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Solar PV systems has reached grid parity in many parts of the world (it's cheap), at a national level renewable energy means energy security and solar is usually used with others power sources like wind and/or hydro.
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> Have we officially abandoned the original goal of privacy/anonymity with bitcoin? Privacy isn't only a good thing when you have something to hide.

But if you have something to hide and the official on ramps and off ramps don't allow you to hide it, you can just use the black market, so the only people using the official system in that context are the people who believe themselves to be uninteresting to the government. Which naturally excludes nearly all the people the government is legitimately interested in, making the KYC requirements a pointless burden on innocent people.

> On and off ramps are generally meant to only include the legal avenues for buying and selling bitcoin. The government can absolutely regulate those, the black market is a separate concept.

Generally speaking government regulations only work when at least one of the buyer or seller wants the regulations, e.g. you buy your medication from the pharmacy and not a drug dealer because you want the quality controls the government imposes, even if the seller would rather not. So the openly operated pharmacy outcompetes the black market for aspirin.

When both the buyer and the seller have no interest in the rules, neither of them reports the other for violating them and then they're basically unenforceable. Which is hot garbage, because the costs of the rules still fall on the people they weren't meant to constrain, and the vig on the transactions funds other black market activities, and the inability of the parties to resolve disputes through the legal system begets violence etc.
"typo" sure
This title is silly. It suggests that gas is somehow displacing renewable projects, when in fact they have been growing ridiculously quickly; it just takes a long time to scale up a new tech to replacing all the existing energy infrastructure. Replacing coal and oil power with gas is good, and renewables won't meet the full demand for at least another decade.

Edit: also, voters really really don't want expensive energy. In the US, the Biden administration blocking fossil fuel development would spike gas prices and power bills, which would almost guarantee a Trump win in 2024 and even more fossil fuel growth (plus tons of other bad stuff). Democracies can't sustainably enact policies that their voters strongly oppose.
Start with your most used devices, I'm guessing your phone and your main computer. Then the others will slowly follow. Once I switched my phone's default search to Kagi, it made a huge difference because I search a lot more while being on the go and being able to get good, no-spam, no-ads filled search results can be an amazing experience.
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Surely this time, a new invention will give people more leisure time, instead of making it easier to do more work.

Surely this time...
Jack Welch style management and shareholder capitalism are some of the most destructive forces in the US economy.
Consultants might benefit, I don't think that hardware vendors (especially network appliance vendors) really do: these kinds of changes are purely an expense for them, since they have to reallocate engineers to fix things that were otherwise on "autopilot" for their support contracts.
Bitcoin is a productive asset. I buy it, lend it to a business who can use it as collateral and I get paid back more bitcoin than I lent them, as compensation (i.e. interest)
Tesla's repair and spare parts model?
> But the average person just wants the biggest, most comfortable car

They want the biggest, because it makes them feel comfortable, despite objective data and car parts that SUVs are more dangerous and less comfortable.

One theory is that millennials have been taught that higher and bigger is better because of age related vision deterioration by their parents and it has now caught on.

Anecdotally, I asked this line of questioning recently of family that had the choice of a 20 hour road trip - 2 people in (solid rear axle) Cadillac Escalade versus a similar year Mercedes Mid Size SUV. The reasoning given was comfort. But objectively, the mid size has independent rear suspension, more responsive steering, quicker pickup, lower weight (and better center of gravity), lower miles, fewer maintenance issues, fits in more parking spaces, is not as tall to get into comfortably, better fuel economy, and more comfortable seating. The conclusion that the extra large SUV is more comfortable perplexes me.
Completely agree with this take. I worked in FAANG and before that I worked in various startups.

Most of the people around me are very adapted to this very specific hyper-structured environment that we are in. This is not a criticism - they are thriving in this environment and everyone is happy.

But no way would I want to take these people with me on a new venture. (the inverse is also true; I would not take a shoot-from-the-hip go-getter and put them into a mature product environment that with intense legal scrutiny)
also, gdpr does apply to us companies not marketing in EU - https://gdpr.eu/compliance-checklist-us-companies/ even if they are not "marketing". But you have to be a person in the EU.
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>it sounds like a robot butler.

Oh! Suddenly the phrase butlerian jihad makes sense!
I agree that what we call "math" is just a set of rules that could be defined differently, but a standard like IEEE-754 is downstream of math, and is explicitly defined as a method to perform arithmetic (which is part of math).

So they aren't on the same level, IEEE-754 is not an alternative standard to math. The answers can all be considered correct by a certain definition, but they are not equally correct in our shared context as human beings who know what math is.
People closer to the equator tend to use more energy in the summer than in the winter, since they need more cooling than heating.
I was curious about `soup`, clicking on it, the author states:

>soup is a programming language I've been working on for a few years that is designed to make it easier for the programmer to write fast, robust programs with no bugs.
>Availability
>I'm sorry to say soup is not yet available for general use.

Now I am curious what this is.
Hang on... people rent cars to drive for Uber?

How can the economics come even remotely close to working out? I was under the strong impression that Uber drivers make dirt and that it's difficult to do much more than break even, assuming you own/lease your own car.

Either Hertz is insanely cheap or Uber pays more than I thought.
Do you have any data to support your assertion that a "great majority"(whatever that means) of users in the present "have great difficulty handling the fact that they need to launch different apps on their computer for different purposes"?

Because it seems wildly hyperbolic. We're not in the year 1995 anymore.
I own a 2017 MacBook Air, and I don't see why a block editor like Notion should be so slow on my computer. This is why I'm building my own block editor in Qt C++ and QML[1].

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/
Lol not at all. I am actually part of a group of CTOs in my area and I know of a couple of people that have "copied" the method one way or another. For all I care I am happy for people to copy it. That's the type of process I would like to have. So who knows, maybe later I'll be applying for your company, and nothing better than following a process that I enjoy (or at least is not as asinine as the leetcode/whiteboard algorithm crap)
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I think you and I have different definitions of dirt cheap
Or there is only one game…a metaverse in which you create a new game by customizing the world through ai generated content and rules.

Fantasy below, Star Wars above—in a galaxy far far away.
I live in one of those upscale glass tower estates in central London. There is fancy valet underground parking for some 500 cars. There are 2 slow chargers in total that don't even work 50% of the time. Owning an EV is a fucking joke for most people and I don't see that changing any time soon. Rebuilding entire world's power grid is gonna take forever.
It generally is, but that could be the difference between owning one and running a fleet. They are low maintenance and rarely require repairs, but when they do, they can be awfully costly. That could result in a low median cost but higher mean cost. Owning 20k means you are going to have to deal with that average, but an individual owner probably lucks out with the median cost.
I do. And yes, when the infrastructure is there and is reliable, I'll be happy to switch.
If you have a server that you can't secure properly because it only supports obsolete, known-broken cryptography, then yes, absolutely, you should airgap it or find some other way to protect it.

Or you could... not do that... and expect to be hacked, over and over.
That's not what dind is. Rather, there is a docker daemon running inside the container, and the containers it hosts are nested inside its cgroup in the host kernel. The result is very close in feel to docker in its own VM.
Furthermore nesting can be done inside one of the payload containers creating a turduckin. E.g. you can run k8s in a container, with k8s nodes implemented as nested containers and the cluster pods as doubly nested "pigeon" containers.

I haven't tried more than three levels but in theory more should work.
It is depressing, with more years of experience I see that there are no friends at work, lots of lies and politics. Managers lie to their teams constantly. Team members lie about amount of work done, working hours worked, experience in cv, etc.

At first place of work I had really nice team of young engineers, we've been students without kids, with lots of energy. Job was quite boring, but days were full of jokes and friendship.

And yes, I would like to exit this industry but am not ready to switch to x0.2 salary. Golden handcuffs!
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Fossil fuels are so weird to me. Like any strategy game you play you always get two types of resources, one that is finite and one later that is relatively infinite. And the goal is always to reach the second type of resource ASAP.

I guess we're still churning away at that tech tree. ;)
How much do you cook for yourself instead of eating out when you live alone? Now multiply it by 4 and ask if you still want to do it. Doing laundry takes also 4x more time and children make a lot of mess. But we are discussing about historical differences here where families were even larger and there were no household appliances.
That seems a bit too loose.

Doesn't that apply to IDEs that implement the language server protocol, since they spawn language servers and communicate with them?

And servers like Apache that spawn child processes to handle requests?
Half of the Iranian Navy was destroyed in eight hours by the US the last time something like this happened.
It should be opt out by default: not opt in.
Well, my (totally made-up) calculation conservatively assumes that multiplying the VRAM multiplies the price by the same amount. In practice I don't think it's even that expensive to add more VRAM, since most of the rest of the card should stay the same?
> to the point that the “Bitcoin” held by investors are entirely disconnected from the theoretical blockchain

Very much already there. Fiat in, fiat out, with no transactions on the blockchain. Their "Bitcoin" is little more than rows in a private database.
I can always tell the difference between a non-native English speaking writer and somebody who's just stupid - the sort of grammatical mistakes stupid people make are very, very different than the ones that people make when speaking a second language.

Of course, sometimes the non-native English was so bad it wasn't worth wading through it, so that's still sort of a good signal.
SciFi: I think the Internet will be a thing of the past, for humans. Humans will use chatbots and/or a few UIs while infinite information is created and consumed on Internet by AI.

Probably, at the end, looking at the vast information created, AI will enter in a loop when it is always creating the same information or the same obvious patterns over, and over again. If that happen it will be the prove that AI is not creative as humans.
I had a theory that FAANG (et al.) are implicitly trying to solve the problem of developer salaries.

If we take things back to basics: supply and demand.

If your biggest cost is developer salaries, then making a huge supply of developers is the best way to suppress those wages.

I have long felt that the push to get women and minorities into coding was driven by this: to get as many people coding as possible so that supply was not constrained and developers could no longer name their price.

I do not believe that Sundar carries Sergei's principles of making people want to work at google for a long time; I think of him more like a businessman (same as Tim Cook, actually). No strong principles, just pushing the company forward.

For them the "company" is the C-Level and the branding and the partners. Not the employed.
Any real number type must have this property is you expect 1/x to work correctly.
You don't want methodological clues. You just want to monitor their predictions and see if they get better.
There is an idea for a reverse reservoir: https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Lievense

Make a dike ring in eg. the north sea, pump water out of the ring into the rest of the North Sea to store power, and vice versa to get it back. Easy peasy...
> silksong never.png

Why do you have to hurt me like this
I don't think that argument really holds up. IME people who are highly interested in fasting, cleanses, or "resting their organs" claim to feel like they're being overwhelmed by "toxins" and need to do those things despite eating a very health conscious diet.
TIL. thx.
is it that nice?

the beauty of HTML markup is that it's declarative. at least from the tutorials I've seen, WebComponents drag you firmly back into imperative land with document.addChild everywhere.
No, SEO made things noticeably worse from the very beginning. This is almost tautological, when you think about it.

Agree googles machinations have not helped, but disagree with your 90/10 split.
Granted they're dumping the fleet with degraded battery packs before doing the 15k+ replacement, sure.
> The problem is that Electron is superior to something like a Godot UI in absolutely everything else.

Why? What capabilities does Electron provide that Godot doesn’t and can’t? I’m genuinely asking. I don’t know.
In this case we do know on average you are out in 9 months. Do you gamble you can somehow make an important friend or you will out political influence some of the 10 year vets; maybe you take the gamble. For the average person you would be better offer taking the other offer.
This is talking about the paid outlook desktop app, not the free email service. There are many issues with the new version of the paid app, the main one being its really just a webview for wrapper for the website. You could just as easily pin the tab and have the exact same experience.
if you've bought it on steam it's exactly the same effort as windows

double click to install, wait a few minutes for the download, press play and it launches

as someone who grew up compiling different forks of wine with various patches to try to play half-life in the 2000s the improvement is quite incredible
this is something I initially thought was a stupid IoT device, but this connectivity actually makes sense - just not their implementation, which is inexcusable.
I am a proponent of ruthlessly deprecating, deleting, and decommissioning. I fully understand there are a LOT of downsides with this approach, but legacy code is such a huge and difficult to quantify drain on developer productivity, in addition to a vector for exploitation and other bugs.

Yea, it is annoying to keep your systems up to date, and yes some (let’s be honest very small but vocal minority of) users cannot update and will be left in the cold. But security is everyone’s responsibility at all layers, and even stable OSS doesn’t owe it to you to support legacy cases at the expense of just moving forward.

It sucks but I do believe hamstringing users with complex and unsupported use cases is (unfortunately) the right thing to do. The less support these old and vulnerable systems get, the more annoying or impossible they will be to maintain, and the more inclined users will be to shut down systems that probably should have been deprecated decades ago.

Bracing myself for ire…
True, KSP definitely qualifies as breaking the mould.
That requires energy.
I take issue with pretty much every single one of your statements here.

> culmination of their life's work is to get people to buy more crap rather than making the world better in any measurable way

Advertising makes the world better in a lot of ways. It allows companies to provide services without actively charging for them which is a much preferred way of monetization of the vast majority of users (just look at the popularity of Netflix's recent ad supported plan). It allows companies and users to connect on new products which often results in a purchase that both the consumer and company benefit from. The result are higher living standards.

Google Search is funded primarily through ads. If you truly believe that Google Search hasn't made the world better in any measurable way I truly don't know what to tell you.
I am an EU citizen but reside in the US. I'd like to GDPR escalate my request but since I don't live in the EU I don't think I can.
I've never tried to take a rental truly off-road but I've definitely had them on very unpaved roads they probably shouldn't have been on. You can get true off-road vehicles in locales like Death Valley but they're very pricey compared to a standard rental.
I think for the foreseeable future we'll have better uses for the electricity than powering a laser to accelerate some probes.
> This line of thought leads people to naturally adopt the exact same sort optimization (exploitation) strategies businesses (your employer) does with the same justifications they use.

But that’s exactly the kind of relationship it is. Instead of maintaining some fantasy, you should call a duck, a duck.
I think solar is becoming popular because it is so much cheaper where it works.

One point of disagreement is that you are saying "you need more energy in the winter". Right now, for example, tomato paste is made in a facility that runs year round. The main cost in converting tomatoes into tomato paste is in the thermal cost of energy. Having abundant cheap energy at one time of year will shift the way such industrial processes work so that we use more energy when supply is the highest rather than using the most energy when demand is the highest.
The ads were supposed to start at the end of January, but yesterday I was watching a PBS Masterpiece show in 2 parts, and when it went from part 1 to part 2, it showed an ad for a sporting event on Prime. I could pause the ad but couldn't skip it & had to sit through the whole thing.

As a Prime member, I usually just buy whatever I need when I need it. But now, I think I will leave things in my cart until I get to the free shipping threshold, just to see how often I actually need free Prime shipping. Then I can figure out if it's worth it to keep Prime just for the shipping benefit, because the ads are going to keep me away from Prime Video.
Every time I read something that's aggressively branded as anti-AI, I am compelled to read the final paragraph first just to make sure I'm not about to get baited and switched by someone who believes they're far more clever than they have any right to think.
Sorry to hear that, but I understand. I host a meetup currently, and #1 is very true. I see myself as competing vs. staying at home, so I want to make sure each event I host is memorable. I re-started hosting in December '21, so I'll say that there is a subset of people that WFH that do crave social interaction and will make the special trip. I get 20-25 folks show up every month, so I know there are people out there.

#3 is hard, and I can relate. It took a lot of activation energy to start hosting and attending dinner parties with friends again, specially after just having Zoom meetups for a long time.
I mean the salaries have been kinda ridiculous in recent years

Not surprised
Agreed. But both interpretations stand I guess.
I very much did not miss that: "how do you NOT have the tools to use with those systems?"

The hypotetical airgapped secure environment, running an old version of SSH (which only supports DSA) has no requirements for a SSH client, just "eh, just bring whichever openssh that you happen to have, and let's assume it works"? That's a failure to plan: if your network is airgapped, you can't expect to have client software in compatible versions appear out of thin ether.
> Europe has far stricter food safety standards

But somehow, lots of horse ended up in European beef.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/15/horsemeat-scandal...
If you prompt LLMs to use poor spelling and grammar, they will.
The better the car infrastructure, the better quality (in terms of modernity, maintenance etc) of an average car on the road, overall the "easier" it is to drive, the worse the drivers in that society are. This should be pretty obvious. I've lived in two countries in Europe, one with a much better/more sane car infrastructure and in that one no one knows how to drive. Which means when something unexpected happens on the road they're not skilled enough to handle it. In the other country I had very stressful/complicated situations almost daily, such that the rules didn't tell you how to act and it was the wild west sometimes. That's when you really learn how to drive, when you're pushed out of your comfort zone by other drivers or by the circumstance on the regular. Not when you drive automatic in perfect weather on wide roads drinking your large coffee with your right hand.

Another factor is that not everyone is supposed to drive, eyesight or other health (also mental) issues prevent some people from driving, but in the US everyone has to drive to live so those people drive as well even if they know that they shouldn't.

In my 2-3 weeks trip in the USA I saw a glimpse of this, very car centric culture but the culture is only about the machines not about the actual driving. People there only know how to drive in ideal conditions, in their wide lanes, gigantic parking lots etc.
They left Gaza in 2005 voluntarily and dismantled Gaza settlements
Yes, Israel being a democracy and allowing a variety of views including in the government, has various people saying various things

there is no doubt they are trying to destroy Hamas, they have soldiers on the ground dying in combat battling Hamas

Your list consists of a number of absurd questions. The answer to all of them is they are happing during combat, as damage as a result of combat. Hamas can surrender any time and combat will cease

"In all this, they haven't taken out one single senior Hamas leader in Gaza.
NOT ONE.
"
this is false, clearly, they have taken out multiple battalion commanders. Most Hamas most senior leaders are outside of Gaza and they have taken out some of those too

"Consider - making sure 2.3 million people have nothing to lose is a profoundly stupid way to try and fight terrorism"

There is no way to fight terrorism other than actually fight terrorism.
Easy to put a painting, pictures, etc behind the TV. Doesn't running the display, even without the backlight, take energy?
Either way, Microsoft servers get access to your email accounts so that you can view them locally.
Why should Microsoft get access to my Gmail or Protonmail? Their servers don’t need access to my email.

Old outlook didn’t do that. Thunderbird doesn’t do that. This is completely unnecessary for a mail app. My computer can check my email. No reason for Microsoft servers to do it on my behalf.
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