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Its so sweet to see JLG with hair (page 7). :)

Seriously though, those quotes are hilarious .. especially Kahns' - this would be seem to have been quite a determined position for him to take, given Borlands' subsequent near-complete disinterest in the platform in the following years.

I wonder what Borland would be today if they hadn't ignored the Mac? Delphi for MacOS? Wow, what that would have done for us all ..

Or, better yet, Delphi for BeOS. Just another case of "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!" coming to the wrong minds at the wrong time ..
I think this is a central issue. The justice system should work as follows:

Any money that either side spends on legal resources, 50% goes to your lawyer and 50% to opposing counsel. You can spend $1,000,000, or go pro se, but the other side gets the same resources.

Another way to make this work is to cap expenses for both sides (I believe Germany does this for many types of cases).

The deeper issue is that there have been no serious efforts at reform. The system basically needs to be re-invented from the ground up. A lot of disputes which should not be adversarial (such as family law) are made into such, and there are misaligned incentives all over the place.
We've been doing quite extensive measurements over several parts of the architecture, which you can find here: https://probelab.io/

Still lots to optimise, but wouldn't say it's unusable. In fact, performance is pretty good for a decentralised P2P network.
Back it up regularly. It's going to die, quickly. It's going to get a lego shut in it, or stepped on, or dropped, or used as a baseball bat, and everything they have on it is going to be lost. If there's any data that they will miss, back it up.

Think well about what happens after it gets broken. Do you get them another? Every time they break it? Or do you let them suffer the pain of no longer having it? For how long? There are consequences of any decision you make here, consequences that may shape them for a longer than you might expect. No way of shaping them is free from downsides, so think well about how you're going to handle this.
I agree with the author, but especially because it's so rare to find people with expertise (a) also in the application, (b) also in the deployment target, and (c) also in the deployment methodology, let alone in the specific instances your team uses (maybe you used GCP at a previous company, but that's of little help if your current company uses AWS), let alone getting multiple of such people on your team (because bus factor), really, the problem is a communication problem. Get separate developers, separate infrastructure engineers, separate release engineers - but focus first on the quality and quantity of their communication. Encourage pro-active communication, the earlier the better, and encourage open feedback.
Can you imagine the consumer backlash?

RAM is not easily removable in most of today's electronics. So replacing RAM once a year actually means replacing all your devices once a year.
“Exercise considered harmful”
> Of course I know about the sanctions. Do they negate the equity act?

I have no doubt you already know your argument is bullshit, but opted to go on a smear campaign to try to circumvent the natural consequences of the sanctions imposed on Russia in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Hungary is not democracy.
Now _that_ is cool. I'd love to use it for work meetings. I could throw virtual trash at my coworkers while we argue about system design. Every time you suggest a technology that isn't postgres you get 6 virtual empty pop cans thrown at you. They could see me give them the 'suspicious eyebrow' in 3D. It looks so good!
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Your interpretation of "equivalency" is hard to understand in any context except one which seeks to limit the disagreement to an extremely narrow "debate" that just so happens to validate the ideology implied by your selective defense.

My response is to point out that your narrowing of the space of dicussion is not only noticed but acknowledged and explicitly challenged. In a conversation about morals this framing of yours is inappropriate and counterproductive. It is notable that you responded in the way you did, implying you're trying to keep this tactic subversive rather than explicitly acknowledging it. Classic move in rhetoric, to be sure.

You're acting like a smarmy high schooler who thinks they're good at reasoning because they're good at "debate".

Clear?
let them all retrain as baristas while we are figuring that one out... /s
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I think it has a lot to do with the shifting of science for political gain. From biological sex to vaccines, it's hard to "trust the science" when widely long held scientific fact change because of political pressure. It's not "anti science" it's backlash against science changing to fit a political or ideological narrative.

Then again... it could be the money paying scientists.
Reaction: Just how long has it been now, since the UK had a sane and competent PM?
> have collectively proposed launching more than half a million satellites

That doesn't mean there will be nearly as many in LEO at any given point in time - their orbits decay and their service lives tend to be short compared to other satellites.

It'd be problematic to track them manually, but any reasonable mobile phone can track that many spacecraft.

> Many people like wide FoV shots

A lot more people like broadband coverage in remote areas, on airplanes, or in the middle of the sea. Having better connectivity in these cases can save a lot of lives.

And, still, a lot of wide FoV shots are dozens or hundreds of stacked exposures. It shouldn't be that difficult to automatically remove the photobombed ones (and we also know where the satellites will be).

> looks for light streaks to zero in on recoverable meteorites.

Again, orbits are predictable and we can easily discard false positives that way.

> They don't always STFU crossing designated quiet zones

This is a real problem and spacecraft operators should be held accountable for that.

I understand light pollution from below and, now, from above, impacts the views of the night sky - I too always loved to sit back in our vacation home, away from the city, and just watch the stars above, but the benefits these spacecraft bring can't be neglected and, even if a single life is saved because someone could connect to ask for help, it's a worthy sacrifice. Also, I can do that after dinner, past the hour satellites are still reflecting the sunset of places west of me.

I guess the option will be to find nice rural places in high latitudes where we only need to deal with birds in polar orbits.
> am the universe
> literally mostly empty
> no reason to feel empty?
I would trade my right arm to be young enough that I get offended when people call me “young.” Youth is really wasted on 20- and 30-somethings.
Because that wouldn't be confusing if a novel implementation named itself "The Public IPFS DHT v2.0"?

Specificity >> descriptiveness, when you're aiming for a distributed future with multiple parties

As much as I hate AWS' jungle of names, I get why they did it. And it's probably better than any alternative
Kinda makes one think that maybe a carceral justice system might not be the most humane and effective way of keeping our society safe and (relatively) orderly...
Robin Williams' daughter: AI recreations of her dad are 'personally disturbing'
> It is still illegal to erect an apartment building on roughly 75 percent of our nation’s residential land.

Good - multi family dwellings/apartments are a blight, proudly NIMBY
The paper discusses TLR4 and TLR9.

TLR4 is known to interact with nickel and cause mitochondrial dysfunctions.

If there's a virus involved it may be the virus is triggering the spread of the damage already done by nickel?

Nickel is a surprisingly good fit for my father...
No. Just whitelist the main domain for sites that are obviously broken. Then try one or two likely subdomains if that's not enough. In the rare cases where it still wants more crap enabled, then it's usually not worth the effort, close tab and move on to something else. As you build up a whitelist over time, it becomes pretty rare that you need to interact with it more than a couple times per day. Yeah, it takes some effort, but it's worth it to nuke cookie banners and sticky headers and videos and all the other crap people do with JS.
Seems like maybe the university could spring for a laser pointer instead of a long stick.
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Indian iPhone plant found 'highly hazardous' to worker health
Sadly after a good start and several models running Android One, I feel the current Nokia HMD lineup is a bit underwhelming.

Nowadays Samsung obliterates the competition in the 200~400€ price range, at least in dimensions that matter to me: display quality, decent camera and battery life, 4/5 years of security updates.
Maybe I could retire now (€1M cash + €400k in diversified ETF + fully own my small flat + no kids) but I'm too afraid or unimaginative to do it yet :(

In theory I still have 17 years to go before being able to officially retire. I'm a bit too scared of the future to get disconnected from the job market yet. Also I still love working on technical problems and new tech, even though I absolutely hate the political bullshit and JIRA treadmill that go around nice tech in most jobs nowadays. My patience is getting tested every day.
I in fact directly quoted what I am referring to in my first comment. Perhaps you responded to a different comment than intended?

And the whole point of the article is to say we used to think these things were super rare but actually they’re quite common… now we know everything!
My understanding is that, on paper, to be prosecuted, a few things need to happen:

- Law enforcement needs to raise the issue to a prosecutor

- A prosecutor needs to pick up the case

- A grand jury needs to indite you

- A petite jury needs to find you guilty

- A judge needs to sentence you with a penalty (as opposed to stern talking to)

Each of those is intended as a check-and-balance in the system. All of those have been steamrolled with misaligned incentives, mandatory minimum sentencing, etc., but that's how it's supposed to work.
I guess so, him and many others including I.
You can do that with peergos [1]- mount a peergos folder locally using FUSE. Or login to the web interface and share easily and privately.

[1] https://github.com/peergos/peergos
There are basically 2 places where programmers mostly want the "length" of a string:

1. To save storage space or avoid pathological input, they want to limit the "length" of text input fields. E.g., not allow a name to be 4 KB long

2. To fit something on screen

Developers mostly used to western languages can approximate both with "number of letters", but the correct answers are

For 1. Limit to bytes to avoid people building infinite zalgo characters, but be intelligent about it - don't just crop the byte array not taking into account graphemes.

For 2. This sucks, especially for the web, but the only really correct answer here is to render it and check.

Did I miss any other common cases?
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A median 4B house in greater Seattle area is now 1.5M+.

6% of that is 90,000. Buyer and seller agent each take 45,000. That’s about a Tesla for each of them.

Good realtors make a fortune without creating any productive value in economy. The house stays the same, just a big tax on exchange. Add that to lending fees, title fees, escrow fees and you’re easily looking at ~8% of transaction gone poof.
Of course! And that those with the deepest pockets are able to afford to have the most convincing folks spend the most time waiting for an opening in the various Representatives calendars is not surprising, and only natural.

That it often results in them getting an equivalent mindshare (or more) of the Representatives views is also not surprising, and only natural.

It doesn't inspire warm fuzzies in those too busy working to survive though.
> [1] Except for those people who go to a meeting room and (eventually!) join the meeting as a group; those people remain the bane of my working life.

That and the crappy microphone in the meeting room preventing me from understanding half of what the in-office group is saying.
You don’t have to have a jury trial, you just have the right to a jury trial.
Oof. I'm sorry to hear that.
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Heh, was kinda thinking the same, it's a circle of money.

"Look at our hockeystick! We got customers equivalent to a million MRR!"
"Equivalent? How much are they actually paying?"
"...nothing, they're all in our VC batch. But hey, we also get service X for free in return!"
Not being made in a way that is usable in current systems, not having a commercial scale manufacturing process yet, and not being proven for long term use yet.
An incrementing version number would once again leak time information. Even a not incrementing version number would leak that kind of information, because if you know the timestamp of another ID with the same version.

I think there is no good alternative to random external identifiers.
That's funny, you got me! It comes down to what we mean by know and perception.

If by know we mean prove, then we can know things in other universes that may or may not exist by creating axiomatic systems that don't match our own. If we mean know as believe to the core (such as believing the mechanics of a proof) than we can know many things, some which may be true but unprovable or may simply be false.

I can say I'm aware of neutrinos and believe they exist as formulated, but couldn't say they absolutely exist in our universe. Earlier models only turned out to be approximations.
See, what I hate about those kinds of pamphlets is they're written by established programmers with an audience that they half-expect to be partially full of their peers. Therefore they are always careful not to sidestep into more dodgy advice out of fear of getting called out for preaching out bad practices.

Issue is, if you were to inspect how they, the author themselves, someone who has personally and successfully learned programming, learned their skills at the beginning of their life, it would probably be 1) questionable ways to learn, and 2) nothing like what they are preaching.

I like reading pamphlets and this one makes sense, but what I'd like even more would be to look at people who succeeded and see what worked, then people who failed and see what didn't.
No problem. Good luck finding new colleagues.
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It would probably expose the implementation too much, but if you wanted combined characters to be split apart, I would expect "ö" to be removed in one go, whereas an "o" with a combined diaeresis (No idea if it's called that, I got the name from the code chart) would take two backspaces.
The paper says they tested the durability of the ram with a 5ms program-read-erase-read loop. Meaning each time they program-read-erase-read, it takes 5 milliseconds.

Ten trillion cycles would take over 150 years.

I'm guessing a silicon lab doesn't have "the rest of the computer" that would allow them to run this ram at full speed constantly. This UltraRAM isn't something they can just slot into their motherboard.
The laptop you use together is the best laptop for your four year old.

The most important thing you can do for your child is spend time with them.

Good luck.
John Scalzi clearly does not understand that being offended on behalf of someone else really has nothing to do with him.
I heard someone say that our current food "environment" (highly tasty calorific food with adverse nutritional value; "unhealthy" food being cheap; etc) is a bit like when you are in a casino. Every aspect of it is designed to make you spend (or eat) more.
> Also, music?

I'd say music is fair. The notion of using a desktop computer to listen to music was always a bit strange to me.

Also, a phone, because it's very useful to remain connected (I instruct everyone who works with me that, if they want synchronous responses, they should phone me. All other are asynchronous with low QoS.
My initial reaction to the first few excerpts from neohaskell's website was: "Wait?! Are you guys already forking Simple Haskell[1] before Simple Haskell even has any traction??"

In one hand neohaskell is not that dumb, but on the other hand it's not much better either. I believe that if you are going to make a claim that ambitious you need to post more than a website and a discord, you need an actual PoC.

[1] https://www.simplehaskell.org/
Not sure if he is right person to honour.
I'm sure you've both seen and by now gotten tired of this discussion, but storing your high capacity/discharge lithium batteries literally in your home (or apartment, doubly so!!) is unsafe. In NYC alone this year there where 13 deaths directly attributed to li-ion bike batteries exploding from thermal overrun..

Unlike say, justifying using candles or incense because you may have a fire extinguisher......a battery fire will not yield to common extinguisher chemicals. All year round FDs are stuck taking a whole day to monitor/extinguish a battery fire, usually after it's gutted a multi famaly apartment.

Or, maybe HN can tell me I'm wrong finally and that the e-bike battery fire pandemic is over? I am afterall a lazy stay at home who hasn't been on a bike in ages :p
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Depends on the facts of the case…
I'm not a lawyer (especially one specialised in UK law), but from the guidance it seems that there are several very broad provisions in the sanctions. I don't know how your publishing agreement is structured, but, for example, "The Regulations prohibit: ... establishing joint ventures with a person connected with Russia".

Packt Publishing have made, possibly based on legal advise, their own interpretation of the restrictions. On the surface, I would imagine your contract language to be more relevant in this case than your country of residence. But it would be better to get actual legal advise than Internet comments on the case.
Tony Blair was sane and arguably competent, but sadly also evil.
You make several good points here ... if I'm a Coke, a Ford/GM or a candidate for public office, competing for eyeballs with crypto-/weight-loss-/online casino scams is probably not something I want to be associated with.

I know I've seen some legitimate brands (in the past, anyway) on YouTube when I stroll into my family room and see my son watching some guy narrate himself playing video games. Considering, first, that most of the content he's watching isn't great to begin with -- and as a brand I may not want my product being run along side any of that, either -- the other ads I'd be sharing time with make me surprised there's any non-vice/non-scam brands willing to market via those channels.
The distance computation could be separate from the indexing, but it will be inefficient relative to having an index organized to support the task.
For the note, I'm a Hungarian, I read books regularly and also read the major news outlets daily, but I never heard neither about Agi Szabados, nor about this controversy.
Great explanation, and I agree with one caveat - from my experience if you get to a truly large single RDBMS you have already lost, even if you have a powerful enough machine to run it on.

Massive RDBMS instances are awful to manage. Hard to backup/restore/fork. Hard to migrate tables and schemas without causing downtime. Accidental downtime happens all the time due to locks, bad indexes, bad query plans , etc etc. at large scale they are capricious beasts, care and feeding and most importantly changing them becomes a dark art.

Don’t let them get too big you’ll regret it :)
So you might just need an anonymizing relay to the Google proxy.

The GOPROXY protocol is quite small to allow to implement such a relay: https://go.dev/ref/mod#goproxy-protocol
Aye, been remote since 2015. Small but niche market for remote folks, mostly who you know and specialized gigs, but could make it work reasonably well.

now the market is packed with applicants and the backlash is making it harder.
I don't care what other people think about it. The moral argument is unambiguous, and that doesn't change because assholes take one side or the other.
why does the US still use common people during jury is beyond me tho
It's kind of impressive how no matter the issue, you can count on the Tories being on the wrong side of it.
It’s terrifying watching Europeans attack the jury system. I’ve no idea why anyone would trust government officials to have your best interest at heart. They already are backed by the monopoly on violence, such a system is just putting you at their mercy.

A jury of twelve is democratic and those people can put themselves in your shoes.
I thought you were being glib but no:
"An attosecond is so short that that the number of them in one second is the same as the number of seconds that have elapsed since the universe came into existence, 13.8 billion years ago. On a more relatable scale, we can imagine a fash of light being sent from one end of a room to the opposite wall – this takes ten billion attoseconds."

That's truly amazing that we can measure at that detail. Mind blowing actually.
> Also missed the normalizing of drinking beer at lunch.

Perhaps you're an old-timer? I worked in the city in the early 80s; lunch in the pub was routine, and sometimes required. By the end of the 80s, that was at best frowned on. Over the last 20 years, having alcohol on your breath after lunch would have been a disciplinary issue, unless you were entertaining a client, at least in the places I worked.
When we speak of "science," the process of generating knowledge through observation, imagination, testing, and sharing the results... that's just as valid and has as few believers as ever.

The other "Science," the new State Religion of Guided Consensus and little regard for reality; is having a ripping success streak. Having vanquished almost all its competition it's busily fixing spikes to its boots. The people most passionate about how much the Represent Science are the ones most eager to bring Enlightenment to the Persistently Ignorant by Force if need be.
Scalable because this one can work in a vector length agnostic way. That is, you can write code that works with 128 bit vectors and also run on a machine with 512 bit vectors without recompilation.
Meanwhile your license plate is captured on camera. This is identical to someone hitting pay inside then driving off.

Edit: Looks like pump then pay is more regional than I assumed. Yes it’s still a thing in some parts of the US in 2023.
The curse of dimensionality creates a seemingly paradoxical situation where you have a vast vast search space, but everything is incredibly close to each other. Space subdivision algorithms become ineffective.
James Densmore invented the Shift key. The early typewriters were in all capital letters, then two sets of keys - one for lower case and one set for uppercase. Densmore was the first to put two letters on a single type slug, and added a key to "shift" the carriage so as to align with either the uppercase or lowercase letter.
Nobel Prize winner for mRNA vaccines discusses being demoted by UPenn