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Unless space ice has mechanical properties comparable to steel, I don't see the point in even trying...
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My boss cares a lot about performance and reliability.

I work for a financial services firm. We are consistently highly rated for customer service. One of the reasons that is the case is that our website is fast.

It takes a lot of work by our devs for that to happen!
Kubernetes with complicated configurations is a failure to me (Simplicity should be the goal, not a big piles of yaml configs). The issue is not what's inside Kubernetes, why stop there ? Make things simpler to use, why not ?
Hard disagree.
Amazing games like Control and Horizon zero dawn still exist.
Which part of his comment claimed anything was false?
They are being integrated into the most widely used information retrieval systems (search engines). It's not enough that they are "smarter then most people", they have to always be correct when the question asked of them has a definitive answer otherwise they are just another dangerous avenue for misinformation.

Yes, not all questions have definitive answers, which is fine, then you can argue that they are better then going to the smartest human you know and that might be enough. Although I personally would still disagree with this argument, since I think it's better that the answer provided is "I don't know".
Libya does not due to sanctions and diplomacy in 2003 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmament_of_Libya

Syria does not due to Israeli airstrikes in 2007 and sanctions until the Civil War began - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Outside_the_Box

Iran has started building again - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/world/middleeast/iran-mis...

None of what you are saying even contravenes my larger point though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immobiliser

> A 2016 study in the Economic Journal finds that the immobiliser lowered the overall rate of car theft by about 40% between 1995 and 2008.

Getting it stolen renders you "not allowed to drive it" pretty effectively, and it's a lot more likely than your immobilizer malfunctioning. If you don't drive a Hyundai, Kia, or a 30 year old car, chances are your car already has one.
I don't even where to begin with an "analysis" like this. First, your units are wrong. You've confused power with energy. The US consumes around 4,000 terawatt hours of electrical energy per year. That is 4,000,000 gigawatt hours.

The rest of this calculation, like the original claim, is complete nonsense. EVs will easily double or triple electrical energy consumption.
> it's the ten thousand other engineers who do the real work.

An army of ten thousand people marching in the wrong direction is what you get with bad leadership.

There is a lot of "real" work going on at a company like Google. Leadership really does matter, and there are a number of examples of bad CEOs running a company into the ground (e.g. HP) and good CEOs completely turning failing companies around (e.g. Steve Jobs coming back to Apple). None of those things would have happened if the CEO was just a figurehead.

Some engineers, notably junior ones without a lot of life experience, seem to believe that engineering teams could run the company by themselves and that leadership and other orgs don't provide any value. It's an immature world view that doesn't even work very well at startups, and certainly doesn't make any sense at large companies.
I've had similar experience working on a B2B product that we sell to financial institutions.

As the end users got a taste for our UX, they began to threaten resignation if they had to go back to the old system.

Word of mouth and human competition are a hell of a thing. Once a branch manager sees how efficiently someone across the street is running their business (which is effectively identical due to mountainous regulations), they will start doing our marketing for us.

I feel like tuning software for the human factor is something that almost every MBA still misses to this day. Making "this software feels good to use" an explicit objective is clearly impossible. You have to want the experience to be good at a fundamental level. Its an ambient part of every item that merges. You have to care about the product and customer very deeply to achieve this.
[2021-02-12] <Daniel Stenberg> Will I ever rewrite curl in rust? I don't believe in rewrites, no matter which language. I believe in replacing code and fixing components gradually over time. That could mean that we have a curl written mostly in rust in 10 years. Or in 20 years. Or not. -- https://twitter.com/bagder/status/1360131939794042884

[2023-02-14] <The article> the fuzzer quickly uncovered memory corruption bugs, specifically use-after-free issues, double-free issues, and memory leaks
No, I get that it's only new cars, but what I meant what was that the attractiveness of an ICE will rapidly diminish way before the cutoff date of 2035. As other comments have said, infrastructure might heavily favour EVs (gas stations, parking lots, residential parking, city bans, tax incentives), making ICEs much less attractive even if you can still technically own and drive them. For new cars, the models that are going to be sold over the next 12 years have already been developed, many car manufacturers have developed their last iteration ICEs, so except facelifts you can essentially just buy 12-year-old models in 2034/2035.

Put another way: Would you want to be the last guy to buy an Intel Mac if Apple had already announced their switch to ARM with all the changes that go along with it? Yes, you can still run it, yes there are still others who run it, but do you want to be the last holdout that buys that Intel machine right before the next Apple keynote finalising the switch?
The TED talk is old and maybe not the right format to discuss details. There are long-form discussions with Donald Hoffman on Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal I can link:

https://youtu.be/CmieNQH7Q4w

He goes into more details (it's over 3 hours…), but I am not sure his arguments are satisfying. It is really hard to prove this concept. The idea itself is very old. Plato's Cave is only one example.

Also in discussion with others:
https://youtu.be/EwTpdCVsttI with John Vervaeke
https://youtu.be/bhSlYfVtgww with Joscha Bach
If the goal of the 21 year old drinking age is to prevent addiction, its not working

The United States has one of the highest rates of alcohol addiction in the world.

https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/alcoholism-by-country...
And academia is even worse!

Any large organization where people have the ability to create little fiefdoms will result in this eventually.
I also think that more commits when doing refactors help with history tracing once file renames get involved. It can be real head-scratcher to try to trace a function back through some commit that introduces a new feature + a whole module refactor. Even with “follow”.
“Save” vs “Save as” is such a terrible convention…
Do you think you can make a CEO prompt in ChatGPT and gradually use that?
Felt the same way after first going from eclipse to intellij. This fear, this lack off. But after a while i didn't notice anymore and i have never run into a situation where something important was lost.
In the opposite. Saving and making copies and even duplicating code in a file like an older version of an sql statement is some kind of fear/hoarding impulse, that doesn't seem to pay off at all.
Maybe I'm wrong,

but this does not seem so much discovery as confirmation and more of simple illumination of something that has appeared to me at least to be self-evident, so much so that it's a core part of my explanation to lay people about what makes contemporary LLM and the like so powerful.

I.e. it's a core feature, indeed it's the entire reason you have deep networks, to allow for abstractions.

IMO the interesting ChatGPT stuff output is largely in this domain, it's quite obvious that much of what it is doing is not doable without something homologous to an internal representation.
Yeah, look at all the prosperity the liberal East India Company brought there.
The modern Disney Parks have a myriad of problems and one of them is definitely the insistence that guests utilize apps, etc but not because of the absolute paranoia outlined here.
Used Tektronix analog scopes would fit the bill, for around the same price as the Korg.

2200 series and 2400 series are probably the sweet spot in terms capability for money, weight, reliability and repairability. I particularly like the 2245 and 2445, which have basic (digital) measurement capabilities and digitally controlled attenuators. 2225 and 2215 are also solid options. I would stay away from the analog/digital hybrid and digital scopes from this series (243x, 2440, 2210, 2212, etc).

T900 series scopes are good too, but have somewhat lower specs.

400 series scopes are just as capable as the 2200/2400, but much heavier, older and more likely to need re-capping. Some 400 series also have a not-very-good built in DMM.

For audio work, you could also check out the 5000 series mainframe scopes, but that inevitably leads down the rabbit hole of wanting all the plugins (and there are many neat plugins!)

There are also a ton of new $200-class digital scopes from china.
The argument against hyper capitalism causing more and more derailments is credible if you look into 'precision scheduled railroading' practices, aka shaving expense by eliminating unnecessary costs and 'optimizing Assets'.

Sadly this has little to do with 'conservatives' or 'the left' and a lot more to do with our apolitical global oligarchy who own the politicians in power and many lobbying groups including 'climate change' and environmentalists who are strangely silent on this major disaster as they were when the Nord Stream pipeline was destroyed.
exactly correct. The question is not: "was software bloated in the 90s". It's: "given that hardware capability increased in by several orders of magnitude, did software quality/speed see a similar increase?" The answer is a resounding no. It would be like moving from a tricycle to a supersonic car and somehow taking longer to get from point a to point b.
ESA is no longer planning to send astronauts to China’s Tiangong space station
It's listed as a "possible carcinogen". Which would put it in the same category as caffeine.

Although it's worth noting that while caffeine would obviously not be that dangerous of a chemical, a giant spill of it would still be an environmental issue.
Yes, we need a law that requires them to fix the already purchased cars, which is a situation where "just don't buy a Kia" doesn't really work.
That's spot on. But the question for The Verge is, would you click on that headline?
Slightly misleading title, seeing as how a lot of them were getting it wrong on purpose.
Ah, of course. Thanks!
In the context of replacing a search engine, it is the correct use.
Bingo. Microsoft isn't likely to win the search battle against Google. However, they can (and seemingly already have) disrupted search as a go-to web destination/feature.

Google was worried Facebook would disrupt their Adwords dominance by having social ads.

ChatGPT, if successful (a large IF), will disrupt search and probably a dozen other business models.

I'm awaiting the true counterstrike from Google, not this initial flub.
I think it is same with Amazon Music. All I want to do is play some songs while driving without these fucking podcast shows in my face every single time. It somehow tries to block me discovering/ searching any music and keep nudging me to podcasts.
it'd be a nice but expensive storage location though.
Spotify is crap for listening to Podcasts. I can never figure out what I've listened to and what I haven't. Pocket Casts is amazing, but now that Every Little Thing is canceled, I don't know if it matters anyway, as that was the only podcast I listened to.
> any reasonable programmer

FTFY
Another reason why MS Paint is king.
Which is not wrong actually. Pakistan could have been the next US war if PK didn't have Nuclear.
I think the study measured improvements in tonal frequency precerception as a preliminary measurement. The final measurement was for speech perception. They did not release the study, as this is just preliminary announcement. This must be a big let down for the company. It looks like they are pivoting away from hearing to an MS treatment.
You should be answering the question “why does this commit exist?” when you write your commit messages. You’ll be asking yourself that same question when you come across the commit via git blame or bisect later. Summarizing the content of the commit usually isn’t enough to provide that context.
"You can’t win a car race if you all share the same car."

Love that.
Windows reinstall every few years still gives a performance bump IME, nvme SSD be damned. It’s hard to keep a windows installation clean with all the startup junk that worms its way in over time.
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I drive in Edinburgh all the time. Not a single time have I ever driven where I couldn't either see what was up a head, or where my headlights didn't illuminate far enough out that I could not perform a safety stop. If that means you have to drive at 40 on an unlit national road instead of 60, then you drive at 40.

There simply is no excuse where "I didn't see them" is acceptable unless they literally run out into the road, or appear from behind a blind corner (and you should slow down around blind corners anyway for this reason).

I've never once been in an accident, I have seen plenty of bad drivers around Edinburgh. The limit is not a target, but a legal maximum. You drive to your conditions.

Anything else is just blaming the dead manslaughter victim. Which the author seems to do, or at least has zero sympathy for killing a woman and is salty at the "idiot laws" that put him in jail for ending someone else's life.
> I don't think it's fair to tell people to "use the appropriate channels" -- that's just a way for issues to get ignored and for the status quo to get upheld

No, it's a way for programmers to keep doing programming with less distractions, of which we already have a metric ton.

Forgive me if I don't want politics in my work. If I want to do political activism then I know where to go. Unlike many others, you included, apparently.

People who hate those who are different are out there, that's known. But they will not be defeated by annoying literally everyone else.

I know. You'll say something along the lines that not taking a side is defending bullies or whatever. These arguments are extremely tiring and borderline fanatic, so I'm just passing by to give you the perspective of a fairly average guy, and peace out.

It seems people will never learn that shoving stuff in others' faces is not supporting their cause. Oh well. History will keep repeating itself then.
I’m not sure how to reconcile “this is the only thing people are talking about” with “these stories have fallen off all the top news sites because nobody is clicking on them”.
Because this is a regional story being amplified by Chinese state media. The NYT not running shock headlines based on trendy internet topics probably has more to do with their editorial scrutiny.
Any entity capable of interstellar travel will possess the ability to harness energy in ways that are almost impossible for us to imagine.

If they transit space rapidly (on a human scale) they will be able to discharge energy in amounts so vast as to be incomprehensible.

If they transit space slowly (on a human scale) they will be able to store energy in amounts so vast as to be incomprehensible.

They'll be able to pluck individual hydrogen atoms out of the vast emptiness of interstellar space and reconstitute them into any element whose existence is possible. They'll be able to generate and arbitrarily manipulate gravity. They'll be able to approach, disassemble, store, and reassemble entire stars.

They won't be lazily floating in a car-sized object above the Canadian wilderness, bouncing around in the jet stream.
We need to do a better job of measuring and demonstrating the correlation between efficiency and fragility.
It's F9 on Windows, command-option-r on macOS, and ctrl-alt-r elsewhere.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...
I made this comment before on a different thread, it was removed off of YouTube the week of release by request of the Indian Government.

A global platform censored for you and I because a completely foreign entity doesn't like it.
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mmm yes human compost. a less exciting reality than soilent green but certainly as violent
Do you mean irrigate?
We already have a means tested, guaranteed income with no strings attached in the US and 30 states called EITC.

So some in Illinois are eligible for Federal EITC, Illinois EITC, and Chicago Guaranteed Income.
If Linux is so great why can't I even do `dnf install candycrush`? It's already right there on Windows for me!
The problem is that performance and reliability are issues that creep up and by the time they're a problem, they are much more expensive to fix than if they had been first class priorities from the outset. Everyone who didn't care before finds new reasons to put it off because now it's so expensive to address.
As I understand, theft prevention requirements in the US require automakers to engrave VIN numbers in certain car parts.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/p...

And automakers can gain an exemption from this requirement by adding an immobilizer.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/09/29/2016-22...
validation.com was the site (still anonymously registered domain) they were sending me to, and they confirmed from a support ticket that the email request was sent by them, you can see on the site an example of the credit card cam show they require.

The support ticket took 5 days and they shut down my account later that day, actually while i was trying to get a buggy old webcam to work.

They actually mention validation.com now; https://www.namecheap.com/id-validation/ though i couldn't find any reference to it at the time.
We see reality as it is captured by our input sensors, and processed by our vision system. That signal chain is where the subjectivity comes into play, as well as the edge cases where our vision systems misidentify something, or see something that isn't actually happening. It also defines what our reality is, based on the capabilities of the sensors. The existence of optical illusions prove that we don't see reality "as it is", or those illusions would not exist, and we'd just see what was there. The existence of both color-blind people, and tetrachromats, also prove that we don't see reality "as it is". Look at any of the other species in the world with differing vision systems to understand that at most we see what reality is for humans.

The really wild part of all of it is the way our brains can perceive things out of order, in a sense. The way our brains fill in microsaccades is wonderfully interesting. It's why the first tick of a second hand sometimes seems like it lingers.
> There's basically zero carbon on the moon.

That's a big citation needed.

There is very little carbon on the sites that we have studied, but they were all fairly similar equatorial locations. CO2 is heavy enough that it doesn't immediately escape moon, when some is delivered (for example by a meteorite), it will bounce around for a while. If, during that time, it hits a really cold surface, it will freeze and stay there. Such cold surfaces are available in abundance at permanently shadowed craters at the poles, and also inside lava tubes.

We have gone a long way since we thought that moon was dry and lacked carbon. These days, most of the people studying it are fairly confident that every single permanently cold crater holds a glacier, composed of mixed ices, mostly water, CO2 and methane.

The only element needed for people that we still think that the Moon has a shortage of is nitrogen.
Can't wait for the future where the interlock is tied to my personal identity instead of to a physical fob so my car can refuse to start once I've exceeded my personal quarterly energy usage.
What issues are you seeing? .Net (to IMHO its detriment) has incredibly few breaking changes from release to release.
Please do not put your own words in Dijkstra's mouth: he said exactly what needed to be said.
It's more like a pre-draft from what I've seen. But for an area I know, I can absolutely see something like ChatGPT throwing 500 words down on some topic and generating some explanatory boilerplate about something like what a service mesh is. I'll take out some things that I don't quite agree with, give it more of a "voice," maybe add some data/quotes/links/etc.

It's not going to write me something I'll hand to an editor. But for certain things, it could definitely give me a head start relative to a blank sheet of paper.
You drive to your conditions, there's no excuse. If you are driving so fast at night that your lights don't illuminate enough ahead to perform a safety stop then you are driving too fast.

It's astounding that anyone defends this person for the manslaughter, and blames the women he harmed, and the completely lack of empathy... "deadly drunk", one of them is now, because of the author.
> the liberal East India Company

What liberal East India Company? There were a number of EICs, but all of them I can think of (certainly most especially the British) were mercantilist and parts of mercantilist national policies, not liberal.

The mercantilism of British policy and the British EIC were, actually, a quite important factor in both the US push for independence and its ideological connection with liberalism.

While liberalism might eventually have become a nearly consensus ideology in the West, but it certainly wasn’t in the late 18th Century and it certainly wasn’t the ideology of or behind colonialism.
Any large aerospace company. Especially those that have been bought and merged with others as the sector has consolidated over the years.

Having watched it from the inside of one through 4 aquire/merge cycles over 10 years I speak from experience.
The well-known numbers that have been known since the Moynihan Report.
> Are we expecting Bezos just to continue to drop billions of $ into Blue Origin for unlimited amount of time?

To be fair, he's been shoveling money into this unproductive dumpster fire for more than 20 years already.
It is Efficiency Optimization when you know why the rule is there, and having made an estimation of the risks, perform a cost-benefit analysis.

aka "Chesterton's Fence"

Otherwise, it's "Normalization of Deviance":

* The build is broken again? Force the submit.

* Test failing? That's a flaky test, push to prod.

* That alert always indicates that vendor X is having trouble, silence it.

Those are deviant behaviours, the system is warning you that something is broken. By accepting that the signal/alert is present but uninformative, we train people to ignore them.

vs...

* The build is always broken - Detect breakage cause and auto rollback, or loosely couple the build so breakages don't propagate.

* Low-value test always failing? Delete it/rewrite it.

* Alert always firing for vendor X? Slice vendor X out of that alert and give them their own threshold.
See https://meaningness.com/about-my-sites#me (from an earlier book)

He was also an influential figure in 1980s - 1990s AI planning research.
Instead of the stock complaint about titles including "written in Rust," I'd like to acknowledge that the standard of excellence seems to be higher for tools written in Rust than others. Perhaps that's a consequence of their recency - either way, it would be interesting to hear some cases where tooling built in Rust falls short compared to those written in other languages.
Yes I was referring to Kareem. Thanks for the recommendation
What makes chatgpt so private and untouchable?