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I've been a Java programmer for ~18 years! A nontrivial portion of Jepsen is written in Java too. :-)

Many of the points I touched on in the post are direct critiques of Java, but maybe I should be explicit. An obvious factor is size--when I've written the same project in both languages, Clojure usually winds up 5-10 times smaller. That's definitely improving as Java adds streams, lambda expressions, and so on, but it's still a good deal more verbose. That gets in the way of the kind of exploratory programming I do, especially at the REPL, and it's harder for me to read and maintain a giant codebase. I appreciate having fewer nouns, in general: Clojure emphasizes a uniform way of traversing and transforming data structures, and in Java every single class has its own way of representing its data, and many of those ways are bad.

The standard collections library is full of mutability and thread safety pitfalls. Printed representations of datatypes are verbose. It's not particularly good at dealing with highly polymorphic data structure transformation, and it's not a particularly good static type system either--a good part of my Java Brain (TM) is devoted to knowing the mechanisms of erasure, memory layout, and when unsafe casts are actually the right choice. Functions are sort of becoming first-class with method refs and functional interfaces, but it's nowhere near the convenience and flexibility of a Lisp-1. Accessing the compiler at runtime is a pain in the ass. No hygenic macro system makes things like custom iteration or compositional error handling a pain. There's no analogue to Clojure's protocols, which are a fantastic tool for "Hey, compiler, I want a monomorphic-cached type-dispatch polymorphic call site here for a type hierarchy I don't control". Etc etc.

There are things I love about Java. Automated refactoring is easier, and I generally like the level of IDE support. Nearly anything involving primitives, I drop to Java. Ditto, APIs that require annotations. Interface specification is more rigorous. Etc etc. That's why I write in both languages. But most of Jepsen is in Clojure for good reasons. :-)
It will continue unless we legislate against it. There are many things that can be done.
his mission is "fuck you pay me", and the green energy thing is just a way to raise capital from SV tech bros and rubes. that and maybe dying on Mars.
This was years ago, he wrote the book afterwards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coddling_of_the_American_M...

I enjoyed the book. Kind of ahead of it's time. We have better understanding what's happening today, the book isn't out of date.

Trigger warnings, safe spaces, microaggressions, identity politics, "safetyism", call-out culture, and intersectionality.

but if you think for a second these are going away is crazy talk. You will find yourself politically exiled if your position is that you want to remove these.

What we kind of have is the collision of multiple huge social factors that must be addressed.

1. Intersectionality or whatever communism's last grasp is called this week is going away. It will form a religion, where it will do extremely well. But their bread and butter is telling you all the ways you're oppressed and should feel bad for yourself.

2. Government policies have intentionally greatly reduced the amount of in person social interaction. Primary examples, alcohol taxes and drunk driving laws means far less social happening at bars. Tobacco taxes and restrictions means no social at smoke breaks.

3. Subconscious prejudices against certain groups keeps them suppressed. But 2 of these groups suddenly got extremely powerful and wealthy. Primarily being skin colours and LGBT/Autism/ADHD. Who used to be second class citizens appear to be the dominant people now. Read up on the autism epidemic in silicon valley and GWBush's war on autism.

4. Firearm ownership decline, roughly 10% in the USA but much more elsewhere in the world. Meaning your home is no longer a safe space and so you seek them outside your house. But those 'safe spaces' are often the worst places. I never understood the brilliance of the second amendment until I realized this. Alternatives are gated communities if you can afford it, or katanas?

So what do you have when you never feel safe in your own home? You aren't getting your social needs met and you feel bad for yourself?

Chronic stress, mental and physical health problems, coping with drugs, inability to have secure relationships, and frankly harmed quality of life.

So now imagine you are Facebook or whatever. You are dealing with people who in large part are not holding their shit together, and you basically need to build little bubbles around them to minimize harms. You get the coddled mind.
The problem is that heat pumps exist, so resistive heating is never the best option.

An aluminium smelting at home heating solution would have a maximum CoP of 2 (as you're reducing the energy usage of the smelter by the same amount). A heat pump could easily have a CoP of 3 or 4.
That seems reasonable. PyTorch has a well regarded API
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TIL that Nim used to be called Nimrod. Better for the name change, IMO, as much as I like Green Day.
Uh it's already the law in dozens of states. The Arkansas law was challenged, but upheld by the appeals court and SCOTUS refused to hear the case.
Why do I care if I can no longer 'view image' but can still 'view image in new tab'? 99% of the time I want the later....

Also this was three years ago, and there is at least one extension that 'fixes' this if you want it.
I'm on the SysAdmin side, but do similar with the tools/apps I keep handy. It's a great way of paring down what you actually need commonly and what's damned handy, but only once in awhile.

Ventoy is a great tool for those that need multiple bootable images handy, but even then, I have to pare down the images on it, at times, because when I find a handy image, I tend to just throw it on the Ventoy drive.
Those other guys have been around for longer than the concept of advertising. It is human nature to create and share those creations.
As a user I love it, I use a mix of Windows, Linux and MacOS machines and when I see docker I know that it will "just werk" regardless of which one I'm using at the moment
The business model is “get funding, use it up, get more”. It’s the same playbook as self-driving car companies.
My biggest problem with Nim is that it did not pick its niche. It tries to be everything to everyone and does not really have strong foundations for your average programmer to use it in Prod.

There is not really an ergonomic, performant http server that people converged to.

Anything production quality is mostly from Status.im and people like Treeform and Guzba who also have a production use case.
I feel like at this point Valve have proven themselves to be good stewards of the Steam platform in this regard. Games aren't retracted and they're very reasonable with refunds.

I assume their contracts for listing on Steam are quite different in order to support this. I'd be interested to hear more about the inside of these sorts of things.
I believe they put "not" in front of "explicit" for this reason
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. That's been a common charge against our vast unelected bureaucracy, most of whom hold qualified immunity. We're trillions of dollars in debt, maybe it's time to peel some of it back a little.
Well, then you completely misunderstanding things. It's not about joining, not at all. Actually what they ask for changes things for all employees of an industry (e.g. cars, or generally metal), not just for unionized workers.

So let me explain on this, as european union culture is VERY different from US union culture.

In Europe a lot of countries have a system of "Tarifvertrag" ("tarrif contract", but really "collective agreement"). In such contracts the workers union of a section (e.g. metal) do a contract with the business union of the employers. They settle then down to "give 28 days of holidays and x EUR per month to each" ... and then they won't strike for some time, e.g. 2 years. After this, they negotiate anew.

The special thing about this "Tarifvertrag" is now that EVERYBODY benefits from them, union member or not! In Sweden, for example, such general tariffs apply to 90% of the employees. So you can see how normal it's seen there. Anything that fights against this normality is thus seen not favorably (in Denmark it's 80% of all employees, in Germany it's much less, just 51% --- but still way more than in the US).

Now, Tesla Sweden says that they don't won't to follow such a model. The collective agreement is to them null and void. It seems that Elon Musky is, as many US brainwashed business people, strictly anti-union. Whatever comes from unions is surely coming right from hell :-) They have NEVER learned that with good unions you can have "peace at work", or more motivated people. The effect of this is visible, e.g. when you look at efficiency of e.g. german workers compared to their US counterparts. And this despite --- due to unions --- e.g. german cashiers can sit while checking people out. Horrors to US employee ... but effectively better for the people. So, in my view, US business people never learned how to use unions to their advantage --- which clearly is possible!

Now, with Musky's staunch "we ignore unions" stance, some reaction had to happen. Actually it was an escalation:

* in October 130 Tesla employees in various service stations went to strike

* in November 470 employees did strike

* now late December workers from other swedish unions said "We don't load/unload for Tesla in Sweden"

* and now, in early December, Danish and and Norwegian workers joined as well

Currently 12 different unions joined the "make Tesla think a bit more european" strike.
Not if you know nothing about your target.
Well how about letting the patient choose how its reported. And even letting the patient be aware that the results might be life threatening. This will satisfy everybody.

Most tests aren't for things like testing for HIV. So your reasoning makes zero sense as this law is applied to every test. And the whole suicide thing is obviously a miniscule issue. You're just making that crap up to sow controversy. Yeah I'm sure you encountered dozens of patients ready to kill themselves over test results but only your kind words were able to completely assuage them and stop them... Yeah sounds like a load of bullshit to me.

There's no controversy here. It's a business incentive through and through.

Patient choice would satisfy all patients. Only doctors wouldn't be satisfied. And that's the problem.

Patients are dealing with there lives here. And Even you as a third party are painting the situation as "controversy" because you've been so desensitized by the patients you're supposed to take care of.

Even though you're not in private care you are part of the problem because you're blind to the problem. I know multiple patients who had surgery in America only to go to another country for a check up for the doctor in the other country to say the surgery was completely pointless.

You know how serious that is? I don't think you get it. Painting a crime as "controversial" or "political" issue is extremely aggravating for the person who's life is at stake. The only reason you characterize it this way is because you're not the one who's life is at stake.

Patients aren't toxic. Patients are desperate. And most doctors including you just don't give enough of a shit. I'm sorry but that's the truth.
“Naive” would be more fitting here. At his age, he should have learned a thing or two about the world.
I don't know about that. Most new houses have air conditions for the hot humid days and a heater for the cold days. Most fully below grade basements have dehumidifiers in wet climates. I've never had issues with moisture except in cases of some system failure, like a sump pump.
Luckily we're country neighbors, so he's ~3/4 of a mile away.

I'll be able to see the flames, but other than that, I'm good. If he was connected to my house, or even close like in a suburb, I would absolutely report him to someone.

But because he's not, I just chuckle to myself and appreciate that he has no spouse or kids to die in the inevitable fire.
I wish Microsoft would spend some time optimizing Explorer. I don't know why, but it seems like what should be one of the simplest applications (one which has existed for nearly 30 years) crashes so frequently for me and also occasionally has a really long startup time. They did add some QOL improvements (such as tabs), but what I really want from explorer is instant startup and response time
According to the JSON spec it's also legal to round all numbers to zero.
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Youtube is hilarious, on the one hand they keep forcing autoplayed content on you and then they match that with a popup that inquires if you are still watching the video.
For a real life example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nae_Pasaran

> Nae Pasaran is a 2018 documentary directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra about a group of workers at a Rolls-Royce factory in East Kilbride, Scotland, who refused to work on Chilean Air Force parts from 1974-78 due to the atrocities carried out in Chile by the Pinochet dictatorship
> eventually society needs to start exerting political will just to avoid doing the bad thing

we hit that point years ago. the renewal of the Patriot Act comes to mind.

all they needed to do was to let it expire. literally do nothing.
Tesla is on course to be like Solyndra. You have to live in Eastern Asia and see how incredible China is on EVs. Just on their battery front for mobile phones really make EVERY western mobile phone battery look primitive (Samsung and Apple are nowhere what China Xiaomi and Oppo alike do with their phone battery). Samsung battery even go exploding or pregnant if not charging. China battery industry already stop subsidizing because of the oncredible competitiveness there. Meanwhile we all just started critisizing cybertruck releases. Tesla has 2 front for growth: as automobile manufacturer and as battery energy factory. Both front are severely hampered by China established developments. I am not surprise, Tesla will do cyberbus next or cybertrain next. Meanwhile Chinese has been riding their cyberbus and cybertrain for a decade. And in case you're wondering, China bullet train industry now out compete Japan and Germany. Just look at Indonesia newest bullet train by Chinese. It just make Japanase and Germans look medieval tech. Of course, USA look even worse with near cavemen tech in that area.
I'm not familiar with Norwegian labour law, but if it's anything like the Swedish equivalent there are narrowly defined rules about when you can and can't engage in solidarity action.

It's only permissible in response to an active dispute and refusing to unload all shipments from Israel definitely wouldn't qualify.
I made no such claim so the only thing you are letting speak is your lack of reading comprehension.
The difference is of course that there are biotech applications. There won't be any QC applications for decades to come.

If you believe any company today doing QC stuff will earn money ever, you're playing the really long game.
I see you got downvoted. I might get downvoted as well by saying I mostly agree with your point... To me it doesn't make sense to have a law against producing, selling or buying towelhanger/cushion/bathroom cams. Any (not even mini) cam can be used for illegal spying.

Also, a lot of sold products can be used lawfully as well as unlawfully.

In the end, Amazon's reputation is at stake. It seems like they are cannabalising their reputation that took years to build, by selling questionable items. Hopefully getting bad attention by lawsuits will incentivise them to scrutinize the products they sell or let sell on their platform.

So yes, unfortunately there is no way out of the mechanics of free market/capitalism for this problem.
>EE never had its technocrats like Taiwan or South Korea

Because also the political and education system in communism couldn't create any visionary technocrats focused on innovation and exports.

It simply encouraged cronyism, lying, backstabbing, empire building, fiefdoms and thievery from the same zero-sum pie aka the local national economy.

Well educated and innovative workers from Taiwan or South Korea weren't sent to the gulags or political prisons for "free thinking" or for coming from the wrong family backgrounds.
You're kidding yourself if you think three letter agencies don't have LOS users on a list and have capabilities to spy on them on demand with tailored access.
Chances are that that is what got us Apple...
As said, Zanzibaris are very tolerant, they will let you exist in peace regardless of how you look, your gender, sexual orientation, religious believes or nationality, they just don't care. I know of trans people spending their holiday here without any incident, at most it was just their taxi driver being curious but at no point they felt unsafe.

Don't abuse their tolerance and respect their customs. The same way you'd expect someone to respect you and your house rules if you invite them home. You just have to accept that people live differently in different parts of the world, maybe it's not them that are intolerant.

I'm convinced a global tech event can be hosted in Zanzibar where everyone is welcome and safe.
> Neither app has ever been able to show what loot a mob has except for visible pieces.

ShowEQ definitely showed drops at some point. I vividly recall farming lightstones from Willowisp and using ShowEQ to ignore the ones with burned out lightstones.
factorization methods are somewhat uncommonly used in deep learning (the likely target of this framework) and have compute properties (such as approximate outputs, non-deterministic number of iterations) that make them unlike the BLAS++ standard APIs.

einsum seems like a reasonable thing to request, but it's hard to be performant across the entire surface exposed by the operation.
It can be very tough to detect: for instance Big Tech has bazillions of proxies or "friendly" companies/corps, and while "in power", they just have to do that: be careful that no significant and efficient regulation is setup (for instance noscript/basic (x)html portals for all "utility" online services, where reasonable).

Not to mention: how do you legally "track" where politicians are going after their mandate? Do they have the obligation to publish their source of income or wealth after their mandate for a significant amount of (10+) years?

And how to draw the lines between "right" and "wrong" in order to decide to seek justice.

For instance in my country it seems a politician was involved in facilitating some russian gaz stuff, and with the war for ukraine, we all discovered he was a high level executive in a gazprom proxy. He had to leave because of the war, and it is only because of that that we found out.

You can easily extrapolate that case to others, and most won't probably be detected unless there are people/orgs actively tracking them and their resources for a significant amount of time.
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>PostNord, the leading postal service has also joined the solidarity strike

Given PostNord's less than stellar efficiency, this could be entirely unintentional on their part :-)
I'm a computer nerd, I just use Google to look up and go to most websites I want these days.

Why? Because I'm not confident I can type their URLs properly and any typos are a one-way ticket to Scam City. Chances are reasonable Google has the correct website URL. Bookmarks, you say? Can't be arsed.

Between inconvenience, unintuitiveness, and "I ain't got time for this" mentality it's no surprise why file system structures are obfuscated away.
Replacing an AC system with a heat pump might provide you with an avenue to move away from a gas furnace, but I found that avenue to be very expensive. I live in New England and in June 2022 I replaced a broken down AC system with a heat pump. The company installed an electric supplemental heating unit, because the heat pump can work down to only 25F (about -4C) and during Winter it will definitely get colder than that. However, last Winter cost me about $800 more than any previous Winter here (I've lived in the same house in New England for the past 33 years).

After a pipe burst in the baseboard heating system (because it wasn't running, it was only -10F outside, and the pipe passed through a poorly insulated area of the house), I had the HVAC company rewire the system to use the gas-fired, forced hot water baseboard system as the backup. I look forward to much lower heating costs this Winter.
Privilege? No, most African and Middle Eastern governments just have shitty governments based on an even worse religion.

At least Western governments have the idea of Universal Human Rights ( https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma... )

And being 'accepted' or not is wholly different than 'executed' or 'jailed for life'.

And for me, it's simple: don't go to most of Africa or anywhere in the Middle East. They're shitholes not worthy of my money or my presence.
This Youtube debacle has definitely been the last bullit, HN is officialy dead to me now. I used to come here to read different opinions and voices of reason. I'm not here to read only complain after complain after complain without offering alternatives. Where did the hacker mentality go?
One more thing: when you share the Wi-Fi password, INCLUDE A QR CODE. It boggles my mind that more people don't know about Wi-Fi QR codes. On most phones ~2018 and newer, you just scan them and they instantly connect you to the Wi-Fi network, no typing necessary. My fiancée and I love hosting, and guests love our guest Wi-Fi.
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Israel is not a party in the Swedish labor market. Tesla is.
It is undeniable that, of all these, the most common "first prog.lang (PL)" is Python. So, to the extent a new PL "replaces what you already know" almost everything is a Python replacement. (It's a bit muddy since so much Python just wraps C/C++, though, and you might be replacing someone else's code.) Personally, I use Nim as a C replacement - it responds very well to optimization effort in my experience.

At least one developer is calling more optimized Nim from Rust.. https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/10532
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Yes and no: Maybe the rest of your workloads don't require much CPU- you only need this kind of power for one or two workloads, and you don't want them getting crowded out by other work potentially.

Or they require a GPU.

Or your core service only needs 1-2 servers, but you need to scale up to dozens/hundreds/thousands on demand, for work that only happens maybe once a day.
Yep, though the layered mesh post processing is nice because most consumer hardware at this point is pretty good at rendering plain ol meshes. The big challenge for mass adoption of nerfs/gsplats techniques will be getting them running and viewable on a phone web browser.
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That's awfully generous. He co-sponsored a bad law that he didn't actually want to see passed?
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I always knew this had something to do with time domain to frequency domain. And I used question to interview engineers and see how creative would they think. Glad to see this post.
You'll never be a criminal with that level of opsec.

You have to randomly leave your phone at home for criminal and non-criminal things. That way, there's a plausible alibi that your phone was at home or on you at the time of the crime.