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You're leveraging a lot on that "if" and downvoting my comment.

Almost exclusively in the modern world, famine is caused by politicians. So the answer lies in removing the cause of the problem. Developing technology to counteract the cause of famine, a cause that should solve the problems of food distribution....? It makes very little sense.

Merely convincing the populous that food could be in short supply has caused people to hoard food, thereby making a short supply. This caused people to starve to death while the hoarders looked on the starvation as evidence of the need to hoard food.

Technology cannot correct stupidity
> We don't have a good way to handle equations.

S-expressions?
This is a great idea, I’ve had a slightly different one that could be added to this that is a different type or programming more within your application. Examples of this off the top of my head you should know are caching, login, image uploading direct to s3 and resizing, event driven systems, scaling stuff with the dynamo db/Cassandra style of writing out denormalised views etc. So instead of concentrating on software that already exists outside of your application for me it would be super helpful to absolutely have down all the different parts of logging in and auth, for example. Good luck with the continued development of Code Crafters, it seems like a really awesome idea with loads of potential!
Human mind can't calculate and act according the the true cost.

My colleague once estimated that rather than supporting old smartphones for a tiny percentage of existing users, thus wasting expensive engineers wage to workaround the old browser bugs, it would be cheaper to just give a free new smartphones to all existing users who still use ridiculously old smartphones. So the engineers can spend their time on more fruitful bug fix and new features that may increase the users.
It is not just UI highlight. I want to be able to store them for processing later.
The original claim was that the senate was bypassed (non-democratic).

A majority in the Senate is democratic if democratically elected etc.

I'm not sure what this means - that the NDA government could bypass the Rajya Sabha for 90% (the number quoted in the original claim) of bills? That doesn't make sense. I don't see how that is even possible.

The only way that the Rajya Sabha can be effectively bypassed is by the Lok Sabha speaker certifying a bill as a Money Bill (famously, the Aadhaar Bill was a Money Bill). In that case the objections raised by the Rajya Sabha are non-binding on the Lok Sabha and can be rejected by the lower house, and is deemed to have passed after 14 days. I do not think that 90% of bills introduced by the Modi government were Money Bills. So how does the claim of 90% work?
Hydrogen Fuel Cell is about 4x less efficient than BEV because you lose about half the initial energy making the hydrogen and half of that going back to electricity again. It's just very hard to come back from that if you have an alternative that uses the electricity directly.

They're still better than conventional ICE (as long as the hydrogen is made from renewable energy) but just on energy alone BEVs are about 88% efficient, FCEVs 22% and ICE 18% efficient.
Google Chat is for messaging, with its own folly of Chat / Hangouts because Chat was the new Hangouts for business or something like that.
What happens when those few dozen people die?
Yeah, I remember reading about that. Maybe visa needs better assurances that they aren't going to get nailed again by being their payment processor.
FAANG co. won patent for device competitive to one I’m developing. Am I screwed?
protobuffers are no end of pain for me at work.

Yes, the guarantee of no breaking changes in an API is wonderful. Everything else sucks.

Not being able to use JSON to test your api? sucks.

Having to convert the changed .proto files to a new library for your language (gem for ruby in my case) and then have your system use that instead of the latest release (because you haven't tested it yet) sucks.

A terrible ruby library written by people who were obviously not ruby devs (it makes FooServiceService classes for example)? sucks.

hoop-jumping to force a breaking change in something you thought was good, but isn't and hasn't been released yet? Sucks

horribly degraded iteration loops on new functionality? sucks

not being able to host it anywhere that doesn't support HTTP2 (Heroku)? sucks

Unless you're working on something at google scale and the performance difference and bandwidth savings are actually noticeable RUN FOR THE HILLS. Protobuffers will bring you nothing but pain.
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Always baffled by states that both want to reduce dependence on foreign oil, and reject renewables.
Would Alpha fold help genetically engineer new ways to efficiently process CHON into food-stuffs?

https://alphafold.com/search/text/nitrogen

I think the cool part of using solar panels to have an electrified process is that you can use non-farmland (Bill Gates is buying it all :), could use less water, also produces electricity.

In the perfect future, we are all sucking on tubes of atmospheric liquid cheese product. From pipe to pipe.
There are a few things reactive formulaic spreadsheets need to do before reaching peak. Normalization like concepts. Abstractions.

It will come.
This sounds like a best case scenario for a super-spreader event, no?

Lots of air-exchange and HEPA filters in HVAC seems like a far more effective solution.
Does Google really want to achieve their stated mission?

I would like to see Search Engine Optimization ended with extreme prejudice.

No search engines are immune, but Goog is the epitome of of SEO taking over the first few pages, destroying the "information" that they want to make "universally accessible and useful".

I am also seeing search results where the first few pages are all auto-generated articles, SEO optimized. The content is gibberish, incomprehensible word salad. But, it is long enough, linked enough, and my keyword and synonyms appear sufficiently enough to show up in my search.

Google Reader dying was a sad day indeed. So was usenet dying was a sad day. So was the town square post board, and before that the town crier.

These are not blocking Goog to achieve their stated mission. It is stating such mission, but not doing anything to achieve it.

Talk is cheap.
That is not trickle down economics. If you make it harder to do business by making loans more expensive then businesses will slow growth or make cuts. Slowing growth means you hire less and cost cuts usually involve eliminating personnel. Do that on a large scale and you increase unemployment and high unemployment produces an atmosphere in which people become more bearish and spend less thus eventually reducing inflation. This isn't the first time we've done this but since you aren't clear on the definition of trickle down economics I don't expect you to know that.
I looked up some other translations...

1908 - "Not "Oh, my poor blisters!" - https://archive.org/details/frogstranslatedi00arisuoft/page/...

1995 - "Anything but “What a strain!”" https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...

Original greek - "πλήν γ᾽ ‘ὡς θλίβομαι.’" - https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text...

This appears to translate as "except 'as I grieve.'" according to Google Translate - https://translate.google.com/?sl=el&tl=en&text=πλήν%20γ᾽%20‘...
> Yeah, I appreciated this article -- will confess I definitely thought the joke originated with The Office.

- kevin___

I'd not be a bit surprised if a double-digit percentage of viewers thought the joke originated there.
How do you know that? Maybe OP often goes to their local DD.
"India's dodgy mass surveillance project should concern us all"

"Biometric ID card project Aadhaar links almost every part of a citizen's personal life to a state database"

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/india-aadhaar-biometrics-pri...
I am very worried about where this is going.

We already have enough issues with puritanical people pushing their views on everyone else, but I always felt at least some mild level of safety that I could still mostly do what I want if I was in certain states/cities.

I do realize that Visa was in a really hard place at this point and they likely had to make this decision, so I don't exactly blame Visa here. But it worries me that it could even get to this point that Visa is somehow responsible and I see they are not trying to go over Discover.
>large resources causing bot spam

>large resources are the solution

To those who have been recently pondering the history of antivirus companies of the 90s and 00s, and suspiciously wondering how they were always able to so quickly come up with definitions for the newest infections, this all feels so familiar. What a sad world we live in, sometimes.
This is most obvious in soccer and basketball where you’ll see two similarly skilled players almost get stuck in place trying to predict the other’s next move.
Well I wasn't proposing we could solve climate change just planting trees (though I've seen that exact proposition made before).
Genetically engineered trees that have a much faster CO2 processing time perhaps...
In 1985 I was the cause of sleep deprivation. Pretty much the opposite of a twinkle.
My German router (FritzBox) has some of these options. Blacklist, whitelist, limited time and scheduling.
One will eventually come to believe that the other's afterlife is a crime against the dignity of the soul, and attempt to destroy it. In this way we will fulfill the prophecy we created ourselves by waging war in heaven.
I wonder if it would make sense to actually report those clear cases to owners of trademarks.
It's cute, but completely tone-deaf.
And this is why Sweden has a more creative economy than the US. The state takes a bit more from the rich so that those at the bottom have at least, decent housing, health care, nutrition and education.

In a capitalist system the top 10% will always be richer and the bottom 10% will always struggle. And this would still be true even if a magic genie came a long and made everyone ten times smarter.

This isn't a knock on capitalism. Capitalism scales where many other systems don't. (I'm looking at you communism.)
Catholics have far better news than that you get to heaven on the basis of personal productivity. Consider these questions: When and why was toil introduced? Did the prodigal son have riches when he returned to the father to justify himself? Did the Pharisees need to have bread with them? Did the crowd have enough bread? Who provided sufficient bread: the vine or the lost sheep? If virtue is productivity, then why does God say that there is a rest for his people? Did he rest on the seventh day because he was not as virtuous as Pharaoh's taskmasters?

Industriousness is wise, but all is vanity and the fool when he dies goes to the same place as the wise.
Extremely humor dense. And multiple levels of it as well!

You can enjoy his movies as dumb and silly movies, or you can also enjoy the more clever jokes as well. I definitely did not totally understand everything when I first saw them as a kid.
My brother teaches Decision Support Systems using Excel+VBA at the university because he found that students became productive fastest with it. Spreadsheet model introduced by VisiCalc is probably one of the greatest paradigms introduced in computing making certain programming scenarios extremely accessible. I wish we had more innovations on par with spreadsheets down the road but I don't think we did.
As someone who manages hundreds of acres of forest - most trees won't live that long because we'll harvest them or they'll die to disease and wildfire.

Reforesting an area would be carbon negative, and eventually the first will saturate. It's much much more carbon negative to produce biochar, biotar, or mass timber buildings.
See https://www.2uo.de/Quotations/books-writing/ (the Guindon and two Lamport quotes are linked).
You live in a society with other people. Unless you're full libertarian it's common sense that we make laws to protect the society from harm like public vaccination programs against diseases etc.
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My local lawn crew actually runs a cord to an outlet outside my house to charge their batteries for the next house. They were clear they do this when I hired them, but I'm super happy with it since I no longer need to worry about the noise for calls and the like.

Granted, it probably only makes sense for a smaller crew like the one I found, but I thought it was a nice solution.
Great, let us see our own black hole with the James Webb, it should be relative to a mirror.
If something spills, do you soak it up with a sponge?
That's an interesting idea. Do we know what is different about the brains of geniuses that could be replicated by changing how the brain grows or consumes fuel in a normal pereson? I know descriptions of "high-IQ" and "normal" are extreme simplifications of a complex, multidimensional concepts, but I have to imagine someone like John Von Neumann who apparently never forgot anything he read, has had to have had something physically different in his brain.

For example, do we know if high IQ/abilities are associated with more neural connections in the same brain volume?
Curiously this article extolling Guinness exhibits a classic blunder: a badly poured glass of Guinness (actually three glasses!) They are short, and the wrong glass. Pour that in Dublin and get flogged in a public square.
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Using grape harvest dates to estimate summer temperature over 650 years
The vast majority of the time I've run into programs and apps giving me a vague error message, you can look behind the scenes at logs and Event Manager and similar. It's almost always a dumb software dev made a dumb assumption about a specific file being in a specific place and just chose to not check the return value for errors and it dies.

If you log the API calls and debug it yourself, you will be able to find the stupidity and delete/fix/move whatever errant file is causing the issue.

So often, literally returning the raw API return value in the "Something went wrong" window would be the best information to provide.

It's laziness, it's devs thinking "Users are stupid". It's NOT hard to put a checkbox in the settings somewhere that says "show advanced error details" if you are so damn terrified of average people seeing "Scary" error messages.
Dorian Gray jokes never get old...
All good points but what matters to them is positive correlation with increasing short term revenue and showing they are in a phase they are extracting (some) profits from what they got billions from investors through the years.

On top of that, their relationships with gazillions of Chinese suppliers are heavily disrupted by the political situation but that is a subject nobody wants to talk about right now.

The moment when Amazon is going to reap what they are sowing now is not here yet but it is rapidly approaching. It will be marked by a BIG negative earnings surprise (see Netflix for future guidance).
If you've got Typescript on front-end and back-end then I'd recommend looking at tRPC. The schema is your types, which might often just be the type of your DB response, leading to low-code but fully type-safe coding.

https://trpc.io/
"Now the interesting part: the record of grape harvest date (GHD) in Beaune, France goes back to the year 1354. If we use the grape harvest dates to estimate summer temperature, and use outbursts of extremely hot summer as indicators of extreme summer heat, we can estimate it going back over 650 years:"
> number of births requiring a C-section

Slippery metric. "Requiring" seems hard to isolate vs other options like "elected to use".
The problem is brand management doesn't come up on leetcode, so they can't test for it in interviews
I'm a solo game developer! I love working on games in Unity and PlayCanvas. Thanks for starting this thread.

One thing I'm constantly surprised by and grateful for, is the enormous amount a solo dev can do on top of today's stacks and tools. And it's only going to get easier (I hope).
It does the job and it enables "regular folks" to solve business problems. This creates value. Most business problems don't require sophisticated IT systems.

Sometimes I catch myself thinking about a sophisticated solution involving commercial software packages, databases, webservers, cloud services etc. and then I remember "If I bend the problem just a little bit it fits into an Excel table with a bit of VBA glue and the problem is solved in a much less complicated way. Our scale is small so it will stay solved for years to come. My coworkers can handle and maintain the file so it doesn't fall back to me when problems arise. So yeah, stupid as it may sound, Excel is the best solution for this problem."
Some of the variations just had me in tears and I can‘t really explain why.

Edit: I guess it‘s the same formula as most jokes: There is some logic in the setup, and the punchline replaces it with a different logic or pattern. Only in this case, the original logic isn‘t common sense, but the expected pattern of each type of joke. A meta-joke in that regard.
It really depends on you being blindsided, but immediately recognizing the new “logic“ at the punchline.
>Edit: your downvote is invalid. you literally just did it because i wrote something negative about the topic of the thread. it's still true and a good point. this is similar to how youtube downvotes worked. i still upvoted the article because it was useful to me. i am rational you are not.

Oh grow up. Your edit is longer than the post.
Not me, someone kinda made this https://old.reddit.com/r/france/comments/wfe89a/il_y_a_un_an... (warning: french)
Here's a nickel, kid.

The bullshit about oh my embedded systems doesn't have dynamic memory is bullshit. You either know how big your stack is and how many elements there are, and you make the array that big. Or you don't know and you're fucked.

You can't clever your way out of not knowing how big to make the array with magic stack fairy pretend dynamic memory. You can only fuck up. Is there room for 16 elements? The array is 16. Is there room for 32? It's 32.
Who are we kidding here --- most likely, your server can't handle 1000000 simultaneous requests.

My servers don't have enough bandwidth for that. Most of the connections are going to get dropped one way or the other. In my case, they will be intentionally dropped as being a likely denial of service attack.
I am currently writing Python with Pandas - reading in genormous XLS spreadsheets to wrangle them into yet another XLS spreadsheet which is then fed to a legacy system to read in.

Excel truely is the universal data programming tool.
Seconded, for PHP. It's such a nightmare to work with.
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Trust Nature's engineers -- they've been at it for billions of years!
> consciousness is definitely not linear neural net with a discrete input and output

Just neural circuits are not going to be conscious by themselves, for one they need to learn concepts from the environment and those concepts shape the neural circuits. Thus the way they act shape how they develop. You can't separate consciousness from the environment where it develops.

In other words it was not the neural net that was lacking, but the environment.
Why 'debloating' Windows is not a good idea (and what to do instead)
I'm fascinated by the note about older versions MGR working on the Macintosh. I may have to poke at the TUHS mailing list to see if anyone knows more.
There’s a certain dark humor in the way that Google Talk/Reader kind of marks the apex of their reputation - they sacrificed so much trying to beat Facebook at its own game, and all they got for that devil’s bargain was G+.
This report finds 10% as a lower bound and 60% as an upper bound for the energy efficiency of hydrogen oxidizing bacteria:

"The energy efficiency of carbon dioxide fixation by a hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium"

https://sci-hub.ru/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.04.153

The authors found a tradeoff between efficiency and growth rates. The highest efficiency came with the slowest growth rate. But they concluded that 50% efficiency was achievable at practical growth rates. Keep in mind also that potatoes only contain about 10% protein by dry weight while the bacteria cultivated to make single cell protein can contain 50% protein by dry weight. Soybeans are about 40% protein.
It already arrived in the form of Lotus Improv.
I've come to appreciate Brooklyn 99's "title of your sex tape" as a fresh new twist on "that's what she said". I especially like how it's usually nonsensical or sad.

> I can't find anything, and I don't know what to do!

> Title of your sex tape
That reminded me of Groucho: "I drink to make other people interesting" :)
I dunno man, I punched that exact prompt ("man throwing his smartphone into a river") in DALL-E 2 just now, and in 2/4 samples, the smartphone is clearly separate from the hand: labs.openai.com/s/uIldzs2efWWnm3i9XjsHI7or labs.openai.com/s/jSk4qhAxSiL7QJo7zeGp6m9f

> The semantics don't seem to be fully formed.

Yes, not so much 'formed' as 'formed and then scrambled'. This is due to unCLIP, as clearly documented in the DALL-E 2 paper, and even clearer when you contrast to the GLIDE paper (which DALL-E 2 is based on) or Imagen or Parti. Injecting the contrastive embedding to override a regular embedding tradesoff visual creativity/diversity for the semantics, so if you insist on exact semantics, DALL-E 2 samples are only a lower bound on what the model can do. It does a reasonable job, better than many systems up until like last year, but not as good as it could if you weren't forced to use unCLIP. You're only seeing what it can do after being scrambled through unCLIP. (This is why Imagen or Parti can accurately pull off what feels like absurdly complex descriptions - seriously, look at the examples in their papers! - but people also tend to describe them as 'bland'.)
That doesn't follow at all. You should defend using fortifications, military structures etc... Surely you shouldn't endanger your own civilian population?

Using hospitals or schools turns them into legitimate targets for the enemy.

At least that's what international "war laws" say.
In every way. Any Google service can fail for a myriad of reasons, from internet connection problems to some random failure of one of billion fantastic engineering pieces involved, to Google blocking your account for whatever reason, to Google deprecating the service.

Compare this with failure modes for the date(1) utility, or a Casio watch, or the default one in your phone.

It might be more illustrative to use some more complicated service. Compared with VLC, reliability of YouTube is a joke.
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