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>those other ecosystems still need Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis and GRPC, to get by

And what makes Elixir not need Kafka, Redis or GRPC?

Instead of Redis, you could use ETS for caching. But once you have 2+ instances of your app, you will need to have a centralized caching mechanism, otherwise, each instance will have its own ETS with its own memory, not sharing anything. Unless you decide to use Distributed Erlang and connect all the nodes of your application, which comes with a lot of trouble. Much easier to just use Redis.

And lets say you have multiple teams, each team has its own service(built with Elixir), and you need to have some async communication between those services. What native Elixir solution would you use instead of Kafka?

Same for GRPC. What's the alternative? Connecting all the nodes and using Erlang message-passing?
Yes, absolutely beautiful
Right. But again, you don’t need iron tools to survive. It just makes thing much easier.

You can certainly live primitively in nature without the scraps of civilization. Again, it isn’t fun and it will be much harder.

Remember, total societal collapse is going to result in most, and perhaps the mass majority of humans, dying off. If not from the collapse, then from the realities of shifting into primitive living unprepared (including but not limited to: finding enough calories, disease, famine, etc).

If you have kids, like me, you and your family will probably be dead. I figure I will be. But my threat models are more concerned with pandemics, natural disasters, and loss of power/water/gas/law, so I focus on those. And yeah, all of those threats have occurred at this point (I am in a rural area) :-/
It seems that this, https://esg.de/en/blog/a/156/2019-02-14-esg-bietet-small-mis... might be the software that is being used there.
I might also recommend Satisfactory. It is essentially Factorio in first person. I think it actually has a better tutorial for people who are just getting into this kind of game.
i have written a couple of forth-like languages (which were pretty fast) but i can imagine extending a forth to use registers, if they were available.

Also, no virtual machine, at least for a machine code implementation. I wrote a forth like in c++ to implement adventure games, but the first I wrote was in z80 assembler, no vm.
>Every watt spent doing anything PoW is just that much more intensification of our current climate crisis.

Every watt spent doing anything, period, right? Like using your computer to send comments on HN?

Or streaming video? Or any one of a million things that humans do which aren't strictly necessary for survival but we do them anyway?

The tirade against PoW is absurd. It's useful, get over it.
Most of these mods are "make the middle game more complex". Nothing wrong with that! Krastorio is my favorite of the ones you mention. Space Exploration is unusual in creating an interesting game after the main game, taking you to completely new places and gameplay modes. Seablock is also a little like that, only it makes the beginning of the game totally different instead of the end.

It's great how many deep and interesting mods Factorio has allowed.
Imagine being able to set a breakpoint in a function, change something and ask the debugger to “travel” back in time and pretend the code was always what it’s been changed to. It’s something some languages give you but I’m not sure an incremental compiler is sufficient?

These kinds of few seconds/minutes shaved add up and can impact one’s productivity.
I think he means stable rather than mainline?

I run the stable kernel, which I build myself. There is still the occasional regression. About a year ago it had a regression in the Intel graphics driver which broke graphics for my Haswell chip. A patch was available but this wasn't merged for months. Luckily Gentoo makes it super easy to apply custom patches so I did. IMO if you want to run a stable or mainline kernel yourself you might as well build it yourself too.
The maker of Nikwax also offers membrane-free waterproof clothing under the name Paramo. Environmentally friendly and very effective - used by a lot of UK mountain rescue teams. It's basically carefully chosen and designed fabrics with Nikwax already applied.
Many I know just want to be the last ride. So no regrets. No pointing and laughing just ‘after me who cares’. Most I heard that from are parents.
And since everyone who has been writing has been replaced by machines as well, most of those texts will be machine-generated by then.

Machines reading and processing texts written by machines would be the logical consequence in this scenario, but I can't help finding the whole idea deeply absurd.
Bread and circuses. Roe V Wade was just revoked, folks.
Women are being sent to prison for miscarriages.
> can you kettle a peaceful --yet fully armed-- protest

In the last 20 years who were the most eager to open fire in any situation?
Tears of the Kingdom went through a similar year long testing and refinement phase

https://www.gamesradar.com/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-was-ba...
Instagram bans accounts for no reason at all. It’s had some rogue and buggy bots or algorithms banning or deactivating accounts for years. Appeals don’t work.

Unfortunately, this situation doesn’t get a lot better with the fediverse, where one or two admins would decide what they like or dislike and use the ban hammer without any warnings. No appeals process or no responses over other channels. Maybe everybody is better off having their own blogs and websites rather than having (unpaid) accounts on others’ systems (centralized or not).
I've done this multiple times. I will not make the mistake again. Next big system is being born in Elixir.
Yowza, that link to the ad library really does work. Filtering for Canada it took about a minute to find an ad for a telegram channel that's been active for a year, claiming to sell glocks. Is it real? A scam? A honey pot? None of what is being offered is remotely legal here.

Edit: Looks pretty real. He posts vids from his customers showing successful deliveries. Appears to be operating out of Toronto? Maybe one day the cops will figure out how to use a computer and do some actual detective work.
Your “craft” is not to write code, it’s to solve problems. If you can’t be proud of the problem you’ve solved, you are no engineer. That’s the main difference between an engineer and a scientist.
Yeah, Space Exploration is full of cool new challenges that aren’t “let’s make it as miserable as possible just because”. Angels, now that’s grindy.
Complaining that they use a common term that most people know rather than a correct term misunderstands language.

Like, yes, it's a magazine, but colloquially it's a clip. Pop culture has given these objects two names.

It's not a mark of failure to use the term most people are familiar with.
404Media seems to be shaping up to be outrage journalism, what was once called 'yellow journalism'.
> Russia invaded an ally whom we promised to protect

Lindsey Graham and John McCain and Hunter Biden had interests there, but Ukraine is not in NATO and was set up in 1994 to not ally with either side. USA has no actual defense agreement there yet is now running a proxy war against Russia.

If that is good for USA, then let Congress debate it and declare war. Russia is not my enemy, despite the propaganda.
Cities that rapidly expand housing are much, much cheaper than cities that don't. Houston vs Austin, Chicago vs. new york, phoenix vs LA. Yes all metros are getting more expensive, that's because there are no cities in this country that are building faster than people are arriving.
You’ve kinda proven the point. The argument made was cherry picking.

Here again - You’ve used the most highly paid subset of workers. In any other nation, and in other industries in America - Tech workers dont get paid that much.
Is that your sole criterion? Removing all gender roles and minimizing the importance of reproduction and the family unit is a pretty big shakeup in the past 20-30 years.

Must the movement be struggling to be considered? If it is just "what the majority political parties agree is unpalatable" then I guess we could say actual socialism or anti capitalism is there.
I think there is a more functional and charitable read of this: not all of our senses are plumbed all the way through to our conscious mind at all times. small little hints (like minor changes in smell, relative humidity, maybe just pattern-matching on the lay of the land) are down in the noise, and pulling out your trusty sticks gives your subconscious a way to send a signal to your awareness.

Kinda like acupuncture - does my pulse really have seven levels that mean different things? I doubt it.. but a successful acupuncturist might still be able to diagnose "what hurts" using said technique, when really they've already picked up on other clues from your gait, posture, etc.

"subliminal" and "subconscious" are over-used and vague words, but we've all had the experience of wearing a new clothing item and receiving an uncommon number of compliments, including from strangers who wouldn't know it's new. I've always assumed we are unconsciously presenting the new thing with a bit of flair, and that equally-unconsciously draws the eye.
That's only true if items with a defined but unknown at the time of bidding. A piece of art doesn't suffer from the winners curse if you are buying it to enjoy.
Annoyingly, all we have is the word ‘constructed’ to describe the image, which could still imply there’s some natural process that reflects the Ying Yang structure. Is there anyone who knows if there’s really any connection between the Yin Yang shape and the data? Or was it just arranging the data into a fun shape with no relation to any physical properties? Does anyone here actually know?

If it was just arranged like that for the fun of it then it’s a sad day that scientific journalism neglects to mention that and uses click bait tactics and ambiguity to ‘promote’ scientific discoveries.
Just don't click on that hamster icon with your speaker volume at 100% :S
I resonate with this — there are certainly disordered brains, and I think perhaps there are also well-ordered brains which are more sensitive to certain kinds of disruptions than other brains, but I definitely think a major aspect that many people are oblivious to (or willfully ignore) is the increasingly severe disorder of our modern society and workplace.
Reasoning about control flow is much easier when you have so much less control flow because you just let it crash.
It's hard for me to take these analyses seriously when the author links to other posts of his like this, https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/win-win-babies-as-infrastru.... This is what I call "technocrat dystopia". Yes, there are really valid economic reasons that we should consider alleviating. But even if you look at some countries, like Finland, that have tons of support for expectant mothers and post-birth childcare, fertility rates have also collapsed. So then the author gets into essentially "securitization" of childcare costs. Thanks, I'll pass.
I don't expect videogames to be the first to successfully solve the problem of statically checking code for correctness ;-) I'm astonished how stable so many mods are, given the environment they run in and the lack of almost any payment for the work.

The Minecraft Java world at least starts with static types and memory safety. It'd be interesting to see if that results in a mod ecosystem that's more stable.
well my startup uses distributed elixir. we use it horde to distribute certain long lived processes accross our cluster. that does not exclusive to kuernetes. we user kubernetes to manage and handle vm crashes (its only happened twice ever) as well as porvide consistent network toplogy between the nodes.

that said, having the ability to send messages between machines without having to bring in an external dependency like redis is AWESOME from a maintenance perspective. one less thing to worry about and the system just works. our uptime has been pretty amazing given our small team.
Decay, like anything else can be (from our subjective point of view) be slowed down by accelerating it away from us at speeds approaching that of light.

As far as the parent comment's implied question, "and is that useful for radioactive waste disposal?" the answer is a strong "no, there are far better uses for the energy required, within and outside of radioactive waste disposal", including using this energy instead of energy from the nuclear reactor that makes waste.
It's also one very small part of a much larger article listing several different illegal items.
I usually describe it as the least bad codebase I've seen.
Digger here

The future of Terraform is open-source

We are beyond excited to be part of this great initiative. We did of course expect a fork to be of significant interest to people; what we did not expect is this crazy level of support for it. 2k+ stars, 100+ companies and 400+ individuals pledged, and there is already more full-time engineering positions committed to it by pledging companies than the whole Terraform Core team at Hashicorp (source: terraform commit history)
I'm not an SEO specialist; just spent some time working with an e-commerce team and did some large-scale scraping so I learned much of this along the way.

I'm sure backlinks still matter, but the internal search algos have changed so much since the early days of Google that it's hard to know exactly how much weight each part of the equation has.

The main problem with backlinks and keywords is that they are too easy to game so at some point, Google adjusted how they weigh those inputs.

The bigger picture is that SEO matters -- a lot. Backlinks are just one part of they equation. But being optimized against Google's search crawler heuristics is a big picture endeavor.
What gives you such a special insight on what kind of work should be valued and remunerated at precisely what levels?
Kinda wish they would pack this technology into a consumer version in Compact Cassette format.
Yeah, but it likely wouldn't be one from NASA. Plenty (most?) astronomy research is done outside of NASA.
Thanks for this. I would like to hear more about the mysterious staircases.
I think some drugs should be legalized (MDMA probably via prescription, LSD and shrooms maybe more broadly, Cannabis' current situation in WA state seems quite reasonable). I don't think there's a contradiction between that and thinking the example ads right at the top of the article are far over the line.
So the actions of a single individual can change the nature of the entire protest? That line of thinking seems to incentivize the use of agent provocateurs.
Who actually has those?
And now you can look it up in this article, written in different words and from the perspective of the individual participating in an auction. That's not junk.
This is really interesting - Thanks for sharing! It looks like these services are taking an "interview" approach, so they are building their own dataset. That makes a ton of sense, and really avoids a lot of the concern of cloning people without their consent (it would be hard to talk them into hours of interviews without their knowledge).
I am only slightly ashamed to admit that's where I got the idea.
In grad school, I worked on an experiment housed at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). At least until a radioactive waste barrel exploded (because someone somewhere used the wrong kind of kitty litter, for real) and the place was shut down for a while. Working underground in salt "mine" (the salt is taken out so nuclear waste can go in) is no fun, do not recommend.

But one of the interesting things about WIPP is how they thought about how to mark the site as "do not dig" in a way that would last a very long time. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant#Aw... for what they came up with...
I didn't mean to say they should tailor the file format to the graphics API. I more meant, when a scene format becomes popular, usually you see multiple engines/pipelines/libraries support the underlying scene descriptors like material files, physically based rendering profiles, animation keying, etc.

I wouldn't want the file format dictated by the graphics API, but I would like consistent rendering output in multiple places for the same file. That'd be cool.

In case you're wondering where this "conformance" idea came from, check nVidia's 2023 Siggraph talk. Jensen will buzz word OpenUSD and conformity across products until your ears bleed.

Siggraph 2023 nVidia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2VBKerS63A

(in case it wasn't obvious, I am skeptical this will ever really happen, I imagine this is all marketing speak)
“Doodlebug” – Short Film Directed by Christopher Nolan [video]
If you are talking about guns and call a magazine a clip, even in a casual setting, you would be instantly made fun of for not knowing what you are talking about. Pop culture absolutely has not given these things two names.

Calling a suppressor a "silencer" is just incorrect.
What a strawman!

Drugs are a complex and nuanced topic, I think it's perfectly reasonable to be pro drugs and also wary of how Instagram is vetting their drug advertisers.

Black market goods vary in quality and ethics and safety, it's absolutely reasonable to say, "ok, you advertise for these, how are you ensuring safety?"
Pest, a P2P network protocol for secure real-time communication
It's a mark of not understanding the subject matter.
>Isn't half...untraceable?

No, crypto is pseudonymous, not anonymous. The whole point of cryptos that aren't monero is that every transaction ever is visible to everyone all the time. That's the point. Not one central person keeping the ledger of transactions, but everyone so everyone can verify. So no, explicitly the entire system relies on absolute traceability for every dollar in the system, from provenance as a mining reward to its current owner.

There are ways to maintain anonymity in this environment, zero knowledge maths, mixers like tornado cash, but as far as basic systems, the absolute opposite is true.
Not sure this will scratch the itch for what I always felt was missing from Factorio, which is fundamentally a more satisfying ‘sink’ for resources.

During main gameplay your resource extraction and expansion is driven mainly by the sink of ‘research’ - turn resources into science, science into unlocks.

Additionally, biters eat bullets, and occasionally factory parts that need replacing.

Other than that the main sink for all your resource gathering is just ‘more factory’ of course.

The end game resource sink of ‘space rockets’ just never felt to me like a very satisfying thing to shoot for - though getting to the point where you can just expand onto a new mineral patch and reliably deploy blueprints that turn it into rockets is pretty cool, I’ll admit.

But there’s a part of me that is left slightly unsatisfied by the fact that we can’t reach sustainability, and we aren’t getting anything for all the resources we process.

Give me a little population of friendly alien creatures (who biters prey on) and make my goal to maximize their population, perhaps. I don’t know.
Angel+Bob & SeaBlock just seem masochistic to me. I have had the most fun with SE + K2.

I haven't tried pyanodon because it doesn't seem like it was made to be played as a game but rather shown off as a testimate to how far you can take things
> LLMs won't get intelligent. That's a fact based on their MO. They are sequence completion engines.

Where's the proof that sequence completion engines can't be intelligent?
A List Apart still has one of the most calm and readable websites on the Internet. It is perfect and it should never change.
It would be nice to see some sort of sandboxing for these. I would love it if cargo had a mechanism to run all build actions for a crate inside a firecracker vm.

That said, most build systems can access everything the user has access to, so it's not really a regression from the industry standard.

And Rust's typesystem on its own isn't enough to protect against malicious crates, even if you ban all unsafe code, procedural macros, build.rs, and filesystem/network APIs. Several soundness issues were found in previous versions of the standard library that allow a malicious crate to take advantage of undefined behavior to run arbitrary machine code. It seems likely to me that there are similar unknown issues lurking in today's standard library or compiler.

If you care about security, you have to audit your dependencies very carefully, no matter what language you are using.
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I’m personally not a fan, but lots of folks report that factorio works fine on the deck.
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Thats not that easy. As soon the two metals are seperated, there will be an arc. The arc is really, really hot and will burn everything and also as soont there is an arc, the arc stays can bee so much much longer in discance than just air. Since there is 0 in DC, large DC-switches are much more difficult to build. There are several options from SF6 (today no), to vacum or blowing magnets (blow the arc to cooling cambers).
Why? This seems fine?
I see nothing in the documentation to suggest that. The only thing I’m aware compilers do for hot/cold is partitioning to improve locality.
> We completed all documents required for OpenTF to become part of the Linux Foundation with the end goal of having OpenTF as part of Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Imho the best possible choice, and one that was easy to see coming when they announced they were joining "an existing foundation".
disappointed you can’t provide a onehot integer to do single bit futexes
I've been meaning to learn more about this for a while, but haven't made time for it because I had assumed it would be more complicated than this. It's surprisingly accessible. As a haskell person, the implementation here brings to mind a free monad (https://serokell.io/blog/introduction-to-free-monads) with a fairly trivial interpreter.
If true, why is in the interests of the US government to censor this info?
Yeah let's give the bad guys all the ease of use while we put up obstacles for legitimate users
First of all, congratulations, I hope OpenTF will live and prosper, I really liked Terraform when I was working with it.

I'm wondering how OpenTF will handle the plugins. Will it pull from HashiCorps servers, or will it spin up its own plugin registry? If the latter, will the existing plugins be mirrored?
Completely agree with the author. Haskell is a great language but the ecosystem sux. I have a small project that breaks every time I update stack. It really lacks some high quality, bomb proof libraries, like for http for example. Cross compilation is next to impossible, stack also recently broke for using Docker for that.

Cabal is a mess, as is its weird AF format.

cargo is a dream by comparison. I am not happy with some things about Rust either but by comparison it has amazing tooling, and some incredible solid libraries. It also helps that you don't have to be a wizard to get extremely good performance.
> There is no inherent problem with advertising guns for sale on Instagram.

It is, at the very least, a violation of Instagram’s terms. They don’t permit gun sales on any Meta platform.
I like using pairdrop.io with the snapdrop android app