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Your posts were killed when you talked to me because of your rudeness but no one told you why. I tell you why; you'll hate me for it, but I'll tell you why.

Let me be clear: I make my evaluation not on that single letter, but because of the totality of the post. Just look at your continual rhetorical flourishes:

> Because that's something you can look up, you know.

> Hooray for you.

> You may be surprised to learn that the ordering of the deck is random.

Do you actually think he is surprised? Do you think he is so dumb that he doesn't know that decks have a random ordering? If you don't - why are you acting like you think he is?

You have a tragic mix of great points and rhetorical appeal with the effect of denigrating your conversational partner. You might not actually be like that, but it is how you appear.

As your posts get longer, you seem to become more convinced these rhetorical flourishes are appropriate. That you end your posts with outright

> lol.

Predicated on misquotes - misunderstandings - of what the person you are talking to is saying seeming reasonable to you is a big part of why you are posting things that seem right to you only to have them die. That is also why you come across as authoritarian, because you completely mischaracterize the questions people ask and the points they make in order to laugh at them with the net impact that you make it seem like the political body itself has no right to discuss the way it is governed, not just the criminals, but even the people who will vote in the lawmakers.

It is probably a misreading to think you feel this way, but it is also a consequence of how you structured your arguments.

I'm sorry that when you misquoted someone in order to laugh at them that I focused on the letter i not being capitalized; how silly of me - of course it was a typo - you are now already telling people that you shall be amused at my mistake. My assumption that you would likely laugh at a point while mischaracterizing it seems to have missed the mark so badly as to be laughable to you.
I have a soft spot for these casual spur-of-the-moment type TTRPGs. As much as I love my indepth, rules filled games, it is nice to have something that you can use when inspiration hits and you just want to get into some roleplaying.

I've always been a fan of GURPS UltraLite - it fits in a little booklet and will let you play a 'real' TTRPG with very little effort - https://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/ultra-lite/ .
These are concrete commitments, which countries do have a fairly good track record of keeping. The 2.5 does not require the nebulous "40% below 2010 emissions" type of commitments which countries have a really bad track record of keeping.

A country saying "We will do X" is much more likely to do X than a country that says "We will achieve Y" will achieve Y.
Wow. Strange seeing something I helped with on the front page of HN[1]. Thanks for the shoutout Justine!

[1] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/pull/490
Stick with it. I discovered some great music buying random stuff from the <$5 section. You'll meet fun people at the right record stores (if you're in Minneapolis, I have some suggestions). Every once in a while one of your LPs will turn into a nice investment piece. If you haven't tried repairing/restoring your own turntable, I recommend it. The engineering inside all the little mechanisms in an old turntable are fun to tinker with.
Should be more if you ask me. I'm only going to get so many risottos in my life, but software will always be busted. If that's what employee lives are worth to Google, well, I guess that explains some things.
We need mineral based carbon removal (weathering) or direct air storage and capture.

Microsoft has a nice report what they bought and how long the carbon is captured:

https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE...

> More than 99% of the carbon removal volume we selected was from natural solutions with durability terms of 100 years or less, such as forest and soil projects. Looking ahead, we hope to increase the overall durability of our portfolio by helping to expand the market for long-term engineered solutions such as direct air capture and storage.

They are contracting 500 MtCO2 removal from Carbofex, which is producing Biochar (plant coal) and label that as a medium term solution (carbon is taken out for 800 years). If that Biochar is stored secludedly that could be a method to get it completely out of the cycle

https://www.carbofex.fi/Home
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I think the gist of the article is: Sometimes (not always) the winning move is not to play. I have experienced this phenomenon before where my best ideas are had in the shower, or a software bug is resolved after going for a walk in nature. Another way of putting this is: avoid the target to hit it.
We had a class action lawsuit before and what did it get:

1) hundreds of millions for corporate lawyers
2) almost nothing for everyone else

Without functional market dynamics (ie actual competition), the class actual lawsuit doesn't actually influence Experience etc to do anything because they will always own the market, so they can continue to fuck people forever.
I believe the best type of carbon tax would be an import tax on goods from countries that have more lax environmental legislation.

Not only would that attack the problem of "embodied emissions", but if you spin it right it could be seen as protecting domestic industry.
>The proposed techniques consist of modifications to ex-
isting IC design flows to embed keys into the circuit (Figure
la) and a new protocol for chip activation (Figure lb). This
empowers the holder of IP rights for the IC to unlock every
manufactured chip. Without proper keys, none of the chips
will function properly or pass routine circuit test.

Jesus H. Christ.

<Head buried in hands>

Why would you out that? Why? There is not a single human being that could be trusted with that, or a potential way to offline a processor by remote command alive today. And I can think of a handful of ways to potentially weaponize such a protocol or mechanism. This is why we can't have nice things.

I guess cats out of the bag already though.

Anyway, thank you! The rabbit hole is already reaping fruit! So much is starting to make more sense, and I think this might just unblock me enough my long delayed foray into the HW side of the computing world may be open to rebooting!
Small Kansas town became a top travel destination after years of decline
Thanks for that, I am looking at POTS audio interfaces and POTS simulators. Looks like with DACT I can do what I want cheaper than using multiple body packs.
Why does gRPC insist on trailers?
Those quirky brown-and-cream trapezoids: national park signs (2021)
The mitochondrial NAD+ transporter SLC25A51 is a fasting-induced gene
For these prompts, I like the ones generated by Midjouney much more.
While they are less diverse, they are more consistent for a digital art style. Thank you for making this comparison!
Solana crypto store opening in New York
Apparently you can make an iOS shortcut and have Alexa read any copied text aloud: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/pdvkpk/let_alexa...
Relevant US case law is Berry v. County of Sonoma, 30 F.3d 1174 (9th Cir.1994) [1], holding that county coroners' on-call time (requiring carrying pagers and responding by telephone within 15 minutes) was not compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Two key factors are "(1) the degree to which the employee is free to engage in personal activities; and (2) the agreements between the parties." Beyond these general factors, no universal rule applies since the details matter (frequency of calls, response-time requirements and geographical limitations, etc) in the degree to which they limit personal activities, as do any agreements laid out in a contract or company policy (e.g., how specific 'on-call' requirements and compensation are defined and agreed upon in advance).

Note that these factors have only to do with the time spent _waiting_ for a call; time spent _actually working_ while responding to a call is more clearly work that should be compensated.

[1] https://casetext.com/case/berry-v-county-of-sonoma
Happiness is a complex, multi-faceted thing to measure and is not a good direct target. You want more specific, granular goals that are important for those. Things like health, wealth, social connections, leisure, education, etc.

And GDP is a decent metric to track the economic aspect. It's not perfect, but nothing is, and the answer is to find and improve the metric instead of "throw away and ignore". And, the data clearly shows https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness GDP has a very strong correlation with happiness.

Economic policies should take GDP into account, and suggesting NOT to do so is simply stupid. The policy makers should also look at and incorporate climate issues, and many others.

> Fetishizing the GDP will only accelerate the climate problem.

I'm afraid this is not a useful framing, and mostly a straw man argument that makes the discussion unproductive. Most countries and their politicians are not pursuing "GDP at all cost" type of policies.
The thread started with what's possible outside Linux, but I don't think that to majority of people that means systems that exist purely for backwards compatibility. And I'm pretty sure that's the main - or perhaps the only major - reason anybody is still paying for "i" and OS/2200.

And no, neither FreeBSD nor MacOS are "miles behind Linux"; in fact all the same pieces of ecosystem are available in all of them.
Having already obtained another degree (philosphy) and wanting to apply computer technologies to the humanities (which I later deviated from), I thought it would take too much time to do another degree in computer science. Nevertheless, I knew from my previous education, how important the fundamentals are. So over the years, I worked myself through many of the most important fundamental textbooks. Sometimes it was quite a rush (the textbook on Turing machines and Lambda calculus I read in 3 days); but here my goal was not to memorize everything, but to just understand each step in the thought process. There are still some areas I have not covered, because they have never been of much importance for my work and have not caught my interest otherwise (for example hardware beyond the bare basics). And some others, where I have some basic knowledge, but feel that I should learn more about (for example some mathematical concepts such as category theory or fuzzy sets). However, I have no idea how I would compare to you and your colleagues. I would reckon that it might be difficult to come to a definitive conclusion, because there are obviously some areas (as already mentioned), in which I lack the fundamentals, but others were I have deeper knowledge due to my philosophical training (in which I took a particular interest in logic, semiotics and the philosophy of language, among other things).

So yes: I agree that the fundamentels are extremly important. Not necessarily on the level of the individual (depending on her or his role), but for the field as a whole. For me personally the motivation to learn the fundamentals is not so much the need of a foundation to built on. Rather the opposite: When I want to do something, I start doing it and try to refine what I am doing in the process by going deeper and deeper.
The main problem is teachers not adjusting the books to the personality of the student. I often wonder if many US high-school English teachers don't actually read anything outside of their curriculum literature.

The glory of English literature is that it varies widely. Want a swashbuckle? Got it--here's "Ivanhoe". Want a soap opera? "Tom Jones". All manner of surreal? Roald Dahl. Incredibly dark humor? Late Mark Twain.

Even when someone says "I don't like author <X>.", if someone explains what they don't like, you can often find a different story that they like just fine.

By contrast, forcing "Pride and Prejudice" or "Wuthering Heights" onto a ninth grade teenager who digs surreal humor is just going to make them want to give up on reading completely.
Woah. My grandmas is 92 and has done the crossword everyday for years. I’m not going to tell her that science shows it isn’t helping her offset dementia.
Maybe we should teach stats 101 starting from kindergarten?
I don´t know... I remember some of the great 80s/90s Workstation companies:

- DEC
- Sillicon Graphics
- Sun

And they were all overtaken by cheap PCs becoming more powerful and Linux OS becoming stronger
Please research implicit bias.

Also, please recognize that “hard to overcome” implies an effort to overcome and recognize that that thinking is wrong.

If I had to justify it, I would say that I have been conditioned over the course of 20+ years and continue to be conditioned to see non-fat people as desirable and fatness as gross. And to some degree it is rational - fat people are more likely to die young, experience health issues, struggle with hygiene or everyday activities; all things you don’t want in yourself, your partner, or people you rely on. It’s also clearly a mental health issue, which comes with its own stigmas. It takes time to overcome and unlearn all of that.
I took another look at the HN comments and I think you are right, there were a lot more constructive comments there. I guess I just remembered the toxic comments on Slashdot a lot more and mixed the two in my memory.
That paper is in almosy 100% agreement wuth what I'm stating and the point that I'm making. The issue is about biogechemical cycling and limiting the view of what a forest us to a set of trees, as opposed to a set of processes, is a blocking factor to most people's understanding of their potential for increase carbon storage.

The broader issue I would also cute is that we have an extraordinary limited view of how these processes operate in most ecosystems because they are massively understudied.
Tiffany's sells out custom Cryptopunk 'NFTiff' pendants for $50k each
The $0.08wh is something that you have to hunt around for.

Just a cursory look on Aliexpress gives $0.12wh for LiFePo4 batteries [0] [1].

Looking on Alibaba, I see some potential sellers that might get below that $0.12 but it takes looking around and potentially talking with sellers. I do think it's possible but it requires some hunting, especially in the 'consumer' quantities we're talking about (sub qty 100).

[0] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256803821576908.html?spm=a2...

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256803518663847.html?spm=a2...
That’s a great point. We had the carboniferous period in ancient history and all that carbon had been locked up. We’re not going to be able to put it back with plants. Our plants aren’t the same and mushrooms exist.

“The Carboniferous trees made extensive use of lignin. They had bark to wood ratios of 8 to 1, and even as high as 20 to 1. This compares to modern values less than 1 to 4. This bark, which must have been used as support as well as protection, probably had 38% to 58% lignin.[citation needed] Lignin is insoluble, too large to pass through cell walls, too heterogeneous for specific enzymes, and toxic, so that few organisms other than Basidiomycetes fungi can degrade it.”
> Carbon offsets are just donations to environmental groups.

Well that isn't true. Most carbon offset schemes are run by businesses.
To elaborate further, nominal GDP is the number of dollars spent in the economy. Nothing to do with income
Oh, great. Now I'm picturing Daffy Duck saying: "I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing."

I'm not going to be able to get that image out of my head all day long.
So Intel is 2 years behind volume production of 5nm by TSMC and Samsung. To me, that sounds like a significant delay in capability.

Anyways, I think the CHIPS Act was the right move at the right time. SMIC is quickly catching up thanks to near unlimited funding from the Chinese government. We need to play the same game if we ever want to catch up to TSMC.
lolwat? How would you ever use that in a sane way?

is_alloc: If you have to call is_alloc because you don't know and you get `true` back, you still don't know anything, it could be your memory is live or it could be something else was allocated over your stale pointer.

free_all: This is just ridiculous. Now the heap is completely unusable because your memory could be freed from under you at any time by a concurrent free_all.
The Oculus Quest 2 is about to get $100 more expensive
Show HN: Realtime Spectrogram 3D visualization with THREEJS Shaders
Not the only but there are a lot of teams that don’t do this and only have ops oncall. Works about as well as you’d expect…
I guess we have to choose between two Armageddons then, one real and one inconvenient.
We are dealing with millions here. To move the needle for 297 million people, the other 33 million have to do a lot.

Assume the 297 million people all make $100k. That's $29.7 million. Now have the 33 million make an even $1 million. That's $33 million. That's 10% of the population making over 50% of the income. Altogether, that's $30.7 million income across 330 million people. Or about $190k per year.

Yes, that's almost double what the 297 makes, but it's far closer to them than to the 33 million.

> If a government regulation benefits Bill Gates $10 billion and every single American $20

I think he meant to say "costs every single American $20", because otherwise, it's technically an ok deal if it benefits everyone even if it benefits one person a whole bunch. And his following statements seem to indicate we should be subtracting $6bn from $10bn.

And I also have a problem with the hypothetical. It's set up in a way to give only one outcome. He couldn't even make it $40 dollars, because then it's $12bn to $10bn. And he has to work with billions because 300 million people are a fucking lot.

But arguing about whether we should be measuring averages one way or the other is kind of missing the real point. Are the people taking the bulk of the income deserving of that income? For the most part, the people taking the lion's share of the income are only doing so because they have put themselves in the position to determine how the profits of an enterprise are allotted. And it's clear that they are not allotting the profits based on the value the employees are bringing to the company.
Not "natural", "familiar".

Just like people buying yellow lightbulbs because that's how incandescent bulbs used to always be -- actual natural sunlight isn't that yellow. Good LEDs are more "natural", but less "familiar" to people.
For things that create complex in-memory data structures, an alternative is to use callbacks instead. Users can still create such data structures if they want to but at least that way heap allocations are optional.
> the expectation that most of the time nothing will go wrong

Useless expectation as it still steals your freedom.
I wonder what the future holds for WebAssembly.

If it doesn’t really catch on and just ends up being mostly (ab)used for nefarious purposes, I can imagine the major browsers dropping support in a few years. They did with technologies like Flash and Java applets before, and those had had much wider adoption previously.

On the other hand, if someone comes up with a good programming language for modern Web-style applications that compiles down to Wasm for the client side and the ecosystem around it reaches escape velocity, that looks like an opportunity to disrupt a trillion dollar industry to me.

Such things used to seem unrealistic, but there is so much money in web development, the current state of the art is so bad in numerous ways and almost everything is currently so short-lived (by wider programming industry standards) that I don’t think it’s completely out of the question to move the goalposts to an entirely different playing field any more.
It's because `a` is not a pointer to the result of badfunc; it is a copy. So the return value of `badfunc` might be overwritten if func2 is non-trivial, but the copy will not.
That, or so the printer could more readily grip the crust while Earth was being fabricated. They usually remove those in post-processing but got lazy with these ones.
Super.

I love the responsibility you're taking on, and why you're choosing the problems you do. You're doing dog's work.

Nix ix the best thing in applied computer science since I don't know what (suggestions in the comments below please)

It's evolving so quickly, and so easily, that it's hard to keep up. There's a general need for coherent porcelain, and the documentation to match. There's a lot of hope for what it can do, but it's still very hard to learn how to do a lot of it.

It's going to become ubiquitous

Thank you
Toddlers have parents to save them when their incessant overconfidence gets them into danger.
Seriously how do you measure the median of GDP per capita? Do you measure the GDP output of each person of the population and take the middle person's GDP outpt?
Pretty much the opposite of Perl tbh

Just because you don't understand the characters doesn't make it nonsense. It's actually less nonsense than 99% of professional programs.
Imagine what it would do if we put heavy restrictions on borders and travel and there was a massive drop in demand from, something like a terrorist attack, or maybe a virus. It would snuff out all industry. Impossible to cope.
Perhaps it's not discussed as much since it seems kind of far-fetched if you don't provide any sources.
I don't think the paper you posted disagrees with OP.

Tree planting can be a reasonable force of good for dealing with climate change however it needs to be done in such a way that the local ecosystem (both currently and in the targeted "restored state") is sustainable and able to survive with minimal human management in the long term.

And importantly, tree planting is only a viable solution of carbon offsetting as long as it isn't harming or displacing the local communities.

A good example of this is Tentree/Veritree's efforts. Restoring the heavily logged Mangrove forests on the coasts of Kenya, Madagascar, and in Indonesia recreates the local ecosystems for animals, fish, insects, and plants that live in marshes while also rebuilding the natural sea wall that protects inland areas from flooding due to weather. It's a good carbon sequestration project while more importantly serving to repair local ecosystems and reduce the impacts of further climate change on the local residents. Importantly these projects also focus on educating the locals on responsible forest management so that they can continue to harvest lumber for construction purposes without impacting the ecosystem or the sustainability of the recreated marshlands.

You can have good tree planting but it's more than just sticking saplings into the ground. Plenty of projects do really good work with the money they get towards forest restoration and most importantly these projects don't serve solely to offset environmental costs in western society but rather to repair ecosystems of disadvantaged regions and help protect these communities against the oncoming threat that is climate change.

TLDR: Tree planting as "more tree == less carbon" is obviously ineffective but in the bigger picture tree planting efforts can really make a difference as long as you put a modicum of research into what projects you are funding.
That approach sounds like a good post digestion by public model. It gets the archetype more and what gets emphasized or de-emphasized. Like how Oedipus is known the most for sex with his own mother.
“Health is wealth” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm pretty sure the reaction was caused by project's name and had nothing to do with discouraging creativity. If it actually presented itself as "something someone build because they found it useful to themselves", the HTML7 joke wouldn't make any sense at all.