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No, it does not. Not only (*)ubuntu is not quite stable (at least when I was an active user) - KDE is just a nightmare from UI\UX point of view. I'm more of a Gnome 4\Cinnamon guy.

But anyhow - regarldess of distro you have 3rd party apps. It's not like switching distro can solve the problem that stems from the very nature of linux distros - no (or almost) standards. Everyone is doing whatever they feel is better at the moment. Hence all thouse forks, different UX approaches etc.
In what world is this a west coast issue? You know that these drugs are ravaging the rust belt area right?

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/2020.html
If drugs are legalized and regulated, overdoses and deaths from contamination would mostly disappear, as would black market violence. Decriminalization simply stops users from being thrown in jail, it does little to prevent suffering and death.
Learning is a lot more about observing and surveying than folks typically acknowledge. Indeed, one of the more dangerous things I notice, on a regular basis, is a heavy set of beliefs built up on reasoning without observation. They typically betray far more of the personal wants of the reasoner than they do of reality.

Of course, that way is another strawman. One of only observations with no reasoning on top.
> We are not closer except theory is being proven.

I think by most definitions that means, "closer". Proof of concept is a huge deal.

POC doesn't mean it will be viable, even once they manage to make it net-positive. Let's say they get the lasers to be more efficient - there are other inefficiencies in the system further upstream you have to account for.

So, yes, there is a long way to go still, and there's no way to be sure it will be economically viable at the end of it. As an example - look at algae biofuel. That was a working example, not just proof of concept but working at scale - but it couldn't compete on price with petroleum when it was below 4-5 dollars or so.

We won't know until we get there. But the promise it holds (easily obtainable fuel, which won't blight the land if the plant fails) is worth the investment.
My guess is what's putting me off on unless is the baked in negative. If I look at a condition and imagine "if true" I can follow along, but "unless true" makes me think "what does that even mean". Another issue might be that not everyone is a native english speaker (like me), and that we underestimate that thinking in boolean logic might not be the most natural thing in the world, and once you learn it, you usually learn it in a foreign language. Substituting "if !" with "unless" just throws a wrench in the patterns you're used to using.

I disliked it as well in CoffeeScript. The use of else blocks is especially annoying, but even otherwise I don't like it. Some might say you shouldn't use it with an else block, but this is not realistic if you work in a team.
> little to no "you need to have a bridge" type laws or anything [...] You call 911 and a helicopter comes.

And you don't see the dissonance here? Why does that call even go through? You think the phone company can make that happen based on the sub-million/month bills your community pays? Of course not, they take a huge loss. Someone made sure you had phone service!

Likewise someone made sure you had roads. I know you think they didn't, but they did. Nowhere in the continent is more than two hours drive from a paved state road artery, you probably use two or three every week. And that paving happens out of state coffers paid for by cityfolk. Likewise the helicopter rides you're talking about don't make money, and it's laughable to think they do. Emergency services are subsidized everywhere, the only profit-making ambulances you see are in (yes) cities where they can lean on more statistically reliable business and more typically insured customers.

Your focus on the specifics ("bridges" vs. "infrastructure") is obscuring the truth that your rural lifestyle is, like all such environments, very heavily subsidized by urban taxpayers. It's simply not possible to operate a modern society at that density. It's just not.
ITER will only operate for a few weeks total at full power. It's not intended for materials development. For that, a Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF) would be needed.
Ah OK, the article is actually suggesting making a list of Booleans whose length equals the number of possible characters. It just happens that it's assuming 26 allowed characters which fit in the bits of a 64 bit number.

The running time is does not depend on the window length, but does depend on the number of possible characters. If it's all of Unicode for example you'd be stuffed: you could fix the vector of values in memory (currently there are approx. 150,000 unicode code points), even if you used a byte per value, but counting number of true values will require iterating over the whole vector.

Even just going from 26 Latin letters to 256 byte values makes this trick quite messy unless your language has a really nice bit vector type (admittedly many do).

This comment was helpful for me to understand what was going on, even though it's a mistake followed by a correction.
Yeah, it’s just a spam sink nowadays. I guess Stripe figured that not a lot of indiehackers were converting into stripe customers so they decided to let it die of neglect.
I always try to steer people away from Post because one of their founders thinks prejudice based on net worth is up there with racism and homophobia.
I have been reading these comments like yours for days. I am not picking on you. But the research program isn't being funded to build more efficient lasers. Those already exist. The lasers at the NIF are decades old and haven't been updated because it isn't the point of the research.
Indeed, you can build a fusor in your garage that fuses quite happily. The hard part is making a practical power generation system from this. Net energy is very hard.
> “Disgusting complicity on the part of the New York Times. He has ruined countless people's lives by theft and fraud, and NYT is now helping him to delay or evade justice by whitewashing him in their prestigious, influential newspaper. I doubt this is just a mistake on their part,” Zcash co-creator Zooko Wilcox said.

This is a dumb take. They did not help him delay or evade anything.

One could argue that the old way of journalism needs to be modernized for people who have challenges with context and understanding, like this quote demonstrates. Maybe expand on the concept of trigger warnings that detail things to consider while reading an article. Things that were common knowledge years ago, but seem to have been left in the dust.
Y'know, I've written a lot of python these past years, and python is just full of aliases and different ways to do things.

Just an example: "if x is not None:" is syntactic sugar for "if not x is None:".

String formatting: there are f-strings, % replacement, .format, probably more methods.

And that's fine, languages evolve over time, add better ways to do things, and don't deprecate the old way.

It's the hypocrisy of flaunting that motto while the language is so full of the exact opposite that always annoys me.
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I've been writing tools like this in Python for a very long time and haven't run into anything close to what you're describing. However, if this happened to me and I was annoyed enough to do something about it, I would use a tool (e.g. pip-compile) that creates a requirements.txt file, which specifies all the libraries and dependency version numbers explicitly. If something broke one day, you can stick that script in a directory with a venv and just run it from there. There's no need to resort to compiled languages like Go and Rust which will very likely give you a large raft of other unrelated problems (slower development velocity, comparatively limited libraries, etc.). Going through all of that just to have a binary in hand doesn't seem remotely worth it from my perspective (YMMV).
Dick Van Dyke at Siggraph 2004 Part 1 [video]
His Scifi reading list is great, though very much lacking at the end.
Firefox 108.0
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National Ignition Facility achieves fusion ignition
Is there any way you could point me to more information about these facilities and or the auditing process?

Back in college, I was a fiend for all type of stuff that was presumably made at these facilities. I would purchase styff from american and canadian resellers who had labs in china that would synth specific drugs for them. Always wondered what the lab conditions were like, what likelihood I was supporting nefarious business practices, how likely it was that I got harmful byproducts etc.
Absolutely. And decriminalization only further fuels black markets here and abroad, leading to more violence.
Doing Rails for half a year now and usually are pretty good at mental models.

I always have to stop at an unless because the double-negative is really hard to evaluate in the mind IMHO.

IMHO unless leads to unnecessary nesting. In your example, it reads like _most_ people are ruby dev. I try to keep the most-often excecuted flow as flat as possible (happy path) and just try to nest for additional/special cases. Unless just tries to do... different.
Vim is so deep that depending on which angle you start your journey with, you might end up with a very different knowledge map than the neighbor, and yet, still feel and be productive.
The problem is that what is obvious depends upon your way of thinking. To me very little in Python makes sense, but I understand that it does to someone and that’s cool. There’s no reason to hate on a language just because it doesn’t click with your way of thinking.
I mean, if we're talking about propaganda, we probably need to include decades of the tobacco industry pushing it in movies, advertisements, denial (including under oath in Congress) of the health impacts, etc.
The best answer to this is look at the VS Code ecosystem (as Intellij is niche by a small number of developers). In that ecosystem you will have all kinds of plugins from things watching and notifiying you about pipeline status to things like DVC, etc that allow things that you couldn't do, at least not without severe side effects back in 2013.
Well ya duh. The substance is addictive. There will be addicts whether it is legal or not. But addiction isn't a criminal issue. It's a medical one, so we should treat it as such and stop sending users to prison and stop creating a market for organized crime to make billions
Your Creativity Won’t Save Your Job from AI
Well, yes, but most of these branches can be if-converted into conditional moves anyway if you want.

So they are data dependencies and not control ones. There are still some control ones.

Beyond that, let me be super clear:
Imagine the following six versions:

1. One window at a time processing. No early exit, no bit munging.

2. One window at a time processing. No early exit, bit munging.

3. One window at a time processing. You don't use direct bit munging, but you early exit the window when you hit the non-unique character, and skip the window forward to the first instance of that non-unique character.

IE given "hmma<something>", n=4, you early exit at the second m, and skip processing windows forward to right after the first m (since no window prior to that can be unique, as they will all hit the double m)

4. One window at a time processing, bit munging, same otherwise as #3

5. Sliding window processing, no bit munging

6. Sliding window processing, bit munging.

The speedup between the 1-2 vs 3-6 is much greater than 5 vs 6 and 3 vs 4.

You could probably make 3 pretty darn competitive with 6, and 4 could probably beat 6 with SIMD (IE processing multiple windows in parallel really fast, and maybe wasting work, vs guaranteeing you only do the minimum work to find a unique window)
But, the Democratic Party does adapt. Biden's economic policy is notably different from Obama's. It's in some ways like Trump's. TPP is dead, there are significant export restrictions, and domestic manufacturing is getting subsidies. That's all different. Will this lead to good outcomes or just to inflation? I don't know! But it's absolutely a reaction to the political events of recent years.
Equivalent in output but not in implementation / performance. Does that matter? Not usually, no, but it depends.
The difference is creating music, art, writing has its own intrinsic reward. I have a ton of photos on my instagram and barely any followers for the amount I put in. If I was just doing it for the likes, i would have given up on it a long time ago.
Meta is insanely deep in those countries outside the EU/US/CA though.

As in, they are "the" internet for users who get it for free on their mobile plans and everything else costs exorbitant amounts of money.

I don't quite think Elon could do that, unless Starlink really takes off I suppose.
SOOOO handwavey. "Improve Storage" is a thing they've been working on longer than fusion energy. It's proven to be similarly intractable, and prone to bad science reporting ("10-15 years away").
https://archive.vn/riSHr
Feels like Linux is in a bit of a weird spot right now. It's "just worked" for me for a long time, but HighDPI really threw a spanner in the works. There are various ways to "support" it, but none of them work well, and they're sort of semi-incompatible with each other and introduce all sorts of weird jank.

Some distros try to fix it and mange... sorta. Yet if you enable fractional scaling on for example Pop! OS, that makes it so that full-screening a video changes the screen resolution to the video's resolution. ... for some reason nobody seems to be able to explain.

Then there's Wayland which breaks a fair share of applications on its own.

I've used Linux for a long time, must be over 15 years, and never seen it flounder like this.
It's amazing how people even in hacker news just say whatever they want with absolute certainty.

This is ignition but ignition was achieved by their August 2021 shot. See this paper for the details: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...

The reason why it's a big deal is because they surpassed scientific breakeven.
You don't think it's safer to assume that this was an intended pun?
Bob Noyce is pretty well heard of here.
Neverheless, very Noyce of you to link the article.
I'd question if Sonic the Hedgehog was 'designed' at all. The scattershot approach to media and branding they've taken over the decades feels largely reactive.
> It was SUPPOSED to enable me, myself, hosting my videos, on my computer(s) and making them available to whomever I want to, including everyone.

I think maybe you misunderstand PeerTube? It is exactly what you say the internet should be.

You can use it to host your videos yourself, on your own computer, and make them available to whomever you want to.

You can use a hosted version too, but it's not required. It's also completely possible to host in your own cupboard, or to use a cloud server you control. On whatever instance you use, you can still talk to your friends directly, through peer-to-peer connections to whichever instance they choose to use. It does even support RSS, and other PeerTube instances do indeed cache the video locally!

It has its own new set of problems of course, but it does seem like it's a strong step in exactly the direction you're interested in.
A fixed background might look fine with some pixels being smaller, but if you scroll it around you change which pixels are smaller which is very noticeable at a 4:5 ratio.
Now, replace the word "heat" with "cars".
I believe the federal criminal indictment is public now. [1]

- First count: Conspiracy to commit wire fraud to defraud customers.

- Second count: Wire fraud on customers.

- Third count: Conspiracy to commit wire fraud on lenders.

- Fourth count: Wire fraud on lenders. (again, specifically lenders to Alameda)

- Fifth count: Conspiracy to commit commodities fraud.

- Sixth count: Conspiracy to commit securities fraud.

I believe there's more, I quoted the above text from a thread by Frances Coppola [2].

[1] https://www.johnreedstark.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/180/2...

[2] https://twitter.com/Frances_Coppola/status/16026873331696025...
So 4 counts on wire fraud and then also commodities fraud, securities fraud, money laundering and campaign finance laws. For the moment, if we set aside whether these will be proven, how bad does a stack of charges like this look for him if they are proven?
Often VCs will have a seat on the company's board--in which case they might be liable.

However, it doesn't seem that Sequoia et al had seats on the board, at least from this early 2022 press release [1].

Holding shareholders that are not directors accountable is extremely difficult. This is called "piercing the corporate veil" (worth a google) and is done only vary rarely and in cases of clear and outrageous misconduct attributable to the shareholders themselves—it's so rare because it's antithetical to the entire premise of the "limited" corporation.

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ftx-us-derivatives-...
Yeah, the way it was written when generating the codes, I also had the impression that they would bypass everything.
A couple of months ago I switched from Neovim with a carefully crafted config file to Helix with zero config. I haven't looked back.

As far a performance, well, Helix + Alacritty is the fastest thing I know of. Snappy AF. You're still at the mercy of whatever language server might be grinding away, but at least it doesn't block the UI in any way. Every other component (tree-sitter, ropey) is performance optimized by Rust nerds who love that sort of thing.
At a minimum, tax code should be changed to discourage limited liability corporation forms. Personally I'd also like to see that limited liability as a concept would be forbidden in many/most industries/cases. In Brazil the management and owners of a bank may be held liable if bank fails even without wrongdoing. And I think there has not been many failing banks in Brazil...

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2013/05/04/b...

(Paywall, check google cache)
The key is that it is not a breakthrough at all. Breakthroughs have consequences, and this will have none. Soon they will claim "Q>5", "Q>10", etc. all equally inconsequential.
ChatGPT forced me to publish this
> it's a wrapper around s3

> We're using Cloudflare for caching

It sounds like Supabase is fairly explicitly targeting being the glue between a bunch of lower level infrastructure, that may be in different cloud services, and providing one platform with a better UX. Is this fair to say?

If so this is an interesting strategy to be so open about this. Other platforms-as-a-service don't seem to like to acknowledge the services they use under the hood. I can see this being both a positive (brand recognition, trust), and a negative ("we could just build this ourselves and have more choice").

Is this an intentional strategy? Can you talk any more about how you're thinking about it?
ChatGPT is a serial fantasist
ChatGPT invents tools and organisations that do not exist while answering domain-specific questions
Jumping the gun slightly, but TTFX likely about to get a lot better (5x+ improvement in times) in the next version (1.9). Via cachine of the native compiled code.

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/47184#issuecomment-1...
You can buzzword all day long, but that doesn't make the typical React component any more declarative than the next script. Components reyling on internal state, querying that state and then munging some JS code into some HTML-like template and mutating the state again, when a user interaction happens -- That's hardly a declarative UI. It also does not become more declarative due to using an angle bracket notation for components.

One can look at some Prolog code to get an actual idea about what declarative means. In React you are not writing down constraints and logic rules, according to which React automatically figures things out. You are not working with relations, which need to be kept true. React is far from a configuration only kind of framework.

To claim something like one cannot be productive without using React or similar framework is really a silly thing to claim. Most websites do not even need to use any such framework, because in their nature, they are not interactive. They show information and that is it. Then there is a set of websites, which has here and there some small interactive widget, which one could argue to use a framework for, in parts, not for the whole friggin website. This still allows for people, who merely want to retrieve the information and leave without interacting. The third and smallest category is then the set of websites, which actually need interactivity and state in the frontend everywhere, where such a framework can be justified.
I wasn't diminishing the achievement but clarifying its place in the context of how far we are from commercialization. The director of LLNL who announced the breakthrough discovery said she expects we are 3-4 decades away from commercializing it.
> I just wrote a regular expression

Running time of O(MG)
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What specific issue do you have with the methodology and why? What specific scientific criticism do you claim is being silenced? Merely feeling strongly about this work contributes nothing to the discussion.
The laser energy is converted to x-rays by the gold cylinder. But the cylinder only has a conversion ratio of 10~20 percent, so the amount of energy that gets deposited on the capsule is much lower.
Changelog Is the New Black
Releasing more energy than what's put in to run the facility is a necessary property of all power plants. It costs energy to mine and process fossil and fission fuels, it costs energy to produce and maintain solar farms. None of this breaks thermodynamics, because none of this is reversing the flow of entropy. Energy is released, it's not created out of nothing.

In this specific case, hydrogen atoms are fused together, which is a reaction that releases energy because the resulting combined atomic nucleus is at a lower energy state than the atoms that went in. This technically holds true for fusion up until you get iron nuclei, with heavier atoms than iron requiring energy to be put into the reaction when fusing. This is the other side of the equation, which we are already using for nuclear fission plants.

Bashing nuclei together hard enough to overcome their innate repulsion is where most of the input energy is going in fusion reactors. It is comparable to the concept of activation energy in chemical reactions.

Keep in mind that this announcement does not cover the total energy cost of running the reactor, "only" the theoretical amount of energy released into the chamber by the ignition laser. So we're a long, long way off from achieving what they call "unity" (an input/output ratio of 1:1) in practical terms. In theory, fusion reactions achieving practical unity can be self-sustaining. Although this specific way of triggering a fusion reaction is not continuous, it could theoretically be re-worked into a permanently running reactor that is pulse-driven in the same way an internal combustion engine is.
Major Scientific Breakthrough by DOE National Laboratory
This sounded like a very flashy hiring event and a political rally. I turned off when they started advertising job openings - after thanking the President so, so many times and making clear how this was only possible thanks to the funding from the current administration.

The findings themself seem like scoring after moving the goalposts. This is still very, very far from even a path towards realistic fusion-based energy production. What a farce.