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> For the folks who really can write UB-free C, how many years did it take you to get to that point?

There is an easier path: you can test your C or C++ stuff with valgrind and get reasonable certainty that it work.

However nowadays we are putting our trust in the borrow checker, and quietly ignore the fact that half of the rust stuff needs to use the 'unsafe' keyword.
Some recent Airbus aircraft do have some take-off performance monitoring, though it's not extensive. If the expected acceleration differs enough from the actual acceleration of the aircraft, you'll get a "T.O. ACCELERATION DEGRADED" ECAM message and should reject the take-off.

I have no idea whether Boeing has the same. It's an emerging area, sometimes called a Take Off Performance Monitoring System.
Oh boy, the best place for subtle errors. A public wiki, being proofread by someone who is likely not a subject matter expert! I don’t see anyway this can go poorly. And obviously search hasn’t been solved for decades.
Speaking of odd "Find My" notifications... Does this happen to anybody else:

When I take a flight, I'll put my backpack with my M1 MBP into the overhead. Like clockwork, when I land, I get a notification that I left the laptop behind at the origin airport. This happens when I don't even touch the laptop inflight, so I could not have disabled BT or wifi. What metric is making Apple think the laptop was left behind?
On contrary.
No scientist, except computer scientists, wants to deal with the quirks of most programming languages. Python has several advantages that you do not find in that combination in any other language:

1. It is very readable, IMHO the most readable of all languages.

2. It has the most useful higher-level, generic data structures built-in, e.g. dictionaries, lists, sets.

3. It is interpreted, which is the only way to make exploratory programming comfortable. Most useful for learners and scientists.

4. Its late binding data type safety makes ad-hoc programming less painful and encourages the use of tests when production readyness is needed.

Of course, Python is not perfect. I e.g. would appreciate immutable-datatypes-first and a more functional centric approach.
But one can lament about everything.
>Could gravity not being homogenous across universe explain dark matter/energy?

[chatGPT]> While it is true that gravity is not perfectly homogeneous across the universe, this alone does not explain dark matter or dark energy.

Dark matter is believed to exist because of the observed gravitational effects on galaxies and galaxy clusters that cannot be accounted for by the visible matter alone. These observations suggest that there is additional matter that we cannot see, which we call dark matter. While gravity may vary in strength in different regions of the universe, this alone cannot explain the observed gravitational effects that we attribute to dark matter.

Similarly, dark energy is believed to exist because of the observed accelerating expansion of the universe. While variations in gravity across the universe could play a role in this phenomenon, they cannot explain the magnitude of the effect that we observe.

In summary, while variations in gravity across the universe are a real phenomenon, they cannot fully explain the observed effects attributed to dark matter and dark energy. These mysteries continue to be the subject of active research in the field of astrophysics and cosmology.
It won't be a dead world - but I sure hope everyone likes rats, cockroaches, and jellyfish - because these are the species that seem to be well adapted to living in environments where other animals have been driven out.
The Top500 supercomputer list started in June 1993, just about 30 years ago. At the top is the CM-5/1024 by Thinking Machines Corporation at Los Alamos National Laboratory with 1,024 cores and peaking at 131.00 GFlop/s (billion floating point operations per second).

It's an Apples to ThinkingMachine Oranges comparison but CPU-Benchmark[1] ranks the Apple A16 Bionic used in the latest iPhones, its GPU - in the "iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)" section - at 2000 GFlop/s.

GadgetVersus[3] reports a GeekBench score of the A16 Bionic at 279.8 GFlop/s. - SGEMM test of matrix multiplication, it seems.

AnandTech[4] was reporting the A15 architecture ARMv7 came in at 6.1 GFlops in the "GeekBench 3 - Floating Point Performance" table, SGEMM MT test result, in 2015.

[1] https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/1993/06/

[2] https://cpu-benchmark.org/cpu/apple-a16-bionic/

[3] https://gadgetversus.com/processor/apple-a15-bionic-gflops-p...

[4] https://www.anandtech.com/show/8718/the-samsung-galaxy-note-...
AI is going to ruin humanity – just not in the way you might expect
the overwhelming amount of things that patients come into a dr's office with do not required an actual MD to diagnose and treat - NP's and PA's do just fine in most cases.

Heck, even regular nurses with a few years experience could probably look at your sore throat, check your blood sugars and adjust your meds.

Everybody thinks whatever they have wrong with them is something unique and special that requires a full blown MD - usually it is not.

If I need a transplant, I am going to want a full blown MD to do it - for most run of the mill things, I am happy to see a NP or PA.
> The habitat wasn't destroyed nor hurt in anyway. It just changed.

That's an interesting way to describe the massive effect humans are having on pretty much every habitat on the planet ... "It just changed."
Except fast compile times unfortunately.
My AirTags keep notifying me that I've left stuff behind and that it was last seen at my home address. Other times they notify me that something in the same room as me has been left behind 3 streets away.
Python dominates precisely because people like using it and it is comparatively beginner friendly. So for overall uptake I think it was ok

I could see for more advanced uses a typed non-GC Lang being better though
North and South both screw each other over. And people of the same race / region / caste / creed screw over others belonging to the same group. This is universal and will never change. What this legislation does is line the pockets of the people putting their pens to paper for it while piggybacking on a divisive issue.

And yeah, I've had good friends from almost every state in India. Some of them were weird about it, most don't really care. So-called "nationalists" will screw you over in any region if you're a migrant.

Anyway, it's not a binary issue. It's just something that happens, and it's not possible to legislate.
> The problem is that the AirTag is registered to my partner’s device. That means that Apple doesn’t recognize my iPhone in connection with the AirTag, seeing the unknown tracker as a threat to my safety.

> The notification provides an option to disable the AirTag, which would be helpful to stop an unwanted third-party from knowing your location. That feature renders the AirTag useless, though, so it would no longer be able to track my dog if she did get out.

I'm confused. That doesn't make it useless? If you disable the notification on HIS phone, his partner would still get notifications on HER phone as it's link to her account? I'm confused what he means. And if it's not even linked to his account to begin with, how is he even able to track it besides the stalking notification? Something doesn't add up to me.
You think the disparity is more accounted for by the numeric difference between multiple-dating men and multiple-dating women, rather than by women dating men who are older than themselves?
Consider the sourcing here -- Digitimes rumors are notoriously baseless.
The committee won't change something if the change would break the ABI of one of the big implementations. It's not a formalised ABI stability promise, it's just a result of implementers having veto power and wanting to keep their implementation's ABI stable.
The announcement says it'll be renamed to "Red's First Flight" and be re-listed "pending further review".

I wonder if this is simply a rebranding so that the original no longer appears for "Angry Birds" searches in the app store. Namely that subsequent versions make more $ per install, and having the original at a low price point is cannibalizing sales of the newer more profitable titles.
Ah, so Google' response to the OpenAI+MSFT collaboration...
Good article. The entry for "Traditional" seems closest to correct.
I guess we'll find out in 20 years and make it someone else's problem!
"All publicity is good publicity" is a dated myth.
Didn't go past the abstract - but I think the abstract is written concisely, a language from simpler times.
Definitely disagree with this take. I'd argue that all it means is that filmmakers have learned to make more exciting films. Cinema is a young art form and hasn't even been around for 200 year, it's no surprise to me that the movies of today are fundamentally different and more engaging than movies from last century.
I didn't know about the Microdrive but Wikipedia says model larger than 1GB up to 4GB were first available in 2004, nearly 3 years after the iPod. At that time for $499 it costed you could already get a 40GB iPod.
Retrowin32 Progress Report
Where I'm from we call it a "primary source".
Every surviving product is a revolution by this definition.
> and you are expected to be available to your patients 365 days a year, 24 hours a day

Boy, I wish. I've never had a doctor with any kind of special availability. I can leave a message at their office but it's not like I'll get any kind of response until later the next business day, and that will just be from an assistant.

For 24/7 needs that's what urgent care is for, or the emergency room if it's more serious.
This is a meta problem with a lot of account-based services. You have someone you share resources with, but not accounts.

So they have a dog, they have an AirTag on the dog, they'd both like to know about the tag, but they can't connect the tag to both accounts without making the accounts too intertwined.

Like how I can't realistically share my Amazon Prime Video account with my wife because it is also my Amazon everything else account. Which is also an issue with Alexa/Echo.

Which is kind of weird. Because this seems like a fairly simple graph. Users and service accounts are nodes and the edges describe which users have access to which service accounts.

So Apple needs a user account for her, a user account for her husband, and then an AirTag service account they can both connect to. But instead, AirTags are a part of her husband's user account.
Yeah, I remember how things were before yuge public LLM (don't you? it was like a few months ago), and a PR official would have roasted for picking a Hallmark card at anytime in my lifetime.
Taylor Swift has actually grown on me
Me too! I've been really impressed with Fedora's performance and stability. I haven't had to spend any time configuring it since I installed it. It just works.
All those sci-fi stories where they have to go find, buy or trade some alien species for more fuel for their ship finally come true.

Picturing a small keg battery with a handle on top that has LED's on it. You insert and twist into the spot on your car to fuel it up.
Are you by chance growing spirulina algae? It's a popular supplement.
I believe in the next couple of years, they would have done their extensive research and have the feature like how we got with Photos after years of wait.
Would love if my security token could unlock my house/car. Would go a long way for me to convince others that keeping one of these keys is meaningful.

As it is, the ones that go on a keychain are basically useless for the vast majority of people. Even folks that will be using a key often, are best off getting the micro that you leave in the device.
Unsurprisingly, it's a 737. Same plane where 9$/h coders were hired in India for it's software. [0] [1]

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-outsourced-737-max-re...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...
How is it simultaneously a good thing for caste systems to be annihilated in immigrant communities, and a bad thing to annihilate caste systems in immigrant communities?
The Importance of Probability in Data Science
>Is there some cosmological constraint that says dark energy compressed into a small volume would exhibit gravitational pull and therefore contribute to our measurements of black hole masses?

[chatGPT]> There is currently no evidence to suggest that dark energy can be compressed into a small volume and exhibit a gravitational pull in the same way that ordinary matter does. Dark energy is thought to be a property of the vacuum of space itself, and its effect on the universe is driven by its negative pressure, which causes the universe's expansion to accelerate.

Black hole masses are measured by observing their gravitational effects on surrounding matter and other astronomical objects. The mass of a black hole can be estimated by measuring the velocity of nearby stars or gas clouds and using the laws of gravity to infer the mass of the object producing the gravitational field. These measurements are based on our current understanding of gravity and are not affected by the presence or absence of dark energy.

However, it is worth noting that the properties of dark energy are still not fully understood, and there may be some new discoveries or developments in our understanding of gravity that could change our current understanding of these phenomena. Nonetheless, as of now, there is no evidence to suggest that dark energy can contribute to our measurements of black hole masses through its gravitational effects.
I'd think everyone in SV would be opposed to this because it's effectively bribing more people to move there.
(not in the aviation industry, just a fan, so grain of salt needs to be applied)

Aircraft age isn't in years, but in number of pressurisations (takeoff/landing cycles). A low cost airline optimising their schedule to squeeze every second of their airframe with constant short distance hopping around would result in much more of those compared to a legacy airline's widebody that is flown daily on a very long flight. So it depends on aircraft type/size and usage patterns, but Ryanair's 737 will be able to handle less years than DHL's 767Fs.

So for the 747 in the story, 22 years is on the long end, but not unheard of.
My dog did a runner a week after we got her, only found her thanks to the AirTag. Despite all the AirTag annoyances, I'll definitely keep using one on the dog.
Could any of them build at scale? Honest question. IBM has had 1nm transistors and etched their logo by manipulating individual atoms for years.

And yet, if you want the best chips by the thousand/millions you run to TSMC
ah yes, becoming a part of the administrative capture, the most American of dreams.
You mean Jurassic Park, that famous parable of the need for better fences?
Cheap phone SoCs are packed with accelerators. Can't see anything special about what Intel is offering but if NVIDIA keeps going upmarket Intel might sell a few cards to budget-minded gamers.

I was talking to a student the other day who was complaining about the state of FPGA dev tools, if Intel made a serious effort to "disrupt" the space by offering tools that are 10x easier to use (seems possible) it might make a big different. OneAPI looks like a joke though, I mean the whole world is indifferent to OpenCL and Intel isn't making any case that it can turn it around. No way the same API is going to get good results on both the FGPA, CPUs and GPUs.
It actually has a genetic basis. According to David Reich in his outstanding book Who we are and how we got here, the varna/jati castes and sub-castes have been able to maintain a level of endogamy stricter than Ashkenazi Jews for millennia and there is 2-3x more genetic distance between two different jati groups coexisting in the same village than between North and South Europeans.

So basically you had a group of invaders who came to India, proclaimed themselves both racially and morally superior, and enforced a rigid system of miscegeneation laws to prevent themselves from being diluted. Makes the wildest dreams of white supremacists tame in comparison.

Of course, none of that justifies the discrimination. I don't know how to fix it either, India tried but hasn't succeeded. B. R. Ambedkar, the author of India's Constitution came to the conclusion that Hinduism is unreformable and that former untouchables like himself should convert to Buddhism, but that hasn't happened on a large scale. Subhas Chandra Bose proposed to abolish the caste system through socialism and inter-caste marriages, but he was an authoritarian bordering on Fascist.

Your idea of abolishing the concept of caste system is noble, but it has been tried and failed in India. Just as you could say making people color-blind would solve racism (setting aside the problem of reparations for past injustice), but how do you make it happen? It's a social problem, and there are seldom simple solutions. Banning the language won't make it disappear, just as (effectively) banning the N-word hasn't made racism go away.
Yes, and the technologies involved in attempting de-extinction are also useful in preserving existing species.

A species that has dwindled to about ten living individuals has a shallow gene pool.

Bringing in genes from recently deceased or preserved specimens could help deepen that pool.

It has happened that only one female of a species was known to be alive. The ability to put together a viable egg for her to bring to term would be the difference between extinction and survival.

We're also awfully mammal-centric. Frogs have already been de-extincted. The gastric-brooding frog was resurrected in 2013.

Compared to mammals it is relatively easy to transfer DNA around between the eggs of related oviparous species and there's no real reason we can't make a large-scale DNA bank for them, protecting the endangered birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians of the world.

These technologies are all part of one tech tree.
Why can't you send robots out?
This option is available if the AirTag is a family members' AirTag. You can ignore alerts indefinitely under those conditions.
This was idea of Todd Combs, an investing manager of Berkshire Hathaway. It failed before (Buffet BRK, Dimon JPM & Bezos AMZN venture called Haven went bust a while ago), but I think Bezos just keeps trying...

https://archive.is/nU8j2
I did not understood op's comment but it is not that hard to come up with a link (without it being a stretch) since both have a common (broad and too generalized) goal: profit maximization, which means there must be an intermediate step of instrumental convergence.

There are methods of profit maximization whose abstract functionality is basically the same, the only thing that changes are the parameters.

I sincerely believe administrative sciences tend to not make clear abstractions out of this, since that is... hard...
Nice flex bro!

> My advice is to not bother with dating until you reach certain status in life, earn good money, have good physique, have friends in high places and most importantly, provide fun.

Horrible advice.

Only the last one is really important, and even then, fun looks different to everybody—one person’s idea of boring is another persons idea of fun (board games, for example).

Yes, status is important to humans (although again, it comes in many form, lots of people couldn’t care less about jacked physiques and hefty paychecks). But people are making meaningful connections from an early age and without much of a career underway.

> a) there are almost no good girls in westernized society

That’s like, uhm, misogynist! And funny, because you still seem to spend an awful lot of time and energy on these no good Western girls :)
It is a weirdly framed feature request. Sounds like they want some way to signal that this third party AirTag is actually "co-owned" or at least the user knows about it and silence (maybe even track).
> not OK for a lower-caste person to discriminate against a Brahmin

Unfortunately, U.S. discrimination laws have a long history of replacing perceived, hard to demonstrate/prove discrimination with actual explicit discrimination in the other direction... so although you may be morally correct, you're likely to be legally incorrect.
Spotify HiFi was announced two years ago – and it still hasn’t launched
Nice, a bot account trying to farm karma.
Programming was my Plan B.

Originally I wanted to go into astrophysics but had the crippling realization that there wasn’t much money in that field. Coming from a poorer family that put an emphasis on becoming financially stable was “the dream” I went into Comp Sci.

My Plan C (at the time back in college) was in Comp Sci didn’t work out I’d join the military.
But Amazon already did the same with Whole Foods. It continues to be premium.

There were some temporary hiccups at one point with a new backend system but that was all.

So I don't see why they wouldn't be doing the same they've done with Whole Foods, which is maintaining the high level of service, because that's the proven successful business model.
> Species die, that’s the natural order of things for species in general…

When we say “natural” we’re already being anthropocentric by dividing reality between things that happen because of humans and everything else. You can’t hand wave away what’s occurred because of our behavior by point to the “natural order of things” when it explicitly isn’t.

As to why people are obsessed. It’s just a value judgement? You might as well asked why certain groups are obsessed with getting in orderly queues and other groups deal with lines as competition to get to the front.

If you value not killing off other species then undoing an extinction would most definitely absolve you of that sin. I can see how if you personally don’t care about extinctions you wouldn’t care about undoing them, but you need to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes to be able to understand the answer to your question.
You can open up the item and edit the locations to ignore. If it already has your home address, you can make the radius bigger.
Cool, two bot accounts farming karma
Rare 1908 Harley-Davidson Becomes Most Expensive Motorcycle Sold at Auction
Not inclusive at all!
About real world implication ? Rather the lack of it, right ?
> Are you saying that a captured government is still in charge?

I'm saying that people in government has to decide to be captured, when it extracts free money from its populace with the promise that it will remain impartial.

> That’s … not how capture works.

This is never a useful thing to say in terms of furthering the conversation. I appreciate it may have felt good, though.
Yes, but if the original non-monetized version is result number 1 or 2 when searching for "angry birds" in the store, then the big spenders might never come across the version you want them to come across. You can't "fix" that by just increasing the price of the original game.
>But, when the gameplay is so absurdly easy you can beat everything with one finger

I haven't played Angry Birds since just after it came out, but couldn't you always beat everything with one finger? The entire control scheme was you dragged a little bird and let go, what would you use the second finger for?