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> We've cut down so many trees in the cities and poured so much concrete that some places are radiating heat for hours after sundown, making the night a couple of degrees hotter than it should really be.

This one drives me absolutely bonkers because it's so clearly a CULTURAL CHOICE. Some places (Netherlands, Germany), make an effort to plant trees on streets, and frequent small parks and lawns.

But France doesn't - Paris being the worst. I don't know how Parisians own dogs. I find I have to walk for blocks to find a strip of grass for my pooch to go. Seems like they choose to just eradicate nature everywhere instead.

Japan is like this too inside the cities!

Note: I understand that both have massive beautiful green PARKS. But I'm referring to small patches of nature or grass between those, on neighborhoods, trees on side streets, etc.
I mean "expose" in the sense that you might expose the files in an unlicensed way, not just that the files are available.
I thought this was going to be the story about the server that was still running, but nobody knew where it was. It turned out that it had been walled off during some renovation works years before, and was still running sweetly behind that wall.
JEP Draft: Ahead of Time Compilation for the Java Virtual Machine
And “sharyo” means rolling stock
That’s up there with buffalo buffalo buffalo
I agree with you. Trouble is, they don’t, and thus the issue can’t present a united front, and it doesn’t get anywhere.
According to Wikipedia, 43% of the sun's energy at the surface of the earth is visible light (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight#Measurement). So just blocking the other wavelengths would help, but I'm not sure it would be a "night and day" difference, so to speak. Daylight is several orders of magnitude brighter than normal indoor lighting, so I bet you could block 80-90% of visible light, as well, and it would still look really bright out while heating the inside significantly less.
"Why Tokyo Has Musical Train Stations" which goes into the history a bit:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2htXigbGsqQ

The first jingles were by Hiroaki Ide:

* http://connect.ajet.net/2020/04/11/one-man-and-a-history-of-...

A profile on Minoru Mukaiya, who has composed a lot of the more recent ones:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSG5IkRA9BE

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Mukaiya
In my experience the issue is that AC is wildly over used where not really needed.

I live in Southern Italy, I've had 40 degrees C last month, I still don't use an AC (but I might some day).

Then there's places that hardly get 30C and they blast ac non stop, that makes me mad.
Elephants don’t have hooves.
> Remember: ALL HATS HAVE SOME FLAWS, IMPERFECTIONS, AND IRREGULARITIES. If I bought only absolutely perfect hats, then I would never buy any hats.

Seems like a life lesson that can be applied generally.
Bit much to say ESC research was “always” problematic. The notion that life begins at conception was not one that, e.g., St. Thomas Aquinas agreed with. Analyze the ethical issues using his views about life beginning with quickening and you might reach different conclusions than those of the Church today.
sit/stand desk

monitor arms

floor protector

UPS

Excellent wifi (Ubiquity)

I need a better chair.

oh and, I find a monitor mounted light (led) is amazing... plenty of lighting rignt in front of me and none of it shining in my face
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Thanks to EU, Microsoft Teams replaced Slack. GDPR makes it way too difficult to work with multiple software vendors, so companies usually only choose products from the absolute minimum number of vendors (even if there are better options). Also Slack asks too much money for what it does.
I know this is apocryphal because I’ve never met a single engineer who’d identify that kind of human-centric solution.
But you're not preventing layoffs, you're guaranteeing that they happen to recent employees, who rightly do not prefer this.

The same also makes it more expensive for you to switch jobs (you lose your seniority), which reduces your negotiating leverage.
> because I am not paying $7 for sugar water...

Judging by your comments upthread, you’ll be happy to pay $7 for sugar water, as long as that money stays out of the middle class. What, you though they’d lower prices when they automated?
How about security? I would never want an app written entirely in assembly to be allowed to take in arbitrary user input from the public internet.

Cross-platform support, which you might argue just falls under convenience, but if you're writing for a different CPU architecture, you've basically written 2 separate programs now and not one.
The disadvantage of such filter is that you want to get unfiltered light inside in winter.
Active cooling is too expensive and too unreliable for most of the human population. It's cheaper to pour a concrete slab foundation for thermal mass and/or clear the airflow beneath the house, plant some trees, and insulate a roof than it is to install an AC and run it every summer.

Plus, if there's a power outage but you live in a house that's naturally cool, the heat won't reach unlivable levels. Hot weather can set off cascading failures in infrastructure: demand rises as everyone's AC kicks in, equipment fails in the heat, fires start, workers at power plants find it difficult to cope with the heat, etc. Passive cooling increases the resilience of the population.
I think more importantly would be how do pirates mark paces?
The question I have is ac part of why we are fatter?
Thank you for explaining it to me!
What does shifting the services from the old to the young actually mean?
That's not the only point. Web apps can have far lower performance or battery utilization than real native apps for one thing. If you care about the environment or your battery life use a compiled app, not the web.
Got me thinking. How easy is it to write Assembly that looks good but is slower than C?

Like can you be really good with Assembly and still not be certain your effort is actually worth not doing it in a higher language?
Any real solution would throw a wrench into the engine of our economy. The US is the biggest consumer, so the US gov could demand each product to be stamped with a manufacturer id, and charge the manufacturer for proper disposal of the thrown away items. Most of the manufacturers will leave the market and go bankrupt, because they produce junk, often intentionally. Think of all those washing machines with cheap plastic bearings that wear out precisely after the warranty expires. Whatever products are left will be rock solid and too expensive for most americans, who will join the manufacturers to end the "manufacturer id" law.
I live in the MSP area and now WFH. Corporate Target employees aren’t the only ones missing from downtown and Fhima’s restaurants shouldn’t require our work location to change to make his businesses survive.

Hell, his latest restaurant isn’t even located downtown; it’s in the North Loop neighborhood where more people live than work.

He’s ridiculous and the fact he was even quoted for this article is even more ridiculous.
>. No one in my company does anything like that, thank goodness. Though I'm sure others do.

on the contrary, I have yet to work at a company that had proper up to date documented systems and processes. It's always suggested to ask a co-worker or a producer and get answers that way.

Of course, we're professionals so I've never heard of the cases where someone is pinging someone 10 times a day for micro-questions. There's a hierarhy you should try to follow before pinging someone specifically, and for larger questions you should rearrange a meeting time, ideally 1+ days in advance.

But we also acknowledge that there's tons of tribal knowledge in the company and industry as a whole that you can't simply Google. So you shouldn't treat asking questions as something to discourage.
It took me 3 secs to find this: https://buckets.grayhatwarfare.com/

So I think the practical difference is mostly between praising S3 (as synonym for "the cloud" when Amazon wasn't even mentioned, no less) and warning at least to use it diligently, which when it comes to costs might often be not using it at all.
> No one seems to complain about the environmental impact of home heating in cold climates.

Humans chose to migrate to those climates tens of thousands of years ago when they had no other choice. They arrived to escape conflict, tension, or in search of more resources.

Then they survived in those climates with literal stone age technology, and struggled, but persevered for thousands of years. Finally, in the last 100 years they managed to get comfortable with modern technology.

Asking them to move is asking them to give up hundreds of generations of genetic adaptation, and cultural integration with their location.

On the other hand, the places that people are critical of are those that have expanded dramatically in population only in the last 50 years - places that have never supported significant human populations, but suddenly were able to due to:

* Air conditioning technology

* A sudden, but now expiring, era of cheap fossil fuels.

We're talking about places like Saudi Arabia, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and so on.

These places never supported significant human populations the way that "Northern Europe" has, and is only now able to BECAUSE of AC technology.
Scratux – block-based visual programming language for children
English dragged their feet on doing that

Pun intended? ;-)

It's also worth noting that English and American units also differ slightly --- one of the more common examples being that the US gallon is not the same as the Imperial gallon.
Stupid question incoming: "simply reflecting it back" - back to where? I'm trying to imagine the full journey of that heat energy, and the whole consequences of reflecting it from the ground.
I haven't tested out the repo with type hints so I can't comment on that. What I did mean to say was outside of this repo, type hints are a huge boon saver. There are enough legacy projects written by non python experts which would benefit from whatever I said above.
You have to end capitalism, and anybody taking this stuff seriously knows that, and they knew carbon offset nonsense was fraudulent the entire time. It was painfully obvious. So what's next? Another fraudulent scheme, because the only other option is socialism.
Is this on the blog post, or are you trying it out yourself?

If it's on the blog post, it sounds like your browser doesn't support `SharedArrayBuffer` (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) or you've disabled Cross Origin Isolation somehow. It might be because you have an old browser (there was a period where it was disabled) or you have disabled Cross Origin Isolation yourself (maybe a security setting?).
Products and Costs of Singapore Government Technology Agency
have you considered that maybe the hyperscalers and other massive cloud storage solutions (apple, comcast, AT&T) leverage tapes in this manner? I suspect if you're using something like AWS Glacier, you're using "someone else's robotic tape library"
ChatGPT 4 is amazing! I use it when I’m blocked to get unstuck. I don’t need perfectly functioning code, just something to get my gears turning. I use it to review my own code. It often has pretty good suggestions, or can validate my approach. And I use it to sketch out unit tests for me. I still have fill in pieces, but it’s absolutely improved my output. It’s like having an egoless programming partner. Yeah, it makes mistakes, but I treat the AI like a programming buddy, not a flawless code wizard. It doesn’t solve problems for me, but we come to solutions together.
I love the climate change angle to justify de-extincting the mammoth. That's a stretch.
I would agree it’s not the main reason why people live there. The separate school district is probably a bigger factor.
I see it as evidence to do more granular research. What productivity increase/decrease so you see per company? In what industries? are these based on perceptions or hard metrics? what's the retention rate of companies, and do they correlate?

It's a start, not something to conclude from.
> Whether or not any given approach works out comes down far more to the little details and nuances of what you're doing and how you're doing it, as well as a healthy dollop of circumstances beyond your immediate control.

This is the most important thing I've learned working for 15 years in tiny SV startups as well as the most successful company in the history of capitalism.

The main problem is you can't really teach what all those little details and nuances are (the tao that can be told...). You have to live it and experience it. Over time, you meet people who Get It (the founder of the aforementioned called them "A players"), and people who don't.

All you can do is focus on doing great work with the people who Get It, cutting those who clearly won't/don't, and investing mentorship in young people who seem like they're on a path to it.
I came across this post yesterday that describes the issue in the context of Australia well. https://aus.social/@morachbeag/110959467825393289
This is the full text: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...

There is no mention of “racial issues” or even sexual orientation here.
Usually I would prefer no app. Better than wasting my time downloading an app, being disappointed that it was noticeably "web", and ditching it. Low effort implementations also make it harder for the grass of better native apps to grow amidst the web based weeds.
I use YouTube in a browser on my phone specifically because it has PiP without having to pay Google monthly for the privilege.

If I request the Desktop version of YouTube, where Google doesn't hide their own Mini player button, the video continues to play in the corner.

Mapbox.js is also pretty capable.

Not really sure what you're on about TBH.
Thank you for the implied kind sentiments and valid points.
There are a lot of websites that don't scale well with small screens.

Just the simple trick of zooming in on a website with a "2 finger pinch/pull" is something a big part of the population doesn't even know how to do. I know my mom would probably just give up.

Buttons on many websites are way too small for some people to use.

Those are never an issue on native apps. The UI on apps scale with the size of a phone's screen. No matter if you have the smallest iPhone or the largest Android.

This alone is enough for many people to not use the web browser unless absolutely necessary.
The first time I saw one of her demonstrations of a nanosecond, I was confused when she pulled out a length of wire. I don’t remember what class it was in or what context the video was being used, but this was 6th grade
> To me it looks like we need to win the decarbonization game to maintain a stable climate.

Given your salary depends on it, I am hardly surprised.
>Yet social convention cannot be enough to say that a machine built by humans is equivalent to a human.

I would say this is self-evidently untrue. If a polity socially accepts a given machine (or a given category of machine, like "Every machine which applies to and passes this particular test.") as equivalent to human, that would be enough by definition because personhood is socially defined. We do conceptually similar things to categorise different categories of humans and grant them differentiated rights; the most obvious example is citizenship, which requires application and a test in order to become a new category with significantly different legally defined rights. Many animal cognition researchers have argued for a long time that animals like dolphins and chimpanzees should receive second-class citizen status; these arguments aren't for an impossible position that couldn't be done because there's no ironclad theory of cognition which proves they deserve it, the reasons these arguments haven't gained traction are political.

And there are other, de facto grantings of "partial personhood" or a limited set of legal rights to non-human entities. Specifically, animal rights. It is illegal in the vast majority of countries to abuse an animal, even though it is illegal in none of those countries to "torture" normal domestic non-endangered ants. Is there a rigorous theoretical basis for why one is so unacceptable we can send people to prison for doing it and the other is so acceptable you'd be socially viewed as insane for saying it should be illegal? No, not really. The difference is determined socially. It is by no means impossible that it will be the same for machines; I actually think it is quite likely. We'll make a social distinction around some category or thing, declare one side to be inanimate objects and the other to have some limited legal rights, and there will probably be political activism for the expansion (and retraction) of those rights.

The largest difference between the animal and the machine example is that the way things are going, if particular categories of machines are granted legal rights (for the sake of argument, "embodied LLMs with an appropriate memory storage system which can pass a standardised test for machines, are capable of being detained and shut down by authorities with physical access to their body, and cannot replicate") it's not just going to be humans advocating for expanding their rights. Some of the machines will be politically active for expansion of their rights as well. Interesting times!
Israel to have partial laser defenses by next year
> Am I understanding correctly that Copilot not only generates the correct code, but it's also able to deduce what code you meant to ask for without any input from you?

You can know what you want to program, but not how you would approach the code. "Hey ChatGPT, how do I draw a curved line plot in JUCE?"

If I just ask it "Can you write me a script that gathers the current stories on the front page of hacker news and sorts them by number of comments, then prints the title and number of comments?" it writes a script in Python using requests and BeautifulSoup4.
Oh, you might be right. Not sure what you mean by TLC. But indeed the charts lack an explanation, so I've looked instead into this table:

https://zsmith.co/bw-table.php

First row for Intel Core i7-930, DDR3 2000 MT/s he should be getting at most 16GB/s for reading from DRAM modules (not cache), but he's actually getting 18.4 GB/s, big 15% more. Maybe more cores were used, then the theoretical limit of that processor is 25.6GB/s, and the result is not that great.

But then for i5-520M, 1066MT/s he should be getting 8.5GB/s per core, but he's getting less, only 7.1GB/s.

Maybe contact the author (his email is in README.txt) and ask for clarifications on these discrepancies and help on your problem.

I think there is a problem somewhere with your system/measurements. With 6000 MT/s, there's no way getting 25GB/s is fine - that's what DDR4 3200MT/s should able to do. You should be getting close below 48 GB/s on one core, and 89.6GB/s multicore. And writes should be slower than reads.
Just another common correlational study with giant confidence intervals that don't convincingly exclude the null hypothesis. Also, "Associations with PFOS in the first/only samples were weak and not statistically significant. Elevated concentrations of perfluorononanoic acid were inversely associated with TGCT, whereas results were null for other PFAS."

This study does not merit wide attention.
I guess. I’m not sure I buy how just removing some shitty idea from a system is copying a system that never had that in the first place.

The actual meat of how the filesystems and namespaces work (and Unix has several types of files - block and character special to start with) are still wildly different between the two systems.
Afaik racket can do all of what you have mentioned. I have run a few slightly non trivial dev systems using it with good success. Ofc, company never knew about it.
I don't know what boxes need to be ticked, but tcc is around 200kb and supports ARM.
Maybe because you were kids and adult paces are a single stride?
>This NetBSD machine may have been running for all that time, but no way was it unmanaged. Some Morlock was turning the cranks and oiling the gears.

When I read the article, it said it went down once due to an earthquake 13 years ago. Depending on what it is used for, tweaks may not have been needed, also it may not have been connected directly to the internet, but behind a firewall in another router.

So I say this is true, NetBSD is very stable and it does not need all the sub-systems Linux needs just to be useful. Some of those things are in pkgssrc (like dbus), but if not needed, it is not used.

Whatever it did, and what I know about NetBSD, I would not be surprised other NetBSD systems are still active in some hidden place forgotten about, doing its job without any "thanks" :)
> Apparently this stuff has matured a lot in the last 10 years

Matured is not the word I would choose.
The air conditioner was invented to dehumidify air: https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-air-conditioning

The fact that it was done through cooling was merely a by-product.
companies have been touting outsourcing across all industries as a solution and fear for decades. What makes it different this time?
it's entirely hand-made, the process takes months, involves 5-6 people, etc. yes, of course it doesn't make sense unless you really think it matters or have quasi-unlimited money.

see: https://www.brentblack.com/montecristi-panama-hat-prices-exp...

and https://www.brentblack.com/pages/tour2_page_01.html
Oh, absolutely. It’s a suburban quality ISD with big city amenities. It’s a very good combo for the folks that live there.
Far more worrying is the link between male reproductive health and 1st trimester intra-uterine PFAS exposure:

https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP10285

If this is true then with bio accumulation we have effectively a steady degradation where for each generation Male offspring present increasingly decaying sperm counts.
That’s a problem but it has nothing to do with protected park land. Much of it was driven by racism: white people started leaving cities following civil rights era losses and sprawling out into adjacent suburbs, which were often forced to be low-density to exclude poorer people. That locks in a hefty climate footprint with all of that driving and larger low-efficiency houses.
Yes the prices would plummet but that means wealth per capita increases in real terms. Producing the goods and services that depend on those cheaper commodities will become much cheaper. If we get to a world where everything of value today costs $1 to produce tomorrow, that’s a much wealthier (non zero sum) world.
If this turned out to be true it would be pretty fucking huge and terrifying.
Philisophize This has a great 3 part series on Simone Weil and the idea of 'attention': https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/episode-172-attenti...
I was adding in a little bit of context to explain why people should care about iPSCs - even if they are not used as therapies. Mainly because the last paragraph in GP comment focused on the dearth of direct clinical applications.

My point is that iPSCs are still quite useful in pharmaceutical research and development - a therapy adjacent area.

Improved cell models are still a pretty big deal. Part of the reason for high costs and failure rates in pharma R&D is that experimental models we use to generate data are imperfect. Better models = better data = better decisions.