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I think you need to actually take a step back and realize how complicated the world actually is.

Brazil is one of the major exporters of food in the world. And they get most of their fertilizer from Russia. Russia is cranking up their prices because of the trade war being enacted on them because of their actions in Ukraine.

Brazil had also imported a ton of wheat from Ukraine before the war. And is full of people that couldn't really afford a 15% increase in price versus the over 100% increase in retail price of wheat.

Just ask google who the top producers of -fertilizer- are. You can't farm without it.
There is constant energy expenditure to stay in air. Unlike with ground or sea vehicles that don't need it.
You bring up a valid question. The value of Python as a general-purpose programming language comes from a variety of its attributes.

Readability and Simplicity: Python was designed to emphasize readability and simplicity, making it an excellent language for beginners and for prototyping complex systems. This simplicity means developers can spend less time understanding the code and more time creating functional elements. Even experienced programmers appreciate Python for its simplicity and how it encourages good programming style.

Wide Range of Libraries: While you mentioned AI/ML/Data, it's worth noting that Python's rich set of libraries (both built-in and third-party) makes it useful for a massive array of tasks beyond just those fields. It has powerful libraries for web development (Django, Flask), data manipulation (Pandas), image processing (PIL, OpenCV), GUI development (Tkinter, PyQt), and many others. This versatility allows Python to be used in many different problem domains.

Glue Language: Python is also often used as a "glue" language to connect different components of an application. Since it's easy to interface with C/C++, it can be used to control and orchestrate low-level modules while providing a high-level interface to the user.

Automation and Scripting: Python's simplicity and wide range of libraries make it a popular choice for automating tasks, which is a large part of what any scaled system needs to handle. These tasks range from managing file and directory operations to web scraping or interacting with network resources.

Testing: Python is often used in the development environment for testing other code. Its simplicity allows for writing tests quickly, and its wide range of libraries allows for testing various programs.

Education and Research: Python is also widely used in education and research due to its ease of learning and wide range of applications. As these researchers move into industry, they often continue to use the tools they are most comfortable with.

In terms of using Python at scale, Python's indeed interpreted nature and Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) can limit its performance in some scenarios compared to compiled languages. However, many organizations find that Python's benefits outweigh these costs, especially when the limitations can be mitigated. For instance, using Python as a high-level interface to low-level modules written in C/C++, or using multiprocessing to take advantage of multiple cores and systems.

So while it's true that Python might not be the best choice for every situation (for instance, real-time systems, high-performance computing, or mobile app development), it's a powerful tool with a wide range of uses that many organizations find valuable. Different programming languages often have different strengths and weaknesses, and the best language to use often depends on the specific needs and constraints of the project.
Eh, you'd be surprised how much being able to walk to things, and generally being in a major international city improves your quality of life if that's the kind of thing you prefer...
> Short of that is is mostly security theater and marketing.

There is a difference between "security theater and marketing" and "threat model".

A random ISP in a random country does not necessarily have the power to take over control on your iPhone, so with e2ee they just can't read your messages. It's not completely useless, it just depends on the threat model.
iOS app is $25 which is wild though
Thus it has ever been.
By instead living in the northern or eastern East Bay (exhibit 12): https://www.freddiemac.com/research/insight/20170404-service...

Or by living in someone's backyard shed: https://news.stanford.edu/2021/05/04/revealing-complexities-...

Or by sharing one-bedroom apartments to split rent, and eating as little as possible, to afford closer housing and reduce commuting costs: https://www.reimaginerpe.org/20-2/Goldman
Vehicle registration fees are a way of offsetting a small part of the massive subsidies the government gives to vehicles. If anything, they should be much higher for everyone.
Mass burials during Covid? I think you might be misremembering.
Sensationalist doesn’t imply inaccuracy, and it’s the submissions that are being referred to, not necessarily the threads.
They don't; it's like a whole big thing in city planning and urban development where people who work in the city don't actually live there and have to commute huge distances each day, and how that has a profound negative impact on the spaces where that happens.
Aside from being in the non-canon section, that's the type of rule a Ferengi boss would invent and quote to his hot female non-Ferengi employees. Like Quark and the Dabo girls that work at his bar.
Eyeglasses are pretty common and can be dirt cheap, and testing requires only a ruler and a piece of paper with letters on it. One just needs to accept glass lenses and a chinesium frame, as all good manufacturers are bought out by Luxottica.

What are you referring to when saying that they're not universally available? Or are we including the people who don't even have access to water in this?
Interestingly, Mozilla openly talks about their telemetry telling them not only about the spike in crashes but apparently also about the specific website and activity users are doing at the time of the crash (Google Image Search).

That's pretty wild, I need to look deeper into how to disable telemetry reporting in Mozilla. I'm pretty sure even Microsoft is sanitizing their crash reports to exclude as much information as possible that could identify the user.
If it's two examples, it's not the same thing presented again in other words. If you are presenting the same thing twice phrased differently, separating the two presentations is important, and "in other words" is a perfectly reasonable phrase to do that.
Racket seems interesting, thanks for the advice. :)
It's just different expected behavior. Drivers have to constantly be on alert of people doing their thing. Tuktuk rides in Bangkok can be exhilarating because of motorbikes crisscrossing through traffic right and left of you. I was glad our driver was used to it and that I didn't quite see a lot because of the low roof... Vehicular accident statistics are the ultimate judge here.
The title reminds me of my time in a call center. At that time I was trying to earn an income working as an inbound and outbound agent for a large german telecommunications network operator. When I was fired, my team leader gave me the advice: "There's no trying, just do or don't do." (in German of course)

I think I had a moment of post-traumatic stress disorder while reading the title.

But binpash seems to be a very useful and nice piece of software that i will gladly give a try. :)
To be realistic, even in the Bay, 300k is more than livable if you're targeting a middle class lifestyle with kids and retiring at 65.

If you can't retire at 65 on 300k a year, you're not living a middle class lifestyle. Not even close.

Rent: 4k/month = 48k. Car payments 750/month = $9k. Using your post-tax numbers (which are wrong) that leaves over $100k per year for all the other random stuff you've listed, which is more than most people in the Bay Area make in a year.

(Also, you're math is wrong on the taxes; the rates you use are the statutory progressive rates, not the effective rates (so, for example, the effective rate on $300k would be approx 22% at the federal level assuming standard deduction but no retirement contributions or child credits). FICA is capped at the first $160k of income (meaning you don't pay more if you make more).)
>Like I can use Node, Go, C#, and Java at scale without being concerned about the low-level details, however, that's not the case for Python.

Well, if you chose not be concerned about the low-level details with these languages, then you can chose not to be concerned about the low-level details with Python. There's nothing inherent in Python or those other languages that makes it otherwise.

Or you mean "but Python is slow"? That's mostly irrelevant for many use cases, which either don't need the speed (web, administration, glue, controllers, etc), or depend on Python packages written in C/Fortran and plenty fast (which is the case for AI / ML / DS and such).

>it doesn't seem to offer any benefits compared to Node, Go, C# or even Java

Ease of use, less ceremony, huge package ecosystem including several de-facto standards for many use cases/industries, suitable for glue work, are benefits.
Never heard of Hy, will check it out! Thanks
Hmm maybe you're not talking about the same thing. I think the parent means that if your phone shows you the message in cleartext on the screen, then someone who has access to the phone can read it.

You can read the message by looking at the screen, and Google can technically read it because they "own" the OS that prints it to the screen. Whether they do it or not is another question, but they can.
I've been trying to see signs of this movement on webcams along the route. No success so far, but I was looking well north of Rostov.

This is the kind of event you need to look at on maps. There's a freeway all the way from Rostov to Moscow. It's flat country in good weather. The first big natural obstacle is the bridges at the Oka River, and Russian Federation armored units are reportedly already in position at those bridges. So that's where the major battle would have been.

Re: "absolute torrent of information". No. A small amount of information relayed through different paths and amplified. Be aware of that.
electric utilities are the poster boys of cronyism... regulatory capture, guaranteed returns by socializing costs.
The last part of your statement seems angry?

The story of Turing is indeed particularly interesting for the chemical castration and run ins with law over the big government interference in his personal life. If we talk just about people who have achieved things in computing the list is huge but if we discuss people who gave sp much and had government then take so much it's a different list isn't it? But I don't see that as being a bad thing.

So yes Turing is a great representative of an aspect of history we should strive not to repeat. That's not a bad thing.
It is really a basic physics question, no? Air has little mass, and so provides poor thrust under Newton's third law of motion compared to a tire on the earth.

A car on the ground will always be more efficient than something which dumps its energy into air.
Doesn’t mention what the business model is, so presumably this has to do with tracking people for advertising?
> however, that's not the case for Python

in what way?
When I heard Cameron speaking about this recently, I thought he was referring to two different materials being used, rather than the carbon fibre per se.
The tech lead position is great. It is amazing to work with skilled technical people.

The real position that needs to go away are EM1, EM2, Director, Senior Director, Assistant VP, VP, SVP etc.

These positions are mere reporting chains. They have so much free time that they end up playing politics and performance review games. Nothing they do actually benefits the product.

The ideal structure imo is Tech lead reporting directly to a director. It is the directors job to make strategic choices, and tech lead's job to split the work into composable parts that lead to delivery.

Multiple tech leads can work together, under the direction of the director.

All pay, performance, bonus nonsense should be offloaded to an administrative assistant person whose job title is called administrative assistant.

Make the company more technical, not more managerial.
I'm least one of misunderstanding and disagreeing.

Start with a set cover problem, NP. OK. Translate it mechanically to an e-graph in polynomial time, sure, that instance of the e-graph is still unsolvable in polynomial time. It doesn't follow that all instances of e-graphs are unsolvable in polynomial time, only that some aren't.

Your e-graph is really heavily constrained by the ISA and optionally by the ABI. It's also constrained by the code it was created from which will tend to have its own constraints. Constraints can lead to faster solutions.

SSA construction is putting phi's in, if you're using them instead of block arguments. Destruction is taking phis out. Whether that's linear time or polynomial or non-polynomial depends on how optimal a job of eliding copies you choose to do.
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Defining rules based on intent works when there’s less corruption. Otherwise the rule will be vague enough to extract a bribe or a blackmail by the enforcing authority. Once corruption is under control you can have things like prosecutorial discretion. On the other hand, having so many rules that no one can reasonably know, understand and follow will also lead to bribes and extortion by law enforcement if corruption is common. Essentially, corruption can take advantage of either scenario and make the life of general mostly law-abiding citizens’ life much harder. So, corruption is the issue and not necessarily the laws.
I'm dreading a bit a future where the skies are swarming with flying taxis. Every urban view is guaranteed to be ruined long-term if this "takes off".

Still, maybe it would be ok to have this trade-off to solve traffic.
It's about the number of people. Less than 5% is fun and allows you to meet all sorts of people from various places, at 5-15% it's already a bit more mixed, and at >15% it becomes disruptive to every-day activities and the place no longer feels "yours".

I'm just making these numbers up because I don't have a good way to estimate them, could also be ">50%" instead of ">15%". But that's what it comes down to.

I think COVID really highlighted the contrast; first it was a slow increase that you don't really notice directly, then suddenly none, and then suddenly a huge spike again. e.g. Edinburgh roughly doubled the number of tourists from 2012 to 2019[1] which, in spite of being a fairly large change, you probably don't really notice when spread out over a 7 year period.

[1]: visits to Edinburgh castle is probably a reasonable proxy: https://www.statista.com/statistics/586822/edinburgh-castle-...
In 1760 the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain, in 1801 Ireland joined with Great Britain to form the United Kingdom, and in 1845 the great famine began in the United Kingdom, specifically in Ireland. I'm afraid this feels like moving the goalposts; famine is always going to hit agricultural areas the hardest in any trade-capable country, because even though everyone else still needs food, everyone else still has things to trade for food (and if the agricultural laborers still had anything to trade, there wouldn't be a famine to begin with). It's a bit like saying that the Dust Bowl didn't happen in the industrialized nation of the United States because it happened in Oklahoma.
Careful, careful. The COTS part is a bit misleading as a great part of the total cost is in testing and certification. Some might be under the impression that JPL just took some COTS parts, stuck them on Ingenuity and that's that.

This is not the case. Of course every component had to be tested for space worthiness and possible interference with other systems. All that takes time, money, and specialised facilities.

It's also important to keep in mind that the helicopter was a technology demonstrator, a proof-of-concept that played no critical part in the overall mission. Its job was to perform one flight to show it can be done. It's a big difference if your components only need to do their job once, or if you have to have a guaranteed minimum endurance and the entire mission depends on them.
Data exploration is not dead
> They can definitely drive sales.

Consumers don’t buy Windows though for the most part (they get it for free), it’s enterprises that do. Consumers also definitely are annoyed by Windows becoming stuffed with ads, UI becoming less intuitive and stuff constantly changing, their default browser being hijacked by Edge, etc.
Python is easy to use and easy to start programming in. Much easier than the other alternatives you mention. This from a guy who uses python but does not particularly care for it. I love me some curly braces and hate significant whitespace but there is no getting around the ease of teaching in python and its beginner friendliness.

Why cant you use python at scale? Many ML/AI/Data tasks are exceedingly resource intensive but python still plays in thoses spaces as you elude to.

Are people writing realtime systems in python? Probably not but dont be quick to dismiss python before you know it is not performant enough for your use case.

I'm not saying python is the best choice, but it is often the easiest choice.
Suggestion for the author: the “why use it” discussion deserves it own heading. As I write this, that content is situated in the “What is Home Manager” section.
Which sanctions are criminal? What law is being violated?
There are advantages working in an interpretive (scripting) language and there are several science applications that use Python as the top level control language and a c-like language as the heavy lifting code. This plays to the strength of each language and casual users can use the complex functionality without looking at the complex code.
Do you know in what way it was 'acoustic'? I.e. was it listening for sounds, or was it more like sonar?
People voluntarily interact and should be able to use whatever criteria they want when doing that. As for twitter files, the problem is the government involvement and coercion.
Mark Zuckerberg want followers. More specifically, Elon Musk followers
falcon-40b also outperforms GPT3.5 -- is it powering Pi.ai?
Any machine can be perilous; cars don't have a good track record compared with planes.
Wasn't that one of the extra headlines in Robocop? Something about South Africa—still under the apartheid regime at time of premier—were “forced” to nuke one of their own cities because of unrest.
While that for sure is part of it, Wage Compression has been an issue for as long as there has been employment. You may want to relabel that as "inequality" but it does not change the fact that internal raises have always been less than market increases.

I think there are other factors at play, like companies being very quick to pull the layoff lever these days, quick the lower headcount in bad times, and VERY VERY slow to increase headcount when it is needed. This instability i believe it a huge factor

Also reductions in other compensation not just wages (Time Off, Health Care) and often inflexibility with the employers over all. Just to name a few.
All the time. I usually write a block comment explaining what I'm trying to do with a piece of code (method/class/etc.) before I even write any "real" code. The pseudocode varies between full English sentences ("1. Make sure the folder exists before creating file, 2. Create file with sanitized name, etc.") to more schematic ("sanitize file name AND create file IFF folder exists").

To me, it's comparable to writing a paper; I could never write a paper without a proper outline and knowing where I'm starting and where I'm going.
Maybe, but the average person there isn't “barely living” either.
This is what "Elizabeth Holmes" beleived in. I think this is a quote from Star Wars.
The similarity is between the Ferengi and the anti-Jewish propaganda that is so common historically.
> No, the only way possible to understand..

This is not true of anything. There are always multiple perspectives and ways of understanding things. We short-change ourselves and others when we think otherwise.
Does it work with SELinux? Asking for a friend. ;-)
there's "literally what human does (and that's why it's fine for AI to peruse all of your data, don't even question it lol)" (which is bullshit. cute for a sales pitch, but it will always fundamentally be bullshit), and then there are actual ways program work. and these two are pretty much disconnected, no matter how many 'analogies and parallels' are attempted to be drawn. we're not computers, and computers are not humans.

if a person were to "do these steps" and "do creativity" in that way - as in, "downloading something" and doing a bunch of quantifiable, traceable operations, as part of their process - well, shit, that's still gonna be just the computer part of it. not 'human creativity' part. still. if there was that 'human creativity' in the loop of 'downloading and perusing a bunch of IP in a traceable way', it's the latter that would be questionable - and useable, for questioning of, for investigation, for lawyers. and unfortunately, computers and their "creativity" work pretty much entirely in that "quantifiable and traceable" way. the 'human creativity' could be chalked up to 'well i don't know'. 'program "creativity"' - very definite 'an executable did this and this, and spit this out'. and if it reproduces well, 'here's a memory snapshot, a complete step-by-step of the process'. can't do that with brains. very doable for software. it could be just a bunch of incomprehensible stuff, but it'd still be a complete byte dump.

"it would purely be the study of the physical world" - well, it's still a very much existing option. would it make a difference if that was 'the only option available' or just 'one of the ways'? and AI studies the real world as well, through photographs, and 3d scans, and so on. art is influenced, and those aspects can be pointed out across artists, with some artists readily admitting, 'oh, I was inspired by so-and-so'. people do all kinds of shit with art, and get told off or even sued. art can be forged, with people making something in style and trying to pass it as a work of different artist and sell it. which can be a crime. is that surprising? and AI services try to sell their outputs as well.
This isn't kindergarten, I don't want all discussion reduced to anodyne abstractions. I think we can handle a robust exchange of views now and again, even if they're not expressed the way you would express them.
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There seems to be many entrants to this new sector of aircraft manufacture. I'm always left with the same 2 questions, unanswered.

1. What's the generic name for these aircraft vs "Helicopters?"
2. Whats the advantage of these aircraft vs Helicopters?
$25 for 1000 requests, seems like a clear business model to me https://proxyimg.com/pricing

edit: ok, I see, on mobile version the link to the pricing is hard to find.
The question is then why she was sufficiently angry to voice it out to a stranger. Neither was she a policewoman, nor was she a driver, nor was GP stringing along somebody she should be concerned about. She clearly wanted to avoid her kids learning that it's on to nilly-willy cross a red light (kids can't see in GPs head and appreciate that GP considered the risks)
We can know in this case: It wasn't, back when the Ferengi were first created their civilization was more like a cross between conquerors and pirates than anything else. Their current depiction evolved slowly over the course of TNG.
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