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When I think about my coding skills today, I think I owe them primarily

- to languages: partly Java (OO), partly Prolog (declarative style), most importantly Clojure (FP)

- then Emacs

- then i3wm

Each of them "unlocked" something in my head.

Without Emacs I would write slower than I reason, as if I were rate limited
It's not personal. Bad advice includes:

- rolling things into logs (time consuming and not space-saving), rather than using compression packing cubes which are quick and easy, organized and actually save a significant amount of space.

- Packing your own tide pods (risky, heavy and unnecessary), just buy detergent locally or use a full service laundromat which is common for locals in many countries

- If you have to wrap cords with hair ties, you have too many cords (I'll admit this one could be personal)

- Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are a terrible option for travel food. They're soft, squishy, messy and don't last long. If you want to travel with food, pack granola bars or trail mix.
Can't you do this with an MDM device profile? In that case the device probably insists on the installation of the profile or it won't validate your tickets.

[edit]: so I did some brief research and it seems you can't. For the curious, here is what I think is the full list of possible MDM restrictions/permissions on iOS https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/deployment/dep0f7dd3d8...
It's incredible, most of these are large companies (Zoom, YouTube!) or government entities. They should just be able to send an email (or a registered mail on company letterhead) saying "Hello, we are Google, your website is broken. Please make the following changes.". Fixing sites for other people is less work and technical debt than adding it permanently to the source code of the browser.

And if it is not bugfixes, but keeping around features that were removed: if youtube.com uses something, why can't everybody else use it?
To give an example of hurdles for wind power: there are some wind mills in the harbor region of Antwerp that aren’t allowed to generate power during the day because one time a single protected bird flew against the turning arm. They’re only allowed to use them when the birds are sleeping.
I wonder if I can even find one technical sentence in the article that even makes sense. It is a total mess. There are so many “what about” questions here. What about people who don’t own/carry a smartphone? What about just denying all requested permissions? What about installing the apps then deleting them once you are in the stadium? Or as you say have a burner phone that you leave off? So silly.
To put it nice, I would be careful to use that report to back any argument whatsoever. To come up with their conclusion they e.g. basically assumed LFP battery chemistry does not exist. (To be more accurate, they assumed that there is a set amount of nickel/cobalt you need to produce a kWh of lithium batteries) The conclusion also requires that no significant new reserves are found after 2018, which already now is proven false. (Lithium reserves have increased since 2018 by more than what a single generation of EVs need.)
I don't think resource utilization is bad, per se. But I certainly agree that the low rates is destructive for the health and robustness of the economy. It's perhaps more akin to sugar addiction.

However, why would the Fed want to raise rates? The Fed members are precisely the group who benefit the most from the Cantillion-ization of the economy. The VC folks who fund escooters flops are just later stage effects.

But the banks who makeup the Fed and control 2/3 of the board members benefit a lot from having that printed cash flowing through their coffers. They also get game the markets even further by knowing where and when the fed will change rates. Why would they change?
Some of the players must be homosexual? Should they not enter Qatar, and scrafice playing for their country in the World Cup? Should Fifa hold the world cup in a country when some of their players could be prosecuted because of their sexuality?
Have you tried checking in with wall street bets? Ive heard they are pretty experienced with this situation.
The danger is enabling them and normalizing these particular laws.

It's objectively wrong to punish people for being gay.
Who’s going to pay for it? Health insurers are still trying to avoid it.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/11/29/5672649...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/07/7304045...
Whether you call it over-engineering or procrastination, customizing an editor is a delicious waste of time.
Wow that's so big it's hard to visualize. Their website shows just how giant that is.

Does this mean the US probably has satellites that can easily pick up cell signals anywhere in the world from space?

https://ast-science.com/spacemobile-network/bluewalker-3/
Right now when you buy a car you expect it to have wheels. This may change in the future when Apple starts selling cars and you'd need to check if it includes wheels or not. But it's not hard to imagine that people will continue to expect wheels in a new car for some time.
"clean nuclear power" advocates should be made to visit Fukushima
Lot's of doctors have the same problem so I guess it should have gotten through to most of them that it isn't that easy. It has been shown in studies that giving the advice "change diet, lose weight and exercise" simply doesn't work. Doctors then blame the patient for not following the advise. Then other studies showed that "eat less and exercise more" doesn't work even if compliance was monitored...
All the news about slavery and bad treatment of workers to build the infrastructures and silencing or minimizing by western press and now this. No surprise when you organize a thing like the Football World Cup in a dictatorship like Qatar in exchange for money this is you can expect. Just let's hope it does not get used as a backdoor by other with even worse intentions.
A friend of mine have found a fun way to bypass the bios password of thinkpads. With some trial and errors, you short some pins on bios eeprom at the right time so it will read all 0xff’s. It just happen to be that all 0xff’s means the bios password is not set.
Twitter, something so “valuable” which offers virtually nothing of value to humanity. If twitter was turned off there would be some whinging for a week on some other platform and then it would be forgotten…
The spectacular implosion of the ACLU in recent years comes to mind. They spend so much time sniping each other over tweets that we lost Roe vs Wade on their watch.
I'm using a T60 right now. Love the keyboard feel, I enjoy a 4:3 resolution too.

Can anyone recommend a newer laptop with a nice keyboard? I find all new laptops keyboards feel like a flat piece of plastic.
So far it's been working like a charm :)
"It's okay when we commit the same immoral acts that authoritarians commit because we're a democracy"

American democracy commits heinous crimes across the world. Being a democracy doesn't absolve them of the moral degeneracy.
There is a risk of psychoanalysis being culty, skepticism can combat that.

It is unfortunate that there hasn’t been more research, but I think you misrepresent the evidence, psychoanalysis’ efficacy is established: https://jonathanshedler.com/PDFs/Shedler%20(2010)%20Efficacy...
The hard problem is hard because most people don’t get why it is hard.
I think you'd be better off posting to r/antiwork with a well researched explanation as to why it's problematic. Ideally with a call to action (for example, can you automate the opt out such that it spams the submission queue?).

You don't make a difference. Many people can make a difference.
The Wonderfully Terrible World of C and C++ Encoding APIs (With Some Rust)
Same reason why we still don't know who deep throat is.
This is kind of like the Heisenberg principle for travel. You can’t visit the place without having some effect on it. Though I think authenticity is a bit fetishized anyway. Some of the world’s most interesting places are fusions of multiple cultures. Like wishing for the “authentic” Mexico City before the Spanish.
From Ancient Greek πάνδημος (pándēmos, “of or belonging to all the people, public”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). πάνδημος is derived from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all, every’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European peh₂- (“to protect, shepherd”)) + δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people; free citizens, sovereign people”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European deh₂- (“to divide, share”)).
Even using a burner phone doesn't fix the situation if you're still required to have the said phone with you all the time and it can't be turned off,
it tracks your location, other phones you meet with etc.
> This is really no different than what other countries do, e.g. US border officials extensively questioning foreigners or asking for usernames and passwords for social media.

I’ve never encountered this when crossing a border and don’t even know how I would sensibly answer any of this. I don’t use social media and don’t travel with a smart phone. So what now? Would they make me buy one in the airport and sign up for Facebook there?
My point was that in countries that make private, consensual activities against the law there are much more severe consequences possible for events that compromise your privacy.
> For example, in order to address this there is a oil power plant operating basically 24/7 and does so very profitably even with high oil prices.

This is not why the oil plant exists, it is an emergency plant. If it is running 24/7 then it does so because the oil plant is profitable. Not out of necessity.
My experience with Postgres FTS (did a comparison with Elastic a couple years back), is that filtering works fine and is speedy enough, but ranking crumbles when the resulting set is large.

If you have a large-ish data set with lots of similar data (4M addresses and location names was the test case), Postgres FTS just doesn't perform.

There is no index that helps scoring results. You would have to install an extension like RUM index (https://github.com/postgrespro/rum) to improve this, which may or may not be an option (often not if you use managed databases).

If you want a best of both worlds, one could investigate this extension (again, often not an option for managed databases): https://github.com/matthewfranglen/postgres-elasticsearch-fd...

Either way, writing something that indexes your postgres database into elastic/opensearch is a one time investment that usually pays off in the long run.
In the spirit of the submission, could you provide a source to verify that?
Even more dangerous is when they let the domains/subdomains expire. In this case anybody can grab the domain name and serve anything they want.
Check out Peter Russell. The person closest to the mark for me. If you know of him the above is that but if not, he is amazing.
The US is a flawed democracy[0].

You're acting like the US invented democracy and is a champion of freedom and acceptance which is confidently wrong. Try growing up as a gay kid in the bible belt. It won't be so different from doing so in Qatar.

0.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
When I went to China I got a phone to run WeChat, which I erased and reinstalled once I got back. Android phones are cheap now, you can get something which is quite decent for a couple hundred dollars.
Backup generation for renewables is usually gas powered. And you need the backup because renewable energy is not exactly a stable source of energy.
Solar produces 20W/m^2 net in mid winter at ~55 degrees north. LCOE at these latitudes is lower than nuclear and dropping. 99% of people live closer to the equator than this, and the majority of the remainder have enough hydro or wind/geothermal for a 100% renewable mix.

In famously sunny washington state a current technology solar storage system with the same net capacity factor as US nuclear and the same number of days where >0 backup is needed as European nuclear for less than what Vogtle cost per watt. Add wind and this goes down dramatically. Allow the builder to sit on their thumbs for a decade before starting and they'd open before a new nuclear build while providing 100% capacity and a quarter of the cost using batteries made of abundant materials and solar panels made with the silver and copper that came out of existing uranium mines.

The average american has 200-400m^2 dedicated to parking their car. Worldwide average per capita primary energy is 2kW. Even at 20W/m^2 this provides enough. Even wind at 5W/m^2 can produce enough final energy in that much area (with the side benefit of not really affecting other uses).

Wind is much better than solar economically at high latitudes and is slightly anti-correlated with solar.

There are terawatts of tidal sites available in high latitude coastal areas and the LCOE is already lower than nuclear with a much better learning rate and only a few hundred MW of preexisting capacity.

What law of physics contradicts this?
Shouldn’t this be in a separate extension?
I mean, you're going to be programming for the rest of your life, right? I put a bunch of time into customizing vim... god, I think it was 15 years ago? Whenever this comes up, people make it sound like you are somehow going to be doing that every single day for the rest of your life or something... and then, awkwardly, I tend to see them screwing around constantly with some new IDE-of-the-week that crashes constantly and slows them down at every turn gloating about how they "saved time" by not spending a small amount of time forever ago to figure out what the hell they actually wanted :/.
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, TypeScript, GCP, MongoDB, Postgres, OCaml, Rust, LaTeX, misc dabbling
Résumé/CV: https://icalculated.github.io/quartz/2022-08Resume.pdf
Email: sasha.hydrie@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/iCalculated
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shydrie/

Undergrad at UMN with a strong math background looking for opportunities in machine learning. I am currently a full-time student but I'd be interested in taking a semester off to work in spring, potentially through summer.

I have practical experience with ML from competing in (and winning!) several hackathons this past year.[1] Most recently, my team won the education track at HackMIT with a VSCode extension that revises the user's code with an LLM and explains the changes.[2] (We also pitched the idea to YC in their sponsor event and won an anytime interview so that's cool.)

I am currently working through fast.ai and am taking several graduate-level courses on ML theory to solidify my fundamentals. Areas of interest are LLMs, reinforcement learning, multi-modal models, manifold learning, and evolutionary strategies.

Feel free to reach out for anything, even just to chat.

[1]: projects can be seen here, don't mind the goose theme: https://devpost.com/iCalculated
[2]: don't expect anything cutting edge here, it was a 24-hour hackathon: https://spectacle.hackmit.org/project/118
GitHub certainly could block push requests, at least git itself can via hooks, there are a number of hooks invoked by git-receive-pack that can influence what it does.
He's right about the whataboutism though.
Certain sectors of the US government wouldn't be above starting a distracting fracas like this (and it's so very easy with useful idiots doing most of the work once it gets going) in order to silence, or more like drown out, a film that calls out the injustice that was done or dares to portray the victims as human. We're sitting here talking about not that, so it's working.
No, it's been a period of near-constant American-led war.
Linked to your ticket too!
As we are talking about Sweden, a relatively cold country, a big chunk of energy consumption is about heating. And heat is a form of energy that is much easier to storage than electricity. I very much assume that even seasonal storage of heat is becoming a big thing in coming years, dwarfing any chemical battery capacity whatsoever. After all, for that, in the most basic form, you need a big enough pool of water connected to electric grid with a resistor and to district heating system with a heat exchanger.
It's definitely a thing. I believe ESTA now asks for all social media user names (not passwords, but I suppose the US government doesn't need those), and it is definitely a requirement for getting a US visa.
You can have authoritarian left and authoritarian right. That's not really related to healthcare. Authoritarians tend towards abuses of power - I kind of don't find it terribly relevant if millions were killed or imprisoned because of the differences in their ideals, which is what the horseshoe theory speaks to. What it speaks to is mainly that the methods - e.g. unconstrained power of an executive or government, become more similar than not as extremism increases. It's not really saying that the ideology necessarily comes to match, only that the ideology matters less than whatever horrible things are coming your way, beliefs be damned.
World-wide BEV Sales H1 2022

Tesla: 564,873 and 19% share (vs 22.7%)
BYD: 326,236 and 11% share (vs 5.5%)
SAIC (incl. SAIC-GM-Wuling): 321,289 and 10.8% share (vs 14.5%)
Volkswagen Group: 216,004 and 7.3% share (vs 10.7%)
Hyundai Motor Group: 167,305 and 5.6% share

https://insideevs.com/news/601770/world-top-oem-ev-sales-202....
> You realise we are talking about Sweden here, not a subsaharan country by any stretch. In general in Europe (especially in Northern Europe) all solar and wind capacity has to backed up by at least the same amount of quickly available online dependable capacity.

Are you doing any research before you write stuff like this?! It is trivial to show that this statement is false (let's not even get int the at least). Just look at Germanys capacity,

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

Wind and solar are multiple times as big than gas (all other on demand sources are trivial)

Also where are you getting your energy if you need to shut down your nuclear plant for maintanance (or other emergency cases)
>How would one design automated tests to evaluate the state of learning-capable systems?

A question many call center managers ask themselves.
He's not "pulling" Starlink, he's requesting that governments actually pay the "tens of millions of dollars each month" that it costs. Spending that money in exchange for nothing only make sense when there's a PR benefit, which there isn't here if Ukraine is going to continue publicly attacking him. Note that Newsweek isn't even considered a reliable source by Wikipedia.

I've noticed Ukraine also seem to be directing their Twitter bot farms to attacking Musk. Note that a site that has alleged ties to the Ukrainan Security Service, Myrotvorets, has briefly put Musk on its "kill list" of "enemies of Ukraine", a list which has resulted in quite a few assassinations in the past.
What's the story with typos for meilisearch? Is it still one - two characters?

Been trying to find an alternative to mysql fts, and some typo tolerance / did you mean mechanism is needed for some of our clients.
Your website should work without JavaScript (2021)
Just some experiences I've had putting large PHP frameworks into strange spaces:

1. Most PHP frameworks are designed to have all state destroyed at the end of a request. I was trying to integrate a commercial ecommerce framework with something like Road Runner and another one that I forget the name of. The framework had a DI system which provides each module with its own private instance of all injected instances, so having a "worker" that doesn't "boot" everything each request sounded like a good idea (boot was expensive, and a lot of logic was storing module-specific state in module-private instances). I hit a few barriers inside the framework, but actually a lot of them were due to dependencies on PHP global state following state-of-the-art conventions and best practices. It lead to spooky side-effects like cache from one page view loading into the next, and worse. Getting frameworks to run in a loop in PHP can often lead to sharing state in code that was designed in a way that state is assumed to be destroyed soon.

2. PHP depends on lots of unexpected things. If you're deep into language internals already you probably know this however. I was putting symfony2 into a PHP Unikernel a long time ago, and it drove me a bit crazy because everything in the file system, SAPI, locales, etc... it was all missing bridges to something it expected the OS to provide. I ended up making an immutable FS with Nginx and PHP all static linked to each other, but it was really just enough for a POC, a real production ready env would have been a lot more effort. The point is, PHP has a lot of unexpected "hooks" into environments it has grown up around that might be well hidden.

Anyway, really cool project and I like the concept of using a SAPI, I think it has big potential.
> Variability is not an issue and it never was

This is just... incorrect. Bare minimum, you need massive upgrades to the grid in order to be able to move power around at night from places where the wind is blowing to places where it isn't (I've been told the wind is always blowing somewhere and it's always enough, but I'll believe that when I see it done at scale with no other power source). Keep in mind we'll likely be seeing a significant increase in night time power use to charge EVs as well.

In the absence of such grid capability (i.e. our situation today), on a windless night your renewable production is zero-- so you either need massive batteries, fossil fuels or nuclear.

Also, the fact that batteries have been getting cheaper isn't a guarantee this curve will continue, especially with lithium battery demand going through the roof and supply chain bottlenecks being likely. There are promising signs of lower costs with some of the larger, heavier battery types, but that's still in very early R&D stages and who knows how it will pan out.

If we're not adding more fission generation, I don't see how we can avoid burning a whole lot more fossil fuels for a longer time unless we make our peace with regular blackouts. Every other solution seems to involve banking on tech we don't have yet and don't know when or if we will.
Yes, so they can learn what went wrong there and advocate "clean and safe nuclear power"
It's idiotic from an economic point of view too. There'd still be an industry if they'd scaled it back and made it more sustainable. Instead the industry has been wiped out and that's that.
The information is not available to anyone - only credentialed verifiers with a purpose permissible under the FCRA. Employee pay equity efforts don't count. Awful, yes.
I pay a tiny fraction of that for a dedicated served from Hetzner with a modern iGPU transcoding and streaming video 24/7.
As long as it runs WeChat, does it need to be decent?

Probably being bad is a feature here, because you won't be tempted to use the phone that's infected.
I'm certainly not knocking it. I have enjoyed it in the past, particularly with emacs. But it's an activity which some enjoy for its own sake and some don't. It's just not a necessary condition for becoming a 'productive' developer. Those who do enjoy it to the point of writing some of the great open source plugins available, do the rest of us a terrific service.
It should just redirect.
Have you tried this recently?

grep ^flags /proc/cpuinfo
What is the 90% that is missing in Evil?
Haha, damn dude. Did your step-dad use vim?
Yes, LSP Mode for Emacs is great: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/
LSP has saved a lot of redundant effort in supporting IDE features on many editors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Server_Protocol
FIFA was criticized for hosting the World Cup in a country that persecutes homosexuals. FIFA responded by extracting some concessionary-sounding statements from some Quatari officials. But the law hasn’t changed. Homosexuals who visit Qatar are most certainly still facing elevated risks. FIFA should be ashamed, but I suspect nobody has bribed them enough to activate their shame reflex yet.