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Who says the fossil fuel carbon will be captured? It's certainly not now and who says carbon capture is ever going to be enforced?

The only hope I have is that solar energy becomes so cheap that it can be profitably used to produce synfuel and so drive petroleum from the market. Actual regulation would be better but that seems as far as ever.
They are very loosely affiliated with MIT- they just buy the brand at this point
Except that energy production is local, while carbon capture is global.

If you power a carbon capture device in Greenland using geothermal, you can probably get a lot more energy than you can reasonably give you the grid. In that case, using the rest for carbon capture makes sense.

Further, carbon capture is going to need to be part of our future mix, as we'll never be able to be 100% green in the reasonable future. It's good to spend a tiny percentage of our resources now improving the technology.
The nurse is probably receiving very little of these $49. It's probably an inflated price charged by the hospital that is usually negotiated down to something reasonable by the health insurance provider. Similar to the discussion I had with my product manager recently: she can't expect that consultant to work according to the 100$ per hour that his company charges, because he is likely receiving a lot less.
Alright, so initial testing result. I'm not going to even bother putting into excel, RipGrep blew the hell out of Powershells built in stuff. Like, we're talking exponentially quicker, so well done. (3 minutes for Pwsh vs 2 seconds Ripgrep)

But I don't think it's the fault of C# and I think it's the fault of some poor coding on redmonds side, and very good coding on your side. And since I have to make up 12 hours tomorrow at work, but have zero tickets. I'll probably go in and write a Grep utility in C# and I think I can get similar speed to the Rust implementation.

C# is also cross platform as of a couple years ago, as well as is powershell. So my testing was running Powershell on linux against the newest linux kernel source code + the build artifacts.
Just because he’s super-rich doesn’t mean he’s immune to bad decisions. Becoming rich and staying rich are two different skill sets. Many a fortune has been squandered by people pursuing bad ideas.
I love these analogies. Like those people who didn’t buy Amazon stock in 2014 because they remembered WebVan. It’s internet. It’s shopping. They speak of the future. Hence it is exactly the same.

If GPT reasoned like this, you’d snicker about how it “just pretends to be intelligent”, would you not? :)
The biggest problem facing the front-end space today isn't so much of complexity of a particular library, rendering technique, or view/model architecture, but rather lots of bad ideas glued together, creating nightmare scenarios for companies trying to maintain products.

A micro dependency system with never ending breaking changes to glue different tools and libraries together - bad idea.

Using un-opinionated "libraries" that don't scale well, but at scale - bad idea.

Technology organizations trying to stay relevant by simply adopting every next hyped fad out there, rather than stepping back to get a bigger picture of what the front-end space actually needs - bad idea.

The list goes on, for quite a long time.

And all of these issues are further exacerbated by an army of junior developers entering the front-end development space, along with recruiters subscribing to buzzwords to hire them.
Ethanol is a carbon-neutral substitute for gasoline, no?
According to my browser, the default view in gmail needs 8.32 MiB of javascript spread over 90 files to render.

While IDLE, the gmail tab uses 10-30% of an M1 CPU core.

That stuff is not down to tracking - it's because the damn thing keeps messing with the DOM, because it has some insane structure where javascript controllers are attached as strings to DOM elements, because it uses about 100 divs to render every row in the list of messages, and because every message is nested literally 15-30 layers deep in a pointless tree of divs.

I am sorry, but web frontend is an insane dumpster fire.
You’re describing DD-MMM-YYYY. What I’m saying is DD-MM-YYYY, like 7-12-2022 which is pretty common. Also, time is often shown after the date.
It does solve them, albeit impartially. Downloaded bundle size, RAM usage, CPU usage all decrease, plus it uses your native webview so you're not downloading a browser every time.

However, it doesn't solve them fully, so yes I do still think natively compiled apps like those of Flutter or Rust based GUI frameworks like Iced are better.
The point is not that it's the same though, it's that companies can behave in seemingly weird ways, to an outsider some of these behaviours might even appear scammish or risky (and it probably is risky to by the flight ticket on the guarantee that your employer will pay you back, what if they decide it wasn't an approved trip belatedly).
There are a few ways I can think:

1. Make a header similar to Game Boy. The first four bytes are jump past the header (which might also be used to define the length of the header, in case of being extended in future), and then there is some sort of logo or code to identify the presence of the header, and then the data of the header.

2. Put metadata in a separate file, to avoid using up memory in the program file.

3. Put all of the files together in a Hamster archive file. Lump names starting with a underscore can be used for the special use, e.g. "_default.rom" for the program code and "_metadata" for the metadata. In this case an extra step is required to run the program if the emulator does not support it, but I wrote a program in uxn which is capable of doing this, therefore it can be used with any implementation of uxn.

So, any of these should be able to work with any emulator, even existing implementations which do not implement metadata.
The can just scan for signup emails and get the same thing
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I've tried to use htmx exactly two times. Both times it just ran directly into a brick wall, because it's so limited and has no escape hatch where you can put your own logic. Their solution to this is their half baked new language, which isn't ready, a new language, and seems very much unclear. All they needed was proper hook points.
Funny you say that. Ocarina of Time was indeed the last Nintendo game I owned up until a few years ago when I was gifted a Switch. After the N64 I went to -> PS1 -> PS2 -> Xbox360 -> PS4. I skipped the GameCube, Wii, handhelds, etc.
> It is inspired by Elm, a delightful functional language for building web applications.

That killed my interest instantly.
Does Nextjs make you use Django less? I think my basic process going forward is going to be Nextjs + something like Supabase as default and only add a more complex backend as needed.
I don't understand why so many people are dismissing this because the post is from 6 years ago. Looks like the project is still actively maintained, which, after the 3 lifetimes that 6 years represents in development timelines, seems to be a stroke in its favor.
My thoughts exactly. Every time Tesla comes up. It’s like Reddit with women.
I'm pretty sure a big goal is to fight tax evasion.

I can't speak for all of EU, but here in Austria tax evasion is very common.

For example, it's still extremely common to pay contractors under the table. They will ask you if you need an invoice, and the price will be a lot lower if you don't.

Another example are restaurants. For a few years it has been required that restaurants always provide you with a receipt, but especially asian restaurants still don't do so.

All that untaxed revenue costs the state billions in missing taxes.

If you limit cash payments, then you make it at least slightly harder for someone to eg. buy a car with that untaxed money.

I really don't see any reason why you would need 10k€ cash payments if not for tax evasion.
Quite grim really, shameful conduct to not only do that but come here and try to display the carcass with ...pride?
I don't think the best practices are necessarily the requirements for the featured badge. Manifest V3 is not yet a requirement for being featured, for example look at the listing for uBlock Origin, which still uses Manifest V2.
They don't, but this website doesn't have it, right?
"Google will no longer know you use our app! Hooray for privacy"

"... but you still send me app related mails to my gmail account, what does this change".

"...... FREEEDOM!!!"
Companies generally do use telemetry, and for good reason. If something breaks or crashes, it's useful to know where and what happened. I use telemetry too with my products because it really does help me figure out where the user is getting stuck. That some people, usually a very small minority, don't like it is of no concern to me, they can decide to block it or strip it away like with VSCodium.
Maybe I'm biased specifically because of the book I mentioned. For me it's providing a theoretical basis for many things that earlier I learned in a hand-wavy way (e.g. way back I took Hinton's NN course and Ng's ML course, and learned about gradient descent, momentum, regularization, training/validation loss etc, and now with this book for the first time I feel like I get the bigger picture in the context of optimization/stats).

The previous version of this book was from 2012 though and I'm not 100% sure how much of the material in the current edition is new (there is definitely a _lot_ more deep learning stuff in it).

So yeah it could be that my impression is wrong, or that I made the scope at which it applies sound bigger than it is.
There are a million ways to produce smaller amounts of energy from larger amounts of grid energy. This isn't really useful.
It's called trolling. They're using the word "horrible" to bait a response on something that can be easily argued on.
You open a bank account and start "selling an item/service valued at 1K to a thousand anonymous customers who paid with cash" and you'll come up against KYC and have your account flagged regardless.

That's what would be stopping you; existing anti-money laundering systems.

This is then how things like this are enforced.
Does anyone know whatever happened to Prometheus Fuels?
The Transcendent Brain
Anxiety and loneliness. Loads of friends, but majorly lonely.

Would love to cease to exist, but can’t because the impact it would have on my family. So just accepting I’ll need to ride things out for years to come.
Can poor people take out a loan and create new money?
Yeah, I agree - the old version of gmail was perfectly reasonable. But the current version is IMO representative of trends in web dev. Google is both influential and tends to follow the recent trends. Gmail is by no means unique - every web app created in the past few years is the same insane jumble of frameworky js code and a DOM 100 layers deep, just because someone can't be bothered to learn CSS and plain JS.
If you put email account in the login they will know on the first e-mail the site sends to your email
If you can limit yourself to exactly one, maybe two external deps, which are really just to make your dev life eaiser, you may have something of a point.

You have to remember that a large chunk of "web apps" means "electron apps" which are absolute bloated pieces of junk next to their desktop cousins.

You also have to remember a 'framework' typically doesn't stand in isolation - tens, hundreds, thousands of dependencies typically lurk.

We all agree tracking junk makes it even worse, but the whole thing is already overcomplicated before you get to that point.
Is there an open source library for these visualization/generator?

This one in particular looks really nice!! I’d like to use it to build something completely unrelated
https://archive.ph/K3FHS
From what I've heard from friends and family in the military, recruiters will tell you what you wanna hear just to meet quota. Wanna be a seal? They'll dangle that opportunity as if it's practically guaranteed. The "old way:" my dad didn't want to go to 'Nam, he wanted to join the marching band, so the recruiter spun him a yarn and he signed up. After boot camp, there was no reasonable way for him to even audition for the band. More recently, friends of mine have enlisted specifically for the GI benefits, only one read the paperwork and didn't sign that away.

I wouldn't say that any of the military's problems are easy to solve, but recruitment itself is a scam.
This would be a good investment once the grid is over 100% renewable. Until then, just use the renewable power for consumption.
This should be in every city. The only way I could reliably exercise when my kids were babies was by running them in a stroller.

Apart from the mental health aspect (lack of agency, no time or space to yourself), you can’t always subject your kids to the weather of the day or they’re uncooperative to the point that the run isn’t feasible. Not to mention the multitude of reasons people can’t run, from disabilities to simply having no safe place to run with a stroller. Smooth sidewalks with space are kind of a luxury.

With a lifestyle and/or restrictions like that, no wonder people get out of shape. We can’t rely on our communities having space and accommodation for kids and so, well, without a family network we’re on our own.
> High fitness in middle age reduces the chance of dementia by ninety percent

Not to be a sourpuss but I believe that a reasonable theory on this is that physical activity, especially activity that uses brain power, causes neuronal development which reroutes function around damage, without necessarily preventing or mitigating damage itself.
Whether or not that particular claim is apocryphal or not, it's well established case law that dusty old royal charters from King George III very much have legal credence.
I do not want the government or the bank to know that I am buying a motorbike, a car, a washing machine or ten dozen frying pans.

Just that.

If the bank knows, the government does.
I think it helps to watch the video of Thackery saying them outloud at the end of the post. The rhyming gives counting off in groups of five and then 20 a kind of rhythm that "1,2,3.." lacks.

I suspect if you have some sort of monotonous task that involves counting, the rhythm makes it easier to not loose your place or have your mind wander.
Innovation isn’t going to prevent people from abandoning projects.

You have to make smart decisions when adding dependencies based on how mature and supported is it. This often means sticking with the big names even if the little project has more hype.
I read his earlier book, “Confessions of a Bookseller”. Recommended, esp if you love used book shops and those in their orbits.
I don't see why the page would be the one deciding that tradeoff for user. As long as you can pick plain old user/password there is no ham offering other options
If you are out there trying to debugging billing issues in GCP please let me know. I would like to share best practices how you broke down billing. I am thinking of a few cool projects to give customers better views into GCP billing! Leave me a github star I will checkout your projects!
I agree with your sentiment, but your anger re: housing is misdirected. Developers do not short the housing supply. Like most businesses they make more in volume than they do in margin and would happily build more units at any price range if it was legal.

In the US and UK (and probably many other countries) the government has a default stance of allowing no or nearly no development without excruciatingly painful, expensive, and slow bargaining with city hall. The primary job of a developer is to get permission to build something.

The government is killing supply, not the developers.
Qt, CUDA, LLVM and GCC plugins, SYSCL,...
So if I’m parsing the results correctly they only have a single data point per language? Seems like they are testing individual programmers styles/speed just as much as they are testing the languages.
>You can consider yourself lucky for not having gone through it personally.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve lost relatives to it. It just seems overrepresented vs, say, cancers. But it might just be my impression.
Any project that changes often is going to break often. When it involves dependencies that are constantly upgrading or being added it doubly adds risk of breakage.

Test coverage and being conservative with adding new dependencies/concepts is always a valuable culture to develop for any frontend team working with junior devs. A good CTO/senior dev can clamp down on this behaviour.
At least with CBDC there seems to be a way planned for anonimity:

> There are two types of retail CBDCs. They differ in how individual users access and use their currency: // Token-based retail CBDCs are accessible with private/public keys. This method of validation allows users to execute transactions anonymously // Account-based retail CBDCs require digital identification to access an account // The two types of CBDCs, wholesale and retail, are not mutually exclusive[ - i]t is possible to develop both and have them function in the same economy

Pretty important, because currently having anonymous electronic transaction is heavily difficult.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/central-bank-digital-cu...
Counter argument: 1 postgres instance is far easier to manage than a slew of servers. I can spin up a heroku environment with a postgres very quickly, and with little effort.

If you're starting out with a team of say 4, and that team will stay small, don't waste your time integrating complex tech.

Solr is DEFINITELY better than postgres fulltext search. However pg_search and a clever index has let me solve 95% of all our search needs in almost no time with zero maintenance. However once you want to get into search complexities, Solr quickly outperforms postgres, but you have a lot of setup and env management to do now.

So it is all about team size. My instinct is at around 10 engineers you should start thinking about which complexity is worth pulling out of postgres and into its own service based on needs.
>Stop pretending the government (any) has the “average” man’s best interest

"Average" people don't pay >10k€ in cash.
So this measure won't hurt average people and may stop some money launderers / frauders so no issue with it.

And actually most EU countries already have lower limits.
That is a lot like asking for a form of secure end-to-end encryption which law enforcement can monitor server-side.

If a government can differentiate between a regular person and someone rich and powerful, neither of them have any privacy. There has to be invasive monitoring of the regular person to ensure they aren't stealthily becoming rich.
I cannot.

Earlier replies to this thread note ChatGPT's lack of reliability, but fail to mention the much scarier aspect of producing unnervingly natural content especially after, not that hard to pull off if the money is there, task-specific fine-tuning.

It's not just OpenAI that has the potential of misusing this technology. I could not keep the goosebumps away through the whole "onboarding" flow to just say hi to the thing, not to mention the "safety and production best practices" for any organization interested to build on top of it.

ChatGPT is a big and scary deal. I don't think we as a species can responsibly handle the implications. To say that we are living through interesting times is an underestimation.
Still burning money, but looking for things where green premiums can be paid like for woke Zero Net Carbon aircraft.
> often bosses will give you tasks which are about furthering their career rather than doing this

And what is the impact on your career if you argue against doing that?
> You'll have to shut the app down to back it up.

This is not the case:

1) SQLite recommends using the official backup API, rather than copying files on disk. The backup API can be used while the app is running.

2) Litestream is the hot new tool on the block. It streams incremental DB changes to a backup stored on S3, for up-to-date point-in-time recovery.
And your can clearly see from the "Code" section in the same page as the privacy policy that this is only ideological and that this guy just likes to push his bad practices on others.
so why don't Alzheimer's patient take diabetes medication and problem solved?
I mean, I guess I could back off the word "hobbyhorse" (I describe a bunch of my own interests that way, for what it's worth), but otherwise: I can support that argument with evidence, easily.
I think many modern computer games are too easy, and I don't like forced tutorial levels (or many of the other forced explanations, sometimes they have). Including good documentation to explain the game rules, is a good idea.
You can easily disable it with "history: false" in the reveal config. (As an author unfortunately)
It provides no incentives to step out of it though. As soon as you start working again, the basics and the modest lifestyle is not covered anymore.
They don't, and in times where there's most need for that, banks squeeze their wallet close even tighter.
> You’re jaded, and have set the goal posts too far and likely increasingly far.

Not the original poster. Tesla has set the goal posts too far, not commenters here. And yet, they are misleading consumers about how far the goal posts are.

People aren't saying Tesla's current features aren't marvelous, but that its not the magic that was promised.

> WRT delivery timing, who amongst us had delivered a complex R&D heavy software project on time.

Probably none of us. However, most of us haven't overpromised on the delivery time when we know that the project will take longer than what we have conveyed.
Nonsense. You just define the rules such that this is the conclusion ("everyone that disagrees with me is a nazi etc...")
You've been watching too many movies and TV programmes.

Things like using car washes to launder money are pretty much a dead thing because it's one of the worst ways to do it.
Yeah it's gonna be somewhere. I guess it's really about the sweet spot that minimizes the complexity on both sides. This captured it: https://imgur.com/a/mx7Y0uD
Here I'll point out that Matrix had audits commissioned prior to this research as well. Audits are a good thing, but one reason the previous audits didn't hit on this stuff is that the scope of the audit was sharply limited.
European here. The EU can go to hell and I long for the day when the union will finally implode.
You can't compare rg with other full RE engines. Try to repeat the test by switching its regex engine to use PCRE2 ( --pcre2 ).
Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Space Pen (2006)
You have a right to be disappointed, I was the same and that alone doesn't make you a part of the cult. ;-)

I agree that WebP was initially oversold and better JPEG encoders have made lossy WebP increasingly less appealing; a lossless WebP is still worth today though.
The usual argument for why negative interest rates might be needed is to prevent deflation. But in a fiat currency system like we have, it is always extremely easy for governments to reduce the value of the currency (ie, stop deflation). They can just print more money. In detail, they can just finance government expenditures with money created out of nothing, if necessary cutting taxes to provide more need for money to be created that way. This is in fact what has happened many, many times. It's not some strange fringe theory. There is no doubt whatever that it works. There is no need for negative nominal interest rates.
> I am quite sure that you do not know what Plan-9 is and that, probably, you never have heard of it too.

First sentence is false. Confidently, arrogantly false. I'm hesitant to continue reading. Assuming too much of your audience like that can really detract from what you have to say.