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Despite Rust's steep learning curve, it's also paradoxically easy to add novice Rust programmers to a project.

This is because inexperienced Rust programmers are relatively harmless. Noob mistakes won't compile, rather than running into dangerous gotchas. You can tell noobs not to use `unsafe` (and there are ways to enforce that), and mostly they'll just write inefficient or non-idiomatic code, but the code will be free from data races and memory corruption.

The strictness of the Rust compiler is quite the opposite of something like the C++ Core Guidelines where the majority of the rules aren't enforced by the compiler, and have to be in the programmers' head first.

Noobs make lifetime errors and fight the Rust compiler, but imagine working with a compiler that doesn't tell you when you have lifetime errors.
What are your objections to signing it?
Maybe next they can think about student housing.
Huh? Android phones support SD cards and USB sticks.
So this is another silly point. What has sugar got to do with this? Or pesticides? Or pharmaceuticals?
The truth exists independent of your need to assign things to an ideological bucket.
Man turns up for a job interview at the BBC, but ends up live on BBC News
Your brain is lying to you.

It's not your brain's fault, really. It doesn't know any better. Your brain has a way of interpreting the sensory perceptions communicated to it. It conflates this with 'reality' because it doesn't know anything thing else. And because it doesn't have anything else, it also declares itself the universal understander. Just like there are sounds you cannot hear, and chemicals you cannot taste, wavelengths you cannot see -- consider that there may be thoughts that you physically cannot think.

No magic and no spooky mysterious stuff. Just that it seems quite possible that our brains are limited in their ability to construct a representation of the universe, and insofar as the representation is true, we have kno way of knowing if it's the only true one.
Pay them money to get over the wall?
I’m going to point towards Facebook spending 600 million to buy giphy and the regulators deciding this gave too much monopoly power to the point of requiring Meta to sell the business, as self evident proof that it’s valuable.

I get that you, personally, don’t value it but large organizations apparently do
'Fully undetectable' Windows PowerShell backdoor detected
Thanks for this, I had been trying every setting there was in the standard container extensions to no avail. Too bad that the way containers fundamentally works hijacks your back button, this was another annoyance I was remembering.
Accepting at face value the claim that "every job site manager on earth" really can identify the "unsafe employees", then these managers are negligent and thus culpable for the failed outcomes.

An infinitely better course of action is to ban all known-unsafe employees from operating in the risky path. Workers who unnecessarily put themselves and everyone else in jeopardy have no business being in the path.

With that said, I'm highly skeptical about the veracity of this claim. Human behavior is fundamentally unstable, oscillating in the continuity spectrum between stable and erratic. However, the amount of variability for a given individual tends to be stable, which may be what you are saying a good and effective manager should be able to catch.

Regardless, humans are wetware and fundamentally error prone. Best to account for this element of our nature in the larger system design.
I think one of the main benefits of transparency is disincentivizing shady behavior in the first place. Sunlight makes the cockroaches go away, etc.
Everyone loves to complain about 24/7 cable news (I do too, I hate it) but the actual audience numbers for the stuff is pretty low, all things considered. It’s the super incendiary stuff spreading across Facebook like wildfire that causes the real problems, IMO.
> These municipalities could go it on their own. But if you turn off the money tap you also lose the ability to complain and threaten to take something from them if they don't do what you like and that is a compromise nobody seems willing to make.

Yes, these municipalities could pay drastically higher taxes to keep their infrastructure functioning without subsidies. That doesn't refute my point, which was that they might feel differently about the arrangement if those things were realistically priced in.
The authors of this post rewrote _their own_ DBMS in Rust. Which is perfectly ok, but I'm not sure I would trust them to decide that theirs is a "high-performance" DBMS. They don't have any benchmark results except images of their own internal performance measures; they don't offer any way of comparing their performance with other DBMSes (e.g. Vectorwise/Actian Vector, ClickHouse, DuckDB etc. - not to mention Oracle, MS or SAP offerings); and they only have marketing blurb about their numbers: "Up to 10x performance" (with no baseline of course).

So, they took some DBMS (which is probably not so hot in terms of performance) and rewrote it in Rust. Surely possible, possibly useful, but not much to write home about if one is interested in DBMS performance.
Why do they opt for such a silly scheme over improving the quality of local schools?
Yes I’m sure a 1 pound set of headphones would have been comfortable hanging on your ears and out of all of the things that are “destroying the planet”, I’m sure that AirPods are a bigger culprit than anything - including all of the Android phones that get thrown away because they never see an update.
no. Don't agree. Experimentation can't prove anything. It also doesn't strengthen anything. Proof is not a strengthening of something. If you prove something it means it's true.

>Well, the experimentation part, that can bring proof to strength a hypothesis, is something that you agreed to.
>So that part would be shared, that you agreed to.

Never agreed. You misinterpreted. I agreed to this: "we have actually learned something important from our thousand experiments". You learned that for 1000 experiments you observed something. That's it.
Yes, and there are a lot of signoffs involved.
A Dutch satire program had an item on this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WflYjsaC19g). A lot of these injuries is with the elderly and the teenagers. It is suggested that this due to the rise of e bikes, which go faster.

A helmet should be required for ebikes.
They are only using material for which they have a license (at least debatably). Open source software licenses usually require attribution if you reproduce the source code or use the source code in a program.

Some other uses are allowed without attribution. Someone can read and learn from open source software without needing to put an attribution anywhere. You could run an analysis of the code on GitHub to find out what percent of code is written in C++. You wouldn't need to attribute every project on GitHub.

Now the debate is whether this applies to training ML models.
My friend showed me this podcast episode [1] about a Japanese TV show where young kids embark on their first independent errands. The episode discusses how a mix of street design, neighborhood groups, and school policies make many Japanese neighborhoods safe enough for children to “navigate under their own power” to schools and stores.

[1]: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/first-errand/
It's very easy to get frightened about virological research if one doesn't know much about virology. Viruses are scary. Scientists altering viruses in the lab conjures up scenes from horror flicks.

Then you read a bit about virology, and you realize that most virological research involves altering viruses, and that these sorts of experiments are orders of magnitude less likely to lead to a super strain outbreak than the millions of people around the world who right now have SARS-CoV-2 replicating in their throats, and who are walking around maskless, breathing at other people.

If you want to gain a bit of familiarity with virology in your free time or during your commute, I recommend listening to This Week in Virology: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/
Do people ever seriously edit video on the iPad?
> I was absolutely confused regarding what kind of “tubes” this guy talks about.

In Russian these are called “lamps”, not “tubes”.
Yes how'd you guess? I dont know if the mugger was homeless or a junkie or a regular thief.
That's an amazing answer, thanks! This is going to take a bit of time to digest but much appreciated.
"This cycle-path is 3.5 metres wide - wide enough for side-by-side cycling in both directions at once." 3.5 meters is ~11.5 feet which is less than ONE highway lane in the US (at 12 ft). Bike lanes are so much more space efficient than highways - one bike lane can transport so many more people than a highway - and yet this country is wildly opposed to them. I just do not understand why.
All those cultures were running on the same hardware, so to speak. Let's see what the squids have to say.
I don't think it would be a problem here (Somerville MA): our oldest started walking to school alone in first grade, and home in second grade. Along with our middle child they are also often around the neighborhood on their own, going to the park by themselves or friends' houses.
Gavin always said it best.
Interesting. Do you know of any popular science articles or books that can describe what you're talking about? Academic papers are fine too, just harder to parse.
I wouldn’t be worried about the sequence itself running out, but the column it’s stored in in the table may not be large enough to handle those numbers.
hmmm....not sure I agree here.

Tsai is not entirely a creature of the US, and has indirectly - perhaps initially, inadvertently - manipulated the US by pushing for an unendorsed independence, forcing the US to deal with a situation they hadn't before considered - a 'two china' outcome.

However, now that US does sees this outcome, it cannot unsee it and is thus driving hard to secure that outcome, no doubt as a stepping stone for the long term goal of regime change in PRC

As for Chang, I think status quo is his ideal outcome - de facto independence, TSMC servicing two of the biggest economies in the world, and therefore, the entire world. Not happening now though, sadly
I used to think CNN was trustworthy. I just can't take them serious now.
No — Ukraine is closer to our illicit Cold War activities in Latin America, where we train questionable militias who engage in ethnic attacks.

But I do think the media is openly propagandizing, including false information from “permanent state” pundits, eg former military officials.

And my linking the two is that it’s literally the same people — eg, Victoria Nuland, who after Iraq moved on to Euromaidan and the Ukraine mess.

> From 2003 to 2005, Nuland served as the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, exercising an influential role during the Iraq War. From 2005 to 2008, during President George W. Bush's second term, Nuland served as U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, where she concentrated on mobilizing European support for the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan.

> Nuland was the lead U.S. point person for the Revolution of Dignity, establishing loan guarantees to Ukraine, including a $1 billion loan guarantee in 2014, and the provisions of non-lethal assistance to the Ukrainian military and border guard. Along with Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, she is seen as a leading supporter of defensive weapons delivery to Ukraine.

Why would the bureaucrats who lied to us and failed in Iraq and Afghanistan be honest people leading us in the right direction now?
This is great news for cheaper fault tolerant computers.
I think most places will give you more money if it's a reliably true way to get more work done.

That's always been my experience anyway.

You can't blame people for wanting to conserve money, especially against unknowns.
Yes, according to their GitHub page. I use it as the networking stack for Podman.
The TeX program: A program of study
It is not just the bike lanes, but also the gradual downsizing of roads to smaller roads. If you bike through the cities here, you will never have to drive along a highway for example. At least not within a few feet. (Secondary road). This gets the speed out of traffic, also prevents cars driving into stores at crossroads for example. This doesn't happen very much here, once every few years and it is big news.
Depends who's writing the new code. My new code generally doesn't need people to maintain it and those that do end up having to modify it are happier that I replaced the garbage that was there before me.

You can write new code with the intent of making it maintainable.

If your new code is clever shit nobody understands you probably shouldn't be writing code.
Yes. I worry about that too. If Steam guarantees compatibility with peripherals or tell me what peripherals to buy, I am all in.
There is another emerging reality,

we can expect marketplaces to display "latent" products,

which are realized and printed (etc.) only when they are engaged with and ordered.

If you visit an Etsy store, or find an Amazon product listing for that matter, and your order is fulfilled...

...does it matter if it's a product with a market of one? That it was tailored to your "search"?

txt2img is already effectively "fulfilling search by diffusing an answer."

txt2product can already be wired up for some domains.

Soon it will be _most_ domains I imagine.
I ride a motorcycle and bicycle regularly. I generally don't focus my mirrors on right behind me.

At most, when I'm at a red light, I lean over slightly to make sure the next person is actually going to stop and not rear-end me. Otherwise, while in motion, I have never felt the need for a rearview mirror on any form of two-wheeled vehicle.
Yeah, it's amazing the number of people who believe that corporations exist in the same objective sense that puppies do, rather than the social-consensus sense that D&D characters do.
Docker != containers. You're arguing as if the srht or generally the diy anti-kubernetes crowd was against containers. Or as if docker was the only mean of secure isolation. More likely than not you'll find them running bwrap, lxc, qemu, etc. You're missing your opponents here, it's very much the opposite of conservative sysadmins that went incompetent and don't understand the new tech. It's (imho) people that are fed up with the "click here to deploy a production server", the "infinite elastic scaling" and the fact that most of these false promises are hidden by bloated software. Nobody is saying that docker gets nothing right, just that most of the time others do more of the good and less of the bad.

> I saw a guy in a video creating an insecure container. Thus Docker creates ignorance

It's more than a guy. Once you see that kubernetes is corporate bloat you gotta ask for the responsability of the people making it. Yes it's creating people that don't understand how things are actually wired (and no, this is not a "natural" direction of history). It's making people dependent on complex stuff and it's actually hiding from mainstream knowledge the simple ways to do simple stuff. I recently had to help someone deploy stuff on an openshift hosting and i must say the experience is infuriating (not even talking about the runtime efficiency of managing the bazillion moving parts).
There's some logs which you want machine readable that are not necessarily metrics.

Let's say you have 10 services in serial, and you want to get precise information on how that request was performed - because your customer reported it performed super bad. To do that you might need to get logs from all those 10 services and align them. If they all are human readable and you can filter by a common request-id, that's easy to do. And you can even have tooling on top of it that automatically determines what might have happened by looking at other fields of the log entries.

Metrics are mostly just pushed to a metrics system, and that moment you don't care about them or the relation to an end-to-end request anymore. So while all services might have emitted a metric for the request, looking at the overall metrics won't tell you if outliers in the services refer to the same end-to-end request or different ones.
The leader who has product and engineering reporting to them is a CTO. Someone who only does one of those things is not a CTO and shouldn’t have C-level decision making power.
The US Army let soldiers take leave to fight in Afghanistan’s during the 1980s. This is small potatoes compared to that.
I'm up to 43 separate preinstalled apps disabled on my Samsung tablet and the experience has never been better. Samsung duplicates everything included in a standard google account and then loads up on the partner crapware and poorly functioning clone apps.
Some truths seem to be universal meaning they exist separate from our biology, for example: logic.

Other truths seem inextricably tied to our biology, for example: happiness.

One that is ambiguous is, Justice. To which I say the ambiguity is an illusion. Justice is like happiness. Completely unique to the human experience.
Yes, you identified some key problems with large gatherings in VR. If they are used improperly then they may have a net negative return. Improper use would certainly include recreating an open office floor plan where everyone was expected to spend their entire workday but at the same time feel free to wander over and interrupt their colleagues. Importantly, this is also a poor implementation of an office in physical space. A good implementation that involved 100+ people would be a conference or trade show whose purpose is just as much networking and chance encounters with other people in the same industry as it is consumption of broadcast talks or demos. Large VR events should be... events! Done properly you would focus on spatialized audio so that participants could easily speak with those near them, could move to quiet "breakout rooms" to continue conversations in depth, could share documents or contact information and also provision the conference speakers with the ability to run effective Q&A sessions and record the talks and replay them for those who couldn't attend the live presentation.

Most of the time, meeting in VR is best done in smaller groups where participation in the conversation can flow naturally. This is where the ability to easily transition from offline work to full VR immersion comes in. This is far from a solved problem and as the recent Quest Pro release has shown it is being actively worked on by Meta. Their vision appears to be a headset that you can wear all day with the benefit of having virtual monitors to work on and an instant transition to meeting with others in VR. I have yet to see text rendered through a Quest Pro but from the specs my guess is that they aren't there yet, it may be passable but it probably isn't very comfortable for text heavy uses. They're pushing hard in this direction though. Other VR hardware companies should take note!

Using Unreal Engine (Fortnight is built using it) is a great idea. There are a few social VR apps out there using it and it is far superior to the Unity based apps in my experience. It is a more mature engine overall.
I don't need 3g for my would be iphone cluster, wifi is sufficient. These would be a 5, a 5s, and the first SE, all in a nice stack because they share the same chassis. I would basically use this cluster of hardware how people currently use home servers, not as a phone anymore. It should be plenty of power to run plex, backup other devices, self host a website, among other things, since these are overpowered arm devices after all. I'm not sure how many cores it would be with this stack off the top of my head, but it would be a nice amount to play with for sure.
I believe GoogleDrive used to mostly be a tag-based system, where a tag is a folder. In other words, a file could be in any number of folders and there was no "preferred" folder.

Recently, though, they've switched to having a single parent folder for every file (though you can still have references to the file in other folders). And I believe the reason for this was exactly because roles and permissions were hard to reason about.

Still, I like the idea of a tag-based filesystem. If nothing else, I wish file types were represented as tags rather than extensions.
Building a fab in Japan instead Taiwan does quite a lot to mitigate geopolitical issues.
> Also if you look at France, nuclear's not doing so hot on the availability front.

Meanwhile, in Ontario, Canada, where I live, nuclear+hydro generate base load 24/7 with little issue:

* https://ieso.ca/en/Power-Data
A Quiet Electric Leaf Blower
Yes, there is a spectrum to everything and my comment was not absolute about working hours either. I was not proposing we go to the office full time, simply that socialization at work is a core piece of building trust at work which is fundamental to deep collaborative efforts.

And the implication obviously is that socialization works better in person, but I didn't say it was exclusive to that. The person I responded to did say something about on-site requirements but it was vague.
I disagree. "AI" even if it were to exist independently of humans or other pre-existing life still needs to process and dissipate energy in order to perpetuate itself... ie it needs to be "life" first. Intelligence requires the processing of information, and the processing of information requires energy.

For example, even if silicon-based AI replaced humans on earth, it would eventually [0] need to find a way to power itself / continue itself. Ultimately, it would have to revert to solving the same "problem of life"... how do we transform energy/entropy available in the environment into something that "perpetuates the system." When that happens, this AI will itself become subject to the forces of natural-selection, and - over a long enough period of time - naturally-selected traits will be re-aquired (even if such traits were "lost" during a human-to-AI hand-over).

[0] Yes, of course, there could be a very large period of time during which currently constructed energy infrastructure continues on... and this period could be measured in hundreds/thousands of years... very long in terms of human lifespans, but not in geological terms.
China is a nuclear power and neither the US nor China is interested in MAD. Any attacks on Japanese territory would probably lead to a hot war with the US, but almost certainly not nuclear annihilation.
How about only those making existing viruses more contagious and deadly?
> And what if you have only an incompetent authoritarian government?

Then cryptomoney can give you a limited, non-zero amount of value. Still less than fixing the government, but it is easier to deploy.

Even then, comparing it with the internet boom is bullshit.
> It is a lot more similar to JS than C++ is.

That is strange as I have experienced the opposite. I've written all three languages and I've noticed that JS patterns don't translate well to Rust. Many C++ patterns translate well to Rust (albeit after a bit of borrow checker fighting).

Thoughts?
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