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I worked at such venues and helped friends who worked at such venues back in the day. What I remember mostly is having to move from one computer to another setting IP addresses and the annoyance of having to restart Win 98 after setting an IP. I still don’t understand why that was a requirement.

Later during Win XP days, most places started having a dedicated set of machines and you didn’t need to lug your computer along anymore, those were actually the days I remember I had most fun, playing UT and C&C Red Alert 2, god damn the music was exciting!
Building a vending machine to do hot and cold was a master stroke. There's also a niche for vending machines with a small microwave to heat noodles.
So we could agree that the methane is irrelevant because it would be emitted anyway by the rotting grass.

And we could also agree that clearing forests is a different thing than farming meat, which we could separately campaign against and prevent.

After all, the great grasslands of America are not turning into forests, and cattle farmed there doesn’t result in further forests being cut down.
I would take a course which had an instructor worth listening to.

re "martial arts", let me google that for you: https://kungfukingdom.com/us-colleges-offering-a-martial-art...

(I admittedly lost the 'uni' bit in my response)
No its not. Its not about keeping a swamp of old crap.

Its about keeping the url to avoid dead links and 404's.

Redirecting an old url to a new one with updated informmation is perfectly fine.
you can also use https://github.com/smol-ai/GodMode to run chatgpt and phind side by side fyi
Those companies will usually explain that those are pilot plants. They don’t have enough volume to really scale to economical production, yet. They’ll need for a lot more EVs to be on the road long enough for batteries to be damaged or fail and need to be recycled. Until recently, the number of new EVs was very low, just single digit percentage of car sales. Now that they are getting into double digits, the potential supply of batteries is starting to grow. It will just take time, now.
I'd be surprised if the US cannot build the industry necessary for it, and even if that were the case, it seems that they could export ~raw lithium, and then buy it processed, or as batteries if needed meanwhile they figure things out, as the US doesn't really want to keep China owning critical production lines for the technology that's coming in the next 20+ years.
the captcha at archive.ph is looping - ive tried two different browsers. is there another archive link please
A single plant is carbon neutral over its entire growth/decomposition cycle, yes. But the ecosystem as a whole, plants grow faster than they decompose, and it is carbon negative. The excess oxygen production is balanced by animals and fire. So yes, we can make plants more carbon negative by slowing decomposition, and by cutting them down when growth rates slow making room for new plants. Bury the stuff, sink it in the ocean, build wooden things, use it as a component of other manufacturing materials. Just add land and water, which seems to be the problem.
I'm hoping USB-C on iPhone 15 unlocks UVC camera support on iOS 17 too - this will make iPhones decent portable camera monitors/basic recorders for proper digital cameras.

Sony's Xperia line has been able to do this for years, starting with an actual HDMI input port on the Xperia Pro and moving to supporting UVC over USB-C a bit later on.
I can’t speak to SF, but there have been so many construction towers in Canadian cities. They are densifying rapidly, but a lot of it have been condos and apartments.
Concepts and Universal Structure
I respectfully disagree with your initial point regarding "can" versus "what they do."

Even if a company provides assurances and pledges never to mishandle your data or use it for nefarious purposes, there remains a risk that your data could still end up in the wrong hands.
Up until the 80s such principals were touched on in senior school classes of chemistry and physics. While I would assume most people in my locale once having a strong agricultural connection and can do attitude to fix things, have understood gas compression heat exchange, few would have understood the old kero / gas (heat) powered fridges worked precisely.

Present times I would not like to guess how the population around would fare - when I see weather disasters the last few years, many are throwing their fridge out once it's been flooded - rather than take a couple of weeks to clean and wait for it to dry out. Sure they've become very complicated and some brands don't respond very well to being saturated, the guts of the compressor are sealed.

Most of what I learned about fridges I did during a few months as a delivery person working for a white goods company.
This is where the classic Mac OS really shines: one fullscreen application which is totally dedicated to the task at hand. It's why I still favor it for many "creative" endeavors and why Apple was able to survive so relatively long with it despite the OS being a flaming garbage pile of technical debt and hacks underneath the glossy exterior.
Street design broadly construed.

I don’t think stricter licensing requirements drove changes in attitudes towards seatbelts or airbags.
2 decades ago, when X windows support for Indian language display in Unicode was spotty at best, I'd created an LD_PRELOAD hack, libxindic, to do character reordering for mostly correct display (It really didn't do the right thing with Tamil as Tamil ligates the -u and -uu matras to the base characters. It was useful back then, and even worked with Mozilla (but was a bit unstable).

http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/aatharuv/projects/xindic/
As I understand it, the major candidates for dark matter are new elementary particles, so they would still fall under quantum field theory.

Of course, there is always the possibility that another revolution in physics happens, but even then our current theories will still be valid in most domains, in the same way that Newtonian mechanics is still valid in most domains.
Can you tell me more about the async closure issue you're having?
Linear and logistic regression are also AI. Language models do not come up with new principles and ideas but they're still called AI. The AI these days is just a marketing term for "we took some data and fit a curve to it".

In this case I think the application of optimization to predict material properties is a very good use case for AI. AI after all is basically regression scaled up with lots of variables and large data sets. Anything with well defined inputs and outputs should be using "AI" to reduce human effort in uncovering statistical patterns that can accelerate research and development. Material science and drug chemistry are obvious use cases. Compiler optimization is another one but I haven't yet seen any real effort for optimizing software development with AI other than copilots for code completion.
No, companies aren't willing to pay what they're worth.

Pay what they're worth, and there is no shortage, at least no long-term shortage.
So there is a difference between meat that was farmed in a manner that is no more carbon unfriendly than vegetables, and meat that is not.

We could have marketing campaigns for “green beef” and I’m suprised we don’t. It seems very strange.

My country doesn’t import beef, and all of the beef here is grass fed. Nor do we cut down any forests since they are all now protected.

Eating meat here is just fine then right?

And yet a significant number of people here are going vegetarian for climate change reasons.
I actually worked on this at the beginning of my career (I still have the mug to prove it), quickly concluded the technology was inadequate and doomed (mostly due to considerations around atomic transactions), and bailed shortly after.

General Magic had a partnership with AT&T and they did much of the heavy lifting to make it semi-viable, for instance Bell Labs developed "High Telescript" (the underlying Telescript was more akin to Forth). AT&T expended a ridiculous amount of money on the project, with almost no revenue to show up for it, but some of those investments like their dialup modem server or their email platform were later repurposed in their Internet Service Provider offering.
Exactly. Batteries are being recycled at scale today with 98-95% material recovery rates, depending on the company.

We are still early in the development cycle of recycling technology, which means we'll be closer to 99.x% in a decade when the first large wave of EV batteries (from the last decade) could start getting close to End of Life.
Show me how to cancel a network requests using only threads, with no access to the underlying socket APIs? Because that's trivial with `async`.

That's not "fun", that's table stakes.
Here’s another perspective

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Code-gov: A collection point for all Code.gov repositories
FFMPEG and Elemental are the two which I've seen at scale.

Source is not always the same, but does often go through a Mac. Not an Apple employee, but I've heard the reason they make the 5k display is to account for 4k fullscreen + toolbar.
In history class our teacher pointed to certain practises and living conditions as a sign of how harsh society back then was.

I can't help but think about how future history teachers will explain some of the things going on right in one of the richest nations on earth.
No you're absolutely right, a poorly insulated home does not
make any qualitative difference to a heat pump's effectiveness, you just need to buy a bigger heat pump.

I think the way costs scale is important - a big gas boiler doesn't cost that much more, you're just burning more gas, but a big heat pump costs more. Heat pumps put more of the cost up front and less down the track.

So if the uninsulated homeowner is facing a $10k bill for a massive heat pump they can say "ooh what if I spend $1k on insulation" and they could get the sizing down and spend $6k.

There's really no fundamental difference. The heat pump itself doesn't know whether you've got a massive house that's well insulated or a tiny house that's poorly insulated, it's just a heat load.
I don't trust any of those sites anymore because as covid becomes more normalized people stop testing / reporting their test results.

Most of the countries on that list have 0 new cases. Is that the reality or are they simply not reporting anymore?
> I don’t think stricter licensing requirements drove changes in attitudes towards seatbelts or airbags.

No; laws on those things did. Similarly, stricter licensing requirements will change attitudes around safe driving.
I think a charitable reading would be that by "problem" they meant "limitation".
As other have pointed out, the amount of lithium that needs to be extracted is much smaller than the amount of oil that is already being extracted.

An EV battery will use around 8-16kg of lithium that should last for the life of the car. Then the battery can be recycled. Current recycling programs can recover around 95% of the lithium. Over time, the demand for lithium will reach a much lower volume than oil.
That doesn't sound like Socrates at all.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39843/are-socra...

Sounds like it could be from just about anywhere. The answer is probably something really unsexy like Protestant missionaries, which is why you see it attributed to Buddha, Socrates, and cool authors.
Thanks!

> Made famous by zoologist Jakob von Uexkull in 1909, the term Umwelt refers to the perceptual world experienced by each animal, a highly specific kind of "sensory bubble." When we walk our dog and she stops to smell every other bush or car tire, she's taking in through her acutely sensitive nose smells that we take in faintly or not at all. That's because humans and dogs have two different sensory bubbles, or Umwelten.

Umwelten! <3
> And Java's worst contribution to software was how painfully slow and resource hungry most of the software written with it tends to be...

It's hip to hate on java, but at least do it from an informed position.

Java is extremely fast, which is why it's so popular for server code where performance matters.
The Canadian market lacks innovation because the market doesn’t want innovation. Most Canadian businesses and startups thrive in the U.S. simply because the Canadian market is so much more risk-averse. Buyers are afraid of change and investors afraid of risk.
I am now getting the impression that any collective action in the West, that is harder than downloading an app, gets called 'hard', 'impractical', etc.
And then they rot within a year or so, most carbon capture cannot happen through trees unless we bury them under the ground for a couple thousand years.
Basically, yes. But at scale, most ecosystems of plants reach an equilibrium where old plants die and rot, releasing as much CO2 as the growing ones are taking in.
I was fortunate that kids I grew up with had computers all over their house. network cables up and down the stairs.

one family had a room built on their garage setup for band practice and tables around the thing for lan parties since their dad was some high end coder or unix wizard or something.

later we took over an old single theater in north branch MN (the battle shack) and kids just lived there for the summer. 24/7 lan party and movies and music and just wild stuff going on. you'd show up with your PC and hook up and wander around trying to organize games, check out people's crazy setups (kids with crazy workstation CRT monitors for each color in as coax) and stuff like that.

After I got out of highschool we went to AWOL lans which I think died over the pandemic finally but they had like two days of games organized in a hotel with a huge arcade, laser tag, go karts.
I think you wood need to make new forests.
“Boiler” is British English, “Furnace” is American English.

In Britain a boiler is a device in a single family home that provides heating by using gas or electricity to heat water which is then piped to radiators. It is also used to heat water for showers. Boilers can be quite small, many modern boilers are “combi” boilers that heat water on demand without a separate hot water tank. My boiler is the size of a suitcase.

Older properties generally have a boiler and insulated hot tank. This means that you need to plan your showers and heating requirements in advance by “putting the water on” to ensure there’s enough hot water in the tank.

Forced air heating is rarely used in the UK and people are generally not familiar with the concept.
Excel rules the roost because it is the GUI to manipulate tabular data.

To be honest: Is there an alternative?

I've been looking for a spreadsheet so that I can "drive spreadsheet from Python" rather than the usual "drive Python from spreadsheet".

As far as I can tell, that doesn't exist.

There are read-only variants to analyzed tabular data, but there seem to be none that allow me to do lots of editing in a visual way.
A buddy of ours has the nickname gremlin to this day. If he touched your PC it was guaranteed to bsod or just die. he spent lan parties trying to get his PC working, reinstalling windows...etc
Try Deno Fresh
https://fresh.deno.dev/

Deno supports importing node modules now so you can import whatever dependency you desire. I even used browser imports on the server, it's so flexible.

Island based hydration is a great idea and it's a super productive framework to use. Fresh uses Preact, I spent the last few months using it and I never caught myself fighting with the framework, unlike nextjs where it's a constant struggle
Two things stand out to me:

1) the ability to create content, and have that content consumed, that lets new folks come up to speed. Reading and comprehending is a lot harder for a lot of people than we like to admit.

2) Letting people know that failure and experimentation as part of learning is ok and expected. It’s generally easier for new folks to sit and do nothing than to try, fail, and ask for clarification and help. Paving the path for the latter both culturally and technologically is extremely difficult at scale.
installing Back Orifice on people's computers so you could open and close their CD drives remotely...
I was vaccinated in 2020, had a booster in 2021, and the bivalent booster in 2022. There's no way to know with a sample size of one how well I personally was protected. I was definitely exposed several times to COVID and did not catch it until now. I'm disappointed that the new booster isn't available for me yet. I was a few weeks away and there's a good chance it would have prevented this infection, or lessened the severity.

It's telling how everyone I talk to that's avoided vaccines brings it up. They're nervous about getting COVID, they're nervous about having being wrong in the past. Several people have pulled the same "See? The vaccines don't work!" line. Clearly they work. Even 20% efficacy at preventing infection is valuable. Reducing severity is clearly valuable. Reducing spread is a societal obligation, even if the efficacy wanes.

"I had a runny nose so I don't need a vaccine" is a hypothesis. Poll an expert on the matter (like a doctor) and see what they recommend. Ask them why, if you're serious.
They might have several possible formats but for example netflix branded content specs are in the net [1]. It’s IMF package with jpeg2000 content. Prores files are sent as helper files. Sometimes ffmpeg can be used but often grading / mastering tool is used for export (resolve, baselight etc). In my experience FFMPEG is very easy to keep consistent once you get the parameters right (which is always pretty painful), but pretty slow compared to most other tools.

[1] https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/726...
There are already many energy storage systems in place and many more being installed even now. The problem is that energy storage and recovery is a hard problem. Anyone who solves it will be rich overnight.
> Canada's housing stats show a drop in total investments in building construction, and a drop in housing starts.

Hence why the labour issues have started to turn...

> If supply was catching up with demand

Demand has backed away because an increasing number are not willing to take the risk on housing now. High interest rates and a lot of increased pressure for governments to do something means that a coming crash is highly likely and nobody wants to be the bag holder.

Same reason rents have skyrocketed. If you can rent, why on earth would you buy a house right now? Indeed, housing tends to be highly sticky, but it's almost certain they will cost a whole lot less in a year or two. The downward trend is already quite visible, with average price in most markets peaking in 2022.
I was renting a $1.4m home for $2200/mo in Vancouver. Something like a $10k/mo mortgage payment for 25 years at current rates. But they had bought it like 6 or 7 years before so _their_ mortgage was substantially lower.

We haven’t even seen the full brunt of this—every time one of these properties changes hands at this point as the current owner cashes out, we’re going to see one more of these “affordable” rentals off the market in one way or another. (Either they hike the rent to the point of unaffordability, occupy it themselves, or leave it sit empty to just store or accumulate value.)

And just to put it in some perspective—to afford that shitty run down house I was renting, you’d need to be making somewhere around $720k/yr pre-tax to pay the mortgage and maintain the “1/3 toward housing” ratio. People in Canada do not make $720k/yr.
The NSO Group is Israeli.
Oil is 100% non-renewable. A single, relatively efficient ICE vehicle will use over 45,000 lbs of gasoline over its lifetime (excluding all the oil to extract, refine, and transport that gasoline).

The entire oil supply chain has no chance of ever becoming sustainable.
> You ever played Quake with a bunch of dudes on speed?

I don't think I've ever played Quake without a bunch of dudes on speed.
I am not really sure what your point is. I think the argument thread is:

1. Root claims aviation processes are a good example of safety processes that self driving cars and other safety-critical industries can adopt.

2. You disagree claiming that aviation processes are too onerous citing TSA and ground security processes. In addition, you state “If everything were to be as safe as aviation the whole world would come to a screeching halt standstill.” You are implying that the only choice is between aviation processes everywhere or nowhere.

3. I pointed out that high safety processes only need to be applied where it matters. You can apply challenging processes on a case by case basis depending on the risk.

4. I guess you are now stating that aviation processes are excessive over reactions because in no other industry would they do the same things? And thus they are a poor model that should not be adopted by other industries since aviation is too risk averse?

To which I say, okay? Aviation is not the only model of safe processes, it is just a model with a very good safety record, probably the best. It is useful for establishing what an upper bound on safety processes might look like and cost. But, as you point out, the cost/benefit may not make sense for other industries.

The point is that there is a vast range of processes between nothing and aviation. Something closer to aviation or trains rather than total recklessness is probably more fit for safety critical systems that can kill hundreds to thousands of people.
Insomnia Festival is the largest of these in the UK I believe. In fact, i71 is going on right now. :-)

https://www.insomniagamingfestival.com/lan

Still manages to capture some of that "old school" LAN feel if you bring your own PC.
Would you mind elaborating in more detail why.
> Anyone have some insight into why RISC-V seems to be getting traction?

Because its a a change in business model.

Its simple, in the past you had to pick a chip vendor and then make your software work on that. So you decide to get MIPS or ARM and then put your software on that.

RISC-V is different, you decide on RISC-V and you can start working on that. Then you can decide what vendor you want to get, or go with open source or do it yourself.

So in the past it was 'vendor -> isa', no its 'isa -> vendor'.

So bunch of guys in a big company lab can simply take an open source chip, throw it on an FPGA, develop the software and tell their manager "We can ship this, we just need to select a vendor for the actual chip". And then after 2 years if the vendor sucks, just switch vendor.

If you go to ARM. First there are lawyers and it can take months. Then once your software is on ARM, well now they have you by the balls.

RISC-V is free and vendors compete on an open playing field.

> Has there not been prior attempts to make an open source cpu?

As others have said, its not a CPU. Its an ISA specification. The RISC-V Foundation does not design chips.

As the other commenter has explained, there were other open ISA but they all had various technical and historical issues.

If you want actual open implementation of those specification, look at Chips Alliance, LowRisc or CORE-V for example.

> Is there a lot of skill in making the ISA?

Yes. Not for the base ISA, but if you want to have Crypto, Vectors, Atomics and so on and so on, its a huge effort. Yes some students designed the core, but RISC-V is far more then that by now.

But the real cost is actually that you have to port an insane amount of software, huge amount of man-hours to port everything and keep up with new extensions.

> I assume that there are a reference implementations in VHDL/Verilog and Cadence and good support in compilers. Is this what pushed through, where others failed?

There was just demand for something like it. Other efforts had historical issues or technical issues.

Once Berkley pushed it, even before the standard, various people started adopting it and it took of like a rocket after that.