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Searching "purpose of life" while logged in shows about 245 results, searching "purpose of life" while logged out shows "Page 10 of about 10.740.000.000 results"...

Extreme profiling Google? :-)
You may want to re-read roblabla's post.

The Rust team has never promised that they will never break existing code, since that would lock them into a situation similar to C/C++. Making occasional rare changes that break working code (but for which it's possible to write code that works in both versions) is not "willy nilly".

For example, the following compiles with the current stable version (1.63.0):

use std::ffi::*;

mod my_ffi {
pub type c_char = u8;
}

use my_ffi::*;

fn main() {
println!("c_char is {} bytes", std::mem::size_of::<c_char>());
}

But it will break when 1.64.0 is released, because then `c_char` would become ambiguous.
Android 13 on the Raspberry Pi 4 [video]
Do the math (I'm a bit lazy and not that great at it) to think about how many ancestors you have from 500 years ago (I know enough about math to know it's an exponential function), and then think about how long it would take to read all of their memoirs and you begin to realize the problem.

Of course, go far back enough (I'm not sure if 500 years is enough) and mathematically speaking, the number of your ancestors will exceed the population of the world, which shows some other issues that you run into.
There's a reason we use the phrase "acts of God" to describe extreme weather events.

What happened in Texas was 100% a policy failure, but it can be lampshaded as the act of God which revealed it.

Europe's suffering this winter won't be so easily explained to the people suffering.
Carnegie Institute of Technology was made up of 4 colleges or schools, the School of Fine and Applied Arts, the School of Apprentices and Journeymen, the School of Science and Technology, and the Margaret Morrison Carnegie School for Women[1]. Carnegie Tech merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to become Carnegie Mellon University in 1967. Margaret Morrison Carnegie College closed finally in 1973 and merged its programs with CMU.

Other schools in Pittsburgh that began with offensive unfairness included Carlow University and Chatham University, but they began to admit men in 1945 and 2015, respectively.

You'd really need to examine society historically to understand why all womens' colleges, such as Wellesley, Smith, Vassar, Barnard, and others, were necessary. Seeing universities as sexist ignores the larger picture. Women were only allowed to vote in 1920. That speaks volumes. In 1920, you would not want your daughter going to an all male or even coed school, no matter what opportunities were there. I wouldn't blame the colleges. It's really men that were the problem, and in large part, still remain so, and not for nothing, especially in STEM.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Morrison_Carnegie_Col...
Here’s a list of 4000 alternatives: https://www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids/registrar-ids...

My personal choices would be Namecheap, Porkbun, Gandi, AWS Route 53 and Cloudflare.
> Pi's aren't in short supply because of anything the RPi folks are doing wrong, it's down to the global chip shortage that's affecting just about everything

Aren't the RPI leaders on record saying that the vast bulk of RPI production is being allocated to commercial entities instead of retail?

It would be interesting to see data on the # of RPIs being manufactured (over time - to see impact and recovery from Covid), and contrast it with retail availability.
W7-X has 5 periods and each period is a mirrored half period, so really it's one segment repeated 10 times. This pattern is common to symmetric stellarators.
I agree.

I've published three books with a publisher, and the one I'm most proud of and which got the best reviews (19 ratings on Amazon, all 5 stars) is the most niche, and got the lowest sales numbers.

https://smile.amazon.com/Parsing-Perl-Regexes-Grammars-Recur... if anybody is interested.
You have to admit it's a better connector mechanically, though. Also, the vast majority of USB-C devices charge fine from USB-A. The devices that require an expensive charger are things that have previously required a proprietary charger, like laptops.
Qts documentation is a minefield but their source code is really nice and easy to read.
Yeah, the previous announcements from Toyota et all seemed to be "don't buy our competitors EVs because new battery tech is coming soon", now that they're pivoting to actually building and selling EVs with the demominant battery tech everyone else uses, they need to dispel the previous lie or it'll hurt them even more than their competitors.
CGNAT is pretty much the only setup on mobile though. Dunno if any equipment vendor doesn’t do that.

Would worry about most average cell phones sitting directly on the public internet.

I think there’s a reason we haven’t heard about mass-owns of mobile phones and it’s because they’re always effectively behind firewalls, not because of their superior security.
With all the fast neutrons emanating from a fusion reactor (and the heavy confinement that it requires) I don't think a container ship would be a safe enough environment (threat of disaster at sea, constantly jostling which might affect plasma stability etc.).

But yes, there is a potential for a lot of space applications and other things we haven't thought of yet.
If you want to see pictures in your terminal but don’t want to install something just for this, the kitty terminal can do it, including over an ssh connection.
In my opinion states slowly devolve into authoritarianism anyway and will give whatever reason suites them. Hence the expression “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.” - Thomas Jefferson. Without opposition the state will no longer need excuses and simply impose what it wishes.
It's better but still fairly resource-intensive. I'm wondering why it's so as the main work is being in the client, whereas the server concentrates on updating the structures close to the player - the rest of the universe is either generated or loaded on the fly. I'm fairly sure this could be optimized much more.
Impossible to know which ladder/engine/squad was conducting it but there’s a few near NYU. Engines 33 and 24, Ladders 20, 9, and 5 and Squad 18.

All of them suffered losses (mostly heavy losses) except Ladder 24 which had no losses. Ladders 5 and 20 had devastating losses as did Squad 18.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_workers_ki...
Just a few words from the other side of the table: I have the highest respect for students sitting there who juggle college, family, sometimes job, after having worked for a while already.

It’s wonderful to have someone listening because of a conscious decision rather than just following the obvious next step. Interact with your professor, ask questions, I’d hope most will try to be supportive, especially when you’re their age or even older. Best of luck to everyone doing this, it’s amazing.
Are there any German's that can give some context as to why the rest of the ruling coalition don't just turn around to the greens and tell them to go stuff themselves and keep the nuclear power plants running for another couple of years. Are there no other possible partners or is it politically impossible to break coalition agreements I Germany? I'm assuming that the German greens are not amenable to reason when it comes to nuclear powerand pollution.
Jokes on the app - we store leftover spaghetti in reused yogurt containers.
The World at War
OpenStreetMap Node 10B
Can the American mall survive?
And if you know nothing about fusion, the title seems to be crafted of made up words.

But if you take one glance at the comments, it becomes clear. So I guess the title was sufficient to pique my interest, which, after all, is the purpose of a title.
And whenever this claim comes up, it's time to point to the API evolution RFC that outlines which kinds of breaking changes are acceptable or not: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1105-api-evolution.html

It's a classic communication problem. When we talk about breaking changes, we talk about what we have defined to be a breaking change. Obviously, if our definition didn't come close to approximating what a literal breaking change is in practice, then it wouldn't be a very good one. Similarly, if our definition were equivalent to a literal breaking change, then it also wouldn't be a very good one because it would prevent way too many types of additions that do not look like they should be a breaking change.

It's likely it would have been better to design the language such that there was no gap in the definition of "breaking change." But that never happened and probably never will.

As a mitigation mechanism to bridge the gap, we use a tool called crater that checks whether changes break compilation of published code. It is by no means perfect, but it helps. For example, if a change breaks code but would otherwise be acceptable API evolution, we will often not do it or otherwise proceed more carefully.
Most Ken Burns stuff... Especially the ww2 one. Also, released in the last year, the Beatles: get back documentary is fascinating to watch the creative process and dedication to the task, if you're so dedicated to sit for all 8 hours of it.
> Not to mention the premium for a USB C charger.

Only if you want fast charging. I run my MacBook Air over a USB-A to USB-C cable and it slowly charges under light use at around 2.5A and 5V. And tops off to 100% while not in operation. If you want more voltage, then yeah, you’ll need a more specialized charger, whether USB-C or proprietary.
While I'm not older than 40, there are quite a few people in my Master's program who are. I'm in the OMSCS program at Georgia Tech, Online Maters in Computer Science (https://omscs.gatech.edu/). It's exactly as it sounds, a 10 course Master's degree from Georgia tech that you can get from your own home. That is not to say that it's like a MOOC you might take on Coursera randomly, it's a full Master's program where you need to complete the same assignments as any on-campus student. It's not easy, one will easily spend 20+ hours a week studying or working on projects/homework.

Further on the plus side, it's only ~$6400 for the entire degree and you can take just one course at a time.
Is scaling such a thing to a passenger aircraft feasible?
You recommend Cypress as an "obvious" choice, so I am curious whether you evaluated Playwright. If you did, why you find Cypress to be the clearly superior choice? Genuine question.
He liked Top Gun Maverick very much too. The review was fantastic.
The only option: https://typora.io

Nothing else comes close. Maybe VSCode with extensibility and using that for other languages/syntax, but it’s amazing. After beta testing, I paid the $15 without a second thought
I’m really surprised to see those language emerge after having read so many praise about rust being a fantastic system language.

Although, from a personal standpoint, anytime i see rust code or read about horror stories fighting the compiler i wonder how that language gained so much popularity.
https://www.academia.edu/8906033/The_when_and_where_of_an_em...
> the vast majority of USB-C devices charge fine from USB-A

I’ve gotten myself stuck a few times with this assumption. My MacBook Air (and probably any MacBook) will accept a trickle at 5V, but my Dell laptop will not.
Examples would help. It's an assertion people frequently make. I have struggled with homegrown not-particularly-good ones. One problem is finding a good set of abstractions for the things I really need to abstract on. So there are probably different abstractions to note.

In the same vein that different languages provide higher-level abstractions for machine code or JVM bytecode.
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799428
Isn't it basically what "DRC" does? (Digital Room Correction)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_room_correction

I don't remember the exact order but way, way, way before the $10 K USD digital audio cable snake oil, audiophiles are going to say that DRC is the second single biggest thing that can enhance the quality of your setup (the first one being which speakers you're using and how you place them). Then source quality/amp/dac. And only way further down the line, for those who believe in voodoo, $10 K digital audio cables.
Are there any monospaced fonts like this, with a focus on hyperlegibility?
I made a list on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drcongo/list/hactar-documentary-film-...
I'm not an audiophile in the obsessive-compulsive sense, but I've been recording music in my home studio for 20 years and I know my way around it. This sort of calibration is not ideal. Not only are you measuring with a device that has an imperfect response curve, but you are also measuring the room at a single monophonic point in space. The way that sound interacts with the room and your ears is far more complex than that. Ultimately, this is a bandaid for a poorly treated room. If you're serious about getting a flat response curve from your monitoring room, you're far better off learning how to treat the room properly and how to position your monitors within the room for the best results.
For some reason the modern democracy focused on a set of traits collectively known as left/progressive and right/conservative. In some countries you basically only can choose between the left and the right with no any other option. Statistically, the government formed by any of these parties will do more things not the way you wanted. So unless you have some significant direct democracy mechanisms like Switzerland, you have no control over most issues, not to mention marginal ones such as an internet protocol used in your country.
Just to offer a counter-point to the others here, I've personally noticed that quite a few people who study philosophy (either formally or via self-study) tend to become "disembodied". Formal reason becomes king, even when informal methods are more appropriate for solving the task at hand, and the intangible becomes irrelevant, even when it matters deeply.

Perhaps things would be different for someone in their 40s, who has a wealth of real world experience to draw on, philosophy would be valuable.
But for the average 18 year old kid, studying it seems to create a set of terrible habits that take years to undo before the student can become a properly integrated adult.
With amount of debt it requires, I would agree with this. If you can get a free ride to school the only thing you are looking at is the time and opportunity cost. Adding monetary cost makes the return more difficult to justify.
Such a good magazine.

A reminder to avoid as much as possible to depend on tech startups to provide most of your funding. It’s not sustainable and they will cut you off at the first roadblock.
There is a spectrum from obvious breaking changes (removing a method), to non-obvious ones (trait methods, glob imports), and beyond (https://xkcd.com/1172/)

Before adding methods to a trait, they test the change against all public Rust code known to exist, to verify no breakage. Very occasionally this causes them to put plans on hold or work with downstream library authors (see: the num-traits crate)

For the benefit of closed-source code, they also emit a warning before the change is made, so you have time to prepare or give feedback (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/nightly-rustc/rustc_lint/bu...)

It's a perfectly reasonable policy. I'm not sure what more they could do, unless you expect them to literally never change any traits ever again and ossify the stdlib into whatever state it was in 2015 when Rust 1.0 was released. If that's what you want, pin your compiler/library versions and you can have it!
I did from 34 to 39. It corrected my thinking in a few ways, it changed me, made me more honest, and lead me to enjoy rest of my life because of one of my previous life desires was fulfilled.
This economic opportunity is only true for PhDs in CS or engineering and even there, only for hot research areas. Good luck getting 5x academic pay with a PhD in geology.

Generally speaking, the professor's advice from 25 years ago is still solid: don't get a PhD unless you are interested in an academic career, research, teaching etc. Due to the prestige of such a career, it tends to have an oversupply of applicants - the majority of which will not get a commensurate payback for the efforts required by a proper PhD thesis. So they will either flunk / present a low effort thesis, or worse still, they will invest a few years into a good thesis but never develop their career and skills gained into a full academic job.

So getting a PhD for the sake of it might not be a good investment of your time and effort career-wise; If you want to do it for the intelectual challenge on a topic you are very interested in, that's always a suficient motivation.
Harrison Ford makes emotional return to 'Indiana Jones' franchise
One of my favorites is Vigilante Vigilante: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1651151/
What do you mean? Flint is still replacing lead service lines as they're found.

https://cityofflint.wpengine.com/progress-report-on-flint-wa...
Short answer, no. Mostly due to weight, speed, flight altitudes and different certification criteria.
YC Startup School 2009 Compilation
I try to do this, and then I tend to share it anyway. How do you keep yourself from sharing if you’re normally oversharing?
Stevenarella: Multi-protocol Minecraft-compatible client written in Rust
*BBC
$35B Worth of Real Estate Could Be Underwater by 2050
So you think it's possible to build good businesss stand-alone cross-platform software with JavaFX?
Thanks for the feedback! Op here. I'll definitely consider adding the guest access back. Login is requried to be able to save all of your preferences on the server. Also compared to other simulator that requires a 5Gb of download and signup, this is much lower bar?
> We’re still a few years away from having them in actual power plants

I admire your optimism. I'd say half a century, if things go well, but I'm not convinced fusion will ever be economically feasible.
Fantastic Fungi

https://fantasticfungi.com/

https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81183477
It looks like all the isotopes of LI are very short lived. Is the problem some of the daughters, or perhaps the Fe and C in the steel that are the problem?

https://www.thoughtco.com/lithium-isotopes-radioactive-decay...
The insight contributors chart is usually a good clue. It’s not perfect because it only shows the main branch configured in GitHub and some project haven’t merged to main in years.

Still, it’s good to see how many big contributors a project has, and how active they are over time.

https://github.com/feather-rs/feather/graphs/contributors
Those are the only two that came on top of my head which I knew the HN crowd would also be familiar with.

Did you expect me to list dozens of other companies?
Show HN: A 3D city created with GitHub real-time contribution datas
Greenland Is Still Melting, and It’s September
It's popular because the compiler is difficult - people would rather suffer the pain at compile time instead of runtime for particular projects, so it is very well suited to those.
Very impressive to see how many people were able to walk away from these incidents, I wonder what the counts of injury or worse would look like without this system?

Also it seems like these small planes have a lot of incidents, I'm guessing due to relatively inexperienced pilots?
We all know what it’s like to let stress get the best of us. When your actions are coming from a place of anxiety, moodiness, mental fog, and...
How is Russia bombing a nuclear power plant any different from Russia using nuclear weapons. The issue is not the nuclear power plant, it's the mad man willing to cause the end of the world to win his war in Ukraine.
> as permitted by applicable law

YouTube's ToS does nothing to change applicable law, which was my stated question. What YouTube wants is not necessarily what the law says.

Besides, YouTube does not hold copyright on most videos, so their ToS does magically not allow them to claim copyright infringement.
I love documentaries, and these are my favourites. All very worth a watch.

- The Crash Reel

- McConkey

- Buck

- Apollo 11

- Carts of Darkness

- The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

- Samsara

- Baraka

- Brooklyn Castle

- Spellbound

- Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

- Crumb

- The Jinx

- The Art of Flight

- King of Kong

- Indie Game: The Movie

- Capturing the Friedmans

- OJ: Made in America

- The Barkley Marathons

- The Seven Five

- Murderball

- Unbranded

- Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee

- Big River Man

- Hoop Dreams

- Word Wars

- Free Solo

- Long Shot

- Meru

- Being Elmo

- All This Mayhem

- Jiro Dreams of Sushi

- The Cove

- Project Nim

- Alone in the Wilderness

- Behind the Curve

- The Dawn Wall

- Grizzly Man

- 13th

- Winnebago Man

- Man vs Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler

- Get Me Roger Stone

- Icarus

- 13th

- Koyaanisqatsi

- The Thin Blue Line

- An Inconvenient Truth

- Oklahoma City

- Virunga

- The Staircase

- Evil Genius

- Undefeated

- Betting on zero
The original alpha Mail
You should be aware that there a lot of critism out there that is completely wrong, like ones based on misreading/misinterpreting statements from his studies. You should make sure to read response to criticism if you can find it. I haven't heard this specific criticism before though, so can't comment on that specifically.

But you should also consider that his studies are ridiculously conservative, so there's a lot of room for error that technological improvements can compensate for.

With the first versions of his studies I thought it odd that he didn't include much offshore wind. It was becoming clear that offshore wind was becoming very viable. But he used the current costs when writing the study, not projected future costs. Now I think his studies include off shore wind because the cost has come down far enough that it makes sense to include them in calculations.

I think it's reasonable to assume that the costs of renewables will continue to come down, that solar efficiency will go up, and that we will have at least one or two breakthrough battery chemistry, and possibly a breakthrough in geothermal too, by 2040-2050.
I haven’t checked the previous links but just going off the top of my head:

- Jiro Dreams of Sushi, I watch it every now and then to inspire me about my craft. I want to go to Japan to try his food in the future.

- Icarus, I suggest you go into this blind without knowing what it’s about.

- The Barkley Marathons, this sort of got me into running.

Edit: I just went into the older discussions about how there’s a dark side to Jiro Dreams of Sushi. And honestly, as an Asian (not Asian American), I think the difference in reception is a cultural thing.
That’s what unstoppable domains supposedly offers, or so I’ve heard.

Vitalik Buterin wrote an interesting analysis about how to allocate scarce domains, contrasting unstoppable’s approach with recurring demand based fees:

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/should-there-be-de...
Thanks for the feedback! Op here. I'm here to help! Please see below for the signup requirement. For controls, do you use gamepad? Or keyboard or an RC radio controller? It's recommended to use a professional radio controller or gamepad to fly.
"Works the way your brain does" except for the unpronounceable name, of course - my brain hiccups on that every time I see it!
One thing I like about Odin is that you can use any allocator with any existing function, without wiring that function to specifically do that. It just comes for free. In a way, it completely decouples the code from the allocator choice. It's especially nice because we can use any allocator with any third party code.

I think this kind of decoupling is a big step in the right direction. The more concerns we can decouple from each other, the simpler and more flexible our codebases become and the less time we have to spend infectiously refactoring.