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There's a looming feeling that C++17 is really going to be the last version of C++ (practically, in production). The Vasa is now half-sunk [0][1], but the alternatives are yet to be truly born. The current issues surrounding the language standards:

- The important but half-baked features of C++20 that has never really been polished enough for actual production usage (modules, coroutines)

- Unnecessary "hyper-modern" C++ features which are dead on arrival (ranges)

- The dramatic increase in build times due to the STL library (which are accelerated by those hyper-modern C++ features) [2]

- The fleeing of LLVM/Clang engineers to other projects (as you've said, Apple engineers shifting work to Swift, and Google abandoning Clang and moving to Carbon).

- Implosions in the ISO committee (notably the controversy surrounding the rape convict)

It's really not looking good, but there aren't that much alternatives so I think people will just stick to C++17 for the moment. Listing the worthwhile competitors:

- Rust is a bit too awkward to use in many cases where C++ is used (particularly with unsafe Rust), and inherits some of the hyper-modern complexities/insanities of C++.

- Zig is still too unstable, they just finished reworking the compiler

- Jai is not even released to the public

- D might be a candidate but IMO they should really commit 100% fully for GC-less betterC mode...

- Nim still has many warts and unbaked features, and also there was a split in the compiler team [3]

[0] https://www.aristeia.com/TalkNotes/C++vstheVasa2-ups.pdf

[1] https://www.stroustrup.com/P0977-remember-the-vasa.pdf

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/o94gvz/what_happened_w...

[3] https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull
>of around 3500 kilometers is very, very doable.

...with EV market share at small single digits.

It's easy to imagine from some tech-utopian perspective, but scaling that up isn't straight-forward, and we don't know how the business or subsidization should work, or how much infrastructure needs to be rebuilt. Remember, EVs are far heavier than equivalent ICEs.
Poor Bezos, one of the richest man in the world, yet has no cash at hand. I've heard stories of him having to ask money to the passerby to afford lunch. So sad to be the richest man but to actually own nothing.

Hey poors, take example from Jeff! He's not liquid at all, like all of you, but he's always so happy!
Having lived in Catalonia for many years, and speaking both Spanish and Catalan, they absolutely have a point.

"Spanish Catalan", construction I have never seen before today, is like calling Nicola Sturgeon an "English Scottish" person: it's an absurdity.
Well the murder of Franz Ferdinand resulted in the death of 20 million people.

We may have technology and laws but we sometimes still act like super violent monkeys, and the funny thing is we only realize our mistakes when it's over then we repeat the same thing a couple decade later when we forget the pain of it.
> If humans have to put in more energy than you get out of it, it’s just a transfer mechanism.

Fusion of atomic nuclei can't yet be done by humans at better than unity. Is fusion not a power source just because we can't do it yet? If so, the sun has news for you.
An impressively buzzword-laden, almost unhinged comment.
There are even c++17 features of the standard library that are incomplete in some major implementations like libc++
>We should learn from our mistakes not sweep them under the carpet.

My understanding is that at the start of COVID19 scientists in related fields immediately assumed that a lab leak was the likely cause, and were dumbfounded to hear such a strong and immediate consensus (the Nature letter, for example) against such.
G prevents this. From its page here: https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/...

“The 9-mm long insulated sleeves prevent accidental contact with a bare connector while the plug is partially inserted.”
I've been recently searching for an accessible, responsive, CSS-only (bar) chart library. Chart.css mostly fulfils those criteria, but it doesn't support displaying chart _values_ within the chart itself. For example, in the bar chart you can see the relation between the values, but you don't see the absolute values. This makes the library a poor option for most statistical usages, unfortunately. In the end, I've implemented the bar chart myself to fulfil all the criteria.

EDIT: As pointed out, displaying values within the chart is actually supported via "axis titles".
Crichton is the cultural norm, I realize that. But does it have to be?

For example: I don’t mind the high risk / high reward thing, as long as it’s not me working 80 hour weeks under incredible stress to try to avoid bankruptcy. There are plenty of Crichton wannabes with all the necessary drive, energy and business acumen, but which lack the imagination and creativity to really succeed. Why can’t one of them do that job? I can be the creative guy behind the scenes.

Sure you can be an “expert” and live out your days in a corporate research lab or something. But that means you’ll have a 9-5 job with zero financial incentives until you retire. I think we’re heading into an economy where creativity, imagination and foresight really is the bottleneck. Is it sound that that work is then not incentivized at all?
TE Lawrence felt ‘bitter shame’ over UK’s false promises of Arab self rule
The Amistad Dam (254 ft) and Mansfield Dam (278ft) in Texas are roughly twice the height and therefore extract roughly twice the energy per cubic foot of water flowing through it as Wilson Dam (134 ft). Texas has 3 more dams are again taller than Wilson Dam, they just doesn’t get nearly the flow.

So, Texas as I mentioned has minimal hydropower because it lacks rainfall, but it also suffers because it lacks large out of state rivers due to that same huge west to east elevation drop. In fact if you look at it’s rivers they each have a relatively tiny watershed. https://texasaquaticscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/C...

The Rio Grand is famous, but was never very big and currently flows through some thirsty areas.
Thanks for the video pointer!

> Mr. Holohan was an established speaker and in high demand on the seminar circuit, having taught more than 200,000 people prior to his retirement in January 2016 ... He is well known throughout the heating industry for his entertaining, anecdotal style of speaking. Dan Holohan began his love affair with heating systems in 1970 by going to work for a New York-based manufacturers' representative that was deeply involved in the steam- and hot-water heating business. He studied hard, prowled many basements and attics with seasoned old-timers, and paid close attention to what they had to say. Mr. Holohan founded HeatingHelp.com in 1997. His daughter, Erin Holohan Haskell, now owns and operates this tremendous resource.
Good point! I had not thought of that possible explanation for the choice but it actually makes a lot of sense.
Kanye West Playlist Removed from Apple Music
That doesn't make sense. There always is some overlap between tasks somewhere, but learning to program is generalization, and learning martial arts is motor control. There's no reason for them to be connected. That words like "active" can be applied to both, doesn't mean much. Should you find that your method works better than an existing method, that doesn't mean the metaphor for your method has any basis in reality.
It is difficult to predict markets fast, reliable and precisely enough to reliably beat them. It is certainly possible to predict markets and be good at it, people do it all the time
Open-source TypeScript type checker by SWC's author
Well, you also have one fuse in the plug and one fuse in the socket. Then you have uncertainty about whether the plug is fully plugged in. The whole system is finicky.

And god help you if you step on a plug, because they always rest teeth up.

I spent 15 years in the UK, and despite the fact that I take good care of my stuff, I've never had so much trouble with electrical stuff.
If it hasn't had a release in 1 week it's obsolete and must be replaced with something that has half the features, breaks its API consistently and releases every 2 days.
I do not get how you claim a type F or G or L can be shorted.

The CEE 7/7 (E & F hybrid) can not be shorted due to socket design. The Europlug, the British plug, the Italian plug and a few others can not be shorted because the prongs are covered in plastic.
> It means: with respect to some axiomatization of arithmetic that allows Godel numbers to be constructed.

That's circular logic; why would that be an interesting question to investigate absent the incompleteness theorem?

> The big surprise in Godel's theorem is that the amount of complexity you need to introduce into a theory to render it incomplete is quite small.

Agreed, but that implicitly requires understanding that small theories like Presburger Arithmetic are complete (which they are in every usual meaningful sense, but you seem to be claiming otherwise).
Tip: there is no reason to implement custom scrolling behaviors like this.
Apparently what is meant is talking to strangers face to face, i.e. Twitter/HN doesn’t count.

> "I like humanity as a whole more because I talk to strangers."

Anyone here have any anecdotes where you had that same experience? What are some good ways and places you have found to get into conversations with strangers?
My understanding is that at the start of COVID19 scientists in related fields immediately assumed that a lab leak was the likely cause, and were dumbfounded to hear such a strong and immediate consensus (the Nature letter, for example) against such.
>You don't need to own dinosaur juice fueled car so you can drive an uncomfortably long distance in one leg a couple of times a year.

This is so out of touch with mainstream America and will never happen.

The ability to get in my car and drive where I want to, when I want to (perhaps even away from a natural or man-made disaster) is a freedom that me or many others will not allow ourselves to lose. The idea of having to ask permission to travel outside some radius is unfathomable.
These functions are mission critical, but if you can’t show how you’ve automated / created programmatic solutions in these domains then you are probably part of the problem.
If you stay on your current course, how and when are those millions going to materialize for your launch?

Since you are competing with existing companies, how are you different enough to be attractive to investors? The fact that you haven't been able to raise any investments to date suggests that those who passed on the opportunity could see things that you are ignoring.
I think that's the custom in the vast majority of restaurants, but I don't think it's incompatible with the system described. It doesn't stream payments in real time, does it?
GIMP is not a registered trademark anywhere in the world. Unfortunately. Which made it possible for a number of scammers to be really bold (and be punished in the end, on one of the occasions).
Forgive me if this is a silly question.

I thought equator was the middle between the North Pole and the South Pole. But Earth is tilted 2x degree towards the Sun. If we measure the closet point towards the Sun and Draw a line ( Is there a name for this already ? ) then the weather makes a little more sense between Europe and US? ( Other than the Gulf Stream )

i.e Shouldn't we measure it from the perspective of the Sun rather than the North and South Pole?
Do you mean that these plugs can be dropped onto some conducting material and cause a short? That's technically true but no sane electrical safety standard allows prongs on a plug to carry lethal current when exposed. It's required by European norms and doublessly most or all others around the world for devices, including plugs, for there to be no way barring multiple failures to the device for the user to receive a lethal shock from exposed terminals.
That's how my old car does it, but the new one will downshift if it wants to slow down a lot (either if you reduce the cruise speed a lot, or it imagines it saw a lower speed limit sign). Seems dangerous.
I think that's less an issue with spaced repetition than something it doesn't cover. Spaced repetition helps you practice recalling facts (which are really just connections/associations), it isn't practice in doing the thing the facts are about. It certainly makes practicing doing the thing the facts are about easier, though, because you're not constantly having to context switch between doing the thing and looking up facts.

I've just started to think of spaced repetition as "personalized daily quizzes" to sort of partially dismantle the mystique built up around the process. Less the self-programming method it's usually written about as than a scheduler, one that gently reminds me "do you still remember that thing you learned? If not, this is what it was."

> create "a-ha" moments of insight.

This happens all the time with spaced repetition, and when it happens, I can make another card. People who do spaced repetition are intentionally trying to trick themselves into doing this when we mix up cards of completely unrelated subjects and do them at the same time. Switching from system to system constantly is supposed to make you see accidental parallels and find lucky insights. That's not strictly spaced repetition as such, but it's something that people have added to it, which shows they're aware.
The Pico-8 virtual console also stores games as PNG. What you see as the game cart is the game.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8PNGFileFormat
>but honestly the benefits far outweigh the perceived cons.

how?
This isn't a swipe but...it just goes to show you that even the smartest guys / gals in the room can get it wrong. All of us are subject to making decisions based on incomplete infomation, subject to biases, and/or experience bad luck (i.e., good decision but bad timing).
Please. If any we, developers, should be removing code. I solve problems. The fewer code I write the better.
Why is/was this comment greyed out while it is a good example of complex OSs which in their time were criticised for being heavy while being able to run in the L3 cache of modern CPUs?

Layer upon layer upon yet another layer of abstraction have made it so nobody sees the turtles the whole thing rests on...
Personally I can't fathom writing an app on a 15 MB memory budget in a language with such a heavy focus on garbage collection. I mean, the blog post talks about allocations of single 24-byte structs, and allocations happening all the time - why wouldn't that 24-byte struct be on the stack or be part of a large homogeneous array or be a statically-allocated global?

But then again, in my day-to-day work we probably solve problems in languages without GC in ways that would raise eyebrows with the Go specialists at Tailscale. To each team their own favorite pet language, I guess!
I continue to be genuinely shocked that we don't treat touch screens in cars the same way we do as phones in cars (that is to say, it is literally illegal to use them while the vehicle is moving in most places because the distraction is such a danger). Moving away from tactile in-car controls has to be among the more boneheaded things we've allowed that industry to do.
600W from a tiny connector is questionable but the issue isn't caused by the 12VHPWR connector. Fault happens on the part that converts 4x older PCIe into the new headers. So this is an adapter issue and not something related to the PCI SIG design.
According to Igor's labs investigation what happens is one or two of the welds in the adapter crack and adapter turns into 2x PCIe to 12VHPRW which is not what it's specced out for.
Simply close the session when you are about to leave the restaurant. I don't see why you have to be paying each time you add something to your order.
Which “roundup ready”?
My experience with paying through the app has been pretty subpar. Usually I'm required to type in my credit card by hand, on my phone. Yuck. If I have to use some app / website to order food at your restaurant it better support Apple/Google Pay.

Edit: the number one thing users want in a restaurant ordering system is ease. I'm in a restaurant to relax, eat, and enjoy good company. The last thing I want to do is register for get another app (because none of the restaurants use the same one) and type in my payment details. Some of the things you mention do sound more convenient than the traditional paper menu and human waiter, but if I have to type in a credit card number or sign up for an account, I'd prefer the human.
That was not an interesting read. The article stretches the information in the title over many pages, links to many studies, but ultimately provides no new insights.
I left algorithm-based social media and what happened next
Some problem might be it's both a people and a process problem. There may be little to nothing about it that is objectively, technically "wrong". But maybe it doesn't work for 90-95% of people.

It sounds like most of what you listed is something that could be accomplished with a good scrum team that has a well-defined, prioritized, and pruned backlog (as necessary.... :))
I think easily liquifiable assets in general would be a better measure. Bill Gates would be somewhere near the top, he could sell most of his diversified ~100b stock portfolio without causing much of a stir.
Hi from Argentina! Good luck in the FIFA Word Cup!

Most people here speak only English or something+English. (I know a little of German, but very little.) So it's very difficult to get traction with an article that is not in English, unless it has a lot of photos, and is very original and interesting.
If there is such a list - there will be a bunch of people you've never heard of on it and certainly would not want to emulate. People don't hold their wealth in cash because it is constantly depreciating by design.
New Orleans dive bars.

It’s a joke how friendly people are and how it’s expected to strike a conversation with your neighbors.

To the point that when picking a spot you might think « no, not this one I need some space »

None are touristy, I live there since 10 years and it’s been a constant.

You don’t made real connection. But a crew of accointanc. In that decade I met one guy that became a close friend.
But .. so much people I would wave at and say hi.
I'm not assuming you're a supporter, you're actively being a supporter of his right now.

You made the logical leap that people only dislike him because they're part of some landed gentry that feels their power is waning, then you followed up with a one page treatise on how people dislike him for the wrong reasons and clearly he's quite brilliant and also yeah they're just upset because he's getting so powerful.

You may be in denial about it, but you're supporting him.

And therefore it might be hard to see how easy it is to dislike the billionaire trying to play UN security council on twitter is disliked.

(and case you still didn't make the connection, the attacks on his business acumen stem from the same dislike. You're calling them idiotic for not thinking he's as brilliant as you think he is. You can't pay for supporters that loyal (or well, you can but it costs approx. 54 dollars a share)
Elon Musk disagres with what you think Elon Musk does.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1008385171744174080
Just like they prefer having the great firewall protecting their internet connexion ?
I was trying to say that yes, the design is bad, but the problems are not exactly unsolvable either.
I do feel like that after meeting strangers on the road. It's one thing to drive through a country, and another to become part of its community, even if just for a week or two. These places become a lot more than just locations.
Uptime Kuma runs on dokku. It's great.
The value to having something like this is pretty clear but I can't reconcile it with the fact that I don't want to be using my phone at all when socializing with friends and I prefer they didn't as well.

In my opinion there is no better interface for communication than human-to-human speech. This is why butlers, waiters, and personal assistants exist, and also why natural-language AI is promising.

In my opinion we should aim to get screens out of our lives except when necessary and intentionally focused on a task (i.e. work) and maintain presence in the real world whenever we're doing anything else. This means leaning more on human language and less on screens.
Doesn't the chemical soup also affect this. Is the mother obese, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, high on sugar or caffeine, levels of hormones, etc... I would think these habits would skew the results.
Hard agree. The only case where "You fix all your own bugs" makes sense is a small company or start-up... but it's also a bad idea. Every engineer should get up to speed on every feature until it is no longer feasible/reasonable to do so.

We intentionally cross-train and work bugs in "others code" (we do not assign code ownership, after I review and it is merged, it's is my code now, for as long as I work here lol).
I don't know how it relates, but that bug seems resolved on wayland.
Liquidity is indeed a spectrum, but I assume the OP means “cash”: physical currency, bank deposits etc.
I'd bet a decent amount of money that most electric cars in the developed world will still use the Goodenough chemistry in ten years.

The theoretical energy density of sodium is too low for the weight, this isn't a matter of developing the technology.

What we can look forward to is sodium batteries becoming cheap and reliable, replacing every application of lead-acid, and most, perhaps all, stationary lithium. Great choice for house or grid-level storage, where the lower density is basically harmless.

Batteries are such a major component of an electric car that there's a sort of Rocket Equation which applies: a sodium car with the same range as a lithium one would have to carry so much more battery that one would have to add substantially more just to move the extra weight around.

This will never pencil out.
Good to see the froth-lipped Daily Fail leaping to the conclusion it was those nasty Russians. Which is odd, given we've been told for the past few months that they're so technologically backward they're stripping down washing machines to salvage chips for their weaponry.

I suspect the real culprit might be closer to home [0] --although, naturally, we'll never be allowed to know, if it is. Nor will there be any political fall out. Because being a gimp means the master is always right. Isn't that so, Germany?

[0] https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/world/us-spied-on-...

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie...
Wouldn't the equator then move relative to the surface of the Earth over the course of a year as the Earth circles the Sun? That would make it much less useful as a reference for maps or other things which rely on a static reference.

Also, how would it make more sense from a weather perspective?
>> "If we know what we know now, we agreed we should have never started this business in the first place."

You have answered your own question. should never have started this business.
> Elon is not good at dealing with public perspective or government

Really? I thought opposite. Tesla growth was helped a lot by EV subsidy. SpeceX was made thanks to space industry privatization, and get launching tasks from govt. Boring Company is something like for public transport infrastructure.
In an aeroplane over the sea. I've had some really interesting conversations on flights. I've sat next to a military psychologist, an American who moved to the middle of nowhere in NZ to farm who was self learning python for agri automation, a vicar taking a group of American kids on a religious trip to my home town in the UK at a time when I was feeling especially atheist. And many others, I always try chatting on flights.