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Passive voice in itself is benign. It provides flexibility, and it lets you emphasize the target of an action, or the action itself over the do-er, if that fits your intent.

Advice to avoid passive voice comes from a variety of reasons, but perhaps the most charitable (and I think useful) view would be:

* In technical writing, you might have pick up passive voice because of misguided advice to use avoid "I" and "we". This naturally leads you to using passive voice all over the place. This makes the writing "seem more objective", but is really just the veneer of objectivity. And in some ways is the polar opposite of the advice to always avoid passive voice. English has both voices - use them both. If nothing else (and all other things were equal), active voice tends to be more concise - as you have noted - which is a true benefit for technical writing.

* Passive voice is one of tools employed when weaseling or obfuscating (see the infamous "mistakes were made"). Advice to avoid the passive voice is either nudging you to either... just be more honest (don't weasel!), or to be more clever in your weaseling (because everyone knows the trick...)

* Because use of passive voice in more mundane/banal communication is so common (or seemingly so common), there was a perception that people were just defaulting in the passive because that's what government officials, or companies or whatever talked like. And so the advice was pushback. Reminding you that you don't have to speak or write like a prepared government speech or press release.
I want this to happen, how can I help?
We be poisoning ourselves in 100 different ways every day
Possibly an urban legend but there's a story about a company in India that ordered a Soviet made computer system that has an sloppy spool of wire attached to the main board. They contacted the Soviet institute that built the computer system and it was explained that the computer needed a timing delay between two components but didn't have the proper ICs on hand so they used a precise length of wire to introduce the needed delay to make the timing correct.
In places with dry heat misting fans are a thing. They work remarkably well. Air conditioners in such a climate are wasteful when you have water available and can take advantage of its high enthalpy of vaporization.

They are on offer at the Bezos Bazaar (here, e.g.: https://www.amazon.com/-/dp/B0BTD6VPLG), and with a margarita in hand it's the height of decadence.
I'm truly surprised that lasers appear to be operational defenses against mortars, rockets, and UAVs. I had thought it would be too difficult to get enough energy from a laser to destroy a target.

But if it works, it's really a game-changer for air defense. In particular, each shot will be orders of magnitude cheaper than existing rocket-based defenses. I would think reliability would improve as well, since the laser can continuously track its target, rather than a single shot as with current defenses.

I wonder how effective countermeasures would be. If you put a mirror coating on a missile, will it reflect enough energy to make the laser ineffective?
Perhaps if it's possible to generate a RISC-V CPU in 5 hours, it's also possible to generate a JIT for RISC-V with a similar approach?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36566578

"Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086102 ; emu86 supports WASM, MIPS, RISC-V but not yet ARM64/Aarch64

Is there a "Record and replay" or a "Time-travel debugger" at the emulator level or does e.g. rr just work because Cartesi Machine is a complete syscall emulator?
Good thinking!!!
For anything that is externally accessible, I imagine you'd want frequent security updates.
Lasers, technically, cannot have a religion.
The Wikipedia article you linked to says a marketing firm estimated daily usage of plastic straws in the US at 390M, not much lower than the kid's estimate. The estimate for Europe is 25 billion/year, according to other sources that are also not a 9-year old.

Why are you surprised solar energy is free? We're talking about trees. It's not accounting for the energy consumed in the creation of crude oil either, I'm sure you already know that "embedded energy" refers to extraction + transportation + manufacture, not the mass of the materials.

Straws are especially harmful to animals as it already comes in an easily 'consumable' size, even before it starts degrading. They are nearly always single-use and thrown away at a rate higher than any other plastic product. Research keeps popping up pointing to plastic as a contributor to the death of coral reefs, damage to sea life, and we have no idea about the actual impact of microplastics now found embedded in the tissues of every living being.

I still cannot understand what type of argument you're trying to make. Having plastic everywhere is obviously not good for the environment even if paper ones take more resources. Paper is renewable and biodegradable, oil/plastic is not, and we still have several orders of magnitude more energy available.
Are those fair comparable scenarios, though? Usually successful invasive species have some 1-up on the local fauna and can thrive. Can the same be said of the newly manufactured mammoths?
> Sell a store to an independent operator who in turn hires workers, then sell goods to the independent operator, something like that.

NLRB has recently ruled that in these cases you're still _employee of the parent company_ when it comes to companies using this as an anti-union tactic. It's very obvious to anyone when a company is actively using this as an anti-union tactic.
Probably. Obesity also increases the risk of many types of cancers. This appears to be due to the chronic inflammation and immune system effects. In 20 years it will be interesting to see what cancer rates are in patients that have been taking GLP-1 drugs.
I've used ChatGPT and Copilot with Javascript & Typescript and a bunch of frameworks. Python, C, C++, C#, Go, 6502, Z80, ARM and a few other languages so far. They've all worked pretty good. I wish it had a wider breadth of APIs and documentation, but it is pretty good so far.
People do this all the time. The world is littered with assembly code written by people who believe that modern x86 uarches are just like the Pentium IV they cut their teeth on, or that an M2 is just a fancy Cortex-A53, meticulously hand ordering instructions while entirely missing the big picture.

If you’re going to take the trouble of writing assembly, you should do it right; figure out the fastest you can theoretically go, and see if you can get within a few percent of that without using assembly. If you can, stop. If not, figure out why you can’t, file compiler bugs as applicable, and then write assembly where it’s necessary. Re-measure, and if you aren’t within a few percent, figure out why not, then go back to step 1.
Books, a lot of books aren’t available online, especially non English ones.
I bet quite a few IoT devices would fall to these irrelevant attacks
> point still stands

No?

I assume you actually don't know the concept of diminishing return, and it's totally fine. Every other comment here is explaining it to you already. I won't bother to repeat. Please read the sibling comments carefully.
>I wonder how effective countermeasures would be. If you put a mirror coating on a missile, will it reflect enough energy to make the laser ineffective?

nope. iirc it depends on specific wavelength of the laser or something. also mirror doesn't reflect 100%
That's pretty much how I feel as well. In my 30s now, but unemployed and working a bit day to day on a project while sending out the odd job application in an abysmal market (in the same city as the author), but it's a gradual process and only after enjoying the sunny days as much as possible, socializing, fitness etc..

It's not that there's no time for coding in a hobbyist manner, but I'm careful about moderating the amount of time I allocate to it.

That said, I wasn't at even remotely the same level of execution ability as the author, and are probably still not, but I was starting to work with freelance clients in PHP and Angular.js, building some small technical experiments end to end, and relentlessly trying to get better at technical stuff. I could definitely still do that, just not at the expense of other things.
Team building means, well team building. It is difficult to turn a comaraderie with your fellow workers when you never meet them face to face.
While I believe that upper management likes working on the office to make it easier for them to manage, not everything they say is double speak. This is coming from someone who has worked from home for 12 of the last 15 years.
There are definitely advantages of working from the office, that you can't really get working remotely. But I think the advantages of working remotely, at least for me, outweighs the in person advantages.
You can still access those files in the flatpak, replace them with your new ones, and package it back as a flatpak and let users use it.
The loss of forest resources in Europe over the last 10000 years, and in particular the last 5000 years (largely due to human activity) dwarfs any recent gains (1).

(1) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18646-7
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oh yeah which link to use has been a nightmare of a UX problem with kbin/lemmy. Like, if someone links you a Lemmy page but you want to see it on your kbin instance, you need a link here, "open in kbin.social (or whichever instance)." But same for every link on the page?

I guess mastadon has better solutions for this, having existed much longer with federation, but it's definitely a downside. Maybe it's something that can be built into a browser in a more general way the way "email with" is for email links - a list of "these domains are actually federated" and "my options for opening them are" list, and you get links as needed, or popups. But there are additional issues when the post ids don't match on the different instances, so such a thing is not so simple as replacing the domain with %s in the right places.
Sorry! It is running ffmpeg in your browser on page load, which might not make it happy.
Somewhat related. Has anyone else notices the spiders out of control lately? We have seen 5-10X the spider traffic Aug 23 vs Aug 22.
if they will undergo circumcision, they can
Not biased against but recognizing that it has significant downsides. In most cities, we should be planting tons of trees and replacing asphalt/concrete with plants to avoid ACs dumping as much heat into the city.
MPW had an interesting About box animation too. I recorded this back in 2011 using vMac emulator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJn3qxK9Br0
They will need elephants as surrogate mothers.
> police officers in Suffolk county NY earning $200k-$700k/yr in addition to generous pension and health benefits (worth millions on top of that)

The police aren't the greatest example, because everyone wants to "support" the police no matter what. For example, when Wisconsin Republicans eliminated collective bargaining rights for public employees in 2011, leading to massive protests at the Capitol, they actually exempted police from the new law, so police still had collective bargaining rights.

Keep in mind that many leftists, who are generally very supportive of labor unions, still want to "defund the police". So the narrative is kind of flipped here.
Thanks, DuPont.
I think the plan is to pay onsite people infinitely more the remote, as they won't pay those that work remotely.
The day Anna's archive goes will be sad, I'm glad they opensource it so that other relays will come up
What's the best place to find chiptune compositions made with LSDJ or Dirtywave M8?
I've never understood why people have issues falling asleep. I just shut my eyes and tell myself its times to sleep... off i go.

My issue is that I never want to fall asleep... getting myself to actually do it rather than do something more interesting is a battle of will power.
building a business on any big vendor (google, apple, amazon, microsoft, etc) without at least making sure these risks are shared with the client seems like a fast way to run into these costly overtime problems.
> magnitude cheaper than existing rocket-based defenses

Are the existing defenses rocket based? I thought they were basically a gatling gun
Weren't your customers annoyed?
proper architectural films with published specs (uv/ir rejection ratios, etc), not sold retail. at least i failed to find them
Hah, my perfect niche!

I think that an ada-like language could make a real resurgence in embedded programming. Ada gets all the things about bare-metal right that C got wrong. However, it's held up by legacy tooling, clunky syntax, and obtuse compiler errors. Adacore has gone a long way towards alleviating those issues over the last few years, with alire and the ada_language_server. Time will see where this language takes us.
The essay is self-referential in a sort of Hofstadter GEB way, with individual sections containing allegorical forms of distractions or diligence (the writer being distracted by videos of a skateboarder who therein is relentless and very not distracted).

He is attempting to write an essay (the word "essay" itself coming from the French word meaning "to try") about distraction, while being distracted yet somehow talking about other kinds of distraction or not. It's very good. It's like a fuller, less abstract version of the "This is the title of the story, which is also found several times in the story itself."

https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/tit...
I don't see the link between ONNX and Azure (I'm sure it's there, but I don't quite understand what the author is alluding to with respect to the ONNX being an Azure on ramp).
Never heard of this although it seems to be around for years.

The firefox xpi is not working on recent firefox with "The add-on could not be installed because it appears to be corrupted"
Google Gemini Eats the World
Whoa! I remember experiencing this and just assuming it must be my imagination! I also remember that same laptop getting those pits. No where as dramatic as the pictures in the linked page, but still pronounced. Crazy.

It's never happened to my more recent MBPs.
Stem Cells as a Medical Service, or SCaaMS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome

Tamir interceptor missile. $40k-$100k range
Calm down champ, no one cares about your porn industry experience. "Not normalized" means not normalized in society at large.
That was the first impression I got from the story too. But I didn't think it was correct so that's why I went looking for clarification.

The mechanism of release for refrigerants to the atmosphere seems to mainly be escape during servicing and decomissioning as well as microscopic leaks in aircon piping that develop over the working life of the unit.

I haven't done the math on total amount of refrigerant emission to understand whether it's negligible in the big picture or actually a serious problem once CO2 emissions approach net zero. Is that why you're curious about HCFC vs CFC?
Several points:

1) Crafting some of these hats require an incredible level of human skill and time - i.e., a sort of fixed cost in time for someone to reach that level, and then a variable cost in crafting one hat with that skill. This page lists, for example, "18 Master Weavers who could actually weave one, and it would take months to do it." for the category of Super Fino. Thousands of dollars for such a hat sounds quite reasonable.

2) These are actual physical items with real function and form. Some of the function is in the form. Some of the function is in the intangible "status symbol" realm that nevertheless has a direct impact in the real world. Whether cultural, subconscious, etc., individual "presentation" can make a difference in business dealings (getting a contract vs. not), attracting the interest of desirable partners for romance &/ family formation, etc.

3) Our economics are always screwy ... the drive for efficiency is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it's great (focusing purely on provision for humans, in needs and perhaps a bit further along in, say, "Maslow's hierarchy") to be able to produce more goods and services (perhaps, there are further issues there I'll avoid for now) less expensively, so more people can have needs and wants and all that met. But, of course, the flip side is that there are fewer jobs available (at some point, another complexity I'll sidestep going into non-germane to primary point depth on). This can drive a more extreme "bimodal distribution" to prices - those who continue to use "traditional methods" have to charge not only more, comparatively (and in light of general inflation), but, more in a more absolute sense due to lower volumes, etc.

4) Of course, some of this is also likely getting into the realm of items like NFTs, iPhones, etc. - the purposeful (market) positioning by those selling as "luxury" or "status" items. I.e., more intentional, where, of course, comparisons to Barnum and general derision by people "on the outside" is a normal sort of "organic" byproduct that perhaps seemingly paradoxically can actually further the symbolism and strength of marketing / "story".

5) Apparently, these types of hats bear some resemblance to trees. Next time I see someone wearing one, I might cut their head off so I can "count the rings" (inside the hat). ;)

J/k on the last point.

Probably. Kek.

Edit: my random number generator (aka, "brain") informed me in the past several minutes that it is required (as regards "the service") for me to add this take on marketing from the great Bill Hicks: https://youtu.be/tHEOGrkhDp0?si=TPnIwP0HymFYZZkC - which, of course, gave the universe another opportunity to give me the finger (why yes, I DO want to know about how I can meet the one for me "on Bumble", ugh). 'And thus ends the lesson' and general kvetching session, with this video that fairly well captures my feelings these days. Enjoy!
Certainly for short range projectiles. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome
Yes there's a potential conflict there. I'm curious to hear from your perspective:

1. Do we need to maintain a stable climate?

2. Do we need to win the decarbonization game to do so? And if not, how else do we maintain a stable climate?
Rural land isn't technically zero tax value, but it's too minor as a revenue.
I honestly thought this is a satire piece until:

> IDEs Can Create Lock-In Effects

Because all the things come before this point are so absurd.
Didn't most of the additional deaths come from COVID, drug overdoses and suicides? While those are terrible and need to be addressed, those don't seem to be related to availability of medical treatment.
Italian here. In many places they don't just turn on AC when not needed, but even do that the wrongest possible way: while leaving shop doors open w/ no air barriers. No idea of the reasoning behind that practice, but I often see shops doing that, especially coffees. Do they think customers won't in if they see transparent doors closed?
As a result, their power bill will probably be huge, but having also fridges and blast chillers, electric stoves, espresso machines etc. working all day, that might go overlooked. I've heard somewhere in the EU there are harsh fines for shops using AC while keeping doors open, but sadly that's not the case here.
Releasing something to intentionally wipe out a species, should it prove not to correctly contained, can cause a lot of damage. I would hate for corners to be cut.
have you seen https://vite-plugin-ssr.com/ ? i've only browsed their docs, but AFAICT the pitch is that it's a more DIY approach to a framework, where you keep a lot of control over how things are wired together.
Thoughts:

Closest implemented thing that I know of that implements the solution to the stated problem: Raku's Capture - https://docs.raku.org/type/Capture

Maybe Python can go in that direction.

Subjectively, it doesn't feel right to mix positional and named containers in Python.
I spent over a decade customizing and tweaking my vim installation, but for the past 5+ years I've been team IDE (JetBrains in particular). It's really incomparable if you have a good IDE for your language of choice.
IDK if 2.40625 + 5.6875 is any easier :)

Inches using base 2 for the fractions is useful.
I only know PyGame and Panda3D, but both of those have their core written in C or C++, and use multiple threads. Python is just intended as the scripting language.
It's called Boing Boom Tschak (not Chuck) and I never heard anyone refer to it as a parody.
As a Chinese I would say a lot of people around won't expect this to happen due to a strong sense of nationalism. Most poeple are afraid that these immigrants will create severe security problems as what's happening in the west. And most importantly, people regard it a shame to share with immigrants the already limited job opportunity.
"one"of. "Accidental" death is there leading cause of death. But that doesn't mean "car accidents" it just means accidents. For the 35-44 rage 22k died from poisoning and 6k died from car accidents.
It is still a lot, but not the #1 cause of death. About 42k out of near 3 million deaths are due to car accidents (each year)
I think that this would replace top down moderation with:
Judge each post based on person who wrote the post and how I felt about their first post I saw

I think that the goal of moderation should be to judge each post based on it's own individual content; I think this is the best way to propagate good ideas
And a lesson that the relationship with the parent is adversarial.
Into space.
Not new, but it helps.

Or at least some explanation for why you shared it.

Spare us the experiment. Plenty of discussion when the content is fresh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28758486
I came second out of 999 in the Salem Center prediction market tournament
> I thought the primary cause was the demographics changes which is creating knock on effects

Not really. Yes, China is starting to experience demographic decline but it will be a long long time before it affects them economically. They could still absorb every North American job and still have people left over. That's just how big China's population is. Demographic decline will eventually bite them but they have a very long runway. China is very different from Japan's case.

As for policies, again, not really. It's more that about 10 years ago most low cost manufacturing shifted out of China because cheaper regions caught up and were able to provide better value. China has been been talking about this trend since before Xi and a big focus has be shifting to a service economy built on internal demand. This is the part where policies come into play. The shift has not gone as well as they hoped. And again, it's not really about Xi messing up Deng's work. The world, and China, is different from Deng's world. Deng's approach would not work in a world where low cost manufacturing has moved overseas. If anything, it's more of an issue that Xi has stuck to closely to Deng's approach and not adapted to the changing world.
I agree with "more", but definitely not "better" nor "more efficiently".
What I find useful is I write two lines of comments when starting a new file, about what it is going to do.

Otherwise, even just creating a function, generally they will be filled out automatically.

I suppose I'm quite big on naming (vars and functions)

Maybe if your language or code is more terse, it might struggle more.
Do they cost more or less after that