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We need reliable systems of democracy & general governance. These systems should begin with the individual and naturally aggregate into collective management. They should be auditable, transparent, highly accessible, lack centralized points of failure or control, and minimize the requirements of trust in any finite groups of humans.

Solving this problem area is my core focus. I want every human being on Earth to have a voice in controlling their destiny. I want everyone to determine where their public fund contribution should go (if they so desire), who should represent them (if anyone), and be able to fully audit the entire trail of government spending / lawmaking / legal precedent/ contracting / resource planning -- all in an accessible way.

I want people to engage with the governments of Earth directly, or voluntary cede their voice to someone that they believe represents their value -- while always retaining the power to take back their voice. This is a form of Liquid Democracy.

Cooncidentally, I believe this same system is the key to AGI. It is essentially a type of mass cluster consensus of neurons. Each human brain -- a node in the network -- is an Earth neuron. With ~8 billion humans, if connected in an optimal way, reducing latency and enabling any neuron comms with any other neuron, without any censorship nor friction, a mass higher intelligence forms. The tech stack enabling this intelligence can also be utilized with synthetic neurons.

Although I believe this will cascade into solving every other problem (if you organize minds properly with todays resources, we can trivially solve every conceivable immediate problem we collectively face. That is a fact), I approach this in a relaxed and nonchalant fashion at my own pace. I have relatively no resource allocation in society and have little desire to pursue that in the confines of existing systems, so if others don't value this dream, I have plenty of time still.

If I had a stable spot in the mountains far away from people and well supplied, I'd have this built within 5 years. It is sad to live in a time where you can't just chill by a river in nature without the sounds of engines, roads, planes, or other distractions, and all the places you can do this are owned by someone / have time limits as public land.

A man can dream.
I still have not read anything on this topic (models of human thought, creativity and emotional affect) so clear and interesting as David Gelernter’s “The Muse in the Machine” (1994).
Musk Says He Can't Get Fair Trial in San Francisco, Favors Texas
Replying to the dead comment below "They’re low skill jobs..."

Being a /good/ cop requires very high skills, and it's an unavoidably political job, so I think a union is going to be an essential part of it. I agree that the current situation in much of the USA is really bad, though.
That's way too long of a headline. And if it was just "California's reservoirs are not sufficiently large", or something, doesn't that imply that they should be increased in volume?
> Recently, however, the maintainers of i3 got together (a chance to meet arose randomly). During that meeting we decided that it'd be better to just merge the fork and improve it later.

Off topic:

Sounds like an in-person meeting, as opposed to only being remote, facilitated a roadmap change that hadn’t happened without it.
No, sorry. Wondering that myself.
That's also my experience with Safari, not much is really "supported", most of the features are "supported, conditions may apply".

And i'm not talking about cutting edge features, there's still zIndex bugs and click event bugs on safari mobile for example.
Next you'll be warning me about scurvy, lol
I'd agree that the decline in interest rates (and the asset inflation it fueled) has a limit. However, the actual earnings of publicly traded companies[1] is also increasing! So the predicted bottom off a stable p/e keeps going up.

To be honest, the belief that the market is overvalued is a big part of my motivation for buying individual stocks despite the overwhelming evidence that it's a fool's errand.

[1] Using the S&P 500 as a proxy. There's non-linkable buttons to see the last 10, 20, 30 years https://www.macrotrends.net/1324/s-p-500-earnings-history
The Next 350 Million Knots
Is this an example of the attack in the wild? Or what did I just view?
Xojo uses a "modern" BASIC langauge, is visual like VB was/is, and works on macOS, Windows, and Linux. If you want to stick with a BASIC variant that is.
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I don't know about the whole world, but I know the most important 3 problems in the US: the cost of housing is too high, the cost of healthcare is too high, and the cost of education is too high.

I'm not working on any of the above 3 problems, because I have to pay for housing, I have to pay for healthcare, and I have to save for the education for my kids.
No wonder that made it into the Hungarian-English phrasebook.
> In and of itself I don't think there's anything wrong with trying to reduce urban use just because it's not the chief contributor.

This is incorrect. It’s harmful because people have limited cycles to think about these things and having them focused on their own use is a great way to prevent the actual issue from getting fixed.

A bunch of government rules on personal use gives the wrong impression that personal use is even relevant.
It's not humorous but been through exactly that. When the CEO sees degrading performance in the engineering team (and he has little technical knowledge or little knowledge of what's going on in the engineering department), his first intuition is to hire either managers or consultants to understand what's going on and improve the situation. Of course, for him, it would be crazy to just go down and ask a couple engineers what's exactly going wrong.

None of the managers is going to admit that the problem is theirs. They fully know that and they know that it being uncovered is the end of their jobs. So they'll keep at it until the whole thing burn down to the ground. The only savior here is a new CEO/CTO.
Really tricky, I've recently been trying to work out what language to do with my 12 year old son. In the past we have played around with things like scratch ( https://scratch.mit.edu/ ) which is a great introduction. I went along to an after school programming school to see what they were doing and they were using things like https://www.codemonkey.com/ and Python. They were also using Minecraft and Roblox. My son is really interested in Roblox and I've spent a bit of time looking at Roblox Studio ( quite impressive really ) which uses Lua. In the end I decided to start with C# and Console programs, I was nervous about whether the console would be too boring, but actually, it's going really well. My plan is to really thoroughly cover the concept of basic types, variables, loops, conditionals, scopes, functions, and objects. I've watched a lot of people learn programming on twitch and noticed so many tend to get constantly stuck as they don't have this basic working understanding of the fundamentals and try to advance too quickly. We will then do some GUI stuff, then do some Web stuff, some Roblox Studio, and some embedded/electronics stuff. As part of this I want to teach him about windows and linux inner workings (we also have a mac, but only really care he knows how to use it). So at the end I hope he appreciates multiple languages and multiple OS's and that you can write software for all kinds of things.
But you could say that about anything. If there's one restaurant in town and somebody opens up a second, you could say, "There was already a restaurant and you're just duplicating existing services." Yeah that's true, but so what? Same with Harvard. If they want to build services that compete with other local services, why is that worse than anyone else doing the same?
To a very real extent, the lighting and its spectra wherein the photo was taken, for example, has far more an effect on the perception of the photo subject than any default post-processing.
This was also part of how they debranded Mac OS X, which took some time but this is how it began. But it was understood clearly then that they were the ~same OS, and “OS X” was in common usage by Apple including by Jobs at the time too
What? The OP covers much more than "just shuffling tweet sized buffers to network offload cards"
ULIDs are sorted semantically different from UUIDs. UUIDs have 6+ different sort orders depending on who you ask and which library call you make. All of those sort orders are different from what you'd get just string forms of UUIDs. There are cross-platform sorting endian issues due to the struct order that GUIDs were originally designed to be grouped by.

ULIDs have a single, consistent sort that matches both byte patterns and string representation. That's a huge semantic difference.

Sure, ULIDs make no claims to accurate sorting or total ordering or monoticity beyond a single machine, but ULIDs aren't designed to be a Snowflake/Thrift replacement, they are designed to be a UUID replacement. You are correct that they make no more guarantees than UUIDs, but they don't have to, that was out of scope of their design. I can understand how that makes it less useful for some of your applications, but that doesn't make it not useful for all sort of applications. (Including many applications that once used UUIDs successfully but want something with a cleaner string representation and fewer cross-platform sorting headaches.)
Oxygene Pt. 4 by JMJ, performed by 2.6k of 6510 assembly: https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/E/Eco/Oxygen_4...
What’s Ahead in the War in Ukraine
I like how to tried to come off as unbiased by agreeing with Bannon on this one issue
but calling him a "goon" and saying you don't agree with his other politics. However you then make this obvious right wing statement.

"of various non-product roles like H.R that impose more trainings or "re-education"/box-checking Or ERGs, employee resource groups for every different employee because our current times are ones of sensitivities."

Who are you to say that certain groups of people don't deserve to have their own resources when they may face similar issues of racism or sexism. Maybe they feel more comfortable talking amongst people like them about sensitive issues. How many more HR people do you think it takes to set these groups up when they are mostly just employees.

You also talk about training impying that it's only for "box checking", which is a obvious right wing red flag. Basically, you assume that no one really cares, everything is for show, simply because you don't care.

You just have no empathy and therefore any resources allocated at companies that wouldn't help you are useless.
Is this mechanism still in the game? That is, in Adventure Mode the player is supposed to steer the character in a way that is aligned with the character's personality, or else the character will get depressed? I imagine this could be turned off as an option.
In November 2014, California voters approved Proposition 1: The Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act. The $7.5 billion bond dedicated $2.7 billion for the public benefits of new water-storage projects.

But no new reservoirs have been built. This may or may not be changing now [1].

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/10/opinion-voter-approve....
because we may be introducing subtle bugs that are actual bugs that just happen to work because the hardware is arranged in such manner.

It's arguable whether that's a bug if it doesn't have any practical effect. I'd say that it's not.
Do you lock your doors at night?

This is a rhetorical question, because statistically you have zero need to lock your doors at night. The odds of you getting robbed is so low that you would be a fool to worry about it, and should not be concerned with locking your door.
Not who you responded to, but I thought you described your case elegantly neutral to the God question. I suspected you were coming from that perspective, but your argument stood on its own.

Now that said, if we did find alien life, how would your feelings about God change?
I've been experimenting with GPT3 as a "compiler" and it's always amazing when it works. Extrapolating from here, I think this is right on the nose -- we feed in any high level language and get reasonably efficient assembly out the other end, furthermore, the assembly is more human-like than a compiler would give you.

There's some big problems with this approach today, namely, it's not always right, and it may sometimes be half right (miss edge cases).

But think of where this AI technology is headed -- it stands to reason it will eventually work pretty much perfect.

And then I think we'll see another very strong trend -- large AI models replacing other forms of software. Why write a compiler when GPT3 can compile C to asm? Why write an interpreter when GPT3 can "compile" python to C?

The AI model is hilariously less-efficient than traditional software, but it will be far far cheaper and faster to create than the traditional equivalent.

What other types of software will be replaced by AI models?
"but most of it goes into administrative cost"

Source?
Regulatory action is needed - specifically, to ban polyesters from Clothing.
The Absurd Rise of $Bonk Shows That Nobody Learned Anything in the Crypto Crash
Replace all instances of the word “them” with “tablet” and re-read.
I run a mid range POD HD500X, it's really really nice to not have to play around with it a ton (presets are great) and you can still get pretty close to what you're looking for without ever having to buy more gear (at least amps/pedals, guitar still matters a ton).

I think my favorite thing about it is that it just allows me to play more. I run my computer output through the rig, so everything comes out my headphones. This means I can play rock as "loud" as I want, with any song on the planet, and the whole house can be sleeping. Very much worth the trade offs for someone who just wants to play and not geek out about gear.
They’ve raised over a $100mm in funding, got a ton of newspaper articles written about them, and even lost original founders due to a difference in opinion in what the founder thought they would be.

But they haven’t educated a single student for a single minute yet.

Maybe the next round of publicity should hold off until this university has actually taught something?

So far it’s coming across as little more than a publicity scam.
FWIW, the page is working for me.
Wagner boss says he wants Bakhmut in Ukraine for its 'underground cities'
Twitter is big on real time though. Each user gets served their own feed in real time.
"Fixing things is not rocket science"

Assuming by rocket science you mean difficult but not impossible why are you assuming it's not difficult to fix any problem?
https://archive.ph/9hgl3
Take a positive spin:

“California’s reservoirs full early in rain conveyor whatever it’s called now”

Ie. tell them they met their goals early!
When I was teaching Prolog are the university, I always introduced it as a niche language. “Prolog makes you unbelievably fast at very specific tasks, but don't try to implement a web server in it.”

I was so wrong! :-D
I think people overestimate how much CPU time a typical CRUD app spends on actual business logic, even with an interpreted language like Ruby or Python. What I’ve seen is the bottleneck is largely memory, such that you can pack a ton of these apps on a machine with a few cores and a lot of RAM.

The stuff that actually is CPU-bound often ends up being written in an appropriate language, or uses C extensions (e.g. ML and data science libraries for Python).
Best comment. And one you don’t hear nearly enough from typical product and eng managers.
It is also pretty common for large companies in the US to have some sort of dining services, for what it’s worth. (I’m surprised this isn’t a thing in Europe, off the cuff “cafeteria” doesn’t look like an Americanism to me, but maybe it is).

Dining services for students make sense to me. Students are generally young folks with a lot going on. They might be on their own for the first time. It is helpful to have a place where they can just go grab some food without too much thought. Dining services might be priced into the student’s tuition, so parents can be confident that their kids will get meals, rather than spending their budget on partying, haha.

Plus, actually this is probably a more practical reason and I should have lead with it: dorms usually have limited cooking facilities. And imagine the messes which would be created in the shared kitchen, if everyone was using it. Eating out is nice, but most people don’t do it every day. Dining services handle the unexciting daily meals well — so really, this isn’t a redundant service to local restaurants.
Everyone is ideologically google- or twitter-deep today.

Back in the day, people actually read Road to Serfdom or A People’s History and picked an ideology. College libertarians were middle or upper-class economic conservatives who were athiests, trekkies, gay or wanted to smoke weed. Now that that’s all fashionable and they’re not at risk of getting beat up or jailed they don’t have anything to get riled about except Corporate 1st Amendment reimaginings, digital privacy or why one of “those” people kept them from their slot at Stanford.
A lot of people are saying it’s best to go to school when you’re young, that it’s easier because you don’t have a family and other responsibilities.

The same is true of starting a business.
The them isn’t referring to a windows PC.

“I’d be more inclined to buy something like a Galaxy tablet if I could treat them [a Galaxy tablet] like prebuilt Windows PCs and upon receiving them[a Galaxy tablet] nuke them [a Galaxy Tablet] and put clean Android on them [the Galaxy tablet]”
> Now you have a named struct bla_t which is typedef’ed to a type alias bla_t, and the named struct can be properly forward-declared.

The article doesn't mention it, but C11 allows typedef redefinitions which means instead of forward declaring "struct bla_t" and referring to it with the struct keyword, you can instead forward declare it as "typedef struct bla_t bla_t" and refer to it _without_ the struct keyword.

See N1360 [1] for details.

[1] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1360.htm
I used “loosey-goosey” for a reason. I really don’t think it was meant in bad faith. I think it was probably just lack of familiarity with the history, and sloppy hyperbole. My correction is intended more as gap filling than calling out the article’s claim.

People make mistakes! It’s okay, it’s probably better for public discourse to give them some grace unless it’s egregious or clearly intentional.
I write unit tests selectively to capture unwritten rules about how some functions need to act. It is a better form of documentation. Otherwise, I lean on what you are describing: actually testing a system against the outer "api layer" that is interacted with by external users be it a UI or an actual api.

I avoid mocking like the plague unless it truly is an external system I have no control over. Then I might mock as a form of documentation about expectations.

I was involved in a project recently that uses the "clean architecture" approach where every layer was abstracted and everything was mocked. Honestly it was a major turn off on two levels: I deeply dislike the "clean" architecture based on this single experience alone and I found my deep dislike of heavy mocking to be rekindled.
When asked for comment, Adams County Sheriff Kimmy Rogers said the result of a neighboring sheriff’s office investigation into Afroman’s claim is imminent. He also that the attention the rapper’s songs have generated has turned into a wave of threats against his deputies. “I can handle it, but I don’t appreciate some of the messages coming in about Adams County deputies getting ambushed, ‘I hope they die slow,’” Rogers said. “It’s kind of tolling on some of the officers. I doubt that your family would want that said about you.”

The Adams County sheriff presumably knew Mr Afroman has at least 2 kids, a son and a daughter, but they broke into his house wielding long guns, pistols, and a riot shield anyway.

I like the part where a deputy is poking around behind the couch with his gun.
Tangentially, it's one of the reasons why I'm still using an older iPhone for my daily life because the haptic Home button (which was removed in newer models) makes it easier to use in an half-asleep state whereas I end up tapping on things accidentally when using my 13 Pro in that state: that button is the escape hatch, like ESC on a keyboard.

Any friction between the time I have an idea and the moment I can capture it increases the risk I will forget it before I have time to write it down.
The existing reservoirs are, generally, nowhere close to full. https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/Here-s-where-Cal...

Looking at the contents of the interview, the problem looks more to be in aquifer recharge. Also probably runoff, and nitrogen pollution (especially, but among others) I bet.
Get a grip. I'm a Brit so 7000 zillion miles away from CA. The title says x is an issue and the article tries to answer it. I'm reading stuff about somewhere else and why not? CA is famously in a long term drought and yet it is being short term very heavily rained on. I cannot fault the article title - it is a very obvious question.

This seems pertinent:

"Some of it can be captured for later, but the short answer is it falls so quickly that we lack the ability to take that water and set it aside quickly enough in a place where we can store it for later. The primary forms of storage for water in California are the snowpack, that typically accumulates annually, and then reservoirs behind dams, and then groundwater aquifers."
Every intern proposes something cute like this in my org, every year.
Can you trick GeForce now into running your software?
FDA approves new antibody to slow Alzheimer’s, even as safety concerns linger
What you are saying is we should compare a herculean effort to the doldrums of everyday life. Therefore making everyday life miserable and harder than it needs to be. Usually good enough is good enough. The reason that there is only one silicon valley is not because there are not resources to be another. Its just that the human race doesn't collectively need that much pressure in their lives.
I was also surprised by this aspect of things. A quick Google at one of those net worth estimation sites pegged him at a net worth of about a million, which isn't exactly going to buy a mansion in Beverly Hills (or even Columbus).

More than me, though, and the guy seems to be having fun. I followed the link in the video to his Twitter page thinking it might have more information on the raid... Instead, it's almost exclusively videos of him signing the boobs of his fans. Gave me a good chuckle.
Having never heard of this person I searched youtube for his name, and watched some of his "EV's not-so-little dirty secret(s)" video [0]. In it he claims the entry-level electric F150 is $90,000. This is easily verified so I bothered to check. According to [1] the base price is $39,974 and the MAX price power/trim level is $90k:

> The base price of the commercial-grade version all-wheel drive (AWD) truck in the United States was announced to be US$39,974, with higher-power/trim/range models priced all the way up to US$90,000

Why should I care about anything this guy says? His manner of speaking strikes me as an overconfident charlatan, and his apparent deliberate choice to put forth the maximally expensive F150 EV model as the base price causes me to question his honesty/accuracy in general.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf85EuQKWeQ

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_F-150_Lightning_(electric...
That wouldn't be entirely surprising!
On my official reading list now, thanks to you.
My understanding is they went pretty gung-ho building them and there aren't great spots left and new ones would severely disrupt or destroy entire ecosystems, like damming the Klameth.