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Of course we are. Just not good at marketing, nor willing to take big leaps of faith.
Using debug to patch it to "Abhor, Retch, Ignite"
I've lived in London and the south pretty much all my life, and i'm not sure i've ever heard it used to mean that. It's rhyming slang, right? Not sure how many cabbies are in the market for memory-safe systems programming languages really.
The account number/sort code combination alone is not usable by a fraudster to withdraw money in any way in the U.K., so perhaps this is where the disconnect is. You’d need to physically go to a branch and present the bank card and enter the PIN number, or present photo ID with matching details to the account.

There are “direct debits” that allow companies to draw money from an account, but they can only be set up by businesses, there are special guarantees, etc. etc. that mean the bank is liable to reimburse you immediately under the “Direct Debit Guarantee” if you report a fraudulent transaction.
Hey, regarding the really obvious stuff like PCI cards...

I once unplugged a NCR/Symbios Logic SCSI-controller from a running system.

And plugged it back in very carefully after a while.

While running graphically under NetBSD with 1.5GB Virtual Channel Memory. (Slightly better SD-RAM, only supported by some chipsets)

Monitor went ZONK, because NetBSD switched to text-mode console, which 21" Supersync barely supported, spewed endless alerts, after alerts.

After replugging something like found controller, resetting, found disk(s), resetting, alerts gone, switching back to X.

Magic.

Didn't even have filesystem errors, which I checked for after that stunt.

Which btw. didn't work with an Adaptec2940 fast and wide.

Nor Linux, in whichever config.

Some hot plugging, eh? :-)
Furthermore, capital requirements are better than reserve requirements for us, the taxpayer, because we’re not paying interest on those reserves.
It’s really stretching things to say it produced more energy than went into the reaction.

Energy in:energy out is a ratio of the amount of energy that goes in, not the portion of the energy that eventually hits the target. It’s like measuring car engine efficiency by measuring how much of the energy reaching the wheels translates into motion - and ignoring the massive losses that lead up to that point.
I have an idea. Why don't we just take all the nuclear weapons we've accumulated around the planet and explode them in the South China Sea?
First time for everything!!
Lawyer up and shut up is the most basic advice. Ever.
This sort of myopia also extends to critiques of other countries. Japan is notoriously relatively backwards when it comes to software, yet has a universal reputation for being an innovative society.
Decentraland will now let you become a virtual landlord
I logged in to un-down-vote you.

Going to Mars is a legitimate goal.

But i would also like to see a make-the-Sahara-green-(ish) program.

Why not a Neom-but-in-a-viable-way program.

ALso, an even bigger debate is Appolo-mission-to-Mars vs 10-other-unmanned-programs-for-the-Solar system.
Very good and strangely non-obvious point.
T-5 ?
I can imagine that you're right! Would not be too surprising if Win32s was self-contained enough, and the differences between 3.0 and 3.1 small enough (although there were larger ones at least in some other aspects), that this could be done reasonably. (Though most apps were still likely to be 16 bit apps at that time, so not making any use of Win32s.)
> What other term would you use then?

An argument? Crypto is facing a crisis moment. An "exchange" which has never been audited and won't say where it is, legally or physically, has halted redemptions. That prompts legitimate questions as to their liquidity. Dismissing any criticism as FUD short circuits asking why we should believe their liquidity is adequate.
It is not all about cost-benefit.

You say there is a difficult time transferring knowledge from other languages when they see the `unless`. That's fair.

My response to that is that, to idiomatically think in Ruby is write code that reads well, and `unless` fits that. Every language has an idiomatic way in which one thinks and reasons with the language. While there are principles that can be transferred over across languages, the way to think in that language does not necessarily transfer. The Ruby community has a heavy emphasis on creating embedded DSLs that seems natural enough to written English, and the Ruby community's style guide is written for that.

In contrast to Ruby, Python has idioms that seem to be the inverse of Ruby. The intuitions on what is good, idiomatic Ruby is counter-intuitive in Python. This even extends to the design of Ruby bundler vs. Python virtualenv/pip. As a long time Rubyist, Python rubs me the wrong way (what is intuitive in Python is counter-intuitive in Ruby) until I realized that I used to write that style of code a long time ago with Pascal.
There is no Europe but a myriad of small countries when it comes to innovation. If we could incorporate true english-speaking european companies with european legislation, SV would shit its pants :)

It's just a matter of critical mass. 12 european Larry and Sergei in a room get laught at. We need a hundred european Larry and Sergei to be to good of a demography to be ignored.
Well not even that, there isn't even a roadmap to improve laser efficiency 100x

Even a 90% efficient high powered laser is way beyond fusion in terms of technical difficulty.
I upvoted you because it's a fair question, but I would argue it is easier to criticize than to offer solutions.

What other solar system destination would you propose instead? It's not like we have a lot of convenient alternatives to choose from.

I'd rather visit Mars than Venus, that's for sure.
The Value of Horizontal Services: Tell Us Once
There are languages where everything is an actor, like Erlang. I said what I said because I worked in them professionally for many years. While there is incremental benefit to being 100% actors versus 90% actors, I don't think it's that impressive of an incremental benefit, and is easily overwhelmed by many other factors. That's why I work mostly in Go and borrow actor structures when helpful. That turns out to be every non-trivial program I've written so far... but there's no particular benefit and often non-trivial costs in trying to write the whole program as actors, rather than using actors as useful servers. The simplification of being able to look at something and just know it's an actor I don't find very helpful. It's not hard to document these things, or see them in the structure of the code.

By contrast, 90% pure functional programming is a pretty terrible paradigm. You really need to push that number up to get the benefits. As you approach 100% I think the benefit starts to take off. But, speaking very sloppily since "percent pure functional programming" is kind of difficult to precisely define, 90% is like the worst case scenario. 20%, which is to say mixing it in to other paradigms when useful without commitment and without paying much price and just harvesting the low hanging fruit can be very nice, and 99.9% can be very powerful, but 90% is the worst case, where you're paying most of the price but getting few of the benefits of true commitment. This is what I mean by seeing a lot of benefit in going the full way. I don't see this benefit to actors. They work just fine embedded into large programs and deliver the vast bulk of their benefit without having to structure the entire program around them.

Definitely still worth learning; I consider them a core technique in concurrency programming. When you can easily afford the message marshaling and concurrency expenses, they are one of the easiest ways to get concurrency without complexity. And most of the time, you can afford those costs.
Yes, that's right. View it this way: a fission power plant and a DT fusion power plant are pretty much the same, except for the reactor. The fusion reactor is many times the size (and mass) of the fission reactor, made of much more sophisticated materials, with a much more complex design, operating at higher stresses (loads on supports of the magnets, thermal power/area at the wall, neutron flux). So how is it that it's expected the fusion reactor will produce power more cheaply than the fission reactor? Note that fuel is today a small fraction of the cost of power from a fission reactor.
here is my (simplified) take :

> big tech is bad
> why can't people just move on

Big tech has come to signify great power in the 2010s (Market capitalisation is just the clearest sign). Fighting a goliath is never a subtle affair. A lot of people (and I guess Hackers) feel the need to counter that force at the slightest occasion, whatever the means necessary.

So, it is the fear of absolute power that makes us hateful.

> startups shouldn't do promotions
> don’t make me pay you

Similarly, in the 2010s, Start-ups has come to signify (infinite) growth and flush money, whatever their real situation really is. And there are so many of them that we seem to have acquired a sort of "promotion fatigue" we only overcome with add-values like OSS.

So it is the market-saturation that makes us tired, and the (apparent) easy-money that makes us unwilling to give ours.

Tired, hateful, cynical... These are the side effects of "tech growth".
I find it very strange that the word "non-compete" does not occur in the article. Having California style non-compete legislation sounds like it would be one of the easiest steps to improve European competitiveness.
Power derived from a fusion power plant delivered through conventional powerlines leading to the consumer.
They're still not as bad as ammonia and smoke.

Edit: It hit me that over the next few decades they are probably going to invent some really nasty things to put in vapes, like they did with cigarettes (that were made to be a lot worse than the "mere" nicotine and smoke inhalation of tobacco smoking), so don't read this in 20 years thinking that people in the past thought whatever they're doing in the future is safer that cigarettes, it could eventually become worse for all we know.
Note that the announcements refer to laser energy supplied to the target, not laser energy entering the chamber. The former is a fraction of the latter, and the basis for the term “scientific gain”. The actual target gain may be < 1.
"Sounds like `git annex` is file-level deduplication, whereas this tool is block-level ..."

I am not a user of git annex but I do know that it works perfectly with an rsync.net account as a target:

https://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/making_good_use_of_my...

... which means that you could do a dumb mirror of your repo(s) - perhaps just using rsync - and then let the ZFS snapshots handle the versioning/rotation which would give you the benefits of block level diffs.

One additional benefit, beyond more efficient block level diffs, is that the ZFS snapshots are immutable/readonly as opposed to your 'git' or 'git annex' produced versions which could be destroyed by Mallory ...
>The firm currently has a Ba3 rating on the corporate family, which is three notches below investment grade. It has a Ba2 rating on the bonds, one notch higher.

That's not a good rating but does debt in that range usually trade for 50% face value?
This seems possibly worse than useless for dealing with pathogens, however in places with abysmal air quality due to pollution, I can see a possible value prop.
Teaching to Empty Rectangles
It’s not related to any of my crazy business ideas. I ate a Korean ice-cream sandwich today and it was undeniably ice cream but also about four times lighter than, say, a Magnum. Physics being not my thing, I wonder how they do that. More air, I guess, but how?
> set the start media timestamp to the frame that you actually wanted to cut at

You can do that, but it’s container format-dependent (e.g. mov edit list) and player support is uneven. If the player doesn’t support it you get extended cut and A/V desync.
It's used by the vast majority of software engineers, so apparently it's "good enough".
The stuff is kind of all over the place, but it's not high purity. The engineering to refine the material is highly controlled.
I can't agree that funding is "largely the reason" why NASA takes so long to do anything. I doubt funding is a top 3 reason.

NASA just isn't about high-risk / high-reward "moonshots" anymore. The overarching political environment doesn't allow it, never mind the office politics.

NASA will get back to the moon using easily an order of magnitude more funding than it should have taken, with a launch system that costs an order of magnitude more money for each launch than it should. (almost two?)
I never wrote about new infrastructural components, you argued yourself into that corner. I wanted to express that IDEs have grown way more complex and capable, and that this added capability might explain why modern systems are needed to get a snappy experience out of them.
Basically, I don't think these US legislators are (as of yet) serious about combating the privacy and national security concerns centered around foreign apps. They're mad about TikTok specifically, probably because their own children have been watching/producing cringe on TikTok specifically.
Based on unfsd or entirely in-house?
Assisted suicide is legal in New Zealand. What if I want to smoke myself to death? Absolutism from the state is so noxious. Make cigarettes prohibitively expensive and difficult to acquire sure. But complete prohibition is an infringement on our natural right to decide what to consume.
In most small companies you send in your CV, they bring you in for an interview, chat for an hour or so and get an offer the next day. The only reason big companies do these massive complex multi-hour interview processes that require ten plus people is because nobody wants to take responsibility for a shitty hire so they make sure everyone gets involved so it can’t be blamed on a single person.
That's why I've been glad the term abstract machine has often been used for this case. The jvm would better have been called the "jam"!
> It is possible, it will just be a ridiculously large video.

Ha true, I guess you could encode every P/B frame after the cut as an I-frame.
Yes, let's lug around an entire Linux-based operating system to avoid the memory and harddrive footprint of Electron.
It's a pain to link to the BLS data, since you have to generate a report which needs POST data in order to display properly.

I went and found the data and it maps with what indymike is saying. Layoffs are up, but not abnormally so (in line with previous years), while hiring is down compared to last year, it remains well above pre-2020 figure.

Overall, it looks like the IT job market is the best its ever been by a 20% margin, aside from 2021, which was slightly better than this year.
In the hypothetical situation, both the BUSD and USDC are fully backed by USD. However, from an external observer's perspective, it is indistinguishable from the case where $1-2B USD is stuffed in a mattress in a country without extradition treaties.

(Which is why regulated financial institutions are externally audited and stuff.)
The real headline is the subline: "When large language models fall short, the consequences can be serious. Why is it so hard to acknowledge that?"

and as Betteridge's law of headlines says "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

No, wired it's not hard to acknowledge it and almost everyone does so.
He ignores the lawyers.
I think I know just the thing for you. It's a sophisticated autonomous mousetrap that doesn't even need bait, as it has the ability to locate and catch the mouse all by itself. With its unique combination of strength and agility, this mousetrap is able to outsmart any mouse. When you least expect it, the mousetrap will pounce and capture its target. It's called a cat.
For small windows it is possible that an early exit might be counterproductive as it exercises the branch predictor.

One would have to test ti see where the cutoff is, but often doing extra work is faster.

Edit: but this is discussed elsethread.

A fixed size run also helps with vectorization.
Inertial confinement fusion requires fairly expensive targets to collapse. To make it economically viable they have to produce a lot more energy per target destroyed.
Stable Diffusion was a big blow against OpenAI and was made at LMU Munich, Germany.
Star stuff sounds like some German element.
Neither did this one. This is not a net positive. That’s what they told journalists to start the current cycle of hype, but note that announcements direct from DOE don’t use that language.
I am not convinced you know what the word "functioning" means given that your main complaint is about speed.
> Why not regulate how the data is used or stored, like the EU does, but ban?

What's the worst thing Bytedance / China can do with the average amount of "US citizen/TikTok user" data they have?
> What Cinnamon and his team determined revolves around the common denominator of all male chickens, the Z chromosome from the mother hen.

This would also be a common denominator with the female chickens. Birds, unlike mammals, use the ZW sex-chromosome system, where males have the symmetric ZZ chromosomes and females have a pair of asymmetric ZW chromosomes.

I'd like to know more about this, such as a general description of what kind of change they made, as this article is really light on technical details.
Because of how Git's current implementation of DVS works. There's nothing fundamental about it. Git already supports partial clones and on-demand checkouts in some ways, it's just not very ergonomic.

All that's really needed is a way to mark individual files as lazily fetched from a remote only when needed. LFS is a hacky substandard way to emulate that behaviour. It should be built in to Git.
After researching this a bit it's mostly a money and reputation laundering scheme for the elite classes that millions of upper middle class westerners buy into to smokescreen what's wasted on war and geopolitical efforts to protect various western family dynasties hold on power.

Even though it's a future that is grotesquely unfeasible and unwanted for anyone besides the richest 100 people on earth as as ultra decadent projects while 95% of the population on earth lives in societies on their way to collapse from resource depletion and rising inequality.
> The US$22-billion ITER project — a collaboration between China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States — aims to achieve self-sustaining fusion, meaning that the energy from fusion produces more fusion

It's refreshing to see collaboration like this still happening, even with all the tensions between all those countries.
This is already used for nuclear weapons research, which is why it's under Dept. of Energy.
It's a common joke that fusion power is always 50 years away. With this milestone, is it finally less than 50 years away?
So you spend significantly more than a day on assessment for each individual candidate? Because if you don't, quick turnaround times are mostly a scheduling problem.
If you discovered a post apocalyptic Earth somewhere in the solar system, you wouldn't have any interest in checking it out? It's ok to say no to this, but just be aware that most people consider "because it's there" to be a legitimate and relatable answer to your question.
At my current company, we're using pdsh with tail -f piped into sed to follow logs from multiple remote servers at the same time, label them and colorize them. Works okay. Decent solution without needing to install much other software. Not my favourite because it doesn't deal well with SSH sessions timing out and leaves some tail -f processes hanging, and some other quirks. But out of laziness and risk of breaking things in prod, we haven't tried experimenting with much else.
To be fair plenty of Earthlings say the same about their own planet. I for one am glad enough people do not share your opinion, which is completely valid, so that we can do the adventurous and exciting things that make life wonderful.
Some additional context here if interested: https://twitter.com/spolu/status/1602692992191676416
The popular wisdom is Amazon got into the video business entirely so Bezos could get dates with more actresses.
How useful do you find the training? Do you think you’ll be able to use what you’re learning, or is it more about having the certificate?
Probably also shouldn’t go back and delete semi-incriminating tweets[0] and try to avoid bot detection by tweeting one letter at a time[1] to keep the overall count the same (supposedly)[2].

[0] https://protos.com/sam-bankman-fried-caught-deleting-more-tw...

[1] https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/11/14/sam-bankman-fried-cryp...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ywz4j8/sam_...
This seems interesting but not especially impactful.

For me, the question here is: can we get our energy to cost 90% less than it did?

Don't get me wrong, I recognise that this is still a huge win (especially environmentally) and that it can have huge runway effects (eg. much more effective decentralization etc.) but it's quite interesting on how we can get these billions of people out of poverty first (or during).
That "99% of standard usage" is the kicker, isn't it? The greybeards who opposed multithreading since the beginning tend to say that the remaining 1% of use cases is best done in an external process, ideally not even written in Emacs Lisp, so that Vimmers and the rest of the free software community can benefit. The GNU Global you mention embodies that ideal exactly.

I suppose if you still want that program to be written with Emacs Lisp, you could use async.el (https://github.com/jwiegley/emacs-async/) and there's finally an use-case for the threads: it'll be relatively safe to run those 16 threads only in the external Emacs-process.
In Ruby (and Crystal), I tend to use `unless` for guards at the top of the method, or returns. These are typically `return foo unless baz`.

When I write Elixir, `unless` gets awkward in a functional style of programming, and Elixir has guard clauses and pattern matching. I pretty much never use `unless` in Elixir despite using it in Ruby for years.

Sometimes, I'll add extra methods with a negation in the name itself. So for example

# instead of
return "invalid" unless valid?
return [] if empty?

# I define invalid?() and do
return "invalid" if invalid?
return [] if empty?
> Showing your salary range as long as it is at market wage or higher delivers 14% more applicants. It is a good idea to show salary on job ads.

This is one number, which even if it is true doesn’t matter. There are so many easy way to increase the number of applicants like posting it in linkedin, decreasing number of years of experience in posting(which are more often than not, not a hard limit for job) etc. They want to decrease the applicants if at all while keeping the number of new hires same.
Entirely in house. In Rust!
His podcast gets around 11 million listeners, so off by over an order of magnitude.
Fun Fact - Binance is technically not headquartered in any country in the world. Originally they were based out of China, then when China banned crypto trading they moved to Japan for around a year, then got in trouble with the regulators there, left, and were trying to strike a deal with the Malta government to incorporate there, but it fell through. CZ has been saying for over a year that they will announce their new HQ location soon, but never has. They have registered subsidiaries in a few countries but at the corporate holding company level their HQ is essentially whatever hotel CZ and his laptop happen to be staying at this week.
Cheap and abundant energy has a multitude of military applications.

Peaceful ones too, probably.