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There are lots of companies that’ll test water for you. I picked two, one test was on Amazon (was like $300 for all the trace chemicals). Then I selected another test I found online. Both came to the same basic conclusion so I trusted the results.
I'm reminded of "Red Dwarf"

How many of us saw this and thought "anti-drone lasers can't come soon enough"?
> Intel’s profits are more than AMD’s entire revenue.

I may be long Intel, but this unqualified assertion without cite is certifiable bullshit at face value.

From the latest 10-Q filings for Intel[1] and AMD[2], this is what the numbers are saying for 2022 YTD:

(In millions) | INTC | AMD | Diff |
====================|=========|=========|=======|
Revenue | 49,012 | 18,002 | 36.7% |
Cost of sales | 27,646 | 9,802 | 35.5% |
--------------------|---------|---------|-------|
Gross margin | 21,366 | 8,200 | 38.4% |
Operating expenses | 17,900 | 6,787 | 37.9% |
--------------------|---------|---------|-------|
Operating income | 3,466 | 1,413 | 40.8% |
Net income | 8,678 | 1,299 | 15.0% |
--------------------|---------|---------|-------|
Adjusted net income | 3,580 | 1,299 | 36.3% |

A few (probably obvious) notes, just in case:

- Intel's non-operating income (~80%/20% split between equity investments/interest and other) accounts for $5.098B and is 147% relative to operating income YTD! Adjusting this out of the picture tells a different story about pound-for-pound operations.

- Compared to AMD's $135M Q3 tax benefit, Intel recognized a massive $1.207B boon! Both companies swallowed operating losses this quarter (Intel -$175M v. AMD -$64M); without this tax benefit, YTD net income for both companies would have taken a hit. I keep this benefit in because Intel operates fabs, and much of that benefit was attributable to "a change in tax law from 2017 Tax Reform related to the capitalization of R&D expenses that went into effect in January 2022."

- Included in AMD's cost of sales and operating expenses are amortization of acquisition-related intangibles (Xilinx) to the tune of $1.005B and $1.499B, respectively. When this acquisition-related cost disappears, we can expect AMD's gross margins to substantially increase as you'd expect from a fabless design house.

Keeping it real.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50863/00000508632200...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000000248822000...
I'm sure we can come to legal agreement as a society. We've legislated on far more esoteric and complex subjects.
If I understand correctly, not only you have client base of childcare agencies but also helping them acquire customers (families). Am I missing something?
My 2 years old new job in another top university but in a mediocre group kills my productivity. Dozens of irrelevant things and people to care about. I get blocked/saturated/tired and unable to pursue my own personal goals.
Comcast can easily add more straws where needed. Wireless hucksters like Starlink can't.

And this is why wireless is not, and will never be, an acceptable primary connection.
I agree.

Sounds like: "We're proud of the craziest kludge in history. Look mom, DHTML!"

One could even write a full parody of one of the previous posts. (Sorry, SCNR):

"""

The JVM platform, Java in a browser, is one of the greatest inventions of all time. Its versatility is immeasurable. The fact we have one toolkit that scales from a simple text based platform to full application development environment, is insane. It covers all paradigms of computing, from thin client to full offline enabled local computing.

It is incredible that the community have built this general purpose platform, and that it's not only versatile but also incredibly performant.

Modern Java interpreters are only 50% the speed of native C, no compiler or toolkit needed. How insane is that!

JavaFX/CSS is growing from strength to strength, it's a gui toolkit with so much power universally supported on all computing platforms, from phones to desktops. It has so many features, and is so extendable, but anyone can use it anywhere. There's no limit to its capability, or who can use it to build their inventions.

The same toolkit can be used by small children to explore the ideas around "programming" all the way up to the best developers in the world.

Honestly the argument that we have somehow gone wrong with Java is absurd. What this platform has contributed to humanity is immeasurable.

The "original vision" of Java as a platform only for embedded devices may be dead. But it lives on as a platform for human invention, ingenuity and creativity.

"""
Advertising never ends. You don't "finish" advertising.
Netflix changed its review system after Amy Schumer's "The Leather Special". The story is interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Schumer:_The_Leather_Speci...
Does anyone have information on how they coordinated 500 drones to form an image in the sky?
Do you actually think Biden is writing those tweets?
Yeah that’s 4d chess. Guy wanted out of the deal remember?

Guy probably thinks he can get away with whatever and misunderstands “every VC is addicted to Twitter” with “Twitter will always be used”, and can get the site running with a skeleton crew.

I mean honestly I think you can get away with a tinier team! But he’s doing so much that makes life harder for himself it’s hard to imagine this as anything but him being himself.
I think it's a missed opportunity to make it 3D instead of just 2D in the air. Show me the equivalent in 3D, then I'll be impressed.

Curious of how long it takes all 500 to get into position. I know ~30 minutes flight is about normal for Mavic type drones, so just thinking how much flight time the drones in this setup get. Maybe 5-6 minutes to take off and verify all are in position, 10 minute show, 5-6 minutes to RTB and land? I'm building in some additional "fuel" for any kind of delays. Clearly, they are computer controlled (assuming an onboard computer), but just thinking the 500 number is large enough to give one pause on are we in place and ready to go checks.
He caucused with the last remaining (literal) segregationists and got more votes than Obmama…

So, nothing makes any sense to me.
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Surprisingly, it seems to have survived over a year without being taken offline by baseless DMCA threats.
I am curious, how do you explain the chasm in ADHD diagnosis between the US and Europe (or anywhere else really)? Surely if it's a purely neurological disorder, it should be somewhat "uniformly" detected across the globe, no?
> Compost these things and you'll get fluorinated forever chemicals in your garden.

It's already there (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62391069). It's still not a good idea to compost that stuff and spread it around near you or on your veggies.
Is this in any way related to https://www.sagemath.org/?
Can someone make an adblocker for the sky?
if this drone display of a very short (relatively) duration is annoying to you, you must have missed all of the chatter about ad displays like this from satellite constellations in LEO. um, nope. I'd be all for anti-sat technology at that point
So obviously what we need is docker for the economy
Here's a NASA conference paper from 2001 on hypersonics[0]. So it's not that it hasn't been worked on, it's just that it never delivered any tangible results. Why? They spent trillions on planes and aircraft carriers that didn't really produce the expected results in modern warfare. Why is the moneyhose still feeding into that?

The question of morality is REALLY off-topic and always comes up when someone makes a point about the inefficiencies of certain systems, instead of actually addressing the main concern, which is why isn't the money being spent efficiently? And where are the checks to make sure it is?

But the only country that has so far used nuclear weapons and littered the planet with depleted uranium wasn't the Soviet Union was it? That country also threatened to use them in Vietnam[3] and brought the biggest nuclear weapon on its carrier to threaten India in 1971[1]. It also wasn't Russia that unilaterally pulled out of the arms agreements. Bolton just argued that Russia was violating it anyway, so there's no point keeping it[2].

Look, I'm not trying to bash that country, but hold your horses when talking about morals, in a discussion that is ultimately a game of power between superpowers. The reason why the US should stay a superpower isn't because it's so morally superior, it's because, if there isn't some sort equilibrium of power, one side is bound to become a bully. Just like how in a democracy there is an intention to have an equal separation of power which for the last decades has been gradually eroding, giving the executive ever more power, leading to all sorts of problems for society.

[0] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20020011010

[1] https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/when-russia-stunned-us...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/659911920/bolton-affirms-u-s-...

[3] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-military-looked-us...
"abusing the service"

1 TB isn't a big amount tbh. Watch few youtube videos or 4k videos and you will reach 1 TB within 5-10 days. I live with 3 family member who continuously watches and we always cross 1 TB per month, so I don't think we are abusing the service.

That being said, I do understand it might be fair for starlink as it is a satelite internet.
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One of our smallest customers had a VM for each application server process. CPU occupancy alone was rarely over 20%.

Easily cut 70% of cloud costs.
It’s been possible to precisely coordinate the synchronised motion of drone swarms for quite a while now.
More complexity than allocating/deallocating a struct for each link in the list?

And the solution to "pointers to elements of a vector going bad" is don't save pointers to elements of a vector.
Microsoft is also pretty bad about removing their own videos, though. You can get a sense of that by looking at their YouTube playlists:

Keynotes: (5 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQXpv_NQsPICGmKjFQ_Bx...

Commercials: (21 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXET1TSWuDoP...

Microsoft's Unboxed series: (15 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXGj5o5DMcf_...

I do applaud them for keeping their old software available, though. And at least they don't seem to go after others' channels. At least as far as I'm aware.
I don't think too many birds were out flying in the dark, although bats may be out roaming around at that time.
It seems to have been around much longer than that. It was first posted to HN ten years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4066826
If the dB is high enough but the frequency is low enough, the "sound" is actually just a light breeze.
Those "peanuts" look more expensive that traditional hosting to me. It does help that they blatantly try to lie about their service being "more energy efficient than traditional IT".
It's a very broad topic you need to be more specific. Ultrasound can heat up tissues that's the reason why there's a time limit when doing ultrasound on babies and the machines beeps nonstop when the time is up.
So is that the official frequency of the brown note?
I’m sorry about the people you knew, truly.

But I disagree with the argument you gave afterwards about “anyone who cares about other humans get vaccinated” because the vaccine does barely anything to stop the spread.

Even Pfizer themselves admitted they never even tested that statement before they rolled out the jabs.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/pfizer...
I don’t have specific love for the guy, but I do like how mad he is making people that were fine with the old system.

When it was a public company: “they’re a private company they can do what they want!”

Now that they are actually a private company: “they can’t do that!”
Our family routinely gets close to our 1.2TB cap.

Working from home contributes, but another big contributor is the Nintendo Switch and Steam. Both of them are constantly pulling down big game updates. If you have a PS5 or Xbox, it would be a similar situation if you own a decent sized game library.

1TB isn't what it used to be...
I'm not sure what point you're making.

The whole point in either case is that what is being reported is accurate and verified.

I think Twitter moderation these days is pretty transparent and fact-based when they take action.
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Just treat HTML like any other markup text. Markdown doesn't concern itself with images, CSS or syntax highlighting either, why does HTML have to? Since Markdown requires a build step, there's no reason to dismiss the idea for HTML. The big difference is that HTML is simply more flexible.

In both cases you need to add some sort of markup to identify the code, right? In HTML it looks like:

<code class="js-syntax"> let a = "foo"; </code>

And Markdown looks like:

```js let a = "foo"; ```

But in HTML, you have a bunch of options built into the file itself: A WYSIWYG editor could add the syntax highlighting before saving, a build step could add in the appropriate styles before publishing, or a JS script could be added to the page and the browser could deal with it. A Markdown file only has one option: Here's your blob of code in plain text, go find some library to convert it.

HTML is just a text document that happens to have had 30 years of work put into its spec and millions of man-hours put into optimizing its Object Model and parsing engine. It can be as simple as bog-standard Markdown output, or contain all the meta data needed without relying on custom tags and other hacks.
I too don't have much sympathy for them. Everyone knows that employment is at will for both employees and employer in most of the US. They all get a nice severance that gives them plenty of time to find new jobs which shouldn't be that hard for them.

Twitter is bloated and has been bleeding cash for too long.

> In its sixteen-year history, Twitter has only rarely been profitable. Over the past decade, its core features have barely changed, and its growth has been much slower than that of many competitors.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/twitter-is...

The Twitter employee gravy train is over. Time to pull your weight and be productive whether you stay at Twitter or move on.
Of course not. My position is that if one person is wrongly persecuted despite breaking no laws, they should not be considered a suspect. Once police decide "We need the list of everyone who downloaded the app.", those 50,000 people are all suspects.

Here's what I _would_ be in favor of:

-Police bust Catalyic Converter Kingpin in one form or another

-Police learn in the course of investigation that said kingpin was a prolific user of said app

-Police subpoena the usernames of accounts that corresponded directly with the kingpin

There's a compromise to be had here without throwing 50,000 into a digital suspect bin when maybe half were people actually complicit to...wait for it...a crime.
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> That only works if you allocate lists all at once and never modify them.

You can reorder and modify the contents of the list without losing locality.
Sounds great!

But seriously, I know exactly the feeling you're talking about. My wife and I went to a Darkside concert while she was about 6 months pregnant. The baby didn't move for a few days afterwards and we went to the doctor about it (who laughed, and said that they weren't in any danger).
Why would I care about building widespread “truly” decentralised cryptography?

This also sounds like idealism. And I speak as someone that works in cryptography-related spaces including PKI.

How many of those millions of people get compromised in some way, lose their ‘money’ and are then chided for poor opsec? How many don’t even bother with self-custody and just use centralised services like exchanges?

Honestly it all seems ideological.
They’re also useful when you want to cheaply reorder nodes without copying the elements.
https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 might be a safe-for-work exploration of the relevant ideas.
The Quest 2 was not an acquisition. Oculus was an acquisition. Then, over 6 years later, the Quest 2 was released. Not sure anyone can claim that FB didn't have a huge role in inventing the Quest 2 after 6 years of building up to it.
Wi-Fi jammer?
Because k8s is simpler than those solutions if you're not deploying things manually through the ui.

If you try to do something like infrastructure as code across multiple environments, with containers orchestration, service discovery, autoscaling, easy troubleshooting, authorization, easy domain name resolution, secrets at the container level then trying to do those things with App Engine becomes a horrifying ordeal.

The next question is obviously do you even need those things? But basic k8s really is easy to setup. Spinning up a cluster, writing some deployments, services, and setting up an ingress takes < 6 hours (half that if you do this regularly that you have documentation on it) and is the same experience everytime - there is no, I am using GCP at home so I don't know how to do this with AWS here. The CI/CD for the git repo is also pretty much the same.

Moreover, it's actually good. Sometimes you have industry standards that are just painful to use but do anyways because it's popular. With k8s, it really is a well thought out, mature solution that's better than most alternatives. Managed services often have a whole layer of bullshit e.g. last night I was looking at using App engine for a node app and I can't use the standard environment because I am using the latest version of Node that's not supported yet - and it's just one more nuisance to deal with. With k8s, it's just compute resources, containers, done. Simple.
Interesting read! I don't see the benchmarks discussed at the end. IDK if I'm blind or my phone is blocking images or what. Anyone know where the benchmarks live?
https://twitter.com/cpuGoogle/status/1415061974820421635

A nice explanation on rationales of using linked lists in OS kernel, from a Fuchsia developer. In short, it is almost guaranteed not to fail on most typical operations given the invariant is not broken, which make it suitable for cases where there's no fallback option left like kernel codes.
> Imagining no countries, it was necessary to create them.

Necessary in what sense? It's a bit like saying mosquitoes were necessary to create.

They continue to exist because they are good at perpetuating their own existence.
No doubt that display made at least a few people want to "celebrate" the 2nd Amendment.
Proving you’ve committed disk space is every bit as wasteful as PoW, it gives a financial incentive to manufacture more, pushing up the associated waste and prices for people wanting to actually use storage.

It’s a horrible set of ideas.
“I then posted a link to the extension on an internal Slack channel. On the same day, I was fired and that post was taken down”.

Yes, why even post this on slack?

You know there is a major shift in management and everyone is under a microscope. Conversations are likely to be monitored and this seems like something that a company can perceive as a threat as now e-mails can be leaked.
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“Can’t criticize capitalism if you’re holding an iPhone”
Meh, the context was a western gov scanning the internet.

We tend to hold them to a higher standard than the ones who much more shamelessly operate pseudo-blackhat hacking teams. The west at least tries to maintain a sheen of legality. Or morality. Or whatever.
The problem with linked lists is that they are rarely the ideal solution to any problem. They are convenient in C, because of C’s inadequacies, but in C++ and Rust they are marginalized because the tools exist to use superior data structures.

You almost always want to unroll your linked linked lists, so that items are fetched in blocks. But this rarely happens in C because it’s premature optimization in C. In C++ or Rust you can write the code once in a generic data structure and enjoy the benefits to the end of time.

That all said, I think we should still teach them in CS because understanding linked lists is the first step to understanding trees.
For some reason I can’t help picturing you yelling this at your step-son and then popping a beer at the end. (Except the url, I guess… you’re not yelling that part in my weird little fantasy)
An atmosphere doesn't sound like a lot, but it's actually a very large amount.

0.06 atmospheres of pressure, coming from one side, is half a ton of pressure on your body.
Sorry, the fact that it complied with local laws is warrant enough to take them out? Is that what you meant to write?

On the safety issue, they got specific permission to fly the display, and did it over land with safety controls in place.

I’m not saying this was a good idea, but if so they shouldn’t have been given a permit. The safety issue is a red herring, it seems to have been done perfectly safely, for humans anyway. Not sure about birds, but again that should have been considered by the authority that granted permission.

A few comments here seem to be assuming this was done sort of unlicensed guerilla marketing caper. It wasn’t, it was done perfectly legally as far as the article reports.
> Storage is cheap

Seriously. They could back up all of Twitter on Backblaze for $7/month.
I do wonder if a dependently typed language like Agda or Idris would be a better choice for something like sudo. They are not terribly slow (to run), by today they are well-understood, and they can formally prove invariants about the program.
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Billboards are banned in Vermont, Maine, Hawaii and Alaska, all of which have absolutely beautiful landscapes.
> I believe they are on AWS, so hardware costs are already taken out of the equation. If so, even just moving to on-prem would save them the $1B easily.

They already run their own datacenters (not uncommon for companies started in that era). They have moved partially into the cloud for data science stuff - GCP, not AWS, according to their engineering blog.

So… odds are that there isn’t nearly as much waste as everyone wants to believe.
We have an entire consulting documentation pipeline build on Pandoc. Everything is written in Markdown. It took a good bit of tooling to make our reports easy to write, but that is mostly automation around our industry specific artifacts. Our reports look quite nice IMO.
You don't see any value to people owning their own crypto keys and identity instead of relying on a centralized party like Facebook?

I'm not even talking about digital assets. I'm purely talking about the ability of someone to sign their own emails without being dependent on a monopoly like Gmail to do it for them.
I discovered rage because they gave out tapes at a body count concert and a friend picked one up. Rage was the opening band.

I have the original body count cd, I got on release day. They had one and they had to go looking for it in the back. I believe it was the same day as Bruce Springsteens double album.

We saw Rage at UMass student Union ballroom and Body Count later that year at a club in Amherst. Those 90s had some good shows.
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Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
That's a fair point and a lot more than what Europe is doing. They have all the resources and the money that they need to succeed, but I feel like there is a need for a change in attitude for that to happen.