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And that's probably one of the many reasons I can't get a job: I'm too careful.
> Where did I say that? Nowhere, that's where

I never said that you did. I did, and you're taking it out of context.

>> Solar radiation management [problems]

> And where did I write this was "good"? That's right: nowhere again. I said "bad, but manageable"

You're misquoting youself.

You said that climate warming is bad, but manageable. And I don't agree with you there.

> See the Simon / Ehrlich wager

This bet was over a relatively short timescale and on a very narrow selection of resources, and so doesn't definitively prove or disprove the larger issues raised by the Club of Rome.

> You can't make this stuff up. See:

Lomborg views are very controversial, and even this article has some serious problems.

- resource abundance - while it's true that predictions about running out of certain resources haven't come to pass thanks to technological innovation and more efficient usage, this doesn't mean that all resources are infinite or that extraction doesn't have environmental costs. Extraction and use of fossil fuels, for instance, is one of the leading causes of climate change

- innovation - innovation isn't guaranteed to solve all problems, dependence on it to resolve issues of resource scarcity or environmental degradation might be risky

- economic growth - exponential economic growth is unsustainable in the long term given the finite planet

- pesticides and organic farming - he oversimplifies the issues, organic farming isn't solely about avoiding pesticides - it's also about soil health, biodiversity, and long-term sustainability

- pollution: is still a major problem worldwide, particularly in developing nations, he doesn't address climate change (a form of pollution) with poses massive risks at all

> "my approach", the one you agree with

You're misquoting me again. I tend to agree that nuclear should be a part of the solution. However, based on the opinions of more knowledgeable experts in the field, I'm not entirely convinced that it's possible or feasible on the scale and timeline required.

I'm not with you on your stance on solar radiation management. In my opinion, it's not a solution at all, and it would be extremely irresponsible and almost stupid to even attempt it.

Sure, I don't have any sources to back up my claims - just as you don't, and that's fine. That's why the White House is calling for further studies, not the implementation of the idea, while a number of experts express serious concerns and strong reservations about this "solution".
Good question, in his twenties, he dated a lot and yes he was very picky. He did have one longterm relationship in his twenties though.

He settled last among our friends group. He is about 40 now. He has been married for about 5 years and before than he was with same girl for another 2-3 years.

His wife is a bit similar to him. Though I have never heard her complain about anything but art and literature are very important to both of them. Not just that they have very similar likes and dislikes. One major difference might be she is vegan and he is not. While every couple has their issues but, tbh, it seems they have fewer issues than average.

So it is like he found his soulmate and he is able to commit. (No kids yet.)
It needs no alternative explanation. Napster was so successful because customers hated existing options. You imply it's wholly their fault?
Warning: ill-formed rant below

I'm in my mid-30's and I feel like I've seen the change in my time. Some parents of kids my age were of the helicopter variety, but that was more of an exception.

Most parents I know now have kids that would have been considered stunted or even developmentally challenged when I was their kid's age. I don't know how to describe it except to say that they lack any sort of agency and act about half their age (this may say more about my expectations). I think there are a lot of factors that go into this, like having a 24/7 tether to your parents with a smartphone (and parents that encourage this), social media and news cycles that emphasize fear and anger (that affects both the parents and the child), the "safetyism" of post-Columbine-and-9/11 America, growing authoritarianism across the political spectrum, slight deviations from behavioral norms being medicalized and requiring adjustment, and children generally being deprived of autonomy and responsibility at nearly every opportunity by removing almost any potential for things to go wrong or get difficult (IMO, dealing with these situations may be the fundamental life skill).

Most kids these days have no grit and they shut down at the slightest whiff of adversity, it's like learned helplessness, except I don't think they ever learned to help themselves in the first place because their parents prevented it. They need some sort of authority figure and to be told what they're supposed to do, think, and feel.

I know some people in my age group that are like this. They had helicopter parents, and it's like they completely stopped developing as a person in their teens. They practically can't wipe their own ass without calling their parents and asking how.
Quite. Hard to read the headline and not remember General McNair.
And that makes him “shadow president” how? Was he the one with the most access as opposed to, says, David Axelrod?
Seems like the conclusion remains that the vaccine causes myocarditis for some small percentage of people and that both the percentage of people and the severity remains less than the risk of myocarditis from COVID itself. As an individual the only behavioral change I might take away from this is even if I am non-symptomatic post vaccination that I should minimize strenuous activity.

Strange that this study showed it was so heavily gendered towards women, while most of the others have shown it in men.
Try using https://microg.org/ to replace Google Play Services - it's not your average tech-savvy level.
Marines are the most prestigious branch of the military, by a huge margin. Plenty of people willingly join the Marines, specifically because they know they get to spend the rest of their life saying they're a Marine and with that comes (near universal) respect.

The fact that the military lifts people out of poverty is a great thing. It's a damned hard life being in the military, especially if you make a career out of it. But four years of service with a decent shot at an education and solid employment when you get out is a fair trade.
That's true, but at the point that you have to fire up a VM to use some software... That's pretty niche
It's the cleaned-up version.
> It only appears on Chromium-based browsers.

Small anecdote: I am not sure how you're detecting the browser, but this note still appears in Orion (webkit-based browser) while it does not in Safari. Persists even when I change user agent explicitly to Firefox or Safari.
Well, not exactly. The article had an implicit bent that standing out is a good thing. That's what I'm refuting.
So all those twitter and government agencies that sent emails saying they were doing it were.. what? Cosplaying and writing fictional emails for LOLs?
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Thank you. Design is very broad, what specialization do you think works best for non native speakers? Asking because Code to Inspire also proposes design courses now.
In many European languages preservative is the word for condom.
Software margins are good, especially compared to physical things. However, the marginal cost is far from zero. It scales with # and variety of users. Today, all software comes with complex dependencies.

Take for example any mobile app. Apps require constant upgrades to keep up with the hardware and software changes on the platforms. You can’t just build an iPhone app and leave it alone to be enjoyed by people. I’ve tried, within a year or two there will be changes that require developer work, if you don’t keep it maintained, it will start to crash and function poorly, Apple, for example, tracks everything and will start with de-boosting search results for your app and end with removing it from the platform entirely.

Google is the same. I’ve tried, I built a Top 25 RPG and got busy with other things. It went from Top 25 to deplatformed in less 5 years because unmaintained software just doesn’t work in most cases today.

Software is more complex now. All software is a conglomeration of lots of other software: frameworks, platform tools, libraries, APIs, etc.

Another example: Flash

Another example: All the AI software being written on top of the OpenAI API will be broken in a year or two as they roll new versions of the API and deprecate the old.

Software doesn’t just work anymore. The platform that executes it is constantly changing.
also it's probably very hard to get to that individual car on the ship, unlike how it would be on a road
I generally agree. The public presence that's given me a lot of positive attention is:
1. Having a custom domain
2. Using that custom domain for email
3. Have your custom domain point to a professional-looking page. Maybe link to a resume/other things.

I've had a surprising number of interesting interactions just because someone saw my email and went to my website. Some yielded job leads and eventual referrals to jobs through old-school networking.
Paying for one month every once in a while for software that would otherwise be very expensive is about the only benefit I can see for subscriptions. For instance, Apple seems to be moving Final Cut Pro to a subscription model, and a $5/mo subscription is pretty great if you just need to use it once or twice or very sporadically.

Subscriptions always feel a little scummy to me, due in part to the way they're often advertised. I think that "Only $5/mo!" followed by tiny print saying "Billed annually" should be illegal, because it's clearly deceptive advertising.
That is Czechia, not Norway.
I guess the ferry will have firefighters onboard. They should be trained on how to handle car fires in general.

They will then need some equipment to get EVs out of their parking position (forklift maybe?!?) and have some container ready to drop them into. It's a problem that can be solved with the right equipment.
Yes, it had a weak memory model, which I had to deal with when I was working with a chip subsequently designed by some of the same people so I know its drawbacks better than most. But saying that means it wasn't better is a non sequitur unless your only standard is the strength of the memory model. The weak memory model is, in a way, a continuation of the RISC philosophy: drive up clock speed and IPC by moving complexity from hardware to software. Just like load and branch delays, or (spit) register windows. As time has gone by we've gotten better at hiding those things under a hardware front end, but at the time it was a good choice borne out by the massive success of machines - not just DEC's - based on that philosophy. Yes, it was a pain to deal with, but achieving top-tier performance has always been a pain one way or the other.
Most of those topics require months to learn. Is it feeding you a small number of lessons each week?
Wow, I can’t believe you can’t see what is unethical about it.
I've been thinking of why the government does not want the public to know about UFOs. My current thought is if the government admitted there was something more powerful than then itself the government's power be questioned and therefore diminished.
> The low-cost CPU was comparatively as ubiquitous as the Intel architecture is today.

And you can still get them today... and they're still in fairly wide use. https://westerndesigncenter.com

> The legendary 6502/65816 microprocessors with both 8-bit and 8/16-bit ISA's keep cranking out the unit volumes in ASIC and standard microcontroller forms supplied by WDC and WDC's licensees. Annual volumes in the hundreds (100's) of millions of units keep adding in a significant way to the estimated shipped volumes of five (5) to ten (10) billion units. With 200MHz+ 8-bit W65C02S and 100MHz+ 8/16-bit W65C816S processors coming on line in ASIC and FPGA forms, we see these annual volumes continuing for a long, long time.

> The 6502 is likely the only processor family that has remained loyal to its ISA over the last 45 years. In addition it has served the widest spectrum of electronic markets through those years. For example, it has served and in some cases created markets for the PC, video game, toy, communication, industrial control, automotive, life support embedded in the human body medical devices, outside the body medical systems, engineering education systems, hobby systems, and you name it electronic market segments. I might add the 6502 has served in a highly reliable and successful way!

> As added food for thought, the 6502/65816 microprocessors protect millions of lives annually within embedded heart defibrillation and pacing systems. We are quite proud of what our customers and partners have created and continue to create with the 6502 Embedded Intelligence Technology for the benefit of mankind!
He very specifically called out that this advice is if you’d like stand out from the crowd. I think there’s nothing wrong with unconscious bias and him simply calling this out.

That being said, I see no reason this advice wouldn’t work on hiring managers with less experience blogging.
> What if the person does make decent software, but is a huge influencer?

Then they would probably be able to make more money selling subscriptions than other developers that are less known.
I don't know how different that would be though from if they sold physical products.
One important thing here is that there is a limit to how many subscriptions one developer can sell.
This is done to emulate physical products as much as possible.

Also, they would probably sell the subscriptions for a higher price than other developers, since they can, which would mean that people who don't know about that person would buy from someone who is cheaper.

> Why not opt for the Spotify model? Usage = money. Why turn this into a popularity contest?

That means there has to be usage statistics collection in all software.
Since the software has to be open source, that could be abused a lot, including removed.
I also don't like the idea of having any requirement like that on the software.
It would for example require that the software has access to the internet which doesn't work well for some software.
It doesn't. It speeds up rust linking time tho.
Here is the path to attain employment provided you are willing to work within a given salary range and are willing to throw away any consideration of job satisfaction.

1) Toy around in JavaScript. You need to be strong in the syntax, but that's it so get comfortable typing the code and minimizing errors, but you don't need to be good at any of this.

2) Get solid on React. Spend most of your time here.

3) Learn all the popular tools that your peers cannot live without. These will include build tools, static analysis, test automation, bundlers, UI packages, and everything else. Keep in mind you will rely on NPM packages for everything because you can type in some syntax but dont really have any idea what you are doing.

4) Build out a portfolio and make it eye candy. It can work like garbage but it needs to be pretty. Window dressing is the name of the game. You can clean this stuff up and make it competent in the future once you learn the job a little bit.

5) Apply for jobs as a junior developer. These pay less and have higher competition for employment. You will notice that once you get hired everybody is basically a junior anyways despite their years of experience.

6) Check all the blocks at your new employer to achieve a promotion within the first 3 years. Bam, you are now a senior by title. You don't have to know how to really program. You just have to learn to play the game and manage competing priorities.

7) After 5 years of total employment already be thinking of your exit, such as entering management. At this point if you have not taught yourself to program on your own time outside the office you are likely really good at doing the same beginner things over and over. You are an expert beginner. Some people are happy with that, but your career is essentially capped here unless you have an exit plan.
While that is true, it requires a very specific understanding of both intellectual property law and the inner workings of development tooling that is pretty rare in practice. As such, companies are generally conservative in such decisions. Most organizations have a single list of licenses allowed for use rather than getting into specific use cases for specific licenses. These types of environments will generally limit uptake of copyleft tools.

All that said, I'm not convinced the licensing is the issue here (although I wish them the best). We are in a world that has grown accustom to free development tools and building a commercially viable business in tooling is incredibly difficult. I'm always amazed by how many developers I know who make a living by creating software yet are unwilling to pay for software themselves.
I notice that the authors of that paper are two physicists and a data scientist. I wonder if they even consulted a musicologist or a composer with a background in research before publishing this paper. What would you think about a paper on programming that featured no computer scientists?
This is true, but I think the main issue is whether people are quick enough to call for congressional hearings and decisive actions / lawmaking that would have any impact before it's too late. It's a race to the finish, and big tech companies always have the advantage. Of course, that doesn't mean regulation couldn't call for a reversal on what's been implemented.

The other side to this issue is despite the scrutiny towards big tech, they can still lobby and make any regulatory actions seem effective, when in practice, they've already gotten their fingers into influencing policy in such a way that doesn't ultimately address the consumers' concerns.
If you don't have an extraterrestrial on your AI research team, you will fall behind. I've seen way too many organizations make this mistake.
Sure. My point was that Intel's embrace of x86-64 marked the final door closing on any rationale for choosing Alpha over x86. >4GB without magic tricks was important even then for large scale database and similar applications.

Believe me, there were still true believers waiting for EV8 in 2004, despite the mounting evidence that Compaq wasn't at all interested in proving the world was wrong about Alpha.
Yeah, my advice is very much focused on "working for ambitious technology companies". I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that standard corporate coding jobs - where the interviewer might not even have a technical background themselves - wouldn't even think to check for a GitHub profile or technical blog.
> They did not omit it for fear of peer scrutiny, they omitted it because we live in a society where even experts at the top of their field can face brutal repercussions for having the wrong opinion. The lead author felt the lab leak was the most probable explanation, but said exactly the opposite because of politics.

So he claims. I don't believe him, and I don't agree with you.

I don't believe him because he knows how the scientific process works; that peer review is the only way to credibly challenge an idea. The only real reason he could possibly have for writing the precise opposite of what he believes is if he knows what he believes won't hold up to scrutiny. There were many, many ways he could have handled this situation that didn't involve writing a paper that argues exactly the opposite of his supposed beliefs, but that's the route he chose, because that's the route the data led.

I don't agree with you because you're clearly ignorant on all of the masking research that's come out lately that "contradicts" earlier held opinion re: effectiveness of the general population using masks to effectively slow down the spread of a respiratory virus. If it were so "dangerous" to speak contrary to popular opinion, why is it so trivially easy for the folks conducting the masking research to do so?

The authors of this paper had no evidence to credibly support their beliefs, so they wrote what they could support. That matters a whole hell of a lot more than random emails of Slack messages ever will. The system worked, let's hope it keeps working.
In fairness, I wouldn't trust X with anything whatsoever in the first place.
>I find it mindboggling that a simple program like text processors have to be continually updated for decades

Your assumption that a word processor is a simple program is something you might want to consider, at a low level handling text rendering in a word processor is highly complex work. Besides text encodings regularly evolving and changing over the years especially in the pre-UTF-8 world (but even with Unicode), there's also the reality that security threats evolve over time, and once threats are discovered old code that once seemed fine becomes insecure and dangerous. In computing the reality is that there's constant change driven by supporting a regularly changing computing environment, security fixes, bug fixes, increased computing power permitting new features that are then implemented and new ideas appearing, et al. Software will always be changing, that's the way things are, there's good reasons for this. Trying to oppose that reality with an unrealistic model that doesn't account for the causes of change just leaves you misunderstanding the way the industry works.
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There’s clearly demand to buy AI capable GPUs at the store at a low price.

But Nvidias monopoly mean a they cripple their retail cards and push the AI stuff to data centers.

If only there was many manufacturers of AI hardware and software there would be abundant cheap products at every level.

AMD and Intel don’t seem to be able to compete and there’s no sign that will change.

So AI is going to remain expensive and hard to get for a very long time.
If that was the case, then the enlightenment would have occurred in north africa first, then the middle east and then eastern europe. Western europe was centuries late to coffee consumption. Also, how do you explain the renaissance?

The enlightenment happened for the same reason that the renaissance happened. Exploration and introduction to new lands, knowledge, goods, wealth, etc. The renaissance was the result of western europe's direct connection to east ( china, india, etc ) via the mongol empire in the 1200s. The enlightenment is the result of western europe's direct connection to the americas via columbus in the late 1400s. It's not an accident that most scholars use 1500 as the boundary between the renaissance and the enlightenment.
> Respect to people who drink 0mg.

But caffeine and even coffee specifically seem to have positive health effects. If people are happy with 0mg they should continue that, but if people are happy with low doses of caffeine they should also continue that.

Personally I love coffee, but I limit myself to one cup a day and drink yaupon when I want more caffeine. This results in less sweating, nausea, anxiety. Supposedly yaupon should help with stress relief as well, but I doubt it's a strong enough effect to overcome learning that a new ticket is due in 5 hours.
Dangerous Liaisons – Software Combinations as Derivative Works? [pdf]
The exact issue you describe was a problem in a recent urban fire in the Netherlands though [1], the fire could not be properly extinguished under the embedded solar panels in the roof and spread further than it would have otherwise.

Having these corner case be an over-focus of an overall better technology is a bad human habit though [2]

[1] https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5391449/zo...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiYO1TObNz8
Ok... but the result of fixing that by whitelisting only Google is a de facto full-on monopoly for Google search.