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You can't hold it indefinitely. Eventually you will have to pass it on. When the process settles you will just induce a delay.
There is no story, yet here we are on one forum discussing this story in a 130 comments long thread while on the same forum the same story reported somewhere else is being discussed on that same forum with 50+ comments already, and this is far from being the only forum discussing the story that doesn't exist.
Actually I'm more of a fan of bar<-foo because you can line them up like:

(bar<-foo (foo<-baz (baz<-quux thing)))

instead of:

(foo->bar (baz->foo (quux->baz thing)))
My favorite Stephenson's novel is Anathem with superb world building (as usual) but also a pretty good story and ending.

But it's also a book whose world (specifically the avout society) attracts me. I've grown up in a Catholic setting, but "converted" to atheism/agnosticism pretty early. But even with its many failings, there are certain aspects of religions which seem worth preserving - the focus on community, the rituals, a particular rule framework, meditation (prayers) and introspection.

The book presents a (on a certain level) pretty attractive model of society which combines the practical religious patterns with a full rationalism.

I kind of understand why such "atheist religion" is unlikely to get off in the real world, but it's still something I would wish for.
Oh interesting, I understand that sway with Nvidia is developing quickly. I did read maybe less than a month ago though that it's still quite glitchy. Will look into it again.
Way, way back I ran into a comment on Slashdot saying essentially:

Neal Stephenson doesn't really do endings. At some point, he just declares victory and stops writing. (not an exact quote, though the second sentence is probably very close to the original)

I thought this was a hilarious observation, and shared it with my coworkers. This then became our standard phrase when we decided that a task wasn't really worth more development hours. So, should we spend another day polishing this, or do we just declare victory?

So thanks, random Slashdot poster 20 years ago, for contributing to our company culture for a few years :)
To you, but to the farmers growing it it’s everything.
I don't know where you live, but I see many fewer plastic bags drifting like so many tumbleweeds since the imposition of plastic bag fees and taxes where I live.
Yeah this is why I abhor non organic team building outside work where the only thing safe to talk about is work.
It must be because of the auto-update checker. It's a useful feature that lets us notify users about new versions and also let them download and install without opening the Github repository.
I can totally relate. Despite the shortcomings I love the book; there are parts better to be forgotten though...

I secretly dream of a distributed republic.
They can ship security updates themselves, which immediately fix all apps. Otherwise apps eventually never update.

Also apps don't get the new "improved" styles etc if they don't have it in the system, which takes away the consistency Apple aims for.

And then: It's Apple ...
twitter is interested in making money. there's far more money to be made pandering to governments than in pandering to dissidents. the content moderation policies are just extra steps in justifying that stance.
> It's impossible for twitter to be an arbiter of the truth around the world

Twitter only seems interested in this job in the countries and on the side of the factions who are politically helpful to Twitter. Twitter wouldn't care about Pakistan unless the State Department told them to care about Pakistan, and they could just as easily enter the fray by labeling the OPs tweets as deceptive and connected to foreign misinformation as they could enter it on the side of preventing his harassment.
Waterfall could only induce death march mode when deadlines loomed. With two-week "sprints" and management that expects the product of every sprint should be an improved deliverable (whether it's actually delivered or not is beside the point), you get the deadline effect every other week. Soon it just blurs into never ending death march.
No because no one defines sustainability on the infinite terms you do. If people did then your batteries, wind, and solar would not qualify either.

You then proceed to ignore the facts on CO2 emissions because you don’t like them. Adding batteries and storage isn’t going to lower your embedded emissions or minerals use is it. And you go on to invent more claims about uranium mining while ignoring the mining for materials that go into renewables and batteries, which is much larger. Your reasoning here is motivated by the outcome you want to believe and you aren’t willing to do research or accept anything else.
The rich aren't the primary issue, though. The total water used by wealthy people in their own homes is utterly negligible.

The article cites celebs like Kevin Hart, who has used (gasp) 150% of what LA would prefer him to use. This is simply a non-issue. It does not need to be addressed, at all.
For most things you can skip Yandex and go directly to the rutracker which would be the top result for most things anyway.
I like about everything except the leading underscores for _fields and for __static_fields. They look really bad, a remnant of the 80s. I understand that one of the goals is keeping the VM small but there must be another way.
I would say yes, only because I’m tired of how dealing with vendor software has been going lately.

For example I’ve noticed Starburst and Confluent in particular only add useful scaling features to their paid product, rather than in the core. Same thing happened to nginx.

Also it’s a safe bet anyway since the managed AWS service isn’t going away any time soon.
Water is a necessity. Making it unaffordable literally is a death sentence. Those who would mass murder poor people rather then have a yellow lawn are morally reprehensible.
If this gets passed in 2024, it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

There are probably a lot of homeless people who could
benefit from this and wouldn’t cause issues for the hotels. On the other hand, there is also a portion of the population that will harass guests, wreck rooms, and cause other problems. I wonder what the vetting process on who gets room through this initiative looks like.
I am not from the US. I have vaguely heard that many large cities have homelessness issue. But, I am guessing that the homelessness problem must be pretty severe for the council to consider such a measure?

It doesn't look like it's happening yet:

> After a day of hearings, the Council, perhaps swayed by a huge hotel industry turnout, voted down the initiative. But the Council then voted 12-0 to put the initiative, which had 126,000 signatures, on the ballot for March 2024.

Is this ballot aimed at voters, or is it a ballot aimed at city council members? And pardon my cynicism but that's really far away, it's enough time for the hotel industry mentioned above to sway the people involved to vote against it, no?
Don't get turned off by the negativity - pretty nice cross-platform work you have here.
He did say he had irrigation rights to the stream, which isn't impossible but unusual in that area. (They won't give them anymore). For a pond, you do have to apply. I think it's is $700 for the pond application and additional $1500 in regular fees. But here's the kicker, it takes two to three years to get it.. You're better off just doing it and ignoring the regulators in this area. Reason is, there are 20,000 illegal marijuana grow sites surrounding this guy and absolutely no effective enforcement. The only enforcement is against people who register for water rights and follow the rules. If the drug cartel steals your water rights, they won't even pick up the phone.

What's up with no plants in the ground?
At the core of K8s is an Etcd cluster, so if you’re spinning your own it’s the same thing. However, part of the value-add of cloud providers in the K8s space is that they hide it from you.
Scaling is broken on Real-ESRGAN. That's why I had to remove the option for 2x and 3x and tiling can sometimes yield totally unexpected results. These 2 are the primary reasons why Upscayl doesn't show them.
Pistachios grow on saline ground and can be irrigated with high salinity water. And that is precisely where it is (and should be) planted in CA.

We are looking at entire valley farms going to have to deal with salt water intrusion. Those farmers are hoping to cash in for housing, but pistachios would probably grow well in Salinas/Monterrey valley region.
I ordered a few things last fall from Wal Mart. Each time, they charged once but delivered multiples of the same item. One other time, they shipped it to some store who said they never got it.

There is no real reason why they have it so wrong.

Also, I buy expensive things direct from the manufacturer if I buy online. No chance for counterfeit items that way.

Wal Mart and Amazon are nothing more than digital flea markets at this point.
I'm fairly sure that in other locales it is moderated in a politically neutral way that does not even attempt to evaluate whether the claims are untrue - the moderators verify if the claims are directly threatening or crude insults, but otherwise moderators don't attempt to determine what is true or not and correct people who say something untrue either intentionally or accidentally.
[Kawipiko's author here] Caddy, and Nginx, Apache, etc., are general purpose web servers that either serve content directly from the file-system or reverse proxy requests to other backends. Meanwhile Kawipiko has only one purpose: serve resources from an embedded key-value database, namely the venerable CDB <https://cr.yp.to/cdb.html>.

While general purpose web servers use open-(read+send)*-close syscalls (and other tricks such as `sendfile`) for each request, Kawipiko uses a single memory-mapped database for all requests, thus all the I/O is mediated (and cached) by the OS.

Thus, one could say that Kawipiko serves a well defined niche, heavily optimizing for that particular use-case, meanwhile the other servers although can do lots of other things, they can't be optimized for any of those use-cases.
It got downvoted because it was uninformed and missed the point.

First, the point was that municipal water usage wouldn’t need and change and could actually decrease in rates if agriculture and industrial paid the same market rate.

Second, if we are talking about lawn watering, that’s absolutely a middle class thing in the vast majority of California.
All of those issues can be addressed with money, which is presumably not an issue because the original premise of this thread is that the rich will gladly pay the steep costs.
> high trust

What do you do if you work in an organization that is set up with scrum managers whose sole job it is is to run through tickets + follow up?

"Hey developer, how is the progress on that ticket coming? Any blockers? When do you estimate it will be done? How many story points should it be? Should we pull it into the next sprint? Don't merge any code into the release branch for that ticket until we start the next sprint. Let's have a daily standup meeting, then let's have a weekly planning meeting for the next sprint." The scrum manager reports to the manager manager who reports to the director/VP who wants to see progress through releases/tickets, etc. etc.

Like... how many HackerNews readers live this every day versus how many will say "if that was my 9am-5pm, I'd quit because it's a sign of ________ in an organization/corporation/team and I wouldn't stand for that. I only work for teams that let me do whatever I want with 0 observability into progress/ticket tracking".
Yes, we could but we don't because the farms have little incentive to invest in irrigation infrastructure when water is so cheap.
If Odin is memory-safe by default then my bad, I was wrong.
I read Stranger in a Strange Land in my youth and it was mind-blowing. The unnecessary Lewdness was nice in puberty but looking back today it's more like a thing of its time thing...
good stuff! Thanks!
Anathem is also my favorite, fairly easily.

I’m not surprised there are Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Diamond Age, or Baroque Cycle favorite-rs but I am when I come across someone that thought Seveneves or Dodge was his best.
That's likely true, but what change has been made in the total volume of plastic waste produced in the area? Possibly/probably very little.

It's an example of doing something easy and visibly noticable, but ultimately inconsequential, to create the illusion of solving a problem.
Registrars seem to flaunt the rules all the time and not lose accreditaion. CloudFlare cancels peoples domains prematurely due to "false positives" - gets away with it. NameCheap cancels peoples domains prematurely due to their country of origin - gets away with it.
> Is a corrupt government really going to avoid kidnapping/torturing someone because they're popular on Twitter?

Is your assumption that corrupt governments must be omnipotent, and don't have to make excuses for their behavior in order to maintain support, or at least to prevent riots?
Good advice. David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” drove this home for me.
Sounds very similar to my own issue, described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32630077
I believe f3 (Fight Flash Fraud) already does random numbers with a preset seed: https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3/blob/master/f3read.c#L144
I really loved Snow Crash. That's a perfect balance between science fiction and reality, without crossing the cringe-threshold. Really wish someone adapted it into a mini-series.

Encouraged by that lecture, I tried Cryptonomicon and liked it even more. I then listened to the audio-book version read by Stephenson himself. It's actually hilarious in this way.

REAMDE has actually been quite disappointing. I put it down after 2 chapters (it crossed the cringe-threshold for me). Haven't picked up any of Neal's books since.
The binaries themselves result in 10-25 megabytes. Along with that we ship multiple models currently.

I'm not sure if around 300mb would be considered 'bloat' for an AI Image Upscaler. People who have low end hardware unfortunately cannot use the application anyway.
Check this project from AllenAI called PdfFigures: they also extract tables

https://github.com/allenai/pdffigures2
> Buy large amounts of water from where? California has none to buy, that's kind of what "the largest drought in recorded history" means.

Buy it from the industries using the rest of the 85% of it that pay next to nothing.

An incredible propaganda train has convinced people like you that residential water use is a large portion of overall CA water consumption. It’s not and residential users already pay multiple orders of magnitude per gallon more than agriculture.
A bunch of food gremlins created by DALL·E 2
Newegg has actual product categorization, Amazon doesn't.
That is planned :)
That just excuses their poor behavior on their own marketplace. Where they're making untold amounts of money. No, just like Comcast's customer support isn't worth spending more of Comcast's money on, so, too Amazon doesn't have the incentives to improve on the status quo. and why shouldn't they? they're making money hand over fist
You may also find Graphize interesting https://apvarun.github.io/graphize/
It's a neat little language. It was created by the author of [Crafting Interpreters][0]; the language in the book (Lox) is essentially a slimmed-down Wren for teaching.

[0]:https://craftinginterpreters.com
So to avoid this, how should they have done things differently?
I actually tried, couldn't do it. Some version of numpy in their requirements.txt doesn't build with the Python on the my system.

Sure, I could probably install another Python with conda, but it's not my idea of fun. The app here actually worked fine from the first try, without taking gigabytes of disk space.
Sci-hub and LibGen blocked for Elsevier. So that only people able to pay hundreds of dollars have access tho scientific papers and books.

Stay classy, "free" societies.
Your analogy doesn't hold water, if you'll pardon the pun.

The discussion is about water being consumed. Production consumes water, and when we then export the product it is reasonable to say that the function is, in essence, exporting the water, because the water is consumed during production.

Saudi Arabia grows their alfalfa in California instead of locally. The only reason they've done this is to use our water instead of theirs. More water is consumed by industries which turn water into exported products, like alfalfa, than is used by all homes in the entire state put together -- including all lawns, pools, golf courses and parks put together.
Presentation: Four programming languages from forty years ago (2018)
To elaborate upon my previous post:

1. SwiftUI seems mainly suited for building quick proof-of-concept simple intro apps, with the difficult 20% still out of reach. Which doesn’t sound all that different from the notorious downsides of cross-platform frameworks, some of which can allow for small simple apps to be quickly spun up, but the tough under-the-hood cases still intractable.

2. Flutter, and React Native are more mature than SwiftUI is right now. SwiftUI will get there, and maybe it’s only 1-2 years away, but it still hasn’t hit its Swift 5 moment yet. That opens up the possibility of breaking API or even conceptual changes until then.
IDK about Australian law, but in the US, no.
Prevention. I don't let it get stolen. Never leave it laying around unattended or where it could easily be grabbed by someone.
Too late to edit, thats a wild story, thanks for sharing it!
> Since the tweets may be used as an excuse to have him detained, removing them will do nothing, because the government could just as easily use a different medium for the same purpose.

This is nonsense. That's like letting someone use your gun to shoot someone because they'd be able to find a gun somewhere.
I mean, if you’re at that point then you’ve already failed the scenario I described.

A scrum master is a symptom of lack of trust personified into a role.

I’m sure some are servant leaders that seek to unblock, unify or enhance development; but that would be the exception. The causes for them being employed to begin with are likely lack of visibility or lack of trust in the ability of the team to understand what is a high priority.
Yes, we must sacrifice everything in order to save these unsustainable cities built in deserts.

It doesn't matter if the agricultural users have prior claims. They should just realize that their worth is so much less than the coastal elites. How dare they stand in the way of the lifestyles of coastal elites.
I tried out the github style and while I liked the increased density, the lack of padding caused issues on a 27" monitor. For instance, the file listing ended up taking up almost the entire width of the monitor, which made it hard to read because it was too wide[1].

[1] https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/13724/reco...
Target.
Well, as the CDN initials hint (Content Delivery Network), these services only "deliver" your content; the content must still live somewhere...

That "somewhere" can either be another cloud service dedicated to static sites such as Netlify, GitHub Pages, CloudFlare Pages; a general purpose storage service such as AWS S3; a "serverless" service running on something like AWS Lambda or Fly.io; or even a self-hosted Linux server (running on hardware or as a VM in a IaaS provider such as Linode).

Kawipiko tries to solve the last two scenarios, when one wants to serve the content from a self-hosted VM.
In Australia, when they did a plastic bag ban, the total volume of plastic waste actually went up. Instead of using flimsy grocery bags for their household trash, people were now using thicker dedicated trash bags. Those thin bags are some of the most re-used plastic out there.
I've been using f3probe rather than full f3: https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.htm...

The documentation does mention it is possible for more advanced fake firmware to bypass this, but I don't think anyone has bothered yet. It's labelled experimental because of that, but I believe that was at least 5 years ago.
Let’s not forget that California does not permit well drilling in most incorporated towns and cities. If homes are allowed to put up solar and drill their own wells..they don’t have to pay for water and power. But that just won’t do, would it?

Even in some parts of Sonoma, there is talk that they will not allow septic tank installation on lots less than 1.5 acres which is really awkward because most lots minimum size is 1 acre. And the city doesn’t annex all areas in the county effectively denying sewer and hence residences.

But none of this surprises me. I am very familiar with the unholy corrupt alliances between Big Gov and real estate mafias. Altho I have only seen in it developing countries. I guess that’s what California is now..it is what it is…
It would be an "overly bitter hot take" if he wasn't still worth billions after giving all of that money away.
The article is about residential consumption. IT doesn't matter that it's "a small fraction of the problem": it's still a problem and we need to tackle all of them, not just go "well farming's clearly the bad guy, let's ignore everything else until we locked that down".

Go after everyone currently making the problem worse. I.e. exactly what we're doing. Plenty of articles to be found about new rules being put in place for industry and agriculture.
More information is generated in the material world per second than is generated on social media per year, but we haven't seen that as a reason to dismantle the justice system.
I'd be somewhat surprised if a court ordered something vague like "block whatever IP that resolves to at any time in the future", they'll either say "block these IPs" or "stop resolving this domain", anything else would require constant monitoring and continuous involvement of the target of the order.
That was kind of my reaction as well, though perhaps not quite so negative.

It's fine that he has these sorts of opinions. I might have some opinions about this topic, and I might write a blog post or something about it. But I would expect others to tear my arguments apart, because I -- just like Jonathan Blow -- don't really have the expertise or background to properly evaluate something like this.

In reality, though, my opinion would barely be noticed, because I'm just some random person on the internet. Blow is a fairly well-recognized figure, but that doesn't mean we should give greater weight to his opinions on things that are well outside his expertise to evaluate.
Same reason people still play old or low-tech games: they're still fun and games will continue to have low settings.
Filming for BlackBerry movie wraps up
California is building desalination plants, for example [1]. However, these are expensive to construct and energy-intensive.

It's definitely worth the expense to ensure that people will have access to water, even in a future with intensifying droughts.

But is it worth it to ensure that people's lawns have access to water? Probably not. Especially when there are plenty of landscaping options that have much lower water requirements than a lawn.

A "growth mindset" generally refers to growing the amount of economic value produced - not the amount of resources consumed. Often, such growth can come as a result of technological improvements that increase efficiency. For example, more fuel-efficient aircraft allow airlines to fly more passenger-miles with reduced fuel consumption. Water conservation technologies - including some things, like xeriscaping, that you might not immediately recognize as technologies - are in the same category.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba...
Me too, but I'm not aware of any fees for bags at the stores.