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I recently got a new kitten and we decided it'll be an indoor cat (though I'm harness training her so she can go out on walks). I've had several cats over the years die because they were allowed outside (one got hit by a car and one I think got locked in my neighbor's crawlspace/basement though we never found her). I personally haven't had many of my outdoor cats bring me birds, but where I live now we have bird feeders and don't want the birds preyed on.

Edit: I forgot about the outdoor cat I had that I left at home when I went off to college. It got run over by my neighbor because it was sleeping under his wheel and he didn't notice.
WebGL2 doesn't support compute shaders.
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Forgot to mention I use it for everything. That's just the name I don't specifically care about.
>I love cats but some of them absolutely do decimate local bird populations in the local neighborhood when they are left out unsupervised.

Not disagreeing per se, but every time this comes up on HN or in other public discourse, I ask for sources. Specifically, there is a statement that I see used regularly (including from the Audubon Society) that makes claims on the order of "billions" of birds killed every year by domestic cats.

The question isn't whether cats will hunt a bird or rodent, but to my thinking whether their impact is any greater than say the risk of birds running into windows, etc. Feels a bit like when we blame the cow for burping (IE: doing what it does naturally) as the cause of global warming while we continue to drive around in our carbon-belching cars.
At a previous job I joked that groups like that would place to attract / corral employees that should be cut during the next round of layoffs.

In theory these teams could do some good things, in reality it attracts or creates horrible people with INCREDIBLE efficiency / creates a cycle of endless meetings / recommendations... and it is endless because it is in their best interest to have an endless amount of "work" and inject themselves in a way that costs them nothing, and everyone else a great deal.

I figured these teams were the easiest place to find people who provide nothing at all / get in the way of folks doing things and almost always they don't accomplish their goals anyhow. They wouldn't even know if they did accomplish their goals anyway as these groups tend to center everything on their actions / the goal is them doing things endlessly.

Somehow word got back to them about the joke, they blamed the wrong person for the joke, tried to raise a hubbub with HR (to their credit HR told them to pound sand). And then they got all laid off ...
It doesn't make sense for the Army to be in the business of developing software. They should be outsourcing this, and having a well-known vendor like SAP means there's a lot of different avenues to get bids to lower prices.
This is, to some extent, the same original line of thinking that spawned out things like Ethereum. A lot of people hate on crypto, but at its core I think it's a very hopeful and interesting idea.
This article is just a bunch of mental gymnastics trying to justify being an asshole. Imagine going on a hike with your grandparents, leaving them in the dust, and then using this kind of twisted Ayn Rand logic to justify it to yourself. Also, find me one person on the planet who uses the term "typical virtue peddlers" unironically who isn't an asshole.
This seems to be by design and influenced by the funding. Many search providers created an extension as the easiest path for end users. Most users don't seem to even understand the difference between a browser and search engine.
There was a heated debate because it broke things at the time, but now it works, yes.
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I would take articles like this much more seriously if they were at least willing to CONSIDER the vaccine may be causing problems as well. Unfortunately, I do know several coworkers who had adverse reactions. They have to deal both with symptoms and essentially being blacklisted by everyone due to some political commitment.

We need to learn how to be people again.
My current workplace has implemented a custom SAP HANA-based solution for forecasting (code is written in a mixture of Python and R). I wasn't involved in the project but I'm not convinced it couldn't have been architected completely differently - perhaps a suite of microservices running on K8S with a PostgreSQL backend. Having an in-memory database licensed by RAM usage quickly gets mother-f'ing expensive as Nathan Fielder would say.
Not really, because renewables will actually make BP better and there's a legitimate case that such a team would improve long term shareholder value.

This team at Facebook had a very low chance of doing anything good for the company.
Yeah this is my experience too. A lot of "fans of history" who've never actually studied historiography make big bold claims about the limitations of the field like historians didn't learn that in their early 20s.
> As I've said before, it's very highly likely they are not actually repairing the unit by replacing the battery -- IMO that's false advertising to make them look "green".

I'm sure you're right about the first bit, and that calling it "battery replacement" is a sin of omission and/or over-simplification. As an engineer you're offended, but for average consumers, the result is what matters.

It's a stretch to call it greenwashing, though. Apple has supported AirPods recycling since its introduction. In the case of AirPods specifically, Apple pays recyclers for the manual labor required to recover materials, even though it significantly exceeds the value of the materials being recovered.
IIRC the email client https://www.hey.com/ and other
37signals projects use vanilla js.

I did use Typescript without a framework to implement this ios calculator clone (https://getcalculator.app/) and it was not a bad experience at all.

I wrote about it here (https://mejuto.co/the-ipad-did-not-have-a-calculator-so-i-po...)
Why shouldn't the answer be don't own an animal that can't live happily while co-existing with the ecosystem around it? And if that's the case and you want a cat anyways, why shouldn't we require people to build/fund infrastructure to offset the effect it will have?
Same here, seems to be recovering ...
Hello, I'm Chris Williams, the editor of The Register. Maybe I can answer some of these Qs.

> what caused this transformation?

All things have to evolve and move with the times. As you've said, we were known, for example, for "intentionally-obscure headlines." Guess what, that works for some people - and it was fun - but it was holding us back reaching many more people, not just from the headline tone but also aggregation and sharing. And I want our original, technical, and best coverage seen by as many folks as possible.

The Reg has been going for 20+ years. We have to keep up with what people want. And yes, some people liked the 2010s era, some missed the 2000s era, but also many more thought we weren't taking journalism seriously. We do take it seriously (we don't take ourselves too seriously) and I'd hate for headlines to hold that back.

What's really changed is that we've styled the main headlines to be more accessible in every way, and still keep our sardonic, informed voice in stories and sub-headlines. We have a mix of core IT stories; software and open source; where life meets tech; science; and more, written in a way that gives our tech readers a voice.

If you haven't read us in a while, then yes, we've changed visibly. If you've been reading us for more than a year or two, the change will have been fairly gradual as we tune our headlines to match what people expect from an irreverent technical title.

> Has it been acquired by a conglomerate?

No, it's still independently owned, with owners who give editorial free rein. It's documented in UK Companies House.

> its original Chief Editor left in May 2019

No, you're thinking of an executive editor who left around then, who wasn't in a management position (think editor-at-large).

C.
For MacOS - still has WinAmp skin support.
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And how can we rule out that the mutations are not introduced in time at rest? All these blood samples are more than 20 years old.
The Metaverse bet is dumb, but I wonder at the ten years.. Both Whatsapp and IG seem relatively sticky.
Someone I know recently got contacted by a recruiter for Meta's VR team, with the pitch that the team "wants to get 1Bn [users] by end of year!".

That'd amount to converting 30% of all Facebook users to VR users, worldwide, in four months. Including a bunch of users internationally who don't even own computers, and certainly can't afford VR hardware. "Delusional" is absolutely the word for it.
Good idea, but needs to be someone with a little bit of self awareness or experience doing this. A preadolescent has no sense of rationing their own energy and will burn themselves out long before the end and make themselves and their caretakers miserable. Speaking from experience with my nephews :)
It's very interesting that you seem to think climate science is shaky, but economics, that's the real hard science.

Of course, the exact opposite is true. There is now absolutely no doubt whatsoever that global warming is happening and that is is caused by the vast amounts of CO2 and other GHGs that our industrial activity is releasing into the atmosphere. There is a long history of fundamental science (chemical+physical quantifiable measurement of the warming effects of GHGs), historical data from geological records, statistical climate modeling and so on that is as established as any other of the earth sciences.

On the other hand, Economy can only vaguely be described as a science, with extremely over-simplified models that fail consistently, with very little theoretical or empirical evidence to back up the vast majority of its proponents claims - and with nowhere near the standards for what is considered "evidence" that physics or the earth sciences ask for (in terms of statistical measures).
Wow! Didn't notice that was the subtitle!
My back-and-forth with support wasn't as funny as these, but I had the same thing happen with a subscription to the print edition of Computer Music Magazine in 2019/2020.

It took them over 4 months to ship my first issue. With magazines you usually get the issue for the month after you subscribe, so I waited 6 weeks before emailing support. They told me it should have been sent, they would send a replacement. Repeat this every month-ish and after the 3rd try I gave up.

About a month after my last contact I got 4 copies of the April issue. A month later I got 4 copies of the May issue. And so on for the next year. Rather than ship me a new December (or whenever it started) issue, they just kept giving my account a new subscription and calling it a day.
+10 if I could. Especially since the article notes that such mutations can be caused by "exposure to excess ultraviolet radiation". AKA sunburn?
Then they shouldn't have joined the group in the first place. If you don't want to wait for others, then find a different group or go hiking by yourself. This isn't that complicated.
The other languages don't use their blogs as official language best practice guides.
For some use cases, sure.

But most sites aren't GMail. Frameworks and typescript should still be the exception, and the rule should still be independent, modular libraries like JQuery.
> For some reason, the higher ups trust software built by someone else rather than their own people.

The pointy-haired bosses of our nightmares are real.
>The samples were then cryogenically stored at -112 degrees Fahrenheit for around two decades.

So "scientists" stored DNA for 20 years and then decided to take a closer look? Better than nothing, but not by much.
That's not just sloppy, it's incorrect!

The top-line claim of the author is flat-out demonstrably wrong.
Okay, but can't you do that with HTML/CSS/JS? You can save collections of JavaScript functions, CSS class definitions, and HTML templates pretty easily. Re-using them is just a matter of copying them over to a new directory.
Likewise. I know people who bought helicopters from the money they made during the boom years pre-2000.
Pretty much any time a major tech company announces layoffs the peanut gallery shows up talking about how everyone getting cut is lazy/dead weight.

In reality it's far more likely they had the misfortune of being assigned to teams that weren't core to the business' operation or driving revenue or some Exec/VP lost a political battle and their department got the axe.
Took about 3 hours to setup and make look nice though, so I only really tried it once.
VictoriaMetrics core developer here. Benchmarks are non-trivial to run properly. Especially when conducting a benchmark against one of the competitor. We tried hard to create a benchmark based on production-like data. It collects data from the most frequently monitored scrape target in Prometheus ecosystem - node_exporter. At the same time the benchmark runs queries based on real-world alerting rules for the metrics collected from node_exporter.
Resource usage (cpu, ram, disk io, disk space usage) is recorded during the benchmark, so later these metrics can be analyzed and compared. The benchmark runs for 24 hours, so it catches all the transitional states during this duration such as periodic data compactions. We hope the benchmark feamework will be re-used by others for comparing the performance and resource usage for Prometheus-like monitoring systems such as Cortex, M3DB, Thanos, Promscale, etc.
Funny enough, as a person whose native language is not English, The Register always went above my head. I knew it was meant to be snarky or funny, but it always left me stumbling and I never was quite sure if not the whole page was just an elaborate shitjoke.
Well this part is very familiar:

> its work was given prominence in the engineering operation by former Chief Technology Officer Michael Schroepfer, who announced last year that he was stepping down.

At the end of 2016, I joined Twitter to lead one of the anti-abuse engineering teams. My boss, who led the effort, was great: loved Twitter, hated abuse, very smart. 6 months later the CTO, who had been behind the creation of the anti-abuse engineering effort, left. My boss, previously gung ho, left in a way that made me think he was getting signals from his boss. And shortly after that, said boss's boss said that our team had succeeded so well that there was no need for us. He scattered the engineers, laid of the managers, me included, and declared victory. We all laughed bitterly.

What these have in common for me is a high-level executive launching a special team with great fanfare in a way that addresses a PR problem. But because PR problems are generally fleeting, as soon as do-goodery loses its executive sponsor, everybody goes right back to the short-term incentives, meaning things like "responsibility" go right out the door. At least beyond the level that will trigger another PR disaster.

And if you're wondering why you don't hear more about things like this, you're not supposed to. At least for the managers laid off, it was a surprise meeting and then getting walked out the door. In the surprise meeting, they offered a fair chunk of money (for me, $40k) to sign an additional NDA plus non-disparagement agreement. I happen to have a low burn rate and good savings, so I didn't sign. But I know plenty of people who have looked at the mortgage and kid expenses versus the sudden lack of income and eventually signed.
1) Scrape a news source and check how many times the bill is mentioned?
2) How many results on a search engine for the bill's title?
3) Train something similar to sentiment analysis model based on the text content of the bill. You'd need historical data for that but see options 1 and 2.
I miss Larry. Backbone of the org.
Interest rates were never a meaningful representation of time preferences to begin with.
Imagine there is a manufacturing plant and they have a waste stream of highly toxic chemicals. The cheapest solution is to pump it into the ground, and if in a decade or two later, those chemicals make their way into the water table it is someone else's problem. For now, management has succeeded in producing higher profits. That scenario has happened in hundreds of sites around the US, including in Silicon Valley, and billions have been spent by the government to clean it up (imperfectly).

Under your proposal, we the people and the laws would need to anticipate any harm a company might do, otherwise they are off the hook. Sure, there are laws now against semiconductor companies pushing their chemicals into the ground water, but what future chemical might be in use that isn't named in some law currently?

A second point is that of regulatory capture. If a company can spend $100M lobbying politicians, courting regulators, spending on PR to sway public opinion to believe false things, and as a result earn $1B in extra profits, that would be AOK under your plan.

Every time someone trots out the false claim that it is a CEOs legal responsibility to maximize profits, I have to wonder about their ethical framework, as if maximizing profits is an inherent good.
If a doctor says to you ' you have hypertension because you've been eating pizza for dinner last 5 years' .

Do you ask them to provide you with proof directly linking your pizza eating to hypertension? Would you just ignore their advice for lack of proof?

No one will be able to provide you direct link between 'lifestyle choices' and chronic disease at an individual level.
Does anyone know if astronaut living quarters are designed to have equipment, water etc. placed in a way to maximize shielding? I.e a water tank that is shaped like a shell rather than a tank.
I don't want to work one 12hr day and 4 9-10hr days ...
This is great! The more applications and systems that are created leveraging the matrix protocol, the more that the world can learn and benefit from secure, decentralized (or at least federated) options for communications (not just chat). Kudos to the creators of MinesTRIX!
> Anything that "easily explains" cancer should be thrown right out as unscientific.

Thank you.

As someone who's recently lost a loved one to cancer, I've lost count of how many times I've wanted to choke people for coming out with these "simple cancer theories".
Does Microsoft no longer have STEs and SDETs?
Punitive carbon tax on crypto mining seems like a fair compromise.
The market has slowed but I still think engineers from firms like Meta are not really facing a tough job market. It's just much harder now to get your foot in, to join startups, or to get hired from a less prestigious company.
Low river flow means more of the water goes into the heat exchanger, and leads to higher temperatures. It's still ultimately due to of heating the river, it's not that there's insufficient water to actually cool the reactor, just that there's insufficient water to cool the reactor while keeping river temperatures below 28 degrees. Say there's usually 100 cubic meters per second of flow, and the heat exchanger requires 10 cubic meters per second. If flow reduces to 30 cubic meters per second that's going to raise the temperature of the river but the plant can still be cooled if the people in charge decided reducing emissions is more important than heating a stretch of river.

Whatever environmental issues caused by heating a river is tiny comparison to global warming. If say I'm handwaving environmental issues, yet you neglect to specify what I'm overlooking. If you have reasons to think that heating a river is more important than averting climate catastrophe, I'm all ears.

And lastly, plenty of nuclear power plants are cooled by ocean water, or by wastewater [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_...
Spot on. Also, SAP’s “everything” really does cover everything a big business is likely to encounter, which is a lot of things that all have to be interconnected
Well, I tried. Anyway, even if I was the abhorrent monster you keep painting in your almost exclusively ad hominem argumentation while accusing me of what you are undoubtedly guilty of yourself, I'd argue that none of this justifies plain ignoring technical concerns in a standardization effort. This exchange is an almost perfect reflection of the practices prevalent in the Wasm CG, that made the Component Model, and likely other things elsewhere, possible almost uncontested. And surely this is deliberate abuse, and I hope people can see that. And coincidentally, that's exactly my critique. I hope nobody is surprised that being at the receiving end of this, despite your best efforts, for years, is an extraordinarily frustrating experience, and that this is exactly the point.
If you don't intend on waiting for those you are traveling with, you should just take a separate hike and enjoy your own company.

Ability to walk quickly at altitude is in fact a skill one can improve with repetition. Your lungs become acclimated to the practice and it does become easier for you. It's fine to hike with others in the same condition, but to decide that others not in this condition are lazy is a pretty baseless assumption.

I believe this is actually a good metaphor for the other social systems the author mentioned. If you think poor people are just lazy or don't want to work you need to think about the way practicing having means makes your existence much easier IMO. Again, you can decide to leave others behind, but I know my life is better for both helping others and receiving help when I need it.
The slow blinking thing is the best
I don't believe that having more data will lead to worse decisions. I could be wrong, but I believe the vast majority of the population doesn't care about privacy and is willing to sacrifice marginally more than nothing to keep it.
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Now you've got me wondering - what is the difference between buoyancy and low gravity (with respect to organism development/evolution)? Would there be any meaningful differences structurally?
So when is the appropriate time to mock them? When they are employed making high six figures to invent harms and then ways to reduce them?
When I did tough mudder I was with a group from my gym. Some of us were fitter than the others. There was a group of 3-4 guys running up front and every now and then we would stand and wait for the rest and carry on.

After we finished, one of the slower ones was talking about how much harder it must have been for me, since I was going faster the entire time. I pointed out it was probably a lot easier since we were having pauses every now and then and they just had to keep on going.

I think at that point they realised they should have ran up front with us.
Second Life has been doing this for over a decade. I see no reason to expect Meta to do a better job, and see every reason for people to assume they’ve done a maliciously-bad job, given their reputation.
Right, but neither will have large worlds if you explore little, and both will have large worlds if you explore a lot. The file size of the fully explored world doesn't seem relevant, because neither game fully generates the world.
I'm not a fan in general, but in this context understanding the team's mindset seems relevant to understanding what the practical effects of this cut will be. Should we expect Facebook to innovate less responsibly in general, or was this team working towards alignment with specific cultural attitudes? For example, the article describes how the team stopped Facebook Dating from adding a race filter and saw that as one of their proud accomplishments - this seems like more of a values judgment than a question of responsibility, since it's not a question that's anywhere near settled in broader society.
Huh? Spinoff technologies from the space race are everywhere, to the point that they seem mundane 50-70 years after the fact.

Polyimides like kapton are a good example.
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