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> mandate either including the source code

This could cause problems by making the size of binary packages/executables a lot larger because they’d also need the source
I feel the same. Mainly use it for a platform to track what I've read. I do enjoy giving short reviews for books that call for them, but I don't make it a priority after completing a book. I'm a huge fan of the discovery (sci-fi/fantasy) for the next books for me to read, but there's been a number of times I've been interested in the summary only to be turned off by the reviews to the point where I'm reading review less and less. I feel like I've found joy in books others have not and to be influenced prematurely is a loss.

Will say I like the yearly reading challenge, if only for myself. Says the average challenge is 61/year, which, even for myself as a fast reader, seems high. Believe I'm ~30 books. I initially put my goal at 22 books.
Also worth mentioning, where the article talks about "proprietary recipes" - that isn't just referencing one chemical in many cases. They will just enter that phrase as the full list of chemicals used.
It's always difficult for people to ask for help. The best thing senior engineers can do is set the example and ask for help when they get stuck on something--even if it's something they could figure out on their own with some time.
Collective bargaining is an option, but in this particular uber-monolithic form, which is in effect the supply-side version of a monopoly (a monopsony) it means the end for everyone involved, either now or later. For Hollywood writers in particular, this "later" moment has arrived. Watch the strike, and how it's failing (and will fail ultimately) and learn.

Monolithic structures can't adapt. They're toxic in nature and fail sooner or later, but not before they ruin everyone involved.

There are other ways. But that's another story.
This is like explaining a whole person's behavior by focusing on the behavior of individual brain cells. In reality, there is emergent behavior between those two levels of complexity that means the behavior of the organism is different than the behavior of its parts.

Specifically in the case of companies, they're generally deliberately organized such that specific humans in the leadership/ownership are not individually responsible for decisions, otherwise it would be easier to pierce the corporate veil and/or claim violation of fiduciary responsibility. Hence diffuse responsibility, meetings and meeting minutes, reams of pages justifying decisions, etc - what we commonly know as "bureaucracy", with a life of its own. Each human-reasoning-unit only focuses on some very small part of the company's behavior, adds their own personal incentives to not rock the boat, and then rolls the shit downhill.

So no, it doesn't sense to pigeonhole company behavior as just "human behavior", especially when individual humans in the system often would very much like to choose differently, but for all the incentives lined up against them.
Could be normal diamagnetism, or even ferromagnetism. Very hard to say as they don't even give any field strengths in the video, it's just a Neodym magnet they hold near the sample. If I understand the video correctly they just orient the magnet by hand, so I would not even rule out a ferromagnetic effect. There can be multiple regions with different orientation in such a polycristalline material, which can produce all kinds of weird effects. Not saying that it's not a superconductor, just that I would not draw any conclusions from this video. If this was a type-II superconductor and the flux pinning is strong enough to lift the flake up you should be able to drag it across the bottom of the beaker with the magnet as the magnetic flux lines "impale" the crystal, i.e. they are in an energy minimum and moving them out of there causes resistance as they need to break the superconductivity in the material surrounding the defect where they are pinned. If it's just diamagnetism that's not the case. So observing that the flake is completely stationary when the magnet is moved in our out tells me this likely isn't flux pinning we're seeing.

I'm a bit skeptical how they even know it's the right material, getting the doping right seemed quite intricate so it would seem quite extraordinary that they can hit the right process after trying for a few days. Not saying they didn't, but so far I'm rather inclined to believe they just got a ferromagnetic metal flake (which is easy to get following the thermal annealing process they did, or even by banging the material up a bit as they seem to have done for getting it out of the synthesis tubes).
Yep, had that on my calc, and then skipped the zero when typing the post. Good catch. Even closer to a pure vacuum!
> Look at that molecular structure. Incredible. Two amide bonds, a completely unremarkable aryl ether and an unsubstituted naphthalene ring system.

Something about this delivery reminds of the business-card scene from Psycho [0].

> Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it--Oh my God, it even has a watermark..."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY
I feel the same, been remote for 15 years and all this reinventing stuff and challenges seem a little weird to me. There was remote work companies before COVID that had been learning through the challenges and optimizing for it.
Worth it if it works equally as well in humans. We pay way more for cancer drugs that do way less.
What belongs on the other side of the scales is the revenue generated by the illegal telemarketing.
When I tried this maybe a year ago, I couldn't get actions/cache to work. It looks like they merged support - but I had to make other act-only changes to my workflow to accommodate it. I wonder if that's improved since then? Can I just run my existing workflows, as is, using act now?
I just want to say that I live in the northwest and disagree with your analysis.

The problem today is mis-blaming the wrong cause. This is like victim blaming. So the real culprit here is a century of forest mismanagement and clearcutting which led to massive fires. Combined with global warming (warm winters which don't kill beetles) and free trade which allows pests free passage everywhere. But you blame environmentalists.

Because of that, your prescription for more logging and thinning will likely have the opposite effect of what's intended. You'll apply a tech and market solution to a problem of natural collapse and human culture. Which will have unintended consequences and cause a further domino effect of negative impacts to the natural world. Note that this is why we will likely not solve global warming through technology, nor any of the 100+ other catastrophes comprising this Anthropocene extinction.

The real answer is along the lines of changing our culture so that logging is no longer required. We could grow hemp or any number of better natural fibers. We could stop interfering with the food chain, for example by not endlessly fighting the reintroduction of wolves. But these types of answers are a lot of work and take decades and don't appeal to ego.

We have to ask ourselves: if we're serious about preventing the loss of our forests, are we willing to leave the trees where they fall for no financial gain? Are we willing to leave oil in the ground to prevent global warming? Will we aid countries being assaulted who have nothing to pay us with? Will we help children to eat whose parents are on drugs? And so on. Or will we rationalize and whatabout and fail to do what's right for people we disagree with, and do just exactly the wrong thing. Our failure to act outside of ego is what will ultimately destroy the planet.

For what it's worth, I don't entirely disagree with you, as I was just on a trip to Yellowstone for the first time in 25 years after the fires tore through in the 90s. The new 6 inch diameter trees are beautiful but packed too closely together and will need to be thinned. It will be interesting to see how that plays out (nature vs nurture), and it could provide a sustainable model for other forests.
Would really screw up my tilde muscle memory.
There is a tendency to call any scientific work that came out of anywhere in the former USSR as "Russian". Nikolay Bogolyubov is probably at least as "Ukrainian" as "Russian": he grew up and went to university in Kyiv, became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, and now has a physics institute named after him in Kyiv (and another in Moscow) -> https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruse... and https://www.kipt.kharkov.ua/itp/akhiezer/en/recollections/bo... https://en.ucoin.net/coin/ukraine-2-hryvni-2009/?tid=8957

This happens to lots of famous scientists/engineers (Sergey Korolev, Vladimir Vernadsky, ...). We can do a bit better.
Is this true? How is this compatible with what other posters are asserting -- that the issue at hand is that Redhat will kill your contract if you start distributing the sources?
We can debate the various subtleties of "white" till the cows come home, but that is irrelevant to how accurate those graphs are. Let's assume the graphic erroneously counted 100% of Jews as white, instead of 90%. That would change the estimate of non-Jewish whites in the US from 55.4% to 55.64%, and the estimate of non-Jewish whites in the Ivies from 29.2% to 30.63%.

This changes the under-representation of non-Jewish whites from 0.53 to 0.55.

Is this so significantly different that the entire graphic can be dismissed?
Reminds me of the old Beagle Bros 1-line BASIC programs.
I think drones are mostly remotely piloted with limited autonomy (something like a specifically programmable autopilot), this sounds like it has AI making piloting decisions around general commands from a ground or airborn controller as the only control, more like an AI replacement for a human pilot than traditional drones.
But if they first need a browser to chew through the usual tens of megabytes of javascript so that they can finally get the 100KB DOM to parse through, they'll be way less efficient (and often run into the token limits) than if the page has some nice semantic HTML with some optional JS for interactivity (that the AI doesn't need).
Throw away 1st, second, third, etc... Write your code in small replaceable/disposable POCs until at some point the architecture and coherence starts to take shape.

That's the advantage of software over other work. You have 0 material sunk costs. Unlike building a bridge, which you can't just tear down and iterate, with software you can develop a workflow where you break things and iterate quickly.
If your software requires 2 different versions of the same library, there is something deeply wrong with it.
Varies widely on person/manager/industry.
Don't worry, they all have plans to be carbon neutral by 2050. They're not acting on those plans, and 2050 is 20 years too late, but they have plans!
OK, after reading your and other people's comments explaining ineffectivnes of the bombings, I think you're right, the strategic bombings were ineffective from the military standpoint, wasted resources that could've been put to a more effective use, and inflicted unnecessary suffering on civilians.

Point taken. Thank you for engaging in the conversation.
What VPN software doesn't run as root?
Even gamers hate gamification. External rewards often decrease activity, as the convert anything into a chore.
It goes back to blues, and obviously much further back. Probably back to when people first started making music.

"I Didn't Like It the First Time", Ida Lee, 1947 (aka the Spinach Song ;) )

"One Hour Mama", Ida Cox, 1939

"It's Tight Like That", Clara Smith, 1929

And the most explicit of all these, "Shave 'Em Dry", Lucille Bogan, 1935, which makes some modern music look prude in comparison. (originally Ma Rainey in 1924)
>It is generally written by standard journalists

It may be, I don't know. This particular journalist has an undergraduate degree in Physics from Columbia - https://dangaristo.com/about/

That's not exactly subject-matter expertise, but it's also not a standard journalist.
Your team started out as in person?

What kinds of things did you think about to transition to where you are? How did that transition happen?
It absolute is a threat and intimidation. The situation with the indie developer is not comparable. The massive power asymmetry matters.

It just shows that the correct fix isn't some dumb clause that just says "this thing that Redhat did is now forbidden."

A cleverer fix might be to require that the source code be made publicly available.
This kind of hysterical reaction to people having fun is why I want LK99 to be true.
In my experience, this is what actually happens. A developer makes a low-quality, low-effort prototype under the assumption it won’t ship. Someone sees it. It gets shipped. Everyone loses.
When it becomes a spectator sport, it's not longer interest in science, it's just wanting to be part of an in-group. Science includes rationality and that's sorely lacking in most of the discourse around LK-99. The average commentary has as much in common with science as the recent unfounded and unsupported hype around UAPs.
> When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. Participants in this study by University of California, Irvine neuroscientists reaped a 226% increase in cognitive capacity compared to the control group.

Sounds straight from the Dept. of Things Too Good to be True. Also - "The study was supported by Procter & Gamble."
Exactly what I thought after GPT3.5 was released.
"Delete it all. Start from scratch.
You'll learn so much. You'll do so much better.
You'll actually live up to the scale of your creations' potential."

But a decision like that would be superhuman by itself,
a transcendent experience, giving the creators a perspective that
seems impossible. Unlike what is happening instead, both publicly
and behind closed doors... A great pity!
Just read paper books, without involving devices, apps or social networks.

Analog books are a much-needed antidote to our hyper-accelerated digital world. They cheap (or free), portable and can be life-changing.
> just so that a few people can feel like they are evading government supervision. (Hint: they are not).

It seems like you're conceding your own point here. If you live in a mansion and drive a Ferrari and claim you only make $15,000/year to the IRS, you're going to jail like Al Capone.

Whereas what cash allows you to do is keep anyone from knowing every little thing you buy, which is irrelevant to income tax which by then you've already paid and also irrelevant to sales tax which is collected by the seller even if they don't know who you are.
I've never had luck with this approach. For me, iteratively building and changing the codebase as new requirements come up lends itself to having to think of good ways to modularize and future proof. The idea of throwing out the code and starting over is definitely appealing, but often the iterative approach gives me something I'm super happy with.

I think I do use the throwaway approach with simple prototyping of smaller portions of code that I will then port into an existing system, but the overall system remains stable.
Another layer on top of another layer, on top of another layer, that ultimately uses pip. Of course!

People want to replace pip with poetry, despite poetry being just an extra layer of complication on top of pip.
But it sounds like at least in China, there is some clear action they can do about it, so that’s the motivator.

What would some PhD student in EU who is worried about job security be able to do about it constructively?
What is the problem if the tools used come with a license that is prohibiting commercial usage? The submission doesn't contain many details.
That sounds like a limitation on the remote end that doesn't support high bandwidth. If you have 10Gbps connections on both ends, your link should be saturated (minus some overhead).
Longest-lasting incandescent light bulbs
Devil's advocate: if nothing bad happens resulting from the path chosen with that 10-minute-decision solution, is it fair to call it poor from the business perspective? Or even if something "mildly bad" happens, if the flip side was spending 3 weeks doing research until finally arriving at a 24% better approach, which of those costs is higher?

If the team/org is too high-ego to actually treat 2-way decisions as 2-way decisions after they get made, I think that's a bit of a different problem. The org has to invest in the "so we can change it" part of the plan.
> The basics are not that complicated

I know what you're getting at but your list isn't the 'basics', those are the symptoms. It's like saying you understand the basics about cancer because tumors grow and people die. It doesn't even begin to scratch the surface and it certainly isn't the basics, it is just the part that laypeople (myself included) see when looking from the outside in.

The 'basics' not being so simple is exactly why the search for conveniently usable superconductors is an ongoing thing after a century. Copper wire was solved on the day we needed it, and even if it would not have worked we would have had a whole bunch of fall back materials available.
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I would think the densities are still much smaller since most people live in car dependent suburbs around the city.
So Germans shouldn't be allowed to use "ä" in their file names?
I like to build my first version in one file with as few abstractions as possible. No helper functions, unless absolutely necessary, just straight-forward code. Building good abstractions later on is a lot easier than starting with wrong ones in the first place.
"The specific situation here is the startup will be much more fundable once the piece the consultant can build is done..."

I don't like the sound of this sentence...
I'm far outside of these social circles nowadays, but I stumbled across this youtube video of a phd candidate talking about string theory recently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E), and it seemed to imply that the pendulum in those social circles is swinging back again.
They formed a “concerned taxpayers” group in my area to gaslight and lobby against our towns own fiber proposal. It passed, but barely due to all the propaganda. So after spending 100k to go against it they’re suddenly going to lay their own fiber since they’ve got proper competition now.
I generally just use MIT and don't care about what others do with my code.

But for a more commercial project I'd probably use a dual license, AGPL + commercial license. Kind of like Qt.
> I had one tech tell me to have a "tree trimming accident" and just cut the line, as they wouldn't replace it otherwise

Just mind-boggling! Maybe you should have had that accident, after all.
I don't know where you work in academia, but even as an undergrad in the 90s, both hard and soft science majors at the UC system knew about the Sorbonne, and usually it was the first name people could mention outside of other US and UK institutions.

After that you might have heard people mention Canadian options like McGill and Waterloo, and then MAYBE a handful of European options in Germany and Switzerland.

But the Sorbonne was distinctly understood by a majority of peers for its status.
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I agreed with it since the beginning, as Jon “maddog” Hall states, there are plenty of distributions out there.

Thanks for pointing out his take.
I have arthritis in my hands. Switching to a super soft rubber dome did more for me than any of the tons of ergonomic layouts I tried. I poured a lot of money into the problem, including getting a Kinesis Advantage. I don't think they actually have much medical benefit at all. I think everything they achieve can be achieved by just placing your hands in a more comfortable position.

My current keyboard of choice is actually a Unix layout Sun Type 7. Keys are very easy to push but not mushy.
And the author's life must be very limiting and contained. This doesn't sound good at all.
This is because if the gas range was longer than the EV range it wouldn't qualify for the US federal EV tax rebate so BMW software limited the range. In europe it's not limited.
These look very cool, I wonder if there is anything supporting rokutv to set photo wallpapers picked from my server, do you happen to know any?

Thanks.
Yeah, this article has all the smacking of major news players with egg on their face. Like that front page of a magazine with Jeff Bezos on it mocking him for starting AWS.
> corporate policies, material interests, and countless other drivers of corporate decisionmaking

And those policies came from...?

And those material interests relate to...?

...the ether? Jesus Christ? The "Invisible Hand"? The void?

Those policies were written by people at the direction of people to be given to people to do because some people are interested in achieving that goal.
You don't get to have public interest in science without public interest in science drama and gossip. Humans being what they are, it's unreasonable for you to expect otherwise. There is not a single topic for which the public has an interest in the thing but no interest in the gossip and drama surrounding that thing.
That depends on your goals. I think Richard Dawkins is an excellent example of what can happen when you focus too much on the means and not enough on how you package the message, in the end you will see your goal become more distant rather than less.
>Honestly I'll ride it out but I do feel bad for people with kids.

Do you live near the coast? If so, "riding it out", might involve moving inland and paying insane property prices.
I’m in the middle of this with my new database startup. The alpha was written to gather requirements, so I intentionally skimped on code quality as it could be a waste of time. Now that I know the domain inside and out, the beta rewrite is worth turning up the quality. And it’s so fast and easy to write, as the old code serves as api documentation for all the low level stuff it depends on.

I recommend you do this too.
I used to do reading challenges based on books read, but I found a better alternative: pages. If you focus on pages read, you don't have sunken cost while reading a book and you can stop reading if the book stops being interesting. Pages read is less satisfying, but I've found it gives me a better reading experience.
Do you think in a culture that does not allow for divorce that people would be accurately reporting abuse?

And how does one "get out" when that is not an option?
You don't even need a co-op for this. Local, municipal, non-profit power companies are like this too. The city of Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley, has its own power company. Their rates are less than 1/2 of PG&E (which they are surrounded by) and they were for example offering green energy back in 2005. And as you point out, were much better about maintenance.

I really miss being served by SVP.