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> Light weight timber frame construction on pile foundations

> But with modern materials (or good old traditional maintenance) thats just not true, a timber frame house can last hundreds of years.

I am not sure were you are reading that "timber frame house can last hundreds of years" but I don't believe that is correct, most timber frame houses have an estimated 30 year life span. A stone/brick house can last thousands of years.

I do agree that a stick frame/light weight timber house is way less concrete then a brick/stone house. But UK doesn't have a ton of trees, so the majority of those trees are imported from EU places like Belarus or Canada. Which is a bunch of gas in itself.

Pile foundations also have tons of problems, and have a very high fail rate. They don't do well with salt water, so costal areas in UK will have problems, they don't do well with stone/bedrock. Which UK has a ton of.

I believe there is tons of work to do, but I disagree that the solution is stick framing and pile foundations. I think the actual solution is innovation and reduction of some building standards to allow innovation. It's very very difficult to even experiment with building materials as every building code requires X insulation and any building official will complain if you have Y. So everyone just uses X.

ICF for example is absolute garbage, its marketed as a eco friendly, green building material that's made from oil and filled with a truck load of cement. How that got classified as a "eco-friendly green building material" is beyond me.

Meanwhile things that are actually eco-friendly like hemp, straw, etc all require a ton of engineering and have zero standards, so everything has to be engineered. And you'll get crazy looks from building officials when you ask for a review of your straw timber frame house.
Yep, I suggested that and I also suggested an IRC channel which I know to have active people that help with the same technical system that the sub does.
Just one guy, me :)

But there are a lot of different routes to go. If you want to do what I've done though -

1. Sign up for Oracle Cloud and try to get their free 4 core ARM VPS (these are at-capacity very often, but free if you can get them)

2. Install the Ampere Pytorch runtime: https://cloudmarketplace.oracle.com/marketplace/en_US/adf.ta...

(can also use the ONNX or Transformers acceleration image if you need it)

3. Install your Pytorch/ONNX/Transformers software, link in system libraries and enjoy!

Whole thing works super smooth in my experience. 7B and 13B models are very usable for chatbot type applications.
2025, now: https://www.just-food.com/news/uk-government-delays-junk-foo...
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I'm convinced the difference between the "10X" dev and the 0.5X dev isn't intelligence, it is rather the strength of the "rabbit hole detector". The 0.5X dev jumps right in, never to be seen again.
I've had the opposite experience. Not just google, but StackOverflow. Did these tools make me more "productive" in the immediate sense of closing feature request tickets? Sure, absolutely.

But these are all crutches for the mind. I don't know about you, but my capability and skill as a developer has only ever been improved by meeting dead-ends, and doing the cognitively demanding work of actually understanding the system I'm working on at a deep level, and deriving solutions myself.

Google, StackOverflow and the like have definitely improved raw feature delivery rates, but they have indisputably made me dumber and less skilled.

As for LLMs, I'm on the fence. I am using GPT-4 in some code generation utilities I've written to speed up mundane tasks, and I do not yet believe it impinges on my ability to learn, as these are just mundane tasks. But there's a good chance this will change if I ever get access to the 32K token model, or GPT-5, GPT-6, etc are released and will be much more capable.
Scam based on planned obsolescence.

Big tech has the monopoly of web engines via grosteque and absurde size and complexity (that includes their respective c++ compilers).

How to regulate: everything which can reasonably have a noscript/basic (x)html portal should have but for the web sites which are "critical", "should" is "must".

In other words: the big must interoperate with the small.

Big tech hates technical simplicity, but able to do a good enough job, and that, stable in time.
I am a Sony shooter who used to use Canon, but that review makes me a little jealous for Nikon shooters. Definitely though the third party lenses for Sony are great, back when I used Canon I thought of Sigma lenses as promising but problematic but now I think they are great.
Oh whoops it’s actually 4 million per day! Good catch.
Renewables are great but they don't provide a good base capacity capability. That means you still need hydro, geothermal (both limited), coal, gas, oil or nuclear in your grid, with enough capacity to provide energy in case it's not sunny or windy. Large scale storage using batteries is simply not feasible at this point, which is why nuclear is still a good bridge technology until we figure that out.

Unfortunately your misconception is very popular, and I think a large part of why a lot of people don't support nuclear.
Those large number of cores come with a diminishing return (see this benchmark, for example: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/services/hpc-newsletter/cfd-simulat...)
that may account for a small part of it, but the article goes into detail on what actually accounts for it
Firstly, no “addict” wants to die from their addiction. Second, “addicts” is a tiny subset of “drug users”.

“Drug users” would benefit from poison and allergen warnings, just like “food users”.
Cement is used in most city infrastructure, for industrial builds, etc. The demand for it in the U.S. probably dwarfs the UK several times over despite lumber use for houses, and poured concrete no longer popularly used for foundations.

If you want to abate it, you'd need to look far beyond that particular use-case in the UK. I don't see low-hanging fruit here. Cement is reliable and inexpensive. There is R&D in the works for eco-cement, but this appears to be in early stages.

It's possible to reduce emissions in its production in the first place. Notwithstanding the calcium carbonate, energy inputs (which are very high) could eventually not rely on fossil fuels.

If the goal is to pursue an aggressive timeline for curbing CO2 emissions then probably CC & electrical will appear first.
> The team had several people in every time zone

Kind of hard to believe
There's also the fact that those complex solutions aren't engineered by a solo developer but by teams, typically even multiple teams each working on a compartmentalized piece of the whole thing.
Why, I place my files in there, that is, the files I actually care about and work with. And no, I don't appreciate the bash configs lying just in the root of $HOME. Or that idiotic ".sudo_as_admin_successful" file neither.
I didn’t see that part, only skimmed as it’s pretty long.

A tourniquet won’t do anything for a needle stick injury. That’s pretty silly. A virus landing in a capillary bed takes 1 minute to reach the heart.

If the tourniquet somehow did stop fast enough, what will they do? Debride the entire area? Sounds like total bullsh.
I think he's just rebelling a bit against the culture of caring about scale and performance. A culture that has been pushed out by FAANG that also has some academic undertones. The subtext he's giving is: it doesn't really matter.

That's what I read into it, because that's what I identify with. I've met so many fellow CS students (back in the day) who cared about performance optimization. I never cared. I just wanted it to be simple, working and done. I cared about clean code because I had a hard time understanding anything else. I felt allergic to over-engineering because it portrays a whole host of thoughts/emotions that just hurt my brain empathizing with it how it would feel if I'd have those. So I kept things simple too.

Usually the repercussions aren't really there. When they are there, then they need to be there and it's usually a sign that your product and the place in the market you're at is evolving. Code is a living thing. Sometimes a big rewrite is necessary, but if that simple unoptimized code held up for 10 years (which is what I'm experiencing), then I'd argue that's okay.
Site owners adding browser fingerprinting explicitly is vanishingly rare however site owners who sit behind cloud flare who very likely fingerprint browsers is very common.
This is a well known technique. Law enforcement and mobile operators routinely use silent SMS to triangulate phone location. Smartphones now make it easier to capture a lot more than just location. We know of several groups that sell turnkey exploits/malware (to governments as well as other parties).

There is unfortunately no way to block silent SMSes without disabling the entire messaging service (this is by design).
Also on tesla:

https://electrek.co/2023/05/25/tesla-model-y-is-now-the-worl...
I found it a bit ridiculous that the author of the article interviews himself in the third person, depicting himself as:

> [...] the energy transition,” said Frank Bass, an IEEFA editor and author of the study. “Unfortunately, [...]

The site also seems to be a content farm, with the article rehashing the MIT study already posted here.
I do all of my code in notebooks. If your docstring is slow to read, it is a bad docstring. To be clear, a docstring is the thing you get when you have a function, you don't know what it does, and you press shift tab to bring up the brief description of what it does in a pop up (in jupyter lab). It should be the quickest, least error prone form of documentation because it is available on demand and is supposed to be short.

Using notebooks as functions is a bad idea. I think papermill is trash.

Notebooks are good for illustrating what you did and what you got. They are not good for illustrating how you did it.
IANAL, but they weren't convicted of crimes against US companies but NZ ones. If the US got them they could theoretically be charged with "different offenses" than the ones they were charged with in NZ.

That said, it is much more complicated than that: http://opiniojuris.org/2019/08/30/the-u-s-supreme-court-on-i...
But why would I pay street prices when I can get it with a recipe for 5 bucks?
Sometimes by accident
And this was designed with piracy in mind, was it not? It's pretty obvious in my opinion, even though I have no way to prove intention.
I worked in commercial nuclear operations for 23 years. It was a two unit site with unit one built first. It was designed as two identical units. By the time unit 2 was finished the regulations had changed so much that final reactor required operators to get a seperate license for each unit.
Exactly this. If I could, I would pin this comment.

It is not simply about job safety, it is about the career ladder.

When the career ladder is disrupted, how will even the banks evaluate someone’s ability to pay off mortgage for long term.
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It often strikes me as difficult to fathom that it took only a couple engineers a few months to build the MVP of the company I work for - that has since grown to be a global, publicly traded corporation with many thousands of employees - but it somehow takes thousands of engineers multiple years to, in effect, build it again. In fact, it makes no sense whatsoever to me and can only be explained by how much time is thrown away, day after day, with all the busy work involved in prioritizing and coordinating their activity, and by the possibility that an awful lot of us are not contributing anything whatsoever. Is this incredibly wasteful utilization of labor really be the best way to do things? I cannot accept that it is. The coordination tax is simply too high. If people were just permitted to focus on something, anything, I feel the velocity of the entire organization would lift.
Ask HN: What do you use to run background jobs?
Context: My workplace is outgrowing its original approach running background jobs, and I wanted to see what everyone else is doing.

By background jobs I mean anything like ETLs, reprocessing raw incoming data, cleanup jobs, backups, etc.

What tech/tools/frameworks do you use? Do you like it?
Advertising at its core is one adult telling adult about something. There's utility there and it seems like a pretty fundamental right. Though I agree that it's warped into a bit of a monster and should be dialed in a bit.
Id venture to say that as this is implemented in the authors post this could scale to many many thousands of QPS by just bumping VPS resources. Funnily a lot of these 'simple' techniques actually speed things up like writing to a local disk, or static binary.

Theres no High Availability so in the chance it went down theyd be screwed and have no failover but makes you wonder if its cheaper just to lose traffic for a few minutes while theyre upscaling VPS resources or pay for all the HA scaling stuff running around the clock.
The “10x 1x 0.5x developer” talk at the start is the only thing giving me that feeling. That I find annoyingly grating. Resigning yourself to some self-flagellating label because you don’t like to use docker is just begging for sympathy. I’d be more open to empathizing with the author if they just wrote about why they like their system. Doesn’t have to be a “why X is better Y” where you have to defend everything. Just “how I do Z with out Y” and people might be interested.
Simple != stupid, even though sometimes it's hard to discern stupid simple from simply stupid.
Claiming that a private company with significant investment in it has "owners" is not controversial. It's unclear to me why this bothers you so much. This isn't intended as an attack on Taibbi whatsoever, it is just plain wrong to say that a for-profit company funded by some of the largest SV funds is not an owned entity.

You can make the case that because Substack writers do not have an editorial process and fact checking that it is distinct from other news outlets and you'd be correct, but it doesn't change the fact that it is a platform that billionaire(s) have a financial interest in.
I appreciate the attempt at honesty, but it's not true that you're too stupid. You're too lazy. A trained monkey could learn these things (I know, because I learned them!) and you're not stupid if you know how to program. There's no shame in being lazy. Let's call a spade a spade.
Agreed. Hobbyist (and retired professional here) who fools around with IoT stuff at home. I've done lots of things with Raspberry Pi Zeroes that can be done with an ESP8266/ESP32 and with the benefit of on board analog inputs. Some of the devices I've used (like the Bosch BME280) seem to work better on the ESP and I suspect that's because the serial communication does not suffer from the risk of missed data due to managing the protocol in user space. The ESP is easier to program for real time either using FreeRTOS or just bare metal. Espressif's SDKs are a bit cumbersome to install but the VS Code extension helps to manage a lot of that. And it all works well on Linux.
also The Guardian's sports coverage is second to none, including The Athletic
So the S3 is actually a Xtensa LX7 processor rather than a RISC-V one, but the process is the same: “--compileOnly” to output C sources from Nim, and point CMake to that nimcache output folder.

With #line macros injected into the compiled C output source files, JTAG debugging and other tools just work, which is quite nice.

That said, if I was on the C3 or any of the RISC-V chips I’d look at using the C toolchain directly: you can easily have “nim c main.nim” call out to a specific C compiler with your specific build and linker flags!

The one annoyance in all of the embedded toolkits when trying to use non-C/C++ languages is always CMake; companies build component systems and such on top of it which a naive C compiler usage can’t really leverage, which means you end up rebuilding the whole build toolchain again.

Easier to just stick within CMake and use Nim’s C output instead, at least for now (until I get some time to write a nimscript parser for a subset of ESP-IDF’s CMake file format…)
Like I said, unpopular opinion, but yes. I long ago made that deal with Waze, and I feel I’m getting enough back to warrant the intrusion.
Well, they do what's right according to how they learned, which may only be a local 'right' and not a global 'right'. There's so many ways to put things together that you can make it work in a lot of different ways. It becomes more art than engineering or science. Then whether your peers accept whether it was the right thing is up to their preferences too.

All that comes down to the large variety of training everyone in the field gets, from university to youtube tutorials.

It's noisy out there
Wholeheartedly agreed.
The placement of the logos of the companies seems odd. Are they supposed to be part of the testimonials?
Byte was a shadow of its former self by 1990. Creative Computing was long gone. Dr Dobb's held out a bit better.
There's a list here: https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains
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Very interesting permutations on a classic parable.

As an aside, I think the original story is becoming obsolete in favor of a new American tale called The Grasshoppers And The Ant.
So she doesn't matter? Wow, our industry really has become a toxic cesspool.
A good proposal. I'm interested in such a layout system for building an all-included rich text editor.

Rich-text editors (like Google Docs and Zoho Writer) are inherently layout systems - with editable elements as children. In fact, both those products have implemented their own layout engine (including line-breaks and pagination breaks) to overcome the horror of working with contenteditable divs.

ProseMirror comes close in giving a reasonable level of control and makes it tolerable to work with contenteditable div, but still lacks the level of control needed for implementing page-breaks and complex layouts.

If we could build a layout engine (like the ones in browsers) that can practically run on user-land (in browsers and other platforms), we could eventually land on a cross-platform rich-text editing library with powerful APIs.
There's a third tier, something like "approved submitters." Some subs, especially smaller ones, would randomly add users to the list based on some criteria. These people would be able to browse private subs as well. There's a way to see what subs you've been added to as an approved submitter, somewhere on old.Reddit under the subreddits page
If you're on windows "Always Up" is pretty neat.
Yeah, but how do we protect and grow expertise when it can be easily copied in GPT-(n+1)
100 upvotes.

I don't care if I get 100 downvotes for saying so.
Sounds to me as though the patient's children simply regarded the printed word as more authoritative.
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I changed my mind about nuclear power
Are you sure that is correct for the German market?

I have seen articles about cheap Hungarian weed sprayed with Chinese synthetic "canabis" being sold as spice. Apparently it's stronger and more addictive.

But I must admit I have not double checked it.

Just found a bit here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_cannabinoids
This is exciting. Feels a little like JavaScript 10 years ago.
How does qualifying help if you ignore it anyway like you ignored my 2nd sentence in the original comment?
Have they found nothing?

https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-re...
My impression is that Vim feels faster (busier hands) but most likely very similar actual speed to a proficient VSCode/Intellij user with shortcuts and mouse.

I find myself enabling and disabling the plugin every now and then. It feels fun until it conflicts with my VSCode use and I remember that the objective is not to use Vim but to work on the code, deliver my tasks, etc.
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I live in a ballon-framed house built in 1926. Coming up on 100 years and with reasonable maintenance there is no reason it won't last another 100. There are some terribly built wooden houses that will just rot away, but it's not that hard to do it right.

Wood as a building material when used properly can be incredibly resilient, especially with modern mass timber solutions rather than raw wood.
I used Concourse[0] for a while. No real complaints, the visibility is nice but the functionality isn't anything new.

[0] https://concourse-ci.org/
The network of belief people have in this is quite impressive even if I think they are fools.

Still though, in the grand scheme of things crypto just hasn't been around that long.

MSFT is so close to taking out its old high while crypto is all 2X away from the old highs. Over time, crypto is not going to be able to compete with stocks of cash producing businesses. Crypto fools have mostly confused commodity investing with stock investing and not understanding that the upward drift of the stock market is from the cash produced from business. Gold and silver looked like pretty genius long term holds in 1981 from being able to hold them again in 1974 but gold bugs paid an absolutely enormous opportunity cost over time.

The worst part to me for crypto fools is that because the anti-crypto people have a narrative that the price is going to zero, their false beliefs are reinforced when this doesn't happen and won't happen. The risk is not going to zero, it is the risk of trading ranges forever like gold and eating massive opportunity cost.