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Historically programming languages were designed to transform some initial state of the machine to some other state having some specified desirable properties. An algorithm is simply an “effective procedure” for instructing the state machine on how to go about modifying itself to achieve that end. Computing functions can and has been a use case sure, but it’s never been the only one. Simulation for example has a long history in computing. In the simulation use case there is no defined end, you just let it run and observe.

Of course one can model each state transition as a function from machine state to machine state, but that’s just a mathematical way of talking about the machine and not a programming paradigm.

You can see the legacy of the above in C, where many problems are best expressed directly as state machines. There is some confusion here because C chose to conflate functions, procedures, and subroutines, so code organization encourages use of C functions. The void return type is a workaround. It would also be idiomatic C to, for example, dispense with functions and use labels and switch/goto to organize state transitions.

Your confusion is understandable since virtually every programming language in widespread use today is at least in some sense a spiritual successor to C in the sense of adopting many of its conventions.

By the way I think Objective-S is interesting and I am glad it’s being developed. So please consider impressing readers with what actually is impressive about it.
> Having a roof over ones head is a basic human right.

Prove it.
Make small cities and towns desirable again and put those 50 people somewhere else.
I’ve walked Tokyo a lot, and I think you’re drawing an odd conclusion from a sample size of 1.
Surely it's the other way around. The renter has far more freedom, they can easily pack up their things and go. The renter has also has far fewer responsibilities than the owner.
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It takes a familiarity with the Fourier transform to appreciate what jrajav is claiming.

The digitization introduces a high-frequency fundamental, harmonics of the fundamental, and additional artifacts that are at the sums and differences of these sampling frequencies and those in the signal. So long as the input is filtered so that it contains nothing above the half the sampling frequency (the Nyquist frequency), the artifacts introduced by digitization are all above the filter's cutoff frequency and can be removed from the reconstructed signal. At that point, if the original signal was a pure sine wave, then so is the reconstruction.

The technology is not perfect, of course - the digitization and its reversal is not arbitrarily accurate and the pure step filter does not exist - but, in practice, with a suitably high sampling rate, the infidelities can be reduced to the point where they are insignificant in comparison to those introduced by other parts of the process.

It is pointless to talk here about the digitization separately from the filtering, which is an essential part of the process, and it is pointless to argue that the filtered signal is not the original when the difference is undetectable by anyone. And if we were to be pedantic, then every signal is identical to a collection of one or more pure sine waves (possibly phase-shifted). Jrajav's statement is not nonsense.
Hydrogen is not for short term storage. In short term storage, efficiency becomes important, and the round trip efficiency of hydrogen isn't great.
Pagemaker had been a fairly popular alternative before it became indesign
I'm sure you can do better than this. It's embarrassing.
You've got this wrong because you're thinking about stable states, not state transitions.

1) "Multiple" here is wrong. What is the time when you own two houses? Well, when you're moving! You buy one, then you sell the other. During that time, you own two houses. That's multiple. Study the hermit crab.

2) Your three percent cap means that property renovation, repair, expansion, and so on is completely doomed. Why didn't you think of that?

This stuff is complex. It requires some careful, thoughtful approaches.
There is the huge confounder that everywhere in the developed world - and even in the less developed world like East Germany, where I grew up, a lot of infrastructure was added and improved over the decades after WWII and it has nothing whatsoever to do with private vs. government (or, in the case of Germany mostly, for water and energy) municipal ownership. Many houses had coal stoves and privies a few decades ago, that is simply how it was, not a question of "we need to privatize water and heating".

Here in Germany especially water is usually operated and owned by local municipally owned enterprises, and I'd say it's a huge success. Even my home district in East Germany (GDR) build a huge water infrastructure project with a dam, many kilometers of large pipes, and one or more (don't know exactly how many) water processing plants, definitely nothing privately owned there. People including those in power just put a very high value on having enough and reliable supply of water in Germany, and it has nothing to do with private vs. government, given what we have now with mostly local and state governments providing. In recent years a lot more private companies entered the picture, but I'm not sure about ownership (municipalities also operate their own companies), in the end it's an attitude question more so than blaming it of "private better". You can have success or failure with either model.
That's the first argument I usually get as well. I am very much saying end flipping. I don't know what is progressive about that at all. But to be practical, perhaps loosening the profit tax based on how long you owned it makes sense. Perhaps 1% for every year owned? That way you can flip it, live in it 20 years and sell it with inflation adjusted 20% profit?
Undergrads are mostly not exposed to research in mathematics.
The national vacancy rate isn't very helpful. Abandoned houses in the industrializing cities or decaying rural towns don't help people who are trying to live closer to where jobs are. Look at the vacancy rates in the cities that are strongest economically, and you'll see just a few percent.
Yeah that's a property tax, not a land tax. Far from ideal because it punishes people for improving the land that they're occupying, which is the opposite of what we want to be doing.
You clearly didn't read my answer. No individual is forced to help you, you don't know their situation, but you have a right to have society in general help you.

Also using "he" to refer to a hypothetical doctor is somewhat exclusionary, I suggest "they" instead to be more neutral.
You're telling me "julienne" is an English cutting technique? That's obviously French.
There are absolutely not a lot of existing homes sitting empty. I know the internet really wants to spin this as a "look at greedy people hoarding housing!" but real statistics begs to differ.
Rental vacancies across the US are at about 6%[1]. This is spread across a wide number of areas, in major metros the vacancy rate is sub-4%, which is probably close to the minimum vacancy rate needed to turn-over tenants who want to move in/out of an area.[3]

Home vacancy rates are currently at about 0.9%(!!)[2]

These are both very low. In home vacancies it's probably the lowest the US has ever seen, and in rental rates it's almost the lowest, and many metropolitan areas are probably experiencing the lowest rate they've ever seen.

Supply is the problem. Almost every other comment I see on this topic seems to suggest that the issue is something else, but this is all really simple economics. Supply in the places where people want to live is very low, demand is very high (and possibly higher than ever due to pandemic pressures), prices go up up up until the supply-demand curve settles down.

I'm not afraid to use the government to try create justice in housing, but the fact is that the only thing that really matters at scale today is SUPPLY. If we get more supply in the places people actually want to live, prices will go down. The fastest and cheapest (and probably only) way a government can make this happen at the scale needed is by making construction of (or conversion to) new dwellings much cheaper. If you are proposing policies that don't do this, I think the best outcome is nothing and the likely outcome is an even more messed up market that will inevitably privilege the rich over the poor.

As far as commoditizing housing, I just don't think it's a problem (and probably not very viable either) so long as there is enough housing supply. Anyone who thinks the residential-real-estate party is never going to stop is out of their mind or trying to scam investors. The party will stop.

[1]https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/05/housing-vacan....
[2]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USHVAC
[3]https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/rental-vacancy-rate...
Apple French magic keyboard and keyboard are designed by foot
The keys for normal use are approximately correct, but, if you are a developer, no, they are not correct, not just by design as is but by design in the way of use. You have to make fingers contortions to write juste some | or some ~ the [ and ] are also tricky, seriously if the design is not confortable, that mean the design is made with foot.
Ask HN: Do we need another build system?
We already have serious incompatibility problems with projects using autotools vs CMake vs Meson vs GYP vs Boost.Build vs SCons vs ...

and now we throw BUSY (https://github.com/rochus-keller/BUSY/) onto the pile.

Why do people continue to invent new build systems?

Why should we care that BUSY is statically typed?
What happens if an open source alternative starts to exist? You can't buy open source.
The cook Adam Ragusea has fantastic evidence-based opinions on his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGR-pyLHz1s
30 IDEs seems like a lot. Could you share why have you switched between so many?
Could you list several specific points that make VSCode preferable over emacs.
Yes, we're transition firm zoom to teams, and as we're engineers, I'll sorely miss the screen annotation feature which works so well. Teams just added active anntoation and it totally sucks, the presenter can't interact with the screen while annotation is on. Sweet jesus why do that?
It's a way of getting publicity. Seems to have worked for Musk and Trump.
Quality of Life is too fuzzy to make such a strong statement. But if we take economic output as a proxy, it's your view that is demonstrably false.

You're roughly claiming that "Decoupling" (economic growth without resource consumption) is not only possible but has already occurred? Seriously? Global GDP is very highly correlated with energy use, fossil fuel use specifically.

You probably heard that some countries (the US, EU) are in the process of decoupling. Bullshit. Looking at this on a per-country basis is a deeply flawed analysis at best, a deceptive account trick. We have a global trade network and you can't outsource your fuel consumption to China, import their products, and call yourself green. If you extend the analysis globally, you will not find decoupling at all - energy is the economy.

I encourage you to read this paper by the European Environmental Bureau: https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/
I’m a huge proponent of banning all foreign entities and funds purchasing homes here in Ireland, and capping the number of properties nonforeign entities can purchase. (No cap on building their own property is still a grey area for me though)
In every case I get worse audio and video through Meet than Zoom, and more stuttering. And similar issues with audio and camera, especially if people have more than one.
Are there any other options that actually work well? At least Teams is "free", as in people already using Office365 don't have to pay anything.

We use Teams at work, and I think it's an absolute pile of crap. But whenever I have to attend meetings using other systems, the experience is pretty much never great either.

Zoom has a weird windowing system, stealing focus all the time, and shows notifications as actual windows (as opposed to using the notification system).

Google meet sometimes squeezes my webcam image for some reason. It also transforms my PC in a jet airplane.

Chime sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Usually, it won't detect my microphone. If I refresh the page enough times, it will end up working.

Webex mostly works, but it's sooo laggy. It also needs me to have the window focused if I connect too early to a meeting and am the first one there. If it's unfocused, it will not connect to the audio, so I'm left waiting around wondering why people are always late. And it insists on showing a bunch of useless crap around the main image. I know who's in the meeting, so if they're sharing their screen, I want to see that instead of their names taking up half the screen.
This is why nations as a whole are being done away with by the market controllers who have the capital.
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Jitsi beats everything. I've set up meetings with first-timers and
total technophobes by sending a single URL. The UI and performance is
no worse than any other contender like Zoom or Teams. Nobody I've
connected with using Jitsi had any problems figuring the "intuitive"
interface in a few seconds.

The URL can be an ordinary long string or random sequence like

http://meet.jit.si/somerandomplaceontheinternettomeetme

Remember though: meet.jit.si, like other WebRTC video conferencing
tools is nothing but a coordination point/SIP, a rendezvous server
that then connects you peer-to-peer via the protocol for 1-2-1 calls or
a Videobridge for groups. Unlike Teams and Zoom though, you can set up
your own, which is a significant security and performance value-add.
Quid Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? I've ask myself this question many times. Maybe, we just need justice by algorithm... (half kidding).
A parametric sketch add-on (CAD Sketcher) is being developed. It won't replace Fusion or anything (and it's not intended to) but it convinced me to relearn polygon modeling after being away for 15 years.
Maybe I can help with some context. Broadly speaking, there is a Western style (French) and Eastern style. The big difference is that French cooking is very systematized, Escoffier took inspiration from his time in the army, as such, we have cooking “brigades”.

In Eastern style, especially in Japanese/Sushi culinary world, you still julienne a veg similar to all other culinary cultures but Sushi requires special modification for each dish. It’s not saying it’s superior or whatnot, it’s just that sushi requires 5-7 different “types” of julienne, that all have a specific name, as an example.

Some of those techniques are so specific, they aren’t translated or practiced outside of sushi preparation and may not have a “name”.

At least that’s how I took that statement.
Supply should come from new housing right? People selling their house to move to another house is a transfer of propery not generating supply.
This is typical of Americans' understanding of the events leading up to the Second World War. It seems that a lot of the wartime propaganda still holds sway, reducing many to view this part of history as having an almost cartoon-like simplicity.

For example, what Zunger labels point 05.17 "[When the Nazis came to power in Germany], They held angry public rallies which often included violence." This is true. But there's a lie of omission here. These sorts of intense street demonstrations were incredibly common in Weimar Germany (and before that, even), with a lot of street clashing between left-wind and right-wing groups, including paramilitaries. These didn't begin when the Nazis came to power and are not indicative of Nazism per se. Filtering one's view of history through that bias misses many important points that one could apply to the world today.

Nazism was an ideology tied to its particular time and place in history. Redefining it to mean "socialism for members of the nation. And they decide who's in and who's out." is wrongheaded. This definition would seem to apply to any modern nation with social welfare programs and citizenship requirements tied to nationality like Israel or the PRC. Are these countries practicing Nazism or is this definition wrong?

There are some important lessons to learn from that period though. For example: power vacuums get filled quickly. Governments that are derelict in their duty to keep order get challenged by upstart "governments." It's right to ask if one's government is turning a blind eye to "angry public rallies which often included violence" and get worried if that's happening. Sadly I think this has been happening in the USA.
Water commodification is exactly what Nestlé is doing

What we need is regulation to stop them from doing that, not a different company selling and capturing the water. That's just more of the same thing which solves nothing.
Either that or its not being heated enough before applying the oil or steak
Hoping Tauri supports mobile at some point. Maybe it needs to wait till the EU bureaucrats force open Apple's walled garden.
"The thing no one talks about."

He even quoted it for you.
IDK, some of that is factual: Germany turning from nuclear was a bet that did not pay off at all. Heating in Europe in the 2022-2023 winter is indeed looking bad.

But.

Europe knows which way to go - away from fossil fuels and being beholden to petrostate dictators, and is going in that direction, faster than ever (1).

I have heard it described as a a shift "on a war footing" (2) . The next winter will be cold, for sure - even on a war footing, these things take a long time. But the idea that this cause is harmed, especially in the time frame longer than 12 months is, I think, very wrong.

A "war footing" implies not just the investment in scaling up production that is not typically seen peacetime, but also that what's at stake is more than free markets and profits. Sure the fossil fuel industry has even more money because of the circumstances; war footing implies that for once profit is not the main concern, security overrides it.

The main hope is that the lessons learned in 2022 are not forgotten quickly, that the direction of travel remains in place, instead of reverting to increasing reliance on imported hydrocarbons.

1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/the-war-in-uk...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/how-t...

2)
https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/russias-invas...

https://fortune.com/2022/03/09/europe-wean-1-billion-russia-...
A farmer’s hunch led to a lost monastery and a Neolithic surprise
It’s an uncomfortable question. That doesn’t mean you’re uncomfortable all the time.

Having slack and not being stressed are important, but they have nothing to do with asking uncomfortable questions.
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

Article 25
That's not what people usually mean by flipping, and doesn't address your parent's point. They want to be able to buy property in good condition, and flippers are providing a useful service of increasing the supply of housing good condition.

(I would actually like us to deregulate housing construction past the point where flipping is no longer economic.)
It kind of worked for those two because they made good stuff - iPhone, cars, rockets etc. You can get away with saying this will be great if you deliver occasionally.
Most serious chefs use stainless steel. Triply steel is so beautiful and sturdy. My parents have been using their pan since before I was even born.
You are all for the things that can profit you i guess would be the gist of it. Let me guess you're a family man with spawn as well and these are all you care about.
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This comment and the subsequent edit is the usual result when looking deeply into the actual chemicals we consume and knowing whether or not they’re safe. The various ways toxins are in our food supplies and things we interact on a day to day basis is almost unavoidable at this point. Hopefully there will be a major shift at some point.
Not true, but I'm a Georgist so would be against the GP's targeting non-owner tax. Tax everyone according to the value of the unimproved value of their land.

I can show you plenty of places with $3k+ rents in SF with prop 13 property taxes that have not changed their tax meaningfully in decades. Taxes have absolutely no effect on what the renter pays. The tenant is always paying the land value. It's just going straight to the landlord if you don't have a land value tax, and it goes to society if you do. If you are going to buy a valuable property, why do you need to pay twice[0]?

If you adjust the land tax such that it equals the accruing land value, the price of land becomes zero. The local government can then use that tax money to do all sorts of things[1]. They can also use that as a way to reduce other taxes. Get rid of sales and income taxes. The Henry George Theorem states that a land tax should be able to solely fund governmental services. After all, all taxes come out of rents, so if you tax income, then that disincentives work, so you get less work. If you tax buildings, you get less buildings. If you tax land, there's always a set amount, so there is no harmful effects.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxvXzM1mBWo

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVMGzkSgGXI
There is a 10% tax when buying a house for renting (ie each house after the first one) in the Netherlands. It did stop some people from thinking of buying a house (like my wife) but there is still a huge shortage (and speculation/investment) so it didn't solve the problem. OTOH comparable per meter prices are way lower than London or Frankfurt
Government intervention into currency?
> Deregulate construction, get rid of unions, prioritize developer rights over tenant or homeowner rights.

That’s how you build slums. Which I think is what you’re proposing.
I think the GP was complaining that exceptions exist in the language, not suggesting that you can avoid them in C++. That’s why the other languages were listed.