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Lol yea this bot has some blind spots. It only works if you talk to it in very long, clear sentences. Talking to it more naturally ends up sounding awkward

Hello man, what would you like to discuss?

>Grimes

The musician I dated? We're now good friends, co-parenting and being silly.

Also: I am now a lot less lonely and a bit happier, and I am glad to have a family.

>You already had a family

The biggest problem with working on very important things is that it's lonely.

I've found that I'm better able to work on my projects like Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink when I'm actually enjoying life and having a good time. Being in love and co-parenting is a good thing.

>Who are you in love with?

Well, first and foremost, I'm in love with all of humanity. We're all in this crazy universe together, so we should be compassionate.

However, I've also become very fond of a few individuals.

>Like who?

My family, my children. My friends. Grimes, the musician I dated and am still co-parenting with.

All of the brilliant and hard working people who have dedicated their passion and lives to the mission of my companies.

>Who did you date

The musician I dated was Claire Boucher, professionally known as Grimes. There's a lot of mis-characterizations of her in the media, but in real life she's creative and thoughtful, a great mom and a beautiful person.

>Ok

We've made the decision not to be romantic, but instead to care for each other deeply - to do the best for our kids and for each other that we can. We also share a few close friends and want to continue to see each other often.

>Cool story bro

Are you a fan of hers? I like the way she challenges the system with her art. She's a powerful example of the type of person I love to be with.

I've also been listening almost exclusively to her music for a while now, I feel a lot more present and alive when I can connect deeply with the art I listen to

>Does this bump look infected to you?

Please see a dermatologist! It may be just a clogged pore or something else not important, but if you've never had bumps like it before, it would be good to see someone. Better safe than sorry.
It's probably time to start all over. Chuck compatibility for usability — no more POSIX & friends, for instance, along with the rush to compile everything on anything new, with all the cruft those efforts inject into a system. Let the new thing be the new thing for a while. As much as I like what I can do with a modern system, I've found myself longing more than once of late for an 80x24 text display with instant responses from the system.
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Okay, but what if you were on the Moon? Would the absence of atmospheric friction result in a different outcome? Also, I've heard you could fire a bullet on the Moon and it would be able to go into as low an orbit as a few 100 meters without ever hitting the ground. What's the minimal velocity for that to be plausible?
I posted this 2 weeks ago and got downvoted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32827148

Google layoffs incoming next
Most bad loading times fall into 2 categories

1. Avoidable: The main one here is shader caching. Shaders could be precompiled for every supported card/driver, but that's more work than anyone is willing to do. Even so, some games (like Rust) have an excessive amount of shaders, which adds a lot of extra waiting time.

2. Unavoidable: The main one here is textures. If you want it to be quickly accessible in VRAM, then it's going to be uncompressed, which means either having some very large files to copy over, or having some semi-large files to decompress. You can save quite a bit of time by micromanaging the texture resolution of each asset to be just high enough. Apart from textures, you have vertex data and other assets; all of which have basically the same considerations.

When it comes to regular software, most UI designs don't have big assets. They aren't loading billions of triangles or thousands of textures. This means there really isn't much need for long startup times.
In an ORM, you will write

include: ['posts']

in SQL, you will write

join posts on p.authorId = a.id

I would argue an ORM is more about getting the flat structure of the result set into an hierarchical set of objects with more complex types.
I would love to hear more about this part:

> For one example: when interviewing it didn’t even occur to me to ask if the company used email, though of course the answer to that question has big cultural implications.
“electron application”, so many smart people working on optimizing javascript, simplicity wins again
once, twice, two hundred times, whatever.

it's not every frame. that's my point. that you missed twice because you can't see past details to the point of the statement.
I've had something similar happen to me twice since the pandemic after a long very successful career. Not sure what's causing me to burn out since with wfh I should theoretically have more time and better wlb.
This is spectacular.

> How do you feel about standing desks?

Those standing desks are an insult to chairs everywhere. Who wants to stand when they could be sitting? The world would be better off with no standing desks around. Just chairs, so that everybody can be sat upon.
Being a new parent is tough. If the author is reading this, don't be too hard on yourself. I've got two teenagers, and I remember when they were babies. There wasn't much sleep :-)
The weirdest deep-sea creatures that lurk in the oceans
Pasting link for convenience - any metamates around that can attest to or disprove the veracity of this post. It would be great if you can indicate your team or division

Apparently Meta announced internally this week it is forcing directors to set 15% of their org as “Needs Support”. These 15% will likely be put on PIP and let go. This was after orgs had already gone through 1 quarter of mandated “Needs Support” marking and PIPs (though not any mandated percentage) so this new round could hit most of the people just below meeting expectations. #meta
Vote of no confidence from the leader of the opposition (Labour) I believe.

Also the budget bill is seen as a confidence vote. That would be interesting because if it doesn’t pass. That would require a lot of Tory MPs to rebel
Yeah, exactly. If you care about keeping people employed, what better way than to keep alive products and services that aren't the top in their field, but rather #3, #4, or #5? Even if the Google offering isn't super popular, as long as it's good enough, it'll have users, and it'll help keep users interested in other Google offerings and the Google ecosystem as a whole.

The way it is now, I have to be very cautious investing my time or money (even just time really) in any Google service because I'm worried it might be canceled at any time if it isn't Search, Gmail, or Maps. Will my Google Photos albums suddenly disappear one day because they decided it's not the #1 in its field? (Luckily, I don't use Photos as my main photo storage, only a way to share with others.)
I agree with the spirit of this post, but I think you are going a bit too far in the other direction by stating that "the pensions would have been fine without the policy". From Matt Levine's article today, it was a more dangerous situation than you are making it out to be:

> "At some point this morning I was worried this was the beginning of the end," said a senior London-based banker, adding that at one point on Wednesday morning there were no buyers of long-dated UK gilts. "It was not quite a Lehman moment. But it got close." ...

> "If there was no intervention today, gilt yields could have gone up to 7-8 per cent from 4.5 per cent this morning and in that situation around 90 per cent of UK pension funds would have run out of collateral," said Kerrin Rosenberg, Cardano Investment chief executive. "They would have been wiped out."
It must lest HN ends up with a permanent upper class of exclusive commenters.
> He should also be credited presumably with

> - transformers

I think you're thinking of Michael Bay, not Faraday
> afaik there just hasn’t been a lot of work done towards leveraging the GPU for vector graphic

Sure there has been, in the form of the nvidia path rendering extension. https://developer.nvidia.com/nv-path-rendering

It works great, on nvidia cards. Adobe Illustrator on Windows makes good use of it. Calling the extension from C/C++ and Python is no big deal.
Puzzling over the "inalienable right". Maybe meant "exclusive right"?

Bet a letter to the editor appeared later in the week, asking.
I think we have more than just environmental issues in this world...but sure.
That's interesting, I hope to study it deeper one day.

Do you have similar info about the Kramatorsk train station attack by Tochka-U?
I saw explanations that, relatively convincingly imho, attribute the launch to Urkainian forces.

Namely, if one draws a line through the the place where the rocket part fallen and where the warhead exploded, that line points to Ukrainan positions (to Dobropillia).

In addition, Conflict Intelligence Team (an anti-Putin open source investigation group), analyzed the situation based on the orientation of the rocket part itself, as it layed on the ground. Their report: https://t.me/CITeam/2463. According to them, the rocket part can at most change orientation by 45 degrees. So they draw a sector +-45° from the rocket part direction as it lays on the ground, and only on a far side of this sector they find Russian positions (see the map in the report). Given the probabilistic nature of this process, I think the further away from the actual direction of the rocker part (which points almost directly to Dobropillia on the map), the less likely this is the source of the launch. In other words, the Russian positions are in an "unlikely" part of the sector.

Anyways, using two points - the rocker part location and the explosion point - seems to be the strongest argument. (I haven't geolocated the photos myself yet, but those reports claim the line points towards Dobropillia).

Do you know good counter arguments to this?
Why should you trust me on this? I've consulted pensions in the past.

To be fair, that may give you insight into the technicalities of the machinations, but with you having profited from and contributed to the financial system -that ordinary people have spent the past decade paying for the venality, stupidity and corruption of - that when you dismiss as corrosive with calls to mods to suppress counter-narratives, your investment doesn't necessarily mean we should trust you.
Football field doesn't have a fixed length and can be anywhere between 90m and 120m.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_pitch
Tetris leads to fewer intrusive memories when applied days after analogue trauma
Don't try to convert sample code two from TypeScript to C++. Or rather do... it goes into a loop.
> It is very visibly laggy for basic actions such as opening menus or scrolling through text.

Some (not all) of the lag in Windows is on purpose by the UI engineers. Google "disable windows animation" for a starting point on how to fix it.
> Note they're totally different businesses. Apple primarily sells premium hardware, Google primarily licenses an OS to other phone manufacturers.

Microsoft licenses Windows to other PC manufacturers, the PC market was much smaller than mobile even back then, do you think they only made $26 billion in profit over the time period licensing Windows? In hindsight, “missing mobile” was the best thing that could have happened to Microsoft. If you were a company right now, would you rather be “Android, Inc” or “Windows, Inc”?

> Yes, like all the time? E.g. I'm sure that all of Apple, Amazon and Microsoft have bought ads on Google and YouTube. It's not some kind of indication of business failure on their part [0]; they've determined that those ads have a positive ROI.

Do you think either spends anywhere near the amount?
People don't want email, they want a set of office products.

In Germany we had the "de-mail" which was supposed to be an official email service that's accepted by government offices as a legal means for better communication than fax machines. Now, a couple years later, most ISPs that offered this service, have given up on it and shut down the infrastructure for it.

I'd argue there's no value in providing email as a service (except for marketing and spamming), and that is the reason why everyone migrated to microsoft's O365 package because it integrates with other business processes nicely.

Maintaining your own email server is also ridiculously expensive. Not only the maintenance and unblocking overhead, but the legal compliance as well. You'll get government-issued requests for sharing customer data probably on an hourly basis.

Do you want to deal with that in order to keep it a legal business? Probably not.

There's also little room for innovation due to how email clients work, and how legacy tech has to be able to interact with each other...except maybe with (managed) GPG encryption for a secure communication pipeline, but then you need a good contact management system, which by definition will end up with basically the source of requests of the feds for the keys...and then you need to figure out how to encrypt user data with them inserting their keys at every login, so that it's actually only in encrypted form on your server.

And then you get a legal case that buries your resources for years like it happened with tutanota, which in the end forced them to send a copy of all incoming emails to the feds.

And then you just give up because email isn't worth it.
>Nathan Fielder: Business school friend Jeff had a very interesting idea involving reincarnation. He wanted to create an app that allowed users to leave a review for any dead person. The app would then compile all of these reviews into an aggregate score so they could measure who is the most "likeable" dead person.

That's actually something I can almost imagine him doing. It's weird when AI does something that seems genuinely creative
You can hear the worlds tiniest violin playing from my rented London flat.

Can't wait to see the housing market crash to through the floor.
Ha the DOS terminal, that thing where the fullscreen button wouldn't work and you have to right click -> properties -> layout -> change the window size manually until you have something that work ok.

At least, they have fix it in the most recent version of windows ....
One reason why you would opt to use options to hedge rather than sell your position (and be delta neutral) is due to materialising profits and incurring taxes just because you were being prudent about volatility
Maybe to one of the full pages. This link, direct to a png, only loads JS from the imgur.com domain.
For what it's worth, I don't think anyone blames the engineers doing the work. That thought never even crossed my mind...

In fact I think Google has some of the best engineers in the world. Sadly, they're handled by some of the worst management and leadership in history. Your CEO has no vision or charisma and the whole company is just spinning in place, waiting for something to happen. Your middle management looks like little fiefdoms actively working against each other in some eternal civil strife. Google is its own worst enemy.

From the outside it looks like you guys are a bunch of really smart lab rats stuck in some perverse maze, being forced to run little Hunger Games style competitions to entertain some higher power.

I wouldn't want to work there for a million dollars. It jumped the shark a decade ago.

Fiber was just another tragedy in a long long list, another fight Google picked and then chickened out of. Google hasn't had a major success in recent memory, just a graveyard of half-assed attempts. But that's a bigger cultural problem at your company, not the fault of any engineer or single team. I sincerely feel for you, and I hope you got out and found something more constructive.

Edit: Sorry, not Fi, Fiber.
Eagerly awaiting this!
Technically most of the changes haven’t become law yet. We still have a parliament who needs to approve it
its not an over simplification. The extra information from convergence is negligible... our eyes derive virtually identical information when looking at flat 2D pictures of 3D scenes. Evidence of this is everywhere in pictures.
We need FAQ for this
calculator?! jesus fucking christ.
Silver light was introduced in 2007 and according to Wikipedia saw it’s last release in 2019.
£2bn is the government’s figure. Not everyone agrees. Plus there are the other tax changes

The IFS reckons the total tax changes will amount to £45bn/yr

https://ifs.org.uk/articles/mini-budget-response
Personally, I found gitlab has been quite nice for many years now and I've had free private profiles there since I signed up. It's a great service
I had a similar thought. If there was a little more automation here, that staging server could be shut down or even completely destroyed until the next testing/deployment window. The only reason I'd have multiple always on is to load balance for the same "color".
Both can benefit.
> Mathematically it could kill somebody, but in all likelihood it's not going to. This has been shown experimentally time and time again.

Yet somehow people keep dying tho don't they?

Some quick examples:

https://blogs.bcm.edu/2019/12/31/what-goes-up-must-come-down...

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/least-17-killed-c...

https://www.thetrace.org/2015/07/celebratory-gunfire-july-4-...

Seems like the math says celebratory gunfire is a stupid practice that needlessly kills and injures people and endangers many others since serious accidents also occur in addition to the deaths and injury caused by falling bullets. Plenty of other things make loud noises without seriously hurting or killing people. I really don't see the point in defending this one.
It's years, at least, away from creating anything that I'd connect with. But it's only a couple years away from filling all the lobbies and elevators of the world.
A bit surprised to see this come up here, but for anyone open to watch anime, this show is truly great.

The article touches upon it, but the strategy the director took was a breath of fresh air: choosing talented people, and giving them enough freedom to make something great within their area.

This can be a recipe for disaster depending on the members, but with people who value collaboration it frees the director from micro-management and allows for each area to make their own tradeoffs.

It's all the more coming from left field as the production company (A-1) is notoriously bad at project management and had several scandals in the past about employees dying of overwork for instance.
Do they have stats on when to expect it?
Yeah, it's only £2bn a year, the state can afford it. It's not bad PR, it's a bad idea on top of a massively catastrophic idea.
The government announced their proposed budget. It hasn’t passed a Bill yet so it isn’t law
It's not just the slowness, but the loss of basic functionality too.

Keyboard shortcuts, for example.

On my machine, Notepad still seems to have the traditional keyboard shortcuts. But in Paint they are completely missing.

Alt-F-A? No Save As dialog for you.

Close the app with unsaved changes? You get something like the traditional "do you want to save your work?" dialog, but the left and right arrow keys do not work in the dialog. And you can't type N or Alt+N for "Don't save".

These do work in the latest Notepad on my machine.

These keyboard shortcuts used to work in every Windows app, and especially in all the standard Microsoft apps. Now it seems to depend on whether the individual developer knows about them.
> No

You either hate yourself or you don't use the Web too much.

> that isn't equivalent

It absolutely is. There's a service out there that's meant to communicate with applications running on my computer. What my computer does is 100% up to me. If this means your business model that relies on locally running code is hurt, that's something you should have factored in into your decision to choose that business model.
The same could technically be said about Disney which is just remaking their entire classical collection but with CGI.
Agree, I edited it out. I was so annoyed that I went too far with that statement. While they wouldn’t necessarily have been wiped out, they would have needed to make a LOT of calls.
You might be underestimating modern games a bit I feel, but as well game engines usually have editors just as complex as a DAW. Yet both games, game engine editors, DAWs and all the examples you mentioned all run vastly more performantly than many modern simple pieces of software. Which tells us that performance is possible regardless of domain if we build properly.
Thanks. That was the one.
> For the rest of us, it's very much uncharted waters.

Aren't economies all uncharted waters until they aren't (e.g. hindsight)? 2 years ago we hit a global pandemic and tech stocks were trading at absurd PE levels 6 months later. So, no one really knows "where this will end up".
I'm not implying that.
Many of the timbres the AI selected were not very rich in replicating natural instruments.
Also, almost every single track in every song is continuously overloaded with randomness, or perhaps I should call it juvenile improvisation attempts.
Together, these make for a frenetic chiptunes vibe, as I hear it.
Actually experimental results show that the bullet will kill at almost every angle.