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Putting up Satellites is pretty much a fixed cost. It's not like insurance. Apple is not paying for your rescue. The text costs maybe $0.25 to send.

A 1 time upfront access fee, to cover satellite fixed costs, plus a per-use fee to cover marginal costs.

Subscription-only leaves money on the table.
But what do they mean by that phrase then?

I think a lot of people who think "macOS isn't Unix" (or similarly, "z/OS isn't Unix") aren't aware of the legal status of the term "Unix" – that it is a registered trademark owned by The Open Group, and legally a trademark means whatever the trademark owner says it means – and The Open Group is very clear that "Unix" means any system, irrespective of its marketing or heritage or other functions, which passes their test suites and whose vendor pays the licensing fee.
Uh oh, undefined speed. Not something I would pay for.
Reads like an episode from Monthy Python.
It’s not obvious it would be had Apple not started pumping stratospheric amounts of money into them years ago. And they’re still pre-paying new fab development that TSMC might find it challenging to afford without them.

(Disclaimer: casual observer at best. May be misrepresenting what I’ve heard.)
I think the UL/DL is more due to the design of the network (I’m talking about Iridium data packets). The connection isn’t persistent like a computer in many cases. For example, a handset does both passive and active checks at some interval rather than the satellites pushing messages down as they’re available.

edit: It’s also worth mentioning that the bandwidth is very limited, but I thought it worth calling out the above
I am the CEO of Sensorscall, a tech startup out of Atlanta, and we are trying to address some of these pain points and costs via our CareAlert product. A few years I saw the agony my wife was going through looking after her mom who is independent and at the time was living alone. There was nothing out there that could tell her, that her mom is ok. That’s the reason we started developing the product called CareAlert. It lets you know they are ok, without a wearable or camera. Happy to answer any questions, not just about our work, but also about what we've learned on our journey in helping caregivers with elderly independent living care.
I can confirm the surge is already there. A stere (1 cubic meter of piled logs) cost us 75€ last year, best we found was 120€ this summer and prices are still on the rise.
> why not everyone does it.

It’s dangerous as hell.
what about teslas or Commas self driving tech? Comma even installs in just about any car (truth may vary)
Well that former times had USA and NATO beyond the Adriatic Sea, this time the Adriatic Sea is an American hegemonic lake (not eastern Mediterranean though)

You also see similar things happening now, ... In Asia and Africa. Smaller countries do try to leave their Hegemon and realign themselves to the challenger.
I would want to see an example of such a tool before comparing the two approaches or giving credit to Zig. As you admit in the other comment, even if such an "after the fact" tool can exist, still the net safety will be less. A compiler that does not force the developer to consciously think about safety at the time of using the unsafe feature increases the probability of misuse and safety defects.
The transponders that ran their “simplex” services were unaffected, so they continued operating that service like normal.
Every dev ops developer I know is an INTJ. They're usually the biggest assholes in the company - though necessary assholes in order to protect the service from going down.

I would 100% hire an INTJ for dev ops.
Original response from Otter_ai, for those who don’t have showdead enabled:

> Hi there! With our new repackaging, Basic users are getting more features, including Otter Assistant, which has the ability to auto-join meetings and auto-share notes connected to users’ Google or Outlook Calendars. Users have full control of whether their Otter Assistant joins meetings and shares notes with calendar event guests. For maximum automation, users can turn on this toggle to invite Otter Assistant to join all meetings by default. At anytime, you can change this default setting. Users can also adjust individual auto-join and auto-share settings on the calendar on the Otter home page as needed, overriding any defaults settings. You can find more information on how to use Otter Assistant here - https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/4425393298327
I’m not sure why you only partially quoted me and then restated what I had been replying to

Do some people drive because they like it? Yes

Do some people drive because it’s required to do anything based off of a car-centric environment? Yes
They've stated it can do 2-4Mbps per cell region, which actually is 3G speeds if you're the only person in the region.

In practice not 3G speeds, but still much better than what this Apple / Globalstar service will be capable of.
Passion rarely lasts. Everyone coming in builds on the experience of people that came before them.
I have not any tracking and my history/cookies is cleaned regularly. But my reading history is might be the boringest thing for analysis - everything about Lisp and some darknet activities. Former I anyway keep learning and collecting, and latter I really prefer to be forgotten.
Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)
Are you actually depressed? If so, that's a start
Wrap fusion reactor in huge domes of highest efficiency possible modified photo voltaic curved panels aimed at capturing decaying neutrons producing photons.
It's video games. He could have been in it for the lulz.
> In your production environment, this value should always be false. If the variable is set to true in production, you risk exposing sensitive configuration values to your application's end users.

It's still a footgun. It's pretty clear that this shouldn't be done, so why allow it this easily?

In prod it should emit a log message saying "you cannot do that. if you really, need to follow these steps: <something cumbersome like placing a file somewhere with some dedicated end date for debug mode, or scoping rules>"
Please read the book of Cal Newport “So good they can’t ignore you” an excellent book about finding satisfaction in one’s career. He exactly addresses this question about following you’re passion.
> Nobody wants to do that, stop being weird.

It did strike me as a pretty egregious straw man. I don't think I've ever heard anybody argue for just turning off coal plants and sitting in darkness, certainly not the poster being replied to.

In the last 20 years, the percentage of US energy coming from coal has fallen in half. Eliminating is entirely achievable.
It could if we would let it.
Also, you know, it is possible to pre-pay insurance. Right?
You could probably say the same about people who are excited about horoscopes.
Not literally "none", but I would believe that there aren't enough in the pipeline. My sister just became an airline pilot (well, copilot anyway) a few months ago. Getting a pilot's license is expensive, but you don't have to be all that wealthy to do it. She went to flight school instead of university, then worked as an instructor at the same flight school to get her 1500 flight hours.
Generally the idea is more for atomic system upgrades, and less for package managers. Why have package managers when you can just mmdebstrap a new image & try start it, but keep all your /etc and /home stuff? That's the dream. Package managers become semi-obsolete. I think there are a variety of ideas for how package managers might come into compliance & make use of this though! A lot of possibility. But the notion of OSes that can swap images, that transcend the idea of one special bucket of bits that we slowly move forward, is kind of new. Containers are 100% there, are making it clear. But the conventional OS is still lagging, learning, behind. I recommend checking out systems like Wyrcan to see a little deeper how we can eliminate some of the historical OS layers & build a more modular, more secure, more atomic, more application centric OS[1].

A lot of it relies on better filesystems like ZFS or Btrfs which have snapshots. I myself twiddled around with writing some Debian-Live boot tools that used btrfs snapshots, copied onto ram-drives[2], that would potentially work well with package managers (boot either your starting image, or your "new" snapshot image).

These ideas predate (the deeply reviled by some haters) Lennart's post, "Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems"[3]. But Lennart here, in mid 2014, understood what containers were doing, understood how atomic system upgrades were trending, understood what was happening. This isn't a Lennart idea, but Lennart as usual semi got the gist of what made sense, what would help, where we were going. He captured the good idea of what was occuring already into a post. And calling out /usr as "the system image" was a clear & obvious win for that day, back in 2014, and it's still a clear & obvious win today to consolidate the OS into one directory today. May it be so. This is the way. So say we all. It is known.

The "usr" meaning user is seemingly in fact true. But it's also, imho, wrong? The backronym is more truthful, better describes what role /usr plays & has played for multiple decades now. "user" doesn't really mean anything reasonable, clear, or cogent.

[1] https://gitlab.com/wyrcan/wyrcan

[2] https://github.com/rektide/debian-live-boot

[3] https://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-lin...
> ...the plasma is of such low density...

I believe the chambers are operated at a pressure of 1/10,000th of an atmosphere.
> full table scan, which is appropriate when more than 5% of a table's rows are involved

Am I wrong in thinking this ratio could be improved? Table scan being 20x faster than indexes seems like it might be leaving quite a bit on the table.
And they charge you for Caller ID!
I was the one who reported this originally in 2020. Christian said it wasn't a vulnerability because it was intended that people who used standard library functions should validate user input. A day later I get another email saying that a CVE had been assigned, and that it was now suddenly a vulnerability.

I wait a few months, follow up and nothing. Pretty much dropped it for 2 years and now I see that they finally fixed it and never let me know. I asked a few days ago whether I'd be credited in the CVE, still no reply...

Why do I feel as if there are serious communication issues here?
I use such a bookmarklets to paste things into my own pastebin-like site. It logs the selected text, page title, and url. Clips are then grouped by url and domain.

My profile has the link
Nearly everyone I speak to hates the unreachable error messages, by the way.

It's not useless to have them but they can be utterly infuriating for exactly the reason you mention since most projects have warnings-are-errors turned on.

The way I shut it up in a class is usually by branching on the this pointer. Sneaky.
I watch Russian news, every evening they show about the killed hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers and liberated cities.
Doesn't that entirely defeat the purpose of having the compiler not allow unused variables.
Apple has macOS registered by the Open Group as UNIX 03 compliant. You can hardly be more Unix than that.
By that metric, it will be Android. The total install base of Macbooks is a rounding error compared to the number of Android phones. (>3 billion)
The Khoisan Once Were Kings of the Planet. What Happened?
> The Unix part is an implementation detail.

UNIX is a certification. macOS is certified. Solaris is not and hasn't been since 2020.
It could be said. But for band example, many band support isn't work for attracting people (though it's useful for travelers but I don't see advertising this great pros on iPhone), and it could reduce final cost by merging SKUs. It's less gimmicky IMO.
Yeah, there shouldn’t be any issues with GPS in an outdoor area, it’s only in cities where the buildings block/reflect the satellites that it’s an issue. (Maybe forests or valleys? Not sure.)

A-GPS doesn’t need to wait for a fix to be pretty accurate though, which is nice.
I have absolutely no problem with helping my children get every possible advantage I can muster. My family is an institution and their upbringing, education, personal satisfaction, and financial situation is cared for deeply by the family - parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles.

I will do everything in my power to give my children all of my financial resources when I die (and prevent the state from taking it) and ensure their comfort to the best of my ability.

Those without children cannot understand the bond between parents and children. The thought of them being destitute when I could have prevented it is painful. I will use all of my business and personal connections to help them and have zero qualms about doing so.

Do you know why so many billionaires came from rich families? Because their great grandparents helped their grandparents who helped their parents who helped them. This is not an anti-pattern, this is called good morals, a belief in family, and strong dedication to the next generation.

You should be totally free to die and donate all of your assets to the government or total strangers. I myself will give every possible penny to my children so they can thrive. I pray everyone can make that choice freely and not be coerced into a decision they didn’t want.
>KeePassXC is probably the closest to ideal.

Well, "the closest", but not ideal, unfortunately, what I realized when they decided to abandon support for windows7 forcing me to maintain the KeePass database in VMs by hand... :-(
I do that, using manual CPUID tests, along with allowing environment variables to override the default path choices.

But if the compiler by default doesn't enable AVX2 then it will fail to compile the AVX2 intrinsics unless I add -mavx2.

Even worse was ~10 years ago when I had an SSSE3 code path, with one file using SSSE3 intrinsics.

I had to compile only that file for SSSE3, and not the rest of the package, as otherwise the compiler would issue SSSE3 instructions where it decided was appropriate. Including in code that wasn't behind a CPUID check.

Thus crash on hardware without SSSE3.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15527611/how-do-i-specif... for more info about my solution. Someone last year contributed a solution for MS Windows.
> For the first time since the Winter 2020 batch, the Summer 2022 batch was in person.

Interesting, because on the application page for the next batch this winter it says that it will be fully remote. But maybe they didn't update it yet?
This is one of those cases where everything you said is rational and makes sense on paper but that just isn't how people and the organizations they work for behave.
The reasons:

> Improved compatibility with other Unixes/Linuxes in behavior:

Well, some of them.

> Improved compatibility with other Unixes (in particular Solaris) in appearance:

I guess, but if you supported Linux you already supported Solaris, so if you think of Solaris as second class then nothing gained.

Also: Solaris is (to me) clearly on its way out. Not worth a migration to converge with it.

> Improved compatibility with GNU build systems:

This one is pure hogwash. Either you need to support the systems that don't do this (e.g. OpenBSD), or you only care about Linux. (this is a bit simplified, but pretty true)

So your build system still needs to support non-merged.

Except now you're going to bake in Linux-specific merge assumptions into your build system, so that they'll be even more broken.

> Improved compatibility with current upstream development:

This seems more like tech debt to me, in the name of expedience.

I'm here not saying it shouldn't be done. I'm saying these are terrible reasons.
The broader medical industry is something like 1/5 of the American economy. It had over 2.5 trillion dollars in revenue this year. Intuits annual revenue was 5.6 billion, so it directs 10x as much revenue, relatively speaking, at lobbying.
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How Mathematics Changed Me
Consciousness is the inflection of our existential being.

Our brains are quantum computers (without qubits, it is quantum holography.)

The illusion of singular consciousness in our minds is the product of so many individual neurons entangling and coupling.

It is existential reality which is consciousness (the universe peering back upon itself.) Our brains and bodies are merely the jellybags which keep the electrochemical animation stable, as well as providing sensors and actuators for interacting with our environments.

Intelligence is the mitigation of uncertainty. If it doesn’t mitigate uncertainty it isn’t intelligence.

Consciousness is not intelligent. Consciousness co-opts intelligence as a tool for survival, and intelligence co-opts consciousness as a memetic host.
Archived: https://archive.ph/EFDii
I wish we could just unify /usr/local/bin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /bin, and /opt. I'm a Linux user for 15 years and I still don't know if there's a good modern reason to have so many different directory trees for binaries and what that reason is. It's all historical craft that makes it so hard to find things as far as I am concerned.
Most triathlons ban drafting not just for safety, but because it's supposed to be an individual effort. Organizers don't want races to turn into farces where some athletes show up with pacers who drag them into the lead.

Some short course triathlons do allow drafting (including the Olympics), but those events also ban extended aero bars for safety. Athletes who compete in those events specifically practice riding in a peloton and know how to hold their lines in order to prevent crashes.
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Well, you've flagged the point. These people, about 10% of the population, that own small businesses are in the minority. They're likely to be an explicit disadvantage in this system. This is a segment that you probably want to use tax policy to protect, not harm.

Further.. it feels like the goalposts have moved on this since it last came up. I don't need the IRS to do my taxes for me, I just need to be able to login to the IRS, pick a form, fill it, and submit it.

E-filing should be free and available to everyone. If you have that, I'm not sure what the value of having it prefilled for me is. In particular, if you just have a single W2 to work from, there could be a 1040-SUPER-EZ where you just enter a serial number from your W2, have it fill from that, and then submit.

You can make this easy without putting everyone under the thumb of the IRS.
As understandable as the mistake is, I would be upset if I had arranged a private meeting with someone and they let a third party into the conversation (excluding force majeure such as sophisticated hacking, violence, etc).

Especially if it was some unaccountable third party recording agent! Who knows where that data is going?
Lots of changes with branch prediction in that time too.
> or per-key concurrency, but no inter-key atomicity (either use nested atoms or use ConcurrentHashMap).

I guess it depends upon what you mean by "per key", but if your map is a ref, and the values are refs, you can get per-value concurrency with inter-value atomicity.

You couldn't concurrently add new keys though, since that's changing the map's ref.
Random forests, in my opinion, are still the most common way for data scientists to work with tabular data. Deep learning has yet to crack tabular data as it has in other areas.
Agreed.

In my answers to the survey, I mentioned "nix" was the technology most likely to affect the future of Python packaging, in part because of reading that same article on Riff.

I think now I should have mentioned Riff too.
I don't think Android is an officially licensed version of UNIX though? (I wouldn't normally nitpick, but I assumed that's what was meant by "commercial UNIX".)
Swipe down on the home screen and type in the app name.
Kamby – A programming language based on Lisp that doesn't seem like Lisp
What is Kamby?
A small, embeddable and convenient language for who want to use and understand what is happening behind the scenes. The core is just ~400LOC and binary has just 20kb.
Others have pointed out driverless metro is already a thing in some places (from memory Singapore MTR, Sydney Metro, Docklands light rail in London, airtrain at JFK airport (NYC), Vancouver SkyTrain). But let's say for regulatory reasons you need a driver. So the way this would work is the electric motors in both the driver operated train and the slip carriage are electrically coupled via the rails. Technically the one driver is operating two trains with a single controller, but the circuitry is set up in a way that the second the slip carriage is always responding to the controls identically to the main carriage +a few m/s until it gets close enough for mechanical coupling. So the driver has no mental overhead in managing the secondary train sets. From a transfer of momentum perspective, his train behaves as if the slip carriages are already mechanically part of his train.

For the sake of example, I'll focus on my second use case. A mainline heavy rail that branches into multiple light rail at the same service frequency. In this case, the carriages split off from an 8 car set into two car sets and coast to a stop at designated branch station (like old fashion slip carriages from the late 1800s). At those stations new drivers board to take over light-rail style operation. When the drivers complete the route they step off the train at which point the automatic reverse slip carriage system rejoins them into an 8 car train (one driver stays on to become the lead carriage). The drivers that stepped off then cross the platform to take over control of the next train to split itself.

A strange but doable logistic coreography that lets metro lines branch more without intolerable service frequency.
Thanks for the tip. I learned a lot listening to this [0].

My takeway: Optane was good technology that was killed by Intel's thoroughly wrong-headed marketing. It's cheaper than DRAM but more expensive than flash. And much faster than flash, so it makes the fastest SSDs. But those SSDs are too expensive for everybody except niche server farms who need the fastest possible storage. And that's not a big enough market to get the kinks worked out of a new physics technology and achieve economies of scale.

Intel thought they knew how to fix that: They sold Optane DIMMs to replace RAM. But they also refused to talk about how it worked, be truthful about the fact that it probably had a limited number of write cycles, or describe even one killer use case. So nobody wanted to trust it with mission-critical data.

Worst of all, Intel only made DIMMs for Intel processors that had the controller on the CPU die. ARM? AMD? RISC-V? No Optane DIMMs for you. This was the dealbreaker that made every designer say "Thanks Intel but I'm good with DRAM." As they said on the podcast, Intel wanted Optane to be both proprietary and ubiquitous, and those two things almost never go together. (Well obviously they do. See Apple for example. But the hosts were discussing fundamental enabling technology, not integrated systems.)

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rip-optane/id162593222...
If you need your apple watch to keep from getting lost in the mountains: you probably shouldn't be in the mountains. If you need your apple watch is helping you scuba dive: you probably shouldn't be diving.

I can see a rugged, smartwatch with tactile buttons and a bigger crown being useful in a lot of construction applications, but I don't think most construction workers or contractors are rocking iphones and $799 smart watches.