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It's only constant force for quarks in isolation. A good mental model is that between the oppositely charged particles, a string of gluons forms and pulls them together with constant force. The resulting composite particle no longer has a color charge, so it does not interact as much with other particles through the strong force.

Of course there are also residual forces from a color-neutral bound state to quarks which are a bit further away, but those are not nearly as strong. They are for instance responsible for holding nuclei together.

The important property of the strong force here is that it interacts with itself. The field of two quarks together is not the sum of their individual fields, because the force-carrying gluons are also color charged and thus interact with each other.
In Buddhism, they advise against spending time pondering "unanswerable questions." [1]

If you know a question is unanswerable, and mulling it over makes you unhappy, then it's foolish to continue thinking about it. You can just leave it be and move on with your life. I think most people eventually figure this out on their own some time in their late 20s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_unanswered_questions#Sabba...
On the more measurable side I would imagine the cost of lines correlates with population density. Running wires to 100 single family homes is way more expensive than running the wires to a district of apartment buildings
Fair enough. I suppose if more people precisely qualified how & why they use k8s while advocating for it, I'd probably have a better overall view of it rather than assuming it's the blessed solution for every use case it targets.
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Funny, my entire job is based on getting things back to 2day shipping / increasing throughput. I'm a roboticist.

The absolute explosion of amazon's popularity as a seller and storefront has been the source of their prosperity and problems. Growth never magically becomes easy, no matter how big you are.
If it's a centrally controlled project that is capable of executing an "emergency shutdown" on the decision of a few people, then it's not really a cryptocurrency, just scam riding on the coattails of legitimately decentralized systems.
Hunt a deer or buy a cow, have a butcher process it, then store the processed meat in a freezer. You can have meat for a full year for your entire family at a low cost.

You can grow hydroponic lettuce, indoor tomatoes, strawberries, carrots, etc. There are many good resources to learn. It's also a past time that will teach you one thing or two.

Then, if saving time is what you are looking for... robot vacuum, mop, and a all-in-one cooking appliance (e.g.: Thermomix) can help.
Weird how Zuckerberg's red flag for low productivity was employees avoiding meetings to work on personal projects. In the first place, I was under the impression FAANG companies encouraged employees to pursue personal projects for the benefit of the company.
That's not actually true. You are completely wrong. Every customer in our trusted by section is a customer of our cloud product.
Hear hear!

If you already know Python, picking up the basics of Java/Rust/Go/Elixir is trivial. Picking up the basics of C++ would be slightly harder, but not impossible. Erlang even further away, at least syntax wise.

But, you'll be doing future you a huge service for whenever you need to reach for hard performance/latency and/or concurrency/parallelism again.
I think AOSP still does things like using google for DNS, connectivity checks, time sync, etc even without google play services installed.
But then the whole cottage industry that is the parasite of tax filers and accountants latched onto our economy wouldn't exist either! And if they go away so do all their political contributions :p
> A useful review would give you an actual choice: what's the difference between a department store brand $100 vacuum, a $500 vacuum, and a $1000 vacuum?

Strongly disagree. He's reviewing vacuums that someone would actually use in their shop environment. Who the heck is going to risk dropping $1000 on a vacuum for use in a busy shop? I'd be paranoid that something would scratch it. Or never want to use it outside of the basic parameters it's designed for. Whereas with my $50 ShopVac, I have no fear of using it and it gets used all the time, and probably for things it's not meant for.
"In Brazil, everything related to books and newspapers is tax exempt."

So they should be - everywhere. But that incident was a long time ago and there have been many changes in Australia's import laws since then - WTO, free trade agreements etc. In those days and before, import tariffs were enormous and very easily obtained if you were an Australian manufacturer - all that was needed to obtain a tariff was for a company to say it could manufacture a product, it didn't have to actually do so.

Luckily, that nonsence has long gone.
My building had a boiler fire in December with an ancient oil based boiler. Everyone's okay, but it was not fun.
I find the term "spectrum" problematic. Is Asperger's part of the spectrum? Wikipedia says it's an invalid diagnosis. So did all those people with Asperger's just get dumped in the "Autistic Spectrum" bucket?

DSoes the spectrum run from ultra-violet to infra-red? Is this a spectrum for which every behaviour pattern has a slot? Does that mean we're all "on the spectrum"?

If that's what it means, then that seems like dismissing Autism as just being one extreme of being an awkward person.

I think a lot of devs wind up working with people who are awkward. They don't like it (who would?) Some of those awkward people self-identify as autistic. So the devs decide they don't care much for autistic people. I think that's a kind of bigotry; they should really dislike working with awkward people, whatever the reason for their awkwardness.

[Awkward: apparently this is related to upward, downward, northward, etc. "Awk-" signifies "at an unusual angle". I know of no other word that starts with "awk-"]
We have ways to manufacture cars at the price point we do due to a century of optimization. It's fundamentally a very, very hard thing: we're containing a gasoline explosion many times per second.

Electric vehicles are expensive, in my opinion, mostly because they're new.

It's like CRTs versus LCDs. My first LCD cost $2500. A the time, CRTs were cheap.

However, making a slab of silicon with liquid crystals is a lot cheaper, fundamentally, than a vacuum-filled glass cavity with an electron gun and all the other stuff that goes into a CRT.

If I were to estimate the cost of making a gas car, or a CRT, without that century of optimization, it'd be astronomical almost to the point of being impractical.
Say it this way. Tomorrow if the american security /defence budget was cut to 0, do you think the rest of the world will storm/attack Americans because they have an eternal blood thirst for them? Don't they have their own problems to deal with?

This is the problem with mitary and security infra of any country. They keep the bogeyman alive because their paychecks depend on it.
I've long given up on this fight - it seems to be that it's acceptable to say "begs the question" as long as it's followed up with the question that it's "begging". I think using "begs the question" without the follow-up question is still problematic though when they're not referring to the fallacy that "begs the question" originally meant.
I work for a large company (2 letter name) that has none of those perks, and never really did (at least at most sites). I just perceive the company as being cheap rather than forward looking.
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Exactly. It's a 1 in 5. Sure the polls put the odds against Trump, but they were far from overwhelming.
I’ve seen too many prolific engineers who destroy the confidence and productivity of people around them. These are not people you want to aspire to be.
If we get to expand the definition from a software engineer on a team to a business founder, do we also get to call the fiber optics 10X engineers? Is a truck driver delivering laptops a 10X engineer?
> Your website is super annoying to me.

I had the same feeling. The background images are just annoying.
Harbor Freight stuff seems to be getting better and better. Of course they still sell a lot of junk, but in my experience their toolboxes, power tools, and hand tools are generally much better today than they were 10 years ago.
>I'm not dismissing anyone's anything.

>>I didn't see anything in author's prose that suggested autism

You very much are dismissing someone's something.

Worse, I don't think the author explicitly stated they were autistic in the piece...So, you're assuming someone's something just so you can dismiss it?
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Why is your assumption that they would be?

I think the author is skipping a step in their logic.

Happiness doesn't come from succeeding in your goals. This seems childishly naive, like "if only I got that promotion then I'd be happy". "If only I had a better car then I'd be happy". No… you wouldn't.

The author's thesis that (tl;dr) "IQ tests only measure ability to pass IQ tests" completely disregards just about all research on the topic of intelligence and success, and the actual correlation between success in poorly defined problems and IQ tests.

It's not that "IQ test scoring" defines an intelligence scale. It's that it's strongly correlated with success.

So whatever intelligence is, IQ tests are strongly correlated with it.

But success, or intelligence, is not happiness.

A person with Down's syndrome can be very happy, but there is no "therefore is more intelligent than the Mensa member successfully running a multinational conglomerate" or the next Einstein, even if they are happier.

So this article is not "A new way to think about brainpower", but an old and tired disproved one.
Iran cheerfully admits using cryptocurrency to pay for imports
Don’t have too many comments on the article but the headline makes me think of an Andrew bird line “if you cried when you were born, cus it’s not fair”
I think it's a dual case of architecture astronauts combined with the stickiniess of money that's made a weird mess out of everything.

What many wanted (many still wants) is a bittorrent-equivalent-for-social-media,etc.. "free" of the clutches of companies like FB, somehow along the way Etherum made the promise of monetary incentives for distributed computing (even if the computation wasn't the "work" function but rather something more focused on Etherum needs itself).

p2p storage,messaging,etc is what people envisions as the building blocks for this (because they don't want to be stuck with a single design).

The saddest part is that seemingly most enthusiasts of these kind-of exciting technologies strapped themselves onto the dead end cryptocash bandwagon(bitcoin is fundamentally unscalable, lighting is an interesting bandaid but nowhere near needs required for global scale in practice) and still hasn't let go.
Love all these underdog stories
> index starting on 1, this is definitely an unpopular opinion, but IMO it just makes things so much easier.

Not modulo!
In Los Angeles, the service was a bit spotty. In MN, it's right on. Same day is same day, everything else is one-day except for a few cases not, which are accurately predicted.

I've always been a fan of Amazon's logistics network and cloud infra (not necessarily much else), but now my opinion is invalid since I'm also an employee. So, YMMV.
That is very true. In our careers we have repeatedly incentivized users to exit Notebooks early on.

Of course we understand why Notebooks are so appealing and useful, and we think they have their place in the toolbox (like a Python console for developers).

And you are correct that there already are many tools to build reproducible traceable pipelines. What we have found is that they are still too difficult to adopt. Which is why we are trying to greatly lower the barrier to entry.
If it’s confirmed he was wrong then who would be even asking?
Yeah FPGA's are marketed for packet inspection. Like on xilinx.com, and microsemi.com, they talk about radar and military, defense, on top of AI and fintech. It's just really hard to market FPGA's, it's such a shiny toy but then it never ends up actually selling in volume, like GPUs, there's envy of that success. Especially because in many ways F's have merits that go toe-to-toe with GPU, and defeat them in eg latency, which is why Wall Street prefers F's to GPU's. Just not enough killer apps.

And packet inspection is a good fit for F's [FPGA's] by their very nature, DDoS's are squirrely and ASICs get stale, you need to reprogram you F's on the fly to catch that attack in-progress. So to adapt to new attacks on the fly, or update based on new fashions of DDoS's, patch vulnerabilities, and plus they're harder to reverse-engineer than ASICs, they're strong against that, good crypto to protect the bitstreams that define them. Basically built for that. ASICs on the other hand, can just have the lid scraped, take a photo, done. (Though to some extent they do put functionality on memory that gets lost if the chip is turned off during abduction, that can be done, the line between F's and ASICs is not truly that sharp).

A lot of DDoS's are done by state-sponsored or -affiliated or -harbored adversaries, capturing the ASIC that stops the DDoS is a real thing. Reverse engineering usually happens in another country, another jurisdiction. Under smiling eyes, blind eyes, can't get the police to go there, can't get extradition, maybe sue, maybe get them punished within the country that harbors them.[1]

[1] I read in China there was a Chinese man who traveled to New Zealand and murdered somebody, I think a woman. But he would not be extradited. Instead, the New Zealanders presented their evidence in Chinese court, which found it had merit and credibility enough to imprison the murder, within China, so he paid for his crimes fully. All without extraditing one of their own.
It's a DAO. The idea of most DAOs is they are set up to grow into being more decentralized and driven by smart contracts as the number of stakeholders goes up. I am not familiar with the details of how MakerDAO is structured but the fact that a given DAO is exposed to the typical risks of centralization isn't surprising - the entire DAO ecosystem is young and is literally a decade behind the first successful cryptocurrency in terms of reach.
In other words, you don't have answer to the original question, so you took it as an opportunity to vent about Amazon in a non-sequitur fashion because "Amazon" is in the title. Thanks for sharing.
I've been using a double bowline with the Yosemite-style stopper for a long time (I've also heard it referred to a Jack's bend, but I can't find anything quickly to confirm that). Some people give me a hard time about using a double bowline, saying it is "unsafe," but their reason usually boils down to "it's hard to visually inspect." My belay partners (very small list, because I don't let just anyone belay me on lead) typically remind me to re-check my knot just before I leave the ground.
The ONLY thing in your list that is the purview of the federal government is defense.

Seriously people, read the freaking constitution. It really isn't that many pages (purposefully!)
Patch Tuesday: Yet another Microsoft RCE bug under active exploit
Fred Again Boiler Room
All the things you mentioned would violate the electric code in most areas. What you can do is ask for permission for a charger to be installed by an electrician. They can't deny this legally.
So I should switch to anew laptp, spend a thousand dollars because my current machine won't run obs. It will run other software like simple screen recorder just fine but no. Its the user who is wrong for owning old/affordable machines. Great.
I think it's because ruby got pigeonholed.

Working with ruby became synonymous with working on rails to the detriment of the rest of the ecosystem.
I think they are saying that they would prefer the artifacts to remain in the countries where they were found. Saying that the artifacts would be destroyed if they were not taken to the British Museum seems a bit too much.
Yes! Putin didn't start the war because everything is peachy in Russia.
It was a controversial measure to buy time, but it worked in 2014 with Crimea. Nothing has changed in Russia since then, so there's no reason to think it will stop with Ukraine. Even Putin himself says he wants more.
Agreed, GP violated the guideline.
All climbing ropes from reputable manufacturers are independently certified according to the European Norm EN 892. For example, here are the documents for all Black Diamond products: https://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en_US/content/doc/
Its disingenuous and ridiculous that the first and most prominent benchmarks included are gaming. Granted I'm an AMD fan but most of these tests are single core heavy, and the focus is almost entirely shifted away from anything this chip was meant to do. Ignorant journalism at best.
Huh. I'm a native English speaker and I've never seen that word in my life. I thought it was a typo for a moment
Disclaimer: a kind of disavowal, rejection of responsibility

Disclosure: put hidden info forward, e.g. source of potential bias
Some might say that the original hacker ethos is exploring exploiting and even attempting to break things.

I’m retrospect yes it was juvenile and regrettable but hey welcome to the game, friends.

People weren’t brigading you with pitchforks back then because proof of work wasn’t destroying the planet a decade ago.

Simpler times.
Yes, but dumb people think those problems can be easily solved, and smart people think about the second and third order effects. A dumb person will think sending free food will solve the problem, and a smart person will realize that will negatively effect food production as local farmers cannot compete with free
In Canada they refuse to capacity because some "cities are too dense"
That would surprise me. I have attended targeted career fairs with both FAANGs and national labs recruiting, and the national labs give off way more 'work-life balance' vibes. Plus, as the largest bureaucracy in the history of the world, the federal government isn't a good place to get a high return on brain damage when you want to actually get something done.

Having said that, the national labs do seem like good places to go geek out in your own advanced intellectual cul-de-sac.
That makes sense, despite me not liking it - but what's the logic in a gag order in this instance? There's nothing the 17 year old or any other user could do to their Facebook to change or remove their messaging/post history that I am sure Facebook keeps into perpetuity regardless of warrant.
When the adjuster comes out, the roof shingles are still there on the roof. No demolition has occurred yet.

What happens is the roofing company claims to the insurance company that they had to replace more boards, they needed more nails, and a bunch of other material costs they claimed they needed. Since the policy states that the coverage warrants a replaced roof (of the same type) in this instance, the roofing company is claiming that a replacement roof costs more than the estimate and thus should be covered.

The insurance company could send another adjuster out to verify that the replacement roof costs as much as they did, but they'd have to verify how many boards are replaced (which means going without a roof until the adjuster verifies all the damaged boards), material cost for the roof, etc... That's a lot of investigation they need to do to fight a supposed excessive cost when the laws of the state make it very hard (and costly) for the insurance companies to win a denial that gets litigated.

It's not unusual for insurance companies to pay more than an adjuster's estimate though. An adjuster can't always see all the damage (they can't see behind walls, can't see under existing roof shingles, etc....) and if the policy covers fixing the damage then that means covering all costs it takes to fix that damage (minus deductible). So it's a balance between making sure insurance companies have the ability to push back against scamming of policies and consumer rights of making sure consumers get paid out what they are adaquately owed. Right now the balance in Florida is too far in the consumers favor and that's causing insurance companies to get scammed, and thus leaving the state, causing all consumers to ultimately suffer.
Different input, but functionally you're right.
It's actually (a). Isolated quarks basically can't exist. If one did exist, there would be so much energy in the form of virtual particles that it would grab on to one of them instantly. It's called "color confinement".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_confinement
The Art of Collaboration: Nvidia, Omniverse, and GTC [video]
The Ban on Tornado Cash
Excellent point, although I haven't seen this actually be done in practice either at grid scale or household scale. Do current EV's charging electronics support this use case?
I remember 12 years ago, when my phone first got 4G, it was blazing fast. I was getting 50Mbps download speeds. Eventually it slowed down as more people got on the network. Fast forward to today and my phone has 5G. It’s blazing fast. I’m getting 50Mbps download speeds!
Central/North Eastern Ohio, Cleveland area and east of that. Part of it is definitely due to being here, but there are always quite a few jobs up year round, never getting filled. Not planning on being here forever, but until I'm more on my feet, I don't have much of a choice.
The reason people say it's a myth is because the study that purported to identify this concept was found to have an extremely small population and confounding factors. In addition if I remember correctly it tried to do this identification by using a contrived programming problem.

There are obviously software devs who are more productive than the average. This is true of every skill. The myth is thinking that (a) companies can somehow identify these people in advance, and (b) it is better to prioritize building a team with these supposed rock stars than it is to build a team of potentially average developers who know how to work together, and then properly manage, support & motivate them. A team of ten properly supported 1.5x programmers will beat out one 10x programmer every time. And in many cases the "I'm a 10x dev" personality type does not play well with others.

I'm a firm believer that any genuinely interested, motivated and at least mildly intelligent dev can be made highly productive by finding the right fit. It's far more important for companies to focus on fit and on ensuring that their own managers actually know how to manage than on trying to tap into a hidden stream of 10x devs.

I guess it boils down to the fact that I think many companies absolve themselves and their mgmt team of blame for poor performance by saying "well we just haven't been able to identify 10x devs yet." They expect to be able to hire a single employee who will save the day for them, rather than hiring and training good mgmt.
Putting it in a cool room with good insulation helps. Makes the freezer work less hard.
Eventually it would be nice if they could contribute to Osmand and get it up to snuff for daily use and replace Magic Earth.
It is neat that the modern browser, for all its flaws, is so easily hackable