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> I’ve grown to appreciate the uniformity of Go’s solution, where you always import an entire namespace, optionally aliasing it to avoid conflicts.

That's a very good solution in general which makes everything uniform and consistent. It's only due to my personal tastes that I didn't implement it that way.

I'm obsessed with symbol management. I'm so obsessed with this I wrote my language in freestanding C just so there would be no libc and compiler cruft in the resulting ELF binary. I'd rather deal with complexity than see weird doubly underscored stuff in readelf output.

Names are everything in computer science. I have some kind of psychological need to have clean names. For that I need clean namespaces that I can shape to my will. So I absolutely wanted the ability to import only the symbols I needed in order to minimize the pollution of the namespaces. I support just importing everything as a convenience but I personally never use that feature. I also made sure I had the ability to rename imported symbols to anything I wanted just in case other programmers aren't as obsessed with names as I am.

I went so far with this I implemented basic control flow as a library of lisp macros. There are no reserved keywords or special cases, they're just normal functions that get imported like all the others. Thus they can be renamed or avoided entirely. In fact I made it so only two symbols are present in every namespace: import and export. And those can be overridden too after the programmer is done with them.

I probably have more than few screws loose or something. Go's approach is totally reasonable. Instead of importing N symbols from a module, it imports 1 symbol and nests all N symbols under it, and if there's a clash you only need to rename the module prefix. It's nice and creates single points of truth.

... Now that I think about it, the only reason I didn't implement it the Go way is I didn't want to add special syntax for nested symbols to my language. In other words, in my language "config.Parse" is a single symbol instead of a "config" + "Parse" pair. I feel like it just wouldn't be lisp anymore if I added syntax to decompose the former into the latter.

> sticking to config.Parse, and not the stuttering config.ParseConfig

Yes. I find the stuttering repetition in your latter example to be profoundly irritating and a symptom of a bad modules system. In my language I tried to prevent that by making it easy to add or remove module prefixes to the imported symbols. I also made it easy to rename symbols for good measure just in case people did it anyway.
Yes, I need the best quality that is available if I'm going to watch something. It's non-negotiable to me. That is a personal choice, like buying 4K Blu-rays of most things that I like. If Netflix would sell 4K blu-rays of all of their Originals, I would just buy those instead of (not) subscribing, but they do that for very little of their content. I always pay for the ad-free plans on these services for a similar reason: I don't find watching ads to be an acceptable use of time.
The favor should be returned by sueing mexico for producing and smuggling drugs into the US
To reiterate your point:

Is it possible to teach any (or even most) gorillas sign language though, or was that a an exceptional simian ?

In the same vein, he might just have gotten unlucky with Victor...
If Amazon has good content they're not doing a great job advertising it, my impression of Amazon original shows is basically a knock-off versions of existing shows.
S3 is really cheap, and from the beginning I spent a lot of time optimizing for simplicity and efficiency, so I don’t have much overhead. Since this is targeted towards residents and academic radiologists, it’s important to me to keep the price as low as possible. What is your platform if you don’t mind sharing?
There are a significant number of canal systems to the east of the bay. I have no where boating is allowed, but the ones we frequently drive past are ~100 feet wide and extend at least out to Stockton and Sacramento. I have no clue if you can get past those cities, though.
I just use a thesaurus and hit one or more synonyms for the first example. The second isn't really a problem I encounter, some docs are terrible yes but I jump to definition or search the web.

I might've had more use when I was new to programming but my workflow these days is pretty solid and I don't see myself saving time by typing prompts and debugging output rather than just coding.

If it is too complex for me to understand I wouldn't really trust the output anyway and might spend a lot more time sanity checking the generated code and it might not be very useful in the end. I'll try someday if I really get stuck, I expect to get disappointed though.
In case anyone is interested, the sequence of two-digits numbers is shown at https://imgur.com/a/sfxepRb.
A little off topic, but the 2019 movie Sound of Metal explores some of deaf culture and is a pretty excellent film for anybody interested.
Ghidriff: Ghidra Binary Diffing Engine, ghidra-patchdiff-correlator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38870593
I read Snowcrash too.;D
Does that mean I have to wait 20 more years for this one to be fixed?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1806237
I don't disagree, but usually when a solution doesn't fix a painful problem, people are almost disappointed after getting their hopes high. In those posts, the commenters give me the impression that they are mildly annoyed at best (or worst).
It can't ride at either of it's two highest settings when going above 15 and 25 mph respectively.
I always thought all that numerous stratification into "upper middle class" and "lower middle class" and "upper lower middle class" and "lower middle upper middle class" and so on was kind of pointless and only serves to either 1. satisfy people who feel the need to precisely identify their own position on the totem pole or 2. pits people against each other who are actually in the same class and should be fighting together.

Most of us are N missed paychecks away from being broke. For some, that N is 1 or 2, for some it's 5, for retirees, the number may be even larger; but we all inevitably need money from our labor to come in in order to live. And this is true regardless of the dollar amount on that paycheck. We're all in the same boat.

For a very few lucky people, that N is infinite because their money grows faster than they can spend it. They get richer just by existing.

To me, these are really the only two meaningful economic classes. Do you have to work for your living or not?
Radio has compulsory licensing. It seems to work ok. And the dvd era Netflix owed their existence to 1st sale doctrine. But the studios would fight it to the bitter end.
Ah yes, because Uber and Airbnb definitely cut people out of the mix
You could design it and have it manufactured fairly cheaply using JLCPCB.
Design a simple PCB that is basically a long zig-zagged wire (copper trace). Make sure the trace has a fairly high resistance, like a few ohms. Include some heavy-duty connectors on the board.

Send the design to JLCPCB; it usually takes a few days and costs almost nothing to have that shipped to the US.

Design a base that holds two of the boards a fixed distance between each other, with room for toast, and build an enclosure. You also need a spring-loaded part to hold the toast in place and let you pop it out.

Here's an example, sans JLC: https://www.instructables.com/PCB-Heater-Diy-Joule-heating/

Much of the challenge would be making this food safe, and consumer-safe, while also affordable and competitive with a $5 toaster, but that doesn't stop a sufficiently motivated hacker.
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Makes sense. Two sensors are about as useful as 2-node Consul cluster.
Ironically I find Prime to be the worst platform. Aside from The Boys and Star Trek (most of which isn’t on Prime anyway) I can’t think of much I watched in the last 5 years that impressed me.

The Tick was amusing, but that’s quite old now. I did like Rings Of Power too, despite its many flaws. But The Boys is probably the only stand-out show on that platform.

It’s also got a horrifically bad UI too.

Netflix can definitely be hit and miss but so are all the streaming services. Disney over milked Star Wars and Marvel. Apple has some beautiful looking shows but a lot of them are forgettable. Because nobody is sharing licenses it means everyone is rushing out content for contents sake. It’s the same race to the bottom that you see with YouTube / Twitch streamers.
I think you read Boeing engineer's post a bit too quickly, because that's definitely not quite what it said.

That said, I worked in commercial aircraft engine component repair for years and everything I read in this is 100% plausible to me.

One time we shipped a part back to the customer before it was even done being repaired. It had labels and stickers marking stuff that needed to be done still on it. When the customer got it they emailed us some photos of the markings and said "It doesn't look done to us...". We had to tell them to send it back so we could finish it. Whoops!
OnStar dates back to the 90s and could track vehicles en-mass by the mid 2000s
I know this article is about media that can be distributed digitally which has fundamentally different dynamics that real world objects, but I think that the thinking behind it is what caused me to think that, with international supply chains and an ever-growing market, that niche hardware products would also become more common. That has proven to be almost exactly the opposite, as is most clearly demonstrated in the smartphone market: despite getting larger every year, the breadth of available hardware configurations is every narrowing as companies compete solely the median consumer. I don't quite understand why it isn't possible to survive catering to an (objectively large, but proportionally small) niche consumer, but it is apparently not possible.
no actually, we don't. not any more than we want to allow parents to circumsise their children, or feed them garbage until they have a BMI of 35
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People just find the phonetic alphabet weird, but everybody gets it right every time. It's this good. Nobody suffers any setback from hearing it.
So… I’ve been writing software professionally since 2002 and was programming for fun/some open source for about 10 years prior to that. I’m still an IC, by choice (and spend a fair bit of time mentoring/doing architecture, but also writing code and laying out circuit boards). If we’re going to do job titles in increments of 3-4 years, I’m going to have the most ridiculous titles soon because all of the usual ones will have come and gone.

But all of that is just to say that I don’t think years of experience is a good metric at all for job titles. By far the best metric I’ve come across over the years is “how long can you trust this person to work on something without worrying that we’re going to have to throw away a significant chunk of their work?”

Junior developers? Maybe a day or two before they might need a course correction or feedback. Mid, maybe a week, tops. Senior, maybe two weeks. Staff/principal (depending on how you even order those in seniority) can be longer although they still need to check in with the business/peers on a regular basis just to verify that we’re all going in the same useful direction.
> Aren't rates in the US lower now than they were at the top of the 2008 bubble?

No. Fed is currently at 8.5%. Highest bubble rate was 8.25% in Q4 2007. In 2008 rates started at 7.76% and ended at 5%.

ref: https://www.ferc.gov/interest-calculation-rates-and-methodol...
"go to the mattresses" is a reference to The Godfather book and film, means "go to war" or something like that. The fighters would sleep together in poorly appointed safehouses that would just have a bunch of mattresses on the floor.
Weirdly, in Cambridge, the River Cam is not marked as a natural waterway (fair enough, it is canalized) but the entirely artificial drainage ditches around the college back gardens and Hobson’s Conduit are.
As MSFT traded over $400/share after hours today, let them stay dead. :)
> Even though Fedora is (afaict?) the best supposed Linux distro

As someone who had a 12th-gen mainboard and upgraded to an AMD board, and assuming you meant "supported" here, the rest of the points here are fine but this one rather explicitly is off. Ubuntu is the primary supported distro across the board: https://frame.work/linux

Fedora was recommended for AMD mainboards when Framework started shipping them, because Fedora ships newer kernels sooner, which got upstream AMD compatibility fixes out faster, which meant Fedora users could install Framework's firmware, driver, and BIOS updates sooner with fewer workarounds.

When Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS shipped a 6.2 kernel in August, it went back in front across mainboards.
You let newcomers dick around for months with a net on an industrial vision problem? This stuff was solved two decades ago. Why didn’t you just tell them?
>it's not on any of the four streaming services I pay for (I'm outside the US so ymmv). And why? Why is the studio hoarding access

It's not the studio, it's whatever local rightsholder owns it for your country. Where I am (Canada) it tends to be Bell, which is a content creator, ISP, and cable providing monopsonist. If they don't want to sell the rights, or put the price too high, the streaming services won't have it.

Long story short, blame your local politically-connected middle man and fire up the torrents
If you think that is bad go see this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_to_Fly_(film)
I feel like mainstream TV wasn't much better at that. The vast majority of TV shows I got into seemed to get cancelled after 1-2 seasons.

While they seem to have a bad track record by public opinion, it's unclear how much worse Netflix was at this.

I did a quick google to see if I could find any statistics, I got bored looking for some better data but did find this article claiming that from 2009-2012 "on average, 65% of new network television series will be canceled within their first season.":
https://screenrant.com/tv-success-rate-canceled-shows/
> If it doesn't need to handle snow to win this bet, it seems it could handle Seattle-tier rain already.

Seattle-tier rain probably isn't what you think. But if it operates in Seattle, it does need to handle snow --- at least enough to recognize it's snowing and find somewhere flat to chill out until the roads become drivable again.
> How do you define "artificial" such that an iMac is not artificial?

I don’t. iMacs are made of naturally-occurring materials. Those materials are mined or refined or formed in laboratories and factories, then assembled into something we call an iMac. All of those materials and processes are part of this universe and occur within the laws of then universe. They are all natural.

There really is nothing artificial in this regard. But that doesn’t mean some things aren’t detrimental to our health or well-being or the well-being of other life.
Vending machines also won't take the ¥1, ¥5, or ¥10 coins...

Luckily the conbini shops have machines that do take them and allow you to dump a whole handful of change in at once and will give change back in the minimal configuration. So my recommendation in Japan is when you buy something at the conbini, dump all of your loose change into the machine, then pay the rest with a ¥1,000 notes and you will get the minimal number of coins back.

Oh, and you can throw the ¥5 coins into the local shrine for good luck. :-D
India is about 1/3 the size of the US but with 4x the population.

So India is effectively 12x more dense/person/sq.km. than the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
We may like it or not like it but this is the direction to where the warfare is going. It is already halfway there.

And no, there would be not international treaty to ban it as our enemy is too desperate to win at any cost and we can't lose. Arms race is on.
We've been okay cycling through them every 6 months or so
My guess is because we say them in big endian: "five thousand two hundred five"

As to why we say them in big endian, I am less sure.. Could it be because we go for important stuff first? "This costs five hundred two..." "-OK, that's too much"

(this stack exchange answer seems to agree: [0])

[0] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3038638/why-do-we-o...
> As that article says, there aren't many factories for what this is cost effective.

... a problem that's even worse for e-fuels, because you have the same fundamental inefficiency plus round-trip losses.

That's my point.

>What really means that it's a job for the government.

Subsidizing unnecessarily wasteful tech with taxpayer dollars isn't the answer, but of course you'll never hear that from the ones looking for a free handout...

The real answer? "It's the Market, stupid." A carbon tax (or even better, cap-and-dividend) is consistently rated as the most efficient solution by economists. One-sided subsidies (or even worse, privatization as you propose) unavoidably causes false corrupted price signals, which leads to both economic and energy inefficiency.

The government's proper role is to be the referee, not to pick winners and losers. The Invisible Hand Of The Market should decide which technology "wins," not some bureaucrat in Washington.
The free ad supported streaming services are where these kind of movies are ending up now. Services like Tubi, Freevee, Pluto.
It doesn’t take a lot of deliberation to realize the obvious reason, which is that this is a very clear 4th amendment violation which can then serve as suitable precedent for (or even have a chilling effect on) future instances where law enforcement may decide to abuse their powers.

It’s quite obvious that not all cases on the same topic are equally easy to argue.
> buyers want more house

Builders want more house. Buyers can't buy what isn't built.
You don’t dev on a laptop?
Goals:

* Drastic reduction in the >1 million annual worldwide vehicular deaths. ~40K/year in the US. ~20K/year in Europe.

* Also, drastic reduction in damage and loss of productivity from traffic accidents.

* Better utilization of roadways, e.g. from more responsive start/stops, and smoother acceleration/deceleration on highways to prevent phantom traffic jams.

* Convenience.
The amount of neckbearding in this thread is astonishing
No, not effectively. Drivers are given extreme deference by law enforcement and in lawsuits where it’s usually assumed that the victim was at fault unless video evidence exists and is immediately available, and concepts like contributory negligence are often used to reduce legal responsibility without regard for the relative damage levels. Insurance is required, but the coverage levels are low so it’s common for the people who do successfully sue often get less than they need for ongoing treatment and support.

We can’t change everything all at once but requiring more comprehensive coverage in general and especially for the most dangerous vehicles would be a good start.
Severance package was an actual parcel containing live cockroaches and spiders. F-- would not work there again!
Well she was deaf deaf and blind blind. Not partially deaf or blind. The vocalizations and mouth movements could have been learned by touch.

Tongue movements would have been harder to learn which explains why her vocalizations are hard to understand.
Is this a thing. I don't know off hand what the tank range was on any ICE car I've ever owned.
> Assuming he hasn't changed his mind, there may come a day he just calls it quits

I have not idea what leads you to that conclusion.

At their last investor day every single department head gave a very detailed presentation about how they're going to 10x their manufacturing from 2M vehicles in 2023 to 20 million in 2030.

I have no doubt they'll do it.
I agree that for the Vision Pro headcount 2000 is unlikely, but you also have to include all the other functions – chip design, marketing, all the people that interface with the manufacturing partners, the manufacturing partners themselves, the people who design the production lines, the people who design and program the machines on the production line, the people embedded in TSMC overseeing chip fab, the people TSMC will have embedded in Apple overseeing chip design... it goes on.

For an idea of the scope, a number of years ago it was reported that Apple had 40 business class seats from SFO to Shenzhen pre-booked every single day. That's how much it takes to interface with manufacturing. Now this isn't the iPhone, the scale is smaller, but this stuff is hard and takes a lot of people, it's practically why Tim Cook got the CEO job.
VIA is Chromium-only because of WebHID which, last I checked, isn't even on the standards track. I don't blame Mozilla for that. The API is useful but I don't want Firefox just implementing whatever Google decides to try to railroad into web standards.

I'm with you on Mozilla removing the ability to install PWAs on desktop though. Strange that they'd ditch it on desktop but not mobile.
I was referring to the input image in the diagram, what is that and how is the output image generated from it? Is it 256x256 noise that gets denoised into an image? I guess what I'm really asking is what guides the process into the final image if it's not text to image?
AND you can anyway watch the HBO shows. It's not like they are removed..
Try and put some actual numbers to those supposed investments such as Vision Pro specific acquisitions…
The Yucatan peninsula in Mexico is very interesting here, completely empty of waterways which would make one think it's a dessert area per other similar areas of the map, yet it's a very lush tropical jungle. A ton of water yet all of it runs underground, cenotes [0] are (mostly) undergound sinkholes, amazing to swim in

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenote
Breaking news! Area man cancels contract with plumber, after leaky toilet fixed.
A fair conclusion.

SREs predicated Twitter would crumble when Twitter's SRE team was laid off. It had some hiccups, but seems stable now.

I suppose the next line of defence is that it takes a while for architecture to crumble.

Time will tell whether that's accurate, or a No True Scotsman.
> We are looking to get that latency consistently down to 0.6 seconds in the very near future

McCool, I can get you up to 50ms latency streamed over cellular, plus the horse tracking capabilities, if you want to hustle together ;)
The amount of time you have after you are fired is the same. If you are fired later, you get paid for a month or two AND are stress free with your family during the holidays.
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I wonder when humans will meet level 5 by those standards?
> internal data-access required for ongoing updates to many parts of this site

Was he allowed to use that? I mean for this use case and publishing
to go to the mat is way older than the godfather.
It sounds like the SREs did a good job of making resilient services
What are the chances the seized items are returned in its entirety to the owner?
And this kid knows sign language too.
You have to be nuanced about those numbers. My parents, who are definitely not Redditors and were concerned that I frequent news page for Hackers, have gotten into the habit of cycling through the streamers every few months. How many of those 13.1 M are genuinely new versus returning subs who will cancel in 3-6 months and contribute to Disney+/Prime/Paramount/etc "growth" (again)?
Wellness programs are literally discounts on coverage offered to companies to engage in workforce nudging on the insurers' behalf.

Do not mistake wellness programs as anything more than trying to decrease cost without increasing liability by actually increasing employee compensation.
Is Tesla the only EV manufacturer in the world?