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Nuclear weapons are deterrents, they have a very limited use against actual military targets, only against civilians. Going nuclear means that there will be no more prize worth taking, and one’s own survival is jeopardized.

Which means that conventional wars are still very much possible when the implicitly agreed rules of engagement are formulated and accepted by the warring parties.
Sure, but you have to look at total costs, span over lifetime. How long will it take you to pay for that house you probably live in? How much time do you waste commuting? How draining is your job? How much do you spent when going out on some show, restaurant etc? How close to true nature are you?

I've followed money in my job decisions in the past and it has worked out OK for me so far, but of course I have no clue how my life would look like with other choices. But living in cramped place like SF for double the salary (thats max) and double the costs... no thank you.
It’s risky too, but it’s pretty much the only thing on the center console that is directly related to your physical comfort which will impact your concentration. That’s why I made an exception for it.
BORLAND Turbo Debugger documentation mentions hardware debuggers from: Atron, Periscope, Purart.

Purart Trapper was an ISA card sniffing buss activity with ability to break on set conditions https://archive.org/details/PC_Tech_Journal_vol07_n04/page/n...

Atron also ISA card https://textbooks.cs.ksu.edu/cis642-643/1-history-of-softwar... very proud of being used by Oracle :) https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1987-08/page/n21/m...

Periscope software? with NMI button, optional ISA ram boards to hide debugger and CPU interposers http://www.os2museum.com/wp/have-you-ever-used-one-of-these/

Afaik none of those used intel secret sauce ICE functionality. Of course with 386 we got SoftICE.
Wars in Vietnam, Korea, Central America, Syria, just to name a few.
Until it doesn't work, then voice is the worst.
Same situation with even modern land cruisers, with the exception of the hvac system in the top end models. A common modification is to order the base model modules from Australia and get rid of all the touch screen components.
At least 10 years ago, there was talk of touch screens that could modify their surface to expose physical buttons. It's still not the same as physical controls, but it seems like it would be an improvement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv7OLP41nlM
> I just stopped updating the controller software (none of their gear is external-facing, and IIRC it's only needed for configuration/management) because cloud login is an absolute dealbreaker for me.

Yeah. Updates used to be a nightmare. I had to worry about Windows updates, Java updates, and of course Unifi updates.

Then I started to use the Docker container at https://github.com/jacobalberty/unifi-docker No worries about cloud login...

I have 21 APs all controlled by the container on a Raspberry Pi 4. It's not even breaking a sweat. When I want to upgrade the Unifi application, I stop the container, and re-run the command to use the newer Unifi version. Three minutes later, it's back on the air.
The principles behind the auto industry are primarily driven by the last motive. To pump up the price for some shitty upgrade that not many really want. It's the same core, with a few upgrades that are super cheap to manufacture. Like a dashboard change or change a knob to a button etc.

It's like selling a new iPhone with just a few changes to some superficial apps such as I donno, Numbers.

Agree with you on a modular car where you just let people customise and build whatever the heck they want. I even think you should be able to customize a 2 seater v/s a 4/5 seater with plenty of options.
Is anyone surprised? On my current car I can do literally everything without looking. Everyone around me said I would get used to a touch screen quickly, but having driven a car with touch controls as much as I drive my personal car for about half a year I still cant even change the temperature or turn the butt warmer on.
Everything humans make needs to be maintained or it will degrade and decompose. And things like computer programs also need ongoing support like power, cooling and hardware replacements.

SQL Slammer also died instead of taking over.
Well, the paper was released on July 29th, and the last revision (v2) of the ArXiv document was July 27th, so without going through the whole thing twice I would strongly suspect they are the same.
I have several friends who owned multiple Volkswagen products, and they all swear they won't buy them any more after trying the latest generation cars with their idiotic controls. It's literally a cancer on cars, that some idiotic marketing types are pushing because it looks "more modern". I just hope that the market pushes back on it hard enough that they are forced to revert some of those insane decisions.
Indeed, I think people tend to forget that Germany declared war on the US - which I have seen described (in a fantastic bit of understatement) as "most puzzling":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declaration_of_war_agai...
On my side I think its inevitable. The only question is "when", my 2c on why "inevitable" and some thoughts on where we are.

Inevitable because thats history. Pax Americana has effectively come to an end with the Taliban giveaway. The official end will be if/when they abandon Taiwan; and thats why people care so much. If US can't intervene to save its allies then their word means shit. US has become complacent, self-absorbed in its own problems and as every "empire" crumbling from within. The signs are pretty visible both economically and socially and I won't expand because it would take a whole essay. Point is, when an empire stumbles, others run to take its place (or a piece of it). Of course, there is the asterisk of nuclear weapons that ensure MAD but I bet that millions or billions of man hours are spent on finding ways to avoid MAD on both sides. If that will result in MAD in the end , I don't know; but I don't think its a deterrent which is as real as it was in the 60s.

How close are we? I would put a timeframe of 10-15 years if no other major event comes up. Because US is not what it used to be 10years ago even. The fuckup in north africa was the start, the absolute plunder in Afghanistan was next. People in US are tired of wars as inequality grows and the political system offers no exit. Couple this with a societal swift towards postmodernity thanks to the arrogance of the "elites" and you have a great mix of angered populace with no regards to rationality. Now the war in UKR creates a fundamentally unstable system in the heart of Europe. This system will have to stabilize one way or the other, Russia cannot remain a pariah for a long time or it will risk making it even more aggresive. China is asking for "lebenraum" in southeast sea which US doesn't want to give (but IMO they will be forced to). If China decides to take Taiwan the option is either war with china in their backyard, or backing out and accelerate the US downfall. Either way, it won't go out without a boom, it never does.

Newer generations in advanced countries (including me) view war as something extraterrestrial but reality is that its an everyday phenomenon for the biggest part of the world and for the most time in history. So its easy to think/hope that it will be like this forever and "war is finished", but Ukraine showed to most Europeans that its not (and IMO thats what shocked them the most)
It isn't an annoyance for me: just select text and paste it with middle click? Why bother with ctrl+c ?
That is the nature of Art, it is a dynamic frontier, the edge of human communication and understanding. It is where our communication languages combine to speak what we've not said yet because we are yet maturing as a species and learning how to speak to ourselves.
Midjourney is open to everyone now, no waiting, and is easily the 2nd best tool for this stuff
There is one benefit - you can update the UI of a car with a touchscreen but not one with buttons. Tesla's first touchscreen [1] now looks slightly dated, but they're able to just update the entire fleet.

No doubt it'll get to the point where you can't update it any more - either due to hardware incompatibility, lack of processing power, or some new technology being added. But it has meant that a 2013 Model S looks more modern today than it would have otherwise.

Equally, tech tends to look dated much faster than physical buttons do. It's too early to really say which has more long-lasting appeal.

[1] https://youtu.be/TZ0HsN-tblo?t=124
> writers who have a good idea for a story

Or programmers who are bad at art, so, programmers in general ;)
Indeed, I feel many are betting on rationality coming on top and that simply makes no sense to me.

For example, does it seem like the Russian public is rational in any way? There are many approving of the 'denazification' rhetoric in Ukraine. Since the CCP has been pushing the narrative that Taiwan is China, it's somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You'd be surprised how much cost savings matter.

Years ago when I was working in IT at FoMoCo I recall seeing a piece of paper on an office bulletin board outlining how they had managed to save like $40 on the production cost of a Taurus, a vehicle that at the time was about $20,000. Those savings were the result of multiple sub-$1 to several dollar cost savings tweaks made between production years.

Ford has built something like 8 million Tauri, save a few dollars on each of them and it adds up to real money, like enough to redecorate the executive cafeteria.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8
I'm not sure they would work well if you're listening to loud music or something. Personally, I don't think I'd ever buy a car that uses voice control as its primary interface; I greatly prefer physical buttons.
This started years ago, my example is the transformation of the Jeep CJ into the wrangler. CJ were fairly cheap, worked fine and came with no frills (I won't talk about rust). The wrangler is an overglorified SUV. When that happened, I went to regular automobiles, which are now getting harder to find these days.
I've never understood why there has been such a strong anti-nuke sentiment among many environmental groups, but you're really stretching it to say that's what's "ruined our chances". The blatant sponsorship of AGW denialism and buying out of politicians by vested interests deserves the bulk of the credit on that front. That and weak and backward looking political leadership in general.
I'd personally agree with this, but at the same time, I think aircraft like the F-35 have moved to touch displays instead of 4th gen MFDs (but works with gloves?), and didn't some of the SpaceX stuff have touchscreens. There must be some logic driving it in the defence/space industry...
Military pilots like the F-35 except for the touchscreen.
Tankable fuel is generally more versatile than fixed battery installations. You can sell excess, once your tankage is full.
Driving is dangerous. But looking in your side mirrors is necessary. But looking too long is dangerous, especially in stop and go traffic.

My point is not that we should do nothing because everything is dangerous, but that we should minimize the risk by avoiding things that are unnecessary.

Adjusting the radio is almost certainly unnecessary to drive.
>To give an example, slot machines in Nevada must pay out a minimum of 75% of the take.

Machines plural - which means a machine that just paid out (in a casino with a large group of machines) can theoretically pay out again before a machine that has a string of losing spins.
> Turn on the windshield wipers

"Can't open the trunk with the car in movement."

Clicking a button is orders of magnitude faster than casting a spell. Voice controls fail more often than analog controls break. You do not want a delay to turn on your wipers when you are at 60mph and hit a sudden localized rainstorm.
Ask HN: Learn back end the hard way?
I've recently started my first full time job as a backend programmer, and I've had several internships, but I still feel like I just don't fully _get it_. Is there a backend framework out there that will be hard to use but force me to learn the ins and outs and make me a better programmer? So far I've just used node, spring, and a bit of vanilla go.
You still have to browse through menus.
I don't agree to your judgement about Russia. Chinese army might lack some real fight experience, but they got numbers and they got budgets. EU increases their military budgets as well, so things will change in the future.

US has powerful army but that costs a lot. Once US economy will stagnate, and at this point that's pretty obvious, military budgets will be cut. US run from Afghanistan not because they achieved something but because they can't afford it anymore. It'll happen with other places.
.net being a good example of this

I'm sure I still have CD case with 'Windows .net' printed on it which contains Windows 2000 and SQL Server... .net?

The marketers really went to town on that one, would have loved to be in the creative pitch meetings for that swag.

'.net, what is it??'

'Who knows??! But if we print .net in multicolour on enough stuff, somebody might figure it out!'
On other hand if municipality is struggling to attract people in Finland, they will give those plots of lands for essentially free. Or that is nominal cost of 1€ . Actually transaction happens when construction begins.

Then again those prices are in dying areas with little going on.
I’m not sure how you could take that away from my comment which did not mention scooters at all.
Some of it still applies to me. I pay a maid for washing clothes and house cleaning, I go to a tailor for mending clothers, don't iron the clothes though (and they are not wrinkle free), don't have a refrigerator, etc.
The cars with a lot of buttons simply look outdated and people feel bad on choosing a car with a small screen.

The whole marketing is built on it, you get a small screen and lots of buttons if you get the basic version of the car and you get giant touchscreen if you buy the premium package.

If your new car has a large touchscreen your friends who own 5+ y.o. car compliment your choice and express jealousy(at the time of purchase, most people don't have real world experience with touch screens on cars and touch screens are in these cutting edge electronics that are expensive, so they must be good).
If your new car has a small screen you need to explain why this was the logical choice and how much you saved.

It's even the same with the iPhone 13 mini. That device is amazing, you can use it with one hand and fits in every pocket and the screen is actually larger than the first large screen iPhone(the iPhone 6) but people will try to understand why you bought that one. Are you poor? Why would you buy a tiny phone?

It's very strange, the word on the street is that the larger the screen the better. If your $30K product instantly becomes much easier to sell when you replace buttons with touchscreens without increasing the costs wouldn't you do that? I guess you need to have a niche, snobby traditionalist brand to be able to reject that demand from the consumers.
>There was absolutely zero talk of the US/NATO directly intervening militarily in Ukraine.

NPR hosted the former commander of NATO who called for the US to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, to include shooting down Russian jets. Numerous Senators and Congressmen backed one as well.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/03/1084310587/former-nato-comman...
> Always, without fail, whenever the talk falls on taxing CO2, someone will bring up "think of the poor".

The thing is: even if the masses cut back on CO2 to the point they are barely surviving, all that saving will be a drop in the bucket compared to the emissions caused by the rich. And the masses aren't dumb, everyone with half a brain can realize they are being shafted. I would really prefer a way out of disaster that does not lead to immense death and suffering from either a revolution (which will come inevitably once the pressure gets too high) or from climate change consequences.
I've never been in my car and thought the buttons could use an update.. It's hardly something that you should trade safety for.
Nuclear weapons. That's all it comes down to. If Russia didn't have them then (rightly or wrongly) Putin would have been bombed months ago. An existential war would involve large scale use of nuclear weapons, and the US cannot win that. Neither can Russia or China, mind you.
The ADIZ is not Taiwanese airspace. It's an arbitrary, unilaterally defined area that extends well into international airspace and even into continental China.

As far as I know mainland Chinese planes have always stayed in their air space or international air space.

This is reported in a way that is either misleading or plainly incorrect for 'propaganda' purposes. For instance, the second article you quote is plainly a pile of cr*p.

There is a map of Taiwan's ADIZ on Wikipedia from a slide by the Taiwanese military about a Chinese 'violation [1]. You can see that it extends well beyond national air space and that, in that slide, Chinese planes never came close to Taiwanese air space. This is fairly typical of what makes headlines as "Chinese incursion into Taiwan's air defence zone"...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%E6%B0%91%E5%9C%8B109%E5%...
In my opinion, the World War is ongoing, when every country sees the opportunity to enter a fray and exit in a better position.

"Perceived opportunity" here is the key and actual warfare is less relevant, because in normal situation entering a war has obviously negative outcome.

So, it looks like we're in already.
China has a decent track record on climate change.

They're aiming for net zero in 2060, peak emmisions by 2030, they've had a carbon tax for a while. They're the global hub of the solar pv, EV, lithium battery industries, already started on becoming a leader in hydrogen electrolizer production. They've been building nuclear and wind at scale, high speed rail, HVDC connectors and so on.

Why would you specifically worry about them in regards to climate change? They're not stupid, and even if they're evil and want to take over the world renewables are likely the quickest way to get there (particularly if their rivals ignore the issue for short term political gain).

Their five year plan is linked here:

https://climatechampions.unfccc.int/chinas-net-zero-future/

I can't guarantee some perfect happy endings, but supporting carbon taxes is probably going to help a fair bit, that's why the EU and China and basically every developed nation is doing them.

I mean if I told you there's a 'flub tax' in Canada, Mexico, EU, UK, China, Japan, New Zealand but no 'flub tax' in the USA, would you guess that the 'flub tax' helps or hurts the poor?
H2O tastes like water, researchers conclude in new test.
1) Russia is about to lose bigley to a backwater country called Ukraine.

2) China has a tin-pot military that has not really fought an external war since Korea.

No.
Only on long trips!
I hope it sticks around. If it's around long enough, it can be an alternative in its own right. Ever since ElementaryOS lost momentum (or really never found it, rather) I have been looking for a "third way". RavynOS could be a great way to develop Mac apps and also target the apps for RavynOS. Could be great for music appliances and whatnot.
It's true that the US minimum wage is far less than what Ms. Laing received.

Two things to keep in mind though. First, despite the Federal minimum, many states and localities have much higher minimums, for the reason that the Federal minimum is insufficient to live off of in many places. For example, San Francisco, has a minimum of $16.99/hr. or about £29,265 p.a., very close to Mrs. Laing's pension.

Second, whether it's the Federal or San Francisco minimum, it's at best barely sufficient even for a single person. Mrs. Laing had a family of eight people. The US national poverty threshold for a family of 8 is $40K (£33,249) [0], so her by those standards her family would indeed be very poor.

[0] https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/povert...
One would think the visuals of WinUI would lend itself to a lean implementaion in HTML.

I think the problem with XAML is, that it is not really declarative. Declarative would be: "I want a list/detail view, and the detail view has the following actions." and then you apply a theme for look&feel. Rather, you quite explicitly place rectangles, borders, and so on, in a scene. In UNO, a button doesn't translate to a HTML button, but to four nested <div>s and a <p>.
This work reads to me like a neat smart hack. It's the kind of thing I miss reading about in more ambitious systems and learning papers. It "magically" reverses elements of a transformation. If I read it right, it follows a pattern of taking a structured input (source code), an unobserved but consistent transformation (compilation), and an output with latent structure (binary). They trained a transformer model in order to extract features from the output and label them with features that make sense in the representation of the input. This is harder if the transformation is noisy, perhaps as from different inlining behaviors. This is harder if the feature space of the input does not have labels that make sense to the model consumer. What they did seems like fun.
Same general trend on marine MFDs (basically the equivalent thing for boats). Models with knobs and buttons are the "premium" version, the default is typically just a giant touchscreen, which is not always great when you have wet hands.

The flat screens look good, and work great in calm situations, but in heavy seas and/or rain, they can be challenging at times. In my case the manufacturer (Raymarine) offers a wired remote control, so I have a knobs-n-buttons controller that is easy to reach and offers more direct control when needed.
"[Google] had not participated in the (..) disseminating of the defamatory matter" is an _interesting_ take. Many websites rely on search engines for a significant part of their traffic, and the fact that people pay for ads in search results underwrites this. If Google plays a significant part in getting content to people's eyeballs, how do they not "participate in disseminating"?

Furthermore, the judgement makes it sound like Google's algorithm is fully neutral, that the results are the outcome of a simple mathematical algorithm. But Google is well-known to alter search result by manually boosting or banning websites. Given that Google has editorial control over the results, does the continued showing of misleading search results not count as defamation? How is it not the same as a newspaper continuing to call someone an "accused murderer" years after they have been acquitted?

In my opinion, Google gets to eat its cake and have it: full control over the content and none of the responsibility.
My local Walmart has solar over much of its parking lot. All the cars huddle under it.

Meanwhile, the store roof entirely lacks solar.

Nearby Safeway is opposite.
Are they different than Audi? I bought a new S5 last year and a big part of the choice was that, while there is a touchscreen, all the basic important controls have duplicates on the steering wheel or center console. I never have to touch it while in motion.
Good lord, no. Voice control is the worst possible UI, because it’s just as easy to flub or mumble or be misunderstood as it is to aim wrong on a touchscreen. It’s far more vague than actual buttons, knobs, and touch screen controls. How to even describe what you want is a challenge, or even knowing what’s possible. Plus if you are listening to anything or have other people in the car, it’s incredibly disruptive, not to mention the risk the car will misinterpret something actually being said.
5. Backup cameras. They're legally required in some jurisdictions (so I heard), and genuinely contribute to safety, but they require a screen. Once the screen is there, there's both less space for buttons and a virtual hook for features.
So only professional drivers can turn off their cars? :-)