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> an architecturally guaranteed 16MB of room to play in would have changed the face of the software industry in the 1980s

I don't think it would have, because such amounts of RAM were prohibitively expensive into the late 80s. It would have changed the way software accessed the available RAM, made life easier for developers and improved compatibility be removing various kludges, but largely computers would have looked and behaved similarly, having largely similar specs.
What if we only tax luxury goods?
Glass is made from melted sand, so taking the raw materials from the desert is just fine.
The commonsense tensed 'exist' is not a good model to 'only my light cone exists'. The former says that events in my causal past and future do not exist, for example. The latter only makes sense as a proposal about some unrestricted notion of existence. More or less: what is the smallest catalogue of entities I need to commit myself to, if I want to make sense of the science?
Presumably he’s building it to house his own people, and people of a similar culture to them.

He is a prince after all, developing the nation is one of the first duties of an monarch since the country “belongs” to you.
I think this post is a treasure trove of good advice. I’ll have to do some deeper reading of this as the advice seem solid.

Since I’ve quit my last job in 2018 I feel like I’ve tried it all when it comes to revenue sources:

* consulting - still my main source of income

* writing a newsletter - brings about $400-$600 a month but there are some dry days on the horizon

* selling newsletter merch - I’m in red every month with only one t-shirt design

* evaluating EU project proposals - nice side gig 1-2 times a year

* writing a course with a publisher - after 3 months I’m nowhere near getting a good return of investment on the time spent but it was fun and I’d do it again

* writing an influencer posts on LinkedIn - was a one-off thing but paid really well

I feel like doing too many things at one could be a problem for me and focusing on a subset of things could bring better results.

If you are in a position to work for yourself then I would highly recommend it.
Sure they are- some diversity's obviously good so the whole population doesn't get wiped out by one disease. There's a tradeoff between diversity and it's resistance to that sort of disaster, and unity/homogeneity and its resistances to other problems. You'd be a poor eugsnicist to not take that into account!
Got to keep those profits high for the global elites.
You are conflating ban and don't-push.

If today it's "obvious" what's bad; When this generation dies off, who is appointed master of the universe and decides what's bad? It won't be you. It'll be the guys with the money; See Pluton. They're already paving the way for just that (at least in tech and what your wallet must must must spend). But, I digress.

You shouldn't ban books. You should teach morals.

My friend, Swim, who is a Jew living in Israel doesn't support banning Mein Kampf. So much so that when Swim's friend ordered it from Amazon, neither opposed it. Curriculum teaches about Hitler's rise to power and the abuse of his people to do so. That's more than enough to understand not to follow in his footstep. Swim's friend was interested in Hitler's political prowess.

I'm not interested in Mein Kampf. But, if someone is, he most surely has the right to read it. Kill the way some fanatics did because of it? No, that's immoral.

Who decides morality? That's complex, I think. But, I also think it is an innate intuition that lives in all of us.
As always you need to factor in both positive and negative externalities.

If you do that, the positive would still come out way way ahead. (And not it's not priced in already contrary to popular belief)

The reality is that we can't sustain a civilisation of 8billion people without fossil fuels. We should do what we can to find alternatives that are less pollutant and have higher energy density but for now that means fusion, thorium and traditional fission. But we still have to solve the materials issue and we still have to content with the fact that only 20% of our energy is based on electricity and any attempt at increasing that number will require lots of fossil fuel usage as you would have to replace all the machines out there.

We are going to be dependent on FF for a long long time.
For posterity, it's called "stupid".. could easily be replaced by a normal array.reduce( merge ) type of function, I just was too blinded by stupidity to see it.
That does away with the need to split into tokens, sort and reassemble..
Those are independent. Having root access does not mean that other parties do, but more importantly, NOT having root does not mean AT ALL that other parties don't.
How to create a Brand you're proud of in just 5 minutes?
I'd feel like a hungry guinea pig! I'm very glad to have the privilege of avoiding novel foods.

Is it not true?
I suppose not; they are a laboratory, but not a very good one.
> expansionist tendencies arise because states fail to efficiently tax their populations so they seek wealth through plunder.

That sounds pretty much wrong, even if there are probably countries that did end up doing that.

> From memory, most recent example is I think Japan in WWII, and maybe Germany in both wars tho I can't recall clearly right now.

Yeah, no. The reasons for WWI are extremely complex, but Germany and Austria-Hungary not having enough tax revenue aren't in there.

Slightly before WWII, Nazi Germany's economy was basically a Ponzi scheme with massive investments (in rearmament) that needed to financed somehow, and plundering neighbors and Jews was a good way of achieving that. Maybe a more optimised tax structure could have alleviated that, maybe. However putting that as the main, or anywhere near the top reasons, is foolish.

Japan before WWII had a resources problem, and expansionist tendencies to correct that problem. However they were cut off from the global markets due to the invasion of China, and thus could no longer import the resources they needed and hadn't yet conquered, thus war. Again, nothing to do with taxes - Japan had money, it needed raw materials.

So those books sound pretty bad. I'll see if i can find a free copy to skim because I'm interested in just how bad they are.
Run a RAM heavy stress test like memtest86 and you'll see heatspreaders on RAM do get hot.
You either don't remember or wasn't there when TPMs were first talked about, in either case I envy you then.

And yes, there's nothing evil involved if they are owner controlled, something that honestly was heavily Microsoft pushed because they do have clients that insist on them - the DRM functionality in intel ME has keys controlled by broadcasting associations instead (this is why you can't stream HQ on Linux from official sources), same with part of why AMD PSP got some uncontrolled bits (the blackmail goes that if you don't do that, customers will quickly find they can't stream netflix/whatever in high quality on your hw and will stop buying it).

Personally I believe that owner-control of hw should be enshrined in law, just like right to repair and modify, along with laws against deceptive "looks and quacks like a sale, is actually a lease" practices
> Back in 2017, FlightAware determined there to be an average of 9,728 commercial airplanes in the sky at any given time. Of course, that number fluctuates on a minute-by-minute basis, given that planes are nearly constantly taking off and landing.

It seems unlikely that we'll be able to sustain the same level of air travel once we're no longer able to rely on cheap fossil fuels for it. I suspect air travel will get a lot more expensive and less common.
Nuclear Power Plants Are Struggling to Stay Cool
Finishing and Post-Processing 3D Printed Objects (2013)
A point is the speaker and the University expected the students to also do that by their presence.

Thing I've found is bad people use good peoples names to further themselves and find new victims.
In this thread: engineers complaining about marketing

Also in this thread: >90% Apple ecosystem users
TNBL: The Narrow Bank, or how you have no right to have safe deposits
You can disable it for now. But there is no guarantee that you will always be able to.

Personally I think its very likely MS will eventually push to strongarm OEMs into locking secure boot to be enabled. All it will take is another round of "security improvements" and the public eats it up. The market would then fragment into laptops that can only run Windows and maybe more expensive laptops that allow you to disable secure boot. If the number of people who actually care enough to vote with spending a few extra hundred $ remains as low as it always has, over a decade it will drive open laptops to become wildly overpriced and eventually cease to exist.
In the UK movie screening used to be and probably still is decided at the smallest municipal level of town councils, see The Life of Brian.
It's as far from the enemy (Iran) as possible.
Copyright History as a Critical Lens
I have one of these microwaves as well (albeit with a turntable) and it's one of my most beloved pieces of technology. The only thing is that it's 20+ years old and I'm dreading the day that it breaks and I won't be able to replace it with a model that has a non-terrible UI.
> But you have to consider all the baggage that a new job comes with.

Like compounding comp increases?

Honestly, most software jobs, even "tough" ones with lots of domain knowledge are bullshit.

It's very easy to jump into a new job and immediately be "highly effective."

Sorry you didn't figure this out yet, but those traits can be taught. You are not a lost cause.
"Solar panels" usually means solar cells. These are mirrors.
Good. All the money wasted on this boondoggle won’t be spent on bombing Yemenis or funding ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
The main reason why we have network is not for pc to pc communication but sharing printer and hard disk. Communication comes later. Do not underestimate the productivity gain of printer buffer.

Those were the days my friend.
That makes no sense. LORAWAN is very, very limited by airtime, which is why the data rates are so abysmally low. You're never going to see a huge amount of traffic on it.
I see your point. That's something to add to the documentation. For now, I guess, here it is. Each Vely statement generates some C code, maybe a one-liner, maybe quite a few. It works kind of like a declarative statement, SQL comes to mind. Some clauses in a Vely statement are input data, others are output. The generated code will take the input and fill in the output.

And Vely generates a request dispatcher, which takes the "req" input parameter, which is really the name of the source Vely file. So if "req=mycode", then the function "void mycode()" will execute and it must always be defined in source file mycode.v. This makes it easy to always find the code, and quickly grasp what application does.

Unlike C Makefile, you don't have to write a Makefile. Whatever .v files you have in your source code directory will be automatically picked up and made into an application.

The generated code can and will change. It tries to do the best job of doing what is instructed to do. So if you say:

web-call "http://website.com" response resp response-code rc status len post files "file1"="uploadtest", "file23"="fileup4"

then it will generate the C code to effectively POST a form to website.com that sends two local files to that server, and will get you the response code and status back. You can do this by using CURL library, but it will take quite a bit of C coding to do this. And there are many different combinations and things you can do, and the code gets generated to do it quickly and efficiently.

The same goes for exec-program, run-query, send-file, encrypt-data etc etc. All this things you can program yourself in C, but these statements are flexible and will let you quickly and safely do those things. More like "what I want to do" rather than "how I want to do it". Though, like I said, you can examine the generated C code to see exactly how it's done.

The "hello world" tutorial is good for this. And if you do decide to try Vely, I would say try

https://vely.dev/123_hello_world.html

first, as it can't get any simpler. It's designed to give you an application in minutes. You'll get a command-line executable, and you will be running your own application server that can take input from Apache or Nginx via FastCGI. The example though uses FastCGI command line client so you don't have to do anything beyond what's already included in Vely package.
https://archive.ph/NI1eP
A truly disappointing sharknado

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%90%9F+%F0%9F%8C%AA%EF%B...
Their promotional materials with sinister messages like "you'll own nothing and be happy", "great reset" discussed in Klaus Schwab's book which puts the world under technocrat control, their young leaders tending to support their authoritarian policies, etc. make them a disturbingly powerful antagonistic organisation to be aware of.
Even the crystal ball turns into a blob: https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%AA%84+%F0%9F%94%AE=849
Every business needs to continually and constantly maintain records on all sales and returns already, at least in all richer countries.
That strategy works well up to a point, but the big limitation on that is in iterative scenarios. If you come across a stranger and ask them for help, they'll probably help, at worst they don't. If you continually ask for help as your first move at work you'll quickly develop a reputation, people will start avoiding you, offering help less, refusing help when you actually need it, and give bad feedback about you when it comes to promotions/salary discussions.
No, that's what I am saying you will spend the entire wallet no transfers. If HN was charging me something I will create a new wallet at say paxful, populate it with btc by paying much more than exchange rate in exchange for giftcards or wire (or cash if they are local) and then pay HN, never use that wallet again. Of course the threat to this has been thay american/western services have all become KYC (mandatory ID check) still possible with chinese and other services.

Another alternative is to store it all in XMR and populate single use btc wallets with one time XMR transfers all while VPN+Tor'd.
> Then MS Teams hit and we lost a bunch of performance due to crappy Electron apps.

FTFY
Then people import them.
> Then I went into a managerial role with a non-tech company, which was a small increase again

How did you do this? I think it would be hard for me to make the same outside of tech. Tech to managerial role outside of tech doesn't sound like an obvious or easy move.
I work in the G and it doesn't seem to be like that. First point, the average tenure in my team is somewhere between 6 and 8 years.
That implies that you have to divide up the memory ahead of time into an area for each size? If you get the proportions wrong you will waste memory.

Languages with only one object size are not exactly in vogue at the moment, so this is a major limitation.
> owner-control of hw should be enshrined in law

Have you seen OCP's Caliptra RoT, which requires OSS firmware, enforced by dual-signing of firmware by both OEM and owner? Currently for hyper-scalers, but this approach can be adopted by other enterprise customers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9PlCm4tLb8. Attestation will be done to Caliptra, which can then release SoC boot ROM from reset.
> Otherwise we would be coding web applications in assembly

Some people write web-apps in C. Just because you don't like something, it doesn't mean the world agrees.

>Ruby, wouldn't even be a blip in history radar if it wasn't for Ruby on Rails

Hard disagree. Ruby was getting traction on its own, as "the purest OOP language you can use in the real world", around the same time Python was starting to get traction (early 2000s). Then RoR blew up, effectively coopting the entire ecosystem. Since then, Python has slowly gone from strength to strength in so many different fields, whereas Ruby died on its ass as soon as people moved on to other tools for web.
There is eth and btc cash. Lightning payment is also a thing even eith btc. It is really a question of merchants willing to spend time supporting it give lack of significanr consumer demand.
When people do this effectively they get a title increase with each switch. So even FAANG to FAANG jumps work if you're getting a "free promotion" with every one. I've seen it happen, unfortunately.
How many folks? Are they any good? Available now?

What about you?
Because owning your device is a nice bedtime story we've been told for quite some time now since the iPhone became the norm.
Best description I read about government needing revenue. Is really the government doesn't need money as much as it needs a way to devote some portion of the economy towards public goods.

Someones got to consume less. Everyone thinks it should be the other guy. Wealthy have power so they are always shifting the burden to the middle class and the poor.
While both depictions have some contradiction they can both be true.
> I expected her to be mortified and sue and hide.

She did, and she also got counter-sued: https://people.com/celebrity/hilton-salomon-end-sex-tape-leg... .

"Owning it" worked fabulously for her for a whole lot of reasons, not the least of which are that she is rich and has an army of well-paid lawyers behind her. If you're rich and get laughed at and humiliated by the staff of a high-class restaurant, you have a ton of options. If you're Star Wars kid and you get laughed at and humiliated at a hiring interview, your options basically amount to "move on".

Having that kind of legal and financial backing shields you from most negative consequences of unwanted fame, and leaves you only with the good parts -- the attention, at least. Without that backing, you get to deal with all of it, and some kinds of fame have very little to show in the way of good parts.

Star Wars kid could have just stopped being poor (lol) of course but that's easier said than done :-).
> no, I am not going to glitch the power supply, and even if I did it means I am interested in doing it and wish it worked instead I was prevented from doing it

Are you talking about brown-out detection circuits, or is there something else?
> The idea that everyone else should have to use a DNS transport that ISPs can filter to downgrade back to being snoopable just so you can feel better

You're imagining things.
This article seems to be a lot focused on why you should be careful about using JavaScript for backend development. C#/.NET is one valid alternative, but many others surely also provide similar benefits and also avoid the pitfalls of JS. I agree that .NET is really solid and seems often unfairly seen in a negative light though.
The worst part is we all know these people and they're almost never the people providing the most value to the company. They're just good at selling themselves. They come in, spend 6 months onboarding, do 18 months of acceptable work (and make sure to use all the benefits, of course) and then they're gone. You'll hear from them on LinkedIn, with some inflated title making 3x what you make and still not being an expert in anything.
Yes, kind of, you're right. C++ though went on for a roller-coaster of complexity, at least that's how I see it.

I think of Vely as staying simple, declarative, and C all the way for performance reasons. More of a collection of practical things you'd want to do.
I think you’re right, but then again, as an exercise in making the point that the AirPods’ design is deliberately adversarial, it works. Imagine if our electronics were designed consciously with repair in mind.
The Jack Dorsey comment in the article was very strange. Fasting and meditating are not "obviously stupid", and I doubt Jack was playing some twisted meta game for social clout. If one finds themselves thinking like this, they should perhaps pause for thought and try to be more open minded and maybe less cynical.

More likely is that Jack was under an enormous amount of stress and pressure given his position, and he found those practices to be actually helpful.
Show HN: Similar – dedup similar lines in Unix pipelines
similar is an unix pipeline dropin that deduplicates similar lines. It is inspired by Grafana's log deduplication feature and brings this to the command line. It's intended use is along with other text-utils like grep, sort and uniq.
That's a popular ad-hoc "street" theory (it's easy to come up with those) but formally speaking that idea has never been tested or proven; it's not a part of germ theory. If you look at epidemiological models, they rarely model seasonality for that reason. The models used for COVID for example, didn't have any notion of seasonality in them for a long time and many still don't, because what you just said isn't actually scientifically accepted.

And it would probably run into some practical problems if you tried to nail it down, like the fact that for many people they are office or factory workers and the amount of time they spend outside doesn't change all that radically during summer, certainly not enough to make the difference between explosive spread and total eradication.

"The more people are already infected, the fewer and further between the as-yet-uninfected are, so that seems quite reasonable"

That's why the wave slows down yes, but again, this ad-hoc notion doesn't work. Try it out on paper or code up a quick epi model yourself and then compare against real world case data. The waves always end long before predicted, even when there are still tons of uninfected people available to infect and people wandering around who should easily infect them.

This is one of the reasons why COVID modelling failed so badly. They coded up the exact simple germ theory model you're describing here, and of course it yields a single giant wave whereas what is seen in reality is a long series of small waves that start and end in ways that aren't predicted by the theory.

"See first point above."

See my reply. I can assure you, that the epidemiology of influenza really isn't as simple as "people going outside in summer". Take a look at some of the research papers from the 80s exploring this topic. There are still plenty of people interacting with each other closely indoors even in summer months, yet flu completely disappears. It's not something that ties in any obvious way back to accepted theory.

"Someone always flies in supplies..."

That's not what "totally isolated" means. In the cases in question there was no contact with the outside world whatsoever. In one case, at a British polar base, they mounted a very thorough investigation after an outbreak of cold virus after 17 weeks of total isolation. They checked if any new supply crates had been opened, etc, but no. They couldn't identify anywhere that new viruses might have been introduced to the base.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-inf...

One of the more popular sub-theories (though largely ignored by epidemiologists) to try and explain these things is the possibility that many people are continuously infected at a sub-symptomatic level, that the immune system never 100% wipes out the viral infection in these people, just keeps it in check. Then something happens to slightly knock the immune system out of balance for a moment, like a sudden change in temperature, and the infection is able to re-gain a foothold and starts replicating out of control again. So that'd be why people just show up everywhere at once spontaneously infected without any obvious index cases.
> I really think this is a good thing. I hate the use of cash

Noone forces you to use cash, isn't it?

> apart from the theoretical liberty taken

why theoretical? It's a liberty taken.

> most non-criminals dont use cash and prefer digital payments

Do you have evidence supporting this? I am not a criminal, but I have no intentions to share how my money are spent with actual criminals, who constitute government bodies.