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> No, your net effect of the cycle comes to zero. Same as with trees burning up. See, trees are built of carbon taken from the atmosphere. The net effect of the tree growing and then burning up is exactly zero. Almost all trees will eventually burn or rot with the effect that forest do not materially influence amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

No, I am not missing this part at all.

The problem with the way you put it is that it does not include the element of time. And this is massively important.

The CO2 emitted by burning a forest the size of a city in just a few days isn't recaptured at the same time scale. In fact, the time scale looks to be orders of magnitude greater.

Forget about humanity for a moment (which is easy to do if we go back 50K, 100K, 200K years. Yes, CO2 was emitted through many mechanisms and re-captured. One of those mechanisms was massive continental-scale fires. There was nothing whatsoever to oppose them. No modern fire-retardant carrying aircraft, etc.

The natural rate of change for atmospheric CO2 is in the order of 1 ppm per 1000 years. Source [0], graphs [1], rate of change [3].

This rate of change --at a planetary scale-- exposes both the realities of natural atmospheric CO2 accumulation and capture.

From there it is somewhat easy to calculate the time required to recapture any CO2 added to the atmosphere. Since we don't have any technology today that can beat the natural rate of change, the only reliable metric we have is 1 ppm per 1000 years. CO2 doesn't magically hang around forest fires until, 20, 30 or 40 years later, it is recaptured. It contributes to global warming while trees are growing, for a very long time.

Side note: Lab experiments are irrelevant. We need something that works at a planetary scale. Nobody has shown a solution that can pass a physics test working at that scale.

Here's a simple article essentially saying the same thing [3]

Quoting:

"The idea that forest biomass is carbon neutral is not wrong. Trees absorb carbon from the atmosphere as they grow. So if a tree is burned for fuel, the thinking goes, another can be planted to replace it. And then that replacement tree should eventually re-absorb the carbon.

But while burning wood immediately releases carbon, it takes decades or even a century for a replacement tree to absorb the same amount of carbon. In the meantime, all that atmospheric carbon will continue to drive climate change."

That is the problem. You are not including time as a variable in your mental model of how this works. That time scale is easily in the hundreds of years, particularly if you include what happens with soil, root system and natural vs. managed forests (as discussed in the article).

Time is, perhaps, the most important variable.

[0] https://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/co2/ice_core_co2.html

[1] https://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/images/air_bubbles_historical...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/37AKa8L.png

[3] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/epa-declares-burni...
Very true. Where I live you need a building permit and an certified engineer to sign off plans for something as basic as a pergola.
Putting aside what any specific intelligence outfit does, attribution is a massive problem in infosec.

Google "security attribution problem" if you are unfamiliar with the topic, it is a big one.
Try watching "Yes, Minister" (find 'the best bits' compilations), on youtube, and you may just realise why no-one gives a fuck and even if the pink jeeps turn up, fuck all rareley happens.
Nice! Does “open :fire:” mean open the CV or open for work?
If you want Scala-specific and production grade... hmmm...

So there is Loom comig from one side, and effect libraries like cats and zio from the other side... great promises, but would I trust them with production code?... Hmmm...

But there is always the option to lean back on Java and Spring and JEE - the old and boring but tried and tested ways on the JVM.
Oh by "rates" they mean "cost". I read that as "the rate of items shipped per day has plunged by 60%", which would be far more concerning. Written by a business major.
I stopped using them when I saw they share with everyone by default. I wanted the notes only for myself so I could be more present in meetings but not at the expense of making everyone feel like they have to watch what they're saying because it's being transcribed.
I like IPython but: I always lose my IPython session and have to start over again. I find copying and pasting to and from an editor to be clumsy. I sometimes have to keep "%load"-ing the same file over and over again to test my changes.

I do want to be able to write my Python code with the help of a REPL.
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Yeah at what amperes ?

Of course you can get voltage out of it, now try to get useful power from it!
Even in his day, Rachmaninoff was derided as being behind the times, stuck in the 19th century. I can't help thinking the hatred is similar to the singing purists exalting Domingo and trashing Pavarotti.

In fact, Domingo IS a "better" singer and does sing to your heart and not just your head, but Pavarotti is the one who communicates with ordinary people. There is nothing wrong with that.

Alex Ross (The Rest is Noise) is a champion of modern, dissonant-sounding music, and he knows his music theory backwards and forwards. So he's someone people would expect to despise the Rach-man. Knowing that, I don't see this article as condescending.
It's less stupid than it looks. Back in the day there was Google Videos and YouTube. Technically speaking, both decent video hosting & streaming services for the time. YouTube won the market and Google Videos is a forgotten footnote.

Q: If you are a Google C-suite executive in 2005, which video service do you bet on?

A: Give both Google Videos and YouTube a few years of runway and see which one demonstrates better traction.
And yet people routinely act like the presence of Chinese/Russian/Iranian strings in a malware hexdump is strong evidence of the respective state's culpability.
I think TikTok is up there and possibly surpassed YouTube for the younger generation.

TikTok's user base is huge and their app makes it incredibly easy for anyone to upload and edit videos, so naturally you get lot of how to do X.
I hope this can be an API too, to support other utility tools.
Because organizations of 'meaningful scale' should be separated down into organizations that do their piece well.

The reason we don't do that, is because we haven't gotten past being in a famine, zero sum mentality where hoarding power/resources is seen as obviously well and good.
There is a working system commercially available in Germany, but it is pretty expensive [1]:

Long-term energy storage with hydrogen, with 1-5x 300 kWh. Which allows for full electric independence (not including heating though).
Price: 85,000-125,000 €, minus government subsidies.

[1] https://www.homepowersolutions.de/en/product/
It's extremely odd to characterize all modern management as Taylorism from the outset. The post seems to be flogging a strawperson argument and concluding with a summary of what I think is a fairly broad consensus about what modern management of knowledge workers actually looks like: finding competent people, setting rich context and providing frequent and actionable feedback.
> In the end, you can't force competence through rules.

I mean, we have in all other forms of engineering. Why is software different?
> C) an option C.

In other words, "We need to do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do it."
A paid option to convert to a traceroute cv would be good!

just kidding of course!
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> because you're not taking money for the service there is no real liability

Just because you're not taking money doesn't mean you can break the law without liability! Even outside of GDPR/CCPA, most states require all parties to consent in recording and every state requires at least one party to consent in recording.

I do agree that this is the kind of service worth paying for if you want privacy and I'm not a lawyer so I can't say that this is actually illegal, but if you're ignoring not just "hey this is incredibly wrong" tickets but "hey this is illegal and I'm warning you before I file an official complaint" that seems like it will end poorly.
Knowingly lying on official SEC forms and reports is definitely material.
Counterpoint: the conclusions of legal, compliance and security rest upon social fictions and power structures, but fundamentally at a certain scale, all things act like the original commenter said.

In my experience with the above, people get paged until a "socially plausible fiction or resolution" can be created.

There's several versions of these, one of which is to engage in enough rituals and processes so that we all pretend the task has been completed and the requisite outputs and points of reference exist. An archaeologist knows they don't and they can't and that we lay on bedrocks of speculation, history, ignorance and myth, but we don't have to worry too much about the fiction we create because we also know that disproving such mechanically is also extremely impossible/unlikely.

And we have a host of other social functions to get out of the cases where it could, such as:

- throwing people under the bus/human sacrifice/ finger pointing

- contrition

- plausible deniabilty

- continued non-compliance and non-enforcement

- bribery

- bullshit jobs
Because the constraints are time, getting Landon, getting permits, etc. Each additional house is more overhead from regulations you have to meet and permits, as well as area improvements such as roads that need to be made or improved, and more houses mean more roads and sidewalks.

Even if they have the same profit, o ly one of those strategies scales to allow you to pump more money in and get more money out without significantly changing the resources required to accomplish it.
As a contractor or manufacturing company that's not what you're investing into. You build the machines and process and design the house. So in one case you get 200k out of the invest, and in the other 1000k. At least that's how I'm reading this.

If you, as a single household, plan to build a 50k house on your land, you might be unable to find someone to build it for you.

Of course in larger cities/projects with a single developer reselling units it's a bit different.

As I said, that's how I'm reading it.
Nice idea btw. Google should add avoid potholes toggle similar to their "avoid tolls". It will help people to avoid the road which contains many potholes.
A lot of climate tech is bs unfortunately.
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super simple answer: "management" is a misleading noun, whereas the useful activity is more like "facilitator".

i keep thinking of basketball and setting picks...facilitating others to score.
No you do not - at least not technically! I had to look into this at work. I looked at WebEx, Teams, and Zoom - all three let auto-transcribe just roll. I think on one of them it gives a quick popup saying it's transcribing but no consent required. Contrast with audio/video recording where Zoom lets you either consent or leave the meeting. I asked our legal counsel and they said it's kind of iffy whether live auto-transcription counts as recording - didn't seem like a settled matter.
That approach sounds like a potential problem for more-than-one party consent jurisdictions.
As in, the number of oxygen atoms in the banana?
I have been a user of Grain for a while, and I appreciate that it auto-joins all of my meetings. However, in a couple of situations it has been with non-tech people who were absolutely confused "what this is" and I didn't see an easy way to disable ahead of time for specific meetings or specific participants.

These tools need a lot more UX work considering the sensitivity of the outcomes.
As an AxiDraw pen plotter experimenter, I think business notes is the wrong market for this.

I’ve always thought wedding invitations would be better. Rather than faking handwriting the pen is used much in the way an emboss or deboss is - to raise the quality and prestige of the document. Fountain pens allow for intricate ink sheen and color combinations. Customers are also not price sensitive.
Personally, at least with relation to the UI, I find it far easier to use than current versions of Microsoft Office which have created a bizarre "ribbon" interface rather than use standard pull down menus. The LibreOffice UI may be "old", but that's a good thing rather than simply copy Microsoft's missteps.
Is there such a thing as a simple audio transcribing system that can turn a recording into a text file? I have this problem where I sometimes forget a sentence someone JUST told me. And often my notes aren't sufficient compared to a verbatim recording because I'm liable to forget important contextual info very rapidly. But dealing with raw audio files is a PITA.
Iran's sponsorship of terrorism, illegal attempts to develop nuclear weapons, and openly stated genocidal intentions towards Israel.
If your drive is write-enabled, and you carry it over to your system to restore from backup, then the ransomware can intervene and encrypt it first.

Besides, for the bozos, ship the drives with the write-enable turned on. They won't notice the difference.
That’s a separate issue from suburbs’ environmental impact. I’m all for raising property taxes in suburbs to make their residents pay their fair share for infrastructure.
I am pretty happy with PyPi/pip, it is an easy way to distribute Python and C++ code wrapped in a Python extension to others. For a C++ developer it is becoming harder to distribute native executables, since MacOS and Windows require signing binaries. Python package version conflicts and backwards incompatibility can be an issue.
Why not start with projects like Wing? Pretty much any project whose goal is "save the world" not "make more profit for google in the short term" should be considered.
Asian carp were intentionally brought to the US for aquaculture in the 1970s. Some of those fish then escaped into other bodies of water. The cost of ocean shipping had nothing to do with it.

https://nyis.info/invasive_species/asian-carp/
Stuxnet is a terrible example to use here. A worm that causes no collateral damage unless you're running a nuclear enrichment program with hardware identical to Iran's is the platonic ideal of precision. Even if you did happen to be running nuclear enrichment facilities, it didn't stop them, merely increased equipment failure rates just enough that the diplomats had enough time to work out accords.
Zachtronics made a lot of stellar games, and almost all of them included these delightful solitaire mini-games that fit to the theme of the game but also have clever other mechanics and variants to Solitaire that made it fun and refreshing.

Most of them have served me well as podcast games to play while hanging out in IRC rooms or group chats, or just decompress after pretty stressful days.
The land is a fixed cost regardless of what you build on it, so higher return structures will win out even if the margins in the structures themselves are the same. Also fewer jobs to manage, fewer customers to sell to, simpler sewage, water, gas, electrical to deal with.
You are probably very correct! I don't use TikTok, but I noticed TikTok second-hand, via YouTube's heavily promoted Shorts.
There's not a ton of consistency across even relatively similar-looking tech companies in my experience, so you really should expect your mileage to vary. My N=3 large tech companies in my career is not so much better than your N=1 example, but it does allow me to say that these things are not consistent at all, with some notable exceptions, usually constrained by employment law.
BtrFS is unsafe for production use unless it's coupled with really good backups.

On the other hand, NTFS on Windows, Ext* on Linux, or ZFS on any supported OS, has not been known to eat data as frequently.
> Rama on Wednesday accused Tehran of recruiting one of the most notorious international cyberattack groups that was involved in similar attacks on Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait and Cyprus

Curious which group that was.
> Not every single one of these cars needs to be charged all the time - and in any case, most people drive short enough distances that they can be charged at a simple 230V outlet over night, which means it would be enough to add outlets to existing street lights.

The what now ? There are way more cars than street lights and most people do not park in range of one (with reasonably long cable).

And I am absolutely sure unplugging people's car would become favourite teenager past-time anyway...
YC is a startup accelerator. If you are on track to make 600K but want 6M instead then there's a lot of value in the program.
Personally I think the whole coloring controversy is overblown. Complaining about it is strange to me. The awaits must be there because that's what makes it cooperative and explicit not implicit and abstracted. It's like complaining about explicit memory management for garbage collection. GC is great but GC can't do things you can do explicitly. And unlike memory management, async/await is safe, just mildly verbose.

Async/await is probably the best at what it does well. You simply can't do the things that involve native thread management (among others) with implicitly scheduled green threads without locks or some other worse paradigm.
I use it for my job, pretty useful for cloud usage and available CLI for in-depht analysis
Basing your decision on information that you should safely believe to be true, which you later find out is a fraudulent lie has nothing to do with due diligence.

If I buy a truck from a dealership sight unseen and then arrive at the dealership and find out that they've lied and it doesn't have an engine, or has a different engine than advertised... then I have legal standing to back out.

Twitter has lied to the SEC and every shareholder for years. This is supposed to be information that is accurate, and lying about it is illegal. It's reasonable to assume this information should be true, it isn't, they lied, they need to eat it.
If you have something to explain about the roles of non-eng professions, then do so. All this post does is argue how you’re more mature and superior to everyone else in the thread (without explaining exactly how that is, or giving any particular insight).
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competition (winner takes all) naturally results in oligopoly or monopoly in any market. The market is unstable.

You can fight this by unending regulation/antitrust. Or by finding better ways to distribute scarce resources.
Fun fact: Jane Street interns get paid $96 / hr. They're one of the top paying internships! https://www.levels.fyi/internships/
It's funny you mention it because in the part regarding foundations they mention that the foundation for these homes not only has to help keep the home up but also stop it from flying away.
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I'm curious how many companies building for >1M concurrent users have even a tenth of that in reality.
>Google CEO says he hopes to make company 20% more efficient

The 20% number makes sense:

According to their latest Quarterly Report, Google's Q2 2022 profit was identical to Google's Q2 2021 profit, yet the company increased headcount by roughly 20%.

This means profit per employee is down ~17%.

Page 2 of https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q2_alphabet_earnings... has both number of employees and quarterly profit for each quarter.

This is also likely why Sundar keeps saying "There are real concerns that our productivity as a whole is not where it needs to be for the head count we have" - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/31/google-ceo-to-employees-prod...

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"I am not much of a privacy person but I feel completely abused in this situation"

On the plus side you have been given a valuable lesson.

For example: you may be more of a privacy person that you thought, you may want to be more careful about sharing your data. You may want to consider if you are paying for a service or not makes any difference in the way your data is handled.
Bad developers write code that has a negative impact on team prouctivity. e.g. by insisting on a wildly overcomplicated implementation or writing poor tests and being aggressive to anyone that questions them, or being highly negative about some decision or other to the point where the team are not sure if that person is in charge or their manager is.

They can also pester everyone with mountains of trivia in PRs and refuse to change anything in their own and so on and on.

My own boss says "the main thing is to hire nice people - everything else can be improved" and that changed my perspective a lot. I think he's right.

A bad EM can do more damage of course. :-)
Here in the Netherlands the government decided to legalize online gambling smack in the middle of the covid crisis. There were adverts for it everywhere, to the point that even many regular people (who in my experience normally aren't against advertising at all) expressed their annoyance and there is talk of curbing advertisements for online gambling (not sure if and to what extent this has actually happened). Completely nuts that they were giving weekly press conferences about how vulnerable and lonely people are and that we have to take care of each other, and then do this at the same time.
By traditional APM I primarily meant stacktrace sampling based monitoring of applications.

As for overhead of tracing I wanted roughly compare (obviously it depends on the application a lot) stacktrace sampling vs. tracing based one. Are they usually of similar overhead or say tracing is lighter?

I was thinking tail based sampling could be a lot more expensive because say a head based sampling is doing trace for 10% request whereas regardless of how many sample are kept a tail based one is dong 100% trace. So tracing overhead would be much higher right?

I'm not sure why head based sampling is being called accurate in your doc? Isn't it the least accurate in a sense that it's purely statistical and rare outlier like latency spike or error could be missed?

And yes obviously a tail based sampling has to be something like (trace 5% random request or 1 every five + any outlier that gets calculated based on the captured trace)/
What is your take then? You seem to have been offended but don't provide any counterpoints
The sad thing is that in the last 10 years I cannot name ONE new Google/Alphabet product that has turned into a "cash cow" for Google, or that has been a wide success. Chromecast, Pixel and Google Cloud are the most high profile, and I feel that only Google Cloud is the potential cash-cow (is the business unit profitable?)

For a company as large as Google and full of so many clever people, why has this happened?
Long range shipping is more solvable than your sky-is-falling astroturfing implies:

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/18/fleetzeros-container-sh...

Much like 90% of BEV trips not needing 300 miles of range, most shipping routes actually don't need 1000s of miles of range, they can hopscotch between ports and swap batteries quickly at the ports with some shipping conatiner sized battery that sits on the top of the ship (presumably with some rapid swap equipment that wouldn't require docking).

Hydrogen will probably rule the skies though, I'll grant you that, for any long range flights. But fuel costs dominate aviation, and if shorter ranges can be addressed with batteries and some fundamental power cost advantages, then BEVs can be applied to aviation, where appropriate.
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If you're willing to have wood, you can also turn this into biochar. With excess energy you would get essentially good soil base and syngas, which can be used for heating.

This would be my off grid project if i could get the land.
Monopolies only form in a free market when the government enforces them. Like the trash collection monopoly in your city.