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< Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond said "we have a program that we call Supra Coders and we’re trying to build indigenous software experts inside of our service…And then as we develop these Supra Coders, we’re looking at what’s the best place to put them,” Raymond said. “And so we’re putting them in software factories…We’re putting them in innovation cells in our deltas, to be able to give them the tough challenges to work on and see if they can write code to be able to help us, and there’s been some really good example of where we have made some progress embedding those folks with our operators.” "
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In case you were wondering: this is a bootcamp to teach javascript, html, react and server side databases. https://supracoders.us/software-development-immersive

Wonder how much money is being siphoned off to consulting/contracting companies for this.
Yeah I was wondering about that as well, is this a normal thing for ordinary people to have in some countries?
This goes remarkably well with a second browser tab opened to Dick Dale playing Misirlou.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpsuGMeqHI
The bug chart thing also seems a bit misleading. If you actually click through the links it looks like there's simply more people dedicated to the task of testing dev releases. This person made a public stink about how they were ignored about getting a QA team and now it seems as though they have it? And thus they're claiming that that means the software is buggier rather than more bugs are being caught earlier in the dev cycle? And then you're pinning upstream to the very thing you're advertising as essentially a bug-riddled mess?

Very confusing goal to me here.
> It's easier to connect a European plug which has 2 round pins than it is to connect a UK plug which has 3 rectangular pins at different angles.

Speaking strictly on plugs - while I agree it is simpler/easier - I disagree that EU plug is better.

For the bulk and lack of directionality - significantly safer (pin lengths, shielded to tip), requires a ground pin even if dummy, carries 13A easy!

The safety aspects are incredible[0]. I do not worry about my small children at all.

Lived in HK where the EU (China) and UK (HK) are pretty common in one household.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q
Didn't try this yet but what caught my attention is that you can write a (micropython) program and run it on the hub itself instead of on some mobile device. The options to control a LEGO boost hub over bluetooth are rather laggy and limited, whilst the pre-defined models in the Boost kit clearly indicate that there are more possibilities than are exposed via the app (as the models can e.g. self calibrate and zero the axes much better than you can do with the exposed blocks). So I am hoping this unlocks the full potential for these devices. Anyone tries this yet?
The most interesting advice here is to leave the TV on with a do-not-disturb sign. I think people will be less likely to rob you that way. All the other advice is kind of whatever, like not being on the top floor in case someone is sweeping for you floor-by-floor.
FreeTube, uBlock Origin, Pi-Hole... I haven't seen ad on YouTube for many years. Even sponsored content is skipped on timeline.
The thing with electrical plus is that they should be designed around safety first, rather than convenience. And the U.K. plug is a lot more safety focused than many other plug standards.

The advantage of the U.K. plug is that live pins are physically blocked and only released when the Earth pin is present. This is why the Earth pin is slightly longer on U.K. plugs and why insulated devices have a plastic Earth pin rather than no pin at all. The advantage of this is so you cannot jam things into them (either accidentally or intentionally) without the Earth pin. Thus making the plug much safer.

I’ve found U.K. plugs to be much more secure inside the socket too. US plugs often come away from the wall when there is a little bit of weight or tension on the plug. U.K. plugs require a great deal more pressure to come loose from the socket.

If I were to bring this back to types I’d say one needs to evaluate what the requirements are: safety or convenience.
As a normal business traveler I have been in more than one "smoke filling up hallway" situation and found fire exits locked or barricaded to prevent ingress. I think a LOT of this is reasonable.

The "know your area before you step out and don't look like a confused person standing in the middle of the street when you exit the hotel" part is also really good for not being immediately marked as a tourist.
Same goes for OpenBSD. It is quite normal that the only defined API is the provided libc or similar.

This is of course a little annoying at times.
This is an excellent idea to disintermediate Google.
A search tool for the commons without the spyware and opportunities for search manipulation is very important, and the more actors work on it, the better.
Perhaps cooperations with other tech savvy democracies could occur. India is full of skilled programmers. Unlike Russia or China it is easy to see Europe cooperate with it.
You wouldn't use a beam for fusion anyway, somewhat because of the "cold electrons" but you want it to be in a randomized soup that you can then compress, which is why ICF is a better scheme for fusion.
I can't tell, but I suspect this is more likely a problem of ageism rather than generalism here.

But maybe beyond a certain age you need to specialise simply in order to compete for positions.

Most employers are going to choose a younger more pliable (or cheaper) hire over someone who knows the same stuff but due to lived experience is less tolerant to bullshit.
I would describe them as penguin sized :)
clearly some kind of superposition is real, in the same sense that classical waves can superimpose. However there is a wild gulf between that and what is commonly accepted with multi-particle quantum mechanics, which is that the universe is N-dimensional, where N is the number of particles, and that arbitrary configurations in some slice of those N dimensions can be independent of some other slice. This hasn't really been tested, and in fact quantum computing is the first real test of it. And it's not looking good for that theory.
> I was trying to figure out what compose was supposed to return (the function or the value), in that case, and I still don't really know.

It returns a function. The one that's equivalent to applying the arguments in reverse order. I think that this signature is pretty clear for anyone experienced with a statically typed language with generics and higher order functions.

On the other hand, I have no idea why a compose function that takes exactly 6 arguments, the last of which is function which takes 3 arguments would be a desirable abstraction. But I don't think static typing is necessarily to blame for this -- this just looks like a clunky function that has a clunky type.

I'm fully with you on the second example though.
If those labs finance themselves via debt rather than research grants then yes.
Today, there‘s an adaptive variant of GPodder[0] so that people with PinePhone, Librem 5 or ported Android phones running Linux Mobile can use GTK-based GPodder on mobile.

(This does not matter in terms of numbers, as that‘s at best a few thousand people, but still.)

[0] https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/tree/adaptive
We are only talking about a polynomial speed up, so i dont think bqp vs bpp is relavent.
Mid-30s and no regrets so far after roughly 12 years of experience. I've done mobile development (Symbian, yes that Symbian, iOS and Android) backend (nodejs, erlang, PHP, python) data engineering and probably a host of other things that don't spring to mind immediately. That being said, I've mostly been working in startups (the longest being the current stint of nearly 8 years now from early employee to IPO) and generalists are generally really well appreciated in those settings.
A counter from another physicist (who coincidentally used to have Feynmans desk when he was at caltech). https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/06/23/physici...
> Who do you know would want to work for a company that did that?

Pretty much anyone who works for Twitter, Facebook, Google, Paypal, Venmo, Amazon, Microsoft, Gofundme, Mailchimp, Tiktok, Reddit, Nextdoor, and many other tech companies routinely engaging in censorship and unpersoning. The idea that people in tech are some kind of high morals freedom lovers that would never work for a company that censors doesn't suffer even minimal scrutiny. If anything, they'd refuse to work for a company that doesn't censor enough - Twitter workers were in utter screaming panic when they thought Musk could but Twitter and relax the censorship a bit. So if anything you just disproven your own argument - maybe what will force CF to censor is not external pressure but the internal one. I don't see why Cloudflare workers would be any better than Twitter ones.
Flexport started to "disrupt global trade" (in a positive sense) and ended as a global freight forwarder. The latter is impressive enough, just a tad short of the initial goal.

One software house that I like a lot in the logistics space is WiseTech, a lot of the big shots, e.g. DHL are using it.
Revolut confirms cyberattack exposed personal data of tens of thousands of users
https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight
>“We are talking about partial mobilization, that is, only citizens who are currently in the reserve will be subject to conscription, and above all, those who served in the armed forces have a certain military specialty and relevant experience,” Putin said.

https://apnews.com/f64f9c91f24fc81bc8cc65e8bc7748f4
Why not offer a paid tier? Seems to work for Kagi. Information elites will soon flock to paid search engines, which won’t be much more expensive than a streaming subscription. I pay for Netflix and am willing to pay for a search engine that offers as good a search service as the video streaming offered by Netflix.
So to be clear - your view is that quantum computers can't exist because quantum mechanics is false?
>>instead, coal and oil must be protected

Does anybody actually advocate for that? It's clear the future is green, it is just a matter of when and how.

I think the dude just wants to make $$$ selling cocaine?
People seem to think we can train the YouTube algorithm. That's backwards. As I see it, the algorithm is there to train us.
So is the plan to annex Donbas and then declare all combat in Donbass an attack on Russia as a justification for further escalation?
Yes, that's correct... compose() pipes a bunch of passed functions from right to left. Here's the actual type definition if you want to see: https://github.com/googol/DefinitelyTyped/blob/6836f798cb186...

But even at its simplest variant, with just one or two functions passed, what the V0 or T1 do is pretty confusing. I thiiiiiiiiink it's trying to ensure the return type of one function is correctly passed as the input type of the subsequent function, and so on and so forth, but I don't really know.

Also, I should note that I'm using an older version of that lib. The latest version has cleaner typings... still difficult, but at least formatted better: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/mast...
There are people like the late Edward Nelson who represent radical formalism: https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/papers/rome.pdf

and question the consistency of the commonly used axiomatic systems like peano arithmetic: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gsvQSpeDHKXxjXwuM/edward-nel...
(Although his inconsistency proof of PA turned out to be flawed.)

One should also mention Wittgensteins remarks: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein-mathematics/

And in general thoughts going into the direction of ultrafinitism are quite provocative.

See for example D. Zeilbergs opinions: https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/OPINIONS.html
I firmly believe there are two classes of email, those who use exchange servers and those who dont.

While i dont really care so much about the mail client in itself, I would gladly use something else besides outlook, if it would integrate itself into the exchange protocol so well.

It feels like E-Mail is a solved problem, but its really not we all have just more or less agreed that its good enough. I Remember when i started using ot years ago (i even have private exchange since more than 10 years), i thought -this - this is how email is going to become everywhere. But it never really cought on, except of course if you now also book office 365.

Comming back to the main topic though: i dont think that extended hubris and sarcasm is a sign of a healthy project, but more that of a hurt child. If your fixes would have been according to the guidlines of mozilla to begin with, im sure your patches would have been merged.
Surely this has to have significant ramifications to the day to day operations of the country. If people who are drafted refuse then someone needs to decide on the outcome of that. If they draft vital workers of the economy it they will need to fill the vacancies.

It’s almost impossible to judge the outcome of this within the country. They must have prepared that for quite some time.
The TI video chip on the other hand, the 9918, was foundational and was both copied, cloned and extended and powered millions of home computer, consoles and arcade machines. Even the NES was said to have been derived from the 9918 design.
These prices, wow. Anyone got tips on cheapest 4K@60 solution?
"being unbiased" can be fairly honestly called a "value".
Europeans apparently have chosen it as one of their own values.

If you are arguing that being truly unbiased cannot ever be realized, I counter that neither truth nor justice can ever be truly realized, by this should not stop anyone from taking them as their values.

signed by: an expert
$4000 per lb in Coumbia; by the time, it reaches America, it is sold at $20k per lb. What happens when criminal gangs and cartels go for synthetic drugs? Meth and Fentanyl are already happening.
Putin announces partial mobilization for Russian citizens
I was wondering recently if a thing like this existed. This is exactly what I was wishing for!
If you roll your mouse over an instance of hairy (meaning technical/complicated), the tooltip will give more detail
This is just what the world needs! Cheap cocaine!
How much of the tech world is bullshit?
Regardless of what motivated these removals, taking Dilbert off the newspaper is probably looked upon favourably as improving the "S" of its ESG rating, but not as much as going digital and paperless is supposed to make the "E" look good.
Carlsen and Niemann with 16,1% chance to meet AGAIN tomorrow
arlsen currently holds first place in the Julius Baer Generation Cup with 25 points, while Niemann scores 18 points to be 7th on the current rankings. Practically speaking, Carlsen and Niemann might meet as soon as in the first round of the Knockout stage in several cases:

One player finishes first, the second player finishes eight
One player finishes second, the second player finishes seventh
One player finishes third, the second player finishes sixth
One player finishes fourth, the second player finishes fifth
I've been there too. All you need is a slow morning and too much caffeine.
It is one thing for people to advocate a thing, such as "you should fire all your C++ staff and hire us", and another thing for my employer to obey.

But that difference does not make advocating it less bad, unless they are obviously speaking facetiously and expect it to have no effect. It is very clear people saying it mean it and want that to happen.

Azure CTO's announcement is a success for that advocacy.
SaaS founders at work: lessons from 144 yrs of building
Ok, now introduce negative interest rates on cash to allow that to happen.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hairy.html

"Annoyingly complicated".
I'll put in a recommendation for the Youtube Kids app where this doesn't happen.
sorry to hear that. do you think ageism have something to do with it or no? (generalist in my early 40's here similar skillset sprinkled with cloud stuff)
Not really the same thing. But thanks for sharing nonetheless. That changes your whole system which makes certain sprites look weird.
The article implicitly assumes that you have multiple backend teams and you need to combine the results from different services that belong to different teams. The services having interdependencies would lead to a giant ball of mud, so you need a service in front doing that for you. Now if you have also more frontends with different requirements who is going to take responsibility in the central service?

The architecture really only makes sense if you have a lot of people that would step on each other’s toes if you don’t assign them their areas and would come to a halt if you didn’t gave them enough autonomy.
Neurologic Complications of Smallpox and Monkeypox – A Review
People would doxx the hell out of themselves without knowing it all the time if you did that.
> However, the quote about the California Highway Patrol at the bottom is not accidental or naive.

This isn't some authoritarian power play, they closed the highway because there's about 400 feet between the highway and the battery facility where there was an active lithium metal fire going on. As someone who lives in the vicinity, I can tell you that a larger road closure was also needed for some quite practical reasons: the power plant and adjacent town are fairly isolated and the places to set up closures where traffic can be diverted safely are quite far away.
Yes, this is what I do as well.
The developer for ET (one of the listed games) got $200,000 for 5 weeks work (in 1982 money), a flight on a private jet to meet Steven Spielberg, and an all-expenses-paid vacation to Hawaii.

Game developers with "overinflated salaries" probably won't be too hard to find when you're talking about the games with the highest development costs.
I’m always more thrilled on physical paper book falling on my face, when I fall asleep, just to remind me to put it on the night table and turn off the lights. Like “Fluent Python” or “TCP/IP Guide”.
I don't know why it took so long to really take off. I've been using TypeScript since almost day one for these same reasons.

Maybe it's because I came from C++.

Like in C++, I like the flexibility of not being too under-typed (impossible to not break anything) or over-typed (impossible to do anything).
There’s no way to delete or modify your listening history on Apple Music, and thus no way to get rid of unwanted recommendations AFAIK. At least with Spotify you can just create a new account, but your Apple Music account is tied to your appleid, so that’s not really feasible if you’re a heavy Apple user. I just try to find the service with mostly the same features but with the least intrusive recommendations and use that, which at the moment is Qobuz.
Maybe we'll have quantum cards in the future like we have graphics cards now, making it available in many devices.
Well, I would say QM is an approximation of some better and more accurate theory. In my view, multi-particle quantum mechanics is pretty clearly a kind of gross hack - using a very large dimensional space so you can write down a linear theory - instead of using a smaller dimensional space with non-linear interactions. Quantum computing assumes the very large dimensional space is actually real. So we'll see if that is the case.
These are good questions to ask if you assume you would get truthful and non-misleading answers. I wouldn't trust a salesperson to answer these truthfully.
What's 'correct' from your point of view (as library implementer) may be 'overly complex and a hassle to use' from the library user's pov though.
Not your average Travelodge guest, for sure.

Here are a few tips for regular people:
Check-in early (by phone or via web, if you need to) because the best rooms are allocated on first come basis.
Always insist on a top floor room otherwise you'll be constantly disturbed by a heard of elephants walking across the under-engineered floor above you.
Avoid the ground floor, for the reason above, and, also it tends to be where they put the most likely trouble makers, groups and smokers (who'll noisily leave and enter their room throughout the night for regular nicotine fixes).
Make an official complaint for the slightest of disturbance, budget hotels are built on the cheap with a contingency for refunds factored in - you'll be surprised how easy it is to get a full refund and/or a complimentary breakfast.
If you hear a fire alarm do not hesitate to vacate the building and stop for nothing, construction standards meet the minimum fire safety regulations and no more. This means the building can lawfully burn to the ground in less than an hour, and a few have done exactly this.

Top tip, have a short nap as soon as you arrive. It helps alleviate that 'first night in a strange bed and can't sleep' problem.
In 2010 I was working at a large hotel / convention center in Nashville, at about 8pm we were preparing for a massive event where a company had bought out one of the venues, the entire hotel was booked solid. In the days prior to this, we had torrential downpours and heavy rain but this was normal, until it wasnt. Out of nowhere we get reports that the underground tunnels in the hotel used for employees to get around were taking in water and it was quickly determined that the cumberland river had overflown after the army core of engineers put a damn down and could not get it back up. I cant begin to explain the chaos that ensued there with that many people and the hotel essentially being on a dead end. 3k guests, likely more than that in employees, all scattering to get to higher ground and out of a bottle neck. Hotel was safely evacuated but the entire place was underwater by the next day. That said, the "orientation" section in this article I think is absolutely necessary.
For a Security site, the are quite hostile for declining their cookies.
I will not get redirected to the article but to mainpage and the search doesnt work :/
We didn't ask to be protected. The malicious compliance is an obvious consequence of the badly written law.
It took something like 100 years to normalize washing hands in the medical industry. I am in this for the long game.
Writer keeps mentioning 3rd world countries. I am assuming this person is traveling to Syria or some other country with active war going. I can't imagine doing these while saying at a 4 Seasons hotel.
I've seen some comments on twitter (like this one [0]) that are saying that the complexity of programs in different languages is not the same and that is impacting results. Is someone willing to develop this for me (since I don't really know any other language here other than Python)?

Bonus: here's "Ranking Programming Languages by Energy Efficiency", from 2021 [1]

[0]: https://twitter.com/Czaki_PL/status/1569636020475265025

[1]: https://haslab.github.io/SAFER/scp21.pdf
> These days their prices are competitive or better than the aggregation sites, and with better terms

I travel extensively for work, and this is simply not true. Literally last week, I saved $40 by booking through hoteltonight in Chicago. Once you get close to the date of the stay, prices become squirrely and weird. This is definitely true if you're booking more than two weeks in advance, though.
Yes, apologies, you are completely right and I amended my comment.
Is there a physical difference between using the resistance device, and just breathing through a narrow straw? It seems a lot cheaper to just jury-rig something.
Figma? https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
is there a ~/.config or file-based way to configure gpodder?

i listen to podcasts on a variety of devices. when i find a new podcast, it's nice to be able to add the RSS URL to a single dotfiles repo and then deploy it to all my devices. i see the option to manually OPML import via the GUI: can i just stash an OMPL file somewhere and have it auto-load that on start?