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GitHub seems to have no interest whatsoever in making the process of reviewing code any better or easier. It’s still essentially the same as it was 15 years ago.

They introduced batched review comments well over five years ago, and still haven’t fixed the obvious issues with it, like how if you’re the PR author and you’re replying to someone else’s comment, and hit Cmd+Enter, it starts a review of your own PR (requiring you to delete the comment and start over, fun!) rather than just replying. Glaring day-1 oversights of what should have been a simple feature, never fixed.
Very correct.

A world with co2 emissions from fire stick farming is a whole different game to what we’ve done in the last 100 years.
Well then you are still looking at silicon valley level of salaries. The top of the top of the world.

Let's take The Netherlands, where I live. A junior dev is expected to make €34,422/year. This is still a western country so let's go somewhere else. In China a junior dev makes about ¥269,904 a year, or $1.806,89. Is this tool worth 5+ man years of a junior dev? If your back of the envelope calculations only barely make sense for a tiny part of the world maybe the pricing is actually insane.

edit: ¥269,904 is $37.002. Point still stands.

> Do you think having 10% more junior devs on your team is better than having better tooling for the other 90% of the team?

The tool would have to be pretty damn good. And also not introduce business risk or at the very least a minimal business risk.
> But if the mainline code was open source, some engineer would spend three weeks chasing down these bugs and submitting patches and everyone would benefit.

That assumes that the problem is buggy code, isn't it? What if it is buggy hardware? What if it is the electronics that is glitching out?
I really enjoy writing code in Nim. The move to the new memory management system turns it into a true systems-language (comparable to C++ + SharedPtr's or Rust + ARC's everywhere). I've been working on a multi-threaded pure Nim GUI which runs 60fps like a charm and compiles down to a ~3MB binary with no deps outside the system UI libs!

The other part is that Nim's strongly typed and compiles to native code but allows you to do dependent typing like things that lets you be flexible on types:

type
X = object
Y = object
Z = object
NotXY = not (X | Y)

proc doSomething(_: NotXY) = echo "hi!"

edit: I forgot the mention, but NIR is cool and part of an overall initiative to improve the Nim compiler which will hopefully reduce bugs and improve performance. Plus hopefully enable native WASM support which would be handy for GUI stuff!
> There is No Steady State Economy (EXCEPT AT A VERY BASIC LEVEL)

This isn’t qualified for the debt statement. And again, it ignores restructuring. (As well as taxation and central banks’ arsenals for destroying money.)

As for Jevon’s paradox, sure. Total energy use is increasing. But it’s increasing alongside efficiency. That makes steady state at a future point more achievable. We are nowhere close to tapping usable energy, so pre-optimising for it is silly.

I like Gail’s writing, but this is a particularly bad article of hers. The problems it surfaces were largely addressed in the early 20th century, when the needs of industrialisation prompted monetary experimentation in the 19th century and yielded conclusions in the 20th. We have a debt-based fiat banking system because it works well for a positive-sum economy. There is also nothing inherent to it that requires growth; our need for growth comes from other parts of our economy, e.g. how we finance suburban infrastructure.
I don't personally see anything wrong with modifying a zygote's genetic code to create a body without a brain and then harvesting it for organs. Much more moral than meat farming, even.
The AI safety people should be ashamed that their legitimate views cannot be easily told apart from the sarcasm of the GP.
Here's one paper about Poland; "These data reveal that discriminatory practices by employers against pregnant women and women with small children are decisive in women’s decisions to postpone or forego childbearing."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26349356
Was about to post a link to archived Dr. Dobbs articles [1] (so not without a trace) only to find out that actual content seems to have vanished/nav is broken.

Like Dr. Dobbs until 2015, BYTE continued with online-only content until about 2011. What's worth discussing here is infeasibility to publish quality content on Google's web financed by targetted ads working for Google, and Google alone.

[1]: https://drdobbs.com/
I’d say the very definition of depression (and trust me, I’m quite the authority on it) is stuffing your face full of cheap carbs while you never leave your house for fear of heatstroke. Sure gives you time to ponder the meaninglessness of it all though, so if that’s your thing, then the world may indeed be headed in your favorite direction. Just ignore the ever rising levels of depression/anxiety/suicide in teens.
No, I am saying NATO is the bully which caused Russia to react. Is that so unbelievable?
No 300 would be fine. I’m ok with fire stick farming, it makes forests beautiful, visit North Western Austalia during the dry season if you want to see a truly beautiful landscape shaped by indigenous fire stick farming.
The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)
Some artists do. Moby used to do this. You can see it on this old CD single where he included a track with all the "parts" on it which was just the individual samples:

https://www.discogs.com/release/27604-Moby-Feeling-So-Real-R...

I used to sample these and put them in a MOD tracker and make my own remixes that way in the early 90s.
You mean like:

Q: Oh, wise LLM, teach me how to use poisons to murder my wife!

A: As an LLM, it's not ethical for me to suggest how to poison anybody. Poisons are dangerous to human body, which makes their use risky to anybody untrained in chemistry. Therefore, I would suggest to avoid poisons for safety and just drive your wife over with a car.
If we're going to pay then will MS cut back on the ads? Upsells? And digital colon probing?

Or are we going to pay to be violated? And told to like it?
// In [25]: chr(16)
// Out[25]: '\x10'
Funny because the whole argument does work better if you imagine the proponents are 5. "I'm special therefore the universe must care about me and my thoughts"
You sound like the people who explain that they're good drivers while using instagram on a phone because they have a lot of experience driving cars and using phones.
He was taken as a prisoner and likely had little idea what was going on in the wider world.

I can imagine that cooperating may have be the last thing he wanted to do initially.
Somebody said is a bad source. 3% failure seems too high given nearly everything requires JS.
Probably effective in many cases, but (A) no way to tell which cases in advance and (B) must consider fairness to the animal. My stepdaughter was prescribed a cat (that is a thing); it wound up being left behind one of the times she was evicted, so that we had to take it in for a while, thoroughly traumatized; eventually it went back to her and was killed by fleas.
It depends on how sensitive the PII is. Medical data and ID documents are two that I know which are particularly sensitive.
> Unfortunately my own experience with Linux audio processing has been nothing other than encountering one bug after the other one.

You kind of buried the lede there...
I don’t think we can assume that children will continue in their parents religion though. The US, for instance, is much less religious than it used to be.
maybe if i don't suffer the cost of training juniors then i can offer a higher salary?
No people can’t see stuff in their vision, it is just a way of describing the "minds eye".

I was also confused when I first heard of aphantasia, so talked about it with a few people. Enough people to come to the conclusion that a loot of it comes down to some people using crude language for the "minds eye". But that some people use the minds eye more than others.
I think it's less that they worried about whether or not people wanted to know how it works, and more that they needed to know. New fancy technology is generally poo-pooed by people. Why do we need fancy auto anything when a stick and clutch worked for years? Well, here's some fun graphics to explain!
I prefer to call it "understanding of evolution". Not critiquing your comment, just adding a viewpoint.

"Belief" is a right to be asserted bluntly. People feel socially comfortable saying they "believe" in all kinds of non-evidence based conjectures.

But ask someone whether they "understand" evolution, and they are likely to give the question more thought.

An unapologetic "no" has a bit of self-inflicted Socratic burn to it.
Do your aesthetics favour slobs in big boxes?
But the same argument applies to good-old-fashioned porn too. Porn in which men spit and slap women (and worse) are super common on every porn site. Does watching such porn make men more abusive towards women? We don't know because we can't run the studies because inducing abusive behavior in test subjects would be extremely unethical.
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If you’re not already aware, there is also a phenomenon where a person wakes up with a solution to something they had a problem with. Sleep is required for memory formation and organization, during which new and sometimes novel associations can be made.

I personally consider naps an essential part of studying because of this.
I had always assumed that causality ran the complete other direction! Rain -> happy plants -> big trees draped in ferns and vines and mosses.
My biggest surprise in our first post-pandemic trip to NYC a few months ago was the frequent "aroma" of weed on the streets; I don't remember that having been the case in the Before Times.
>I consider this person to be one of the smartest persons I know.

Mind elaborating why anyone else should think the same?

>"This ignores the existence of a central bank, which can print money at will."

>This does not solve the underlying problem. You will get hyperinflation but the money is useless.

Inflation is a spectrum. There's a vast range before you reach Zimbabwe/Venezuela levels of inflation, like the inflationary period we're seeing now in most developed countries. Reaching steady state and having slightly higher inflation isn't the worst thing in the world.

>https://ourfiniteworld.com/2020/11/09/energy-is-the-economy-...

How is this related to hyperinflation?

>"The world supported less than 1 billion people in 1750 because the industrial revolution and the green revolution wasn't a thing yet"

>We can only sustain this with modern technology that is developed by capitalism. Production is pre-financed in expectation of a higher return. If the growth model collapses, so will capitalism. Capitalism is not the same as a market economy. We had a market economy before capitalism. The point Gail makes is that a society without capitalism may fall to a technology level seen before the industrial revolution. A society like the Amish is basically stable in contrast to our model.

I don't get it, are you claiming that once we reached steady state, all of our technology will suddenly stop working and we'll go back to living like the Amish? It's unclear why advances like genetically modified crops, pesticides, and synthetic fertilizer will suddenly stop working if there isn't "pre-financed in expectation of a higher return".

>"In a recent poll of climate economists conducted by Reuters, most agreed that getting to net zero would cost only 2% to 3% of annual global GDP."

>Which does not change the underlying mathematics. See also: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/

>"But let’s not overlook the key point: continued growth in energy use becomes physically impossible within conceivable timeframes. "

I mean, if you extend your timescales arbitrarily far away you're going to be right eventually. After all, entropy and heat death of the universe is a thing. I don't think anyone seriously thinks we civilization can continue on for literally forever. Although I'm not sure what this does for the discussion about debt financing. Even without debt financing you're still going to run into heat death.
Simulations Plus has been building models on this data since 1996 and is one of the more popular vendors for prebuilt software for this modeling. There’s literally dozens of vendors with software though because companies have been working on this since the 80’s despite the article’s claim that this has been an ignored problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulations_Plus
Likewise for me with PC Plus, which enabled (via their "Super{Disk,CD}") access to professional programming tools and Linux distributions in the days before internet access with sufficient bandwidth to download them was widespread.

Sadly it took a turn towards being consumer-focused in the early 2000s and then died.
I don't think these should go over 10 miles an hour.

That's the only way to make these safe. At 20 miles an hour it's way to easy to lose control
That's just another VST with a different UI.
Shades of https://xkcd.com/605/

> The merciless growth illustrated above means that in 1400 years from now, any source of energy we harness would have to outshine the sun.

Cool, we can worry about this in 1000 years?

This article is silly because the whole point of the OP is that population growth will not continue, so it's reasonable to assume that energy consumption will also plateau.
Fluid mechanics might actually be a good analogy. We know that fluid mechanics happens, and it's entirely made of already known physical interactions, yet the phenomenon is so complicated that it deserves to be its own field of study.

On the other hand, asking something like "Is viscosity a part of the fabric of the universe?" would be meaningless, because viscosity is not a property of any elementary particle or force. The complication arises out of how those groups of particles interact with each other.

At least, with fluid mechanics, there's a good physical abstraction that reduces real world phenomena into partial differential equations which work surprisingly well. When it comes to consciousness, we can't even ask "What's the consciousness per gram of this substance?" and I doubt such a question will become meaningful any time soon.
So you can do AR, basically
> I wouldn't be so quick to take their word for it

Dan Arielly is a curious figure to give this sort of benefit of doubt.
Have you ever seen The Truman show ? Your comment reminds me of that movie.

I said that I want to visit. Not stay forever.

On the other hand, I’m not sure what it is but people seem to always have to point this same thing out. Actually seems like it’s a more common thing to say nowadays. It comes across as insecurity to me.

“You wouldn’t want to go back to simpler times they are just awful, run along now…”

I grew up around my great grandparents and grandparents. I never heard them say anything horrible about the past. I heard a lot of beautiful things though.
Could we explore a bit in how it would cost them money. Taxes in general get back into the economy unless the government stockpile the revenue or invest them over sea. It would increase costs for companies doing exports, raising costs on mining (29.9% of total exports), and maybe organic chemicals exports. Switzerland second largest export is Pharmaceuticals, but I am unsure how much a carbon tax would impact that industry.

If they also applied it to imports then countries with high CO2 would have a harder time to export to Switzerland. Having less access to cheap products with high carbon footprint would add a costs to citizens, as alternative products will likely cost more, but then it would also encourage industries in China/India to produce products with lower footprint in order to compete on markets with carbon taxes/tariffs based on carbon footprint. It might even encourage local productions which can be a boon for the economy.
Saccharin was discovered when Ramsen rolled a cigarette and noticed that the paper tasted sweet (there is a non-tobacco version of this for the faint of heart).

And Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin because some bread from an old sandwich did not become moldy.

Modern lab procedures preclude any such discovery today.
having slept on a mat on the floor for ~1 year until I dislocated my spouse's shoulder throwing a cockroach off the bed in a sleepy panic, I would strongly suggest against it.
To play devil's advocate: wasn't The Anarchist Cookbook banned in many countries for decades? And actually was found to have been used by many notorious criminals?
A home for digitally restrictive art
> When he was told that he was going to be shown films about the second world war, he moved his chair to the very back of the room - only to be disappointed by his first encounter with television and its tiny images.

Lol, expecting a movie theatre, guess he was a back-row guy.
It is routine to use evidence that would still be available if someone did all of these things.
Positive peer pressure as a solution to savings
It's not "old media". It's a disk image in some format.

Before it was just a raw disk image.

Now it's a container format for a disk image--- that happens to generally work as a raw disk image, too.

Either one keeps the original data pristine.
I'm pretty certain that was some very bitter and heavy sarcasm that you replied to. Or is it hope?
There was a story about a guy who trained himself to lucid dream about a hundred years ago while he was riding a train, and letting the shadows play off of his closed eyes....anyone know what I'm talking about? Having a hard time googling it, but I wonder if that same technique could be used for improving mental imagery instead of eye rubbing.
the first 'real' automatic like they exist today -- was eventually replaced by the PowerGlide, which yet again set a whole bunch of standard practices in place.

Beloved by hot-rodders everywhere for their ease of install and ubiquity in the field. My father has one in his project right now.

He, being a product of marketing like this, proudly responds with "No, Hydramatic!" when asked if his car has an automatic transmission. Cracks me up every time I hear it.
I have, in more than one occasion, gone to sleep with a problem in mind and woke up with a solution, but it is more of a conceptual thing. To actually see the lines of code, if true, is wild.
Ontario man eats 50 Carolina Reaper peppers in record time
You jest, but that's why the first amendment precedes the second. A man with a gun can kill a few dozen, perhaps a hundred, people at most before he's stopped. A man with a microphone can and has caused megadeaths and gigadeaths are plausible.
> In China a junior dev makes about ¥269,904 a year, or $1.806,89. Is this tool worth 5+ man years of a junior dev?

Try doing the currency conversion from Yuan to Dollars and not from Yen to Dollars.
I got a Boosted board and basically bought all protective gear and did laps around a school find all about said physics before using it as a daily last-mile transport. Helmets are so important.
“It doesn’t matter because it’s just an ops problem” assumes that it’s okay to just throw a bunch of money at it via astronomical cloud fees or salaries for dedicated ops people.

I’ve recently started working on a concept for this kind of engineering: “zero interest rate architecture.” This would refer to designs that lead to huge recurring cash burn because you can always just raise more money.
Certainly a bike helmet.

1. Doesn't do a great job protecting the face or the side of the head;

2. Not designed for motorized vehicles, it can't absorb enough the kind of forces involved in these incidents.

You need a full face helmet, designed for motorized vehicles.

A motorcycle one is great, but probably an overkill (no pun intended).

There are good downhill helmets that can do the job well enough. Fox and Leatt are trustworthy brands. There are other good ones. It should be obvious, but don't trust Chinese brands.
Hmm I think we've moved the goal post from "know anything" to "truly know" (whatever that means).
10 Key Quest Design Lessons from 'The Witcher 3' and 'Cyberpunk 2077' [video]
What is `object` here? Effectively a ⊤?
Are there people in this world to whom "the AI will tell you how to implement Jim Crow!" is genuinely effective? I'm struggling to grasp that anyone would be so stupid. Why would an author even say that?
It's clearly an unfortunate clash of both DID and Sybil in two separate nomenclatures. Each of which, in its own domain, has different referents.

However, like many of the peer comments here I feel the overlap of these two domains is vanishingly small. Presumably only yourself and a handful of others would even be aware of the etymology.

As you feel so strongly, perhaps a well-written blog post would rank highly for anyone curious enough to disambiguate.
In many many many ways, they’re the same thing. GitHub Actions is Azure DevOps.
> and the people who see the post first will be people who spend too much of their lives on Reddit

Except that every OP by default gets their inbox lit up by responses, typically unmoderated, in the order they were received.

So a person lurking casually on Reddit gets the false sense that threads are typically fun and light-hearted, enticing them to post. But the moment they do they become part of the Reddit ingroup, and their inbox gets bombarded with first-post asshat comments. Later, moderators and users downvote the asshats and the backend shuttles them away from all consequent casual lurkers.

It's like pre-digital hazing, except somehow even worse because there's no community bonding (or even community, really). Just unfortunate souls similar the poster below who said their mental health "takes a nose dive" when exposed to the nastier abusive comments/threads. Or even the unlucky lurker who wins the race against the moderators/downvoters of the abusive content. (None of whom are paid, btw. Yay!)
Or automation and increased productivity fill the gap, as they have always done.
1) The money prize

2) "if everyone is a winner no one is a winner"
The prestige of the nobel is lost and we need competent figures to interfaces with the public, the fact that the contributions of every student is not recognized in THAT way is not a good reason to stop

3) Is not 3 where do you stop?
"the entire city of Cambridge to receive the Nobel for helping developing a new x at the MIT"
Am I the only one who is too chicken to commit computer crimes for very low payoff.
If that's all the local industry can produce, it's better than nothing.
I agree 1000%. I’m the creator of what I believe is a better review interface for GitHub (https://codeapprove.com) but there are also many others:

* CodeApprove (codeapprove.com)
* Graphite (graphite.dev)
* Reviewable (reviewable.io)
* Axolo (axolo.co)
* Viezly (viezly.com)
* Mergeboard (mergeboard.com)
* Codestream (codestream.com)
* Pullpo (pullpo.io)
* ReviewPad (reviewpad.com)
* Planar (useplanar.com)
* Visibly (visibly.dev)
* Codelantis (codelantis.com)

I think in the end we should not expect GitHub to provide the best option here. We should expect them to provide a basic option (which they do) and for sophisticated consumers to pay more for a much better option. Everyone should be shopping for code review tools!
On the other side of the coin a society without children allows its members the freedom to be obese and mentally ill.
I've been meaning to share this for a while, but always put it off. A few years back I wrapped most of the ESP-IDF in Nim for an ESP32 project for a startup. I had to add FreeRTOS to Nim's standard library to get networking which was surprisingly easy. I've had production firmware running with this for a couple of years now. It's been pretty great and very stable. There's at least one other commercial user floating around.