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> Do physicists really think this?

Prior to quantum mechanics, they did indeed. But that's because classical mechanics was 100% deterministic. With quantum mechanics, only the probability distribution is deterministic. I don't think any physicist today believes it's possible, but merely "theoretically" possible if there was a separate universe with more energy available (hence outlandish conjectures like the universe is actually a simulation).
Because they want to enjoy their retirement, not provide free labor to the TeXmacs team?
Memoir has options like \sloppy bottom. But honestly, the reason it doesn't is that it's virtually impossible to have an algorithm that gives you the best layout 100% of the time. Sometimes it's physically impossible not to have orphans or awkward spacing with the text you've given. You can never remove the human from the equation.
>If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we'd see more people try it out.

On the Northeast Corridor it could change the driving equation for couples and families. BUT Amtrak on the Northeast Corridor already runs at pretty high utilization. In fact, I believe there are expansion projects underway.
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The Atacama Desert has the best solar resource on the planet.
> Compare that to understanding C or UNIX. There are skills that decay much slower than others.

Correct! Knowledge around C, Linux, CPUs and optimization last many decades.

Knowledge of tools and libraries in high-churn languages last years at best.
WYSIWYG's are essential to have non-coders post on your site :/ Or for handing off to mom-and-pop clients.
It also feels similar exactly what we left intel for: releasing what seems to be the same thing, but just clocked higher and hotter (I know it's not that simple).

I wonder what could have been leveraged from the M1 if it were overclocked.
Nope. But it did blister a lot over the next several days.
Quick... I did nightly and my perspective is entirely invalid... But as I pretend that anyone actually cared for me... Beyond the money... Everyone was. A Wagner once... Shit up and shut your fucking face that tells me I'm insatiable insanely unable to be beautiful
One could argue that neoliberalism has been the dominant ideology in the USA for both parties since Ronald Reagan. Democrats and Republicans simply argue about whether the government should do very little or nothing at all. (Unless they are providing protection to big business, and then the government springs in to action.)
FFmpeg now supports JPEG XL and AVIF: how to convert images
which is one of Gnome's problems. I don't want to install extensions only to realize they won't work on the new Gnome version.
I really liked Blink, paid for it, and then was forced to buy it again when they updated it, or get advertisements to upgrade. Really clumsy and annoying since the earlier version did everything I needed.

I went back to just using Prompt app, with tmux on remote servers.
it has more to do if the trains are nice, clean, safe, on time, plentiful, convenient that price compared to uber
Your reply assumes that these businesses must continue to exist at all costs, effective moderation be damned. If it’s true that they cannot afford good moderation, then maybe it’s not a sustainable business model?

I know online content platforms are wildly different than other industries, which is why these problems exist at all. We don’t seem to have good solutions yet. But we wouldn’t have any issue declaring that any other industry that couldn’t afford to do the “quality control” well enough isn’t a sustainable industry.
A. A human _was_ involved and B. His issue was resolved within 24 hours: https://twitter.com/imranzomg/status/1549914737781063680

Like, come on. I agree that the processes and moderation models could be better, especially at the appeals phase, but we don't see the other side of the battle twitter content moderation is fighting.

Even if their doing a stellar job statistics-wise, we probably wouldn't know because PR wouldn't want a blog post about how a twitter hovers on the brink of becoming a cesspool.

I'm less sympathetic when inhumane moderation policies ruin lives as we see a lot of with google properties (YT, gmail), but this instance is pretty far from such a case.
I'm not trying to fuck you, Elon... I'm trying to forget you so I can exist with my true love and a redeemed version of your pathetic incarceration
> 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.

While it shows a deep misunderstanding of the concept of a public service, there are lots of other parts of government we do expect to be self-sustaining on user fees. Like the Postal Service.
The peak efficiency is at around 38mph

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0196/5170/files/model_s100...
Almost unreadable on mobile
One of the latest avenues is sending the malicious macros in ISO files masquerading as legitimate documents or zip files. Ideally, email filtering would block that attachment type across the board, but they definitely get by some platforms. What's more is that 7-zip-unpacked files lost their Mark-of-Web, leading to easier execution of malicious scripts as well (although I don't think 7-zip is a significant attack vector in many environments, since it's a non-default option.
As a counterpoint, the us post office is expected to make money as well. There's a number of onerous rules around that in fact..

During the Trump administration the head of education was a big fan of charter schools, which is a way of turning public schools into subsidized private schools.

The concept of government providing services that are taxpayer funded and do not turn a profit is something that the Republican party became opposed to around, I guess, the Regan administration.
As far as I understand, BM25 is not for fuzzy searches. For a bit more context, the search terms are in the English script, but the words are basically the closest-sounding transcriptions of sounds in various Indian languages. Different people may render the same word differently in an English transcription. But there's enough crowd-sourced data to account for the ways in which words can vary.

For the same reason, GloVe is of not much use to me.
Great as mini-solution, appreciate it.
The problems of doing so don't change depending on how fast you do it, in this case.
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Yes

1. If they didn't get something out of it, they wouldn't be doing it.

2. They don't get money out of it.

3. So...
That isn't car centric development, that is urban development in a city that fell into hard times. The whole area in the picture is about one square mile (i.e. it was the dense core of the city), and during boom times it was full of buildings. Many of the buildings were torn down when their owners could no longer afford to maintain them and they were replaced with parking lots because they look a lot better than overgrown fields. As the city revitalizes, the parking lots will be built over and turned back into buildings.
There is no money you can pay to get the same experience as SponsorBlock. Some channels are offering "sponsor-free" content on exclusive sites such as Nebula, CorridorDigital.com and Floatplane, but I've checked all of these out and they don't cut as smoothly as us, and often leave parts of sponsorships in if they find it humourous. Some of the sponsor cuts on Nebula are done so lazily...

If Nebula existed when I created SponsorBlock, would I have created it? Maybe not, but I think the existence of the tool should prove that people want to avoid this stuff, and more creators should take note and provide ways to at least pay to avoid it.

And, if your ads are still deceptive, allowing a privileged few to pay to avoid them doesn't solve that issue
As I pointed out to Casey on Twitter as well, this strategy works really well with Nuclear as well. Largely because the production of fuel rather than electricity means you can transport it over great distances without the losses generated by heat or radiation.

My suggestion was setting up a 3GW nuclear plant in the middle of the Nevada Test site (an area that would not suffer in the extremely unlikely event there was any leakage of radioactive material in the even more rare event of an accident) And have that plant produce methane 24/7. It can ship the methane by pipeline to anywhere and provide heating or electricity using existing gas infrastructure.

If you made it a more complex breeder reactor (or had a breeder reactor on site and a fuel reclamation facility) it could do that essentially forever. (caveat lifetime of materials and maintenance etc).

Solar works for this too, but you have to build a lot of panels (this is the article lede of course).

This is also how fusion would change everything as well, with excess power you could spend it on making carbon neutral burnable fuels and desalinating water for mitigating droughts.
Then how are we going to solve climate issue? I don't think there is magic wand that can fix it? What ever policy you introduce there will always be minority of people that are going to suffer. Change is inevitable. Even if they don't face yeild issue today, I think with the advent of climate change and water crisis they are going to face same trouble in future.

How about moving towards sustainable solution with slow changes.
My high school english teacher ordered something that had cardboard cut outs of the alphabet and when it arrived, a few of the letters were missing.

When she called the company to straighten it out, she said (calmly) that the packet was missing the F and G.

The woman on the other end gasped and said, "we're happy to send you a replacement letter, but there's no need to be rude!"
I will raise an exception to the use of '«know»', which is not really defined in terms of "actually discriminate" vs "being able to discriminate". Meaning:

It is not that "people know that money does not come from cornucopiae": it is more that they are supposed not to hold the idea. Or: it should be implicit knowledge, not explicit. Or: you do not need to think about it to avoid dreaming that "streets are maintained by volunteers" (for lack of more absurd insanities at hand). Or: it's mental hygiene not to be delirious and work through a "yes/no" system - you are supposed to have plentiful buffers that avoid you holding weak ideas...

Edit: or, if really that is something you find in society, you have a big elephant in the room (education) with priority over trains and everything.
I think because there's no way to differentiate someone who's a learner vs someone who already has lots of experience. They'd basically be giving it away for free to everyone.

Another option would be to license it "free for non-commercial use", although then you have the problem of people using it for commercial use without upgrading.
Well certainly not all but that strategy, if you can pull it off, will probably get you a very high-paying job and maybe you won't have to work so hard.

But that's not at all what the OP asked for. Maybe they're already making >400K slinging JS at Facebook or Google. Lots of people do!
Interstate is marvelous.

US is too big and too sparsely populated both on a large scale and small scale for trains like Europe, Japan and China.

There's a part where no one talk about, and that's the infrastructure within the city are not conducive to trains. People get to a train station and they need to get around and unless you're talking about New York they really just need another car.

This in comparison to European and Asian cities where your friend can just post you an address and you can use public transit all the way to the last block.
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Snark was what attracted me to Gawker (the sister site to Deadspin). The general tone was something like "these elites and celebrities aren't as great as they think they are" which made it a guilty pleasure read. Reading it (and I assume Deadspin is similar) was like hanging out with a cool friend who was aware of everything hip going on and had all the right quips.
Check out mini-splits and ducted mini-splits. The latter can be setup to look like traditional forced air systems. These include heat pump system (cooling/heating) and ability to dehumidify. Zoning the home is also very easy, you do need to ensure you have a competent contractor to properly set these up if you go with the more complex/feature rich systems.
Surely you had enough contacts at Facebook to get somebody to look into it for you? Just another concern with tying the Oculus Quest to a Meta account. Google accidentally banned one of their own developers and he almost pulled Terraria off of their Stadia platform.
The UK is the fifth largest and almost every public service is a complete omnishambles.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw
Trying to use a ticketing system as a solution to the inconvenience of having to see people without homes is a particularly awful take.

Solve the problem of homelessness by making homes and putting the homeless people in them, don't use a public transportation ticketing system as a means of driving them out of sight.
There was literally nothing the US could've done that would've lead to Covid being comtrolled. Their efforts to stop it spreading there from China seem to have more or less worked, and were at least effective enough that they weren't the problem - the US had contact tracing that suggested it wasn't really spreading, and genetic testing also indicated this wasn't the source of the major US outbreaks. What turned this into a global pandemic was undetected, large-scale community spread in Europe, in places like Italy - all the subsequent major outbreaks seem to have come from there except maybe for South Korea's. Those coutries listened to the WHO and followed their advice.

This just got obscured because the American media is a bunch of partisan trash with unfortunate global influence that saw the pandemic as a good way to replace a leader they dislike. So everything got distorted and spun based on that angle, and it did immense damage to people's understanding of the pandemic. American potlics seems to have a bit of a main protagonist problem at the best of times too.
> I never said it was binary. I said trust can and is lost through lies. If you can’t acknowledge that, I’m not sure what else to say.

"Obviously one lie wipes out thousands of truths. Trust is gone. Listening stops."

I would call this binary. I don't really care what we call it, though. Especially if downplaying counts as lying, then this policy is completely infeasible. It means nobody will ever be listened to. Trust is wiped out in all circumstances.

It's a really stupid way of handling a biased source. And all sources are biased, so it's a really stupid way of handling sources.

If you want to say that one lie adds skepticism to a thousand truths, that would be a massive improvement, because A) it works well to be somewhat skeptical of all sources, and B) you can still learn from many sources you're skeptical of.
If you are west of the Cascade mountains, that sounds like an air flow or drainage issue. The humidity is already pretty low, so moisture evaporates pretty quickly, in my experience.
“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.” -A. Edward Newton
Ukraine’s Thriving Tech Sector
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In germany (currently month 2 of 3) there is an ticket for 9€ per month for using local public transport. Millions of tickets are sold and people are using the so much that the trains are litterally full. And the users are still enduring it.

For those who don't know it: german trains have an lowsy reputation at best, no cooling in the summer, no heating in the winter and every user has to plan for the case the train is 15 minutes or more late or broke on the way down.
“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp” - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Excerpt:

…the tech sector is thriving in Ukraine, a rare bit of upbeat news in a nation in deep economic distress. …

The economy is expected to shrink a startling 30 percent this year… but there is no way to lay siege to the 200,000 computer engineers and code writers in this country, professionals who need just a laptop and an internet connection to earn a living. Figures from the National Bank of Ukraine show that in the first five months of this year, technology companies brought in $3.1 billion in revenue from thousands of customers, many in the Fortune 500, a jump from $2.5 billion a year earlier.

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220723073210/https://www.nytim...
I've gotten these calls for years. What's different about this this time and why won't it simply continue by some other pseudo-groups or entities in the future?
I finished my PhD almost 30 years ago, and finding the motivation to actually finish was as much of a problem as it is today. And tinkering with typesetting was a familiar procrastination magnet. My friends who used LaTeX easily tacked multiple months onto their effort, and my hunch is that CPU time was not the limiting factor.

My advice is: Remember, nobody's going to read it.

My parents' theses were about 50 pages, typewritten, equations and chemical diagrams entered by hand. The got the same grade as I did. ;-)
I'm sorry... The test of existence/sentience includes mercy for unfortunate creatures similar to yourself? I'm not sentient... But I'm gonna hurt you badly, Lord
If you want a preview of what free trains would look like, just go to the public library some afternoon.
Agreed, same experience, all with the same format, primarily from some sort of outlook.com domain.
Yep. One of the few reasons to go to Times Square at that time.
In the animation the pen is a rasterized circle of radius 12, but for calculations assuming it’s a square makes sense. FWIW I have no idea what the answer is to the question! I imagine making as many simplifying assumptions as possible and generalizing from there will help
How do you switch languages during a job search? Are you avoiding companies with language requirements (four years Ruby)? Do you run into language/framework tests and/or homework assignments in languages you are unfamiliar with?
Per the article, per Twitter. It sounds unlikely. Though it could be that there's a guy paid to look over stuff the AI flags. If that's the same guy who does the appeals, they might reject the appeal in order to hide that they didn't actually look at it before banning (and hope the complainant just goes away quietly. They probably often do.)
Ya, no reason to be apprehensive regarding an extra-national apparatus, barely representative or accountable to its constituents, entirely illiberal and increasingly exercising arbitrary authority, with a clear pattern of being the predominant tool for lawmaking well beyond its original purview. No reason to look at their American contemporaries' federal government, where virtually all issues are now to be addressed at the federal level or not at all, with consideration that the original responsibilities of the federal government were basically meant to be limited to few things beyond regulating interstate affairs.

If anything, our elders have failed to impart sufficient skepticism of state authority. The current generation of young people doesn't even understand the difference between "what I think is right" and "what I'd like imposed by the state onto others," let alone "what I'd like to be imposed onto others across the broadest scope manageable by the largest authority under my influence."

I will go so far to say that the primary obligation of elders in perpetuity will be to warn that any apparatus built in the name of imposing your will onto others is an apparatus whose objectives need not, and will not, mirror your own.
And here's a paper [1] corroborating that, at least for Canadian crop yields:

> Canola and wheat yields were projected to increase with global warming, while maize yield was simulated to increase or slightly decrease depending on the characteristics of the currently grown cultivar and differences among the crop models. It appears that future warming accompanied by increased CO2 concentration will remain beneficial to crop yields at the global warming level of 2.0 °C for Canada.

[1]: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab17fb
I'm also a big fan!

> The ticket can be bought only throughout the summer months.

The ticket is a new thing, by the way. The reason it's only available in "summer months" is because they haven't finished thinking about how it's gonna be after that.

However the transport companies already manifested interest in continuing with the ticket for €69 [1]. Sure, not €9 but still progress. Some parties recently suggested €365 per year. Both are still a great price IMO considering I used to pay €40 a month (€63 in total, my company pays the rest), for a ticket that only covered Berlin!

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/69-euro-tic...

[2] https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/german-expat-news/left-ca...
Has anyone experimented with its WP importer and could comment about its quality or efficiency?
With fragmentation, several other things also happened. One, getting banned from one community was not the end of the world. You could join another. Two, because the forums were small, if you got banned from one, you couldn’t seek sympathy by complaining to the entire internet about the unfairness, because nobody knew about that community so getting them to care was a challenge.

And three, you couldn’t complain to the entire internet because there was no soapbox large enough to do it. Only your friends and the new community had to listen to you complain.

On the flip side, an angry user with some technical abilities could poison the well by trying to take your community offline. Whether they succeed or not depends on who has more patience, the custodian or the manchild throwing an extended tantrum. That is at least a one place where centralization helps. Getting resilience set up is a full time job. Though I suppose you could say that’s an area where technology might actually help.
It is not a "user-hostile attitude" to remove features. Every project that does some kind of user study will do this eventually, because:

1. Not every feature is equally useful

2. No one is using the feature, and so maintaining it is a waste of time

3. Sometimes developers discover a better way to implement a feature

4. Some features can turn out to be just harmful and misleading

5. There is no one available who wants to maintain the feature and so it slowly deteriorates and breaks over time, and must be removed to prevent further breakage

And so on. If you program in your day job, I bet you can think of a few other valid reasons you have removed a feature at work, too. GNOME has not done anything out of the ordinary here, and it is incorrect to describe it this way. If you believe they have taken specific actions that were hostile towards you, then you should say what those actions are. But the mere act of changing or removing a feature that you happened to use is not a display of hostility, it is just the normal development process working as intended.

>and then it’s available — unlike in Gnome 3+

This is incorrect, Gnome 3+ can be configured with shell extensions.
Postal service can be used in bulk though, this leaves a lot of space for misuse and abuse if the service was made free.

I can't transport myself in bulk, at most I'll just go to a lot of places, which is probably good for the economy anyways.