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In Italy they use Euros. In America we use USD.

What is the flow of fiat -> BTC? Aren't there multiple?

Isn't it like $1.00 USD can be 1.00 Tether (of which there are 7+ stablecoin alternatives https://www.makeuseof.com/stablecoin-alternatives-to-tether-...) and then 1.00 BTC to Tether basically fluctuates like crazy?

Thinking outloud here: How are you protected from a price swing? Because the car has a value in fiat I guess... and the stablecoin layer in between (because I don't think you can go straight from USD or EUR into BTC... can you?) is irrelevant. OK, makes sense.
YouTube is cracking down on consumers' favorite loophole
But unsafe could be used inside the (rust equivalent) body of make and take_ownership without the compiler knowing. So would the rust compiler need to take this possibility into account when optimizing or not?
DPR ... a one-man how-to guide on how NOT to be a cybercriminal
> In a placebo trial, it’s very important that the placebo be statistically independent from the treatment group.

Statistical independence has nothing to do with our conversation, which is about designing an appropriate set of comparator groups to enable valid inference about the hypothesis.

I’m afraid I don’t have time to continue a discussion where we have to pretend that the authors - who have identified sodium as a confounder for their hypothesis - actually wanted to study sodium.
it's already useless
This is so cool to receive a response from the creator of Hexapipes! Thank you for the reply!

That makes sense re: the Penrose grid being different and not having enough data in the numbers to make sense of yet.

Based on your help, I've decided to start with the square grid, and I've gotten as far as a simple program that can take the JSON and render a puzzle as a png image. Now to draw the rest of the owl...
Here's a transcript:

"The Apple II computer had a floting-point interpreter known as AppleSoft BASIC, which Microsoft wrote. Microsoft also wrote a compiler for AppleSoft BASIC known as TASC, The AppleSoft Compiler, a really creative name.

The person who wrote The AppleSoft Compiler was a student, and came and wrote it while at Microsoft, spent the summer working on it, didn't quite finish, and had to go back to school, but that's fine. The next summer, he came back out ready to continue and pick up the project where he left off, except he didn't remember how any of it worked.

The problem was that The AppleSoft Compiler was itself written in AppleSoft so it was a self-hosting compiler. It was used to compile itself but the Apple II only had 48 kilobytes of memory, or 64 kilobytes if you added the language card, but AppleSoft didn't know how to use it so let's just call it 48.

In order to get the program to fit, he had to delete all the comments, and he had to shorten the names of all the variables to one or two characters where the most variables only had one letter names and that made it very hard for him to figure out what all these variables meant and how the program worked.

Somehow, he managed to figure it all out in time to at least finish the project and so the Microsoft, The AppleSoft Compiler, TASC, did eventually ship although nobody really understands how it works anymore."
As a side note to this, Aurora store is awesome. If you sign in with your Google account, then you can install paid apps that you've purchased, but the Play store thinks are incompatible with your device. In my experience, the majority of them work perfectly fine!
Ironic, we is also a crowd
Coax is still going to run out of bandwidth eventually, so fiber lines run will not be wasted, but yeah, it is further out than most laypeople realized, going by other threads about coax, there's this popular conception that coax is super crappy, in reality it's a pretty good RF waveguide, unless it gets pierced or the connector is poorly crimped, but that also applies to fiber
yep, and alcoholics should just stop drinking and drug addicts should "just say no". Depressed people should just "stop thinking negative thoughts and go exercise". You should start a life coaching business!
What law says that causing a bank run is a felony? And what bank are you talking about?
I don’t understand why they don’t put the money into an exchange and convert to Monero and then launder it.
Wow, I remember playing this on the Commodore 64! As soon as that screen appeared in my browser I recognized it even though the DOS UI looks a bit different.
Probably has something to do with finally coming out of the conjoined coin scams and NFT blockchain brain rot that crypto bros spent countless hours trying to manipulate financially illiterate people into being left to hold the bag on their rug pulls that were exposed on a bi-weekly basis, or something. Cute little speculative toy though :)
Microarchonomicon: Return Instructions
Johanna Rothman: https://pragprog.com/titles/rdbcd/behind-closed-doors/
It's a British-ism for "used in actual practice, rather than academically/theoretically"

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/in-anger
The imprecision could be fixed by forbidding the first digit from being 1, switching to a lower unit instead. So up to 120 seconds ago, then up to 120 minutes ago, then up to 48 hours ago, then up to ~61 days ago (ick, months are evil), then up to 24 months ago.

When such relative dates are in a list it's generally tolerable. The failure to update is far more irritating, and limiting to "yesterday" does not fix that.
I wouldn't panic much yet. Trust, chains of evidence, and authentication aren't new mechanisms. These systems deliberately work independently of the quantity or quality of manufactured bullshit.

I don't mean to be dismissive. Recent technological breakthroughs will disrupt the status quo. Problems will arise; the (anti-)spam arms race will continue, etc. But hope is defensible. The sky isn't falling, and I think we'll be okay.
I've been pursuing a path that is decidedly edgy... and might work out great, or might be a miserable failure... the BitGrid[1]. It's dead nuts simple... a cartesian grid of 4 bit input, 4 bit output LUTs, latched and clocked in 2 phases (like the colors on a checkerboard) to prevent race conditions. It's a turing complete architecture that doesn't have the routing issues of an FPGA because there's no routing hardware in the way. But it is also nuts because there's no routing fabric to get data rapidly across the chip.

If you can unlearn the aversion to latency that we've all had since the days of TTL and the IMSAI, you realize that you could clock an array of 16 Billion cells slowly to save power at 1Mhz, and still get a million tokens/sec.

It's all a questiron of programming. (Which is where I'm stuck right now, analysis paralysis)

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
After so many years you still don't realize how privileged you are? You have no worries about runaways inflation, you have access to a functioning banking system, your are not concerned about having your wealth stolen, you have no problems sending money anywhere you want to. Makes one wonder what you defended all those years, perhaps scammy ICOs and NFTs? Oh well, that you spoke of "crypto" and not bitcoin already made that likely.
>stay active, while injured

>use only your good leg

The app helps users work around the injury but I'd argue that it's generally wrong to seek ease or "Stay off it", "not put any weight on it", "limit the angles" as it risks a spiral of muscle atrophy and imbalance just like knee wraps do.

Of course the safety alignment of chatbots perfectly fit with the app's goals, they will gladly never advise you any possible immediate risk even if that means prolonging recovery times by a lot.

No one asked but my favorite introductory bodyweight exercises for meniscus tear recovery are inspired by @kneesovertoesguy: simulate SLED PUSHES by holding the roman rings in a prone position, BACKWARDS WALKING for a few tiny backward steps holding roman rings upright for resistance, and lots of short single-legged dips with foot on a wedge/decline. Perfect control of weight is possible at all angles.
Today I learned that the "s" in SX means "single" and "d" in DX means double. The DX has double the data bus width of the SX (32-bit vs 16-bit).
It's missing the timezone offset
That’s more than an order of magnitude more calories burned than walking 12k steps.
Related:

Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2261458 - Feb 2011 (6 comments)

Write code like you just learned how to program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2037576 - Dec 2010 (51 comments)
MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, $26.5M loan to cushion fall
Trees give shade, shade reduces energy demand.
Alexa is different. At least it was. A LOT less going on upstairs.

Although I think they said they are adding an LLM to Alexa.
> But that was dumb luck and having contributed to a few official open source “AWS solutions”

Was it dumb luck, though? Your situation reminds me of the concept of "luck surface area." You contributed to "a few" open source AWS solutions. You've said in the past that you network well, so I imagine you have lots of other little things you do that get your name out there.

This is something I've been horribly negligent of this far in my career. I thought it would be enough just to do good work and that I would be recognized for that work via osmosis or something.
Its because DOCSIS has a limited number of frequency channels which can be assigned as either upstream/downstream and if they're comically over-subscribing their infrastructure you can offset that a bit by allocating most channels to downstream. I guess their thinking is that most users are going to be doing download heavy tasks and not upload, so it doesn't matter.
One thing is thar length of IPv6 means it is hard to assign addresses manually so need system to automate it. Which makes easier to renumber if change ISP.

I didn’t think that ULA is deprecated, what is deprecated is NAT with ULA. The other thing is that can have multiples addresses. It makes sense to have hosts on public IP and servers have public IP and ULA. This is the zero trust approach.

The other approach is everything gets ULA and ULA is router on VPNs.
These are the methods I'm aware of:

-randomly swipe that long skinny thing that's in the knife block along a chef's knife, perhaps aiming for 45 degree angle
-as a kid my dad had something I think he called a whet stone. He'd put 3-in-1 oil on it and we'd carefully swipe the blade against the stone.

Either of these right?
Interesting. I bet there’s case law on this (imagine bags of wheat instead of bitcoins) but I don’t know what the rule is.
You know that experience where as a company ages and grows, as a product evolves, it becomes harder and harder to do anything? Sure, if you do a great job planning and designing your runway is longer, but the music always slows.

This also seems to happen with cities. The bigger and more established, the harder it is, for obvious reasons, to retrofit mass transit and whatnot. Downtowns of large cities always feel kinda hacked together.

Does the same happen with a country? The longer a country’s current established governmental system exists, the more it inevitably bogs down?
so built-in DNP
Jetlag's current season involved a lot of german trains.

It didn't go well.
I recently saw "experience with Kalman filters" listed in a job ad from a Robotics company.
Thec phrase "used Y in anger" means "used seriously" or "used for its intended purpose". The origin phrase/trope-namer is "never fired its guns in anger" applied to a naval warship in peacetime to describe the case where it might have fired its guns in practice, but not in combat.

Entering "never fired its guns in anger" in your favorite search engine should give several examples.

Here's one in an article from last week. https://owlcation.com/humanities/What-If-The-USS-Arizona-Nev... - "The USS Arizona never fired her guns in anger."
The thing is, to train a NN to estimate your output from your input, you need input-output pairs. KFs are a way of measuring that output in the first place. So they are not even the same class of solutions.
We all expect the arrival of the great discord newsfeed bot now that investor money has dried up? Can't wait to go back to IRC. Discord is horrible in all the ways I despise. The only reason to go there is the people. And when it comes to people, I have hope, cause even meta can't own them..
Lmao at this point I think a weekly newsletter with companies hiring in web3 would be more useful.
I built a variant to very successfully estimate state of charge for a large battery pack in a production hybrid-electric vehicle.

Often some tweaks from the standard formula are necessary to account for real-world non-linearities, and some creative design work is required to define states in such a way that the Gaussian noise assumption can hold well enough.
Getting hired isn't that hard I've found, if you can show passion and interest for the area. The pay point is however correct. Although personally I've found the pay cut worth it in exchange for getting to work on genuinely interesting problems in a much more relaxed environment with a much better work-life balance. YMMV
This is my question as well, I've read multiple sources that imply the Kalman smoother would work for my problem, but not exactly _how_ in a way that I could make sense of programmatically.
I've been pursuing a path to cheap and easy PetaFLOP on a chip architecture that is decidedly edgy... it might work out great, or might be a miserable failure... the BitGrid[1]. It's dead nuts simple... a cartesian grid of 4 bit input, 4 bit output LUTs, latched and clocked in 2 phases (like the colors on a checkerboard) to prevent race conditions. It's a Turing complete architecture that doesn't have the routing issues of an FPGA because there's no routing hardware in the way. But it is also nuts because there's no routing fabric to get data rapidly across the chip.

If you can unlearn the aversion to latency that we've all had since the days of TTL and the IMSAI, you realize that you could clock an array at least 3 Ghz, giving 3 billion answers/second. It's all a question of programming. (Which is where I'm stuck right now, analysis paralysis)

I've got an emulator that works reasonably well on my PC. Now I've got to write the actual software that can generate binaries for it, and the eventual chip.

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
Worse, there are clearly conflicting sources of truth involved.

Setting locale to `en_SOMEEUROPEANCOUNTRY` will make some programs use ISO 8601 dates everywhere, but other programs use all sorts of random formats. Switching between countries changes what different subsets of programs do.
To be fair that was just a rubber-stamping process to get the law back to the european parliament to be debated and discussed, where it was (rightfully) rejected. It had already been agreed (correctly, at a competitiveness meeting of the council) that it would go back to the parliament.

They sent it through the fisheries Commission because the board that had the responsibility for it wasn't due to meet for another 6 months.

I guess some people care deeply about the details of which commission sends the proposed legislation to the parliament to be debated & amended / rejected, but in reality I think it doesn't really matter. In either case the correct thing for the commission to do was send the legislation to the parliament.
Being an awesome manager is not about delegating, it's a about

* Creating the right environment for teams to do their best (See book Leading Teams below).

* Being skillful at challenging pre-conceptions.

* Coaching people and teams to work in the most effective way.

* Communicate, communicate, communicate.

* Hiring people who are smarter than you.

* And, a difficult one, having honest 1-to-1 with people when they are not delivering to know what is going on in their lives and, in the worst case, to help them go (aka fire/made redundant).

My favourites resources are:

* Turn the Ship Around by David Marquet

* The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

* Leading Teams by Richard Hackman

* The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt

I'm not a manager (I don't like managing people), but I've been working for ~13 years coaching engineer managers, tech leads and engineers. You have to let the baby go so the people you hired (which should be smarter than you!) can do their job. Obviously if you see something that is wrong, by all means raise it, but be careful that it's not one of your own pre-conceptions!
We develop navigation instrumentation for directional drilling (oil/gas, geothermal, etc.). In these applications you have to estimate the path of the drilling string based on directional measurements and the length of drill pipe you've put into the ground. To take good measurements you have to stop so that rotation and vibration don't corrupt your measurement.

We use a type of Kalman Filter to estimate direction and instantaneous dynamics of the drill string, this way the drilling operation no longer needs to stop to get a directional measurement.
Yeah, when people confuse bitcoin with NFTs or believe that keeping bitcoin on centralized exchanges is normal, or that "smart contracts" are the future, I can understand that they see no value. Too bad you listened to "crypto" people, not bitcoiners, but that was your choice.
My guess is that they prefer people to be doing download heavy tasks and not upload.
I mean, I know why it happens, but that doesn't mean I'm happy about accepting it.

It is really annoying how every vendor cobbles together a Frankenstein abomination of a kernel with just the right drivers and patches and good luck trying to run anything else. But I also understand that they (except maybe for Google) have no interest or incentive to clean up this mess.
> The longer a country’s current established governmental system exists, the more it inevitably bogs down?

Doesn't really apply to Germany all that well.
There’s a far cry difference between “being skeptical” and “live in an alternate reality” though.

A lot of people use “be skeptical” as a means to reject what’s right in front of them.
SIMT let's a scheduler get clever about memory accesses, SIMD can practically only access memory linearly (scatter gather can do better but it's still usually quite linear) whereas SIMT can be much smarter in terms of having lots of similar bits of work going on in ways that use the bandwidth maximally and don't overlap.
I did a bit of a double-take at the headline because it seems to imply that one can grow stronger while calorie-restricted, which is contrary to common practice around strength development - caloric surplus is generally understood to be necessary for muscle growth.

I've only read the abstract, but the title as I interpreted it seems misleading:

> One study showed that individuals on calorie restriction lost muscle mass and an average of 20 pounds of weight over the first year and maintained their weight for the second year. However, despite losing muscle mass, calorie restriction participants did not lose muscle strength, indicating calorie restriction improved the amount of force generated by each unit of muscle mass, called muscle specific force.

So even if force per unit increased, overall mass decreased and total strength was unchanged. I guess the title is technically correct but the implication is off. This might be better phrased as "calorie restriction in humans doesn't incur as much muscle/strength loss as previously thought", which is still an interesting result.
agreed. Photoshop has existed for quite a long time, and often just made earlier retouching techniques easier and faster, so it's not like this is new. Read Disclosure, by Michael Crichton, for example.
> large-mass-scale extinction is a natural repeating phenomenon

Most people consider the death of their descendants and loved ones a poor outcome that they would like to prevent...

Yes things are self correcting in the sense that if we muck things up badly enough our society will collapse and something else will come after. But that kind of mass destruction will be horrifically bad for an awful lot of people.
We're talking about how it's displayed on the frontend, not how it's stored on the backend
You’re confusing theory and fact: in theory, private members bills can be passed. In practice, that rarely happens if the government doesn’t want it to, irrespective of what Parliament wants. Denying parliamentary time is one way, simply disregarding it (HS2) is another.

It’s interesting you cite as evidence a time where LITERALLY NO LEGISLATION WAS PASSED and think it supports your argument…
IPCC projections are typically 1-2m (scenario dependent) for end of the century, with up to 50+m worst case scenario in 1-2 millennia
> I'm referring to Zermelo...

I know. What I meant was, these axioms reflect something real, like for example a news report reflects objective events; whereas you allow XYZQJJX to be something that is invented, i.e. to be quite arbitrary, like, to continue with the analogy, a "science fiction" piece (at best).

> you aren't considering language real

What I am saying is that mathematics is more than a language, and using it as if it were just a language, ignoring its positive content, would lead nowhere. I'd say, the content is its most important part, although the language, of course, is nice to have. Moreover, the language (including mathematical notation) is often abused, for various reasons - personal and otherwise. My other point was that even what we consider abstractions does reflect properties of the objective reality - just as do the notions these abstractions generalize. But the more you treat mathematics as merely a language and start playing with words (or symbols, or even concepts), changing their order and "inventing" new combinations of them, the chances that you get anywhere become small (to put it mildly). Yes, you can play with axioms, but notice that even then, as a sane person, you will be testing an idea rather than throwing stuff around or making wild sounds.
I'm always interested in all things (80)386 because this was basically the processor that launched the 32-bit computing revolution, at least as far as popular adoption of computers based on this processor go (there were earlier 32-bit processors -- but no earlier processor became as commercially popular (or as adopted by the mass population) as much as the (80)386).

So this processor is of particular interest to me -- and should be to future computing historians...

This is truly a great article about that processor!

It's information rich (I have not seen a more information rich source about the 386 on the entire Internet, except for perhaps 386 technical manuals and manual fragments, but those documents lack general human readability), and it is of great value to anyone who wishes to study the 386, and it will be of great value to future computer historians...

So, well done!

Upvoted and favorited!
One individual, Michael Rea, weighed (at the time of publication) 115 lbs at 6-feet and subsisted on a diet of 1900 calories a day [0], which he tracked meticulously. It's hard to convey with words how incredible this is. To put this in perspective, Ansel Key's subjects had to diet down to 1,500/day to get almost as thin. Super-fast metabolisms that cannot be explained by undereating or pathology do exist.

[0] https://nymag.com/news/features/23169/

Michael’s regimen of 1,913 calories a day is exactly that: 1,913 calories every single day, 30 percent of them derived from fat, 30 percent from protein, and 40 percent from carbohydrates. Cooking for him is the same elaborate exercise in dietary Sudoku it is for all CR die-hards, only more so.

This is more impressive than even Terrance Tao in terms of outliers...nuts. Unless you tried to lose weight of study this stuff, this is no small feat. Pro bodybuilders have to eat less than 1200/day to get super-lean and this is with tons of muscle helping. This guy does it at 1900. If there were a Tiger Woods of metabolism, this guy would be it if Tiger Woods could play better golf.