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>if the ban was valid i don't think they should have to do refunds.

Let me explain, I usually buy 1 full year subscription for play Station Plus because that is the only way to get access for multiplayer in most Sony games.
So imagine I pay for 1 years of a service and they then ban me, is it fair for them to be payed for something they are not providing ?

If some Reddit moderators bans me I can understand that some frustrated ass(Putin lover) went trough mounts of my old comment and reported me , I gave reddit 0$ so their customer support is shit but with Sony, I bought a lot of games for my son and the annual subscription, this incident will cost Sony a lot of money, I will no longer buy any of their stuff. But I wish we could have the laws on our side, banning someone for a service or hardware he paid for should not be possible, they could ban you from only a specific thing(other example is Google or Amazon banning your account that gives you access for different stuff because some problem one just one of their services).
that’s not what the comment said tho, he just stated that death by septic shock made up about 50% of hospital fatalities, as in if you are able to even somewhat help that large of a pt group, that’s a pretty big step forward.
I have at work a Fluke 289 and i also don't like it very much. Of course it's a very good meter. But the display is crap. And why logging just one value per second. Etc... It's also now a 20 year old desing and still gets more expensive year for year.

In private I like my Agilent (now Keysight) U1272a. I have an very early version (still some bugs) but it's the best meter for me (but got very pricy too .. I guess they couple the device price to the stock price)
I use the word Abstruse a lot. Mainly because it’s also heavily used in German. Or at least in my circle.
Well done on the launch. I recommend a table of contents though.
Is that a proposal?
I think this misses why we structure code in the first place. It's not because it's aesthetically pleasant or anyone cares about or cool usage of the visitor pattern, but because unstructured newbie code only takes you so far in the most literal sense.

There's a point, a number of lines of code, where unstructured code becomes completely unmaintainable. You can't add to it, you can't change it, you certainly can't understand it. It's just what it is.

Structure, modeling, software architecture, testing, development practices, those sorts of things, these are basically the entrance fee for getting to work on larger problems.
> Apple also refused to use USB-C over lightning until the EU forced them, then came around and told everyone how much better the "new" USB C connector is despite refusing to use it in their phones for nearly a decade.

you seem to have yourself really confused.

refusing to use certain tech is one thing, labelling it as a "cancer" when the tech is being built by millions of people with an idea of promoting openness is a completely different new level.
If you're going to send out math as SVGs anyway, you can also just use your normal latex to PDF renderer (e.g. pdflatex) on each formula, and then convert the output PDFs to SVGs. That way, you get the same output you'd get with latex, and you can also use latex packages that aren't supported by MathJax (e.g. tikz-cd). I've prototyped a latex to html converter [1] based on that approach, but it's probably not ready for serious use. Here's an example: https://www.mbid.me/lcc-model/

[1] https://github.com/mbid/latex-to-html
I thought so too at first. But there is no liquid water on Venus. So it is possible for all life on earth to just get boiled off.
it is microsoft, what you can expect from them.
ChatGPT’s system prompts
Perhaps https://equals.com/
I never had issues reading on a 1080p screen either, but it doesn't mean that you can't improve upon it. The legibility increase between 96dpi and 192dpi is massive.
My interpretation of your quote was that the boiling wasn’t referring to the heat produced, but instead the idea that mass (our planet) is being converted to energy, reducing the mass of the planet
WAYLAND_DISPLAY lets you do a buffer overflow
What a divide we have in the world, that nice aged cheese can't come from a grocery store, and you might not eat it anyway in case your hospital bill is too high.
This appears to be a unit of Python 3 code released by Equinor on Github

Equinor is an international energy company committed to long-term value creation in a low-carbon future. Our purpose is to turn natural resources into energy for people and progress for society. Equinor’s portfolio of projects encompasses oil and gas, renewables and low-carbon solutions, with an ambition of becoming a net-zero energy company by 2050. Headquartered in Stavanger (Norway), Equinor is the leading operator on the Norwegian continental shelf. We are present in around 30 countries worldwide.

Sans documentation (?) the graphic suggests that the eCalc module is constrained by some standard model of a north sea rig extracting from a reservoir (with injection) and will model energy consumption and emmissions.

So, not a world model of global energy use and emissions from the oil & gas sector.

Currently carries a "a work in progress" caveat with the provisio that:

quality of the results produced by eCalc™ is highly dependent on the quality of the input data.

and it appears to have no generic input data attached so you might have to guess using numbers from your own back yard extraction rig setup.

Other code blobs from the Equinor set look interesting (eg: XTGeo for subsurface reservoir modelling).

As a wild guess, this is industry code from an industry looking for geoengineering coding types to come onboard, perhaps.
Put enough lead on yourself and it's much like on the surface. You don't swim with a chainsaw.
AFAIK xe-based GPUs are waiting for the next release to get more bits working, but IGT/UHD should be "fine".
What are the technical obstacles to just slicing preserved brain thinly and scanning each slice with microscopic detail?
In a catastrophic climate change scenario Humans generally don't die because of heat, but because other humans throw bombs at them to get at their farmland.
Aras has also done some very interesting blog posts regarding this technique:

* https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/05/Gaussian-Splatting-is-pr...

* https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/13/Making-Gaussian-Splats-s...

* https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/27/Making-Gaussian-Splats-m...

Gsplat gets a mention:

Aside: the excellent gsplat.tech by Jakub Červený (@jakub_c5y) seems to also be using some sort of VQ/Clustering for the data. Seriously, check it out, it’s probably be nicest gaussian splatting thing right now w.r.t. usability – very intuitive camera controls, nicely presented file sizes, and works on WebGL2. Craftsmanship!
> Salty or chlorinated water (and public pools usually use heavily chlorinated water) will dissolve almost anything over time

Metals, in particular. This is why in marine environments, special grades of stainless are used. Most commonly SAE 316 alloy (often marked with "A4", vs "A2" for regular stainless).

Another approach is the use of sacrificial anodes.

Where practical, it helps to rinse equipment with fresh water after use.
Where does this idea that fusion == infinite energy come from? Nothing could be further from the truth, all fusion power plant designs have a very fixed amount of power they can generate (limited by the size of the reactor), and the costs to build and maintain one are gigantic, in ways that are unlikely to go down in the next century or so. Scaling them up (building bigger reactors) is extremely hard because of fundamental geometric reasons, and scaling horizontally (many many power plants) is hard because they require teams of experts to run and monitor.

And pretty much the whole plant, with all the expensive magnets, supports, and reactor chamber, has a lifespan of maybe 10-15 years before the constant neutron bombardment makes the materials too brittle to keep supporting their weight. You then need robots to come in and dismantle the highly radioactive components and store them securely for a few 1-200 years while they cool off.

Sure, it's nice that fusion requires relatively little fuel (though even that is not that great, since it requires an extremely rare substance, tritium), but that doesn't mean it's in any way going to scale up infinitely, or even a lot, or even as much as nuclear fission.
A very nice list. I looked for vamoose, and was not disappointed. Then I looked for petrichor (see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34147465) and suddenly I was...

What it lacks is some context/flavor. Does the word sound British or American? Does it sound old-fashioned? funny? sarcastic? As a non-native English speaker, with many of these words – even if I knew their meaning – I can't really tell without further research,
depends on what do you mean by modern computing

however, you and I can definitely agree on something here, that is the company known as microsoft is still making money by selling dinosaur "techs", look at its windows, office, visual studio, how much really changed from the 2001 era? yet it is still a major cash cow of the company.
> After all, look at how many bands find success without the benefit of a degree in music theory.

(With the help of producers who most likely do have a degree in music theory)
Most of your engine's power will be spent pushing the exhaust into the water.
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Legibility follows an exponential curve. The improvement will be noticeable up to smartphone densities (~220 dpi). After that, I don't think text can get any better. I won't be upgrading to 8K (384 dpi) anytime soon, but I have no intention to go back to 1080p even if they tend to have better refresh rates and are much cheaper.
I have one colleague who makes beautiful architecture: he thinks where things should go, how things might evolve, how to encapsulate things.

I have another colleague who “digs straight tunnels”: long functions, huge if/else’s embed things instead of reusing them.

I’m more like the first guy. Which means I have a lot to learn about simplicity from the second guy. The second guy’s code is easy to modify, because control flow rarely jumps file, or even function. It never ping-pongs messages between actors. He never prematurely optimises or generalises.
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That was my idea as well. In my household, we rarely throw away any food. More likely, we run out of food entirely, which necessitates a short trip to nearby Tesco (7 minutes on foot).

I just don't get why people buy mountains of food. It is not just food waste, but money waste as well, and most people ought to respond to financial incentives.
Never heard of a non-local company unable to close their branch, this does not make any sense at all, it looks more fishy than anything else, more marketing to me to make people talk about them, since we all know they would have managed, UK agreement or not. Maybe UK is building "a case" to be able to fine msft/activision, since they are not part of EU anymore, they have to do that by themselves now. And I am on UK side (I quite dislike msft and activision), but anti-trust (mass default install), obvious planned obsolescence are plenty to fine them all the time at their scale, namely gigantic. That should be "fixed" by the US administration, but they have no clue how to do that, actually who has?
Yes, this! Quite related... I forget where I heard it, but someone said the way you know you're talking to an expert is that their answers to a lot of questions start with "It depends...". Being an expert often comes down to understanding the nuance of when to follow standard practices and when it's better to violate them.

You went through YAGNI. DRY is the same thing. It's often very good advice. But there are certainly limits to DRY... calculating the area of a rectangle from its width and height in two different repositories in the same company probably wouldn't justify creating a library to be shared between them. There's a line somewhere in the middle. Being skilled at understanding what side of that line a given case should fall on is something we build with experience.

I think YAGNI and DRY are at their best as advice when they come packaged together, putting them in tension in order to prompt us to find the right balance and not to blindly follow either one. Taken together, they give us a framework for thinking about one set of tradeoffs. I believe the core of software engineering (and many other pursuits) is identifying the most important tradeoffs and finding a good balance among them. Blindly following advice can get in the way of that.
Elaborate on it then.
>YAGNI is a somewhat similar advice, and a good one -- at least for my overengineering inclined brain. But if for every single decision you invoke YAGNI, because overengineering is bad, you can also end up with bad code.

Examples?

YAGNI is a very abused term. I tend to find when people talk about exceptions to it theyre talking about things which don't actually fall under the header of preemptive features or preemptive refactoring.
Every time I see such a comment, I'm happy I'm no longer covered under the American health care system.

It isn't like I'm going to start playing Food Poisoning Roulette any time soon. But if I happen upon some bad food, there is a limit to the expenses occurred.
I was trying to not spoil the results of the season she was on :)
Lol, nuclear is boiling the planet wasn't on my bingo card
> everything else is essentially a meme.

I don't think this is fair: even if something like hydrogen storage isn't practical or economic now, it might be if generation cost falls 3x or 10x. Which is plausible for renewables in the medium to long term.
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I think you are both right and wrong at the same time. Even in a business context its not sure you want reliable over feature. And I think a lot of developers are focusing way to much on good code. And with that they think a lot on how it can be extended in the future. But they fail to see that from a business perspective this code is properly not living for many years. I have seen so many projects with good code beeing shutdown. Its of course another side here, where you code is in production for 10 years+ with 100 developers making changes to the files...
But a great developer / architect are able to really understand the business context they are working on and understand how that influence what you consider good code and good architecture
The C code in the article is not great, but I don't think the author was trying to write a robust, production-ready Wayland client either.

A couple examples of fragile code, so my comment is a little constructive:

- I truly dislike the cstring_len macro, which sounds like strlen yet its semantics are completely different.

- The wayland_display_connect function returns EINVAL or an fd. Both are positive integers. It should instead return -EINVAL.

- The functions benefit from more comments, because they do a lot and are not factored to smaller, more composable units.

- wayland_handle_message should be refactored so it's a simple switch that operates on constants, and ideally delegates to other functions.

- Probably outside of the scope of a simple article, but all the buffer boilerplate should be simplified by using a buffer structure that holds pointer, cursor and capacity, to make the code much more readable.
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This article says that one of the datasets for chatGPT was obtained by scraping all links with reddit with more than 2 upvotes:
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-block-chatgpt-fro...

I don't want big companies to scrape my content and then sell it on their platform.

Novelty of LLM output may be an open question, but input is just someone else's stuff. I assumed that default copyright protects from this kind of bullshitttery. That it says that work can not be used, adapted, copied without creators permission. (I can only guess that it was allowed to happen, because that's the first time someone stole IP in this particular manner on this scale?) But now that we know that it's a thing, how can we maintain ownership of the inputs legally and engineering wise?
Yep, this stuff is maddening.
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” - Stephen King

If I have to look a word up in a dictionary that is often the fault of the writer, too.

Word lists like this are gatekeeping understanding. What’s more fun are those words used by some groups a lot, but not widely known. I was reminded of this when walking down a road in London and seeing a TfL sign that read “This is a temporary bus stop in use whilst repairs are made to the nearby permanent bus stop”. Most non-Brits have never used or heard the word “whilst”, and yet it’s used all the time in the U.K.

There are more fun words out there too for which no English translations exist, but we should totally make mainstream English. I won’t list as there are so, so many… glad hygge is doing well in the U.K. though.
Is it not enough to have a full view of all network requests? How can surveillance happen if we have full knowledge of what enters and leaves the device? Is there any evidence of hidden network requests?
Well the comment was edited… the author added “even moderately”, so…
> Incidently is why the Windows development experience has gotten worse, with most of the work done by interns and people without background in Windows developer culture.

the reason why they have to rely on interns to do such "development" is obvious - skilled developers feel ashamed or at least embarrassing to use/develop for windows.
I’ve found that having ads muting is much less obstructive. It’s not ideal but it improves it a bit
I said infinite energy, because that is exactly the phrase required to break people out of the limited mould that traps minds into erroneous thinking.

Neutrons are a problem in JET/Tokamaks. They are less of a problem in other fusion designs.

I feel like I'm the last person on this planet who actually enjoys being uncertain, and uncertain enough to see the big picture.

Most of the problems you have described are getting solved piece by piece in small scale projects, and then the evidence collected from their successes will be combined into a more effective solution that you are willing to discuss.

I'm so tired of the constant emotional vortex sucking the intellect out of the West. Get off my back.
Yeah, in Germany you had Happy Computer as well as 64er with monthly (or was it weekly?) listings of games and utilities.
Basically a huge lot of French words.
I am not a historian but I imagine it always has been broken, but more broken for some people than others so depends how lucky you are. Medical advances have helped massively. We have decent chances of preventing plagues for example given the covid response.
Why is it flawed? Physical price is often cheaper, used or new. You can buy in different marketplaces (imports) and then can be resold if desired. I suppose it’s possible to buy from different digital marketplaces, but may not be straightforward on some platforms.
I was into motorcycle travel. I've gone on a 30,000 km trip and a few smaller ones, and now riding such distances feels like a hassle. I can get there more easily with a car with my bicycle and a bed in the back.

All that gear made me less inclined to stop and enjoy the places I visited. It was a hassle to change into normal clothes. With the car or bicycle it's not a problem.

For shorter trips I prefer my bicycle. I can go on nicer paths, inside cities and on public transit. I can fly anywhere and take my bike with me.

Put simply, there's always a better mode of transportation. There is of course the life expectancy aspect, with all the close calls over the years.

I still rent motorcycles abroad - I saw Nepal and Morocco on a motorcycle - but I no longer try to cross the continent on mine.
I get what you wrote. What I'm saying is that including them is wrong in one context, right in another, and in some you're going to fail regardless which one you include. At that point, wrong is not wrong, but a choice.
I think it's important to look at whole lifecycle cost of things.

for example - https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf

where natural gas is 400 g co2/kwh, oil is 800 g co2/kwh and all renewables are less than 45 g co2/kwh for total lifecycle cost. wind is 13 g co2/kwh, for cristsake xD

edit: guess my answer is old and it'll get even more efficient over time.
Anti-aliasing makes it look blurry when the pixels are larger
You can skip past all that just by skipping the gaping mouth soyjak thumbnails.
In the USA most states require sales tax between 6 % and 8% which is not included in the list price, so make that $180 * 1.08 (I pay 8% where I live) makes it $194. Still not great for you, but it isn't like your taxes don't get you things that a lot of people in the States are super jealous of.
Meh, whatever, you could always remove the adware on PC by installing windows from scratch. You can't remove spyware from your car.
Sign up? I can't just test it and be boxed in an instance with a few other people?

My guess -- this is a multi-session VNC controlling a browser. If not, I'd need to see why it's better than a multi-session VNC
Elephant in the room is renewables can't provide the same security/constant power as nuclear/fusion. Even more, I'm not sure it's even possible to cover all our rising needs with renewables only in combo with batteries and hydropower, especially when accounting that not all areas are good for renewables. And there are different challenges too like space needed to provide that amount of energy+storage, managing when that equipment should be replaced and so on. I'm genuinely happy France managed to perform needed maintainance on their nuclear plants so that (in theory) they will import much less from Germany in the winter, or potentially even export and also happy they succeeded to push nuclear as net zero technology
> Anyway, this doesn't seem to allow any sort of dynamic lighting whatsoever, but for scans of existing places, such as house tours, street views and so on, this seems super promising.

So this method can only really be used for static scenes made from a point cloud?

I remember 10 years ago, a company called Euclideon revealed a demo[1] of a rendering technique (they called it "Unlimited Detail Real-Time Rendering") that put nearly every other rasterization technique of the time to shame. However, the major issue with the demo was that it only showed a static scene with zero dynamic lighting. I don't think they ever revealed the "secret sauce" of how it works, but it seems to have similar limitations to this new process, or at least that's what I expect considering it can't handle something as simple as a dynamic mesh.

It was extremely hyped up in certain areas, but over a decade later this technology isn't really used in any mainstream rendering engines because it only works for static scenes.

I hate to disparage new rendering techniques, but this really feels like a repeat of what happened back then. What exactly is different in 3D Guassian Splatting? Can it be used in any dynamic scenes in real-time at all? Does it provide any significant advantages from this older system?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBR_4FohSE
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>Solar and wind is a loosing proposition (you put more hydrocarbons into making them than they will generate in their lifetime, and you don't get to pick when they generate), and it can't carry the losses of hydrocarbons.

See here:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/17775/how-long-...

>TLDR; Onshore wind produces around 20-80 times as much energy as is required to produce the turbines. Offshore wind about 10-20 times. PV around 10-20 times.

The top answer is 10 years old, there's 10 years of manufacturing and output efficiencies to further improve these ratios.