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I would like to add my perspective to the mix, as it seems Vim pops up here every so often and commonly the discussion becomes one of Text Editor Vs. IDE capabilities.

As I get older (33 now), I feel more and more annoyed by Things That Just Work TM changing on me for (IMO) no good reason. There are very few applications that I update as soon as I'm notified, because more often than not, something changes which at best disrupts my workflow and at worst breaks it. It seems as developers we are both best placed and very much expected to cope with this onslaught of change in our tooling. But when something that worked 2 days ago stops working, to me, that's only an impediment and I feel zero excitement for whatever improvement might have justified it. IMHO.

To me, Vim is a stable, battle-tested, and (IMHO) quite ergonomic way to write and modify code. At this point, I know what I'm doing when I write code (mostly.. maybe), how I want to do it, and I only want to do those things the way I want to do them. To me, Vim is my workshop, a workbench with my tools laid out on it exactly where I want them. Something like VS/VSCode feels like a public space with toolboxes everywhere, which I have to step around to work. I have no idea what's in some of these toolboxes, nor do I care, and I'm pretty sure I saw a lawn mower in here somewhere.

Obviously some people out there, people with a brain wired differently to mine, can work productively or even enjoy that kind of environment, but that's not me. At the risk of sounding like a wanker, I just like the zen of working on some code without all of the noise, in the same way I've always done it. It feels good to be efficient. Hell, there are enough self-inflicted frustrating moments in software development without my tools turning on me, too.

So I use Vim because I'm happy to sacrifice the incredible, broad capabilities of something more for a tool that gets out and stays out of my way, and that I know has no agenda beyond doing exactly what it says on the tin (and maybe soliciting some donations for Ugandan children).
AirTags wouldn’t work as well if everyone’s phones weren’t constantly transmitting/receiving, for one thing, and grabbing data on all nearby WiFi SSIDs and beacons helps with location services and probably advertising.
That sounds like wishful thinking in a Dunning Kruger kind of way by somebody who never played physical sports on a competitive level.

Video games are a non-social controlled environment with obvious and predictable goals, similar to gambling. Gambling encourages a person to keep pushing themselves for a positive outcome but that alone does indicate any form of personal advancement.

Sports and music require development of skills, often with coaching by a human, and requiring long periods of independent practice without any kind of immediate feedback. In sports it takes years of investment to get good (less than excellent). If a given video game took years of investment to complete the current level almost nobody would play that game.
Lol. You should take this up with the US banks processing millions of dollars of illegal transactions daily and get a light slap on the wrist each and every time they accidentally get caught.
"GitHub's just a tool to me."

Tools are not made all equal, and there's this fallacy that just because it is a tool it is probably OK and as easy to use as abuse.

To borrow from the medical industry - yes, opiate drugs are absolutely useful _in specific cases of extreme acute pain_, but that doesn't make them good tools for dealing with a headache.

A tool can be bad, even if it can be used well, likewise a tool can be good even if it can be used for bad.

"Code is intangible, it can be multiple places" - you should study law, especially wrt existing legal precedents. If this were true, things like software patents would not be a problem, and I would evaluate how much you really can lay claim to your code, especially now Microsoft has played their hand here...

In a world where digital media and electronics remain an important part of every industry, and large rich tech companies exist, these are absolutely concerns, this is not some idle ideological patter. Your IP matters, (F)OSS has IP as well, that's part of why any of this matters.

Choose your blade wisely lest it cut you.
Well for one a website can make you secretly upload copyrighted content with plain old javascript. And it's going to be hard to hold you liable for data uploads that someone else initiated and you didn't know about.
yeah the upfront costs can be a lot and never get prioritized or easy to rationalize if you’re focused on survival
Seconding this, I do the same thing. It turns turning everything fully off into one press.
Where I get hung up on with this is how the AGI knows what a more sophisticated AGI would look like without being at least as sophisticated? For example with our own intelligence, we aren't getting smarter with each generation. We have less brain matter than humans who lived millions of years ago on average, because there isn't as strong of a selective pressure present these days to see those with a lot of brain matter out reproduce those who get by in life with not as much of it. A very 'intelligent' AGI might realize the most optimal way to seed the planet with itself is actually to have a swarm of very unintelligent AI that is able to run on some very non resource intensive hardware, and seed it widely like how an "unintelligent" insect is able to lay millions of eggs and infest an area beyond human control, and the more intelligent wolf is easily hunted down.
Ways around this too sadly.
https://youtu.be/ZOonOtyoplY
The economy turns out to be a pretty big deal, and Commerce Clause aside, states by design have little leverage over it: their borders being open, capital can always just head next door. Small federal government is basically equivalent to right-libertarian economic policy. In an alternate universe you might see liberals content to build welfare states at state level, but in this one it's not really an option.

The framers were well before the Industrial Revolution; if they intended a right-libertarian bias, the economy they wanted unchecked was a smaller and tamer beast than this one. But anyway, they did give us the Commerce Clause.
That's Autopilot on freeways, not FSD
I've built several Chesterton's Fences and watched as they were torn down by people who didn't fully understand the reasons why I did what I did.
As a student of a nearby college, I had a fun time exploring MIT, and even took a couple courses there. I once did a project for a photography course taking photos of interesting pipes and other industrial looking stuff around MIT. Later, while living nearby (in my early 20s but no longer a student), I enjoyed occasionally visiting MIT common spaces to work for a while as a change of scenery.

Closing the campus down would definitely be a big cultural change.
I'm sure 95%+ of those emails are a waste of space.

That's a bit like the old proverb 'Half of all advertising money is wasted'. Now, if only we knew WHICH half it was.

It's always surprising to me how often I try to search though years of emails looking for some particular snippet of information.
There's nothing in your post I particularly disagree with. I'm simply making factual statements about the social phenomena exploited by terrorists. Stop shooting at the messenger.
> there will be many who have completely different preferences/views than you.

I don't understand your point, "I'll never understand people who X" contains an acknowledgement that those people exist. He just wanted to lay out his perspective...
Couldn't leave the tutorial, nothing was responding but a refresh did fix it!
Zuckerberg is all in on the metaverse whether you like it or not
Hot Lotto Fraud Scandal (Rigged Random Number Generator)
The If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified-Since precondition headers seem useful not only for APIs but also for web crawlers. Assuming bots follow some protocol that uses these tags, if you have lots of rarely-updated pages, it could save you some bandwidth.
Outside of HTTPS, typically it would be tying the session cookie to the IP address or netblock but because it's Cloudflare IPs, for regular browser navigation requests I don't think there's anything that can be done?
The premise is nonsense: we have no idea whether ETs are in our solar system.

ETs advanced enough to get here, and who bothered to come, would be out in the Kuiper Belt where there are plenty of frozen volatiles and cold. Cold is the only irreducibly necessary commodity, after base matter.

Inner rocky planets are for extreme primitives. We have nothing here anybody advanced could want.
This is a part of Go's rather odd perspective that I appreciate.

I've worked in codebases with library helpers for everything that mostly served to turn two clear lines into a function call.
Once such functions exist, folks feel obligated to use them; after all, why duplicate code?
So now, what would've been a couple dozen lines of self-contained straightforward code has 3 imports and 5 functions you need to be familiar with to understand it.
It also makes compilation more expensive.

I'm not saying library functions are bad or anything like that, but there's value to keeping the typical vocabulary of code small, of not adding new dependencies to solve trivial problems. Especially in a standard library that is widely used and you expect to be maintained for years.
Providing functions that solve problems that are impossible or tricky in the language is important; providing `Plus(a, b int) int` that wraps `+` makes the library worse.

I think there's a good argument for providing Compare() and Abs() and other fairly trivial functions even if it is perhaps less effort to not use them in most cases, but for a stdlib I can appreciate the logic of leaving out what isn't providing clear value.
I'm "the book friend", and though I only occasionally get books as gifts, I like gifting books that people may have heard of and can read quickly. Books like The Martian, or The Hobbit.
I think the difference is that the US banks didn't go out and deliberately declare "Here's how we're going to empower fascists to circumvent the rules of democratic nations". I'm not making excuses, there's lots of examples of Deutche etc. that are breaking rules, and they should be punished for that. But at the end of the day, they atleast accept the legitimacy of the rules.
I think you misunderstood. They have build wind turbines and solar panels that are producing less than 15% of what they are rated for, owing to unfavorable geography.
What will most likely happen is that the prices of pork will go up in Cali to accommodate for their laws and stay the same everywhere else.

Regulation simply equals increased prices which is essentially a tax on the middle class and poor.

Whatever was regulated will become a luxury. The rich will have it but the middle class and poor will not.

See car prices, gas prices, food prices, liquor licenses, etc. Anything the government gets it's hand on to regulate increases prices.

The rich don't notice the increased cost of regulation but the middle class and poor suffer.
iGoogle nostalgia :)
What are you even getting at? I didn't say it was a representative sample, just that it was discussed on here. It's a real thing.
I find these theories attributing mass megafauna extinction to changes in climate rather unconvincing, for very simple reason: it would be an extreme coincidence that dozens of species that lived there for literally millions of years all just happened to go extinct right around when humans showed up.

Now, I certainly believe that climate changes at the time also played a role: for all we know, these might have even been responsible for most of the animal population reduction, through shrinking the habitat etc. But without the humans killing off the rest, they’d have survived, just like they did during climate changes for previous millions of years — it’s not like the climate just suddenly became unstable recently, after millions of years of high stability.

But yes, the overall point is that humans have produced cultural technology that made us just too good at hunting for it to be sustainable source of calories for majority of population, and this has already been true for many millennia.
Last time I checked docker-compose with podman didn't allow the creation of networks. Has that changed in the meantime?
And you KNOW those are the people reading this study to feel good about their hobby

"This makes me smart"
A fantastic feature of Lego Mindstorms is that they provided developer kits for both hardware and software, including schematics, datasheets, and source code. It was really fun to build a custom motor controller board which interfaced with Mindstorms, just because their open interface and information made it simple. Sad to see it go - hoping that their new offerings keeps the hacking alive.

https://education.lego.com/en-us/product-resources/mindstorm...
There is/was a very popular “source texts from the Middle Ages” used for undergraduate Medieval Literature.

It included a translation of medieval pornography written by German nuns in the 12 century.

It was … interesting. “The Martrydom of Saints Faith, Hope, and Charity.” Basically a group of nuns in Ancient Rome forced to commit blasphemy or be tortured to death in the sexiest way possible. 50 Shades of Grey meets Martyrdom of St SomethingOrOther.

The Middle Ages has a well-studied tradition of high erotica, but the low level pornography popular in convents is less interesting.

My point is just that pornography isn’t new. But that doesn’t mean it’s great literature either.
US may have 5x the population, but hunting is far more popular in the US - you have approximately 16M people in the US hunting per year, but only 1.3M in France. So it's more like 10x instead of 5x. On top of that, I suspect that in the US, hunters hunt more than hunters in France, so the total number of hunting hours might end up being 20x in the US vs France.
So little? I'm testing the most advanced driving system available to the public. It does things no other available system even attempts to do. It's pretty cool to be able to try it first, and I don't consider that 'little'.

Also, FSD was $3k when I bought it, so that helps, and it came with a guaranteed computer upgrade too. I wouldn't pay the $15k it costs today.
High-Performance Magnets; No Rare Earth Elements
I wonder how that compares to the number of accidents where BMW’s driver assistance was activated. BMW seems to be actively trying to kill me by steering into every construction marker it sees.
Summary

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In my opinion the unacceptable, repetitive, fundamentalist-led attacks on the very institution of voting itself would take far more precedence than the social issues you listed, although I know social media leans hard on them.

If you truly feel those are the most pressing issues in your mind/spheres, I would urge you to remember that social media is largely an echo chamber designed to distract from the actual issues, like the aforementioned sustained assault on the very basis of American society.
I made it through the on-site only to hit the hiring freeze. It’s a well paying remote job even factoring in stock depreciation, moderately interesting work, and I’d happily spend zuck’s money on VR goggles no one needs until it all implodes.
There are no implications, since Ethereum is a public ledger where anyone can participate in validating transactions who have at least 32 ETH. For contrast, with bitcoin anyone can add a block who can produce a verifiable hash below the current difficulty target.

It gets muddy where with Ethereum where there are public companies like Coinbase who have to comply with certain laws as they are a financial entity running their own validators with coins from their depositors. Don't get me wrong there is an urgent need for regulatory clarity and not all regulations are bad.
Ya, the Tesla basic Autopilot & Enhanced Autopilot both are on the same codebase that has received minimal updates since the start of 2020 when they dedicated 100% of their AI towards releasing and improving upon the actual FSD Beta stack. The FSD Beta is quite better at lane keeping, including general 'avoiding obstacles' and whatnot.
good article - I’d love an excuse to use go
Learned Java as a first language to write bots back in 2009. Present day, I’m 1.5 yrs into writing a market analysis/flipping site for OSRS, and it’s been a great way to play with time-series stuff, sysadmin, and front-end.

Gotta credit a good chunk of career success to RuneScape as well.
How is the dependency handling situation today? Not being able to refer to specific versions seems like a deal breaker for serious production applications.
I grew up as a heavy gamer, and it became my identity.

I absolutely got addicted to games and I still struggle with functioning in daily life without trying to go back and play 1-2 hours of games each night for the dopamine hit.

More importantly, I missed out on actual real life experiences throughout my childhood all the way till I was 28.

I let me kids play games now, but as long as it doesn't overtake more useful activities (reading, going out, playground, socializing with friends, swimming, biking)
Found the person who grew up in (probably southern) California.
You are acting like having universities be open to the public is some sort of insane thing. Prior to COVID it was EXTREMELY common. I worked at 3 universities, my partner worked at 3 other universities, and ALL of them had all academic buildings and libraries open to the public during normal business hours with very few exceptions.

Blocking carte blanc access to regular academic buildings was abnormal and even a major academic cultural faux pas prior to 2020. I can't think of a single building access door that was locked. Portions of buildings, lab spaces, classrooms while lectures were in a session -- sure. But not buildings. Everything was always very open to the public and someone had to be really causing issues to be kicked out.

MIT was an outlier in this respect because even things like seminars were always presumed to be open to the public unless stated otherwise.

> Then would you want an open door policy on your home with non-residents allowed to go on your property at any time without appointments or permission and unescorted?

My home is not an academic building at a university, and dorm buildings are not the same as academic buildings.

I don't want random people playing football or taking a piss in my home, but I have no problem with parks or public bathrooms.

> and while instructors are instructing and administrators administrating on campus it is their place of work.

As someone who worked at a university for many, many years: stop lecturing me; I'm supposed to be the one that does the lecturing! ;-)

Also, I can tell you don't work at a university or are yourself a deanlet because no academic says things like "what about the poor administrators?!" ;)
I mean, Google did originally say that they would provide the author with unlimited storage, and then once he was in, they altered the deal. I doubt he would have used the service if it would have meant a monthly charge when he started.
This is what new technology has always looked like.

Going from the discrete alphabet soup of ABS, ACC, SC, SLAM to a continuous mechanism is brand new, and not some repackaging treadmill for management to convince investors they're busy.
In what world does meta not have an indefinite line of applicants for every position? Social media being kinda icky is the least of engineers worries. Don't forget some of them are making careers coming up with the next new killing-majig to sell to the public and seem to have no issues sleeping.
If the secret of the dimensionality of reality was ever to seep out into the broad memeplex (particularly if the idea caught on with young people), I have a feeling our zoo keepers would have a bit of trouble on their hands.
Obviously the issue with this argument is that people equate "autopilot" to "magically flies the plane for the pilots" thanks to hollywood movies.
> So yeah, you can drive around with your faulty airbag if the possibility of getting your face mangled doesn’t bother you. Or you can just follow the recall procedure, which is a bit inconvenient but it seems much less inconvenient than facial reconstruction.

An interesting example, in that the airbag recall took many years due to the volume of units that needed to be recalled. So no matter what you wanted, you were stuck driving around for a few years with a known risk in your face (literally).
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Sorry, how do you unfreeze a frozen object? Only references I see online involve cloning it, which preserves the security properties of a frozen object.

As for harden(), whether its vulnerable to it's prototype chain in the way you describe depends entirely on how it's written. That said, these aren't amateurs so I expect they know what they're doing, and transitively freezing an object graph does add important security properties.
There aren't very many airports using private security. SFO is the only major one and I don't think you'd notice they're private and not TSA.
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we've fallen a long ways from formal verification in the first fully automated metro (paris line 14) to this clowns shit being allowed on the streets.
This is my experience as well. I appreciate my friends getting me some coffee but too many bags of expensive burnt Kona coffee have been thrown in the trash. And I don't need N+1 drippers as gifts
I doubt those controls are sufficient, individual-level IQ measures are very variant and likely incomplete, so there still could easily be pre-existing differences the controls can't sort out
I interpret "works" to mean that it accomplishes its goal. For instance, if somebody threatens to break your storefront windows unless you pay protection money, so you pay the money, then the threat worked. We used to use a different word than "terrorism" for that, but you get the idea.

But you rarely hear that grafitti works. Or that road rage works. They might accomplish some goal, but that goal may be difficult to discern. So we tend to qualify the success. "If the goal is..."

If the goal of running a marathon is to improve personal performance...

When the point is unclear to say the least, it is pointless to say it works without saying what it works to accomplish. It's like saying, "dying your hair works."
I'd suggest VisionFive2 instead.

Do not pay $46 for a D1. I got it for like $12 several months ago...
You've been able to refer to specific versions for as long as vendoring has been used (Godep was first released in 2013 so at least that long, if not longer) and Go has supported it natively with Go modules since Go 1.11 (2019).
I fully agree with lettergram and disagree with naming capitalism as an 'enemy'.

How do you think you're going to reduce poverty and create wealth without capitalism?
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Not so long ago, Andrej Karpathy, the ex-Director of AI at Tesla left the company.

I ask myself a couple of questions, if Tesla was to release in the near future, some game changer technology in the self-driving space and I was the face behind it, would I leave the company so other person could take the merit? Would I leave the company because I think they are going to push something that I consider dangerous to the public and I don't want to be the scapegoat?