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> you had more opportunities to do shorter point-to-point (1 hour/30 minutes/less) you light up a lot of possible flight legs that current passenger flight has ignored for decades

And my point is that this isn't going to be remotely possible without order-of-magnitude improvements in battery technology. The economics of a 9 seater aircraft flying 30 minutes in what a car can cover in an hour is just terrible. Remember, that plane was flying slowly and didn't even climb over 2,500 feet. With no passenger load either, probably. The amount of energy it'd take to carry a load with passengers in a 30 to 1 hour flight at normal cruising speed is vastly greater than what is capable with batteries.

The existing lithium ion batteries are already approaching or exceeding 50%. Just like how there's only so much energy you can get out of a kilogram of gasoline, there's only so much energy you can store in a kilogram of a lithium battery (different chemistries like LiFePo have different thermodynamic limits, but they all have a hard physical limit). A battery powered plane would have to have a different battery chemistry, the thermodynamics of the best battery chemistry we know of is too constrained. "Pick a new chemistry" is way easier said than done. Why haven't we just picked a new combustible fuel chemistry that doesn't emit greenhouse gases?

And in a sense, you're right that battery powered planes are the future: hydrogen is that new battery chemistry. The energy density by mass and volume of compressed or liquid H2 is much greater than lithium batteries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#/media/File%3...
Seconded. My kids have been in Waldorf for a couple years. I plan on keeping them in Waldorf and when they’re older maybe supplementing with extracurricular math (like Russian school of math) since Waldorf excels more in creativity, imagination, and mindfulness but weaker in STEM (but still present). But that seems like the right priority for elementary aged children.
I'd say this isn't the near future so much as it's the present. If you're on ML twitter you'll see countless examples of people hacking together prompts that power a google sheet or something similar. It just doesn't really make sense to do the engineering required to build legit enterprise tools around these capabilities while the SOTA is advancing this rapidly.
Have you never been outside the US? It's only the US that's like this.
So Metformin basically reduces to fasting which, as Hackernews knows, is the cure for everything.
Real colonizer hours are in effect I see
That's a pretty terrible analogy. Etymologically they bear no resemblance to "open source". A better analogy would be "low fat" or "sugar free".

The more appropriate analogy would be if the Sugar Free Initiative defined "sugar free" and then you correct me by saying "actually that beverage isn't sugar free, it's artificially sweetened".

The world would be a better, more accessible place if we instead focused on what things are or are not, like preferring "OSI Approved License" over "open source" rather than needlessly conflate complex meaning with otherwise simple terminology.
> And this one isn't a very frequent use case for normal users

The Finder's Go menu seems like a reasonably discoverable location.

That being said.... I kind of wish you could type and tab-complete paths in the Find window (cmd-F in the Finder) and Spotlight (cmd-space in any app.)
Which other store? The only stores that matter as far as mobile goes are Google and Apple's.
Last spring a neighbor of mine (researcher/professor) was talking about how one of his students stumbled upon one of these SBF foundations and that prompted them to apply. The application process was a Google Form and within a few days they got a $1M grant. No questions or interactions outside the Google Form. The only restriction was something to the effect that the it had to be spent 100% on the research project and the university couldn’t take any of the money to cover its own expenses (or something to that effect).

He was amazed at how swift and low-detail it was as he’s generally spending most of the year flying to conferences, visiting/speaking to foundations etc to pull the funding together.
I feel for you, and I wish things to turn around for the better for you and your wife. Myself, I'm worried I'm 75% there. I.e. I'm also doing your a) and b), but we both still think the overall relationship is salvageable.

> I do my best to reign in my disability, but it’s not possible for me to function the way she wishes I could.

Same here, and my wife is also willing to adapt to my needs, but here's a thing: I can't always tell whether some adjustment is an actual need, or just some random guess I came up out of frustration. I also have a life-long habit of molding myself into the person the people need me to be, and couple with being diagnosed well into my 30s... things are improving, but it's kind of a random walk.

> Rule one of ADHD: you probably lack a lot of self awareness and it can be genuinely awful for people you live with.

I'm not the best person to judge this, but I think I actually do have quite a lot of self-awareness, so I hesitantly propose Rule 1A: if you do have a lot of self awareness, it's even worse, because you can see how awful it is for people you live with, and can't do a thing about it.
I genuinely think it will be met by the same kind of resistance as remote work. People simply wouldn't know what to do with the new freedom. Some will miss spending more time “socialising at work” while others will complain they feel “useless”. Just watch it happen.
Yeah I get it. But What I'm saying is that there are many times when nobody can truly prove which whether they're in the cargo cult or the other people are in the cargo cult.

So programming is one such thing. There are stylistic camps everywhere and nobody knows which one is the cargo cult, INCLUDING the neutral camp where people say everything is a tool depending on the context.
Thanks for sharing. As a longtime bicyclist, I've been shocked by the increase, over the past decade, of reckless behaviors on the streets due to electric mobility riders. I'm glad to see some are learning, though sad to see it's only at the cost of someone getting hurt ...

While we're on the topic, street corners or not, the warning should extend to all sidewalk riding. Driveways and pedestrian gates don't usually have enough clearance around them that you would be able to see what's coming. (At least in the US where sidewalks aren't typically set up with a dedicated bike lane)
You don’t need to have almost anything in life. However, most people get pissed off or feel depressed when they can’t follow old habits - this is typically known as a standard of living reduction.
I received a third-party malware report from Linode once[0]. It’s possible that something has changed in the meantime since this was probably 4–5 years ago, but my own experience in a similar scenario was that Linode acted reasonably and in good faith. This tweet makes it sound like their policy and procedure hasn’t changed.

In my case, Linode opened an “AUP violation” ticket with a copy of the report, the steps they required to close the ticket (essentially: fix it and explain corrective measures), and a time when they would disable the server otherwise (which was something like 24 hours). It sounds like itch.io decided to ignore the AUP violation ticket and their server was disabled after 24 hours, just like the ticket said it would. (Waiting on a support ticket instead of calling also seems like a weird bad choice when your whole site is offline.)

I guess, having some first-hand experience with Linode’s malware handling process, that itch.io were at fault here, but I guess there may be more to the story they haven’t shared or weren’t clear on.

[0] Actually twice; some internet vigilante hooked up a virus scanner to a web crawler and was sending false positive reports directly to the abuse address for the netblock. After the second one I kindly suggested Linode stop accepting these reports, and never heard anything again.
Unfortunately eslint would likely flag this as unused vars, so typically you would not do this as you've described. Object destructuring is a bit more forgiving and can be a nice alternative: const {id, name} = loadUserInfo() - assuming you wrote loadUserInfo and are in control of the return value.
It's quite possible to setup an NTP server that uses GPS time as UTC and it will be however many seconds off and cause all sorts of fun[1]. That shouldn't be easy to do though, as others said, the adjustment is broadcast and a reasonable receiver should do it out of the box.

[1] A lot of programmers like to order events by system time. This is dangerous normally, but NTP helps sweep most of the danger under the rug. If some of your NTP servers serve UTC and some show GPS time, you're almost guaranteed to have very messy system time across your fleet and anything that expects orderly time is out of luck.
For what it’s worth, I get the impression that you’re being way too hard on yourself. Struggling in a relationship doesn’t mean you’re an awful partner. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, and sometimes those react in relationships in unfortunate ways. It’s never just one person who is responsible.

It sounds like at the very least, you’re doing two extremely important things well: providing financially and being engaged as a father. Whatever your weaknesses might be, those are two huge strengths. Don’t sell yourself short on those.
Many racist sterotypes have some basis in reality-- at least statistically, that doesn't make them any more excusable.
I get the idea. But it would immensely help discovery if your name was easily discoverable.
The mythical portion of the number is that last 0.02%... the stuff that is just extra work for no logical benefit.

It does make me wonder why it would take you hours to do that though... was the code that complicated to test for some reason?
> a drug-addled kid who thought he was smarter than everyone else

This describes a lot of people who changed the world. This one, unfortunately, was simply a fraudster.
I think we are still a long way off from business viability, but a very short way off from POC (proof of concept) demos that show its potential. Kind of like self driving cars in the 2017 hype.

Doing something is not hard. Accounting for all the possible problems and making sure they don’t occur is the hard part because it requires a level of control that goes beyond what looks like action driven gives.
I read an epic space opera [0] on Wattpad where the baddies are like this.

> What if a thought could get you cancelled? What if a thought could get you killed? What if everyone could peer inside your mind and judge you?

> Welcome to the galactic Torth Empire. Are you a thought leader? Or are you a slave?

0: https://www.wattpad.com/312043845-majority-sff-ooorahs-1-pro...
I tried that once, it didn't actually work. You had to put the nozzle directly into the snow to make it move, snow is just too heavy and sticky.
Absolutely true in theory and I accept the outcome, although it bothered me for some time. It didn't meet the standard of proof; however the family successfully obtained a civil judgement later. But there is no doubt in my mind that the guy was guilty of hitting a fallen pedestrian, probably by accident, and driving off.

The thing that broke the case was a rhetorically talented defense attorney breaking down a (poor) expert witness who was inexperienced and unprepared. Certain traffic control devices use NTP to set their clock, and the expert wasn't able to articulate responses to the questions competently... so the video was admitted into evidence, but the metadata was not.

The loss of the time source placed events depicted on a series of cameras from different sources, all with incorrect clocks, into a 10-minute window (as opposed to a 2 minute window), which broke the case and led to a dismissal. The attorney did a good job by her client, I'd hire her in a second.
the yeah could also be the answer to the second question in the bubble!
That's nuts!
That's horrible. It's the reason I'm still somewhat suspicious of a simplistic note taking app (Colornote) I use on my android. I oftentimes get the sneaky feeling it might be sending my (sometimes highly private) notes to a server somewhere in China, but the app is so simple to use that no matter how many time I decide to, I simply can't get myself to wipe and uninstall it
You can only book one way flights and only “the day before flight departure” - and there’s a lot of blackout days. So these are normally unfilled seats.
It's a nice idea because I think the web is much healthier if we don't have a single dominant browser/engine driving it, whether Microsoft's or Google's or anyone else's. Unfortunately no data I've seen in years says it's actually happening. Every web product I've worked on recently is built on standards first so this has nothing to do with deterring Firefox users because things don't work. There just aren't a lot of people using it any more. The only big browser that isn't running the same engine as Chrome is now iOS Safari.
Dipped into it.

Staged changes, excluding renames.

So git-fixup and git-absorb will now happily live together for the moment on my box.

Made a good first impression, thanks again for the reference.
TBH given that part of my ADHD treatment is about social aspects, break days have never really seemed like a good idea to me. Everyone is different of course but executive function is nice to have off the clock as well IMO.
^^ here they come. just like the anti remote crowd, they actually want less rights and freedoms. i am fascinated by this. i really am.
A RPi to code and learn a bit of Mathematica later on, in junior high school. Or a PineBook Pro.

An Arduino to tinker and make some funny and simple automated bots.

Some rubber bands or tiny weights to exercise a bit. Or perhaps a ball or some neat sneakers like Vibram FF.

A dental irrigator to keep fresh gums.
One thing that’s ticked me off is Python has been expanding the standard library.

That’s a pain when you already are using libs that imitate the “new” behavior.

Either the new tools are less good, or they destroy development in the existing tools.

Twisted was, and is, a really cool framework. Unfortunately, it’s doomed.

There were a ton of really good datetime utilities before … datetime.

Oh well. Complain complain.
They are almost the entire Supreme Court. They don't need US News.
You're probably getting downvotes from butthurt Americans who resent the "only in America" comment you made, even though it's generally correct (it seems like some of the Anglophone countries have copied some of this insanity though, to a lesser degree).
That's good to know but I was only commenting on the statements made by the developers on the link provided, which I do take issue with. Why this should lead to any thought that I or others who have a problem with this statement would not "like the … userbase of lemmy.ml", I cannot fathom as it is entirely unnatural to me, although I do see it in some others - particularly amongst those who would make a statement such as that these developers have, ironically. Agreement or disagreement on pretty much any topic is not the basis upon which to judge one's own feelings towards any individual and certainly not a group. That is anathema to me and would find the suggestion inappropriate.
in non performance critical code, comments usually aren't necessary but they are godsends when you need to do something tricky for performance. standard examples are things like bithacks.
Meh. Lathe is small potatoes. Get a pdp-11/70.
Can’t you just turn on the windshield heater or is the problem that it takes too long?
That's where gzip or brotli come in. In a lot of cases the number of bytes over the wire hardly changes.
Not exactly related, a friend recently told me that calling someone a "spaz" who acts absurdly or with an excess of enthusiasm, is no longer (/ was never ?) appropriate. My boss and other boomer (ok technically gen-xer) coworkers use this term liberally, as does my boomer mother and myself and others of my cohort.
I do not want to dwell on correctness of this term or of prescribing / proscribing language, only to share that this is the sort of the thing I had thought the article would be about.
What would happen if it looked like users could report, but you actually did nothing on the backend? Like how it works on Youtube?
Meh. I used to compete on CS and Math problems and I passed the interview for a lot of big tech companies (senior and staff levels) and I don't think at any of them I could pass the interview if I truly had never seen even a variation of the problem I was given.

They want you to work pretty fast and you only have about 20 minutes to solve one problem at most companies, no way I could work my way through something completely new that quickly.
Can you share a few twitter accounts to follow in ML twitter? Thanks!!
For a developer, it might look "easier" because literally anything could be built by coding if there is no limit on the time and money they can spend.

But for a company, this means more to them. Of course, they can build anything but there is something called "opportunity cost". A CPO or a CTO or the leadership thinks differently compared to a software developer. The decision is between "whether we should build this feature and add one more potential point of failure for or just buy it and let the vendor worry about it". And this time and effort (that could exponentially grow as the product scale) could be used to build another core product feature that will add direct value to our users.

Most of the time, the "buy" decision is less riskier and economical (in the long run), unless you are a tech giant like Amazon or Google where they might build everything in-house or just acquire the vendor's product and make it their own.
From an engineering point of view, I don’t understand how you can imply that “what nasa is doing here” is more impressive than what SpaceX is doing. Perhaps I have misread your implication, but I believe the SpaceX rocket to be far more innovative than SLS.

As far as government spending, I’m far from a free market advocate. But I would rather see the government spend money effectively. If SLS will cost, say, ten billion dollars over the next decade to complete three more flights, I’d rather see the government buy $1B in services from SpaceX to ensure they finish development of Starship, securing rides on a rocket which is 1/30th the launch costs, and then spend the other $9 billion on social housing programs to alleviate homelessness in the country.

My point is not that I believe free markets will magically solve any problem we can imagine, but that a specific solution to the problem of heavy lift space vehicles that shows real promise is already nearly complete. I simply believe it would be a better use of funds to invest in that system than to continue to burn money on SLS. And the government understands this as it has awarded some money to SpaceX for moon missions with Starship. So they’re finding the much cheaper private option and the very expensive NASA option. And I just think that’s a poor use of funds given what each project promises.
Sounds like nyouve forgotten the history of failures in this field relating to identifying who is or is not human based on skin color.
At least Caesar had a plan for managing the change. Gregory sure didn't and Alaska left Russia on Saturday, 7 October 1867 but didn't join the US until Friday, 18 October 1867. Lawless anarchy for 11 days because of meddling with the calendar!
We had such a system. It was called slavery. Lots of cheap labor. And still we arranged our crops in the style of vineyards, so as to reduce to travel time of workers between plants.
Python 3 came out 14 years ago, and changing the syntax of one function wasn’t even a big deal then. Literally a 10 minute code search to fix a project.

It might be time to move on…
I don't think that's what the author wanted to say... And in any case it's certainly not a very generous interpretation of what the author wrote.

IMO, the author makes an observation of familiarity bias and resistance to change. These are just how humans in general tend to behave, and it's not unreasonable to think that these factors are in play.

Moreover, there is an overlap between intelligence and curiosity / openness to new experiences.

If someone is not particularly curious about FP, they shouldn't take it personally: nobody is suggesting they're not intelligent-- that's not what's being said here.
What a lovely thought, I do hope that's true, but everything I've seen about this story and people replying to it points to "no, actually, everyone else apparently spends 40% on fighting their internal tooling, too, and not a single manager seems to give a fuck". So there's that.
Have you tried buying directly on the secondary market? You might be able to cut a deal with some of the reselling groups and buy in bulk at 20-30% below eBay
I hate posts like this.

"You can be a successful professional without spending time on social media. See, look at [those people who've already made their audiences and can self-sustain, and then can afford to longer use social media, or those who made their audience before Facebook and Google completely gutted anything related to content on the web], they can do it! You just need to try harder!"

Spare me.
Yes I am well-aware of how SDEs work at Amazon. However there is a role at AWS called SDE - System Development Engineer which is very much DevOps which is very different than SRE and the reason I was asking.
> Welcome to USA. If you're an accredited investor and/or Venture Capitalist, the training wheels are entirely off.

Who were they were trying to reach with their Superbowl ads, VCs? I suspect not.
You'd basically have to be either willing to pay for lots of hotels... or go on a week-or-so long "adventure" where you just book flights to random places, stay at the airport, and fly somewhere random again, until you finally manage to get a chance to fly home. Good luck fitting your clothes into the tiny backpack space though unless you want to pay luggage.

Probably would make for a great YouTube series though for the right person. Basically seems built for getting a ton of subscribers quickly on a really low budget for the adventurous. "What random US place are we flying to today? We literally don't know because we can only book the day before..." Or it could be a challenge - "By completely random booking and just a backpack, can we visit all 50 states and Puerto Rico for under $3000 total?"

I mean, in theory, you could. $599 for the pass, let's say $20 in fees per flight [$1000 for 50 flights]. Clothing and sleeping overnight at every airport could be an issue requiring an occasional hotel night... But if you could pack multiple flights in a day, and schedule flights between flights... Then it might not be so much of an issue.
Thanks for taking the time to comment extensively.

> so it's not like eslint changes your risk profile in regards to npm dependencies.

Depends. If it is the only dependency from npm, it changes all to that regard. This is perhaps the hard case for me.

> they could also include a npm post install script and run arbitrary code

Is there a cheap flag or global parameter to disable that so that the build does not run wild?

In composer there is --no-scripts --no-plugins which effectively can prevent things (and scripts / plugins are bound to root projects so they aren't that far-reaching as in npm by default, but the field of problem is technically the same).

At the end of the day I find clamping such features away as necessary as pinning the tool versions for a stable build. Me is just weak with npm.
that doesn't mean you can't fork the client. See telegram for an example of third party apps without federation