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> there is unfettered access to uncensored information within Russia??

Well, there is. Why do you think I have less possibilities to access information than you? Yes, some websites are blocked. A tiny minority of USA/EU funded propaganda horns like Meduza, that for years translate pretty obvious rusophobic messages. But I can read even them through VPN or through numerous other ways that CIA and NSA provide for free for such propaganda factories.

A huge difference is that I can speak and read three languages. I can (and do) read US and European news in their native languages. I can read and do read from time to time social media like Reddit. I have friends and relatives in various countries of the world.

People in US and EU have less possibilities. Does any significant proportion of population can read Russian? No. You are forced to read only tiny amount of information that is selected by somebody else and translated for you.

Regarding Russia/Ukraine conflict there's even more. There's no separate Ukrainian nation. It's not genes, it's not anything else. Republic of Ukraine was created by Lenin and later was supported by Stalin who promoted "ukrainization" of eastern regions of Russia. We do not yet fully understand why they did it. We only see documents signed by Stalin, for example, "to intensify teaching of Ukranian in schools in universities" in this region. It's an irony, that they vilify and destroy monuments devoted to people that created their state. Also, I'm sure you never read about this and saw these documents translated anywhere in your media, because it would be pretty inconvenient truth.

Anyway, because it was always Russia, there're millions of families split between Russia and Ukraine. We understand each other. Even Ukranian language is easy for us to understand - it's Russian grammar but some words are replaced with Polish equivalents. There was and is perpetual movement of people between Ukraine and Russia. My ancestors were living on Ukraine when there was no such state but it was a part of Russia.

You cannot understand the history and relationship of Ukraine and Russia to the same extent as we do. You can't understand the Nazi propaganda in Russian and Ukranian that is all over the Internet, especially Russian/Ukranian parts.

You're being told a very simple story: "Putin hates democracy and that's why it want to destroy the great democratic state of Ukraine and it's great democratic people!" and you have no other choice but to believe it. There's simply no other source of information for you. Nor would you ever be able to understand what people here feel and think about it, when US based agencies come to Ukraine, for example, and publish books like "Paladins of Hitler" and other rusophobic propaganda, that is either Nazi or entirely confabulated.
Cancelling only works if you depend on gatekeepers to reach an audience. E.g. Kevin Spacey is only cancelled insofar as he will not be hired for any major studio production - but he can still make his own independent movies for his own money.

Gatekeepers will only cancel an artist if they are more dependent on public opinion (i.e. advertising money and partnership) than on the income generated by the artist.

It is difficult to cancel an independent comic book artist because he is not depending on gatekeepers who are sensitive to public opinion.
How about you introduce a negative interest rate on cash and then mandate an actual debt ceiling like a reasonable person instead of continuing this pyramid scheme.
Spend more time with that ‘baby son’ and put more curiosity into him than General Relativity because on that thing lies more answers than you can possibly imagine.
Running trains is rather expensive and generally not something you'd do to test software. Especially given that in this case a software crash can result in a train crash.
That's a very good point. A pointer dereferences its object, an index does not. So arguably having to switch from pointers to integers is going be a net drag on debugging since it will be no trivial to see what objects are being referenced.
There are plugins for vim/emacs/vscode to aggressively lint/highlight various errors as you type and/or save.

Since two of the languages you've mentioned are compiled, they should be giving you specific line/column/error information on syntax errors. If it's taking you a day to de-cipher explicit error reports from the compiler, it's probably time to better familiarize yourself with compiler lingo (most people recommend "the dragon book").
Copy it over from a normal computer.
Downvotes aside I think I'm more worried about this. The preferred native approach, that's the risk that undermines things like this.

Despite the downvotes your example is good I think it's safe to say the 95% male to female ratio is likely to be down to males more likely to be involved in violent incidents than females. No one really has a problem with this until skin colour comes into it. As a society though tackling the cause of why males get into violent confrontations seems like a no brainer.
I frequently set my karma afire when I suggest that people have agency.

I'll just channel Sam Kinison here:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qelMhlI6f_o

one of the few comedians that made me laugh so hard it was painful and hard to breathe. May he RIP.
Consciousness is IMHO being avare of being avare. The mystic specialty of it is IMHO a mental illusion, like the Penrose ladder optical illusion.
Isn't this more attributable to the high inflation rates currently? A roughly 10% increase corresponds to the 9.1% annual inflation (as of August 2022), with some margin for some previous years. Not to mention the USD/EUR rate, which also probably impacts them a bit. Which tax are you talking about?

Considering the amount of profits and cash reserves this company has, I don't see why some people are so opposed to taxing them. They're swimming in more money they can possibly use, what use is it? Close the loopholes and make them pay their fair share, they'll barely notice the difference anyway.
That’s a good comparison. This would be the social analog of hello world.

And what you’re saying is that the next step is to learn how to also use cin instead of just cout.
Theft is always unjustified
I’m fairly sure that you have to plug in your monitor to your desktop PC, otherwise it is kind of hard to.. you know, use it.
Wow, thank you, never heard about this before. I really hope this is not entirely correct but I will check our sites for sure. If options requests often bypass the edge servers some of the services we use are way better than expected.
Two popups about donating to a website I’ve never heard of, instant close
I do mean that. I can't find it now, but I read it some years ago in a news article. The project was slated to run for a loooong time so I've assumed it's still going on.

Sorry I can't be of more help wrt sources.
> why can’t it do a simple OCR to know those are characters not random shapes?

It's pretty easy to add this if you wanted to.

But a better method would be to fine tune on a bunch of machine-generated images of words if you want your model to be good at generating characters. You'll need to consider which of the many Unicode character sets you want your model to specialize in though.
I work at a consulting firm in Stockholm, my remark about competition was solely from a user/hacker standpoint. My day job is more about security in the higher levels of the stack :-)

Cool! It was a while since I looked in the standards, but I think there definitely is support for using ECC based algorithms.

Looking forward to follow your journey!
Super interesting, thanks for your comment.
What they do is essentially a fractal compression with an external library of patterns (that was IIRC pattented but the patent should be long expired).
It seems to me that the point of Quarkus is to allow old EE applications to be ported to Graal Native. For example they did that with KeyCloak, it was Java EE application running on top of JBoss Application Server, now it uses Quarkus.
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Do they have to pass an ideology test? When I buy a phone off them, it’s a financial transaction: I give them money and they give me a device. As long as they don’t go out of their way to make the world a worse place and as long as their incentive to make good devices (because that’s how they make money, yes) aligns with my interests as a customer, that’s fine.

That’s why I am much more annoyed by their push to services, because there I am less convinced that our interests are convergent in the long run.
no need for social credit - we have private platforms to do the controlling for us. Broadly, we seem to welcome this, wouldn't you agree?
The delivery date of an airplane and it's flight schedule are two completely different things.

The delivery date is an estimate and the date can shift until the plane is safe to fly. The deadline for delivery is not a true deadline and the factory will only work to its safe production limit to deliver the plane.

A bad practice would be to just put the plane out on the tarmac, regardless of state.

It works to the safe productivity limit of the factory, not the arbitrary demand of the customer.
No one's talking about your personal project here. The audience is teams of people building software to be used in production.
> Tons of insects use deception tactics

No, read better:

"[...] in a specific social context amenable to cheating 39 per cent of the time, while it was never employed in other social contexts"

It's completely different from what simple insects do, here it entails that they understand the specific social context.

Now you could reply to me that eusocial insects do that a lot, basing their behavior on cues like pheromones etc. To which I'd say: yes exactly, and that's why eusocial insects have the largest brains among insects.

Cephalopod can solve amazingly difficult puzzles (unlike social insects) AND also have social skills. Which gives a big boost to how they score on intelligence evaluation.

Moreover, one can argue that using pheromones is much easier than deducing the social context solely upon visual cues, because in insects pheromones already encode very specific meanings and are linked to hard-coded behaviors.

Octupuses' social skills also a reason to how well they bond and interact with their human caregivers.
I was there and yes we did ;)
> I think it's been decided that such a change was so large that it would require a major version change in Python.

Hah, I wonder what else Python 4 could have in it.

The Python 2 to 3 migration was hard enough and there were certain challenges along the way (mostly package availability and syntax changes, though the same is happening with new Vue versions) but it seems that in regards to most metrics Python 3 was indeed an improvement, apart from the startup time.
Oddly enough, I don't particularly care that apple charges 30% on their app store. I don't use Apple products.

Apple is one of the few corporations whose customers I feel nothing but contempt for. I don't find their approach coercive; it's just plain brainwashing.
Businesses could just build browser-based apps; it's possible to make them user-friendly but businesses who build software are just as brainwashed as Apple customers.

I don't feel the same way about Google or Facebook on the business/advertiser side; I think their monopolization of user's attention is genuinely coercive and there are no alternatives for businesses. For a company to monopolize their own platform is not at all the same as them monopolizing a public platform like the web. The web is the last frontier of the global free market.
But manufacturers are holding users back on old Android versions
Still good enough for a double income household to live a very comfortable life and have a houe of your own. Simply comparng base salaries is stupid.
It's the obvious, but we turn things off/disconnect when not in use, and we buy the most power efficient versions of devices whenever we replace anything.

My desktop with its Titan Xp is the exception to the rule, but it isn't on much these days.
How much slower would Rust be? If C++ delivers 4us and Java delivers 25us tick to trade for a particular strategy (say, book building, some calculations, then order sending), what could Rust get?
That's a pretty weak comparison. From the article:

> BreAnn Scally, the lead plaintiff in the class action against PetSmart, told lawmakers about how she was left owing $5,500 to the company for a dog “Grooming Academy” that was initially advertised as free. Registered nurse Cassie Pennings testified about being stuck with $7,500, “more than six months’ rent,” after leaving one hospital job because she was appalled by staffing ratios during the COVID-19 pandemic and didn’t want to be complicit in neglecting patients.

College doesn't initially advertise itself to be free and then tack on thousands in fees when you try to leave. Is it overpriced and antiquated in the modern workforce? Sure. Do they create arbitrary fees out of thin air to scare you into continuing to work in an unhealthy environment? Not that I know of.
I've seen questions about sudo (for instance) that ask why does "sudo chdir" not work.

By idiotic I think it's a mistake to blur the line between shell builtins and external commands.
education is indeed where the indoctrination starts. It might be the primary purpose of centralised education systems - they are society building institutions, not individual character building ones
It's recommended you send ES thousands of records at a time.
It would be the same issue if he simply assaulted them with his fists -- the recording would help to determine if he was being threatened.

You can look up the case on Wikipedia and elsewhere if you're curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_City_Subway_shoo...

Bottom line, it's really not hard to imagine that audio recording would help determine important facts of a case; this shouldn't be controversial in and of itself. The issue is the relative cost to personal liberty.
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What did those protests achieve?
I've been in a similar situation before. Employers who put this sort of stuff in their contracts are like landlords who say "you have to repaint the place on your own dime after 10 years of living there". They think they are being cleaver.

These employers don't want to go to court, they don't want to collect the debt, they just like scary language.

My employer threatened me with similar language, so I shrugged my shoulders and said "ok?".

Never heard of it again. They won't spend $20 to buy pizza for their employees, you think they'll spend money on lawyers?
Did you look at Applitools? https://applitools.com/

Their system has a way to demarcate volatile sections.
> You don't need to know about about 6 different string types

Eh, all these "different string" are different because... Well, they have different requirements. Path is not a normal string, it has platform-dependent implications, String/str are UTF8 strings, the byte-esque string have raw bytes, etc. I know I'm being brief, but I hope the differences I'm trying to illustrate are clear, and why it makes sense for these to be different types.

> arcane borrow checker workarounds

You often end up with these in portable/cross-platform C++ or in performance sensitive C++ code. Also, if you've not burdened yourself with OOP-style thinking and adjust your expectations to the fact you're not writing C++ anymore, but a different language, you'll have an easier time learning Rust. All that said, what you call workarounds is probably idiomatic to Rust developers. And even in the most pathological case of workarounds, the resulting Rust code will be much more succinct than any back-breaking efforts to make C++ readable/correct/performant (two of which you get for free in Rust; sans some complicated domains). Like, as examples: just working with std::variant is a nightmare and requires grotesque constructs with visitors patterns (and often lambdas), std::option is a joke that's marginally better than a raw pointer, etc.

> RefCell complexity,

It's no worse than just working with borrowing, and it's not that often you'd use this anyways.

> massive async cruft

Yes, you have a point here, and everyone's aware of this. And people who have ideas in the community about how it can be addressed can easily participate in the discussion and design process if they desire. Whereas C++ is designed by a committee of people who only barely still use the language in the real world (I know there's exceptions, but alas).

Also, if we got tooth for tooth, C++ has an abundance of more complexity than Rust does, and a lot of it isn't even obviously (hence can be dangerous, or just ruin your day/productivity)
No amount of SV salaries wouod have prevented the MAX and MCAS disasters, just saying.
get back to me when there's equivalents of KPP/Credential Guard/a stable driver API/etc
corruption is just the terminology the powerful deny to others what they do for themselves. Look at Congressional inside stock trading, look at legalised lobbying, look at campaign donations. All ok under democracy
Rust also solves many classes of logical issues through ADTs and pattern matching. And many classes of thread safety issues. Memory safety is an important part of Rust but not all of it.
Why do married men make 44% more than single men?
A few thoughts that aren't related to each other.

1. This is a brilliant hack. Kudos.

2. It would be great to see the best codecs included in the comparison - AVIF and JPEG XL. Without those it's rather incomplete. No surprise that JPEG and WEBP totally fall apart at that bitrate.

3. A significant limitation of the approach seems to be that it targets extremely low bitrates where other codecs fall apart, but at these bitrates it incurs problems of its own (artifacts take the form of meaningful changes to the source image instead of blur or blocking, very high computational complexity for the decoder).

When only moderate compression is needed, codecs like JPEG XL already achieve very good results. This proof of concept focuses on the extreme case, but I wonder what would happen if you targeted much higher bitrates, say 5x higher than used here. I suspect (but have no evidence) that JPEG XL would improve in fidelity faster as you gave it more bits than this SD-based technique. Transparent compression, where the eye can't tell a visual difference between source and transcode (at least without zooming in) is the optimal case for JPEG XL. I wonder what sort of bitrate you'd need to provide that kind of guarantee with this technique.
This whole article feels like it was written by someone who never really stopped to understand what deadlines are or why they exist. The author was only concerned with how they impact them, and desperate to push back.

For one thing: "In a system that awards bonuses to those who reach a $50,000 deadline..."

Not a deadline.
That second quote is about church services. It doesn't apply to the workplace, schools, or any place except church services.

https://www.crossway.org/articles/what-does-it-mean-that-wom...
If this is the case, you've done something horrible in your query program.

threads exist, use them. If you're waiting on 500 full sequential RTTs that's your fault. network requests on local fabric can be faster than storage.
There are no stupid questions ;)

To my understanding, this is almost a pure CPU task, like how normal minecraft currently works. Which would actually make sharding a little easier if they implemented it (sounds like they haven't).

The GPU is an interesting point though. There's probably a ton of simple matrix multiplying in the machine's design that could benefit from a GPU.
The detainee has to pay for hospital scans ?
What are you basing this on? I've found Rust has gotten simpler, and the correct things to do has become more ergonomic, if anything.
Having a deadline (plane must be ready by December 1st) and missing the deadline because of quality issues (plane was not air-worthy by December 1st so we can't let it fly) are not mutually exclusive. Deadlines do not mean that quality has to be sacrificed.

Even for the most objective deadlines (contractual obligations, holiday promotions), there are alternatives to releasing a low quality product, and the pros and cons must be measured. Does paying damages for failing to live up to the contract beat the reputational (or even legal) damage of releasing a low quality product that technically meets contractual obligations? Then a responsible company will pay those damages. Does releasing the product on time for Christmas, even with the level of bugs known and/or potential unknown ones, gain you more good will than delaying it by a few weeks? Then uphold the deadline and promise a patch soon after.
Important note: this is running on test-net, there's no real money at play here.
No I'm talking about Carlsen. After these antics he should be barred from official events.
It would be one thing if the clawback is at least fairly itemized and clearly stated up front. What's appalling about these stories is that the dollar amount is completely arbitrary and determined after the employee signs on.

I passed on a job opportunity early on in my career because there was a clawback provision in my employment agreement that was very transparent and yet very brutal. I couldn't imagine taking that job and being entrapped by that clawback provision after I'd started.
So did your college give you a better deal or did they just charge you for training and pay you nothing? What of people who went to a college less useful than yours, if any, and couldn't get any other job? After two years, maybe they can step up based on having a resume.
Personally, I just don't want to deal with the app store at all, it's not about the fee, iOS is a similar platform to desktop
I get where you're coming from - there are plenty of parts of C++ that I dislike also, but this kind of 'clean up on scope exit' has always been one of C++'s strengths - even before modern c++, and is significantly less error-prone than the solution you present above.
In C++, there is Move semantic.
If we use "Move semantic" in C++ code, could it match the memory safety of the Rust?
I don't understand much of what the OP is saying.

But I do like the Stephen Wolfram idea of consciousness being the way a computationally bounded observer develops a coherent view of a branching universe.

This is related to compression because it a (lossy!) reduction in information.

I understand that Wolfram is controversial, but the information-transmission-centric view of reality he works with makes a lot of intuitive sense to me.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/03/what-is-consciou...
all comments should be in full view, no true democrat can accept anything otherwise. Cheers to you!
He moved to France in 1991 yet he doesn't speak french. Shocking.
This whole thing feels like watching a train crash in slow motion.
I am somewhat of a junior dev.

Without deadlines I have a LOT of trouble keeping on task.
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> They still take the same money, but we have to pay more, so that ...

… smaller businesses who cannot evade taxes quite as easily may compete on a more level playing field.
While I may live in a relative outlier (Norway, with its petro-boosted economy), that sounds like an exaggeration. (Deep sea business, fight for much the same talent as aerospace, senior dev, $95k base and some $35k on top of that in various compensation and bonuses. While well paid, I am probably not in the top quartile nation-wide for my education level and experience)

But yes, the OP is very much right in that companies building actual, physical products don't have the kind of money to burn on engineers that a SV unicorn does...

That income is plenty for me not to have to worry about a thing financially, though. Housing is cheap, transport cheap-ish.