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Typical issues:

* winit - window.with_maximized ineffective on X11 platform

* rend3 - Minimize window causes unwrap panic on Windows / Wine. OK on Linux

Cross platform full screen is hard. Winit, WGPU, Rend3, and egui are all involved. Some things work on some platforms but not others. Order of operations matters where it shouldn't. (Must be visible before maximized on some platforms, but not all.) Right now I have enough workarounds to continue working. This area is brittle and easy to break. You need direct access to every supported platform (which, for winit, is Linux/X11, Linux/Wayland, MacOS on both x86 and ARM, Android, and WebAssembly) to work on this, and I don't have a full set of target machines. That comes up a lot with the libraries that handle cross-platform issues and present a portable API to the caller. Rust is good about cross-platform portability. It's impressive how well it works. But problems remain.)

* egui - Strange scrolling behavior - jitter up and down

Egui (a menu/widget overlay system) is under "heavy development".
This problem is in the mechanism for scrolling text windows efficiently when most of the text is offscreen, a common choke point in GUI libraries. Need to chase this down. I built a standalone program to demo this, but haven't tried to fix it. This I probably do need to address myself.

* sys-locale - Returns "en_US" on Linux. Should return "en-US".

One of those little things that breaks other things. RFC 5646 says use "-", and the parser for locales assumes that. Easier to work around than fix, although I reported it. A fix will probably break something that's depending on the current wrong behavior. I don't know enough about the internationalization ecosystem to be confident changing this.
Europe disarmed massively after WW2, understandable if you look at scale of the damage that was done. That left the US as the bouncer (street name: NATO) for the West, an arrangement that's probably by and large worked, some questionable misadventures on foreign shores notwithstanding. WW2 is no longer relevant and Europe should rearm and share the defense burden, even Germany. Ideally there'd be no defense burden at all, and a defense budget of $0, but if you neglect it then, even in enlightened 2022, you get raped and pillaged c.f. Ukraine.
Fine. Can we talk about what the ideal situation and transition process might be instead of pointing fingers at things like this?

Nuclear included.
You picked a tiny subsection of the western US to be representative of it.

See if your comparisons make any sense looking around Fresno and Bakersfield (which is still generous). Then do the area around Elko Nevada.
Why does it need to break even? Basically no other public service is expected to be cost-neutral.

I do think it's worth putting _a_ price on it, since that money can go directly into funding more lines and the like. And hey, popular lines could totally be made profitable. But "it needs to be profitable/break-even" is what leads to public transportation removing unprofitable lines.

And then after you do that a lot, turns out you have terrible coverage and your whole system becomes way less useful!
You can't just 'waive' criminal responsebility - if I have a dangerous dog or industrial machinery that chops off hands, it doesn't matter what piece of paper the kid or the legal guardians sign, If I purposefully let kids play with them, I have put kdis in harms way.
Which leads to the next question: WHY is such a dangerous robot being used to play chess against people?
If you need 2 hrs to clean up disk space to checkout a repo, maybe how you organize code is the problem.
This analysis excludes geothermal and nuclear, which have massive energy potential. Yet even limited as it is, based on its assumptions, we could grow at these rates for centuries, at least, before having to worry about physical limits even within the solar system, so why fret about it now.

Focusing on realizing that growth now would save monumental amounts of energy from being wasted, as the sun radiates it into space, and allow trillions to live who otherwise wouldn't have.
The thing that worries me about COVID-19 is the accumulative effect, too. It's a highly-contagious diseases, i.e. without measures you're gonna have it repeatedly, i.e. several times per year, it spreads so fast, it mutates so fast, and each time you go thru it results into a lasting damage, which over several infections, could turn debilitating or fatal. I puzzle how much people misunderstand it and still compare it to the flu!

The same could be with monkeypox, which I think would scare people more due to the possible scarring - people only care about things they can see! They can't see the brain/kidney/heart damage, so, they totally ignore it! But, man, these boils are terrifying and the scars would be terrifying, too, so, I expect people to take it way more seriously than COVID-9!
I feel like the primary reason it's not cool these days is because significant new developments are rare because it's pretty-much been figured out and it basically just works with minimal downsides, and folks think that light water reactors are all the same
>people sign a disclaimer about the risks, they can not be held responsible.

This isn’t adequate in civilized countries. You can’t run an amusement park that severs the limbs of 1% of the participants under the protection of a disclaimer.
You can, but it's loud, freezes boot for 30s or until you hit the key combo, and if you hit the wrong key it wipes your device. Developer mode is a decent escape hatch but I wouldn't want to use it in "normal" use.
Gotcha. I also share the same sentiment but my sentiment is even darker. I think most products dont need to exist - not just Google or BigTech. The same applies to project mgt tools, that new fintech product, or that new SaaS tool. Almost everything has been done. Given that i cant go back to school to learn to do genomics or rocket engineering, im just gonna resign myself to go thru the motions and get a paycheck, and thats it.
Discovering Diseases by Tear Analysis
That's pretty clever

Thanks, I'll remember to use that in my future shaders
There's a decent alternative which is car rentals. Having decent car rental services (and, honestly, pairing that with making car ownership expensive as hell) can resolve a lot of these kinds of issues.

Yeah it's annoying, but it's private transportation! A massive luxury if you think about it long enough. And it means that most houses don't need parking lots.
> For example, there are leaks of tiny amounts of tritium at some fission plants and people lose their minds.

If a fusion reactor loses power, fusion ceases. The reactor shuts down.

If a fission reactor loses power, fission continues. A reactor that cannot be cooled melts down.

I don't think people will be as wary when fail safe reactor designs come off the drawing board and are in use long enough to have their own track record.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/08/02/158134/fail-safe...
Any other careers that require you to do "exercises" and "live exercises" ?

Acting.

Fwiw, I also despise “take home” assignments and most (but not all) forms of ‘technical assessments’ but since you asked…
Flattery until you get past the BS peddler managers. Once you’re in cahoots with the senior leadership you’re good. Honestly low and mid level managers are the worst, most of them suck at programming even if they won’t admit it, and their only strength is saying a bunch of words most of which are bullshit. They are there to be scapegoats, and you can safely ignore them.

Once you’re among the senior leadership flattery won’t work and honestly they’ll see right through it. If you play your cards right you’re free to prove your technical prowess and get placed into top performing teams with the best managers. As long as the senior leadership knows your name, and you don’t overextend like a noob, you’ll get what you want pretty quick.

Or you can quit in two years and get another job.
Thanks for raising the question.

The code should probably be using the effective and not the real ID.

We are not answering the question "is this path safe for the user who started this process", because that is not relevant. We need to know "is this path safe relative to the privilege and scope of the identity we are actually wielding to access the system".

The access function in POSIX uses the real ID; but that is because its purpose is to determine, in a setuid program, what the original user can/cannot access. (In situations when it would be cumbersome to temporarily change the effective ID to the real one to try the actual access.)

The real ID should not be used for checks which are not access checks, but rather "how can the environment harm me". The effective user does not trust the real user. Concretely, a setuid root binary run by user "bob" doesn't want to trust a symlink or directory that is modifiable by "bob". (If it wants to do such a trust check on behalf of "bob", it can call seteuid(getuid()) to become "bob" first).
Ok but also after reading about the reproducibility crisis in the sciences I am skeptical about all studies of this type
Most likely because they got it for cheap/free and someone had some fun programming it without ever thinking about the dangers - presumably they never actually observed just how much force this thing could produce.
Go back to the start of this thread so that you can verify that you replied to "
> The catch is that power-to-gas tech described in the article". e-gas is synthetic methane, this plant went online in 2013. The plant exists and it produces e-gas. Which was what was asked for, this settles the discussion.

Additionally I would like to point out that the Dresden plant started in 2014 (not 2013) and it produces e-diesel, this is not e-gas.
“I LIKE QUIET PROTOPLASM,” THE THING SAID AS ITS GIGANTIC MOUTH CONVERGED ON PARKE.

“BUT I ALSO LIKE LIVELY PROTOPLASM.”
University of Southern California ranks high (top 10 or 15) in both.
and more or less a direct offshoot of the major nuclear powers (USA and Russia) jockeying for control via proxies of the regions with the largest purest resources to feed into the Cold War nuclear demand.

A great deal of off the book destabilisation took place throughout central Africa to suppress strong independant government and knock down successive puppet governments.
The committee should have standardized on defining NULL as (void*)0 which would have allowed _Generic to catch NULL with a void* type. This seems better than adding a whole new nullptr concept just for this one off "problem".
That's not how health and safety works, you can't just leave children near lethal machinery like chainsaws and molten metal spewing form an arc furnace after 'briefing' them.
I have a robot arm (Dobot MG400), it has a has a force sensitivity setting (5 levels) that stops when a collision happens. There's also an e-stop that you can hit that will stop the robot.
I have no idea what they mean, but invasibillity has a specific definition, generally not applied to genetics or genomics. While there is a way I could see this term being used in genetics, the way they've used it, the clearly don't understand.

Invasibillity is the tendency for an organism to expand into an environment and out-compete its native flora/fauna. I've got enough training in biology to understand that there are some cases where individual genes, sets of genes, chromosomes, plastids, viroids, etc.. could be considered invasive? Genes move, so it could be framed that way, but its also clearly not what the author means.
Honestly, I think it is more on the climate
scientists at this point to be vocal about it.

I think you hit the nail on the head here.

It's understandable that science-illiterate, climate change-denier types fear fission. The fossil fuel industry has done an excellent job percolating their pro fossil-fuel agenda and fomenting fear of the unknown. This is the unavoidable enemy.

The only way to counter this would be for green types (Greenpeace, etc, as you say) and climate scientists to unite and promote fission. I do not think this is remotely likely, but it is the only thing that would remotely stand a chance of countering the fossil fuel industry in the battle for public mindset and votes. I would be absolutely stunned if this happened before billions are displaced due to fossil fuel-caused climate change, and I actually don't think it will happen even then. The status quo will continue as long as the fossil fuel companies remain rich... so, basically until civilizational collapse.

Simply put, fission got an extremely raw deal. It was stabbed in the back and buried by the people who should have supported it, based on their stated goals and beliefs.

Nothing can survive that.
Figma is getting too slow. Open browser tab, get a cup of coffee slow. Love what they did for the space and solutions they unseated, but they are mildly losing their edge.
I have to wonder if the people who designed CarPlay actually drive cars, or if they're all bicycle-riding San Franciscans blissfully ignorant of the human factors considerations and numerous bugs that plague CarPlay, only to never be fixed until the next major version, when the UI predictably, yet inexplicably, changes.

Imagine if the buttons in your '04 Accord rearranged themselves every year. Think about that for a minute.

I've ranted about CarPlay too many times for it to make any difference, but suffice it to say Apple just creates an API then tosses it over to the OEMs to implement and does not do enough product testing because every implementation of CarPlay I've used has bugs in it - and the bugs are different depending on what model car you're driving.
> Tape bandwidth has almost always been slow compared to source data devices

This is not the case.
It's all part of the strategy, shake up future human opponents a bit
and let's see the hands of those who want one in their back yard. 'Whoops'

Me. Actually I've already lived in the back yard of one. Extremely populous suburb of a major American city.

Apparently lots of people don't mind having one in their back yard.
that's not how the law works, if you are controlling a car and hydroplane into a child, you are going to prison.
Ironically, if this industrial robot were used in actual industry, it would have barriers in place to keep people out of this dangerous zone. Even there were adults are trained to work with it, we require safety rather and don’t blame the victim.
Certainly not the owners of the steam powered factory looms - those workers were told those belts could rip an arm off.

In all seriousness, machines that can break childrens hands should not be operating without effective safeguards near children. Full stop.
You're right in the short term. But if people don't leave, at some point, a critical mass of people will emerge that will be able to change society.
Ah yes, the Skynet Defense
I agree. When Alex Jones looks me in the eye and tells me the military is putting chemicals in the water to turn the frogs gay, I know he's telling me the truth.
> I always found it odd that the rhetoric around transportation was that it should make money. We don't expect other parts of the government to turn a profit. Why transportation?

Because it’s competing with private industry. It should be revenue neutral at least if you don’t just want to use tax money to destroy public businesses and operate something economically inefficient.

Why not have the government make an electric car that is free? Why not a government airline that offers free flights?
It's sugar that should be banned, or at least restricted content in food by the law.
Can you use docker or vms on one of these arm macs yet?
In EU all AC systems must be variable by law
I am a perpetual optimist and I disagree that everything has been done. We have 500 kinds of deodorant because the market needs it - each one is a little different and resonates with a different consumer for some reason. Believing "we only need one thing" of anything is authoritarian.

My path out of the grind was entrepreneurialism. Much more rewarding personally and financially. Good luck to you
Yeah. The opposition and scaremongering from the fossil fuel industry and scaremongering science-deniers has been utterly effective. No surprise there.

What's dismaying and frankly shocking is the utter failure of the nuclear industry to mount even a feeble defense in the public eye.
No credits transfer from a "top ten" college to "the best"?

This made no sense to me (especially because who agrees on "the best" college) but then I realized you probably aren't talking about the US.

So I doubt advice from Americans who have no clue what schools you are talking about will be helpful.

Is accreditation a thing for these schools like in the US? I would expect that accredited schools in the US would allow transferring credits, especially those in the "top ten" however defined.
Harvard and MIT have a strong CS department and the students can cross-enroll at Berklee College of Music. If you can get into Berklee, there are a lot of other university options in the Boston area (Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Tufts, Boston University, Boston College).
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...
In factories humans are physically excluded from the reach of robotic arms like this. It is negligence to operate this thing where it could reach a kid.
It worked in Germany. Peak rush hour traffic is down everywhere. Plus the German trains, trams and subways don't smell like urine, or make horrible screeching noises like BART.
Reddit is so heavily censored now that the quality is bunk. Been declining consistently for the last 5-6 years.
I don’t keep a to-do list. I keep most ideas in my head. When I have development time I choose the most important feature, imagining it was the last feature I could develop.

I wireframe the UX, and when I’m satisfied I implement it. I test and dogfood until I have almost zero doubts about the lack of bugs and potential user complaints, and ship it.
The vast vast majority of street damage comes from heavy trucks. Cars and light trucks likely do pay for their road usage (a car causes something like 1/10000th the wear as a tractor trailer).
It seems like a stretch. Self driving car investments mostly coincide with AI getting to a good enough level that it seem feasible.
Oh, well I guess it's not just me then.
Out of curiosity, what do you use it for? I'd love to play around with one but I can't think of many use-cases beyond showing it off to guests.
Interesting. Two questions from a person who is relatively ignorant of the facts. So sorry if these are common/stupid questions:

* Why doesn't the US recycle spent fuel to get the most out of it? Are there plans to do so?

* If the spent fuel is kept next to the plant but has radiation for 10k years. But the plant has a lifespan of less than 100 years how do we guarantee that it won't be disturbed in the future?
E.g. in case of a nuclear war won't an enemy target nuclear plants to enhance the impact of their warheads?
Briefing won't keep people safe. What if the kid did everything right and there was a bug? Robots like this should not be within reach of people when powered.
Many train lines in Japan are funded in a public-private mix.

I don't want to overstate this too much, I dislike the JR privatisation (including a part where a lot of the public-era debt ended up in the gov't's hand), and all the train companies here do a combo of offering the train service and doing loads of real estate offerings at each station (making them very successful organizations overall). But I believe that we would see much less train coverage without continued gov't financing in these projects.

Here is an article (from '97, granted) talking about how the gov't sets up things like interest-free loans for developing new lines. https://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/jrtr11/pdf/f14_ono.pdf
From their model, the vents are on the ground, which means they will lift all the dust.
I find it amusing that this paper on pretty printing begins "Althqugh the art of parsing..." (sic)
> and easy to fix

Yes, it is very easy to fix: remove the inefficient and entirely unnecessary robot arm and replace with sensors and electromagnets built into the chessboard so the chess engine can detect location of and move (magnetic) pieces electromagnetically.
Setting responsibility on guardians for not having forseen or prevented that is a slippery slope, or at least leads to unintended consequences.

Imagine a world where guardians will never let a kid go somewhere or do something that they don’t have 100% knowledge of, or aren’t 100% sure it’s perfectly safe.

In this specific case:

- you wouldn’t expect that issue at first sight

- it looks fun enough to give it a try

- the kid disn’t die. It truely hurts and can have long lasting damages if not treated properly, but a finger broken is not the end of the world for the kid.
> The truth about computerization should be revealed from time to time. It should be said that a computer is just a bunch of metal that severs only to do what one wants it to do, that in our world it’s just one more tool, a particularly powerful one, that’s at the service of the dominators.

The dominators, do we care more about who are they or why are they?
The force required to open isn't necessarily directly related to the force being applied to the hand. The default for motors on robotic arms are braking when not being driven so the arm doesn't flop around or get back driven so the force needed to reopen them can exceed the force being applied while closing.
Why did this article need to become overtly political?

This post seems to be as limited in its grasps of tech ology as it is in politics.
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Also sites that scrape mailing list archives and cover it in ads rank higher than the actual archive site.
I'm unsure which angle you're coming from with your comment, and I don't mean to assume, but I wouldn't blame the parents. And certainly, I don't think it is reasonable to expect a seven-year-old to understand the risks well.

Many people have gotten used to these things having pretty high safety standards. I feel like you can't fault them for not knowing the intricacies of how the designers programmed the robot to handle movement and collisions; it's just not something everyday people will have in mind. And as a parent, you'd assume that the chess tournament wouldn't be putting a machine in the room and allowing children to play if they knew it was dangerous.

I wouldn't be fuming with the chess federation either for not necessarily knowing and thinking about it, but I think their response is a bad look; it came off cold to me and like they were looking out for themselves. At the end of the day, they put it there, allowed the visitors to play against it, and something went wrong. Apologize, look into it, fix the problem, and let insurance pay for the accident. Take care of the person who got hurt in your tournament.
It shoudn't even be anywhere near an adult for that matter. Even a trained operator wouldn't be putting fingers where there was no safety interlock.

for example, two buttons you must keep pressed with both hands before the robot starts to move and will stop immediately once you prematurely let go of it.
In general, it is preferable now to use squashfs for most tar use cases three days. Random access, high compression levels, and completely operable with userland tools and a FUSE file system. tar does have some niche uses (streaming) but if you don’t need streaming, you can get massively faster compression into a format much more ergonomically pleasant.
Carpet bombing has a tendency to kill a lot of people, especially when it continues for 70 days.
Bad example. Automobile drivers usually don't face serious charges for killing pedestrians unless drunk.
* +/- up to 20% deviation (some people absorb more or less calories in their food)

* until your metabolism adapts to consistent calorie deficit, which causes up to 50% decrease in weight loss

Maintenance Phase had a fascinating episode about calories being significantly more complicated than we expected.