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> The `glibc` docs are laughing in their beer while they explain why static linking on "GNU" systems is impossible, and also makes you a criminal.

Can you provide a reference? I skimmed through the glibc manual but couldn't find anything like this.

> It's to kill other `libc` and `libc++`

How does this follow from dynamic linking?
Sheesh, tough crowd.
The failure to replicate the alleged ignition of a fusion target one year ago suggests that the event was an accident, in the sense that we still don’t understand how to create the conditions leading to ignition in an indirect-drive laser experiment. Even if we could predictably ignite such a target, that would be almost completely irrelevant for commercial power generation. The total system gain is still << 10%. Fusion is not an attractive or desirable approach: https://progressive.org/op-eds/let-cut-our-losses-on-fusion-...
Nope, the most powerful bombs use both - in effect they use fission to perform fusion. Obviously the problem with this for energy production is that it is not a very controlled reaction.
If they're supposed to ship this year, how certain are you that they don't exist and don't have a cost?
Another great book at that level is Student friendly Quantum Field Theory by Klauber. Especially if you struggle with the incomplete math treatments in standard books like Peskin & Schroeder, where the first chapter basically assumes you already know all the weird complex contour integrals that you usually only encounter in QFT. If Klauber says "from this easily follows ..." then you can expect to understand it even if you're not yet an expert. Ofc that comes with less depth in total, but there's no point in talking about renormalization if you haven't understood field quantization.
Doesn't this just mean, we'll start fracking again?
Okay everyone, shit it down, kosasbest doesn't use these apps so this article is immediately irrelevant!
I have two criteria:

- languages that are foundational or continually in demand: C, C#, Java, Golang, Python, Ruby, JavaScript

- languages clearly gaining traction: Rust, Elixir, Typescript, etc

The languages listed and the categories I listed aren’t exhaustive, just the ones I thought of.

I try to keep some of the foundational ones fresh-ish. Then I’ve got a couple of the interesting ones fresh just because I find the space interesting.

Right now, my foundational languages are C, Golang, and Ruby. Exciting ones are Rust and Elixir.

Beyond that, I don’t try too hard. Just want to keep familiar with ideas.
Thr just reinforces the power of the java community to me. Servlet container is completely a choice built around standards unlike the js community where it still seems to be node or bust. It makes java look light years ahead of js.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon

The "hydrogen" in "hydrogen bomb" relates to fusion. In a nutshell, these types of devices use a fission bomb to create the environment (pressure/temperature) that causes lighter atoms to undergo fusion, which significantly boosts the explosive yield compared to a pure fission bomb.
Agreed, which means the Reddit poster is thoroughly wrong.

I'm mostly trying to discourage anyone who comes across this from trying to "ground" anything to neutral, because it's bad. Very, very bad. (And taking an opportunity to mock European electricians, who have done more damage than they know.)
Wow. How would floor managers benefit from that kind of swap?
To my knowledge, there isn't any reason klarna can't describe their transaction volume as revenue. Then declare their margin 3%.

As a private tech company I would assume that they are using the broadest possible definition of revenue.
I tend to disagree with this in many ways. Chinese products are often made from subpar raw materials like steel, which can be much more brittle than steel sourced from US, Germany, and Mexico.
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We've gotten to the point that in the future at the coffee shop you're going to have farmers asking each other, have you jailbroken your new John Deere?
It looks like that's all in the first link. I took the RSS feed from there and put it into Overcast.
Why do you use TOR and have JS disabled?
they have a fission primary stage to ignite the fusion secondary stage
> The one on the left gets caught on raising network interfaces

I mentioned in the parent that Oasis had already booted before the delay even begins.

I also mentioned that it's not really fair to compare Debian being greatly optimised: I was measuring the practical loading time of a stock VM (that was optimised for being a VM in Debians case and which bypassed the BIOS).

The images I used were the cloud optimised ones that have a slimmed down/optimised kernel for QEMU: https://cdimage.debian.org/images/cloud/
> Cargo bikes scale far better than cars.

That's a huge misunderstanding. They scale in exactly the same way: they have space usage that grows linearly with the number of owners. They are of course smaller, but also carry only one adult. A city that has a problem with x million cars will have the very same problem with 3x million cargo bikes. That's a serious problem, because cities tend to grow ever more dense. The constant factor simply doesn't change the equation. The only thing that scales better is a shared mode of transportation, but that doesn't offer the same level of freedom as individual transportation and is often not as efficient as one would like (e.g., subways getting overcrowded during rush hour).
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Technical artists are far different from performance or exhibitionist artists. They aren't even in the same realm.

Yeah, art is vast. It includes me saying "Kerflaffle!!" while I ride a unicycle and fart out a candle in a dimly lit room. But that doesn't usually pay bills and most artists don't do this type of art. It serves a different audience/consumer. It has a different market cap. Let's not confuse oranges and grapefruit.
GitLab is charging for metered compute minutes, which is hardly an unreasonable bargain for users who have been them for free for two years. Slack's feature-gating is disconnected from any unit economics - indeed, they actually do _store_ the messages prior to the most recent 10,000, but they just refuse to index them. The cost of that indexing is relatively minimal and does not scale linearly with number of users.
What's funny is that I love remote work, but I have all these problems. But I think they are actually related to the other overthinks and managers on teams that also struggle with the remote work.

As someone who can walk away any time, that backup thought kills the anxiety straight away. But dealing with an entire office of anxious, overthinking engineers is incredibly stressful, and always has been. Then these people think taking it out on their coworkers is fine, because "well, everyone is stressed out"

If people can learn to work remotely in a hybrid company, they also need to teach the onsite people to learn to work with the remote people correctly, which most people, especially managers, DO NOT DO. Bad managers the last 2 years have been freaking out at about the lack of control of headcounts and butts in seats and semi comatose clock watching. But a lot of people are done with that, at almost any cost. Look at all those open jobs that can't be filled at minimum wage. Who wants to work a minimum wage job with customers that are going more literally insane day by day.

Maybe Gitlab had it right all along. Remote first is really the only way. At least everyone is on the same playing ground then. Even when you get management together (for some reason the higher you go, the more people think "face time" is important), they will gossip like an office, but that won't happen with their reports (underlings). It's just very one-sided.
Jumping on in unrelated but similar question. A long time back (maybe 15-20 years), an author on slashdot wrote an episodic Sci-Fi across months of comments about the singularity. I recall reading parts of it at the time, but never finishing it. That's about all the context I can recall :D
Not on my phone or computer, and I am all in on their ecosystem. I was prepared to bail over their CSAM scanning plans and I can easily move forward with it for ads. The Pixel with Calyx is still quite functional.

I have an ethical line and it is my phone and computer are for my convenience, not a way to toss advertising toward me.

Go ahead Apple, test me. Ya almost lost me a year ago. And I am not alone in this, I think most of Apple’s user base would be quite intolerant of such a plan.
In the spirit of the Halloween documents, Microsoft implemented and extended the Kerberos protocol.

Extended it just a tiny bit enough to be incompatible with everyone else. After getting bad PR in the media, they reluctantly agreed to publish their changes. And guess what?

... in order to get it, you have to run a Windows .exe file which forces you agree to a click-through license agreement where you agree to treat it as a trade secret, before it will give you the .pdf file

See https://slashdot.org/story/00/05/02/158204/kerberos-pacs-and...
I can see the page just fine, pretty cool!
You improved the speed of something. It took 430ms before and now just 160ms. But how do you quantify that? https://how-much-faster.glitch.me/ gives you a few options for how to word things.
Soviet engineers proposed something similar in the 50s/60s to divert rivers flowing north into the Arctic.
Regen braking is a huge win for semi's.
Most likely the HN Hug of Death® had gone into effect. It's capable of incapacitating any sort of system without load balancing as soon as that system is linked from the front of Hacker News.
> Weps made a free remake for Windows of Kennedy Approach

There was quite a bit of SEO spam to work through as it seems they let the domain lapse and it was bought up, but this seems to be the general ballpark of when it was live: https://web.archive.org/web/20081223024015/http://www.kenned...

For some reason Wayback didn't hyperlink the actual download, but updating the URL will return it: https://web.archive.org/web/20081224105001/http://www.kenned...
JS is everyone’s favorite language to diss, but I actually find it quite pleasant these days. In nearly every other language I tinker with, I find myself missing some aspect of JS.

I never thought I’d see the day. I wonder if it’s Stockholm syndrome.
I don't know anything about manufacturing but I wonder if problems associated with outsourcing IT overseas are not also experienced in manufacturing.l? Wouldn't having the factory closer give you same benefits as being able to walk across to a fellow developer and discuss some issue.
There is a FUSE implementation of ZFS for Linux but it is still in development. Porting it at this stage could be tricky.
They sell the higher spec ones on the side to their buddies?
Is this really true? Cutting quality doesn't buy you much if your cost per unit is primarily driven by labor. If you manufacture in a high cost country, you may be forced to compete on quality.
Patterns (YC S21) is hiring devs to help build the Figma for data
By pocketing the difference.
Currently text is not directly editable, you write in a (moovable, resizable) frame-editor and see "in real time" the result in the wiki page. And it's comfortable enough to write prose in long, for instance see this page http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=professeur and try to edit it. The homepage full of active codes was created from scratch without trouble. It works for me.
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I wonder how much effort it would be to automate the process of creating real-looking data (via AI or public-domain data) and then watch the money roll in (or at the very least DoS these scams enough that they can no longer tell real loan applications from all the noise).
Wouldn't the lower spec ones fail QA checks on factory floor?
The non-Riemannian nature of perceptual color space
This is a very beautiful and interesting project, and contains some themes that I've been thinking about myself recently (representations of code vs. data, interactive development environments, text markup, wikis).

I'm curious as to your take on the following opinion:

Even if your representation for an imperative programming language and declarative markup language are the same (I quite like using a parenthesized prefix notation for both), it's beneficial to cleanly separate those two languages in order to preserve a clean and distinct set of semantics for both.

(you can also extend this to a "presentation language" - what I'm getting at is that you can take the view that the tripartite separation of HTML, CSS, and JS in web technologies is actually a feature because it leads to a cleaner design than trying to mix all of those languages together (although I think that all of those particular languages have their own sets of flaws))

λ way is a very interesting project and I'm curious to see where it will go!
What’s the working definition of “positive?”

Generally I feel like ones seeking to kick out a foreign force (like a colonizer, e.g. US) do better than ones that involve just infighting.
> And I am not alone in this

But you are probably one of a handful of people who would switch ecosystems over an ad for a business in Apple Maps.

Most people have significant amounts of lock-in impeding such a move.
I used to audit tls libraries for a living and bearssl is the library I would choose today if I had to make a choice
I'm curious about this too. I think the clojure maps are backed by RRBTs (relaxed radix binary trees), and I've wondered how possible it is to take advantage of that structure for writing algorithms on top of (vs it being sort of "behind the scenes" only, taking care of immutability/persistence).
I was 17 and I built a portable mp3 player out of a computer and put it in a backpack. It ran linux and had a keyboard - no screen. It was way better than the available CD-ROM based mp3 players back then. Who wants to flip through 700 songs on a ff / rewind button anyway?

Sadly, I didn't have the thought or the money or the people to turn it into you know... the iPod. (technically, I was about 2 years earlier, but I'm sure they were working on it)
You know as a matter of fact credit cards are not a wrong answer, really. We only got to the point of 9 billion humans on a tiny planet meant for a few million at best, because the only way out of compound interest debt--synonymous with credit cards--is economic growth--usually more humans.

China saw it that way, in the time of Han Chin, the first Chinese emperor. Wealth comes fundamentally from agriculture because then you can make more servants slash slaves for the emperor, that's literally what he called them, then instead of emperor you have an Emperor, Emperor of China. That's what the original historical sources say! More food more people more servitude more wealth for the man at the top of society.

So credit cards are that. Uniformly crazy interest rates, and shitty scams to jack up the rates just barely before getting taken to court. Or a French Revolution, which they know about and fear. Know the harm they do, the houses they take, the homeless they make, the people they imprison indirectly, the children they starve, they know. What's it's name, FICO score, patio11 talked about them, they are 100% certain you--anybody who reads this--is strictly inferior to them. He says if you talk back to their claim you are an inferior debtor who deserves a low credit score they react like it's a shoe factory dealing with a talking shoe. An object. A servant slash slave.

Owes them money just because. Or because that debt was inherited. They actually have all the machine learning models and all the statistics you could possibly ask for (generally they claim this is fraud detection, but it's price discrimination too) to determine exactly how much--to the thousandth of a percentage--they can fuck with people with their usury--their theft--before people go bananas. Usury means you gotta pay back the debt or be homeless. Tolerate crimes in your gainst with no recourse. Any crime. No recourse. In my case murder. No recourse. Cops won't show up for you.

Debt grows surprisingly fast. Just as surprisingly fast as the equity in the home grows surprisingly slow. People always feel cheated by their mortgage because they did get cheated by unforgivably incorrect math. What does that mean? Ignoring all the intermediate steps, more kids to inherit the debt.

And technically--and I can justify this mathematically and in a court of law--even simultaneously--compound interest is contradictory to the laws of physics. It would not work out mathematically even if they did do the math correctly, which they do not. It could work in an infinitely-dimensional universe. If they did it correctly. But not in a 3-dimensional universe. You can have, at absolute most, cubic growth. Otherwise you end up with shitty debt. Unforgivably incorrect math declaring you are a servant slash slave. A letter demanding you make a choice: servitude or tolerating crime against you.

Shitty debt.

Credit card debt.

9 billion humans.

Climate change.
Unless the action can only have effects that do not effect causality and can only be "observed" once there is a casual connection.
I'd check into that, yeah. There's a possibility that it's just capacitively coupled, which is unlikely to be a problem. Also could be weird building wiring, which happens more often than you'd think. Or it could be weak insulation somewhere, though that's less likely.

In any case I wouldn't be too worried. Maybe check it out with a few different receptacles and consider getting a receptacle tester if that turns up something interesting. I kind of hate Apple, but their chargers set the benchmark for the industry. I doubt they're your problem.
Grugs write business code we dont have time for that nonsense. Big brains like to spend their time writing nonsense which sometimes produces new languages but usually only mess for grugs to deal with after big brain leaves.
Do we still need makefiles :(? What’s the alternative?
>> I predict the sun will run out of steam and we are all gonna die.

> -the-dude (2020)

> I dunno about that, sun looks fine to me!

I'd call that one half-right. The sun is almost certainly devoid of all gas-phase H2O. Well, maybe a quarter-right, because it didn't "run out" of something it didn't have.
> You're not really proposing anything in its stead, though, as far as workable systems of schooling.

It's unreasonable to request that I propose a workable alternative in this context.

> I suspect you might have some views that the student should "tough it out" or "solve the problem themselves".

That's not an accurate assumption.

I'm sorry, but I'll have to leave it there. I hope you have a good week this week.
No. This argument comes up over and over and over again and it is wrong.

These models are not learning or being inspired in the same sense humans are. The laws tgat apply to humans should not be applied to them.
If pumped hydro+renewables is so cheap, why have developing countries like Vietnam chosen to build coal plants instead? Which large country has been able to replace fossil generation with wind/solar & storage and keep prices down?
This whole comment chain is utter nonsense. Not only is the research publicly available (so much for capitalism locking knowledge behind patents) but the research was done at a government funded lab (capitalism had nothing to do with getting this done). Not a huge fan of capitalism myself, but these comments literally make no sense.
> Credible promise of responding with those small nukes directly against Russian regime is what stopped Putin's threat of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

Link to credible reports where the US said they would respond with nukes? AFAIK, this never happened and I paid close attention
Same way it happens outside china in other industries. You know a supplier who sells material / service for $BUDGET minus X, in exchange for swapping the PO you get a portion of X from the supplier via back channel means, while company is now paying $BUDGET for lower quality material / service that costs supplier less.
Ah, pocketing the delta on input costs. Hopefully the drop in output QA metrics would be detectable via software.
Fission would be faster if the path to deployment was realistic, but it isn't. A recently approved small modular reactor design was the first one to be approved in the US in several decades and it still has another 10 years and several more regulatory bodies to go through to build it, let alone start deploying it.
Which opening could you pour gasoline in a Tesla Model 3 to achieve anything else than a fire hazard? Any amount of those "33.7 kWh" gallons will get you exactly zero miles – how is that more efficient?
that should be my tag to every post.
Feature requests:

- Filter by "before year", so I can see predictions from earlier years which are more likely to be resolved. Most of the random results I got are in the 2020s.

- Make the url contain a seed, so you can copy/paste the URL and get the same prediction (EDIT: my bad, looks like there is already a "share link" button)
Perhaps lobby your representatives in Congress to dedicate additional funding for the CDC to build that out?
I do see a cotradiction here. People can touch eachother as much as they want. However, I don't think they are entitled to touch my hands, as defined by some traditional social norm.
Dude. What the hell kind of anti-life philosophy are you subscribing to that calls "being unhappy about people trying to automate an entire field of human behavior" being a "coward". Geez.
> the company simply turned off the logins - it was their way of laying people off

In a lot of countries this is illegal, you need to prove a cause for firing anyone. One of the reasons klarnas firings in Sweden have been controversial and complicated is that they specifically tried to sidestep that by "firing people" by getting them to resign and accept a deal. They would not be able to just outright fire people without negotiating the terms, and those terms are usually based on a LIFO queue.

> One of my ex-colleagues simply quit one day - no emails, no notice...nothing.

Some people don't want to leave with fanfare, but notice is basically required in sweden (again, using sweden as a comparison since the thread is about klarna).

> Another one of my ex-colleagues told me he was doing two jobs, but only working 8 hours in total per day, if that.

If they were dishonest about that then that does not look great IMO. If they weren't and both companies were fine with it then it seems OK.
They could start by getting more candidates in the Senate, by more aggressively advocating for policies that will genuinely help people. It really seemed like Bernie Sanders's policy proposals resonated with a majority of Americans, but the Democratic Party did everything they could to sink him. Their more moderate proposals were less exciting, which I think is why the election between Biden and Trump was so close. If the Democratic Party had gotten behind more popular policies, they could have won more seats in the Senate too.

The problem, of course, is that both parties (though not Bernie Sanders) are beholden to big corporate interests. So they have to fight for lukewarm policy that doesn't really excite the people, but satisfies their major donors. They could fix this by advocating for election reform, but I don't think the party establishment really wants to change that.

It is worth noting that Bernie Sanders even did a town hall style meeting on FOX news, with positive reception. The Democratic Party could see the value in what Bernie was doing and support candidates like him, but they choose to go after big corporate interests instead. And I think that is their folly.