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USB-C is perfectly fine, and I'm happy to switch, but let's not go overboard. Lightning is still arguably better than USB-C.

USB-C exists because Apple was in the process of creating Lightning. Also, in my experience, you seem to have the fragility point backward: the nub on lightning cables may break, but the port is fine, while the reverse is true for USB-C, where the fragile bit is in the port.
Excellent to hear how you are bringing back the native grasses and insects! In what part of the world are you?

Have you tried no-till agriculture? We're finding great satisfaction and success with it, and a lot of excellent information from Charles Dowding [1] — with lots of really detailed text and videos of how he manages his organic farm, showing those key details that are so often assumed or glossed over.

Of course mentioned in the article, the Xerces Society has many excellent resources to help the pollinators and other key insects [2] — good info for everyone.

Always good to see people having a clue about sustaining nature and doing something about it — so many are just oblivious and it will literally kill us all.

[1] https://charlesdowding.co.uk/

[2] https://xerces.org/
I don't think financial interdependence is exclusively what prevents conflict. Shared values and cultural exchanges develop when you spend more time interacting, and financial connections are one excuse to spend more time interacting.

I actually wish more nations provided for a youth international travel trip as part of a high school post grad type public benefit. I think it would do a lot for long term peace in the world. It would be better if money weren't the primary driver for so much.
> We have so many problems where physics is needed (energy production to start with, and then exploring biology)

How can physics help to explore biology? At a first half of 20th century biology experienced a flow of physicist converting to biology and that had led to a transformation of a biology into what it is now and to a bunch of breakthrough discoveries, most notably the double helix (Francis Crick was a physicist). But I wonder what breakthroughs might happen now if physicists tried to boost biology one more time.
> Quick refresher on productivity in economic terms: decreasing inputs = decreasing outputs UNLESS tech or technique improves.

Economists stopped repeating the ceteris paribus fallacy about half a century ago. At about the same time as systems modelling got mainstream.

I vote for retiring the no free lunch one next.
If power requirements as a function of acceleration/deceleration rate are above linear, it might be more economical to accelerate slowly, especially.

Also, the faster acceleration/deceleration might be less comfortable, destroy cargo, wear out the engine faster, etc.
That's too simple a view of economics. What we've suspected for a long time is true: that humans don't act like robots or heat engines all the time.
GTA physics for both driving and weapons are poor. GTA IV was much better. Not the GP but I would personally wish to see a sandbox game with real life vehicle physics, like in a racing sim. NFS is still arcade.
> You could also architect your business not to go down when an upstream vendor goes offline, but maybe I'm crazy.

This is what I'm wondering the most about honestly. With Azure DevOps we have slots, so if a deployment fails, there is no switch that happens and the current available online version stays online. Something about putting all your eggs in one basket, but if you're going to do it anyway, make sure you handle a pipeline failure cleanly. A failure to build should not take down production, ever.
so it's your fault.
I probably use math all the time. Even when writing the sentence before this, I was thinking in statistical terms. Your statement above makes a similar estimate for the upper bound for people who use math, itself a mathematical statement.

People who don't learn statistics, are doomed to think in terms of anecdotes, or to trust some authority. Math is necessary to do a proper independent evaluation about a lot of questions in our world, be they political, economical or scientific. In the office, you cannot double check the work of the "experts", making it very hard to lead effectively, handing them all the power. In elections, those who don't understand statistics and science (that require math) are vulnerable to charlatans and demagogues. Economically, not knowing math means you have trouble evaluating risks and expected benefits of investments and exposures.
Excellent explanation.
>you can't just pick up a device cable and power brick and expect them to work together

I never understood this sentiment. That would be even more true if USB-C wasn't the standard so I don't really understand the complaint. Obviously "same shape" isn't an indicator that it will "just work" for USB-C, so why would we expect that to be the case for anything else with modern complexity?

It would be nice if fits == works but that's just not a world we live in, USB-C or not.
There is a maximum to the renewal time that I don't remember right now, but i think you can't renew your domain for 60 years in one go.
Yes, but that's only helpful because it has a touch screen. I don't think detraching a screen from it's input devices would be a helpful feature. Touch makes that possible.
Having a job where I am required to innovate every day, almost by the job definition, is why I like being a software engineer.
Honest question: Did you feel this way when you were working on your PhD at CERN? Were you working toward solving everyday problems, or fundamental science problems? If the latter, what changed your views since then?

I hope I don't come off as confrontational, it is not the least my intention. It just sounds like you have seen both sides of this issue and maybe you have a deeper understanding you could share.
Wll, with CL, Gerbil and Racket I understand coming across road blockers (for me this means, missing libraries)

But for Clojure, this doesn't add up, Clojure is either hosted on the JVM or Javascript, how can you not find the library you need on one or the other ?
Equally important: "nine neurons". This is not a deep circuit.

When we say that a CPU is running at some frequency that's essentially the speed at which a signal propagates through all the gates of its slowest pipeline stage, and the individual gates have a transition frequency an order of magnitude higher.

So if a CPU is running at 4GHz, it completes a clock cycle in 0.25ns (250ps), but that means that individual transistors must have latencies <=0.025ns (25ps). If you built a tiny little 9-neuron single-layer network out of those transistors then the network's latency would be around the single-gate latency and it would appear to be 20x better than this photonic setup, and even if those 9 neurons were laid out sequentially it would outperform this photonic chip by 2x.

Now granted, that's comparing the performance of a mature IC process using equipment that cost billions of dollars to set up, to something that was built in a university lab on a substantially smaller budget, so direct performance comparisons aren't exactly fair in that sense. But it's also misleading to take a direct hardware implementation of an itty bitty neural network and handwave away the very real issues with scaling such an approach.
How can you know that someone hasn't transferred the bitcoin out of the wallet before they give it to you?
Right, I don't think it's special, other than perhaps as "this is the absolute minimum of chargers we'd ever want to put in a single place, and we're good with multiples of 4".
Well, that's obviously a bad idea since Tesla's fate is largely in the hands of one human.

That's an awfully low bus number to trust your treasury to.
I think this illustrates how hard it is to write SF plots involving 'mundane' interstellar travel (no warp drives or wormholes) that make approximate sense in terms of the laws of physics but which also reflect the enormous energy required and the sheer complexity of the task. Going to a different star is nothing like going to the moon but with a much larger Apollo. Simple plot devices (there's something in the way that we didn't detect before launch and didn't otherwise consider) really don't stand up very well.
How long was the time gap from quantum machanics work in the 1920s until serious practical applications for that work?
> So in the end we still have to have multiple chargers, but now we can roll the dice on which one works with or damages which device because they all use the same connector.

Doesn't really matter. Just charge with any charger that's USB-C compatible. If it breaks the machine just RMA it. It didn't adhere to the spec so file a complain to the EU commission in charge of these charging standards as well.

Wait what was the point again? Ohh E-Waste reduction.
The word was homogeneous, which means "of the same kind."
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Yeah, that's sort of my point. Blockchains make things more rigid when dealing with these types of cases. With a central authority, you can appeal to the humans that run it, you can take them to court if need be.
This is too myopic a view. Think about how far graphics have come on mobile devices let alone high end gaming machines in the past 5 years. This technology will eventually be accessible in the palm of your hand via a powerful enough device or the cloud. It's more a question of when than if.
A: "I want to buy a phone with USB-C charging."

B: "You should buy a phone with USB-C charging."

A: "But I don't want anyone else to be able to buy a phone that doesn't have USB-C charging."

B: "You should petition the government to make that illegal, I guess."
The moral lens people apply to deepfakes feels myopic to me. There are lots of tools that have been built that have arguably done more harm that no one talks about, like port scanning tools. Perhaps because the the negative consequences are so visually obvious and require few intuitive leaps.
outage caused by AAE-1 submarine cable cut in Egypt.. well.. let's see how long it takes

https://twitter.com/CloudflareRadar/status/15342010304303636...
I don't think it should be regulation as much as made illegal. I'd encourage all governments to put policy in place to outlaw exchanging crypto for fiat. Until that policy takes action, you can convert still trade in your crypto.
USB-C is infamous for being complex like that, but I think the charging part is basically fine? People talk about the Nintendo Switch often, but I have never heard any _other_ example of something where the charging didn't work, so I think maybe it's a rare exception.

(This is distinct from the "fast charging" mode(s?), which does seem to have compatibility problems. But in that case, the failure mode is that device charges slowly, which is probably not a big issue for the kind of small phones/gadgets that the EU regulation targets. The previous standard was micro-USB, which can't do fast-charging anyway.)
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It’s a frustrating spiral.

I build self-service, provide training, provide documentation, provide portal, provide permissions.

3am, and the overseas team are still pinging me asking me to restart their thing.
Everyone else should not have a choice to buy new equipment as cheap as they can do today, whenever they wish. That's simply not sustainable.
You could discount a lot of extra weight over time (physiological adaptation), especially as you're not carrying it in your arms or over your shoulders, but tripping up would suddenly become a lot more fatal. Everyone's reactions and instincts are tuned for 1g.
We just have example of another country shooting itself in the foot and attacking Ukraine despite a wealth of widely known arguments against doing this. Unfortunately logic and common sense sometimes take back sit in politics.
While unrealspeech voices sounded more human, I found the AWS voice is easier to understand.
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So it's like Open Dime but with printed bills instead of a USB stick?
I would also consider what's lined up in California. If at least one of you have an offer lined up at FAANG then go for it. Otherwise working remote in Germany is a better bet.
what about trying to see such advanced fields of studies as (extremely?) long-term investments (for the species?).

I'm sure that 20,000 years ago some crazy shaman was frowned upon for trying to "melt rocks and see what happened", or "ate some weird/unknown/sacred plants" or "what if I push this seed into this little corner of land and look after it (water, sun, defend if against herbivores)"? etc, etc, etc?
Janet starts incredibly quickly. Here was a microbenchmark someone produced comparing various Lisps[0].

[0] https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/issues/324#issuecomment-...
It's simply a random combination of any of the previous stuff. [...] Now I have a whole bunch of them and I cannot tell which can do what except very few long thick ones for my monitors.

Get a Thunderbolt 4 cable, they can carry Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, every USB protocol up to and including 4, DP alt-mode, and 100W power delivery. Moreover, most of them are clearly marked. The Apple cables are expensive, but some other good brands (like CalDigit) offer them at reasonable prices.

I just returned 3 USB-C hubs in a row, one almost fried my computer.

Most USB USB-C hubs (USB-C is only the connector) are terrible. Even many premium brands (like Satechi) often use cheap Chinese reference designs that will fry themselves pretty quickly, cause a lot of interference, and have all kinds of annoying limitations (mostly because they use 5 or 10 GBit/s USB 3 standards).

Since I have switched to quality Thunderbolt Docks, I haven't had any issues.
I think one of the lessons the EU has learnt from the last 10 years is you cannot rely on international trade. Trump and now Putin mean the EU needs domestic weapons, chips, energy and a few other things...
No, not outraged, just derisive. Change is indeed innate to the human experience and to the course of civilization, but the kind of bubble mentality you display with your comment is if anything especially brittle against practical realities. In a genuine catastrophic climate change context, do you really think your privileged urban lifestyle will be better suited for adaptation? Maybe, I can't be sure, but maybe circumstances cause you to rethink your current idea of change being beautiful.

That aside, it really is absurd to dismiss the needs and complaints of hundreds of millions of diverse vehicle-owning non-urban dwellers based on how smugly easy you think it was to not own a car in London of all places. There's nothing psychologically obtuse about pointing out the closed mindedness of your notion. Yet you speak of identification and its effects.
Well, if a spec has no validation procedure, compatibility enforcement or certification, what’s even the point? If the switch isn’t actually working as intended they shouldn’t be allowed to call it usb-c. There should be some minimum mandatory requirements. I haven’t studied these spec, but if there exists a min spec to qualify to call yourself USB and the switch case isn’t covered, OR, there’s no minimum spec, it IS the spec’s fault.
This analogy is so wildly off the mark I don't even know where to start.

The core of the issue here is not user data, but the ability to interoperate with the phone OS. It's absolutely possible to do that without exposing sensitive data, by providing APIs and adopting open standards (for payments, notifications, message extensions, maps, etc etc). Case in point, it would have been technically impossible for Tile, or anyone else, to create a product as good as AirTags. That was not a matter of product vision or creativity, only of who has actual access to the phone hardware.

A better analogy would be that Apple does not allow you to bring third-party furniture into the house. You must buy theirs. And then the same for food, and eventually clothing, and water, and electricity... one day you bring this really cool TV into the house, just released, guess what's their next product offering that will slot in seamlessly with your furniture?

(I use all things Apple, but this power is starting to get me concerned)
Except if you use Lightning. It just works.
That's true, but the other side of the coin is that richer/more developed countries take all the specialists and raw materials from poorer countries, set up low level factories for the remaining idiots, control the IP and sell them finished products.

Leaving them in a perpetual "developing" state, unless they smarten up, which is really hard without all the smart people that left, and even harder because the people in power are more than happy to keep things as they are because they get paid for it.
No; this is a fantastic question and why the notes consist of a multisig with a timelock. After the timelock expires only the user key on the note can retrieve the funds. So in the worst case scenario where we go away or refuse to validate notes day 1, you will be able to retrieve the funds after expiration (Jan 3 2029).
Also https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...
I'd agree that your argument at least has merit, and I'd point out your argument is counter to 'pastacacioepepe' glorification of democracy as the tool for settling these rights.

Of course down in the weeds is 'what are human rights' which is often settled by democratic process. It turns out to be a nasty problem determining who decides what human rights really are.
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The world has apparently gone full crazy, as we're now back to where we started, with the (rather big) difference that we've replaced sovereign-backed currencies with ... what exactly?
> The difficult thing about even very good prevention is that the absence of events is difficult to prove.

No, an inverse relation between propensity of dyads to go to war and their degree of trade integration wouldn't be hard to prove, if it were true.
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Germany used to have a semiconductor industry like Intermetall (acquired by micronas acquired by TDK). The problem is that IMHO German automotive industry is not willing to pay a cent more than necessary.

They do only care about short term profit. They triggered the chip crisis in Germany by stopping there orders and then restocking. I am not sure if any government can fix this.
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> but it's not the magnitude of savings they claim

I follow Cuban on Twitter and he retweets people constantly who are saving substantial amounts of money. In their own words the savings are huge. Are you claiming these people are lying or fake?
I didn't know about the Bottai reform. Apparently the fascists invented middle school, possibly independently. Who knew?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liceo_classico#The_Bottai_refo...

From what I gather, Finland and Sweden both track students into separate "academic" and "vocational" secondary schools.
I would rather have a shared and slightly less optimal cable, than a unique and "nicer" cable. USB-C is the perfect example, you can argue that lightning cable is actually nicer, but being able to charge all my different devices with a single cable is far nicer.

If every company thought like Tesla/Apple, we'd quickly go down a very untenable road.
Government has a right to regulate in order to deal with negative externalities and the negative externalities from Bitcoin and other crypto are extremely large. Most of crypto has been various type of financial schemes and regulators should ensure at a minimum that all investors in such schemes were properly accredited and impose regulation if the tokens were historically taking unaccredited investment.
The government also has the right to regulate polluters and even an outright ban is reasonable if they conclude that the environmental cost of proof of work vastly outweighs the very limited use cases and benefits that have been shown to date.
Finally, and I think the strongest argument is the government is allowed to regulate financial transactions. Bitcoin and other crypto intentionally circumvent this by removing the party conducting the financial transaction. Government could conclude this is unreasonable resulting in a ban or could create reporting requirements for any cryptocurrency transaction, subjecting one or both end users to requirements currently dealt with by banks. The idea that crypto-proponents seem to have is that removing the bank should remove all reporting requirements on transactions and I don’t see a reason for that to be true.
I think in aggregate there is a fairly reasonable case for a ban across multiple substantial issues.
And no, the government does not owe people for the price consequences of its regulatory policy. Investors in casinos are not made whole for changes in gambling laws.
Also in Michigan, and my perception is the same. I don't remember seeing them at all in my area (fairly rural exurbs) growing up. Camping in Ohio and seeing them is a vivid memory of my childhood. Now, as an adult in more or less the same area (though much closer to the city), I see them all the time in my yard.
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> Microsoft will partner with Qualcomm and have their own custom SoC like the M1

Microsoft partnered with Qualcomm 6 years ago and there have been a number of terrible systems released. You probably haven't heard of them because of how bad they are. If there's any progress for Windows+ARM, it's really from Qualcomm's exclusive agreement expiring. They're hyping the Nuvia team right now, but Qualcomm's track record is ridiculously bad, and there's a bit more work involved here than incanting "ARM".
Op of thread here: there seems to be a lot of back and forth on running Arm64 containers and executing Rosetta in them to run something x86 but as far as I can tell (correct me if I’m mistaken and I think I might be) that doesn’t really help because my production containers are x86 so I would need to compile my container for Arm64 then run Rosetta in which is a totally divergent image and kind of useless for running production images locally.
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Oh yeah I mixed them up. I still think `Mappable` is a much better name than `Functor`, and names matter. Especially for difficult to understand concepts. Functor isn't really even the right type of word. It should be Functable or something.

Monad should be `FlatMappable`. I found this great article where they use exactly these terms to explain it:

https://dev.to/joelnet/functional-javascript---functors-mona...

If people are using different terms to explain your confusing terminology then... maybe the confusing terminology is not very good.
It is more complicated, all 9 companies in India are subsidiary on Chinese companies. Same is true for lot of companies in Vietnam, Malaysia. This gives diversification in case of a regional epidemic or natural disaster, but how will they behave in case of a geo-political crisis.
I'm not a fan of anything crypto, but I have to give you credit on this: the visual design of the currency really is gorgeous.
I've heard the "TSMC self-destruct" story a lot, but I haven't found a source. All I can find are people repeating the claim. Is there a source anywhere?
So you hold the keys until they expire? What happens when your key expires if the user has added funds and does not re-key the note before that time?
Being overpaid and underqualified in a job you hate is an intensely sucky place to be in.
It's not just about vague morals.