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Only if you want the species to survive, if you're more nihilistic like me, it just doesn't seem to matter. Or if you're optimistic, WE don't matter because there's loads of other life and societies out there.

It does make you wonder whether life as we know it was a preceding civilization that launched life into the wider universe for the continued existence of life. But on tectonic timescales, any traces that e.g. a carrying vessel would have left behind are long gone.
Presumably they could ban the sites that host these non-compliant browsers (whack-a-mole for sure), and/or make it illegal to have one installed on your computer.
No journalists were banned.

A few were suspended for a short time after Twitter say the broke written TOS.

Be honest and clear.
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EPA 608 Study Guide,

I'm going to get my EPA 608 certification so I can purchase and handle refrigerant in my HVAC system, because I'm done with the HVAC industry.
Brownouts and blackouts lasting for weeks during windless winter weeks are hardly solution.

Trying to sell it as "no biggie" will not work well.
Not OP, my issue with public transport is mostly the "public" part. At least on the DC metro, its not uncommon to see people getting harassed and MPD doing nothing about it. I've personally seen a drunk man pissing in the corner and watching it get carried by momentum through half the car. Sure, it's probably like a 1/50 trips you see something bad happening... but its still enough for me to prefer personal transportation.

The other half is the stuff you can't do, like carry large items or eat on the train. Just got some large boards for a DIY project and stopped by in-N-out. ~10 minutes there and back. Would have taken an hour w/PT, couldn't carry materials and couldn't stop for food. With a driver-less car, I could still do that.

I'm not suggesting any money go towards paying for driver-less lanes atm though. Still feels way too early for that.
Not everyone, I still do not have this in mine and I have paternal haplogroup G-M201 which is related to Ötzi.
Efficiency is important for cost/economics but so is the abundance/scarcity. Fossil fuels are a non-renewable resource and are in theory supposed to get more scarce in the future driving up costs/economics while hydrogen is the most abundant element. Granted it is more cumbersome to capture, transport, store, and distribute it now, I don't think it's a outlandish theory that at some point in the future, technological improvement in hydrogen industry combined with more scarcity of oil could change the calculus on the cost/economics of oil vs hydrogen.
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MX Linux updated to Debian 12 a couple of weeks ago.
NIF was never made to generate power. NIF uses lasers which are less efficient, but were cheaper to build. We have better lasers. What is important about NIF's result is that they demonstrated 'burning' plasma. The yield might be increased by adding more fuel.

The author claims that cryogenic targets will always be too expensive. Why should they be? Mass production has brought down the cost of precision devices like CD drives and hard drives. Why should it be so difficult to do this for fancy ice?
They claim cryogenic targets won't stand up to the heat in a power plant like environment. They don't need to for very long. If the pellets are shot into the chamber, the time they spend exposed to residual heat from the walls can be very short.

Their entire discussion of the economics of ICF power is superficial. There is a range of conditions in which ICF power may be profitable.[0] Repetition rates of kilohertz as claimed are unnecessary.

[0]https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2020.005...
I listened to it as an audio book. It was possible to ignore the style. It simplifies situations and trivializes the road to success bit. However, that seems necessary to keep the book clear, to the point, and of manageable size.
> Math and logic are as much subjected to falsification as physics or biology.

No they are not.

> Mathematicians write proofs, and their peers try to find flaws in them.

There is a difference between checking whether a proof has flaws and running experiment to falsify a theory. In other words, when a proof has no flaws ( aka has been proven ), it's proven forever. Once euclid proved that there are an infinite amount of prime numbers, that's it. Nobody tries to falsify his claim because it's already been proven. Also, mathematicians checking for flaws in proofs is not empiricism. Go learn what empiricism means first before making absurd assertions.

Not only do you not know what science is, you don't even know what math is, you don't know what empiricism is.

> I am obviously talking about scientific knowledge

Then what's your nonsense about 'Math and logic are as much subjected to falsification as physics or biology.' Do you know what a syllogism is? How about modus ponens? Implication?

> If humanity forgot all the works of Mozart and Schubert, it would be a very sad day, but society would still function. If humanity forgot how to make steel, or had to rediscover the fourier transformation, we would have a problem.

If humanity forgot language, laws, government, etc, society would crumble as well.

Or are you going to pretend that language, laws, government, history, etc are now part of science.
Not really, since there are only a few known instances of asteroids hitting earth in hundreds of millions of years, but climate change is an immediate threat within the next 50. The odds we live to see an asteroid hit us are slim.
Well I mean yeah, one of the benefits of trains is how efficient the track system is. So in a sense yes I'm talking about extending the notion of a train track and applying it to commonly used roads. If we get to a point where the majority of vehicles are capable of being driverless, then an automated lane would be much more efficient and would probably reduce traffic congestion.
Trendy cities in the US tend to have great coffee everywhere nowadays. Although I've noticed a slight backslide in this in the last few years :(
That's the kind of just-in-time thinking that's one unfortunate dice roll from plunging people back to pre-industrial levels.

So what if we roll another Eyjafjallajökull in one part of the world, simultaneously with a war breaking out in another, and some large-scale maintenance ongoing in another part still, while everyone's grid is designed to keep "oh half a day's tops" and not a watt more, because ain't anyone gonna pay for it? With globally reduced capacity for, say, a week, that "half a day's average demand" worth of storage may start running dangerously low, and what then? Will we somehow scramble to fire up long-closed fossil fuel plants in that time?
I live this life too - my La Pavoni has been going strong for over a decade! Multiple shots a day. Maintenance every once in a while. My additional recommended simple upgrade is to add a momentary switch to bypass the sensors, allowing you to quickly increase the pressure for steaming.
Uh, my mistake, thanks for the correction! I edited the title.

Btw 256KB is nothing, I read GB at the first take…
Haven't tried this yet, but seems like a fantastic concept. Not shown in the landing page gifs but the "value search" and "tracking backwards in time from exception" features seem really cool. The gifs on the landing page are great but for an even bigger wow-effect maybe these features could be shown off too.

edit: in the Videos section there's a short value searching YouTube video linked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwXhy-QsZHw

Are there similar themed time travel debugging systems for Python or JS?
LIDA – A library (and UI) for automatic generation of visualizations using LLMs
LIDA is a library for generating data visualizations and data-faithful infographics. LIDA is grammar agnostic (will work with any programming language and visualization libraries e.g. matplotlib, seaborn, altair, d3 etc) and works with multiple large language model providers (OpenAI, PaLM, Cohere, Huggingface). Details on the components of LIDA are described in the paper and project page.
https://microsoft.github.io/lida/
We're certainly setting a record at destroying this planet.
Here you go, http://nestedvm.ibex.org/
I was thinking our tacit belief is usually more "I want that, but I also want to keep my money. whynotboth.gif?"

When challenged, rationalizations might come out.

Circumstantial evidence of this is that we really don't see a lot of clear altruistic looking towards human progress... on other topics.

If we mostly only talk about principled stands when it happens to be very convenient in a selfish way, the selfish way seems a more likely explanation.
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That's the standard build script setting the required compiler flags. Pretty mundane stuff, and nothing "inelegant" about it. It's not something Nix users or packagers need to even care about.

While the code is mundane and might not score any beauty points, it does offer a clear technical advantage. Namely, Nix doesn't require that packagers uniquely choose the installation path for each package. Instead, Nix guarantees that different package definitions result in a different installation path. This is one of the things that make Nix package definitions programmable because packagers don't have to manually resolve path conflicts.

Programmable package definitions mean more automation and customizability.
I get it, I really have never stuck with any exercise-for-its-own-sake activity even in pursuit of a tangible goal. I'm fit but it's all with activities that I enjoy enough to do despite the exercise: cycling, tennis, martial arts, etc. I don't think I'm too unusual in this either.

So if there's a way to turn pure fitness activities into sport/game type activities then that could work for some people, maybe a lot of people. I don't think this will be successful at that, but that idea itself seems reasonable to me.
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Solar requires way more concrete and a bunch of mined rare earth minerals, nickel and cobalt, and is not green.

Wind power requires an enormous amount of epoxy and the windmills wear out and then you have to throw an enormous amount of epoxy away and it is not green.

Storing energy using batteries from the above sources requires an enormous amount of nickel and cobalt mind out of the Earth by third world countries and is not green.

Fusion power requires mining lithium and is not green.

Nuclear power requires changing people's minds and when it does fail it causes two-headed fish. While perhaps green, it is not politically feasible at this time.

Here's an idea. Take public transit instead of using that Tesla that required a bunch of imported rare earth minerals from sweatshops in China and microchips from Taiwan -- which may or may not be available to us in the future in this geopolitical climate -- and lithium and cobalt from death trap mines down in Peru and Africa.

Burn natural gas in your stove instead of electricity which is generally coal-fired, or if it isn't coal fired, it comes from so solar and wind and is therefore not green.

My point is that the original paragraph stands. It's going to get worse before it gets better and no one wants to believe this.
> It is 2023. The damage of natural disasters can be mitigated.

That is a comforting belief, but it is probably not true. We have no plan for a near-Earth supernova explosion. Not even in theory.

Then there are asteroid impacts. In theory we could have plowed all of our resources into planetary defences, but in practice in 2023 we can very easily get sucker punched by a bolide and go the way of the dinosaurs.
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It wasn't the saying of an insider, it was empty rhetoric based on the perception of an insider, there's a big difference.

I'm sure you perceive the decline, and you were so kind to mention in which fields. Let's take an example, i.e. economy and security. Immigration and illegal immigrants are often related to immigration, in public discourse.
I'm sure the government in the last 20 years has done something about it (despite me not knowing France): either it tried to tighten it, or to make it happen more smoothly, or to integrate the immgrants, or to convince them to go back, or...

Now, I'm also pretty confident there's a sizable percentage of people that think that immigration is not a security problem nor an economic problem, but it's casted as such by the right; all these measures were a waste of time and money, which could have been used to improve other stuff in the public interest.

There's a decent amount of people that believe immigration should be helped and increased, and the efforts in controlling it have been wrong, and bad, and against the public interest.

There's people, likely on the right, thinking that there's way too many immigrants, and the previous government didn't do enough to address this; it is in the national interest to reduce immigrants, make sure they are all working, but without hijacking the possibilities for French citizens.

Did I guess correctly? Who is The People, and what is the correct National Interest now? Does it by any chance align with your views on immigration (which might or might not align with those of the OP, btw - we can't say much about those since there was no content)?
That’s crazy! What do they do with the bodies?
Hopefully you're in better terms with Google, given their stance into WebAssembly.
Little grey dudes sitting us down in the slideshow room to show their holiday pictures from a few million years ago, lol. "And this is when ⌘⑩⌖⌦ nearly got eaten by a dinosaur!"
>> Now, if I leave a bunch of organic material lying around it'll catch fire and go right back into the air.

Only an issue for the 1/3 of our planet that is dry. By volume/mass, most organic material eventually falls into the deep ocean, a place where fire isn't much of an issue.
Why though? We have plenty of bike lanes in my city and I see hundreds of cars for every bike I see. Usually those bike riders are either kids who ride on sidewalks or dudes in spandex who don’t seem to be going anywhere.
Of course what you are saying is true but there is more nuance here. The fact is that regardless of architecture, requirments and test cases the engineer is going to make lots of small decisions, and if they are not motivated to make good decisions for the benefit of the org then there will be consequences that maybe could be mitigated but will still impose significant costs. So the fact remains that these engineers need to exit the org.
That's not the same thing. The classic formulation is saying that for God, existence is essential, while other beings (not god) do not essentially exist. Spinoza is arguing that God's existence underlies all of existence.
So your recommendation is that the job (of governing the city) shouldn't be done at all by anyone?
Should be apparent in tumor location too. Most of us are right handed and hold our phones up to the right ear. Should be a bigger increase in tumors on the right side of brains than the left. And it should be correlated strongly with the handedness of the person.
It's a good failsafe if there's a human driver there to take over. I don't think they should be on the road unsupervised if they can't operate without connectivity.
I think it's pretty implausible that the main use case for hydrogen will be energy storage when so many important industrial processes require a good reducing agent that's either currently hydrogen generated from natural gas or carbon monoxide from coal. Steal production, fertilizer production, etc. It's a pretty large chunk of our current global energy use.
Your site is similar to https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

I have found the ui for map difficult to use in the past.
Nice launch.

I've built software to run a warehouse before and we actually ran everything off a web app that was used both on the desktop and on mobile apps. We used barcodes for everything.

I'll be honest, this isn't a problem we ever had. Barcode reader hardware always seemed cheap, good, and worked as a keyboard as far as web apps were concerned, so integration was trivial. In fact we had more success with those than with camera based options because the hardware and software was simpler.

Where do you see the USP of this vs, say, phones with built-in barcode scanners, hand-held scanners, or finger mounted scanners?

Separately, I see your pricing is based on number of scans. How do you validate this? Do you have a server component? Does that require an internet connection, and do you see that limiting the market at all because of either offline use or rules around depending on external services?
Packaging had been a limiting factor for a long time, e.g. the Intel 8008 has the weird multiplexed bus it has, and requires so much external logic, because Intel was largely "just" a memory chip company at the time and couldn't package bigger than 18 pin DIPs.

Prototype carriers were likely significantly more expensive for >40 pin DIPs, just due to the lower demand. The ceramic packages with a die well and glued or brazed lid are available as an off-the-shelf item for low run, prototype, or special chips, and that's what a lot of chips back then started off in, including the Z8000.

As other comments suggest, escape routing was also a secondary issue. Not a problem for "Texas cockroach" 64-pin DIPs, but PGAs and such.
Burning hydrogen sounds like a highly inefficient process.
67 miles per city.

For reference, two of the cities metioned are Austin with ~2500 miles of roads and Denver with 1900 miles.

It's a start. But that's all it is.
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I'm not so sure about that.

For one thing, France is and remains one of the richest countries in the world. For a second thing, I seem to remember that France is currently outperforming both Germany and the UK (I read this in both German and British newspapers, but I don't remember the details).

Is it perfect? Far from it. But French bashing feels pretty counter-productive.
How is this Debian's fault? You're free to choose whatever desktop environment you want.
Main use case criminals? Lol what.
My system is to just focus on the 1 & 2 star ratings, and look for trends, specifically. It takes a bit of work, since most of those reviews are just nonsense, but eventually true flaws in the product will be exposed through repetition. Due to the amount of work, I typically only reserve this method for big ticket items that would be difficult to return, such as appliances.
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I wonder if just the atmosphere would've caused it to explode already. At those speeds it'd go through the atmosphere within a second though.
It behooves me why people claim they cannot understand why people don't trust medical advances made at the speed of "science".

You literally have the two extremes of the bell curve basically outright not trusting a claim unless it's been verified multiple times. Then the fat middle going, "IFLScience" and lining up for the new thing without any actual proof it's safe.

I have all of my childhood vaccines as do my kids that went through the multi decade long trial period but I didn't get the most recent one everyone knows nor did my wife and kids.

Why? For the same reason I don't beta test new tech products.

And because of the arrogance of the credentialed class, we have a whole ecosystem of sham crap that has popped up. Good work guys.
Does anyone have a similar compendium specifically for software engineering disasters?

Not of nasty bugs like the F-22 -- those are fun stories, but they don't really illustrate the systemic failures that led to the bug being deployed in the first place. Much more interested in systemic cultural/practice/process factors that led to a disaster.
"No cipher overlap" on Firefox 102.12.0 ESR on Slackware 15 :/
Slim, but not zero; we can and probably should do both.
For the moment. How many years until we see the first person-less business?

I’m sure there’ll be a human on the books, on paper.
As far as I understand at least for Google's captcha. They mostly checks check mouse browser details, activity & reaction time to check if your human. The challenge itself is only a very last resort. Didn't they use that for training data at some point?
Well, maybe. It really comes down to the specific numbers. (At least for the objective part of the consideration.)
No, I disagree, because the right behavior is not determined by a single object but by a combination of factors. For example when the sword strikes an enemy all of the following need to happen:

- The check that the "enemy" is even a valid target (who decides that? The player? What if certain enemies are immune to slashing attacks? The sword then? What about the enemy making the decision? What if it depends on the armor the enemy is wearing, does the armor decide?)

- The calculation of the position of where the sword impacted the enemy (who calculates that? it depends on the animation calculation results, the size and shape of the sword and of the enemy, etc.)

- The sound that plays depends on the type of equipment the enemy has (leather armor vs steel armor) and on the weapon of the player (a sword or a hammer would have different sounds).

- The actual playback of the sound depends on all of the decisions above (the animation, the collision, the materials involved in the collision).

At no point, in any of this, are there messages between these objects. The entities that have to make these calculations depend on multiple data sources, none of which belong to them, that is, the behavior is not associated with the data.

An animation doesn't render itself (rendering requires a rendering context, mesh data, texture data, shaders, etc., who owns them?). A sound doesn't play itself. Collisions don't calculate themselves.

Inert objects don't inherit behavior because they have no behavior, systems do. And systems are effectively "manager" objects (AnimationManager, AudioManager, CollisionManager, etc.), widely considered a bad practice in OO circles.

Systems should indeed support behavior inheritance (I might want multiple different implementations of an AudioManager for different targets or with/without surround sound support, etc.) and since their internal data is hidden (i.e. operating system resources), they are very much objects and working with them is OO programming.

But the rest of the system is not OO, it's very much plain old data being computed upon by plain old functions, and that has nothing to do with OO nor does it need any kind of inheritance.

Even in Smalltalk you see this issue happening. Ints and Doubles respond to messages to implement arithmetic, but for example reading an integer from a stream is a method of the Number class that takes an integer radix and a Stream as input. Why is it not a method of the integer radix or of the stream? Why can't different streams decide how to parse themselves into integers? Because the whole concept of associating behavior here is silly. readFrom is a function.
This must've been proposed, but why don't we ticket Cruise as a single "driver"? The number of infractions they've had would certainly get their license suspended.
Why? Put a signing key pair on a secure element (e.g. in the passport). Let the government sign the public key. This way sites can check if it’s a government-approved keypair. You can prove that you own the key pair using the private key. No site ever has to contact the government for authentication.

The only issue is that it could lead to cross-site tracking because you are reusing the same public key everywhere.

But maybe cryptography experts have a solution?
DRM of Web .

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