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so, you're saying, OP shouldn't have posted this interesting piece of history, but rather people should look at pretty pictures of San Marino? Gotta say that's pretty vapid.

every place in Europe or one of its colonies which at some time took steps to break out of the traditional dynastic power structures was contributing to the advance of Western political philosophy and thought. But oooh, look at the pretty pictures!
I used to dream of being an artist, thinking it was an intrinsically noble endeavour. But after a lot of hard work and soul-searching of my own motivations, I eventually reframed my artistic pursuit as a means of solving the problems of 'how to get praise, attention, money and leave a legacy'. These are not bad things to want, but I felt like there were better and less self-indulgent ways of getting there than producing art.

A mega-sculpture in Nevada sounds extremely indulgent, and whilst the project seems to have solved many problems for the artist, I can't help but think that the $30 million endowment could have solved a lot more pressing problems elsewhere.
I've definitely heard that said about a male player, I'm not sure why you think they wouldn't. I haven't even watched much football, only Euros and World Cups.
I have to say, I do think I have judged my female managers more harshly than I have my male ones. Maybe it was because it was easier to communicate with male ones. Anyone else retrospectively think they might have been unfair to their female managers?
IDK. I suspect this is less true than most acknowledge.

Black box or not, google are creating these systems, analyzing, optimising and implementing them. It's indeed hard or impossible to trace back individual examples and their whys. But the macro effects are visible and choices are made.

It's just easier to "blame the computer," internally or externally. It's just like bank employees merge always blame "regulations." In fact, whatever they are blaming is a policy created to implement that bank's compliance framework which exists to satisfy the regulator's goals and the bank's goals." Most of the time, the underlying regulation is distantly removed from whatever piece of bureaucracy is annoying the customer or employee. But, if it can be blamed on the regulator, it will be.

It's just easier, if at all possible, to blame an immovable and mysterious force rather than the more likely culprit: humans doing a bad job.
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Presumably it's the tradeoff of CPU overhead versus disk and bandwidth (larger files take longer to copy into memory, which is also energy usage. And more bandwidth to shunt around Amazon's own network)
Fair enough. WW1 spawned things like DORA in the UK, for example.

Edit: And WW2 saw another massive increase of the "state", so not sure war does generally shrink administrative systems.
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I'm not holding my breath
RDP has not worked that way in a long time. Look up “rdp gfx rfx” for an idea of how it works a lot more like streaming video today.
> I also do not want to destroy my pinkie finger with endless usage of modifier keys.

This is exactly why I switched from emacs to vim, after a couple of decades of emacs use. I decided I'd put up with slow editing for a few days, as I forced myself to use vim. (It was that or not type for a week or so.) After a few days of frustration, vim started to grow on me. Swearing became less frequent.

A month later, I was perhaps 75% as fast in vim as in emacs, and my hand pain had completely vanished.

And a few months after that, I noticed that I was really quite fast in vim -- certainly faster than I was in emacs -- and that the constant puzzle-solving (finding the action that required the fewest keystrokes) was intriguing.

Using emacs seems to me to be an exercise in remembering, whereas using vim is more an exercise in thinking. Part of the appeal is that this thinking does not interfere with the thinking involved in writing. It's a bit like driving a standard car: the extra cognitive demand (do I need to shift now? are the revs right yet? am I at the biting point?) seems to be handled by a different processor, and having that processor working makes the experience more enjoyable.
I would also look at

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
It’s preferred due to several reasons:

- lack of degradation of performance due to bloated registry, fragmented disks (probably out of date but still hurts my soul to think out)
- a control panel that doesn’t suck
- several things due to its unix heritage which are far better then windows imo (case sensitive file system, bash/zsh terminal)
- lack of concern regarding bloatware installed by vendors
- don’t have to crap like dot net c++ extensions and other nonsense just to run something
- a more stable, less crashy experience, this is anecdotal but true to me
- reliable warranty and support policies, Apple absolutely kicks ass here

I just want to get shit done with minimal auxillary stuff involved. And that’s why I use ios, macOS. Every aspect of it was designed thoughtfully, and not slapped together. I stopped liking windows at version 8 and have never looked back.
Last time I used Linux, Gnome was nearly perfect apart from the huge toolbars they insisted on to satisfy touch users who don’t exist. Hopefully someone see the lights in the next decade.
Oh, you couldn't find the direct quotes?

The low energy trap BS is nothing new. Tell me, what do you think they mean when they say we need to consume more? How does it all work? It's psychos all the way down.
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That’s harsh
You seem to have difficulties in understanding rhetoric: the spirit of the original post is clearly: "do not forget to get some direct enjoyment - it's worth it". Which again is not literal, so either you try and exercise some "understanding as approaching", or you will systematically miss in communication.

To some cultures enjoyment is paramount. It enriches you. It is nourishment.

The mandate towards the "«strongest plausible interpretation»" is in the guidelines: it comes implicitly with the exercise of communication, here it comes with a clause for heightened awareness.

Edit: more plainly: make sure (as a very general rule) you understood posts before reacting - and in case of doubt, ask.
I hired my boss, she was the best boss ever.
A couple of comments across the thread have made similar points, but if I were implementing this, the "client metadata" like the incoming sha256 etc would be implemented a layer higher than the actual byte storage, so the byte storage could be compressed without any impact on that sort of thing.
The wonderfully simple German language has a nuance with pronouns where you can use an article as a pronoun, which is something you might do when referring to an animal. I noticed commentators doing this a lot when referring to female athletes, but when they talk about male athletes they use normal pronouns. And a lot of comments in general that just make you think "WTF?".
No JWST != JWT
I had the same thing, it was about keeping track of assets. If I didn’t power on this laptop then the IT department reported it as a lost asset.
Sounded like some dude sucked down some helium and got peeved ?
That's what I do, although with OpnSense, but that's that easy part. Also, a cheap managed switch works well enough for this purpose.

The main issue I had was that most "consumer" access points don't support multiple SSIDs with separate VLANs. In the end, I went with a Netgear WAX something that can support 4 SSIDs, each with a dedicated VLAN (+ a separate management VLAN). But it's more expensive than "normal" APs with similar performance.
I’m a Mac user and have 4 monitors plus my laptop’s screen. I use this https://rectangleapp.com/ to add snappiness to my windows. And it kicks ass
My uncle just 'chose to die'. And rightly so. He suffered from a very bad case of cancer that caused him incredible pain. Physically he could have probably lived on for another three to six months but it would have been three to six months in hell. He was quite literally screaming from the pain, even through the heaviest sedatives, the only thing that would have stopped that would have been an artificial coma.

Euthanasia is a godsend for situations like that and if you are against it for some reason understand that there is not such thing as an impulsive act to euthanize, that the medical profession is well capable of weighing whether you are just off your rocker for a day or two or if there is a legitimate cause. Way too many people argue about this stuff without having thought through the consequences and the possibility that one day they themselves may well be begging for that kind of relief.

Obviously, coercing people to choose the option to die and pressuring them with the cost of their treatment should be off the table entirely and should be - as far as I'm concerned - prosecutable.
Not sure if you're joking or being sarcastic or projecting or what, but it's not actually true. Often girls where long skirts, the teachers would check the underwear color.
Why so many comments about Mac vs Windows, when the subject is Mac now vs Mac yesterday?
This is great, I've been curious about this for a while, thanks for offering to answer questions!

> The solution some open source projects came up with was to just take components from Mouser and run their own radiation tests on it then choose the ones that fared good enough to be used in space. That way they can make satellite boards for way cheaper.

Isn't there a requirement for all cube-sats to pass radiation tests / shock tests or whatever for them to be accepted for launch?

From what I've read researching this stuff, the sats themselves aren't necessarily difficult or expensive to build, but its because of this testing / component requirement that makes them expensive.

E.g., see the first comment on this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8TSiKHZbC8

> I work in this industry and yes these things are seriously expensive but also the cost isn't necessarily due to the hardware being expensive. The cost comes from testing and verification. Most integrators and launch providers want detailed information concerning vibration testing, material certifications for outgassing, vacuum testing and burn in. A lot of the players in the sat industry can't really afford to mess this up so they want to make sure the one shot they do have works. All of this additional engineering and testing costs are what kills the affordability. Even if you can get away with doing this all yourself, either academically or otherwise, no launch provider is going to let you on a ride share without this work, which requires specific testing hardware and a lot of man hours... which coincidentally costs a lot of money.
If it’s randomly crashing that could be a hardware issue. I’ve owned numerous MacBooks and Mac minis over the years, nothing should ever be crashing randomly, especially not macOS.
It's not the state that kills, it's the patients that request to have their life ended to avoid interminable suffering.

This sort of framing is not helping the discussion at all.
> In the rare case something is actually misbehaving in that regard it's not much work to go fix right and I'd rather do that than mask it with storm control so it's still happening just not enough to cause an obvious signal.

While I agree with the general idea, I think that there are only so many hours in a day. If the broken device isn't easily fixable, like most IoT junk out there, it's nice to be able to limit the damage.
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Glib, but did you read the article or watch the video report? Unlikely, or you would understand the specific amendments that are at risk, a measured argument is put forward.
Yeah… you lost all credibility when bringing up teams as a benchmark. It’s a piece of utter steaming junk that I would barely call software. Zoom and slack work just fine because they weren’t built by imbeciles.
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Your complaint would make sense if all of my text editing consisted of sequential writing in a stream-of-consciousness fashion. But then, I wouldn't need a text editor at all since I can do that with cat. In reality, I rarely ever do that kind of writing. 99% of the time I am working on some existing document, such as a source code file, and so I need an editor optimized for random access editing. Vim is that editor.

As a long time vim user I am in normal mode all of the time. When I sit down at a vim session I haven't touched in a while I press escape a few times to make sure I'm in normal mode. Then while I'm editing I am continuously typing various motion and change commands, some of which enter insert mode, and then quickly making the change before escaping back to normal mode.

Because I am in normal mode all the time (or perhaps vice versa), I spend most of my time jumping around the file and reading what is already there. Extremely rarely am I looking at a completely empty file where the only useful thing to do is start inserting text. And even then I am often typing some command to pull in text from another file or as the result of a bash command.
Vegan diets are cool, but they're not actually that much more GHG friendly than a sensible omnivorous diet, see the EAT-Lancet diet plan for example:

> The resulting EAT-Lancet reference diet promoted increased consumption of nuts, fruits, legumes and vegetables and suggested that global consumption of red meat and sugar needed to decrease by more than 50% by 2050

https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/

They're working on version 2 at the moment.

But yeah, eating much more food than your doctor recommendeds and subsidizing lots of terrible things going into processed foods is bad, If that's what you mean by "first-world levels".
I think what is confusing about differentials is that variables are meta-objects. You can apply function to a number, you can apply function to another function and so on but you cannot really apply function to a variable, you apply it to something that the variable stands for.

The introduction of calculus in my university went like this:

At first we introduce derivative f’(x) as a limit [f(x+h)-f(x)]/h. It is a linear function. We call d the function that takes f(x) and h and returns f’(x)*h (or it can be defined by currying, whatever). So now we can write df and it makes sense.

Ok, so far so good. But what is even dx? We cannot just apply a function to a meta-symbol. Variables are not first-level objects, they are just notational fiction. You may say that it is an identity function, but such explanation breaks down when more free variables are introduced.
You are basically describing the vision behind Open Stack. It used to have a fair amount of traction in the 2010's but I rarely hear about it anymore.
There's an HP Remote Desktop thing that's "free" for HP workstations. I've used it before and it's good but absolutely chews through bandwidth. Surprisingly good over 5G.
This was considered in the heavily-studied design. Redundancy is a core component.
It also doesn't make sense as a claim.

Who's said it's unconscious?

It might not only be entirely conscious but desirable.
FWIW, the standard argument is that once we can hide people from our view, we forget about them and fail to invest resources in them, resulting in de facto prison sentences or abusive situations with under resourced institutions. The direct implication of intervention is taxation, and most people don't want homeless people around AND they don't want to be taxed, which creates a pretty hazardous set of incentives.

I agree that non intervention is inhumane, but also worry about how humane the intervention is.

It sounds like we're more or less both pro intervention, but arrive at that conclusion in different ways and likely with different caveats.
After using Liveview it’s very hard for me to go back to normal full stack development, the separation between frontend and backend with some rest api seems so arbitrary to me. Especially with doing anything realtime, with your custom websocket protocols, sagas etc.

I’ve been consulting with a few startups and it’s crazy to see how much effort is duplicated and coordination needed even in cases where there’s no public api necessary.

ATM I’m working on a few side projects and I’m enjoying being able to build all of the functionality necessary alone without reaching for anything outside elixir+postgres.

The biggest issue is a pretty steep learning curve and lack of beginner friendly documentation, lots of tinkering and code reading is necessary when starting.
We use phoenix for a few years or so, and it’s very decent. I disagree strongly with the crowd that says it’s the best thing since sliced bread, it’s, well, just a framework. It has the basics for oldschool mvc and real-time stuff, and for the rest you just write regular elixir code. It has some weird naming quirks and, to my taste, a bit too much macro magic but nothing that can’t be learned in a few days.

I don’t mean to downplay the humongous effort that goes into building any framework that doesn’t suck. Phoenix very much doesn’t suck. But it simply got all the basic right and then the true benefits come from it running in elixir/beam, which means you can skip all the job runners, redises, microservices etc.

I don’t know where you got the idea from that something is up with it. It’s chugging along great.
Mixed bag. I had good ones and bad ones. However, the bad ones were worse than bad male managers. I noticed that they were exceptionally aggressive.

Perhaps I am better at enduring bad male managers than their female counterparts.
Ther weirdest thing about Elixir projects like Phoenix is that they don’t rewrite them changing things needlessly every generation, instead something about the language and decisions made causes things to be very stable. You might see this as a lack of activity but they really have worked on great new features with every release.

Phoenix is really lovely, I’ve been using Absinthe the GraphQL add on and it’s been awesome and for the first time I’m starting to play with channels and web sockets which are really so well done and so scalable. The only thing I’d really like is types and better introspection support in my editor but pattern matching often can be used to simulate runtime duck typing to a certain extent protecting you even if your program will still compile.

Maybe worth trying it out as Elixir and Phoenix are quite simple compared to a lot of magic you’ll see in OOP programming languages.
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Everything which needs the format-arbitrary-parameters feature in Rust is built out of macros, so yes it's the reason that println! is a macro. Even with no_std where you don't have an Allocator, and so you can't use format! to get Strings (because there aren't any Strings) you still have mechanisms built out of macros, so you could e.g. write six u16s and a f32 to the serial port on your embedded controller (you could write a &str, but since you can't allocate Strings it'll have to be some pre-defined value like "Error" or "OK").

These functions are especially tricky because we want to have a variable number of arguments with arbitrary types. We want to be able to print two bytes, a string, an array, and six different arbitrary data structures we decided were important.

There are lots more applications for function(a, b, c, d, ...) where a, b, c and so on are all the same type. It might be nice to define min() and max() over these parameters for example. But cases like print-format where it's sane to choose unrelated types are rarer. Languages where I can write min("Cheese", 4, tmpfile, -Inf) have lots of other problems that outweigh the potential usefulness of such constructions.

I expect that if somebody can write a sound but ergonomic varargs story for safe Rust it'll get introduced, even if they can't solve print-format it's still useful as I showed above.
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I confess, I read the guardian website regularly, click through the annoying links which tell me I should really donate. I also buy the newspaper, so I think I've already paid. Never heard of gu.com though. Guardian UK I guess?
They are first but it's not like other browsers are far behind, Chrome is already shipping :has, being first for one feature doesn't mean much while you are years behind implementing non controversial features already in other browsers, not even talking about Safari bugs..
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It's fairly common for women to come across as aggressive for doing exactly the same things a man would.
Spammers are flooding shorts with content and Google is spamming the YouTube with shorts.

Every time I open the now ruined you tube app I wish for a way to disable that rubbish.

I'd anyone can offer advice or an alternate app I'm all ears
Amazon will pay perhaps $50 for a 10TB disk, 10x it to cover for redundancy and the servers and datacenters to put the disks in, and you're looking at "only" 16 mil savings for an exabyte.
What a weirdly emotional rant. I dislike Elon Musk quite much, just as an aside.
> I could use the headphones on AirPods but not the mic

This is still the case. I was just trying to get this to work. You can't use the mic on a Bluetooth headset. There's supposedly a workaround that requires you to install and run a smartphone software stack on your laptop, but I could never get it to work.
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Intel has already shown Sapphire Rapids samples with 64 GB of HBM 2e [1]. It's a safe bet that the HBM is not exclusive with external main memory. That'll be DDR5 of course, not CXL. Maybe in the 5th gen?

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/17422/intel-showcases-sapphir...
Can you elaborate a bit on the "steep learning curve" bit? What took the most time and what do you wish you'd known sooner?
The article is behind a paywall, so I couldn't read it. So I'll add my own curmudgeony observations ...

Back in the day, Japan had 100 year mortgages. It was a sign that something was wrong.

If lenders are desperate to lend money, then that's a huge red flag. The 2008 credit crunch happened because there was too much easy money kicking about. Lenders were desperate to lend, and got involved with wacky lending schemes that went pear-shaped. As one commentator put it about the cause of the crisis: "We shall learn a great deal in the short term, some in the medium term, and almost nothing in the long term".

Roll back a few decades, and banks caught a cold on credit card. The credit card business was profitable, money flowed like water until there was a recession and the whole thing turned into a mess. Bankers assured us that they had learned their lessons and the same thing will never happen again.

The truth is, though, is that nobody learns anything. All the bankers and the regulators that oversee them, who presumably should be experts and savvy in the matter are completely blind-sided. Why didn't anyone inform the governments that risk is building up in the system.

UK mortgages are predominantly variable-rate (at least they were the last time I checked). OK, so the bank lends out a bunch of money. What happens if the interest rate rises? You have to plan for this, as you can't just say that interest rates won't rise. We've had historical low interest rates since about 2009. We're seeing a pick-up in inflation, with central banks seemingly more willing to raise rates. There are also indications that the economy is stagnating. OK, so a stagnating economy together with inflation could trigger higher unemployment, higher interest rates, and thus contraction of consumer spending, and consequently a recession with mortgage defaults. It's not the first time such a thing has happened.
Wait is it now known as something other than an RPG?