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> If the anti-missile system is effective, then it allows for a first strike without retaliation. I.e., anti-missile systems are offensive weapons.

This is simply false. An effective missile defense system is not necessarily capable of defeating an entire nuclear arsenal of a peer power - easily verified if the number of interceptors is substantially smaller than that power's inventory. The nuclear defense triad extends beyond just ground launched ballistic missiles - bombers, cruise missiles, and submarine launched missiles all offer means to retaliate which a missile defense system alone can not defend against. And finally, the adversary can also develop an antiballistic missile system for exactly the same protection. Of course in the real world such a perfect missile defense system is not possible - realistically there's always going to be too big a risk of some nukes getting through for any rational actor to seriously consider a nuclear exchange. As for the irrational actor, they can not be trusted to avoid mutually assured destruction.

It's like saying a city wall is an offensive weapon because the one city with a wall can attack others without being attacked. Yeah, maybe the very first city to build a wall had a bit of an advantage before everybody else built a wall, but anyone can have a wall without putting anybody in danger.

> If your adversary is not convinced of this, then they have every incentive to react to (possibly false) alarms sooner.

Without a missile defense system, your only hope of surviving nuclear war is taking out your adversary's retaliatory capability - this means a first strike is primarily going to be tasked with doing just that and thus makes launching quickly in response to an incoming strike a necessity. Even if there is a chance it's a false alarm, a limited retaliation might be seen as a more survivable option than waiting to confirm. If on the other hand your opponent has an effective missile defense system, then they have far less incentive to try and suckerpunch you, and thus an unexpected strike can be much more safely labelled a false alarm. Certainly there is no incentive to retaliate faster - what is that going to do but waste missiles? You don't overwhelm a missile defense system with quick retaliation but with massive retaliation. While nowadays some military commanders might entertain the notion of a limited nuclear conflict where a small strike warrants only a proportional retaliation, with missile defenses it's unambiguous that once nuclear war is triggered people will launch everything they've got in an effort to guarantee at least some warheads make it through, and thus reinforces mutually assured destruction.
Not much, laser diodes peak at 60-70% efficiency, which means 30% of that goes into heating the device. Altho short bursts, maybe ?

The other problem is that this small battery won't have that much current capacity
> For instance, investing in better waste management systems in developing countries.

How about we stop wasting tax payers’ money to pick up the tab of the externalized costs from all these companies selling single-use packaging?

At the end of the day these companies will gaslight you saying customers love plastic but the reason they do plastic packaging is because it reduces packaging and shipping costs (at a high cost for the environment, water cycle, and humans).

_Ban_single-use_plastic_, except for medical or lab applications.

That was the original proposal in the EC before the lobbyists watered it down to this farce of the ban on q tips and straws.
Mea Culpa, and FTR I did not downvote you. In the US, individuals speaking with these dialects face discrimination and I wonder if it is the same among select speakers in the UK?
World Does Not Have Enough Lithium and Cobalt to Replace Batteries Every 10 Year
Any mathematician, literally all of them, will tell you there is an injection from the set if rationals and reals, and that your foundational system is likely impoverished if this injection does not behave as the identity
Presumably stuff got moved around and/or started working differently and the user didn't have the time/energy to figure it out.
It happens all the time. I was incredulous too, but companies are really bad at hiring. For example, many companies may not even interview a very good programmer if they didn't major in computer science. I am not sure why.
But if you have comments on quantum physics from a quantum physicist there’s no harm in boosting them or showing them to the community for longer at the top of a post.
That is not a strict rule. I grew up in a neighborhood where houses were numbered by the order the lots sold. They were effectively random.
> You're making assumptions of the user and their google plan. We don't know if they're paying.

From my post: "Not when I pay rent to store my stuff on it."

I wasn't talking about them, I was talking about my own relationship with Google, and my expectation that a vendor provides the service they promised to in exchange for my money.

> Google has the right to remove whatever they want.

Nope.
>>> College is important - it’s why there is a cost to it.

The cost of higher education does not have to be borne by the individual seeking it. It could be financed by society and offered to those who desire it free if charge. It could even encourage more people to enroll and promise those who do well in their studies a financial incentive in form of a stipend.

I know of some countries that do all that with the idea that people with higher educational achievements - deliver higher economic output over their lifetime that more than covers the costs borne by the society and give their country a competitive edge in a global economy.

But US doesn’t do that.

It does, however, attract people who received their education for free in other countries to immigrate and compete with those who took out massive loans in US to do the same.
What? Of course, the sets of integers, rationals and reals respectively are not identical , but the integers are a subset of the rational and the rational a subset of the real numbers.
Nah. That would induce significant overhead because of the distributed Blockchain systems. I think using zig with latent diffusion or some variation of GAN would do better.
"We charging $50 amount to filter out geniune peoples."

I think you mean the opposite of this.
No, that is why people turn to Linux (and *BSD to a much (, much) smaller extent) after having been thoroughly disgusted by these practices whether they come from Microsoft (Windows et al) or Apple or anyone else. It is the only "platform" where you can be really free from this type of behaviour. They first install it on the hardware previously used for Windows or Mac OS and quickly find out their old hardware could perform much better than it did when burdened by those marketing strategies disguised as operating systems. The next step comes when they buy new hardware on which they directly install some Linux distribution, usually keeping the factory-installed Windows or Mac OS around where it tends to languish. When they then decide to boot into those factory images they are immediately hit with the upgrade hammer which only increases their determination to stay away from those systems as much as possible. This is easier for those who used to run Windows than for those who need to use Mac OS to develop for one of the other Apple brands since these all mandate the use of Xcode [1] which needs Mac OS which "needs" [1] Apple hardware.

[1] as in "is only licenced for", there are ways out of this...
Perfect Dad Course! Would not mind signing up for a paid version.
It's almost as if building a hypercentralized faux-communication system that tries to encourage mindless behavior and doesn't have any notion of locality is an inherently bad idea that will always lead to misery and suffering. Hm. Nah, that's can't be true. That would mean a lot of things I've read on the internet recently are lies, which is completely impossible. Yeah, I think this is just a sign that people suck and we need more centralization to control them. If we tied all TikTok accounts to some kind of social credit score, that would probably fix everything.
I wish MS would fix VBA. It would make excel so much better. I had to make a couple macros and it was one of the most painful code I have ever written.
I would tell you that I don't even know what it means for a chip to be made with excel and ask you to leave before you ruin that.
And the reality is that different people learn best through different means. I can't stand video as a learning medium for software-related topics, but to each their own.
> But to imply that most students pay interest during college is nonsense.

I didn't read that line as any implication that interest accrues during college. I didn't read anything like that in the blog.

But I definitely agree with your later point that parents shoulder a lot of responsibility here, and their own parents or education institutions for not teaching them more about money management.

> The purpose of going to school is not to get a job it's to learn to think.

While I agree, the issue is that career advisors and entire school systems are explicitly told to advise their high school students that they must go to college, regardless of their interests, hobbies, goals, or lack of goals.

I'm not exaggerating. My friend who taught high school physics was scolded by school administration for not being a college evangelist. "The kids who live in [wealthier neighboring town] don't get told to go work in the trades, they get told to go to college, and our kids deserve the same". While noble, the fact is that college for most kids nowadays is seen as the only option to get a _career_ instead of _just a job_.
So you are not arguing that relying on Amazon is acting against their principles? That’s the only argument I’m making.
I'm not accusing anyone of anything other than padding their numbers. How you interpret that is up to you.

Do you really believe TikTok as exactly 1 Billion users, or 999,990,000+ users? Anyone that says that is 1 Billion is padding the numbers. Nobody is going to call that 999 million.

If the number is anything close to being rounded, the number is padded. Unless they are showing you an exact number from the time the count was read, it is being padded.
Yesterday I parked next to a Ford Maverick. I'd never been that close to one before. I realized that it is actually not a small vehicle at all.
There are two things here that really bother me.

1. Schools should be mandated to report outcomes for degree programs. I know that isn't the point, but it should at least be known. We have so much data, I should be able to see the expected salary of a major 10 years out.

2. It is clearly predatory that loans are given to students when we can guess that they will never pay it back. This follows from the first point.
How many amp hours is the battery and what is the voltage? I’d assume 3.7v if it’s lithium ion…
> From flying 3 times a year to 2 times a year is big progress.

These people are going from 0-1 time a year to 2-3 times a year, because they're starting to earn more and can therefore take more trips. They are ignorant to the fact that's more wasteful than eating meat. This is typical personal green-washing, which is the part that annoys me.

I understand that perfect is the enemy of good and I'm not implying that everyone should be perfect.
Ah yes I've read that Appalacian pronunciation, dialect, and to a lesser extent grammar is still relatively faithful to some UK dialects. Fascinating that a literal phonetic transcription was potentially ambiguous.
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It is like Twitter except only videos so you do not have to read, and all your behavior data goes more directly to the CCP instead of having to pass through Twitter servers first.
Sales & Marketing for Engineers
I think knowing how to build a product/company is great, but being able to sell it and market it is just as important. I would teach it in a way tailored to engineers.
If it's machine generated or not doesn't matter. It's whether the content derives properly from truthful sources. If it's machine generated but true, so what?
Imho that is absolutely not doing the role justice. For some people that may hold true, but I would expect a data engineer to know everything about distributed systems, database indexes, how different databases work and why you pick them, partitioning, replication, transactions/locking. These are topics a software engineer is typically familiar with. A DevOps engineer wouldn't be.
Yes, I think employers should empower their employees to deliver value, but many employers don't empower their employees, instead treating them like task monkeys.
Thanks for sharing this, I missed it the first time around!
> Do not ever reboot a computer without a user's consent.

That also includes never crashing, which Microsoft has historically struggled with.

If you don’t reboot in an orderly way, then the machine crashes while the user is doing something, and when it restarts everything is different. “Don’t restart” is insufficient for good UX here.
This is actually great idea.
If microsoft can add block-building programming for minecraft edu edition, why wont they do that to their flagship tool that would also help them in their competition against Google sheets.

Especially since pretty much every year we hear another story where some small Excell formula bug cost company millions of dollars. Redesining Excel formula pane should be their number 1 feature in 'todo'.

...unless they still care to add big features at all, and they aren't just in maintenance mode like most of their stuff
I totally agree with the notion that putting 18 year olds into non-dischargeable debt is crazy.

I did take some issue with this paragraph:

> One was the obvious one: Unemployment. It is becoming very common for graduates to throw their hats in the air only to have them fall back and knock them in the head conscious. They wake up and realize this piece of paper with old English typography and curvy signatures is no guarantee to land a job.

In my experience, there were 2 types of people that prepared for jobs after college:

1. Some folks worked every summer, building connections and experience they could use to get later jobs. They were also working part time in the last year or two of college in an area directly related to what they wanted to work on after school.

2. Other kids basically either treated college as primo party time, or they just looked at it solely from an academic mindset. Point being, this group generally didn't do any preparation toward full time employment during their time in college.

So what I often saw with the group 2 people was that, in their last semester of college, they'd suddenly feel the anxiety of getting a job and would send out a flood of resumes during on-grounds recruiting, then they would lament how they didn't get interviews without really thinking much about (a) they had built no relevant experience in the previous four years and (b) their grades were often middle-of-the-road or worse, making it that much more difficult to stand out.

Point being, when you say "They wake up and realize this piece of paper with old English typography and curvy signatures is no guarantee to land a job." I mean, no shit. People have to take some responsibility for building the skills they'll need to get a job.
If your definition of a good programmer includes being good at job hunting, maybe. Otherwise no.
But by your own link (PPIC) you can see that over decades crime in California continues to drop and is also near 30 year low levels.
True, but if you can still discerb truth from misinformation, perhaps it won't be so sad
This is the tip of the iceberg and has huge implications – for corporate power, competition, inflation, consumer spending power, quality of life.

Monopolies and cartels are ubiquitous in the American business landscape. They aren’t highly visible, as they operate in the operational layers between stages of industry: rental unit pricing (as highlighted in this story), niche goods distribution, other services. They aren’t the classic top-down monopolies observers expect to see, yet they have the same impacts of exploiting their peripheries, eliminating competition, crippling innovation, and inducing inflation.

I believe eliminating cartels and monopolies is the single greatest economic opportunity presented to the US.
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> The fact that you did buy tells the market that what you bought is of net-positive value for you.

This doesn't mean the market is efficient. It means the market misunderstands itself.
Sometimes I feel like propublica is the only meaningful journalism going on. I listen to several podcasts and it feels like about 1/3 of them are re-telling the story of a propublica article.
It's too bad that browsers don't have a better story for local development. For reasonable reasons the browser has always been internet focused but it's the one thing that everyone has and runs anywhere these days. But if you try to write some quick JS/HTML thing it won't work when you point your browser at the file.
That downvoting behavior is indeed fascinating (and slightly troubling).
> But also, the pacemaker sits outside the body with probes going inside.

This introduces an opening into the body that will almost certainly result in infection.

Probably much less risky to periodically change the battery than get the portal infected
There was a thing on NPR a while ago. It basically claimed that plastic recycling was invented as PR strategy by the oil/plastic industry. When you look at the facts it makes sense.
> It will take a long time for folks to understand all the differences between data lakes, Lakehouses, data warehouses, etc.

What are some good resources that can help educate folks on these differences?
That is what these corporations would allege, although I don't know how well these contracts hold up in court and in reality most corporations aren't going to sue or fire you if you sell your paintings or whatever. But yeah, it's still pretty shitty.
Again it amuses me that you've now flipped twice between "worse by comparison / deserving of criticism" and outrageous hyperbole like "fundamentally broken". I can't tell if you want to debate the minutiae of OS synchronization abstractions or just yell at me. I'm happy to do the former if you'll just put the knives away.
So you massage your features until they can produce a 20-80% split?

Very scientific.
> I mean, aren't our brains' language capabilities not just Markov chains on steroids, with billions and billions of inputs and weights?

The word "just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Yes, our language capabilities are just Markov chains - the way engineering is just constrained nonlinear optimization and playing games is just tree traversal.
> I am pretty sure this was just motivated by greed.

Are you sure about that? Were you paying your employee enough? You said at your startup and I guess that position for the employee was a gamble as we all know how so many startups operate.
Man is a carbon based lifeform (atomic # 6)
According to Genesis, Man was made on the 6th day
I don't see much of a problem with them being initialized in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<program>
leetcode hiring processes and management style of the past 20 years have dismissed the importance of experience and wisdom, so yes, there is a high probability that we will see the effects of that in the coming years.
Also it doesn't imply it'll use the least amount of resources, it implies it'll use the least amount of _money_, which means the cost will be exported to countries that can't afford to say no... Are we really surprised at the amount of slave labor in the world?
Reducing the basic rate: Labour had said they would support and Sunak said that it was his plan for 2024.

Cancelling the increase in National Insurance: Well, Hunt has said this will remain cancelled.

Cancelling the increase in corporation tax: Welcomed by economists and businesses. Increase is predicted to make recession worse.

Reducing the additional rate: Definitely not the right time, but note that this rate has only existed for 10 years.

So it is not that the policies are "widely regarded as utterly batshit". Individually they are not. But they were announced all at once without any hints of funding and that's what spooked the markets (more debts and fuel for inflation when the situation on both fronts is already bad).
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Oh yeah, sophisticated: https://github.com/microsoft/Detours/wiki/OverviewIntercepti...
I think the problem is essentially one of scaling. When folks talk about scaling they usually talk about "being able to do more"; but this often comes at the expense of more simple use cases. Most business software I worked at would be horrible to self-host: maybe 3 or 4 services, if not more, requires PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, maybe some queue system, etc. In short: "scaling up" often comes at the expensive of "scaling down".

The current model for a lot of self-hosted software is "make money with a SaaS offering", which is a fine model IMO, but now you have to cater to two different scales: the small "downscale" of the self-hosted user, and the larger "upscale" one of your SaaS offering.

I actually work on one of those "open source with SaaS offering" things, and it's a real challenge to unify these two use cases because the involved tools are quite different, and I don't want to implement everything twice.

Docker can offer a solution to abstract the complexities that are required, although I agree it's not a good solution to 100% rely on it (which is why I don't do it).
I feel like Excel is almost there. If only you could save a sheet as a folder, where each formula was its own file and Excel would hot reload the changes made to those files. Then you might even be able to track the formulas in git.
Yep, that's pretty much the entire reason.

This article is much like the "rich get vastly richer this year" stories that come out when the stock market rises. For some reason the opposite stories do not get written when the stock market craters because that's not "fun."

Expect "California falls to 5th place in the World's economy" articles if the exchange rate trend reverses.
Sounds like you have it all figured out, and it always works out.

I wish you luck, I hope that is true!
If I'm going to be the one to use and maintain it? If it's a black box to my customer? If I expect considerable complications, extensions, scope creep, performance needs? Absolutely. Maybe I'd use C# instead of Python to simplify installation on the non-developer Windows machines I'm surrounded by, but that depends on the context. A little Node app on the LAN that everyone can access with their desktop or mobile browser can be nice too, though browsers keep breaking stuff in the name of security so I've stopped doing that much. I'm also a fan of domain-specific language config files written in Lua; there are many better ways to build powerful, extensible, useful applications than an overloaded Excel sheet.

But if those things are not true, if I'm going to be the one to test out an idea and hand something off to my coworker or customer, building in Excel means they're likely to figure it out instead of their eyes glazing over when I explain that they need to install Jupyter, or a text editor, or Visual Studio, or to modify the Lua config file, or invoke something from the command line...they're not going to do any of those things, they're calling me when ~~it breaks~~ their inputs and requirements change.

It's similar in my primary role building industrial manufacturing control systems. Rockwell Automation is a terrible company with asinine licensing fees and outdated technology...but they're the safe choice if you want to transfer system ownership and not get calls about that one machine with the "Linux NUC" for the next 20 years.