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>probably one the top 10 programmers of all time

By what metric?

Popularity? PR? Net worth? Complex software? Competitive programming? Impact?

For every "top" SE there are tens of similarly skilled engineers that you have never heard of
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They already are very popular. They're embedded in devices from smart home gadgets to washing machines and smart appliances.

The great thing I find about them is, that they are "hackable". Don't want to depend on some weird company and their cloud, especially with long-lasting appliances (which outlast the company cloud or even the whole company)? Just buy something with esp8266/esp32 inside, and there's a high chance, that there is some opensource firmware (tasmota, esphome,....) available.

(disclaimer: some times the "hacking" part involves soldering irons, wires, usb->serial adapters and knowledge of electronics safety, especially with mains powered devices)
I can't imagine how TCO will not be much lower for subsequent ones, though.
Your comment comes of as a bit dismissive, but I'm trying to take your word here.

A quick google search shows that the there have been policies [0] to prevent ocean dumping of nuclear waste due to adverse effects on the environment. It doesn't seem like something we should do.

Also it seems like you are implying that spent fuel and raw, unenriched uranium are somehow the same, which is also not true.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_...
On most of my devices, there is no scrollbar, or it's not visible until I actually scroll... and it's fine. So it's not so much evolution of the scrollbar than disappearance of the scrollbar.
Troll Proposal:

Make an SQLite add-on that accepts Oracle SQL and configuration. Enhance, with verve.
IIRC most of the houses in Japan are on leasehold. If you actually wanna buy land it costs more than in NZ.
Only if it is a public cache.
England is facing an imminent water crisis
> if the average person felt the same way, they wouldn't be doing it?

You might think this, but I tend to doubt it's true... people making these decisions end up being in their own little bubble, and not really have a good idea what people's actual response is.

That said, I find Substack's pop-up tolerable: I am after all getting someone's work for free, and I'd rather have a simple pop-up that I know I can get rid of than ads or other aggressive forms of pop-ups.
This argument is along the lines of ‘why do grandmasters waste their time on chess? They should direct their brainpower to things that really matter’
Just buy an OtterBox or don't use the phone near water

I'd rather have replaceable parts than a waterproof phone.
I admit when stuff like this comes up I think of the world analogically, the analogy being a big company with lots of divisions (countries, international orgs) working on a big important project "keeping the world on track"

Sometimes people make mistakes in the company and you realize this big mistake these people made make our "keeping the world on track" project go over budget this year etc. but hey, mistakes happen (sure we've made mistakes too, but really those idiots over on the AI department really screwed up though, huh right guys hah hah) so we're just going to keep going through it, try to iron over the mistakes, write some documents that hide the mistakes from shareholders etc. and keep working on the project "keeping the world on track" because we've got metrics to hit!

In short I think probably people realized early on in various other divisions of the big world organization that this was probably the China divisions fault - that is to say an actual 'fuck-up' and not just an accident of nature - and it was just useful to pretend it wasn't their fault until at such a point that things were reasonably back on track and then some reports can be filed indicating which divisions in the company suck and which are super cool divisions to be working at.

I'm probably a cynical type of guy.
Power surges are one of those failure state, where you never know what failed and how bad the damage is... Doing it yourself takes a lot of time, but can be seen as a fun hobby, but doing it commercially means wasted hours when you could have been paid the full fee, and a high chance that the customer will come back in a few days, because something else failed on the device and blame you.
Amount of tickets closed on JIRA lmaoo
Sort of but what made me think I had SARS specifically was the fact that I had this weird cough that persisted for a month after I recovered from the worst of the flu symptoms. That was very unusual to me.

During the actual week or two I was sick I had all the symptoms of Covid, diarrhea, shortness of breath, and the rest of normal flu symptoms. And when I recovered I remember eating a protein shake just because I couldn't eat anything else and I needed energy, and I remember not tasting it.

I'm not saying it went unnoticed for a year, it's just an interesting thing that happened to me that I didn't pay attention to until after covid was detected.

I even know how I got sick, it was on the plane from Copenhagen to Doha. Two thai guys were sitting next to us and one of them was visibly sick. We felt pity on him and offered him a pillow or candy sometimes. Then 1 day after we landed in Udon Thani we both got sick.
> The ISS has cost more than $150 billion so far.

The UK's "High Speed 2" project is currently budgeted to cost about $125 billion for its ~300mi extent. I very much do hope that everyone involved is asking themselves hard questions about whether this expense is justified by whatever has been gained in return. The UK is not a magical la-la-land where people have the right to piss away truckloads of public money on projects they feel are important, simply by virtue of invoking vague platitudes about the "need to reduce journey time from 71 to 52 minutes".

The ISS seems like a bargain.
what exactly bothers you so much about kids reading slightly more mature books exactly? it’s not like 50 shades of grey and 20 copies of A Birth of a Nation are sitting around in school libraries and plenty of kids read well above their age level.

It sounds like you just want to control things
I'm a sw eng, but at university I attended a pair of economics courses, more than 10yo. I remember teacher talked about the API economy, how everything would connect and flow through APIs, and I thought why a company would have given their data away for free and keeping the burden of the API infrastructure. Now API crackdown is real, green walled gardens are everywhere.
So let me get this straight: the authors of this study find that adults are showing signs of infantilism. And rather than looking at what are the consequences, they focus on the causes, and label the child - adolescent - adult stages as...traditional, hinting that it's just one of many ways in which we can "stratify" lifespans, so to say.

In fact, in the very first sentence, they say that this view is no longer relevant. As in, for who knows how long, it was. Suddenly it isn't.

This framework for viewing ways of organizing society as equally valid and inconsequential defeats the purpose of what, I believe, social sciences are for. I don't need a taxonomy of options, I want actionable insights!
Can you name a waterproof watch that has a glued battery?
Why not both? Good documentation with a reference implementation seems like the optimal choice. They're going to have to write the reference implementation anyway.
Not sure what your reasons are, but on a 30min-1h trip on the London Tube, I can see the appeal and not many reasons to not use it. Keep the "real world" somewhat visible for awareness and enjoy. Not much different from taking my laptop out and coding on it.
Extend selection is via the same select mode that vim already has, so that's 1 extra key prefix, and move selection is enabled by default, so regular move commands pre-select what they move over, so in some cases that's even saving you a keypress :)

Though it's not that it should be the only way to go (plenty of vim pros have adjusted), it's just visual feedback is very powerful, and lack thereof is a legitimate big challenge you shouldn't ignore in the "greatest" answer
I for one welcome our new seed-investing overlords.
Adding bugs intentionally? Based
Oh wow, I did not know about the upcoming policy to start deleting accounts with two years of inactivity. Thanks for mentioning this! So glad I got through ahead of it. How many people will not...
And thus we will have invented a lossy rarefaction scheme for communication?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rarefaction
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The amazing thing about QuakeLive is that it initially ran in a browser window. I'm not sure how it was implemented, but it was amazing and it supported Mac and Linux as well. I wonder why they then decided to make it into a Windows only desktop app.. :-(
You didn't want to because nobody made that claim perhaps?

I do it when i want to. So do Dave and Mary. Abby is a professor who takes a professional interest in it as it pertains to X. And so on. It's open, anyone can. Anytime you have a doubt there it is.

In cryptography we never trust secret algos, that's pretty normal. I haven't verified every open one I've used either.
1. Cooling. You need a lake or a see nearby.

2. A lot of custom stuff that has to be created from scratch, as nukes were "bad" (see point 4.) for many years so there was no chance to rise industry that would provide standard parts, etc. Imagine the cost of building every block of flat starting from the ground zero. It would be huge as well.

3. Red tape. Huge certification for everything, every piece of equipment, materials.

4. Lack of innovation for many, many years. If you wanted to work in the University on nuclear energy reactors 15 years ago you were treated by your fellow academia friends as a Holocaust denier or at least global warming denier. Green movement was very successful in making nukes look bad and now we have what we have. Germany could have been 100% CO2 neutral today if they have invested into nukes instead of renewables...
There are plenty of terrestrial intelligences. Just because they don't want to talk to you doesn't mean they don't exist. In fact, It's rather egotistical to create an artificial "intelligence" that wants to talk to you. It's probably more interesting to wonder why the intelligences that are here have little interest in interacting with us then to create new ones that will fawn over us like chatgpt does now.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Linux Utilities and Python Library
I wouldn't. My iPhone has been caseless for ~3 years. Dings, falls, 3 drownings, small kids just brushing it against pavement, etc. It's feels indestructible other than few scratches that you need to look for. Battery can be replaced by specialist in 30 minutes or so.

Wasn't it waterproof it already would've wasted 3 batteries + 3 devices.
When it came out I didn't quite like it. I was like, what's the advantage of 3D when it all looks so polygon-y? Duke Nukem "3D" looks better!

The atmosphere was brilliant though.
I feel a big difference here is that that Reeves is also the product, whereas in a company the website/app/service is the product.
> 2. They nearly-immediately went to the market, and spent significant time there to get the place loaded up with the virus

Wouldn't it be enough to just go there, buy some food, caugh on a few of the workers there, and they'd spread the thing around to other shoppers in the next few days?
> Did you mean to say seq/cst store?

Indeed!

> set the value to X unconditionally and return me the previous value

That would be atomic::exchange that maps to XCHG on x86, which, as all atomic RMW is sequentially consistent.

Incidentally seq-cst stores are also typically lowered to XCHG on x86 as opposed to the more obvious MFENCE+MOV.

There is still room for optimization, as if you can implement your algos with just load/stores and as few strategically placed RMW as you can, it can be a win.

Of course if there is any contention, cache coherence traffic is going to dominate over any atomic cost.
We first finished a Zig application three years ago, but that was a fairly small demo project which we didn't have to support afterwards.
Maybe complain about military expenditures or corporate subsidies first?
We've started to formalise TypeQL (TypeDB's query language) using dependent type theory, which fit together very nicely. Interestingly, the formalisation shows us how to consistently and safely extend the language with new structures for higher levels of expressivity, which is a huge benefit of type theoretic formalisms of production languages IMO.
People also seem to forget that the power plants have to be removed after their lifecycle. The safe decommission of a nuclear power plant takes decades and costs billions again.
> The earliest strains of Covid were by far the most severe ones. It's not that surprising to me that the very first patients contracted a strain more likely to put them in the hospital.

No, the only SARS-Cov-2 strain with (likely) decreased mortality is Omicron, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_SARS-CoV-2
The fact that Covid (as an illness) has become milder is due to the hosts adapting, not the virus being milder.

> The severity also depends a lot on viral load.

Yes, that is a factor.
Sounds like you don’t write tests
Is this what MEV searchers do, they scour and analyse blockchain(s) to find what such sequences of sure-fire trades could be?
In times like these, when there is so much opportunity and so many use cases are easily recognizable due to the AI hype and so much information going around, anyone can be a product manager. When the tides turn and we enter the next AI winter, lots of these product managers will move on or be cut.

It's very easy to be a product manager in times like these, it's not easy being one where opportunity is rare and hard to find.
> Lobbyists have historically stopped that one

Lobbyists don't stop this. Government chooses to listen to lobbyists. I don't understand why people don't blame the government for government failings.

Giving them free money from taxes and expecting them to not be bribed is not too much to ask.
They do different things though.

I also think $ and ^ are uncomfortable to reach for, so I remapped them like this.

https://jezenthomas.com/2015/05/a-function-for-moving-to-the...
A sort of parochialism which claims to be universal.
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>No, no way does a serious paper go to print with a source like that.

Many did it with Adrian Zenz ad nauseum and there's a few other outliers i've noticed. It's kinda silly.
People claim he's the target of a chinese disinformation campaign but he couldn't be an easier target if he tried.
From his far right political views to taking a number from a dubious source to begin with, rounding up a ton and then listing an even higher number or quoting numbers from a more reputable paper and adding some extra zeroes because what's a decimal point even? One would chalk it up to a mistake if he didn't pull constant weird mistakes in his favour.
Greenpeace was started with the standard oil money...
ca( and ci( might be what you’re looking for.
Your typical “it’s just curve fitting” algorithm is not Turing complete, no matter how much memory and compute you throw at it.
I especially appreciate them on devices that are intended to be used on bedside tables
It would be sad if someone has worked hard to produce this and it gets made redundant. I guess the world is like that.
In the sprawling expanse of online forums, an intriguing display of intelligence often takes shape. It's a labyrinthine network where discerning authentic insight from empty repetition is a challenge. A platform where individuals, often unknown to each other, put forth their assertions and speculations under the guise of knowledge.

A peculiar phenomenon plays out under the hushed light of device screens—a grand theater where the lines between jesters and scholars blur. Filled with words mimicking wisdom, these digital performers garner attention and agreement, even when their insights are more a reflection of someone else's knowledge. It's a dance of self-deception where individuals flaunt expertise in various disciplines, leaving the audience to disentangle fact from illusion.

Yet, amidst this tumult, some oasis of genuine discourse exists. There are those who engage in meaningful, respectful conversation, offering a refreshing contrast to the often convoluted discourse. However, even this refuge isn't devoid of potential pitfalls as seemingly intelligent and polite conversation may house misinformation and misinterpretation.

Digital interlocutors, fueled by a heightened sense of self-importance, often propagate misinformation convincingly. Their illusion of authority can be shattered by the discerning who dare to look beyond the performance and expose the reality underneath.

This leads us to an intriguing hypothesis: Are these digital scribes uncannily similar to artificial intelligence language models, mimicking not only the language but also the decision-making processes of humans? This analogy paints a rather abstract picture. Have we, in our quest for dialogue and connection, birthed a race of digital echo chambers that speak with the voice of authority but may lack the depth of true understanding?

As this digital spectacle unfolds, we're left to ponder the performances we've witnessed. It is an ongoing show where the actors might be unaware of their roles and the audience might not discern the plot. The landscape of online forums seems to mirror our inherent struggle to separate truth from fiction, leaving us to navigate the often blurry line between the two.
I didn't want to buzz market the place but that's correct.
The Marc Andreessen and Bill Gurley Schools of Pricing
https://archive.is/HomWJ
>The decade being berated for being bad for the planet was good for the planet.

The one where fossil fuel extraction increased year over year.
> Side note; does anyone actually think that chat gpt succeeds at rewriting things 'compassionately' or 'more intelligently'?

Sure. There are some good examples in the replies already. For me, ChatGPT (specifically GPT-4, via API) does a better job than I do based on sheer breadth and command of vocabulary alone. I've used it a couple times to generate emotional texts and the results were quite good - though I'm not actually giving anyone the raw LLM output. The process always looked like:

1. Me describing in detail the kind of message I need, who the recipient is, and what the situational context is, and then asking ChatGPT to generate several variants.

2. LLM generating 2-3 variants, each of which is roughly 50% stellar, 50% meh.

3. Adding any missing details and trying again. And/or, if one of the variants looks particularly good/promising, asking the LLM to generate variations of that.

4. Taking the few best results, mixing them together, and blending with some of the text I independently wrote on my own.

In those few cases (and in more cases where I'd enlist GPT to write formal e-mails for me; the process is pretty much identical), the final outcome was a piece of text that's a sentence or phrase-level blend, with 50-60% of the phrases being AI-authored and the rest my own, and 100% of it edited and reviewed by me.

It still takes some work to write a good message this way, but I resort to this, because that 50% of AI-sourced text I incorporate is stellar - all well chosen words and phrases (many of them I kind of forgot they exist). It's something I could write completely on my own, but from my pre-GPT attempts I know that reaching this level would take me many hours of agonizing efforts, marked by strong feelings of self-doubt.
Yeah, honestly, this is not in the same basked as discussing reddit alternatives. This is just oblivious.
To put it more politely, these people are expressing attitudes that, if they were ever widely put into practice, would destroy the liberal democratic foundations on which our society is built, including the protections that give them the liberty to express such foolish opinions without consequence. That seems insane to me, so I stand by my previous comment: these people are fucking insane.
"(...) Nordstrom never sold tires. But in 1975, it purchased three stores from a company that did –Northern Commercial of Alaska. (...) When Nordstrom took over the locations, it narrowed the merchandise mix to apparel and shoes."

Ok now it makes more sense!
Yesterday I prompted three different chatbots (ChatGPT, Bard, Poe) with a prompt to generate lyrics on a specific topic (VC investment in Europe) in the style of the Gaston song from Beauty and the Beast." They were all pretty terrible. Then I installed the Bing app that comes with GPT-4 and it did a fantastic job, so there's that. I don't pay for OpenAI's GPT-4, so can't compare that one.
Difficult to monetize it and MLM ize it in the same way
>By the logic of co-transformation, we urged brutal free-market policies on Eastern Europe, and then imposed them on ourselves. Having participated in the creation of the Russian monster, we are now forced to become monsters to battle it, to manufacture and sell more weapons, to cheer the death of Russian soldiers, to spend more and more on defense, both here and in Europe, and to create the atmosphere and conditions of a second Cold War, because we failed to figure out how to secure the peace after the last one.

>The development of Russia in the post-Cold War period was not the result of a Western plot or Western actions. Russian officials chose, within a narrow range of options, how to behave, and they could have chosen differently. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, in February, 2022, was no more inevitable or foreordained than the U.S. invasion of Iraq, in 2003. Still, it’s worth asking what other course we might have followed.
Here in Berlin plenty of people work on Sunday (service industry, gas stations) but all grocery stores are closed and the number of people working is significantly less than in NYC for instance. I like it this way ... but do kind of miss NY too :-)
The whole "lab leak" thing was one of those conspiracies that got you censored on facebook, reddit and many other sites.

Three years later, it's becoming a mainstream discussion and it became a realistic possibility.
Microsoft’s Sudden AI Dominance Is Scrambling Silicon Valley’s Power Structure
I've yet to see any evidence that they were ever an ally. It is true that they went from Soviet communism to whatever half-assed dictatorship/oligarchy they have now, that change was real. But it was the same people who were our enemies, draped in different clothing... why would they have the warm fuzzies for us?

Maybe if Clinton hadn't fucked up and had done a Marshall Plan for Russia, thing would be different.
You haven't met the Emergency Medical Hologram yet, have you?
Looks cool. The announcement talk about watching movies in the Overlay's browser. But I tested this new Steam, and according to the Overlay browser's user agent, it's Chrome 85 (actually CEF), almost 3 year old, full of security holes.
As of 2016, CEF's sandboxing was disabled[0], and I think that's still the case.

This is shockingly irresponsible of Valve. Especially with the NSA saying Steam is a popular attack vector. That's not even due to Steam's Windows 7 support, since the latest Chrome to support W7 is Chrome 109.

[0]: https://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/08/steam-uses-insecure-out-of...
Apologies. I would have admittedly ignored Estonia for still being a small outlier but you're correct about Canada and Australia. Seems they overtook the US in 2015.
Actually US freight train system is ahead of EU. It's just the passenger system that's broken.