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> I'm wondering, do you take more issue with the Redditors

I joined a subreddit a few years ago, printSF, I think (not sure) thinking that it might be more to my liking. The regular science fiction subreddit seemed to be more about Marvel movies (it's not just reddit that does this, scifi.stackexchange might as well be harrypotter.stackexchange).

I tried to like it. I saw books and authors that were unfamiliar (that should be good... it's difficult to find new stuff I enjoy). But then I started digging into the comments, and it was complete drek. There was one day when I must have read through two dozen, and "Bechdel" was in every single one of them. I don't think I knew what it was at the time, but one of them was a comment haranguing someone else about it, and so I enedd up learning that day.

Another time, someone mentioned Asimov's Foundation in a recommendation thread. The replies were bizarre.

It's clear that whatever they were after is nothing like what I want to read. We're not wanting the same genres. And I don't know why. It'd be one thing if these same sorts of people who were concerned with all that bullshit were happy and well-adjusted. Then it would mean that I was just some old fuddy-duddy and that the world had moved on without me. But they're not happy or well-adjusted, and they seem as if all they want out of this (and everything else) is to ruin and trash what they can.

I suspect that too many literature classes in public schools and community colleges are to blame. They can't listen to or read a story and just enjoy it for what it is. Everything must be deconstructed and hidden meanings revealed, the sort of hidden meanings only they're clever enough to see. And that opens up the cracks for their weird-assed politics to be inserted into it. Then every interaction between every two characters is homoerotic, every dystopia is a critique of capitalism, and the only horror permitted is how conservative modern governments are.

So yeh, I guess you could say this is a bigger problem for me than some halfwit in mama's basement trying to be an edgelord on 4chan and failing. And I hesitate to say that too loudly most of the time, because even though none of my words here are offensive, having described my personality there are those who would seek to make sure I'm not allowed to post ever again.
DC fits fleet of EVs with bogus gadget promising 60% range boost
I'm on my second roomba in well over a decade. I don't remember what happened to the first one, I think I gave it away in a move, but it didn't break. I don't know anything about the shark brand but I've never really thought twice about repair problems with roomba or heard about issues from friends. Obviously a small sample size, but this is something I don't get as a subscription.

That said, Matician's vision mapping looks really cool.
I remember using Lynx browser in around 1990, and telling a friend "this thing really needs a scripting language". Then I started using Netscape and kept saying "This thing really needs a scripting language". When Javascript was introduced, I was immediately a fan, dove right in, and never stopped. Knowing Javascript has been paying my bills for decades.
If you are a pension fund or an annuity you should be very careful about having anything to do with a Principal Protected Note or any related structure(this is basically a PPN ETF). This product has a history of the 100% principal protection line not working out.

Just ask Lehman Brothers about it: https://www.slcg.com/files/research-papers/Structured%20Prod...
From the article:

> The report concluded that the fudging of results under Tessier-Lavigne’s purview “spanned labs at three separate institutions.” It identified a culture where Tessier-Lavigne “tended to reward the ‘winners’ (that is, postdocs who could generate favorable results) and marginalize or diminish the ‘losers’ (that is, postdocs who were unable or struggled to generate such data).”

> There was no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne himself manipulated data in the papers reviewed, the report concluded, nor that he knew about manipulation at the time, but he “has not been able to provide an adequate explanation” for why he did not correct the scientific record when presented the opportunity on multiple occasions. In his statement, Tessier-Lavigne wrote that he was “gratified that the Panel concluded I did not engage in any fraud or falsification of scientific data.”

In other words, he created a culture in which fraud could be expected, and he didn't address it properly when it was brought to his attention. I'm not giving him any gold stars for ethics. But as far as I know, he didn't personally falsify research.
Why should a Political Science major take a spot at a college instead of joining a political group discussion on reddit? It’s not like it’s a real science and I don’t see any merit in it, nor what it contributes to college.

I’d much rather have athletes on campus even though I am not one. At least it provides nice facilities for healthy recreation (a lot healthier than just drinking a lot).
Yea it's very hard to read. I'm surprised that people are actually can follow the flow and can understand dirty tricks.

The most unreadable code would be the code that was intentionally obfuscated. Here I at least try to pretend that it is readable in some parts.

Thanks for kind words.
I never understand why people (especially in the US) have a desire to split everything into two opposing sides. Liberal/conservative, introvert/extrovert and many others. I think it's pretty obvious that most (all?) people are on a spectrum of many dimensions and can't be categorized that easily. These labels can give useful hints but there is way more detail to look at.
Hm... might have to check that out as well, I love sci fi too.. Hopefully he likes the books more than the show, hah.
This is an extremely cynical take IMO. Coupled with an ad-hominem "lunatic conspiracy candidate" reference. It's a low-value comment, not worthy of HN.
Sometimes they are the ones doing it if their visa is on the line.
Yep, that's basically an actor.
I've seen some situations where smart people did bad research because of deadlines related to work visas. Science doesn't care how smart you are or if you could end up without a home. It will take as many logical iterations over an experiment design before being fruitful.
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> in operating systems the kernel does that for you

Does it really? I am not an uber Linux expert but I have only heard of systemd doing that. Serious question, I'll appreciate more examples.

> As for scale, I don't really know how to reconcile "I'm fine just paying another 20 dollars" with "I'm worried about how my kernel will schedule my processes".

Sorry if I was unclear, I meant it as "I don't want to worry if the kernel will properly schedule N clones of my single-threaded program so I prefer to write a fully async one in a single OS process and work on it to make it efficient instead; failing that, I'll just bump my hosting so my program has the throughput I require".
I think it's more valuable to praise good ethical decisions than it is to deride bad ones, and we have more than enough bad ones bombarding us constantly.

>Or to come clean on your own and resign before it’s a stink.

I feel like this is what is happening, so we must be thinking on different timelines.

As it is now, it’s bad for Stanford. And means the hiring committee didn’t do sufficient due diligence to even ask people on his field if his work was valid.

To be clear, there's no net-positive here, it's still net-negative and I agree that everyone is worse overall. The thing I'm pointing to though is that this was the best outcome from an already bad situation and is done in a way that is transparent and is actually addressing harms and preventing further harm by changing the power structures.
#tbt Siri being unable to even start a timer for years
Turning the iPhone 6S into a digital scale (2015)
I add "-best" to my searches. It helps.
Timers are permanent on iOS 17 betas. You can give them labels, which I assume Siri would understand badly.
> I am seriously considering emigration as an answer to climate changes.

You and quite a few others. I know a doctor and some other people through him in the South of Italy and they're ready to pack it in because it's simply unmanageable. They're the lucky ones, with options and skills that are in high demand elsewhere.
Tom Clancy, the man, has been dead for a decade. "Tom Clancy's..." is branding that is pushed by Ubisoft, which bought perpetual rights to use the name in 2008.

They haven't really been 'his' games since before even then.
This is why my teams always provide explicit opportunities and spaces for professional development. People should have the opportunity to stretch and grow; if you don't provide those opportunities explicitly, then your most motivated employees will find them implicitly. And you can't afford to not keep your most motivated employees, so you'll end up paying with tech debt instead of Engineeer prof development time.
I could be wrong, but isn't every multi-task / RTOS essentially supporting this? Wake up, check flags, do work if required.

Of course if you're bare-metal programming, it might be nice to have a lightweight mechanism for this.
I agree with this.

Like, alone, one on one and small groups of 4-6 people are great. I have very enjoyable memories of lounging around with bands after a show, just hanging out, drinking something, shooting some shit about music and life. Our boardgame round is similar, 3-4 people, we have similar interests, we know each other. I very much value these rounds. You can focus on people, you can listen to them, speaking rights are respected. Sometimes there is also nothing to say and that's fine.

Crowds are also no issue. Find or form your bubble, or just be part of the faceless crowd. Or just drift around, bump into people, be part of a pit or another. It's wonderful.

But being forced to get to know 50 people over the next 20 minutes just a little bit? That's terrifying and I know I will shut down and flee from the situation. And if I don't, I won't remember anyone. And hell, in a more compatible environment, I remember people from concerts at a festival 2 years ago by face alone because we had fun and had a good time and talk without even knowing their name (and as I learned now, it's Pet, haha).
> Traditionally, dev kits are sold at roughly the cost to produce them, perhaps with a small markup.

Maybe, but pre-arduino dev kits were often hundreds of dollars because doing low-volume PCB manufacturing was expensive. Now that it's cheap, Arduino is kind of obsolete.
so based. But I do have to say that when the president of one of your top institutions resigns over misconduct, the level of misconduct is probably a fair amount over optimal. And speaking with my friends in, eg, alzheimer's research, the fraud and inability to trust the veracity of unreplicated results does really slow down work in the field.
Ok, one reason I can think of why you'd want to be UTF-8 aware is so that your error messages at any part of the parser could point to the exact column in the line of text. The line number you could get without being UTF-8 aware. But the column number you couldn't get without being UTF-8 aware.
How much do you need a laptop? I had a similar setup for a long time, and when I finally upgraded I went with a studio and two monitors. I kept my old laptop for travel, and it keeps up reasonably because I don’t tend to have as many projects open at one time when I’m traveling.

Getting away from a laptop let me get a better-specced machine for the same price. I’m loving it so far.
I've had a really bad time over the years with the USB chips in the clones, to the point where if I'm using a clone these days, I won't even attempt to use its USB and I'll just use ICSP to program the arduino clone. For cases where I know I'm going to want to use the USB I'll happily buy a genuine Arduino.
The author, Phillip Torrone, talked a little about the article during one of their live shows, starting around 12:25 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/live/EOzkO33PnrI?feature=share
I am somewhat mind-blown by that government waste adage. While I supposed that in some technical sense it could be true, I would like to have a blunt conversation with anyone who believes government waste is anywhere near parity with the costs of trying to eliminate government waste
I am quite the same, we call this "social hangover".
Interesting, this reminded me of Toki Pona ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona), but it has different goals (Toki Pona was not intended to be an auxiliary language)
No as it has nothing to do with their objections.
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On a bit of a side note. I have been thinking of rebuilding my blog/site from the ground up to be simpler, cleaner, and have more info. Your site just gave me a ton of inspiration on how to make it better and how to make use of it better. Especially since I am trying to go the more POSSE/IndieWeb route.

I was even considering making a historical section where I unearth old projects and sites I built. I recently found the wayback machine had saved some of my old blogs and sites that I have lost, so I plan to back them up and put them up as a historical type thing on my site and your layout gives me ideas on how to do it best.
You realize people have been doing those things since the 70s?
As far as the questions to ask, I really like what Bing has done in including some relevant questions that can be selected to follow up.
In the lefty commie California Bay Area where everyone "believes in the science", I was never, ever stopped by the lockdown police to ask why I was outside. I don't know why the UK issuing thousands of fines is relevant to this discussion.
These activities are examples of self gratification, they don't give anything to others and are bad for this reason. Imagine a group of cells in your body engaging in this behavior: they grab energy from others, spend it on rattling their mitochondrias, and give nothing back. Imagine if most cells in your body were like that.
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My father majored in Journalism, despite having a much more mathematical leaning mind, and small business career. He swears it was the best decision with similar arguments. I'm not 100% convinced it should be the one and only major as he did, but a dual major/minor does sound great.
Maybe?

Apple already has plenty of existing Siri headaches where features fail when a HomePod doesn't see your phone on Wifi.
Who cares about making money or not, plenty of ways to make money, but that's not the purpose of a non-profit organization dedicated to education.
"A database of retractions shows that only four in every 10,000 papers are retracted."

Every time a plane crashes it's international news. But just because you regularly hear about plane crashes doesn't mean flying is unsafe.
Me too. Just install this on Windows boxes and TUIs in putty are good.
You know barely any of the money goes to him personally right? Grants aren't lottery tickets.
> I think it's more valuable to praise good ethical decisions than it is to deride bad ones,

I agree. But I don’t think this is a good ethical decision. It’s not a decision at all. He was fired and Stanford PR made a statement for him. I don’t think that’s praiseworthy.

Or I suppose we could praise him for not murdering people. And lots of other things that are extremely common and I don’t think noteworthy.

I think it’s also worth reflecting on terrible decisions and people who make them and use mistakes of others to learn.
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And then when it does rain the ground is so dried out that the rain runs right through the topsoil into the layers beneath.
Some businesses are strangely irrational about overpricing. Occasionally I've seen something that was obviously much more expensive than the T&M required, but much less expensive than what it would replace and the company balks because "It doesn't cost you anywhere near that to make it."

That's the exception rather than the rule though.
I'll add stern (https://github.com/stern/stern) to that - follow logs from multiple pods easily.
If you're asking why do coroutines exist, it's because context switching in kernel space and synchronization have very high overhead by comparison. You use those features when you want parallelism, not concurrency.

For parallelism, you also usually want a userspace task scheduler because simply spawning threads in kernelspace is much slower. Cilk and Go provide this built into their language runtime.
Ha! Nigel Farage is hardly a victim! He's a xenophobic bully who helped bring about Brexit. He should realize that other companies would not want to bank with him and have the right to severe relations. Although I am not sure whether it's his balance or reputation which was the reason for his ejection.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/19/nigel-...
Thanks for defining my mental illness out of existence.

Bye now.
I note that with a vocabulary of 1,000 words it is roughly 10x the size of Toki Pona, a conlang which also aims for minimalism.

That said, Toki Pona's goal is to help clarify thought, whereas this seems to intend to prioritize communication more highly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona
I see a fundamental misunderstanding, even among so-called profesionals, about what introvert vs extrovert actually means. I am an introvert but struggled with the traditional definitions. This article builds on and complicates these incorrect foundations.

Here's the simplest explanation that I have found: social interactions cost introverts energy. Extroverts gain energy from social interactions. When I heard this, it was liike a light bulb going off. It's not that I, as an introvert, didn't like people or exclusively preferred being alone. It's that too much social interaction is, quite literally, exhausting. That doesn't mean it's avoided at all cost or that social interaction can't be or isn't enjoyed.

If you've met a true extrovert you'll know this. For such people, social interaction really can resemble a high. It can be something they crave and they can crash from.

Larger groups are just more social interaction. It can be easier with known people (eg family gatherings) because the processing cost of the social interactions is less and there are fewer unknowns.
And what they'll pay is always negotiable, especially in enterprise sales where you would see $50k type prices.
The introvert/extrovert spectrum is an aspect of personality that seems to hold true across all cultures. Everywhere we've looked, there are some people that prefer to be by themselves more, and some people that prefer to be with other people more. The distribution of these people follow a standard bell curve. This is probably the single most well supported concept in the scientific literature on the topic of Personality Psychology. I'm dismayed that the author only made one reference in his blogpost -- a century old quote.

It's absolutely crazy that this exists across cultures and implies that the disposition is biological in nature. The term has its flaws, and its pop-psychology understanding is limiting. I do think the concept is pointing towards something universal about human psychology.
Two sides is the most stable form of competition, it's why there are very few sports that have more than two teams. (Card games, maybe.) A few years ago I saw a great essay/blog post/paper/something that made this point really elegantly, about how conflicts seem to naturally resolve into two sides, but I haven't managed to find it again.
To be fair, in most cases only cinema enthusiasts really need to concern themselves with what the director's ideal presentation is. The overwhelming majority of people probably couldn't even recount to you which movies they've seen in which formats.

For someone (like yourself) who is aware of and interested in the differences in presentational formats, it does suck that formats like IMAX 1570 have very few locations around the world (heck, that's even true of IMAX GT). But it wouldn't be any better for you if those formats just didn't exist at all!

Perhaps one could argue that, because the IMAX GT exists, Christopher Nolan is making filmmaking decisions that compromise how the film will end up looking on more traditional (e.g. 2.39:1) presentational formats. Or in other words, one might argue "Oppenheimer would look better on 2.39:1 if Nolan had shot it specifically for 2.39:1." But I tend to think that Nolan probably realizes that the vast majority of people won't see it in IMAX, and I doubt the compromises are significant.
do you have a source for this by any chance? or screenshot?

thank you
Is it maybe doing input control stuff? Aka, prevent drivers from going full throttle from stop, maybe cap the max speed, stuff like that?
Read Dilbert comics.

Learn to speak buzzwordese.

10X your ego.

/s?
Any plans on Ruby?
C programs start out in the "C" locale, so just using fgetwc() won't work out of the box (or won't do what you expect it to do). You'll need to call setlocale("") to get the expected behavior.
I don't think the baseline is the same. The more competition, the more temptation to cheat. When the margins to win are small enough, cheaters are disproportionately rewarded.

Think of Tour de France. Famously doping-riddled. There are a lot of clean cyclists, but they are much less likely to be able to compete in the tour.

You can fight cheating with policing: doping controls, etc. But as the competition gets more extreme, the more resources you need to spend on policing. There's a breaking point, where what you need to spend on policing exceeds what you get from competition.

This is why almost no municipalities have a free-for-all policy for taxis. There are too many people technically able to drive people for money. All that competition drives prices lower, sure, but asymptotically. You get less and less lower prices the more competition you pile on - but the incentives for taxi drivers to cheat (by evading taxes, doing money laundering as a side gig etc.) keep growing. London did an interesting thing - with their gruelling geography knowledge exam, they tried to use all that competitive energy to buy something other than marginally lower prices. Still incentive to cheat, of course, but catching cheaters on an exam is probably cheaper and easier than catching cheaters in the economy.

(Municipalities that auction taxi permits get to keep most of the bad incentives, without the advantage of competition on price.)
It's definitely a source of wasted effort (I think almost every postgrad student has a story of trying and failing to get something described in a paper to work), but I would say that fraud is only a small fraction of failure to replicate cases. It's also quite common that there is some other factor making it difficult to get something working in your lab that worked somewhere else (which to be clear is still a problem, but a different one).
Even LLMs are starting to get this treatment, as they become less mystical and more familiar
The nice thing about Iosevka is that you can customize those and many other glyphs to taste!

I switched from DejaVu Sans Mono earlier this year, and haven't looked back - so much so that I set up Git LFS support on my Emacs init repo, just so I could add the custom-built .ttf and have Iosevka available on every machine where I do any meaningful work with text of any kind.

Sure, DejaVu Sans Mono (Menlo, et al) are "good enough", and that's fine. For me at least, Iosevka is great.
Don't we think this probably applies to any of the humanities though? What you described, at least, is the practice of careful, critical research followed by exegesis.
do me a favor and look up all the papers in thinking fast and slow that failed to replicate