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Climate change not solved. This is another in our long series of silver bullets.

Greenhouse gases retain heat. Sea level temperature is a function of ambient heat due to sunlight and other heat sources, minus the rate at which it dissipates into outer space, mediated by the insulation effect of the atmosphere.

Projects that try to reduce the carbon intensity of energy are focused on changing the denominator in the equation. The current aim of these projects is to produce a cheap and plentiful energy source, via a heat engine. What they are actually chasing, whether they admit it to themselves or not, is a cheap and plentiful heat source. If they succeed they change both the numerator and the denominator, which ends up partially cancelling each other.

Wind and solar are different because they tap into an existing heat engine, instead of trying to build a new one.

What we as a people need is a fusion plant that costs less per KWH than a fossil fuel power plant with tariffs to account for the cost of the carbon dioxide, but still about as expensive as a fossil fuel plant where the carbon is free. If we actually got a fusion plant that was 10x more cost efficient then we'll just introduce the concept of heat pollution to the conversation, swapping out the villain in the story but keeping the same outcome.
2012 was 10 years ago lol
Apple also appears to be taking an ownership stake in the company so that probably aligns the incentives and reduces the chance of them cutting and running.
Not mine.

I write native.

I do tend to release apps in UIKit, so I don't quite achieve Buzzword Bingo, but I have always been a fan of native apps, and have watched the various efforts to avoid native, with the kind of sick fascination usually reserved for train wrecks.
IMO there's been Bluetooth headphones that don't suck (aside from multi devices, which I don't care about personally) way before Airpods. Perhaps this was many peoples' introductions to quality Bluetooth headphones though, as the ones I like tend to be in the 100-150 range.

I still much prefer U-shaped headphones worn over the neck, much less hassle, more battery, better sound. Samsung's entry in that category was very good, I hope they keep putting those out and not go all in on airpod type products.
This is my complaint as well. On multiple pairs, the microphone becomes unreliable after some number of months. If I'm lucky, it's within the warranty period.
Here's one specific one, I would imagine they have a pretty big user base: https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022/

Here are a few other sources I googled:

https://www.sqlite.org/famous.html

https://stackshare.io/sqlite

This is the best I can do, because I have no idea what else you want. If I had the time, I could throw up a simulated million users doing a TODO app with SQLite as the backing DB engine, but I don't have time, I have a 2 year old. Do your own research from here, or don't and just use Postgres until you retire, I don't really care that much.
Cars that tend to break down are older cars in disrepair. Even if the owner is just thrifty, they would be able to tow it immediately.

When people are flush with cash and don’t think they need to save, they will spend more on new cars. When people anticipate the need to save money, they will keep older cars longer.

This metric is of limited utility this year. Car prices were the highest inflating good last year due to the whiplash of negative demand in mid 2020 then strong demand in 2021 while chip supply lagged.
Question is, how much will the kWh cost, all costs considered. And how much time does it take to build.
It absolutely ridiculous that in the United States only a few states support assisted suicide.

Don't even get me started on the costs related to take care of someone in a nursing home 5-8k minimum, per month.
It does seem like there's a deeper problem if over half the reactors are shut down for maintenance at the same time.
Because Firefox is shit to use.

Adblocking means little if the actual browser is terrible to use. Between proper adblocking and a shitty browser, or a shitty adblocker and a shitty-but-still-usable browser I will take the latter because ultimately I have shit that needs to get done.

Practicality cares not for ideology.
Just so much is fucked up about that whole situation.

1. Did nobody think about that nuclear plants can't be switched on and off like nothing?

2. They want them in standby because they fear that north-south energy transport could be overloaded. Well, let's have some blackouts in Bavaria then, maybe they'll start cooperating with the rest of the country then.

3. Nuclear plants can't really substitute what might be missing in gas, if I remember correctly.

4. With all the half-assed things that are happening in Germany, let's just do ONE thing consequently and stop using nuclear power. It will be fine if it isn't already.
Have you taken a look at MITs SPARC reactor? I’m always skeptical of comments that only reference ITER, since it’s very old news at this point, and there have been a plethora of innovation beyond ITER in just the last few years. The REBCO tape, and being able to get 10x magnetic field strength compared to ITER in a 3x smaller diameter seems like fairly significant progress to me.
I think the problem is one of consent.

I would want to be euthanized if in my old age I lost who I am. That is, severe dementia or Alzheimer's. The moment I can't remember who my kid is, that's when I'd want to be euthanized because at that point, it's a living death. (I saw my mother go through this with her mother).

However, at that point, I'll have lost the ability to consent to be euthanized. Heck, I might even fight someone trying to put me down.
Those radio band licenses though are the real value here
> professionals make most of their money from non-linear derivatives (or make their own)

Source? (It’s not true for common definitions of those words.)

Most hedge funds won’t touch options for the reasons I mentioned. They’re a hedging tool. (They will happily use swaps and other leveraged instruments. But those are linear.)
What exactly? That three nuclear power plants are being shut down by the end of the year? Yes, that's a fact.
Just have the US start sending missiles to spam call centers and people will stop real quick.
I thought that was available via iTunes on Windows?
Fission power is already the second safest form of energy production, after hydro.
The absence of the go binary as a tool (i.e. "go get ...", "go install ..." etc.) is odd, considering that is what has been eating Python's lunch lately.
Or even just have it be a field on your W-4 to keep up to date.
Ah, cool! I wasn't sure how it would work, but it seems the hard part is the stuff leading to and including the "blanket? Thanks for clarification.
I dunno. Passkeys scare the crap out of me.

If I get arbitrarily locked out of a Google/Apple/Microsoft account then my logins for absolutely everything go up in smoke too.

(Assumes the key is a composite pair of local passkey + cloud account secret)
there are automated peloton machines that do synchronized braking, cooperative load and force distribution, etc. and when on a specialized roadway there is very little risk of disruption or crash.

i think they're called trains
Exposing a Crypto Bot Scam
Crypto bot claims to front run Uniswap trades though all it does is steal your funds...
Imo there is a product+price market fit, just lacking the ego fit.
Russian could end the sanctions by choosing to withdraw their invasion. Withdrawing is the win/win for everyone.
It's not the "strength of the brand", it's a brand name that should have never been allowed in the first place because of that kind of confusion, that's specially why they went with that name, they knew, it is market manipulation, for the same reason Phone is not allowed as a phone brand

That brand is only known in few US states, the world refer to peloton as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton
This is an extremely small fraction of traffic (edit: in large countries like America), and only works if you're all going to the same place. Being able to zip onto the freeway, then insert/connect/merge into the "road train", perhaps with charging, could be amazing.
Please, please, please stop with the waste management taking point!

There are super-safe and rather cheap ways of treating and storing nuclear waste!

It’s essentially a scaremongering talking point.
Repeat is an iterator, so you can apply it to any type you want, not just strings. You can chain it with other iterators, or collect it into some data structure. But yes, repeat(0) returns an empty iterator.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/fn.repeat.html
double-check the little paper pamphlet that came with your iPhone, it literally says "please drive to the closest ocean — Pacific if you're in Kansas — and throw your lightning cable into the water when it reaches the end of its finite lifespan" in fine print.
> Rust has the same thing.

In Rust all of those features are delineated by unsafe. For one, you can disable unsafe with a compiler switch; Zig has no such equivalent feature.

Moreover, we shouldn't assume that Zig pointers are the only feature that breaks spatial memory safety. It was simply the first one I found after like 2 minutes of looking through the docs. After like 5 more minutes I found another: extern unions. Just now I found another: sentinel-terminated pointers, since you could delete the sentinel.

It feels a bit like these arguments are going like "Zig is spatially memory safe!" "Well, what about X?" "OK, other than X, Zig is spatially memory safe!" "What about Y?" "OK, other than X and Y, Zig is spatially memory safe!" At this point the burden of proof isn't on me anymore.

It's obvious that full spatial memory safety just isn't a design goal of Zig. It seems like Zig's goal is simply to add tools, like slices, that reduce memory errors. Which is the same goal that, for example, the C++ STL has. It's a great goal, but it shouldn't be confused with Rust's goal.

> [1]: Even disregarding the hard question over which of Zig or Rust make it easier to write correct programs, which could go either way; that sound memory safety is a better path to correctness than a balance of less soundness combined with simplicity is your opinion

It's my opinion in the same sense that it's my opinion that wearing seatbelts results in fewer deaths on the road. The idea that memory-safe programming languages improves real-world safety is backed up by decades of experience. Anyone arguing otherwise has a massive burden of proof. And the arguments I've seen by people arguing that you don't need temporal memory safety are weak. The idea that a simple language that doesn't have ironclad safety guarantees reduces errors over a more complex language with those guarantees sounds nice in theory, but it hasn't actually turned out that way in practice.
With an iphone maybe so. But open the lid with the airpods inside. She couldnt figure it out.
Running a small business, I made the mistake of not paying close enough attention to this. It is only a few extra thousand, but this is a lot for a small business owner.

I have realized I can run most things on a small instance if I’m careful about Rails’ ram usage.
IIUC - the reason so many are down is because of heat and low rivers.

This won't be a problem in the Winter when they're most needed.
It used to be possible with iTunes, but they removed that feature in 12.7.
Big Triangle (UCI) will never let that happen. They have a stake in keeping that technology supressed. Just like big oil and the electric car. :P
My mom took care of her father for ~2-3 years from when he started getting sick (and tbh a little dementia) to when he passed. It was really tough on her, even with some help.

She told me she plans to not put that burden on anyone else, and has prepared for that situation exactly.

People change as they go through suffering and some of the nicest people become quite difficult to deal with after years of physical problems, pain, etc. People also have lives and having someone around to deal with medical issues, or even wipe them in the bathroom, or make them a meal etc becomes challenging especially if the person's kids don't have other people around to help.

That doesn't make putting someone in a home better, but its not simple like you seem to think it is.
Disagree. The inverse "string" * value is logically splitting, and then collapsing the repeated values. The logical split can be omitted, but the collapsing cannot.
King of Kong focused on Billy as the bad guy and Steve as the protagonist. Of course a Wikipedia check shows that all the top scores were taken by new blood to the field and neither Steve nor Billy are in the mix anymore. Kind of reminds me of Tetris, there was the old generation putzing around some imaginary glass ceiling and suddenly after the game received some spotlight the existing records were swept away by young blood
It's not their ultimate positions on the questions I'm referring to rather the order of what's question, fact, and required to be taken to be discussion in good faith.
> What effect would it have on humanity? Climate change is solved.

Not really. It'll just be another tool for the fossil fuel lobby to use to misdirect attention from what will make them irrelevant forever (reduction and sunlight).

Even if the reactor part is free and 100% reliable. Getting heat out of a 100 million degree chamber that is spewing neutrons everywhere and turning it into electricity is much much harder and more expensive than collecting some photons and building a train.
> I'm beginning to suspect there's an in-joke with science / tech writers about strained analogies.

Which has been going on for longer than I've been alive. The idea (I assume) is to take a large number that's hard to conceive and turn it into something everyone can relate to.

But inevitably, they choose things that few can actually relate to, or things that are so vague/variable to be meaningless. It just adds more confusion all around.

It has to be an intentional joke.
If you have apple devices maybe. An acquaintance purchased a pair that was solely linked to his windows laptop and had a miriad of issues. This persisted with different device and was finally resolved when he switched to a different pair of Bluetooth headphones.

The issues you're describing sound more Bluetooth related, and given the above experience I suspect the experience would be just as bad on non apple devices.
For purposes of this discussion, and most importantly for the tax payer for which this system imposes the most pointless hardship, absolutely, yes, let's get it done. Now.

But. The tax code is needlessly and intentionally convoluted. For a large number of tax payers, you get all sorts of choices on how to file things, how to declare things, what years to declare what, etc, etc, etc. Many of these choices will be based on what you expect to occur next quarter, next year, etc. People in these situations can typically afford to pay an accountant several hundred or thousand dollars a year to help them make the optimal decisions.
And I think years back you used to be able to do it from iTunes when the phone was connected with a wire. It disappeared over the years probably when they moved to Finder, but I think maybe even earlier.
No more worried than in the past if I made the same mistake myself by manually typing it or by copying / pasting and leaving something off.

As with everything I always do visual sanity checks.
Anger at plans to roll back Covid vaccines for under-11s in England
OK, I'll download the PDF onto my phone and get the quote...

...I forgot how significant these problems are. These are quite serious.

"However, WAL mode has notable disadvantages. To accelerate
searching the WAL, SQLite creates a WAL index in shared memory.
This improves the performance of read transactions, but the use
of shared memory requires that all readers must be on the same
machine. Thus, WAL mode does not work on a network filesystem.
It is not possible to change the page size after entering WAL mode.
In addition, WAL mode comes with the added complexity of checkpoint operations and additional files to store the WAL and the WAL
index."

https://vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/15/paper/SQLite%3A%20Past%2C%...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32684424
OCSP Stapling is incredibly stupid. OSCP Stapling is either ignored because it's not present, or it's effectively just an override for the NotBefore and NotAfter fields. There's never a reason as a server operator to present an invalid NotAfter, and it represents a substantial surface area for client libraries to respect them, in the area that's already most prone to mistakes (the recursive descent to find a certificate chain)

It's much saner to issue a new, shorter-lived cert. Reduce certificate lifetimes to match whatever you'd use OCSP stapling for. Continue to use ACME. Figure out rotation lifetimes such that I can sleep at night (i.e. they need to be at least 2 days, so that if the rotation fails I've still got time to wake up and start working). Work on building client and server tooling to make it easy to accept rotated certificates (i.e. reload your client certificates on SIGHUP).

The advantage of CRLs isn't that they can be used offline, it's that it allows your security team to burn certificates rather than waiting for the CA to do so. You should always subscribe to your CA's CRL too, but you should have a CRL for your own internal use, too.
It's good that Safari is much less shit than it used to be...
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/energy-crisis-why-uk-worst-1036542...
Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive
This. It’s quite saddening to realise Western people are as brainwashed by govts and media as much as the Russians are.
I forgot the name of this curse but not the curse itself.

/me goes back to old python OO crud
We knew he had liver disease, but they couldn't really (or wouldn't?) give us a timeframe or expectation. He didn't take very good care of himself physically, so we thought it would be less than five years (he was 71 when he moved in with us). As time went on, however, it was clear he wasn't getting better. He also had diabetes, so his mobility just kept getting worse.

He fell a few times, and just recently fell down the stairs and broke four of his vertebrae and three ribs. When they were x-raying his ribs, they found the cancer on his liver and on his lungs, so we immediately signed him up for hospice. As soon as he was able to get around with a back brace, we brought him home and he died just a couple of days after coming home.

We all learned patience, sacrifice, love, and devotion to someone you love, no matter how hard it is. That lesson alone for my daughter is worth any level of sacrifice it took for my wife and I. I think it's also very healthy for children/young people to confront death and mortality and to go through the grieving process while they are at home with their parents. It's much more difficult to face it alone as an adult.

I also am grateful we could provide a happy environment for him. His granddaughters and their spouses came over frequently for family meals (once or twice a week at least). He expressed how much he loved those times. And he was able to die at home peacefully and without struggle, surrounded by family. May we all be so blessed.
The article does later state Lets Encrypt's own expected worst case is 8 GBs in one CRL file in the hopefully unlikely scenario that every unexpired certificate they manage was revoked.
I was talking about this with the my kids (10, 7) the other day. Blew their minds a little that pretty much every power source comes back to the same central thing: moving magnets.

Then I pointed out that our electric car does it in both directions too.
How common is this in Canada? This doesn't sound like a representative anecdote. This sounds like a vacuously true statement as they say in statistics.
To be clear: it is a willful choice by Mozilla to fully protect Android users but to leave iOS users in the turmoil of a constant stream of invasive and malicious ads. I specifically took my parents off of Firefox for this express reason. Brave has a built-in adblocker, as do many other iOS browsers.

And it is not like Mozilla isn’t aware, I believe there are 2-3 open issues on Bugzilla, years old, that have just been left to wither.
People would either use 10s of centimetres, so saying "my daughter is almost 170cm tall" or use a measure relative to somebody else, often including "heads" or "half-heads" ("my daughter is already half a head taller than me"). You might want to argue that a "head" is pretty similar to a foot though.
If I were to apply this notion generally, the results would be absurd. The person who I was at age 14 is dead. The 30-year-old me is someone completely different. 14-year-old me would likely be aghast at the 30-year-old I've become, and would likely declare me insane and probably would have thought it better to die than to become who I am. Yet... here I am.

The idea of making such a 'death wish' as a middle age person for your old age seems fine now. But the 80 year old you will be a different person than the 30-year-old, 40-year-old, 50-year-old, 60-year-old, and even 70-year-old you.
Are you saying that she was pairing them with a non-Apple device?

In which case, fair enough perhaps, but it feels a tad unfair to put the burden of universal discovery for all host devices on Apple.

And is it really that un-discoverable? What would you do on any other Bluetooth device? You'd look for a button. What is there on the AirPods case? A button.

I still say: if you have a simpler idea, let's hear it.

Edit: and, I'm sure the AirPods come with a folded slip of paper in the box, as all Apple products do, explaining the very basics of how to get the thing working.
I think the use case for Google's PII Removal tool can make a nice stopgap for BlockShopper.com results showing up in Google searches. It doesn't remove the PII from BlockShopper.com but it can help remove the PII from Google which a majority of affected users could utilize. For those unfamiliar with BlockShopper.com, they pass results to Google and many times show up as the top search results for a person who happens to own a house in the 23 unlucky states which BlockShopper.com currently covers until new GDPR-like legislation is passed.
You'd think. But UK is less well governed: among other things Brexit has brought its own special brand of GDP inhibition.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/19/energy/energy-prices-uk-e...

As wholesale costs ballooned last year, 31 smaller UK energy companies — who traditionally offered competitive prices — went bust, forcing millions of customers onto the books of bigger suppliers, and to pay higher bills.

The way the British government designed the energy market made this more likely, Henning Gloystein, director of energy, climate and resources at Eurasia Group, told CNN Business.
> What's cool about Julia is that it has brought 90s compiler technology to scientific computing

that's how I read julia's praises, I don't think most people ignore the past here
Which ways? Dumping them in some salt mines as we have done for the last 50 years? There is not a single "super-safe" and "cheap" way for Germany.
Doesn't really matter if Google Maps had it first, I like Apple Maps more and I'm excited for the feature.

Google Maps UI is a mess - only real advantage is (usually) better POI data. Routing quality is the same in my experience.
The Ethereum Merge and Blockchain Impacts