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"SQL's building blocks are incredibly odd if you're used to the idea that work gets done via variables, conditionals, and loops."

They're even weirder when you get into stored procedures, where SQL statements are your very un-ALGOL-like elementary statement, but then in between them you have a procedural language operating on the results, except when the optimizer figures it can "see through" your procedures to get back to something it can optimize through. And the "declarative" nature of them makes understanding cost models a challenge sometimes. You need a deep understanding of how the database works to get the cost model out of your stored procedure code.

Very powerful. I don't do a lot of deep database stuff but I have a couple of times turned something that required an arbitrary number of thousands of back-and-forths with the DB taking seconds from the application code into a one-shot "send this to the DB, get answer back about a millisecond later" using them, and you can end up with performance so good that your fellow developers literally won't believe it's a "conventional stodgy old relational database" blowing their socks off. But it's a weird programming model.
> I cannot leave this job because it's my sole source of income, and I'm financially stretched (salary is rather low)

If you are saving up 90% of your income, as you say elsewhere, then in what meaningful sense are you financially stretched? Your salary may be low, but you clearly need almost none of it to live on. That means that you do have options.
IIRC Texas Instruments uses 68k CPU's for their calculators. I'm pretty sure my TI Voyage 200 I've bought in highschool (15+ years ago) uses one and it's still great.
Doesn't the question of controls basically boil down to: it's hard to know things without them, but they're often hard to create anyway, ergo it's hard to know things in general - now welcome to the nastiness of real science?
How does his argument work with the current belief that objectivity and the scientific method is white supremacist oppression? Does his argument support the "alternate ways of knowing" that are being pushed as "indigenous science"?
The world is a business, Mr Beale.
The entire United States has something like 3 seconds of energy storage, total.

Just getting that to an hour means a three order of magnitude change in the amount of connected grid storage. Good luck finding that much pumped hydro! The easy spots are taken already!

An hour is not enough, of course. That might handle some small variations in wind only. Of course, one diurnal solar cycle means you need to store power for 8-12 hours. That is another order of magnitude. So in order to do this, we need to increase our battery capacity by four orders of magnitude. Multiple days? Weeks?

Now consider that the demand curve will become even more extreme, as climate change increases demand for electric heating and cooling. And consider that you will also need to account for electrifying the cars on the road (because building out storage like this is a multiple decades project), which will place additional capacity demands on the grid.

The thing with storage is not that it's difficult, it's that it's big. Like the scale is you need to nationalize your extraction industries and turn your economy into a wartime economy whose singular purpose is producing batteries big. It's not a Tesla or Google or even a DOE scale problem.
I’ve tried googling this but couldn’t understand. How exactly did evacuations kill people? Was it just people being moved out of hospitals that needed to be in hospitals?
Gig work is a big one. Gig work is taking a huge bite out of the lower-income + more physical service jobs. You still have no benefits and your pay sucks, but you at least can usually control your hours and you don't need to worry about being penalized/fired for getting sick/needing a few days to care for kids/etc.
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From those examples, I think only request and task should deal with panics. Things that start threads or processes.

Other points of "catch all errors" don't need that. And then there are a lot of places where you do handle errors, if they are conceptually a Result. I know you can just catch SpecificError, but the ergonomics are just horrible in terms of control flow.
There isn’t one answer to this question. It depends heavily on the department. For example, biomedical graduate students are often covered by external (federal) grant funding. This increase can be factored into the budgets for those, but only in the future. AFAICT, it is still up in the air how it will be funded in the shorter term.

Humanities students are another story though. External grants for those are more rare, IIRC.

I’m not sure if the universities can survive in its current model with fewer graduate students. They are very integral to the teaching/grading/etc for undergraduate classes. So, it will be tough to make the system work with fewer of them. At least, that’s what the striking students are counting on.
>instant tribalism

Im sure you feel similarly about anything related to Elon Musk, right?

HN circle jerks are so prevalent it's nearly transparent.
No, I'm not... as I would like to MOVE ... which would break me from my low-interest with equity into a much higher interest, much more expensive mortgage.
You must be extroverted.

Couple of counter-arguments:

1. This is completely optional. I can get from point A to point B without ever looking at another human face (and that is the way I like it, aha aha).

2. In real life, you may see some middle finger as well, especially if the traffic is bad.
I think you and many other have completely misunderstood this sentence, which is on me for not being clear. Now that I slept on it I think I see where my fault lies. It sounds like everything after the "but" is me contradicting the first part when I meant to just convey more information, not to contradict it entirely.

When I said "I'm not in favor of this kind of law", I literally meant that. I'm not in favor of a complete ban: full stop. You're arguing as if I have the opposite position.

I'm saying the environmental costs are real. That doesn't mean that I therefore think that there should be a complete ban, simply that there are real costs that we need to be mindful of. Socioeconomic costs outweigh the environment here, IMO.

I think if you read my comments again with this in mind you'll find you're not actually disagreeing with my real position.
I've seen this problem before. While it's not a smart design, it usually works. Your racks are likely not pushed all the way into the dishwasher. It's possibly an installation problem; if the dishwasher is not level, gravity will pull the racks towards the door. Try adjusting the feet under the kickplate to raise the front of the dishwasher.
Hahah, love it. A couple examples for anyone curious about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qweSlfP6BtI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgPQkMX75pY
I loved this book. I think I read it two or three times.

The comments in the margins are magnificent. Maybe it's time for another pass.
Even with benefits you're probably still going to get royally screwed if you're a housekeeper or anyone with a low paying job that offers benefits. When your deductible is $6k or more and max out of pocket is sky high you're screwed when it comes to a health emergency especially if you're already living paycheck to paycheck. Even with the most basic insurance the US health care system will rake you over the coals and leave you with debt.
The fact that driving involves social behavior is exactly the reason why 35.000 people die each DAY in traffic. If a driver is not able to pay attention or makes a mistake, consequences can be fatal.

We need to get rid of the social aspect of driving, and make it a pure, reliable system that doesn't depend on the mood or the alertness of billions of humans to not kill someone.
I completely agree, but my point is that there's not really a situation (at a VC funded tech company) where you're not getting diluted and you're still getting growth on your equity
They used to teach speaking and enunciation etc. differently in acting/radio/tv differently, than now, apparently.

My dad had to learn all these specific ways to enunciate and they made them do practice work. He was in communications in the military and later for the whitehouse and then radio and TV after the military.

It is interesting to see differences over the decades.
I appreciate your feedback and sharing your knowledge! I'll definitely be digging more into some of the things your mentioned to get a better understanding. The topic is a super deep one–though my goal (at least at this point) is to stay high level enough so that anyone could get started in making their own sounds/effects.

The lower the barrier of entry, the more cool things that people can come up with! I'm hoping that more without a math/EE/audio background like myself can get started and explore some more of these deeper topics :)
Depends on what kind of want to drive actually. I doubt anyone wants to be stuck in traffic every day because they have to get to work / are out of groceries etc.

Now going on a long weekend and having fun on a winding mountain road is another matter...
I’ve been waiting for ChatGPT to be “available” for weeks now (it was too busy before). How have so many people been able to use it?
From the looks of it this mast is 24m tall. I can see that douglas firs can become 120m, but that is hardly what you need. More like 35m maybe? That is not a very uncommon tree in Scandinavia. I am also guessing lots of landowners would be proud of gifting a tree for such a noble cause.

I think there are douglas firs in Scandinavia, but the question is if they were planted already 60-80 years ago to be able to take from here? Otherwise I guess it is a pretty long delivery from west coast US to Norway.

I guess my conclusion is that the douglas fir has better properties (weight/strength) than a scandinavian spruce or pine.
He did not publish it, the site published, he just gave a library reference to it.
Some still insist on old-school germanium diodes and transistors for things like clones of the classic guitar effects pedals. Those are also ~0.3 V, but their proponents argue that the shape of the "knee" and other parameters are different to silicon, thus leading to a perceptible difference in sound quality (in this application, the devices are often intentionally operated in non-linear regions) I've also heard that the specs for old germanium devices varied a lot more than modern silicon ones, thus leading to stories that (e.g.) Jimi Hendrix would order a dozen pedals and pick the one he thought sounded best.
SAML delenda est
The argument advanced here is that we "need future scientists." Certainly a few, but if the past is any indication the universities are geared up to vastly overproduce. There are plenty of perfectly well-educated PhDs who want to do science but can't find any positions. It's not uncommon for many disciplines to graduate four to ten times as many new PhDs as are needed.

So why not cut the number of students in half and use the savings to boost the stipends?
I'm in Phx, so all sun... too much even. Not enough water, so mobility to get to water and transport is much more critical.
I disagree with the conclusions you draw and how you apply them to this context.

Richer people don't have access to higher EV else their kids wouldn't have very similar relative mobility, they should be richer than their parents. And it seems that the risk of becoming downwardly mobile (absolute and relative) increases along with income. Which makes sense as some sort of mean reversion. Along with the bottom quintile having higher positive mobility than richer quintiles, EV increasing with income doesn't make sense to me.

The family with $500 should keep it as liquid as possible unless they have enough credit to cover drawdowns in income. Other than that - they get the same EV as everyone else. $500/yr at 7% over 40 years will get you $100k. How many people with $500 actually invest it? Historical lookback on 40 years of the S&P 500 gets you real return of 8.77%.
Your criticism of "Tax the Rich" is basically tone policing? I don't understand your point.
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I detest the algebraic "proofs" used in debates on this.

Anybody who thinks that 0.999... does not equal 1 should probably also reject the idea that 1/3 is the same as 0.333... the argument for both is the identical (getting infinitely closer to some x is equivalent to x itself). You're using the thing you set out to prove as an argument in your proof.

Online debates on this subject would be a lot better if the (correct) side of 0.999... = 1 was more open about the shortcomings of these simpler proofs.
I also said this, self-driving will only become a thing if the roads are modified. Then I realised that this has already happened. The changes made to urban environments when cars first became a thing aren't to be underestimated. Curbs are a result of cars. Traffic lights. Pedestrian lights. Footpaths.

Back in the day, no one even considered these changes to be bad. Today if politican came up with the idea that we need to remove pedestrians (and bikes) from the streets so that self-driving cars could be safe, there would be an uproar.
Nuclear is expensive to build yet it's the most efficient solution.

Electricity (and water, school, roads, etc...) is a requirement to live a decent life. The fact that is unthinkable for you that it could be done without profit is saying a lot.
> Back in the day when "all the world is an i386",

If anyone wants a further back in an even earlier day example, see http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/V/vaxocentrism.html
Yes.

One is from a wise society that values every member, and shuns those who hoard resources, recognizing their poverty of spirit.

The other is from a society which is far less wise but still knows enough to understand that a society where everyone contributes some resources to common goods will always build a better society than can result from any anarchy.

And then there are the people in the latter societies who somehow think that the benefits of everyone else's taxes, such as roads, legal system, public education system, clean food and water regulations, national defense, etc. are simply natural resources existing for their benefit and that they shouldn't have to contribute.

Those people are called freeloaders, and are recognized as a problem, so contributions are compulsory, and called taxes.

If you don't like taxes, it might be best go find a country that doesn't have them.

A quick search turns up none, but you can get close; there are five countries where the total tax revenue is less than 5% of their GDP: Syria (1.30%), Cuba (2.40%), South Sudan (3.10%), Nigeria (4.10%), and Burma (4.20%) [0].

I notice no exodus among the many people who claim to despise taxes to go to these places where taxes are minimal.

This is proof positive that the benefits that come with taxes (e.g., a working system of infrastructure, law, education, etc.) far outweigh the "freedom" from taxes.

Have you picked up an moved to a near-zero tax country? If not, maybe stop being a hypocrite whining about taxes and start appreciating the benefits that a higher tax and higher service society brings, of which you obviously prefer to take advantage.

[0] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-countries-with-the-l...
That's why my hints are opaque and exclude the long, mutable master password.
The tsunami caused the evacuation and the meltdown.
I thought French nuclear were only doing base load, the load following part being done by other sources.

I believe the French facilities have the capacity of doing load following, but are not doing it because it is less efficient (and therefore more expensive). So I would also not say "days", but it is also true that one cannot directly take a situation where nuclear has, so far, being used only for base load and pretend that load following will work exactly the same way.

I'm not sure why you say "rare, extreme peaks": the current demand is non-flat every day, with a difference between the trough and peak that is typically ~50% of the peak.

I agree that large scale battery storage is challenging. Maybe the solution would be to have some storage and some "wasted efficiency" by using nuclear plants in load following and turning them in stand-by every day during off-peak hours.
Is it incorporated both ways? That is, are autonomous vehicles trained to express intention through subtle movements?
The market exists, and nuclear power is expensive only because of artificial regulatory expense. Hinkley Point is the poster child for this. I'm sorry you feel so strongly about nuclear power. Since you raise the spectre of military ambitions, I'll point out that the war in Ukraine is an autocrat trying to control more of the world's oil and natural gas. Russia's war was financed largely by oil and gas and clearly is about controlling it's distribution. There's not one right answer to the world's energy needs. Nuclear is a part of it, as are renewables.
Well, to be fair. There was also that whole thing that caused the meltdown as well.

It's pretty much impossible to get an exact pulse on how many people died indirectly as a result of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster evacuation specifically who would've lived if it were not for that. Particularly because most of the deaths attributed to the disaster were elderly to begin with.

Not trying to downplay the cost of human life, it's really terrible when preventable scenarios or mistakes lead to any cost. With that having been said, there are sometimes going to be events where evacuations are necessary, and some of them we can't prevent. No doubt there were many thousands of deaths unrelated to Fukushima Daiichi due to the massive earthquake and tsunami.

I believe it is estimated that around 1,000-2,000 people died as part of the evacuation efforts, but I am not sure what a good source is, so take that with a grain of salt. If you want to go really deep, it'd be wise to consider the burden that it may have caused psychologically too, but that's even harder to exactly ascertain, especially since it is likely nothing compared to what happened as a result of the earthquake and tsunami.

If the point of this is to compare safety though, factoring this in still would place nuclear fission power plants very low in terms of how much cost of human life they cause overall.
Is there a translation link, or should I just pretend to have read the article so I can give my thoughts about self-driving cars? Fine either way.
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Rather than the students, I’m rooting for the tax payer in this one. California should determine grad student pay at state schools based on what level of funding is required to meet its educational mission, attract good students, and balance against other state priorities.
First time I heard about Rich and Textual. Very impressive work, will definantly use it for something. Thank you to all involved.
As an undergraduate, I always felt like the money given to graduate students was just a tax on undergraduates. Whenever the graduate instructors wanted more money, they would raise the fees for undergraduate students.
Interface is bad enough that I couldn't figure out how to play.
Well, someone managed to delete the demo store (there's an option to delete stores). It's now reset or restored if missing every 10 minutes.
this seems like an architectural problem with fedi itself; considering the amount of high-follower-count (>10k) people on twitter or instagram or other places, if everyone moved to fedi, would we constantly be having an infinite ddos? it feels extremely inefficient as a system
This reminds me of some log parsing code I wrote that had to batch download sets of logs from our log provider, and then used some gnu parallel, jq, and some general shell tools to spit things out (may have thrown the data into some format and used textql for the end of it.)

(I can't recall why the general log searching tools we had didn't work in this situation, I think it was because I needed to get data from a lot of disparate logs at once, or it was driven by having to make lots of separate downloads of the logs.)
- It's not a multi-platform standard more a happy accident of history.

- The BSD are irrelevant. Why hamper Linux development to cater for users who don't exist?
Even given your German (or whatever) sports car of choice, a lot of driving on both highways and in urban areas especially is just boring or annoying.
You could integrate with something like Ping Federate. Then customers configure their identity provider to connect to your Ping Federate instance. I've seen the workflow for the support team to enable customers and it's not terribly difficult with the usual issues around expired certificates. Weird customers can be outsourced to Ping Federate support for guidance.
Thank you, I will check that out tonight!
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I think you are overestimating how clear the rules of the road are. For example two people arrive at a 4 way stop. The rules dictate whoever arrived goes first. Arrived at the same time? Yield right. Easy right? But are you sure the guy in the other car agrees you arrived first and therefore has the right of way? Or in their estimation did you arrive at the same time and you should yield to them? What if 3 cars arrive at the same time? 4?

Often it can be safer to establish some form of consensus instead of assuming the cars around you have both interpreted events the same as you and are about to behave in the way you'd predict.

I'm also not sure if this was what you intended in your example, but there are roads in my town where unless someone waits and yields to let someone on a side street turn onto or cross the main road, the person on the side street is literally going to be stuck until rush hour is over. You won't find it in the DMV handbook, but yielding in this situation really is a kindness.
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I hate to say it but you are using goto.

Goto is used often in C parsers for a reason, because it is easier to reason that way when you're validating something rather than using deeply nested branches. People shit on goto because of dijkstra's paper but few people have even read that paper and fewer even know that it is the origin of "x considered harmful" meme.

Goto is a boon. Anytime people use exceptions like how you are you're just admitting you're itching for a goto and your language doesn't provide it. And thus you shouldn't clutch your pearls when others use it in c.
It's actually the law in Germany.

We have a slightly different problem: people don't understand that the full capacity of the road should be used, zipping only shortly before the constriction. People switch lanes far too early, other people pass them (because the lane is free until the constriction), people who switched early feel cheated, everybody gets aggressive.
At work we've been in a crunch for the last month or so. It doesn't happen often, but it has been stressful, particularly with the holidays.

So yesterday I decided to step away from what I'm crunching and just wander through the codebase finding things to optimize. No real goal in mind, just some good tunes and getting down and dirty in a way that I don't often get to do. I had Rider's IL window open for the first time in a year. It was fun. My changes will probably never be used, but it doesn't matter, it was a relaxing afternoon.
They're better at getting government to give them large sums of money too.
> Five years ago, car companies were saying around the world that in five years, their cars would be 100% self driving

I know Tesla has made big claims like that, but I'm not aware of any other car companies having done so?
So people have been saying for 70 years. If a robot exists today that can make a bed and dust every surface, it probably costs $1M.