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Guessing it's about Unity.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/360748/how-do-i-move-the-tas...

"There is no way to move the 'task bar' to the bottom of the screen. You are out of luck."
> but that's it.

That’s a heck of a lot of APIs and daemons to shim. And then you’ve got to do all of that again if you want to run a newer version of iOS or Android.
The electricity from small modular reactors is far more expensive than that from large reactors - about twice as expensive by some estimates[1]. They also produce more waste per MWh generated.

The industry has been pushing in the opposite direction with larger reactors like the EPR[2] to reduce costs.

When measured by LCOE, a MWh from a new conventionally sized nuclear plant is 4 to 7 times as expensive as a MWh from solar PV, then SMR are simply out of the question from a cost point of view.

[1] https://publications.csiro.au/publications/publication/PIcsi...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)
This might be on purpose, especially if Mr. Rogan is pandering to the audience and Dr. Tyson is aware of his behavior.
Certainly there has to be some portion of the potential audience who would have become microtransaction purchasers who didn't because they were turned off by the long load times.
Are people using calendar apps that are slow? I can't remember speed ever being a problem on any of mine.
> How do you think companies were using X Windows?

By attaching thin clients to a server that was still under their own control, as opposed to making the whole company a serf to Microsoft.
>Yeah... I do exactly that fairly frequently (often enough it's a running gag in my family that if you want to call me - call my wife, since I won't have my phone.)

I am a big fan of leaving my phone in a different room if i am coding or in the car if i am building something. Problem is i run a business now and i have to be reachable, in case someone calls.

But i dont use any apps other than maps on my phone nowadays.

>If I want to dick around with tech - I'll use my desktop/laptop.

That is exactly what i do.
+1, plus I'll add that I think there's organizational factors too. Overall, organizations incentivize complexity, and I'd like to point out three ways in which they do:

- One is that new systems tend to be rewarded, because people and organizations tend to associate "new" with "better". Related, people and organizations tend to associate high complexity systems with "hard work", and the transactional view of work tends to err on the side of rewarding "hard work".

- Next is that complexity digs a moat of job security. I don't think this is a bad thing, job security is good. Again, unfortunately the transactional view of work can easily devolve into "we can pay someone less to do what you do" and building a complex system is a way to counter that.

- Lastly, a story. At some point I worked on a team that quadrupled in size to tackle huge project, only to then fall into a sort of "identity crisis" because the project was done and there wasn't enough meaningful work afterwards for everyone.

This insane growth, in my opinion, was also fueled by egos. The overarching team manager seemed pretty adamant in finding more people to hire, but I don't necessarily remember us feeling understaffed. They clearly expressed they wanted to use all the headcount the company had authorized, and the primary reason they always mentioned was that we'd "lose it if we didn't use it by the end of the year".

This led to an "induced demand"-like situation. By the end of it, we had a huge team, the bigger meta-project was done, and everyone needed to find the next thing to work on and build. I saw plenty of proposals for solutions looking for a problem, and worked on some myself too before leaving.
Sharing knowledge and understanding doesn't have to be an argument.
I've been using linux as my primary OS for over 20 years now. The rough edges are almost entirely gone and linux is absolutely a fantastic OS for everything but gaming, and even there it's getting better.

I'm building a gaming computer at the end of this year and I'm strongly considering just throwing linux on it instead of windows as well, because if protondb is to be believed most games run perfectly fine on linux these days.
But probably not a military one, the feds could just arrange for garnishment via banks. States would have to force customers to use different banks which don't do garnishment - and the feds would probably cut those banks off from the rest of the banking system.

Worst case scenario, I'd see some byzantine system of declarations required when doing something across state lines or people using "fed taxed" and "state taxed" financial institutions depending on their objectives. Given the current state of military affairs, a war over Rhode Island would be a complex endeavor - a war over Texas, California, or New York is a practical impossibility.
One thing that helped me is to start thinking in English. English is not my first language either. I noticed I dont have conversation fillers like "like" anymore for pauses.
I've been seeing huge price increases in pre-constructed buildings like sheds. They are being bought up everywhere and used as tiny homes on county land or mother in law homes. We're starting to see a lot of small tiny home communities pop up on the mostly empty lots in the middle of nowhere as well.
> L2 systems aren't on a blockchain at all

The leading L2s on Ethereum are rollups, which store all transactions on chain in compressed form.
> Browsers have always loaded a font from the system over a web font if it has a font of that name.

This isn't actually accurate. It's possible for a CSS author to write @font-face rules that behave in this way (by including local(...) sources ahead of remote-font URLs), but that's by no means universal practice.
Don't forget alt.chrome.the.moon and alt.sexy.french.captain.borg.borg.borg!
Best that I've found for Linux. For cutting it's really good but if you need advanced object tracking or special effects, keep searching.
It mentions the amino acid, proline, but doesn't seem to say what foods are high in it, no food mentions at all in my skim read.
Yes. The problem with nuclear is basically twofold:

first, the approval and regulatory process is deliberately cumbersome and in obvious need of reform. Treating every plant as a one-off design rather than standardizing has enormously inflated costs. And generally much higher scrutiny requirements for new designs have strangled the ability to roll out better/safer designs. It's very similar to what happens in the FAA with aircraft/engine designs, we can design much better engines/reactors than we could in 1960, but the new ones require an onerous approval process while the old ones got grandfathered approval. So we only build the old/worse ones!

If you don't want any more nuclear constructed, set policy to that effect, don't use the approval process to artificially inject costs to make it unfavorable. And the disposal situation just needs to happen, period. The waste has to go somewhere, we can't just have it sitting around forever. Even if we never ran another nuclear plant ever, the existing waste still has to go somewhere, and that process was dragged to a halt for political reasons too. The Yucca Mountain repository needs to be moved forward again.

Second, we need to stop letting coal externalize its costs. Tax carbon emissions heavily, require secure disposal of radioactive coal ash rather than letting it sit around in storage ponds that eventually spill and destroy miles and miles of land, etc.

Unfortunately, in both cases, the fossil fuel industry has its finger on the pulse of washington and isn't going to allow a trillion-dollar industry to be torn down without a massive fight. Existing stakeholders are just too entrenched for it to ever be successful and construction costs/disposal/externalities are just the place where that iceberg breaks the surface.

The "once you build the expertise, costs come down for the Nth plant" is also probably true, but there's also other things going on here with the process as a whole.
The statement is that he revealed the goat, in what world could that be interpreted as him revealing the prize?

"But he could have" but he didn't.

"But does he always" but he did.

What he always does or could do in an alternative scenario are irrelevant, you are given one scenario: He reveals the goat. Don't overthink it, it's not hard, switch and double your odds or stick with it and keep the 1/3rd chance.
The 911 overflow is an interesting bug. Kind of asks for a philosophy of, "Limit your build, but don't build in limits"

Once I was on a research ship, and the data acquisition system crashed on the 256th day of the year. Care to guess the issue? :)
Quantum computer succeeds where a classical algorithm fails
I strongly disagree. Normal users now do most of their computing on a web browser, making most Linux desktop issues less critical to adoption.

My personal experience in the last ~5 years or so is increasingly reduced friction in adopting a Linux desktop for non-technical users as companies go towards SaaS.

Firefox ends up being simply a differently shaped search bar.
Why can open source projects like the Linux Kernel function through remote work but the rest of us can't?
I think most comparisons between Linux distros comes down to defaults/the way it operates out of the box. Sure, both Ubuntu 22.04 and Fedora 36 use GNOME 42 (is that the version they're on nowaday?), but Ubuntu has a drastically different UX (dock on the side, panel-applets, accent color & custom theme, the list goes on) compared to Fedora. Additionally, as an NVIDIA user, I like how easy and simple it is to install the NVIDIA drivers while still maintaining secure boot (something Fedora has neglected / informed their users to 'just disable secure boot').
Update: I've noticed that a bunch of people have created posts, but no one has highlighted anything. Is the site hard to use / is it confusing how to create highlights?
On the instance. My understanding is that in this example, the instance itself is the key and is only stored in a dictionary owned by the related class. Maybe there are other or broader use cases, but for this particular case, storing dependents on the instance seems to (AFAICS) solve the problem without adding complexity.
In general this is a mistake of interviewer asking question they would not be able to answer themselves.

It is super easy to get this wrong. A problem seems much easier when you know the solution. Also, as interviewer you don't want to make mistake of comparing the candidate's knowledge to your experiences -- the candidate might be completely fine but just happened to have different experience from yours and did not meet the same problems as you.

I have a small set of problems which I honed over the years. Some of them are problems which I got when I applied, which makes it easier for me to understand how it is when you are on the other side. Every single problem I have solved in every way I can imagine so that when I interview the candidate I can focus on the other stuff that I care about. I have developed understanding of where the candidates get stuck and for what reasons and how to best provide hints so that I can keep the session productive. When the candidate is stuck for a long time I tend to view this as my failure (nothing is happening == I am not learning anything) unless the candidate is really bad.

What I am trying to say is that preparing good problems for coding interview is a hard task and badly prepared problems are probably why so many leetcode interviews are frustrating and inefficient.
Truthfully? Probably. Just about anything can run Doom. ;)
That type of cause and effect assumes time already exists. Outside of time, how do you have cause and effect? And time is part of our universe, not outside it. The whole argument is built on sand.
Wow, the police actually care about stuff like that over there? what a world.
There's nothing to defend. More ink has been spilled by some of the top experts in the field explaining that there is no use case for blockchain technology itself. It's old technology that has been around for a long time. There's nothing unique or special about it.

It's interesting what the pro-regulation crypto-currency shills are advocating for. In the US a couple of pro-crypto senators proposed a bill that would introduce regulation to cryptocurrencies under the CFTC. They avoid classifying these things as "securities" in order protect crypto from stronger regulation. Despite these "currencies" quacking and walking like securities.

This is more like a compromise made by a mob boss with corrupt government officials: we'll agree to your regulation as long as you agree to look the other way. In other words let's make it look legit and I'll keep scratching your back.

What the letters to congress hope to achieve is stronger regulation on what are effectively unregulated securities. If companies want to dabble in crypto-assets let them: they will have to publicly report their activities, disclose their financials, and face the same penalties as those who are caught breaking the rules.

I somehow doubt this is the outcome the crypto industry wants. A number of executives have been hauled to court over money laundering and fraud charges. I suspect a great deal more would follow suit were the government properly informed and willing to go after them.
> Does this technology make a good cost/benefit trade-off now, or not? Specifically, compared to the other options we actually have available to us now. That is the conversation I think we should be having.

Then why are you making so many arguments about how we must find ways to make it cheaper? That doesn't seem very committed to the idea of discussing the current cost benefit trade-off.
I would say none, having a dependence on a app to be "mentally" healthy is just code for addiction and dependence. Removing the addiction to phone usage, and the feedback of notifications is the better way.

This goes in with what I feel about those "headspace" and meditation apps, making "welness" a subscription as a service. Disgusting.
Or maybe Nakamoto was simply full of crap, like people talking up their cryptocurrency schemes tend to be?
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I found reading books, like novels, helps to build the necessary skills to chain complex ideas together in "real time".
Basically there is now a probability distribution for how frequently the JWST will be struck by meteorites. The most probable amount is once per five months. However it’s a distribution with pretty fat tails, almost equally likely is every four or six months, slightly less is every three or seven, etc.
(2019). Previously discussed at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25942632

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841059
I'm running an MSI laptop on Windows that bluescreens all the time for me. I finally figured out it was bugs in the USB-C/HDMI hotplugging drivers and I know how not to trigger it.

In contrast I haven't had an X-Windows crash in years and years. The closest thing I had was on a Dell XPS 13 and it wasn't a "crash" per se but the issue was very similar to the Windows issue I had with the MSI, the machine just totally locked up (ctrl-alt-backspace had no effect) when I plugged a USB-C to ethernet adapter into it. Unplug the adapter everything was fine.

On Windows I have to kill explorer.exe because the systray crashes at least once a week. (taskkill /f /im explorer.exe; start explorer.exe is always in my Powershell history.) And that's not the only example of more userspace instability, I could go on and on. There's instability I run into on Xfce but it's usually pretty isolated, this one component has a problem, it's not like Xfce is just randomly locking up all the time the way explorer.exe is.

For example I have this issue on Xfce with a logitech wireless keyboard which starts having input issues but unplugging the wireless dongle and plugging it back in fixes it. And that sort of thing happens with most peripherals on any platform.
I thought Matrix was more of an IRC replacement than a new Usenet. Mastadon always seemed to want to be Twitter.
Any way you look at it, Elon fucked up. He should have done due diligence up front.
Earthworm Jim approves.
Or use social recovery wallets. https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html
The whole problem with the whole argument is: It isn't a binary choice.
You don't have to account for the chance of him revealing the prize because he does not reveal the prize, he reveals the goat. So switch because it doubles your odds. Or don't, you're a free person. But it would be foolish.
Elon Musk reveals what Tesla’s Master Plan Part 3 is about
> it's not theoretical

Can you gave examples of PoW using energy that would be wasted otherwise and is not something like reactivation of shut down fossil fuel power plants?
I know this is supposed to be fun, but I’m also mixed on it as so much of my work is in private repositories. This means that these badges are like “privacy leaks” from my closed source work to my public GitHub profile. I suspect this is why this discussion is getting so negative as GitHub is not a social fun place for us anymore, it’s the place we work everyday with coworkers and managers. So in general please GitHub be less gamified and social as I don’t want to have to constantly monitor privacy settings (like at FB) and instead focus on what we all want: replacing Jira and streamlining containers / CI :)
Unless you mentioned Turkey, in which case your group would suddenly see massive cross-posting by Serdar Argic.
There are people who consider the touchbar to be critical to their workflow. These laptops are a cheap, easy option to support that while bringing those people to ARM (and also clearing out their stock of proprietary keyboard screens).

I suspect they’ll wind up introducing an external keyboard with the touchbar in the future.
Apple has added recently at least for the BTLE implementation an address randomization much like they did for wifi, details of which can be found here: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/bluetooth-security-...
Yeah. The thing is, though, "the enemy" is already inside. Every state -- even the bluest ones, have red populations. Every state -- even the reddest ones, have blue populations.

The state that tried to leave might find itself with a civil war as the two sides within it -- the majority of whom already believe that the other party represents the most mortal enemy imaginable -- duke it out for control.
2006?
I’m not sure if you’re joking or not. I tend to believe that simple designs improve security, so this sounds like the polar opposite.

But I guess I’m not the main target audience. Given the succees of Grammarly and other privacy invasive apps, people are happy to give away their data for convenience. The HN crowd might be a bit different however. Winning this crowd might or might not be an indication of success.
TBF Flamanville 3 was a shitshow from top to bottom, starting from anyone actually taking Areva's completely unrealistic timeframes seriously: the claim was something like 3 years for the build, EDF assumed production within 4.5 years.

For a novel build of a barely finished design.

4.5 years is probably the shortest time it took to build a CP (900MW) reactor at the height of France's reactor-building frenzy (St-Laurent-B-1 construction started in May 1976 and ended in January 1981, 4 years and 8 months).

The next generation (P4) I don't think any took less than 6 years to build, and the embattled N4 generation immediately preceding the EPR the first reactor (Chooz 1, of only 4) had a build time of 12 years (and 7 months), the last (and fastest), Civaux 2, being completed in a "mere" 8 ( and 8 months).

And the N4 had and still has significant teething issues: soon after they were put into production they suffered from leaks in cooling pipes leading to all 4 being stopped for 10 months, and at the 10 years revision in 2021 extensive stress corrosion cracking of the primary circuit was discovered, all the N4s have been stopped and the last news are they won't be restarted until 2023.
> We've got 25 million to build a bridge to a sports stadium

Sports stadiums are massive sources of revenue for cities.

> Think we could find $100 a week to pay someone to pick up trash for 4 hours.

It takes more than one person working four hours a week to collect garbage for an entire city.
There are other factors that affect your sleep; I watch very little TV and currently lay awake trying to get to sleep for a good while most nights.

The biggest factor in “getting to sleep easily”, in my experience, is “did you actually exert yourself today”. When I was taking pole dance classes it was super easy to get to sleep. Other things could and did make it harder but in the absence of anything unusual going on, sleep came very easily.
A metaverse client is the program you run on your machine to talk to a metaverse server. There are several clients for Second Life, a client for VRchat, a client for SineSpace, and so forth. There are web-based clients running in a web browser in WebAssembly, such as the one for Decentraland. All of these are 3D graphics programs.

They're halfway between MMO game clients and web browsers. They have to do most of the things a game client does, but they don't have built-in assets or game logic. Rather than a giant download at install (the biggest AAA titles have passed 100GB), all content is coming from the servers as needed, as with a web browser. The client's job is to present a good-looking 3D world while busily downloading content as the user moves round the world. Hopefully before the user gets close enough to see it in detail. So they have the performance problems of a 3D game with the content-handling problems of a web browser.

An existing open source metaverse client is Firestorm, a viewer for Second Life and Open Simulator.[1] Here's the source code.[2] It's mostly single-thread and OpenGL based. I've made some small contributions to that.

I am working on a replacement, in Rust, with more concurrency. About 20-30 threads, not thousands.
Thread priority matters. Top priority is refresh, keeping the frame rate up. Next is servicing the network and user inputs. Then comes content decompression and preprocessing for adding to the scene. Much of this is compute-bound. Rust is a huge help in keeping the concurrency straight. This would be a much harder job in C++.

As the metaverse moves from hype to implementation, this will be a bigger area of activity. Right now, it's a niche.

[1] https://www.firestormviewer.org/

[2] https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/phoenix-firestorm
My favorite Monty Hall explanation:

"I have randomly picked a number between 0 and 1 million, and I want you to guess my choice."

"Lets go with 408,235."

"I will narrow it down for you. Lets eliminate 999,998 incorrect guesses, leaving either 174,999 or your guess of 408,235. Would you like to change your guess?"
IRC is a long way down from its peak both in share of attention and relevance, but yes, probably still more alive than Usenet, although that still also has many pockets of activity.
I used it for awhile, but there are a lot of short comings. It's very unintuitive and I would often spend more time trying to figure out how to do a thing than doing a thing. I switched to DaVinci Resolve (also free), and never looked back. I eventually spent the one time payment of around $300 for access to GPU accelerated encoding and a few additional filters and stuff.