedge. I will probably ask this on other 4-day threads, as it seems like a very economical way to retain staff at the same net productivity without paying out cost of living increases. If the economy ever finds a new equillibrium and your company is still profitable, it becomes a tempting private equity target, as they could buy it and simply remove the 4-day week compensation and reap easy growth benefits.
The length of the pandemic seems largely due to your definition of the pandemic. From a practical perspective, once people can vaccinate to prevent death AND get a cure, many people's definition of "pandemic" is that it is over.

I'm curious your thoughts on the intentional efforts are to crush demand, can you elaborate?
ok, but there are 10s of niche specific news sites in my specific case which you will be competing with and which make content and running ads their core business and they do nothing else full time and have been doing it for 10-20 years. so then as a manufacturer, you basically become your own content producer or news publisher?
Looks like the iPhone 16, released in 2024, will be the first one without any ports.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/trilemma.asp

So given the trilemma then, it sounds like Bitcoin maximalism means fixed exchange rates (since all countries use BTC), and free flow of capital (since that's the BTC ideal), which means no country can set independent monetary policy.

So you essentially have the Eurozone problems but across the entire world. Seems like many countries would try to avoid picking that side of the trilemma.
Author of EndBASIC here. Surprised to see this show up on the front page today. AMA!
But the private key is encrypted, and the decryption key is on the servers of the manufacturer.
I have evidence. “Moxie” is simply not a person I would trust, for various reasons.
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The cartels generally don't wanna destroy the factories. They wanna tax them.
What do you do for a service that demands uppercase letters, numerals, special characters, and no spaces?
Appreciate the kind words and agree on fit.

Happy to compare notes and stay in touch if you'd like to connect of course jj@rootly.com.
That book temporarily broke my brain. I had trouble turning off that mode of seeing. Possible that my undiagnosed-at-the-time ADHD was finding the shapes of people more interesting than what they were saying. 10/10 would recommend ;)
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Yes with equal dose before the third dose it's less effective, but why would one compare the two vaccines based on number of dosis to get effective?

Back when there were fewer variants, the Janssen vaccine only required 1 dose; was Janssen "better" than mRNA, and did "mRNA vaccines not work very well"?

Here in the Netherlands, once Omikron arrived, the Dutch CDC advised everyone to get a booster (third dose). Nobody here counts on Pfizer having enough protection with just 2 doses. Why would anyone then compare 2-dose Pfizer with 2-dose Sinovac?

What matters is the eventual efficacy after sufficient boosters. Besides, we already live in a "booster subscription" reality. Here in the Netherlands, the elderly are encouraged to get a booster every 3 or 4 months. In light of all this, I'd say it's very disingenuous to compare based on number of dosis instead of eventual efficacy.

And you say "even [after 3 doses] it's significantly worse than Pfizer". Where in table 2 do you see that?

Severe/fatal disease:

- Three-dose BNT162B2: 99.2 for 60-69 yr, 99.5 for 70-79 yr, 95.7 for >= 80 yr

- Three-dose Coronavac: 98.5 for 60-69 yr, 96.7 for 70-79 yr, 98.6 for >= 80 yr

Mortality:

- Three-dose BNT162B2: 98.9 for 60-69 yr, 96.0 for >= 80 yr

- Three-dose Coronavac: 98.7 for 60-69 yr, 99.2 for >= 80 yr

I'm sorry, these numbers look nearly identical to me? They're all >= 96% for the elderly.

I think you're looking at the "mild/moderate" section. Yes the numbers there are lower for Sinovac. But so what? Protection against severe/fatal disease and mortality is the most important. That it's less effective at mild/moderate disease prevention doesn't make "Chinese vaccine don't work very well".

Heck if we go back in time before there were so many variants, various studies showed Sinovac as having roughly 70% protection against mild/moderate COVID (depending on country; efficacy is context-dependent). That 70% was then branded by western media as "Chinese vaccines are junk, they don't work at all, because our mRNA vaccines provide 90%+ protection against mild disease". And now Pfizer has only 70% protection against mild omikron but it's still represented as "mRNA vaccines are much superior, the Chinese are fscked until they get their hands on mRNA". Yes, what's wrong with that narrative?

For some reason, outside of the context of comparisons with China, everybody agrees that Pfizer works kinda "meh" against omikron; it's merely "good enough to get the job done". But when comparing with China, all sorts of people are suddenly inclined to represent mRNA as the holy grail that can end the pandemic, which the Chinese unfortunately don't have.
Okay, I will admit I am only familiar with Sandstorm from that list :)
> unpaid third party volunteers

I struggle with this question as well but a small nit here is the folks at Fedora or Debian are not third party. They are a trusted source for me.

I don't know what would be a good solution. Being available on flathub is a good start but I'd argue it is not enough. I'm going to say the proper solution is the same that I advocate Google Play and Apple App Store to follow:

1. require developers to submit source code and machine readable build instructions

2. the store should build the application (fat binaries, differential small updates, whatever, the app store is in charge)

3. ...

4. Profit?
Is golden sun turn based strategy?
Sorry, I was abusing the terminology. When I mean "0.5 FTE", I don't mean (necessarily) that you'd be hiring someone to work part-time. What I am saying is that if you have an IT team, the time that should get dedicated to this particular service should be at most 20h/week.

Presumably, your IT team will have many other projects to work on, some of them will be on-call, some of them will be on vacation, etc, etc. But when allocating the resources, I'd guess that 20h/week is plenty to such a service, even for a corporation of thousands of people.

Does that help?
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Your concern is valid but misplaced, there is a reason that we have standards after all. The Library of Congress maintains file format evaluations for the purpose of preservation, and there is an (pretty favorable) entry for JPEG XL [1] as well. Not yet in public, but I'm also working on the very first reimplementation of JPEG XL from scratch and reporting any spec bugs from ISO/IEC 18181 (there are plenty!) and I expect there would be more implementations in the future.

[1] https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0005...
I think their parenthetical about a maquiladora on the border was the hedge on Mexico as zero supply chain risk.

There is increased cartel risk. I follow a former White House geopolitical analyst after I met him at a conference. Here's his latest talk on Mexico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yilSJg5CMd4
Everyone will gladly swallow the line that it's for their protection.

I miss the exciting & hopeful era of computing. Today, everyone is happy to go jump into cages. And thank the jailer for keeping them safe there. More open & interoperating magic needs to be visible, to make the open world more visible again. Because the open world, the world of general purpose computing, has many many growing forces against it.
I don't respect Cuban in a business context because he only wants credit for wins, not losses. But I also don't know what TDS is after a solid 60 seconds, so maybe I'm not one who should be commenting... but I'm going to write about him anyways.

"Grifter" is not how I'd describe Mark.

Grifter is a term I'd use more with someone like Trump, who doesn't seem to even attempt to make good decisions and lacks altruism.

For example, I sincerely enjoyed that Mark funded that stupid patents thing at the one place years ago, though I'm typing from memory and thus lack the abilty to give a specific citation.

I don't have a ton of capital, but I respect that not everything can come via public funds, and that it's good to give folks the option of donating to organizations they are fond of. (I like to half-jokingly call this "venture socialism" -- the joke being it's more about a smart person choosing to give, rather than the amount, but unfortunately that Signal, like many before it, has been detected and abused by bad actors.)

For example, I'm not a Buffy fan -- it was popular during the VCR era and when piracy was more difficult. So I made a purposeful choice to never enter the fandom and let folks enjoy the spaces for it, on and offline. (Well, that and one of my exes is a huge Buffy Fan, and I simply don't want to run into her without a heads up, and the easiest way to do that is avoid Buffy conventions or any adjacent crap at all costs.)

Along similar lines, even if he ends up being a texting buddy, I'm not gonna hit him up for super bowl tickets, because I don't think I'd enjoy it and there are limited slots for physical events.

Anyways TL;DR: he's not a grifter, just narcissistic and in possession of a bankroll and social network that allows him to make more errors than most folks while maintaining a large following.
Yeah a lot of the stuff on that list is definitely just things you can score at the vitamin store, tons unfamiliar to me there too
I'd say there was a firmware update of the USB-C chip somewhere early to fix bugs.
I've tried several through work, so far Dell has been the only ones that just worked with everything. Lenovo was fine for most things, HP didn't even work with the laptop it was designed for.

I think the biggest thing is how much power the dock provides and how much attached devices need.
At some point you will need a pack of fierce sysadmins, not the lone wolf, as dangerous he might be.
If you forget to scale your ops team, you gonna have problems.
Guess it's a strategy thing: do I want to rely on a third party or do I want to manage my own people and processes for this. In any case I habe to assess the risks and plan ahead.
This doesn't appear to add any features, but just revert ones that are being taken away by default in iOS 16.
Road to Eleusis is convincing. But it is about ergot rot on barley, not psilocybin mushrooms which grow naturally all over Europe.
Fortunately, Microsoft seems to be moving towards: Windows as "just another Linux distribution" with a backwards compatibility layer.

Previous Step: Linux compatibility layer on Windows. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

Current Step: Get DirectX to be first-class on Linux. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsof...

Next Steps: Get the Windows GUI + Win32 APIs + backwards compatibility layer to run on WSL2. Port the best parts of NT to the Linux kernel.

Final Step: Replace NT+WSL2, with the Linux kernel. Use the current devs/tests/etc working on NT for better ROI (from a business customer perspective the NT kernel is no longer a positive differentiation).
But where's the eval?
Unlike certain other languages (cough Java python), reading quoted s-exps has no side-effect.
People should stop leaving their home countries to slave away for the American tech monopolies. Stay where you are, and use your skills and know-how to better your own country where you are appreciated.
Good on you for this ambitious project. Wishing you success.
It's quite simple. The Portuguese should have more children. The way these demographic trends are discussed as inevitable or intractable is quite funny to me.

Sure, one couple can't do it alone. But a general cultural shift towards pro-natalism, with the support of generous government benefits for parents, just might do the trick.
> Furthermore it seems like anti-democratic behaviour is getting punished now, too, if you look over to Poland.

They're saying anti-democratic behavior is being punished, which implies that Poland is pro-democracy.
I don't think using frequentist methods makes anyone a eugenicist by transitivity, but I do think it's important to understand the motivations behind the development of notoriously confusing, misapplied methods.

If you consider the context, I think the author's position that the confusing aspects of it are very likely because of the desire to (falsely) profess that we have removed all aspects of judgemental decisions from a particular procedure which was driven by the desire to convince people that it wasn't their opinion, but fact, that they were genetically superior beings.
Since they've been using Lightning for about 10 years now, I'd say there's other things that are inhibiting their innovation. I suspect it has more to do with third-party accessory manufacturers. Unless you're suggesting that connector innovation requires at least a 10 year iteration cycle?
In general, I trust the folks running the distro more than the folks writing the software in the first place. If nothing else, they provide/enforce a second pair of eyes to sanity check things before they get shipped.
not sure what you referring to, but crime per capita (crimes per 100k) is very low, and cities with 1M+ or even 10M+ people are gonna have lot of crimes because there are lot of people, but chances of it happening it you are not much higher than living in a suburb somewhere in middle of nowhere.
When I took a college course to improve my art the most important part I took away it was learning to see.

A good session would leave me in wonder as I walked out of ro and could see all the light and shadows on everything. Things you never noticed before.
Nah it’s simple derangement. Anyway I’m glad we can dehumanize our political opponents freely. It took a lot of doing but the other side is no longer even people. We’re almost there.
The web woudl have been created without CERN. If you have to fund a $10B accelerator to make the web, your funding model is broken.