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> When the experimental parameters were tuned just right, the hot system’s particles almost immediately found their final configuration, cooling exponentially faster than the warm system

My daughter tried to replicate the effect in our home freezer for a science fair project. Apparently her experimental parameters were not tuned just right because she was not able to replicate the effect. The fair judges were very interested in her project, even though she wasn’t able to make it work.
That will I think have some impact. But I feel like even the current population can not be sustained. Let alone when undeveloped countries become developed and start consuming more.
Yeah exactly, with one I was really annoyed about that they kept saying they don't have to provide refunds for digital goods and I kept supplying Australian consumer law, it got to about 80 emails over 6 months trying to get a reply - then I hunted down people who work at Sony and started guessing their emails, regional ceos, cios, support managers - you name it! Eventually one of them replied an issued a refund. Obviously my time is worth more than the refund but it was just the principle of it that cheesed me enough to keep pushing.
You keep commenting one-line sentences without any argument supporting your sentence. You may even be right, but am I supposed to blindly trust you, a random commenter from the internet?
Waiting for attorneys general to put some pressure on Nintendo.
I run a fairly active forum for old Range Rovers (https://rangerovers.pub), but it just doesn't show up in Google. I don't consider this a problem, since user growth seems to just spread by word-of-mouth - when people get sick of dealing with Facebook pages they start coming to the Forum instead.

It runs on FlaskBB, which is a (reasonably) modern forum written using the Flask web framework.

You'd be amazed how many automated signups it attracts, for something that doesn't even show up on Google.
> Who is the decider?

Anyone capable of enforcing a decision.
...symbolic computation is a niche ...but Wolfram/Mathematics is also a very good general purpose language/tool.

It would be insane value for everyone if the symbolic niche could also be covered by a general purpose language...
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I live in one of the countries that have a local variant of this already (BankId in Norway). What it is used for here are services where either you are able to identify and authenticate yourself or if not, there is just now way they can be provided. These kind of services are things like banking, taxation, ownership transfers, health care, and similar.

I'm hard pressed to view allowing people access to these kind of services over the internet as something dystopian.
Shell basics: CD, ls, pushd, find
Process substitution is one of those tricks that I don't have to look up each time as I find that I'm always using it - but that probably says more about the number of times that I'm given randomly ordered files that I need to compare with diff to figure out what's actually changed.
Sympy is good as a scratchpad I think. For my case I needed minimal state space realisations of MIMO transfer matrices. In mathematica this is just two functions. Implementing this in Python could take months
Also, 28nm pays a huge price in mask complexity etc over 40/65nm. So its cost per area is much higher. This works out to a win if your area gets smaller... or a massive loss if it doesn't. And if you just draw the same features with a different process, guess what, your chip cost just doubled (or whatever it is, depending on the particular processes) on the "more cost effective" process.
e91 was a very nice car to drive the f36 is the first car that I modified because it didn't driver that well. changed the suspensions and now drivers in some ways nearly as good as the e91 and in other ways better
Navigate ASTs with x-path-like queries
Avoid a paywall only to be forced to complete a captcha in 4 (FOUR!) tries until successful.

Sigh..I hate the internet these days.
Don't really use a cheat sheet.
history and fzf is mostly what i use
Barely any updated Android app has 32 bit binaries. You can't even submit an app on the Play Store if there's no 64bit version since August 2019.
On reflection nothing as sophisticated or delicious as two of my favourites -- twatwaffle or cockwomble (only the former got a mention in TFA). Typically it'd be Jesus followed by one of the stronger profanities - especially that one that Americans seem to be surprisingly sensitive about, but which Australians will exuberantly drop on a whim.

To wit - while the f-word appears ~ 14 times in the article, the c-word is notably absent. (EDIT: actually it's there, once, in a PNG, which is why it didn't come up on page-search.)

Referring to TFA's matrix, it looks like only a handful of potentially comfortable combinations that could use this fictional character's name against the suffixes and prefixes they've identified -- but they would feel a bit contrived.
It's not a developers job to build infrastructure IMO, it's the city's job to build infrastructure and zone appropriately.
A slack crash would be the window going white and reloading.

I get them occasionally.

An electron crash would kill the window. I get these sometimes too when I try to run natively in wayland, which I’m aware is unsupported so I’m not blaming anyone for that.
What happens if I don't want to identify myself?

This is the proposed solution. The point is that the ID system only gives someone the information that they need. If you only want to prove something like "age > 18" then you can do that without giving up your name, address, ethnicity, etc. Every existing solution to that requires you have over more than a boolean answer that your age is above a minimum threshold.

This is effectively "attribute-based access control" (eg IAM) for the real world.
I remember when the latest DOOM title added a rootkit for anticheat. I had like 4-5h of playtime but still got a refund when I gave the reason "I didn't buy a rootkit". Not in Australia either.
Hot water has potentially a much larger surface, as the molecules all have the brownian energy to escape the fluid bonds and cool the remainder down doing so.

So given a big enough surface (turn it into a foam) should allow it to dissipate the heat much faster, then a liquid, were the energy first has to do a slightly chaotic thermodynamic walk to the surface (away from gravity), aggregate with other local energy spikes into one spike big enough to eject a molecule from the bonds and allow energy to escape.

Sending soundwaves through the liquid that intersect with each other creating cavitys, aka foam would also help.
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All kept in batch files in a directory with a meaningful name. When I need something what I do a ls <keyword> on the directory and can recon the command I need.
Agree, he's good to have as a bubble popper, and he is right a bout a few things, and some things he's just not well suited to talk on.... like most humans who are outside their expertise.

What got me is that he seems to genuinely care about helping people and if one listens to what he is actually saying he is describing the world as it is working right now and how to navigate that. Not how it ought to be working as so many others like to fixate on, which is good, but might not help some people navigate life right now.
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For anyone following along, that quote is from the first link.

The comparison and conversion can and will depend on many factors, the first and most likely is that the version of emacs he wrote didnt have standard lisp, not that elisp is much more standard.

When a non free ($395 in 1980 money) vs free (as in GNU/GPL) version of emacs, its not surprising that GNU emacs was the crowd favourite.

I'm not convinced that goslings move to an IDE as the gos emacs creator is a fair datapoint when comparing modern emacs though.
My guess is either they're awaiting certification or the drivers aren't finished yet.
> What happens when that belief has waned?

Hard to predict but usually (lost) belief transforms to feelings/actions like resistance. And probably on that point there will be also others who will do the same.
Well, unless you care about disaster recovery or availability.

For most business applications used by more than one user there are usually some expectations that data will be retained and the application will be available.
Slack crashes on my Ubuntu setup on the regular.

Grey screens. Unresponsive during video calls. Eats all of my memory at least once a day. The app is a mess.
I'm reminded of an old comment that expressed a similar sentiment: we've discovered over time that OS Kernels aren't the place for Grand Abstractions.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9807777
Make sure to create a cheatsheet for how to use your cheatsheet manager.
> some banks already make it hard to do it in person

It is called a good market that you avoid them.
I think some of the people here are paid by the CCP to try to spread propaganda? Maybe not GP but generally ... The 50 Cent Army
> In 20 years Matlab will be as legacy as Fortran is now

Not if MathWorks keep offering discounts to universities for putting MATLAB in the courses, gotta get those undergrads "hooked" early before graduating.
> Playing music from a Plex server is a major use case for me, and I have given up on Rhasspy because I couldn’t get all the pieces to work together (I have the mic array HAT and a Synology I can run recognition on). Do you have a write-up of your setup?

I have not yet managed / worked enough on it (the lack of HW making everything theoretical, which kills my motivation). The way I understand it, is that there’ll either be a casting server on the satelite, or a pulse audio/pipewire server reachable via network. But I have next to no experience with consumer linux, so the configuration of those parts is… hard.

But there are many tutorials for playing multi-room audio (with icecast or something), I just assumed it would be easier without multi-room as I don’t need it, but it turns out it’s not ;)
Adding tags to your things so you could find them again was the original intent for tagging.

I think the ancient pachyderm mail client could do stuff like this. Iirc google hd to license something from them way back…
Are you talking about this?

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/246070/federal-governm...

The Belgian government already has an implementation: https://www.csam.be/en/egov-profile.html

I don't use itsme, only CSAM, because itsme does not support Linux: I can't log in with Firefox or Chrome on Linux with my eID. But CSAM is not universally supported. Example of a site that does not support it: https://www.proximus.be/ - Major ISP in Belgium)
I have an idea for an OpenAI GPT3's integrated chat assistant. Would this product be a good fit to do it? I mean, hardware wise and then put custom software on top without too much tinkering?
And all of this is a false dilemma.

The SEC being in a position to use its own arbitrary discretion to gatekeep an investment’s existence and availability to retail investors is pure happenstance that only exists in a subset of ETFs due to the F part meaning Fund.

Otherwise the SEC specifically does not judge the merit of investments, it advocates for 100 pages of disclaimers and says “we did it guys! We protected investors!” For the issuer, most SEC compliance is simply posting a notice to the SEC, not asking them for permission.

It is an extremely broad interpretation of a multitude of investment acts that has the SEC looking deep into the spot markets of an entirely different asset class to make any arguments at all. And its also their choice to do that, its their choice to act out of character specifically for crypto (they stonewalled gold etfs for a long time too though).
I bought a game in 2020 on valves Steam that said it was macOS compatible. Did found out after starting it, that it required a dedicated GPU, which I didn't had. If I would have looked into the System Requirements I would have seen clearly that dedicated GPU was required.

They refunded my game after a short and polite message without any fuzz. I said thanks by buying a different game instead. Shame for the dev yes, but it was already an older one, that the developers moved on from years ago, so I didn't felt too bad about that.
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Not quite true, they changed it a few years ago so agencies had to stop scamming both tenants and landlords out of massive fees (often charging both for the same thing) every time the contracts were renewed.

That and the tenancy deposit scheme overall has made renting a lot less stressful than it was a decade or two ago.
Thanks, that's interesting but I'm not so anti-Chrome that I'm going to use a "custom modified Firefox runtime" just for PWAs. I don't even use the above trick these days; I've gone back to just using Slack.app.
Or Sage (sagemath.org)?
Recent versions of node have an ‘fa/promises’ module and event support top-level await natively. So you can just await fs.readFile where fs here is the promises version of the module.
> all this effort practically wasted

Wasted as in providing a continuously improved product to the thousands of paying customers that fund this effort?
Tangential, but KOTOR 2 does work for me on Linux as of a few months ago. If you're still in the mood for it, maybe try again?
I don't have 'proper' sources, this is just what it says on wikipedia. The article does motivate why they say Germanic losses were only minor though, for example by comparing relative prevalence of Germanic and Roman archeological remains on the site.
10 hours is too much time. Time is money, we deal with time sensitive business. If people are not able to process transactions how are their users able to do their daily activities. Money was definitely lost once the Finance team analyse the situation
> As they say, C was designed for the PDP-11 architecture

Not really though. A linear address space was not particularly specific to the PDP-11. The one point where C really was made to fit the PDP-11 was the addition of a byte datatype (aka char), but the PDP-11 wasn't unique in that regard either.
The automated url # fragments on highlights for this website is a cool but weird feature
True, but there is a double standard. The same rule that bans abortion pill sale, should ban gun sale. Feels a bit like "They may be real guns loaded with bullets, and used to murder a bunch of kids. Carry on."
Already started porting some of the services, but alot are tightly coupled with AWS services
No way, Simulink is way too popular for that
> mobile

In theory, you should be able to go on using a passport for your actual needs. In practice, it is to be seen whether this initiative will cause or not cases where "options" become "constraints".
Slack crashes (unresponsive white window -> hard reload) for me at least once a day on the latest MacOS and Intel MBP, and it seems a common occurrence for many of the coworkers I talk to.
Yes, and I dont (quite) buy that argument, but I understand where it comes from.

The problem starts when you, quite sensibly implement something like SHA256 in hardware. It is a perfect example of something hardware does better than software.

But Dennis, Ken and Brian didn't think about cryptographic hash-algorithms when they created UNIX, and because UNIX no longer have a recognized architectural authority, nobody provides a timely architecture for such new features, and instead we end up with all sorts of hackery, some in kernels, some in libraries and some in applications.

SHA256 should be a standard library API, and if the CPU has a HW implementation, the platforms library should spot that and use that, no need to get the kernel involved, it's just a fancy XOR on purely userland data.

But SHA256 being a good example does not mean that we should throw out the baby with the bath-water.

Things like file-systems are incredibly ill-suited for userland implementations.

What they dont say in the article is that they will need monolithic "libraries" for things like filesystems, and to implement things like locking, atomicity, these libraries will have to coordinate amongst the processes which use the filesystem, and must do so without the control and power available to the kernel.

There are ways to do that, see for instance MACH or the original MINIX. It transpires there are disadvantages.

And that's what I mean by "archtectural radicalism": Try to use the right tool for the job, and sometimes the kernel is the right tool (filesystems) and sometimes it is not (SHA256).
Simply put, the negativity comes from expectation. It's not from a lack of recognition of what amazing things humans have done, but from wanting and believing that we can do better. The same applies to complaining about one's country, oneself, etc.

Complaining is only really bad when it gives way to hopelessness and inaction. Sometimes it's more of a deterrent against complacency and can be seen as constructive.

I think it's important to strike a balance where you hold onto the positive and still hope to overcome the negative --to see problems, but as opportunities.
tldr <command>

is great. It's a cheatsheet for every command and one of the first things I advise newbies to install.
As others mention, the language itself isn't that important. Like so many other languages e.g. Python, it is basically a Lisp underneath a layer of infix syntax. Most of the work went into what in Python terms would be called the standard library, which includes a stupendous amount of scientific and mathematical code, a lot of which is not so easy to implement.
Let's make it a subscription(dollar a pill?) so it doesn't spit out the pill if it can't charge your card. Even better.
I don’t know your dad of course but that meta joke would have been right up my dad’s alley.
And delay the whole product launch until also the Bluetooth-stack has reached maturity?
Age verification already works with the current digital IDs and it's made in a way that doesn't leak your personal data. In general you get to see what personal data is being requested before you agree to transmit it. The IDs can also create pseudonyms, so different systems don't know that you are the same person.

I opted out of the digital functions of my ID, but I plan to have them activated, because it's better than video identification or uploading scans of my documents. That being said, I hope that only serious processes will adopt this.
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The digital wallet could be something like an Yubikey that holds the data and decryption software. The stipulation that it should be available to everyone is that it needs to be readable from a mobile phone (eg NFC). The phone would issue a request for access to some policy, and the device would read the data and issue a true/false response (or more if necessary.)

The wallet holder would have control over what their wallet gives the reader access to.

I imagine a mobile app would be cheaper and simpler though.
Is it so difficult to conceive that are people out there using phones that run something else instead of Android or iOS? Even linux.
> AFAIK, Clang also uses LLVM IR.

Clang doesn't use an IR for the frontend stuff; it emits AST straight to LLVM. It's built for speed and not very flexible. It can be difficult to see what some features like ObjC ARC are doing since there's no way to see an "intermediate" representation without debugging the compiler.
Has this effect been observed in other materials or liquids in there cooling?
Goodbye Profiling. Hello Privacy
Generally it’ll be used for monitoring uptime of another project. So even if that falls under “maintaining” it wouldn’t be for the project “in the repository”, unless you somehow combine upptime into the repo of the project you’re monitoring. But that could get very messy.
That's the perspective of a software developer. Neither Mathematica nor Matlab actually try to address this market. Both are languages for mathematicians, scientists and engineers and are still mostly unrivalled when it comes to domain knowledge.
Python has the domain knowledge in the datascience domain, Julia has pretty good domain knowledge in OR. No one really comes close to capturing the symbolic computation domain as Mathematica does.
no, temperature is simply average kinetic energy and is always defined, even for systems far from equilibrium
Two things happened simultaneously. The forum aficionados were 90s kids who entered middle age around 2010s and sort of weaned away from online engagement, and the new gen had other shiny venues to socialize to begin with. Further, the older folk when they came back for online engagement adopted the new venues. Not everything is cannibalization by evil big tech.
But a 100ml beaker would only require 10W
There's as many crypto coins as you want: eth, btc, etc.

The use of "energy" to make something has nothign to do with its value, right?

We can use many kWhs of power to boil a grape, but so what?

Value is in supply and demand. There is no demand for bitcoin as a coin; no one uses it. If anyone ever actually tried, the whole system would collapse.
There are so many potential explanations for that phenomenon:

- hot tap water has more mineral contents than cold water which helps form the initial ice crystals

- hot water in a container creates a convection effect on the air surrounding it, thus creating an influx of cold air around the container, helping cool more quickly

- hot water in a container melts the ice/snow under it (if the experiment is conducted outside), reducing the insulation with potential colder ground

- thermal motion of hotter H2O molecules may help create accidental collisions that trigger the formation of ice crystals
That is actually the R1000's raison d'etre:

Rational built a truly semantic IDE, and the result of that is that if you change a line of source-code somewhere in a huge complicated project, it will know precisely what the consequences of that change are.

Ultimately, this allows it often just recompile that single line.