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Consider that no amendments are currently being held up by a small minority. Congress simply isn't proposing amendments. And most likely amendments on current issues would fail to get even a simple majority of states to ratify.

The hard truth is that most amendments that get discussed today are around issues with no level of national consensus.
or just use javascript Date() object, and display it as text
People would ignore this "help", just as they ignore facts.

Was staying this month at a place where temperatures in October should hit 15/18 degrees during the day, and cool to about 8/12 at night. For pretty much the whole month it's been near 30 and down to 20 at night. ( Thank you climate change. )

And yet most people still go out with jackets, coats, and ridiculous uncomfortable outfits when it's obvious this is the new normal.

How many years until the "it's October, therefore warm clothes" mentality changes ? Probably a generation, when there are enough people for whom October is and has always been not much different than August.

Does not matter what they should do, does not matter what the facts are, people will do what they will.
The tasks loading infinitely, is it a zero challenge?
Disagree. Why do you say that?
This must be desktop-environment dependent? I have to do <compose key> <0> <*> for °. (That 0 is a zero.)
Are you proposing the alternative was that Apple kept supporting 30 pin connectors?

And despite your anecdotes, evidence shows that switching didn’t hurt Apple sales. What were the people who were “burnt” by Apple abandoning 30 pin connectors going to do? Switch to Android and still have to switch cables?
the same way you check every other code that will join the system: pipelines.

I know you mean: "when i hit compile i dont see the errors directly" but that can be achieved by activated the strict type setting and your screen will turn red too =)

I really think that, from all the frameworks i have used, symfony actually has the most decent debugging system. it comes with tracing logging and live debugging. so pretty much everything you would get out of any other language.

With xdebug and editors like phpstorm you are also able to pretty much mimic working with PHP as you would with C#. I believe there are working plugins for Visual Studio too.

Just as an excourse, I have also worked with projects that compiled php to other languages too on the fly.
Huh I thought the world has more trees now then ever before.
I like to use excalidraw and do the same in our Consultancy, al my colleagues try to endlessly explain complex situations and as they go i would draw it out and it makes things a lot more clear.

Excalidraw is especially useful because of the 'rougness' you dont have the tendency to line everything up perfectly.

That said i had the same question since i sometimes add too much detail in diagrams and would love to up my skills here.

Went with excalidraw pro recently for convenience but the free version lets you do everything the same export you will have to save locally.
> Morals are not defined by respecting the wishes of other people either.

I think they are - it's moral to respect other people's reasonable wishes, or not interact with them if you're not able to respect them.

If I know someone expects that I'll bring a bottle of wine to their party, I should either do that, or I should decline to come to the party. If I know that's what they were expecting and I turn up empty handed and eat all their party food then I'm just a bad person even if no laws were broken.

'Nah nah nah no laws broken, agreement was never written down, no money changed hands' isn't a kind way to interact with people.
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Giving and losing their lives for TikTok coins and attention and the algorithm does not care despite dictating what is seen by its users.

Another nomination for the Darwin Awards.
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Great work, though the images of the entrance seems to be split into hundreds of tiny pieces, what's up with that?
> How is a scientific consensus religion?

I don't think that's a "scientific consensus" on the end of the civilised world coming, that's what I'm talking about, that's what the narrative is.

There are countless examples of Ancient Greek cities/towns that are now several feet under the sea-level, and still, here we are, ~2500 years later and still doing our thing. The Cyrenaica and Northern Africa more generally was/were the bread-basket of the Roman Empire, they're not anymore, and yet, here we are, ~2000 years later, we've found other bread-baskets.
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I can't really bring myself to care about any small differences when my girlfriend can charge her (Android) phone at her desk using her MacBook charger, and I can't do the same with my iPhone
I already use my laptop charger for giving the phone extra juice when I'm sitting, now my wife will be able to do the same with her iPhone. Same in the car, only one cable.
> Whereas all your service logic, database and endpoint code build into lightweight WASM modules that are dynamically loaded in-place by this global persistent process

This sounds like J2EE application servers for WASM instead of Java byte code.
Graal dev here. We have an internship program: https://www.graalvm.org/community/internship/

It's not uncommon to do a CS master Thesis as part of an internship, if your university allows that. We have plenty of topics to choose from and you can also come up with your own.

Good luck!
Honestly?

I think it's because column vectors are less of a pain to write on the blackboard.

I'm being serious. There is no reason to say that columns are vectors and rows are linear functionals. The other way around is a perfectly valid convention. But I did find that when I taught linear algebra, column vectors were just easier to write on the board.
I would consider those arcade cabinets equivalent to time sharing computers in labs of yesteryear. Current VR is about like the 286, it does some neat stuff but more promise than delivery.
> The main use cases I see are gaming

I think of that in terms of “escape from reality” or “entertainment”.

I suppose there are also educational use cases and remote control use cases.
I'm happy to stand by my comment. Tobacco by comparison causes negligible harm, it's just the callous disrespect for harm to others in comparison to profit that they have in common. Fossil fuel is going to end human civilization as we know it within the lifetime of people born in this century, at current rates. Saying that it has lifted people out of poverty is like saying heroin makes people happy.
Literally who uses wireless charging
Originally, the exterior of the pyramid was covered in polished limestone (casement) that has since fallen off/been removed. Apparently you would have been able to see them from many miles off as incredibly bright triangles.
This is incredible thank you so much for sharing this!

Something terrifying about how deep underground you go and then you reach a pitch black hole and there's still more to go. Wow!

How was it inside? Is it very silent? I imagine it gives off very weird energy.
By the time we're in a position to 'pay back' the emitted CO2 we have to be well beyond CO2 neutral energy. Otherwise it's easier to just offset our existing fossil uses instead of reclamation. We'll have to have a huge surplus of say 10x our energy use right now because reclaiming at any decent speed will cost huge amounts of energy.

At that point most of the climate change will have already happened and we'll have dealt with the results for better or worse. If we're to try and reverse it at that point it would result in yet another climate change from the state we'll be in then. People will have settled in the new conditions and I doubt they'll really want it changed back at that point.

Especially because most disruptive extreme weather will occur during the changes. Not before and after.

It's not as if the pre-industrial climate is some kind of ideal for the world. The world has no natural stable state. Climate change is totally normal, the problem is with the speed with which it happens now which is tens or hundreds of times faster than what is normal.

However this goes for the way back as well. By the time we have the extreme amount of free energy we'll need to revert climate change, the reversion itself will cause its own disruption.

In other words we have to go all in on prevention.. Trying to fix it afterwards is going to make things worse.
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Other than the fact that it is insanely self-indulgent to brag about leaving all this money behind, but it’s not even true. I left my job to work on my own project/startup for a while and the shine certainly wears off after a while.
Why would the other phone vendors switch to a different connector though?
Yes because it’s impossible to buy third party Lightning cables…
Options cost, I believe, 0.4X current stock price for a 10-year option to buy at today's price.

It's a great deal if you plan to stay with the company for a long time and think the stock will go up quite a bit, because you multiply your gains.
"hooverd not hearing anyone complaining" isn't an accurate measure of innovation lost through politicizing technology and mandating connectors
Despite the author's caveat, the gif works in Safari (16.1).
> The Guardian is not perfect, but generally gets the science pretty much right most of the time - at least compared to other news organisations.

That caveat is a really low threshold, think of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect and "wet pavements cause rain" level of wrongness in the things other news orgs report.
Something I found interesting when discussing this with my wife..

All my friends are tech heads and champing at the bit to have usb-c in their iPhones.

But when she asked me why people were mad about the switch to usb-c it took me by surprise. Then she showed me a lot of online responses from non technical people who see the change of port as annoying and wasteful because now all their stuff won’t work without adapters.

I think it’s really interesting to see the difference in mind sets between different demographics.
Ah actually these won’t work, as https uses a new record type on Macs. I think it’s because of the stuff detailed in this Stackoverflow question?

https://superuser.com/questions/1657925/some-websites-bypass...
Apple has been moving their entire lineup to USB-C for a while already (iPad Pro in 2020, iPad Mini in 2021, more devices this year) . Sure, in public they have to oppose tech sector regulation, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were secretly happy as it provides them with an excuse. If some customers who have heavily invested into the Lighting ecosystem complains then can always say "look, it was the EU, blame them".
Please update the post title to add “(2019)”.
> I don't understand why you keep insisting that everyone in the world must have the same habits as the people you know

My mistake, I assumed we were talking about the USA. In the US ADHD meds are commonplace, without even considering knowledge workers using them for increased performance.
You really think Apple sells $43B worth of Lightning cables?
> It should be clear that working at a fundamentally harmful company, like Exxon, Marlboro, or Peabody is going to self-select for certain types of people and those people are simply not care about the wellbeing of others as much.

I don't really buy this. Have you seen Palantir's commitment to DEI?[0] How about Lockheed-Martin's commitment to the LGBT community?[1] On the flip side, I've heard plenty of people say Intel is a nightmare to work in, and they're (for the most part) fairly neutral in terms of "harmfulness." And hey, Blizzard-Activision just makes video games, certainly they have a positive and welcoming culture that cares about the wellbeing of their employees, right?

My point is, company culture is completely orthogonal to the industry a company serves. Pretending that big oil or tobacco employs exclusively people wearing 19th century robber baron outfits holding big sacks with dollar signs painted on them is naive. Everyone below the executive level is a person trying to feed their family before anything else.

[0] https://blog.palantir.com/tagged/diversity-and-inclusion

[1] https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2021/16-y...
> I'm more cynical in my interpretation of Apple's motives: I think they just wanted those licensing dollars

They've switched every other non-iPhone device to USB-C. The more plausible interpretation would be that they don't want to piss off a core constituency of customers who've built up 10 years of Lightning cables. The number of people who care about standardizing on USB-C are definitely less than the vocal folks who will now complain loudly that Apple just forced them to buy a whole bunch of expensive new cables.

At least USB-C is more durable by far than Micro USB was, even if it's not as durable as Lightning. Nothing can fix the stupidity of USB-C cables, though. What a mess.
I stayed at a hotel in Italy a few years ago, and the radio alarm next to the bed _still_ had the 30 pin connector. No doubt that there are probably a ton of people still annoyed at Apple.
I don't disagree with your central point. Though I think there is room to quibble about the definition of "pillage and stole" given that the cornerstone of this whole structure is control over physical lands, physical lands to which troops and violence have definitely been deployed.

Almost all of us are tied into this circuit in some way and "most of us" (in the west) short-term benefit from the continuance of the status quo energy economy and its growth. But what I would say is this: at the end the rich and powerful will continue to be able to buy fresh water and air and arable land and stable neighbourhoods with armed guards and fences. The rest of us will not be so lucky.
Awk is an amazingly effective tool for getting things done quickly.

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About blank is too white for me, so I simply removed everything from a speeddial except background. Bookmarks bar folders are my friends. Docs, prod.sites, dev.links, localhost:8000, services, music - all is right there. It also saves one click compared to speeddial.

Would be nice if it could be configured to live on a sidebar, and a checkbox for each bookmark to always open in a new tab. But you can’t get everything you want, I guess.
I met an academically trained modeller who worked for some Big Oil.. it was a stretch for him to even mention what he did, since the whole industry is a big villain among most of the educated people. This fellow wrote custom 3D modelling for geological exploration.. it was all "bespoke" and very little to do with FOSS or emerging tech. He was paid well enough, and it was specialized.. so his models went on for more than a decade last I heard..

So I have to laugh a bit when apologists here declare Big Oil Tech with the "power of HPC" or whatever.. they are in a ghetto niche full of expensive equipment. Also I think it is telling that the math guy was not a rank-and-file employee, but instead sheltered in an academic town with lots of time for careful math at a very decent salary.
Information doesn't die, in fact information can never be erased without generating even more information. That's a core tenet of entropy.
Demand would be wildly higher so we'd probably have to mine the raw materials at 5+x the current rate, I expect.
Thank fuck they didn't because otherwise we would have ended up with the shitty mini USB crap.

Apple has been the one company making progress on stuff:

- no floppy

- no optical

- no shitty as mini or micro USB

- no Flash

Each time people whined about the fact that they "didn't use what everyone else does" and each time they were right.
I’m more hopeful that they’ll actually include drivers for those devices (probably not). It’d be nice to hook up a screen via hdmi instead of needing an Apple TV. Or plugging in a dock with regular mouse/keyboard attached.
Why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History
For Apple, you are now a "user" not a "Customer":

When ads first appeared in the App Store in early iOS betas, many inside were very upset. It was an insult to our customers. We pushed back strongly. After a meeting where management pretended to listen to our concerns, it was evident they had no intention of changing their mind ... It was also doomed because Tim Cook saw the money Facebook, Google, and others were making from ads for apps ...

To me ads in iOS are particularly offensive because I took pride in making products that served the customer. Ads turn “customers” into “users” to be monetized for the real customers, the ad buyers. They fundamentally compromise the integrity of the product.

Source: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1585150636781637632.html
The EU has a similar committee to the NBER, which identifies EU business cycles. They also do not use the colloquial "2 quarters of decline in GDP" definition, though at least 2 quarters of decline is often seen in those recessions that they do identify. [0]

>Most of the recessions identified by the Committee’s procedures consist of two or more quarters of declining real GDP, but declining real GDP is not the only indicator used. As an example, the Committee has identified the period from the first quarter in 1980 to the third quarter in 1982 as a recession, even though real GDP was growing in some quarters during that episode and that real GDP was higher at the end of the recession than at the beginning. As another example, the Committee did not declare a recession for 2001 or 2003, even though the data at the time appeared to show a decline in economic activity (though not for two quarters). Subsequent data revisions have erased these declines.

Those claiming a US media conspiracy to redefine the term "recession" have a political axe to grind, and nothing more. The NBER identifies recessions in the US, they have done it for a long time, and they will continue to do so.

[0] https://eabcn.org/dc/faq
I switched to the magnetic charger long ago. Just keep it near my bed... plop my phone onto it before bed and wake up in the morning with a charged phone. Easy.
Oh.. never thought about that. My approach was on Pop_OS.
Charmbracelet is a gem. Ran across their stuff a year or two ago and it's just a pleasure.
> VR sunglasses

Unless they completely surround your eyes to block outside light, VR "sunglasses" would absolutely awful. For VR to work well, you need immersion, which is not possible when the edge of your vision is filled with the scene of where you are in the real world.

AR sunglasses on the other hand would be great, but I'm not convinced AR has much of a future outside of some specific niches.

The biggest hurdle for any sort of portable VR or AR is compute and power. VR is incredibly compute intense, which means portable headsets only have a 1-2 hour battery life and need a heavy battery.
See my other comment in this thread which details a solution to this.
Few nit picks on the neuro side:

The synapse is an incredibly complicated structure and there is a lot of 'computation' occurring within the butons. We're not very sure of all the processes that occur at this time. It's not just a 0/1 kinda thing. Also, our current computers aren't even running the hardware that a synapse is. The most analogous electrical structure to a synapse is a memristor, something we can't make at scale right now. The synapse is also not the only structure that causes computation to occur, many things effect the firing of a neuron and that modulation.

Great lower bound calculation though. I'd say that's the right ballpark number.
Lightning was 10 years ago, and that was to replace the then nine-year-old 30-pin Dock connector. And I think the only feature that the Lightning connector had over the 30-pin was that it was reversible. Unless we count the size as a feature?

Actually, the 30-pin connector had a bunch of functionality that was lost when Apple moved to Lightning. The 30-pin connector could for example carry analog audio. The Lightning to 3.5 mm headphone jack adapter needs to have a tiny DAC inside it to actually convert to analog signal.

So if the suggested premise is that we are not going to be seeing "any more cable interface innovation", I'd argue that we weren't seeing much from Apple anyways.
Wow, you can’t imagine how excited I am that EU regulators get to decide the direction of technology.
Glad it was enlightening, sorry saddening.

This lecture definitely made an impact on me. I think there's a few insights from science that are so deep that it takes generations to absorb them and some are still being absorbed, like the size and age of the universe, our evolutionary heritage and deep history/ecology.

One of the most striking ideas that Wald lays bare, and for me it's paradigmatic like those others, is that Life doesn't begin, it continues. There's no discrete point where a parent ends and a child begins. The cells just change shape and reorganize the furniture inside a bit. Otherwise, they're always doing the same thing of replicating when need be, or dying when need be. There's an implicit philosophy of abundance that's hard to put words to.

You also bring up the sentience of emergent organisms. I think that sentience is innate to the cells, just like the other major life processes of respiration, reproduction, etc.. It's also a paradigmatic shift the realization that each cell in our body (maybe some exceptions in the soma?), if separated from its tissue/community, reverts back to an amoeba form and goes off exploring.

There's also the notion e.g. from Nick Lane of the probable ease with which life gets started from substrate.. that it's not a very unlikely path-dependent accumulation of just the right RNA, but rather a fairly prescribed set of energetics that turn metabolic in the fairly common planetary environments of ocean thermals. Couple that with the ideas of panspermia, and this implies such a universality to life that we ought to imagine the night sky's stars and galaxies as teeming jungle.

To me, this almost unfathomable continuity of ageless sentience in such a beguilingly adaptive polymorphic package, in universal abundance.. far exceeds the wildest technologies of science fiction or fantasy magic conjuring. It's a character whose story on the universal stage I watch with awe and kinship.

And so, I guess I've been fully propagandized ;) I find comfort in that vast plan.
> It's worth pointing out that "on the extreme end of a spectrum" is some rather blatant editorializing. There is simply no way that's an objective fact.

It's a fact reported by the very same article (but buried). I didn't make it up.

> Would you like to cite some projections you think are more accurate?

All projections are theoretical, but one needs only go to the IPCC to see that the range of reputable predictions varies:

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SPM1...

Source of that figure:

https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/

Most recent IPCC commentary on predictions to underscore that current estimates land in a range, and that the Guardian-cited source is definitely not in the middle of it:

https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/09/ar6-wg1-20210809-pr
All residents of the state are represented by their representatives even if they don't support and didn't vote for the representative.
They don't, I'm trying to get a comparable number. "profit sharing" is too vague a term to compare two groups (across time or geography) with any credibility.

If we are going to compare on an axis, we need to first have a defined axis, otherwise it's just an opinion.

For instance, GGP and you both clarified things with two different definitions for "shared prosperity".