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> unless your estate is over 12 million dollars(and double that for a married couple), you pay no estate taxes.

Why aren't estates just taxed as income to the entity who it goes to? If my father croaks and leaves me $1m it should count as an additional $1m of income to me that year.
Looking at CEOs or anyone higher up on the ladder has survivorship bias issues and often not useful.I took a stab at answering this myself using an old model from philosophy. I focussed on problems rather than what works. https://www.leadingsapiens.com/transition-to-leadership/
I was disappointed it couldn't convert "1 furlong / 1 fortnight in mph", but this was successful:

> 14 furlongs / 2 weeks in mph [0.0052083333 mph]
This is currently just a side project, but yeah, if I have more than 10 buildings using it I'll probably take it seriously and bring in an (accountant cofounder).
In Canada business and government says this stuff, to justify importing immigrants to work for low wages and often lower standards of living.
I don't understand what you mean well enough. So you might be right or you might be wrong :)

Can you share a couple of example (or maybe use the same examples I did)?
The mechanical tearing imparts the strain. Probably. Nobody really knows that for sure.

These days, common practice is to cut the graphene with an AFM or laser prior to stacking.
LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
Cool new efficient inference method that saves 2x memory and does not degrade performance for large language models!

More from the author about this at: https://twitter.com/Tim_Dettmers/status/1559892888326049792
I dont fear magic as much as magic* where the * is all the exceptions that had to be hacked into the magic to make it work on the slightly different use case than what the magician dreamt up
Try changing the default DNS in AOSP from 8.8.8.8 without doing ill advised, hacky weird nonsense. Have you tried to prevent your AOSP phone from reporting tethering to your carrier in the last ~6 years? The software is licensed GPL, which means you own it outright as a user, to it's core, right? So these types of things should be possible with ease with a little technical proficiency, right?

Android, including AOSP, is not an operating system, because it doesn't enable the user to operate the device. It is a kiosk, because it enables the licensee to use the device, and limits utility to OEM, carrier and Google market requirements and business cases.
I wish I knew what the designers/engineers were thinking when they created the ability to play music from a USB drive. It feels like their target audience is not the type of person that would put music on a USB drive for the car.

I just want it to recognize that I sort my music into folders and show the folder hierarchy. Instead, in my last car, it would flatten the entire structure and then sort by filename. To top off the shitshow, it would also only show up to 99 files, and scrolling through the list was painful. Each tap on the scroll button would only move one line, not one page, so if I wanted to play the 80th song, I'd have to tap to scroll 80 times.
Thanks for your reply!

I'm not sure if this is what you're saying, but I think the AST is not meant for "human" consumption (so it'd be outside the scope of this debate, I think), but also, translations that result in alternative and radically different representations between what you see and what I see can be problematic.

"I don't understand your program, it's hard to follow."

"What do you mean? The yellow and black colors alternate quite nicely."

"Colors? What do you mean? I only see triangles arranged in a jarring manner, and they are hard to navigate."

"Navigate? Everything fits in a single board of yellow and black colors, no need to navigate anything."

Etc.
"Infrastructure is expensive"

It's not, relative to other costs. Septic costs around $10k and trenching sewer to lots in urban areas is relatively cheap. Homes on septic are very common and are already regulated. There are also many plots of relatively cheap land with sewer access. I can think of about 20+ buildable acres in my city, for example. The only thing holding back construction is an onerous and expensive permitting process which mostly focuses on visual aspects of the potential development.

Sewer hookups for dense living isn't the part of the permitting process that's the problem.

"This method may be laws and governments of varying qualities."

We are discussing situations where the aggregate impact of these laws becomes a net negative.
yep. The sooner you come across it, the sooner you start building skills that actually help you become more effective for your effort, like learning how to build teams and managing the social graph of an engineering organization.

We've raised the floor so much in FANG tier companies, that the differential of programming skill isn't what makes you more effective. I mean, save for the top 1% freaks ;P
You should insure things you can't afford to self insure for. Life, Home, maybe car.

You should not pay insurance for all the tech crap we buy. You're just losing money on average. Only way to win with this type of insurance is to be unlucky.
That's sort of the question - who owns it? I legitimately do not know.
Btw the conversions don't seem to work for me:

> 100 eur to usd $-100.63
> 100 usd to eur Incompatible units
We've militarized the police because of the long term damage done during riots. The economic impact of riots in the 60s and 70s can not be overstated and is often overlooked when we have these discussions: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40056402#metadata_info_tab_cont....
This is a very cool project and I wish them success.

From a technical standpoint, maybe it won't matter, but I am concerned about the fact that they're using (at this time) a Wayland compositor. I have read that Wayland has some problematic technical design decisions (which were not known when it was conceived) and now today we have the awful situation where most apps in my experience run better in X.org and some are ok in Wayland. From an eyestrain perspective, I find x.org less straining to look at than Wayland. This may have something to do with the drivers but the compositor plays a role for sure. I don't use Wayland by choice. Name a widely used app? Sure, Firefox web browser. Turn on "Use autoscrolling" in the preferences and see how it is. On X.org it is smooth, on Wayland it uses XWayland instead and is not smooth. Both projects are years old. Every single X11 app requires programmers to re-write/convert them to native Wayland. It should have just broken compatibility from day 1 and started from scratch.

BSD DRI drivers are copied over from Linux, just older versions of them, so I don't have a lot of hope that there will be new drivers or a new compositor (likely years away).

Apple, while Darwin is a direct descendant of FreeBSD, Apple is not using Linux DRI drivers, they have enough NDA access that they have their own closed drivers, and instead of using X11, they made their own GUI stack.

I want to say what should be done is to do what Apple did, make a brand new gui stack on top, but that's incredibly difficult with limited resources. With Apple or MS you have endless amounts of money and developers, with X.org & Wayland you have years and years of incremental development. It's tough.
> I never thought electron drift velocity could be 1E6 m/s. That's wild.

GaAs, InP, and InAs have measured max electron velocities in the ballpark of 300,000 m/s, which is ~ 1/1000 of c. So they're listing graphene at around 3x of pretty standard III-V materials.

(It's a nice improvement in speed, but building good electronic devices involves much more than electron velocity.)
Housing crises are a symptom, not a cause. The root issue is demographics, specifically the worker-to-retiree ratio growing at a rate that outpaces productivity growth. Since saving is essentially impossible at societal scales and generational timeframes (how exactly is a car built in 1980 supposed to cause more nurses to provide healthcare in 2020?), tomorrow's workers have to be coerced into transferring real goods and services to tomorrow's retirees. There's essentially two broad categories for this: "saving" by exchanging unconsumed current production for financial assets from retirees, and paying taxes.

If you managed to fix a housing crisis, the only way of doing so is torpedoing retiree financial assets (mix of personal home equity and pension fund), which would shortly cause an increase in entitlement transfers to sustain retiree standards of living. The only way to ease the combined tax and rent-seeking load on younger workers is to reduce the total transfer to non-workers, and the political balance of power forbids this, so things will remain fucked.
It always spins me out that modern day folk can't work out what henges were for: they are so obviously calendars. The people who built them were no grey bearded druids on acid.
They were early scientists who had worked out that understanding the difference between spring, summer, autumn and winter was of utmost importance and a calendar that might not last more than a couple of years was useless, (you might have clouds on the longest day)

People still scratch their heads at what mysticism was going on, why they put so much effort in to them, made them of stone or other durable but hard to work materials, and in places with good visibility to the horizon, and then wonder why people didn't live in them.
People come up with crazy hypothesis for their construction and use. The simple fact is that if you didn't have a good one, and we're trying to live off seasonally farmed crops, you and your family would probably die.

What's more interesting to me is how people without stone henges managed to survive. Presumably knowledge of the North star and stick henges, but if a modern day archaeologist found one of them they would probably mistake it for a tool of witchcraft.
Great question! (Also a tough one)

I have been using Nimbus on my flights and it works well. Of course depends on your geolocation, the latency can be higher than normal but the internet speed should not be a blocker because all the intense internet traffic happens on the data center.

However, without internet it would be challenging to leverage Nimbus solution at this moment since the environments live on the cloud 100% now. But in the future, we will look into a hybrid solution. In short, we can offer the option to rsync (or similar tools) the cloud environments into your local or the other way around to facilitate this corner case.
> > Without the context of the specific accounts being debited or credited the terms themselves mean nothing."

> This seems incorrect to me.

You can't derive the change in assests, liabilities, or equity without know which accounts are being debited and credited. The terms "debit" and "credit" themselves don't tell you anything by themselves. Without the context of accounts the terms are meaningless. I think programmers get hung-up on thinking that they have meaning in isolation (i.e. thinking that "a debit means somebody owes us money").

> I think of it as 'owing' (liability) or 'owning' (asset).

> When you credit an account, you either increase what you 'owe' on that account OR decrease what you 'own' on that account.

That's my point. When you know they type of account being debited or credited you can reason about how it affects the balance of the account and the managerial context of the transaction (i.e. "somebody owes us money because the debit was to a receivable account").
If only Mazda sold hybrids (barring the new EV and plugin hybrid which you can't buy). They really screwed up being late to the game.
You're right, driving involves paying attention to and doing a lot of things all at once. None of those things should be making fine adjustments to the stereo or manipulating the climate controls or placing a phone call or adjusting the drive mode (whatever that means) or any of the other features on your center console.

I'm not white knuckling it, but I'm also not lying to myself and thinking that messing with the stereo or anything else isn't reducing my focus on driving.

Why is it OK to be distracted by adjusting buttons and knobs that are superfluous to driving when the car is in motion?
Just learned a new word, "debossed" and I love it
> With a decent response time and hierarchical menus, it's easy to make a system that is navigable without looking.

There is a difference between working with a touch screen where you can focus on it and using a touch screen where you need to focus elsewhere (like the road). There is also a difference between something like a plane where you have a great distance from other moving objects most of the time and a car where you are regularly around other cars.

My wife has a slightly older car with no touchscreen. We can operate it by feel. Without ever needing to take our eyes or focus off the wheel. My car has a touch screen. I can't operate that by feel. Constant glances are required.

These are different experiences. Looking at the situational environment is important when creating a good user experience.

I wish I could buy a car with more physical buttons. Would make the whole car driving experience more usable with me as a less distracted driver.
There is the Blazor Hybrid option with .NET MAUI. You write your UI using Razor (HTML + C#) and can use native controls and features when needed. As a .NET dev who prefers HTML to XAML, this feels more natural to me for a lot of apps.

https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/blazor/hybrid/tutoria...
>It's much better than clip art.

I agree, that's why I called it fancy clip art.
I will note that Washington state makes this very straightforward; universal mail-in voting with real easy registration has definitely led to me, a disorganized young person, voting when I wouldn't have otherwise.
Not really. For example, no one has ever tried to extract even a milliwatt of power from a fusion reactor. We have some good ideas how to do it, but it's just never been attempted, so we might discover some fundamental challenges.

Then, even if all current plans go right, current designs have no realistic hopes of being economical. Plants will cost extreme amounts of money, as they require state of the art technology at every level, and the irradiation caused by the fusion reaction will turn all materials in close contact with the fusion core brittle (reactor vessel, support structure, possibly even magnets) in a few years, requiring a complete replacement.

Not to mention, an accident can easily be catastrophic for the entire reactor, making the whole thing an extremely risky endeavor. Even the environmental risk is large, even if not nearly as bad as fission - if such an explosion occurs, it will send radioactive materials (concrete, steel, cooling agents), plus radioactive tritium, all around the plant, requiring expensive cleanup and risking the future of the whole plant.
Fundamental, foundational, unavoidable, overwhelming, invincible but just dirt simple truth: Please sit down for this. And may I have the envelope, please? Drum roll?

===>>> In computing, meaning is crucial. Computer source code doesn't mean anything. <<<===

Computer code obeys strict syntax rules, but those rules do not give meaning.

So far, sorry 'bout this, essentially, to date, there is only one good and significant approach to meaning -- writing in a natural language, e.g., English. Did I mention, sorry 'bout that.

In simple, blunt terms, in well written code, the comments which provide the meaning are more important, especially for maintenance, than the actual code that gets executed. Sorry 'bout that. Beyond that, beyond any doubt, far and away, in well done software, the most important part is the well written documentation. I should put this word documentation in all caps, ultra bold face, with flashing lights -- well written documentation.

Sorry 'bout that.

For my code for my startup, early on I wrote out some documentation in TeX, with the crucial core pure/applied math, data handling, etc. Then I wrote some notes about the code. The code is just awash in documentation, 100,000 lines of typing and 24,000 programming language statements. Right, on average 4 lines of typing for each programming language statement.

I had some external events pull me off the work of my startup, but now I'm returning to it and finding my old documentation just crucial, terrific. Even though it is all my project and code, I still need all the documentation, and it works great -- let's me understand again right away.

Don't believe me or argue with me. Instead, learn from D. Knuth who has demonstrated very well that he is really good with software. See what he did, and how and why, with his literate programming -- more like reading a book in English about something in engineering than just source code.

Right, long many software projects at IBM and the US DoD went through stacks and stacks of layers of planning, requirements, specifications, ..., before any code was written. Then for any change, might have to go through the hundreds of pounds of paper of the documentation to get it up to date again -- a real pain, bottleneck, boat anchor to progress, etc. Right. Need a better way. But apparently their documentation process was too clumsy or some such. On the other hand, if the software is for an airplane and it is you who is going to fly on that plane, then maybe ....

Net, the meaning is crucial, and the code doesn't mean anything. The meaning is in the documentation written in a natural language, e.g., English. Sorry 'bout that.

One more point: We can try, but I see little hope soon. We can try to design a programming language with syntax so expressive that the meaning is automatically obvious and no more documentation is needed. Did I mention I see little hope soon? Sorry 'bout that.
The MX-30 EV does not have one, so it seems unlikely
>white is very visible

Not so much when there's snow on the ground or in fog.
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> Housing affordability plagued Germany of the early 20th century

You gotta reach back to over a hundred years ago to find an example?

> Can you list these rich countries with 'population explosion[s]'?

What the hell are you talking about?

The population in the US is the highest it's been in history.

You're using a bullshit metric like growth rate which is a percentage of constantly increasing number? 1% of 100 is the same as 50% of 2. Of course the growth rate goes down as the population goes up.

The natives to the country have a declining birthrate. This is the responsible thing to do.

This decreases the population and returns the US to a stable population density.

If the US wasn't flooding the country with over a million non-natives every year both population AND housing would stabilize and NOT be a problem.

Population is the issue or more specifically non-native population.
Nish from Nimbus here

We have some loose plans but not really high up to be honest.

From a traveling perspective, it works well... as long as you have internet..you get fast download speeds (based on AWS data center transfer speeds), can work on an env more powerful than ultrabooks, and your battery life is longer.

But you can't work from a jungle or a plane without wifi :)
Is 9 the minimum number of nodes you need for a reasonable ceph setup or is that just what you arrived at for your use case?
Jank looks like a project to check in on its status a few times a year, exciting possibilities.

For your thinking about Clasp and alternatives for Common Lisp: I don’t think there is a gap to be filled with Common Lisp deployment. For free, build SBCL from source enabling heap saves compression. Then creating SBCL Common Lisp apps produces a fairly small app size, easy to build and distribute. Or, pay for something like LispWorks and creating compact standalone applications is perhaps even easier.
LOL...typically i would agree but i find DL requires a lot more intense engagement (for now) followed by lots of idle time reading hacker news as the models complete training.

DS/ML/BI/WTF EVER has all become overly incestious filled with buzzwords generated by hiring managers/executives who really have no idea what they're talking about when they write the job descriptions (or they're being seriously cheap by blending job functions together such as Head of Data and Analytics...wtf is all that about. From a business function sure sounds great, technically it's a recipe to set ppl up for failure).
Dependently typed programming languages:

* Solve a lot of these issues

* Exist
Oooor they can sell it, as originally stated. Goodness.

The point is reduce land entitlement a little bit. Yes, there's going to be some light incentive to cut loose and that's OK.
Have you tried any of the Low-Code/No-Code tools of the recent years? Do you feel they are a big leg up from Ruby when it comes to small webapps done by solo developers?
Yeah was thinking the same thing since it involves payments integration
You're right. I looked at the examples he linked and instead said "this isn't working well, f** PE for making it worse."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/kkr-brig...
Something that has potential that I personally have started to use is getting exhausted under sun ie walking 4 miles in afternoon. It's so bright and if you stay out for like an hour or two. You're brain really gets the message that this is the day time. Me who has been going to sleep at 3:30am for last 10 years have started to feel groggy at just 9pm whenever I go out in afternoon for long walk
I bought my friend a lordship at Sealand one year for Christmas. I'd been thinking about the Scotland thing first, but decided I'd rather gift him a real title in an arguably fake country than a fake title in a real one.
The jog dial is great. I don't have to watch my finger find the right thing to press on the screen. This more than halves the time I spend looking at the screen.

Also, our car (BMW i3) has 8 programmable buttons (like old-school radio presets) that let me jump around in the user interface to frequently used screens.

Some niche things I use frequently (check my email for new GPS destinations, bypass FM auto-tuner, and advanced energy efficiency monitors) are buried two or three menus deep, so I created shortcuts for them. I use buttons 1, 3 and 8 all the time.

I use the jog dial more frequently than the shortcuts though. The menus provide fast access to more commonly used stuff (pair bluetooth, choose podcast / artist / album, control GPS zoom and routes, turn off screen). You can skip audio tracks and initiate phone calls to people in your phone book with dedicated buttons and a thumb dial on the steering wheel.

There are dedicated buttons and knobs for climate, and eco drivetrain modes.
Racial homogeneity is proven to also contribute to lower crime rates. A very under looked reason.
This is an interesting topic. I've followed Dr. Sinclairs work for some time. For me specifically I personally did not experience any notable gains but I only used NMN for about 6 months and it was one of the more expensive supplements of the 50 or so that I take.

I've since switch back to just taking NAM daily since excess NMN is converted back to NAM for storage. I would like to learn how to improve the process of converting NAM -> NR -> NMN -> NAD+ but I have not found much literature on this process. Just flow diagrams. The literature explains that the bi-directional cycle of conversion slows with age but I can't find anything explaining what the specific mechanisms are that degrade with age and how to modify the root cause of the degradation.
Why should they pick something? I thought the whole point of this was to build open hardware and let me pick something?

If you want a manufacturer to decide for you what you should run on your phone, maybe just buy a Samsung or apple device. They've already got it figured out also.
Sedans mostly look alike because of safety regulations. There’s only one basic shape that can meet all the regs and is plausible to manufacture.