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Thank you for your thoughtful answer. It is more than my comment deserves. I agree with most you said. I had to look up what is "Kant’s Axe Murderer dilemma".

I feel the same way that the best sci-fi is about us/our lives. Though disagree with conclusions --reasonable people can disagree-- if we would remove the god-like difference in power between groups then there were not the prime directive in the first place.

In practical terms, I don't expect any debate/morale dilemmas when we encounter isolated tribes -- they are likely to be exterminated for profit one way or another. The prevailing logic in practice: the might is right. Then the story can be spinned in whatever way to make it digestible by the public if necessary.
Fantastic book. It’s exploration of quality is amazing.
An economic argument is exactly the same as saying the people don't want it badly enough.
Elon Musk and Twitter boss’s messages show how pair fell out
> That tells me that the technology, cost, and/or regulation isn’t viable yet.

I don't know where you live, but generalizing from one small locality with an out of wack market is leading you to the wrong conclusions.

In places where there's a free market for new generation, like Texas, there's more GW of storage being added than GW of natural gas. There's an order of magnitude of new wind and solar generation being added than natural gas, and this is the place with some of the cheapest natural gas in the entire world. Having trouble finding ERCOT, but for the entire US, 1.3TW of the 1.4TW on newly proposed projects are renewable or storage:

https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/renewables-do...

So your local utility, which is charging you high prices, probably has a process that disincentivizes renewables to a large degree. And if there are zero independent funded ventures, then your utility must be actively stopping renewables, and those investors are working in the far more fertile rest of the US.

In particular, small projects can be the hardest to get through. There's zero reason for a utility to cut a deal, they are a monopoly, they are raking in far checks by doing nothing. Utility executives are some of the people least likely to adopt any sort of new technology.

The biggest impediment to renewables sweeping through the grid and giving us cheaper electricity is politics, conservatives, and rentierism. In areas where there's a market set up to allow lower costs to win, fossil fuels are toast. But in most places, electricity is not a market.
> You can still plug the Stadia controller into the USB port on your Smart TV, computer, or gaming console and use it as a controller through a standard HID (Human Interface Device) connection

OK so it's not garbage, it's a perfectly usable USB HID controller. Would be nice if they fixed the wireless functionality, but just buy a long USB cable and use it. Wireless is a really minor convenience for a traditional gamepad that you're not waving around.
What about Junior ICs who need a lot of mentorship and coaching? They are a lot more in number (twice that of Senior ICs in my observation) and almost everyone uniformly asks for more in-person events and more mentors.
Solar and wind is not being anything as long as we haven't got a solution for storage. As it is now wind and solar are backed up by dirty sources like gas, coal and biomass and that isn't about to change any time soon.
I feel like I have about as much chance reading disassembled wasm as I would have reading unminified javascript so I don't think it changes much.

(You could technically turn the wasm to JS and unminify that too, which I doubt is much harder/easier to decipher as the same thing written in JS and minified/unminified.)
> Ctrl-C to copy, Ctrl-X to cut, Ctrl-V to paste—other terminal editors should as well.

Blasphemy. Especially in a terminal environment.

Ctrl-C has meant "Interrupt" since the 1960s.

IBM and MSFT decided to bastardize the Macintosh's Cmd-C into Ctrl-C for "Copy", but this is a historical tragedy that should not be propagated.

Ctrl-S means "XOFF ~(Pause output)", and Ctrl-Q means "XON ~(Resume output)".
Lol the traffic is Capped at 1gb. It’s also super obscure. Only in small rollouts to edge canary users. It’s opt in I believe and It can be turned off.

Even MSFT isn’t going to pay the network bill for everyone forever

Split decision if this is a true good faith thing for consumers. Time will tell. I can easily see where it’s a great thing on one hand but also a terrible one too. This is where a company’s integrity comes in.
I respect that you are but you cannot disregard elevation. There’s a difference between 5k ft and 10k ft.
i don't think so...vscode has been a bit hard for me to adopt

..because it doesn't have a good emacs keybinding.

In general, I find it kind of cluttered, and overwhelming. I definitely don't like that it's made by microsoft.

If i'm working on a big project, I don't see a reason not to use a jetbrains ide.

If i'm on something smaller, or just need to edit some text, it's much easier in emacs than vscode
It is a game, but we judge games by the fruit they bear, and the harsh reality of life is the ultimate judge.

The reason we value the games of rationality and science over the games of religion and mythology is that the former games produce significantly more power.

And that's the ultimate game of life. Crudely, might makes right. Those individuals or groups that can most effectively harness various forms of power to first defend, and then extend, their claim of limited resources win the game, by simple virtue of the fact that they remain while their competition fades away.

But even games like religion have been, and continue to be valuable frameworks for this ultimate game. There's a strong argument to be made that religion binds large groups of people together towards a common goal and incentivizes individuals to sacrifice the entirety of their life because they believe their rewards will come in the non existent afterlife. That's a powerful game, if you can keep the fantasy alive.
We’ve forgotten how many cultures ate acorns when they were available. Acorns are about 40% carbs. Unlike apples and many other tree nuts, there’s not a lot of evidence they have been selectively bred for larger fruits. “Native” oaks produce a noteworthy amount of nuts.

But the thing with nuts is that they have multi year cycles to break the foraging ladder. Every few years the whole forest produces five times as many seeds as in a normal year, and then famine and predation pulls the nut eating population back down.

Only humans are clever enough to really exploit those patterns. A child would learn to make acorn bread, but couldn’t count on it being available except for short periods and then every so many years.

[edit to add] if memory serves, in the modern era we are down to some First Nations populations and Korea for cultures that still eat acorns regularly.
Tangent notes but I would really like an AI writing my commit messages and pull request summaries. Is it a thing?
> my guide who was with me - advised me not to sleep too much as it will make it worse.

why is this?, just curious since it goes against "common sense"
looks terrible and scrolling is broken on mobile lol what is this?
Even before cultivation, there were many fruits with high content of sugar, as can be seen today in various wild fruits.

However, where you are right is that those wild fruits were much smaller than the present-day cultivated fruits, and their energy density was low anyway, due to the high water content, so gathering a quantity large enough to provide a significant fraction of the daily intake of energy for an animal of the size of a human would have required too much time to be a frequent occurrence.

It is certain that humans have always enjoyed eating sweet wild fruits whenever they could find them, but they have never been able to survive without eating other food in much larger quantities.
I've tried this, and all it did was cause my sinuses to get inflamed. My body tends to have funny reactions to things though, so YMMV.
> It is unclear why the "density of folding" would be associated with "higher intelligence".

It’s because it’s a known fact of science. It is called cortical folding or gyrification. Higher folding increases the surface area within the same volume and increases cognitive function.
This is an article about productivity software, not editors. Emacs blows VSCode out of the water here.
Obviously you'd want to reduce, reuse, recycle in that order. But it's not surprising that we don't have a large lithium battery recycling industry yet, since we don't have all that many big lithium batteries on the market yet.
I like how Elon is optimizing for hiring the best talent over keeping technology secret.
Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2022 [video]
When I compare modern thinkers to those of say 150 years ago, I find that modern thinkers not only use a simpler style, the ideas are better too.
Two of the people who [likely] made up "Satoshi"s core team are now deceased, RIP (Hal Finney [ALS] & Len Sussman [Suicide]).
I don’t think that’s a particularly fair or accurate assessment of what I said.
It does seem like a truism. However, given how many of us are so quick to try to solve every problem with technology, perhaps there is a bigger lesson here than we realize. Entire businesses seem to be formed more on whether we CAN do something without first answering whether we should. Although a lot that probably comes from the business environment of cheap credit.
> If something can open a shell remotely, it can show a GUI remotely.

Secure servers do not include GUI packages. They are enormous, require elevated privileges, and have a poor security history.
Agreed.

>I can build it, but my sales and marketing talents are quite lacking.

Can relate to this. What worked well in the case of ToolJet is that the product did not require marketing efforts to get the initial traction since the project is open-source.
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Lack of predictability can be a feature, at least according to Hans Monderman, famous Dutch traffic engineer. He believed drivers become more alert and cautious when there’s more uncertainty on the road. [1]

From my experience, segregating biking lanes, and having more than one so as to allow passing is a definite plus. Bike collisions can be scary, but it's cars I'm really afraid of.

FWIW, I cycle all the time, often in Paris, Montreal and Barcelona and have strong preferences for doing so in that particular order.

[1] https://bigthink.com/the-present/want-less-car-accidents-get...
Doesn’t that mean that all my connections are routed MS servers? How is MS more trustworthy than my ISP
That's an impossible standard. Why are you demanding that?

As far as possible standards go, he was very far inside the relevant rule.

I don't know why you would interpret "said he didn't need to" as "legally bound themselves to inaction in such a case".
Wintergreen Ascent TT disallows cyclists going down at all. I've been down some mountains going faster than I should have, but Wintergreen is one where if you make a minor mistake you could easily end up in mortal danger (at least that was my fear at my level at the time). Also, the road isn't closed to traffic during the event which makes downhill even harder during that time. I don't think a reasonably high level cyclist would have a problem going up and down a few times in a day though, which could of course be done at any other chosen day of the year.
The temporary profile doesn't really pretend to be the user, but Explorer's default (which I hate) is to obscure the full path, "C:\Users\TEMP" and just show the username. You have to hit "CTRL + l" to see the actual path. You can't even navigate 'up' a directory to see where you are, and if you right-click in that directory there is no "Properties". I tried talking them through this on the phone before they shut the computer off. It was basically impossible to figure out over the phone. This type of "magic" bullshit really irritates me.
On top of that, the message says (emphasis added) “files CREATED in this profile will be deleted when you log off”. In this case, the user didn’t CREATE files; they MOVED them.

I also doubt the typical user will know that profile is shorthand for user profile and know what that is.

End result: because of corruption of some data the user likely is only remotely interested in, all data they were interested in got deleted.
Democracies and republics create personal accountability through regulations, since there is no single boss and power tends to come from legislative bodies or the people directly - those people want to provide input. Dictatorships (which companies fundamentally are) do not need regulations and rule-making processes to have personal accountability. Instead, the CEO can determine if you screwed up and fire you (or the dictator can shoot you) if you did. The specter of being fired (or shot) aligns your incentives to "do the right thing" even if the rules are not well-communicated, although you are better at doing the right thing if the dictator tells you what they value and what they want you to do.

Regulations are only one form of personal accountability. Regulations, in theory, create uniformity and transparency. These can be good things. In practice, regulations are often selectively enforced, which leads back to the same situation as in a dictatorship, but with a formalized process of input for the dictator.

I actually disagree with you that malpractice lawsuits are examples of regulation. More often, when something goes wrong and a doctor is involved, there is an argument about whether the doctor was negligent or not. There is no fixed "standard of care" that is written down, only a set of practices that are known throughout the industry. Experts argue about whether negligence occurred or not. There are regulations that the experts can cite in their determination of negligence (some of those rules carry separate penalties too), but you don't need to have broken any rules to commit malpractice. This is a prime example of accountability without regulation.
I use VSCode sometimes, it’s very cool.

But emacs/vi pros are fucking fast. It looks like magic the first few times you see it (are u a wizard?) and for some it’s worth the learning curve.
Thank you for the detailed write up. (I hope the author sees this)

I'm always impressed with Emacs users that are capable of such discipline. I've use Emacs well over forty years, with only a few years of interruption, but I have never had a stable or well organized configuration. It's inspirational to see other's use of Emacs.

I'm disorganized, and I'm a hoarder (right now, my bedroom has at least 100 books stacked on the floor in different piles). Like my fluid Emacs configuration, the books are all attractive possibilities of what to read or try out next.
Something like gdbgui? Though it’s browser based, not limited to Chrome.

https://www.gdbgui.com/
yes, there's a lot of work to do. The cost is me, rolling up my sleeves, and adding entry points to the systems that I build to take advantage of it.

I don't think people are just sitting around. From my observations, there's a mad race happening right now.
Is Mark Zuckerberg Fighting at This Weekend’s UFC Show?
> We are after knowledge and to be useful and interesting the new knowledge need to be just a bit farther than we are at the moment. (zone of proximal development)

I feel like I’ve run out of new proximal ideas. I used to devour (not only) science-fiction, but now I find it very hard to find anything whose concepts I’m not already familiar with. Or you have to read through 400 pages to get to just one interesting idea or plot point, and you can’t tell a priori if that will even happen.
Fruit in nature is highly variable. I can't find a link to a paper that was published that showed that aboriginal fruit was on average a bit higher in sugar content than standard varieties. Here's a paper that came up in a quick search, and the main point is really that the sugar content is highly variable in nature, and some natural fruit are rich in sugar [1]

Modern breeding does not have high sugar content as it's biggest priority but often instead focuses first on the ability to grow the plant in an agricultural system, sell it in a supermarket (durable in transport, avoid spoiling), and eat it conveniently (for example remove seeds). This includes reducing toxins and bitter flavors so that fruit can be picked before it is fully ripe.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S025462991...
I 'climbed' Mauna Kea (mostly driving to the top, with a short hike from the parking lot). 13803'. Simply walking at that altitude, which is less than half the height of Everest, was so uncomfortable that I couldn't wait to descend. I can't imagine being at 29000 feet. I imagine it would feel like a living death.
Sure “everyday users” aren’t clicking “View Source”, but that’s not really what the issue is about.

When I was a kid, every piece of software I used was pre-compiled, and therefore opaque. This made it difficult for me to figure out how people made certain things, and after a while I lost interest in programming.

When I got back into it later, one thing that made a huge difference was being able to see how various cool JS sites were built. The ability to “View Source” like that was revolutionary, and also allowed me to build some early fun projects, like a Cookie Clicker “AI” that could play the game automatically by calling the functions I could see in the game’s source.

I’m far from the only person with experiences like these. Yes, there was programming before View Source and there will be programming after. And for those of us with the right tools or reverse engineering skills, View Source isn’t particularly relevant. What we’re losing is a pipeline that helped people become/stay interested in programming, which makes it likely that future programmers who would’ve followed a path like mine will do something else instead.
How about 1491? He straight up claims the arrival of manioc in Africa contributed to a population boom that presaged the slave trade.

Agricultural societies can subjugate conquered lands so much faster than hunter gatherer and nomadic peoples. It takes far longer to adapt to native food sources than to bring in annual crops that not only take but a few years to establish, but also require removing the forests and prairies of the defeated culture to do it. There is nothing for you here anymore. Assimilate to your new masters.

Also if anyone has refuted that patterns of conquest around the world have been highly amplified in east-west bands because of the biomes those territories represent, I’d love to hear it.
SQL is a technology that engineers should know in an out, and while in early 2000's you could not move an inch without knowing it, I find that the new generation of devs really considers database calls a freebie - hidden behind abstractions and ORMs. It's just a line of code, right?

This leads to highly non-performant software since, unless we have bent the laws of physics in the last 15 years, your data access layer is the most expensive one.

But we are crushing LeetCode, yeah?
“Life is going to suck anyway, might as well drag others along for the ride” is not a philosophy worth having imho.

Suffering is a choice I suppose, just go into it with both eyes open. That’s my thesis. You can have a great life without having kids. Unpartnered older childfree women are one of the happiest cohorts, for example.
Give TestDisk a try. Years ago I have been able to use it to recover almost all files from a unreadable disk coming fom a RAID1 mirror gone bonkers due to a faulty controller.

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

edit: oh, I just read that you mentioned TestDisk. Yes, it can recover the directory structure, at least it did in my case. After using it you will likely see that some files have been duplicated with a suffix added, like document.doc and document.doc.xyz (can't recall the exact suffix) in the same directory. In that case you need to check which file has been fully recovered, and rename it if needed.
Okta is a single sign on provider though.

Clearly, authenticating via Azure and also Okta would not be single sign on.
Plants in pollen season cause me a lot of allergies and deer are tearing up my garden.

I would like to summon the ambassador for plants and animals to give account!
What do you mean by "empty merge commits"?

Because of the way Linux development is structured, it's probably highly unlikely for maintainer to ever merge a fast-forwardable branch into their tree, but conflict-less (empty?) merges sure do happen. Linux doesn't try to keep its history linear in any way, so merges actually represent the actual graph of merged branches.
No game developer is using raw Vulkan, Metal or DX12. these APIs aren't the same level of abstraction as OpenGL...

Vulkan is AMD's Mantle open-sourced, it's far too low level for devs to waste time with, it's a target for game engines and renderers.
HTTP basic authentication is very easy to set up and maintain (and keep secure) on pretty much every webserver ever made.

A dynamic system PHP like Lychee is very hard to infeasible for an average non-technical user to keep maintained and secure. Even technical web developers have trouble keeping php projects secure over years. A static webserver with http basic auth is more secure now and incomparably more secure over 5-10 years. If you are worried about security then definitely do not give a third party PHP system access to your files.
What was missing from Tesla’s new Optimus demo
Just wanted to say that this was an excellent example to illustrate your case.
You might be better off ignoring social media, but one suggestion would be to find some older friend/relative who doesn't care about online stuff and use their phone to verify your account. It should be unassociated with whatever blocker they have on your number.
Wait until AI also becomes product manager and the client.
AADInternals[0] is an excellent set of PowerShell modules for pentesting and performing recon against Azure AD as both an outsider[1] and for someone who has been invited to a tenant.

It has similar functionality integrated for discovering if a domain has an associated Azure AD Tenant and enumerating information about users in the tenant, who the "Owner" is and their contact information. As with many Microsoft products there are many configuration options and plenty of them aren't secure by default.

[0] https://o365blog.com/aadinternals/
[1] https://o365blog.com/post/just-looking/
Confirmed. I work with clients who use Ping and Okta for 2FA on top of AAD.
It's a bit difficult to disagree with "not everything", because that's obviously true; not everything even can be perfectly analyzed.

However, I think you can (and should) try to at least maintain awareness of your behaviour and its effects, but only because if you don't, you may actually end up acting in ways that contradict your values; or if your values are ill-defined or vague, you might end up not understanding what it is that really matters to you. I think rationality is a necessary part of having a well-defined value system, even if the axioms are arbitrary. "Letting people enjoy things that aren't harming anyone" is a rational decision based on my value system.

What I can use rationality for, really, is figuring out if there's something I'm doing that's actually in conflict with my own values, or if there's something I can do to nudge the world (or at least my own life) to have more of the things I value.
I have not heard that it would be outdated as a concept. What would be the replacement? To my understanding it is generally recommended the give minors some money. And parents should not interfere much even if they disagree how it's spent.

What the term would be in English speaking countries I have no idea if pocket money sounds archaic. The translation sounds good to me not being a native speaker.

The sum might depend a lot on the country. I have no contacts to 16 year olds so I can't tell.