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> the M1 Ultra would surpass it by a wide margin

Well, in which tasks?

Comparing e.g. geekbench results for the M1 Ultra https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/14664498 and a decent 5950X (PBO) result https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/14665931 it looks like a lot of Apple's multicore score is attributable to AES (which uses special fixed-function HW). And with other tests, different CPUs win different benchmarks. 5950X notably wins in clang :)

> bring eGPU support to the M1 line

Probably not M1.

marcan tweeted recently that Apple's PCIe integration has been is broken in the same way as on Broadcom's RPi4 SoC — mapping PCIe BARs as normal memory (which allows unaligned access) doesn't work. I can't find the tweet (deleted??) but here's the RPi thread: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/iss... Basically there's no quick kernel level workaround for this, if you really want a GPU to work on such a broken platform you need to patch every single thing in userspace to avoid unaligned access.

We'll see soon if that's fixed in M2, but I suspect they don't care…
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Well that depends. The old Apple HDMI to USB C dongle doesn't do 4K 60Hz so if you buy used or the shop you're at has old stock...

The other adapters like the VGA one they make also don't support more than 60W PD passthrough and they don't really make this clear on the store page or packaging either.
We recently converted our house to 100% heat pumps. The models we have are efficient down to like 0F and continue to work down to -15F (lower than the record low here). So this tech is novel but already consumer available. We have Fujitsu Halcyon XLTH models and commercial units that are less common for residential.
>> Can that hunting rifle be an AR-15? No. Military assault rifles are not needed for hunting. You can use a bolt action rifle, or even a low powered semi-auto, .22.

I very much agree with with the paragraph before this one. However. This one is why many people just stop listening. The one's you are trying to persuade are gun owners, and this reads as though you did a quick google search for hunting guns and maybe shot a gun once at a range. (not saying thats how it is)

I'll try to unpack this. The statement is conflating looks, cartridge action/mechanism (bolt-action), semi-auto describes the bullet firing mechanism (the gun only fires one round per trigger pull - fully auto will continue to fire as long as the trigger is depressed), and caliber (.22) which is different from cartridge (ex .22LR)

Military assault rifles != AR-15 (I believe many people are confusing what a gun looks like and what it actually does)

> The U.S. Army defines assault rifles as "short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges." [1]

Bolt-action describes a large range of guns. To be honest, I have always wanted a military sniper rifle, just don't have a use for it, except to maybe look pretty on the wall and target practice. Something like [2]

The .22. I love this gun. It is one of the best guns to learn on. It was the gun I learn to load, shoot, dismantle and clean when I was 4 y/o. It's extremely user friendly. I really hope you don't think a .22 should be used for hunting anything other than rabbits or the like. Anyone that shoots a .22 knows it wont leave big holes, but that you can still kill larger things - if you want to be cruel. The .22 is notorious for bouncing and ricocheting, including off bone and tearing up and shattering the insides. .22s are also easier to fire than larger calibers with a heavier recoil that greatly diminishes accuracy. An untrained shooter with be able to handle a .22 far more accurately, with a greater rate of fire, than the types of "AR-15" guns you are thinking of.

People are scared of large bullet-holes and think AR-15s look like it will leave large holes, so let's ban them. I think many people that actually shoot guns would pick being shot with a gun that quickly blows a large hole through them and it ends there - than by a .22 that will most likely not exit. Instead, it will ricochet shattering bones with the shards ripping through other organs as they slowly, painfully bleed to death from the inside, leaving surgeons helpless to fix that many problems in time.

For completeness, by saying you are okay with a low powered semi-auto .22 (such as a .22 Long Rifle), that is approving of:

American-80 submachine gun [3]
Colt M4 .22LR [4]

There are many more AR-15 style gun in .22 caliber

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle#Definition

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_MSR

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-180

[4] https://waltherarmsusa.com/walther-colt-m4-ops-22lr-carbine-...
I don't know anyone who brags about using vim to check their email.
I'd really like that more information was provided in the article. What is he counting as a "fraudulent transaction"?

> If crypto truly solved all the problems (...) vendors would have already switched over.

Transaction fees are not solved yet.

UX is not solved yet.

Privacy is not solved yet. (Well, it is if you count Monero, but for commerce you need a stabletoken, and you can not easily build a stabletoken on Monero like you can do it in Ethereum. In Ethereum we can have the stabletokens and privacy solutions are being built)

On-ramping is getting solved: it's relatively easy to get fiat-to-crypto today, though I'd say that the current players charging 3% are already at the limit of how they can go, and it's still too high.

There are still plenty of challenges and things to work on to get crypto as a viable alternative for payment networks.

> the state of the overall crypto market

The troubles in the current market have little-to-no relation with the story about crypto for payments. If this crash is going to get us rid of the stupid fools gambling their money in "investment opportunities" and it wipes out the nefarious scumbags who were selling ridiculous promises, all the better.
A job today is no guarantee, implicit or explicit, of a job tomorrow. Terminating someone, even without cause, is not wronging them, it is merely a revocation of consent to continue the business relationship.

A job isn't some bank account into which you are depositing money each day for future withdrawal. The employee does not owe the employer, nor vice versa.

You work hard for the paycheck, and equity if any, not for having a job tomorrow. They are orthogonal.

It's a business relationship, not a personal one. They don't owe you a birthday call after you split up; the paycheck/equity is full compensation.
I'm very excited about this. Excellent news.
> His fax machine must have broke.

This is really getting old. Literally so. It's been over twenty years already. So my first response would be: perhaps get over it?

> I must have tossed it off quickly (at the time I was mainly focused on the Asian financial crisis!), then later conflated it in my memory with the NYT piece. Anyway, I was clearly trying to be provocative, and got it wrong, which happens to all of us sometimes.

* https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-krugman-internets-eff...

My second response would be that he's not as wrong as your probably think he is/was:

> So the first part of Krugman’s prediction was obviously, completely, unequivocally wrong. It turns out that people have a lot to say to each other. More than we ever thought. A total zero on that one. Points to the dunkers.

> The more interesting half of the quote though — and the one that the critics mostly remember — is the second part about the impact on the economy being no greater than the fax machine. This one is completely defensible.

> As Skanda Amarnath, head of research at Employ America, wrote to me, what people see as a major economic impact is really the social impact. From a true data impact, Krugman wasn’t wrong. “Productivity growth has been substantially weaker during the age of the internet,” Amarnath wrote. “The same deceleration is visible in terms of both nominal and real investment in software and even the broadest definition of hardware (information processing equipment). There has been some shifting and cannibalization of activity as a result of retail moving to e-commerce channels, and new media dominating advertising services at the expense of old media, but if we’re talking about macro impact beyond substitution, the burden of proof is with those eager to mock Krugman on this point.”

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-24/paul-krug...

* https://archive.ph/FD6GR
And then you get the HN post about you banning some rather well known tech figure because when your system created the issue in the first place.
Instead of shower? No, you can't find a pool that cold. But I do always recommend jumping in to a pool all at once rather than wading in slowly.
This frustrates me. How far are we from relativistic travel?
> Then test with Wine.

I tried doing that, and then found that my test suite passes on real Windows but fails on Wine, because it uses APIs which Wine doesn't implement correctly (or at all).
What do you think normally happens to the 1000w per square meter which the sun radiates?
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/182#issuecomm...
The paper you linked to is hardly proof that US insurance companies routinely pay hundreds of thousands for GBM treatment. It's a very narrowly focused description of what it cost Excellus BlueCross/BlueShield, the sponsors of the paper, to treat 88 patients insured by Excellus. They try to suggest that excluding data from "national datasets" improves the quality of the research.

> The patient cohort involved 88 patients with over 44,000 separate insurance claims. This dataset represented a happy medium that is large enough to provide a good estimate of overall patient costs, but small enough to individually verify each patient diagnosis and treatment rather than relying on administratively coded national datasets.

It's marketing disguised as scientific research that tries to justify the high cost of health care by claiming that those costs, and commercial insurance, are strongly correlated with higher survival rates.

> Healthcare payments for HGGs patients were substantial and such high healthcare expenditures were positively associated with patient survival and commercial insurance.

Translated: our costs are high, and so are our customer's premiums, but it's worth it because patients last a few extra months compared to the inferior Medicare options.

Private insurance companies don't just fight their customer's claims, they fund "research" that "proves" anything other than private health insurance is worse.

Then there's those 88 patients. With a median age of 59, and a median KPS score of 90, they're cherry picking patients who, would, statistically, survive the longest.
My assumption here is that your language has already got a dependency management system beyond git, because there's just SO much value in specifying and isolating dependencies and associated build tools, things git doesn't care about (off scope).

Just a few off the top of my head: identifying/resolving transitive dependencies and conflicts, separating development-only deps, optional dependencies for extra features, dependency ranges for pinning and exact locking, proxying/caching for offline-ish rebuild, auto-upgrades, license checking (GPL...), CVE flagging... All these are ~standardized per language.

If you've got (say) a Python script in git, and submodules seem like a good idea for specifying all your dependencies, instead of going towards a package manager, it feels to me like we're a long way away from sound, practical engineering.

For language agnostic, I'm sure the Nix/Guix folks can hook you up with a variant of this, even while using git (maybe even submodules!), but all the value I specified above is still there.

I guess I don't mind git, maybe even using submodules, but I hate the substitution of good package management hygiene over "just import the next folder down, which I submoduled now".
Right? We have Fujitsu units that maintain their COP down to 0F and still are 80% efficient below there down to like -15
My guess is that due to earthquakes and typhoons, there's a lot more pressure to keep building codes up-to-date with state of the art.

In North America so much of how we build is dictated by traditions.
Because abbreviations are nice when there's a shared context that is perpetually "in memory" - I don't have to think to know what LA stands for.
However, that is not the case when debugging. It is almost certainly the case for the person who wrote the code originally, but it is certainly not the case for the next person to come read it afterwards. IMO code is meant to be read, so I try to never use abbreviations (other than e.g. _i_ as a for loop index, which, given it's pervasive use, falls under the category of "shared context").
Is this not something simple foam insulation would fix?
Off the top of my head, Rust and OCaml do as well. Ive had to occasionally specify a type, but it works well in practice.
Perfect! I'll add not to teach recursion (or any hi lev math) before 14teen
Living in one that can revolt vs one that does not is a matter of kind not scale.

Kind, not scale!

Just hope you know. Just wish you can feel it.

USA or western democratic is not heaven on earth. No. But there are hell on earth. And there is some basic human rights one should respect.
What exactly are the challenges with producing lighter colored roofing?
I don't think that's what they sre saying, I think they sre saying it's stupid Microsoft requires hoops for such a basic feature, hence "Fix Windows" being option 1
Decentralized DDoS Testing System
There are a few million(?) businesses in the world. There are at least 8 billion people in the world. Your average individual isn't going to adopt a payment scheme that protects businesses at the expense of themselves.
Because we forget that we said it already
Permanent new starters get new MacBooks, contractors get the MacBooks returned by leavers. When the devices are 3+ years old they're used as spares. Beyond that they're either sold to staff, recycled or given to charity.
For me, there is some value in facing the cold water head-on in the morning ("Wow, this is going to be cold, but here goes!" Great way to start the day. I have to admit though, the cold water is not super cold here this time of year.
Stores can ban patrons that aren’t following specific rules :)
Suggested this to Greg a couple of months ago! We sometimes use Pernosco to record the Replay Chromium and Firefox. Would love to see how Undo does in comparison.

Likewise, if you're building more web apps, we'd love to hear how Replay.io works for you. We're on a shared journey to bring TTD to the world.
Cryptography, Crime, Terror, and Surveillance
So people with low social capital should do what, starve?
The Bizarre Case of Zstd's Slow Performance on Arch Linux
Perhaps my history is wrong but it seems like an unfortunate accident that some of these languages must have not had much printing press and typewriter use so they retained their cursive scripts a few decades longer than English and now they're being frozen in time because unicode can accommodate them while they're still popular. I guess the reason we don't care about cursive English unicode is because traditional printing couldn't do it so we've already adapted to separate characters while those Arabs and what-not must have still been writing mostly by hand. Does that sound likely?
New hHorizons will eventually overtake them because it had the goal of reaching Pluto in the lifetime of its investigators.
Often there is already a depression you can use as is. Or deepen, and use the excavation for a dike.

If not, maybe there is a box canyon you can close the end of with a dam.

In places, they have flattened a convex hilltop and used the material to make a dike.

Usually you don't need anywhere near as much storage volume as a typical hydroelectric dam reservoir holds.
Plurality-Driven Development
Have you explored any crypto payments for this purpose?
Why is that? Is Berlin more prone to credit card fraud than usual for Europe?
I think a lot of people think you have to use crazy key-combos in Emacs because it gets compared to Vim so often, but you can get by fine with the very basic combos, mouse use and the minibuffer!

I mostly just use M-x to run interactive commands, and then use the basic C-x chords to save files and whatnot. I make really heavy use of interactive commands though, I find it easier to type "describe-function" into the minibuffer than doing the key-combo for it, for example!

Using the GUI Emacs interface can also help a bit with non keyboard driven interaction I think, since it provides buttons you can click and a context menu when you right click that changes depending on the modes and other things.

Anyways, my main point is that Emacs does not require a heavy keyboard/key-combo use style, and that you can use the mouse and the minibuffer to do everything you could with keyboard stuff.
The only doubt I have about this is the amount of electricity this personal labor servant robot will cost. I can imagine that what you describe is a certainty for the rich, but I do wonder where the cut-off will be for the rest of society. I can imagine a reality where those who don’t have such robots, will want to work hard to get them, and a number of lower-cost, less energy intensive helper bots will cater to the needs of those of us who can’t afford the full standalone-Alfred model.

There will be a billionaire with a 100 of these to do random shit with.
Like switching from fossil fuels to green energy, we need to change the way we build things. Fossil fuels were the quick easy way to get energy, but at a climate and pollution cost that degrade life. Buildings that only last 20-50-100 years are cheaper but a constant drain and disruption. Until we learn to build things that last we'll be in a constant war with entropy, and we'll always be losing. It is like quickly written code; you assume someone else will come along later and improve it, but it ends up getting hacked for a decade, wasting time and lives. I'd suggest you can tell how advanced a civilization is by how long its structures (both civil and material) last.
Interesting. My PVs have made the house substantially cooler. There is an air gap between the panels and the roof itself - they effectively shade the roof.
The linux oomkiller also does what you are saying. If you are out of memory, it "randomly" picks a process to kill/eject.

People even use the same analogies. https://chase-seibert.github.io/blog/2009/04/23/the-case-of-...
except for that time there was a vulnerability in exactly the subsystem we're talking about.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2018-17456

rce via recursive submodule clone ftw
Parent pointed out that I misinterpreted an ambiguous phrase, that the “not as smart” people are those encouraging others to buy crypto.

Mea culpa, although if anything this is an even more extreme example of attribution error:

(paraphrasing) “I invest in crypto for grand and philosophical reasons, and would never dream of promoting it to others (except by regularly claiming that it will save our supposedly broken financial system). Others who promote cryptocurrencies are opportunists or fools.”

Far from increasing your credibility, having been involved in cryptocurrency development more likely than not has hopelessly biased you towards this kind of messianic “crypto will save us” thinking.
How are you defining "more fair"?

By having the larger transactions subsidize the smaller transactions, how is that "more fair"?
The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto Crashing – where we are and what’s ahead
Having been involved with fincrime teams at retail banks, I don’t think this can be said enough.

There are so, so many bad actors and it costs every payment platform so, so much more than I imagined before I saw it from the inside.

Someone commented disparagingly along th lines of f “try calling your bank after fraud and see if you get the money back”. My experience having been victim of financial crime 3 times is that the bank ate the cost every time. That’s part of the value proposition. Building a ledger is relatively easy- stopping people taking the piss is a nightmare.
Mostly because the author completely scammed the shit out of people by promising a ton of things to garner patreon support before open sourcing what was essentially a hobby project at the time. I haven't followed it very closely, but last I heard about it was not delivering on the "autofree" feature.

I dont really care about the language. I've tried it a couple times and it's nothing special (to me) so I moved on, but I definitely understand where the hate comes from. The author essentially lied for at least months about his project to get financial support.

Quick edit: to actually add to the discussion, I think the weirdest thing about V is the odd support it does get. Most projects, especially compilers, with as much controversy as V would never get any support. I'm very curious what its proponents are using it for and why they choose V over pretty much any other language.
That claim doesn't really add up. I have solar panels as well and yes - not only is their an air gap, but pretty obviously the rooms they're over are north facing (I'm in Australia) with north facing windows and obviously get hotter anyway due to that.
> Most exchanges don't make any money from trading itself

Can you give a reference that doesn't involve reading some exchange's financial statements? This was not my impression at all.
I couldn't find anything in there about spindump.