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That isn't the problem of learning Lisp. The problem with learning Lisp is

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and the infinite power thus infinite responsibility of the wizard programmer.

> There is plenty of "lowest common denominator" code like this written in Lisp. Much Lisp code is not buried under inscrutable macros, just like not all Java code is buried under layers of inscrutable classes.

But the problem remains: it only takes one wizard to make reading code impossible by outsiders.

The canonical way to write a Lisp system is to define a DSL (or, should I say, system-specific language) and implement the system in that. But this means no-one outside of the language/system developers know the language, this means Lisp tends to be write-only by design - not in the line-noise meaning, but in the obscure foreign language meaning.

You certainly can not do that, but if you choose to not do that, why pick Lisp? You can argue that all software systems develop their internal system-specific languages, and I agree - but the overall strict language provides a rigid framework for anchoring understanding, something you have to conciously work for with Lisp. (Note Java pre-2020 was so limited in expressivity it wasn't any better, because all the complexity ended up in the class hierarchies you reference - it was more similar to Lisp in that way than many realize.)
You surely haven’t heard about what happened to Kim Dotcom in NZ.
This is also something I've considered -- for folks who think the best path is self-directed learning, any recommended resources/platforms to begin on?
Really cool! Invisible cloack tech...
I've never done a bootcamp, but you would probably be better served taking a few intro to programming classes at your local community college, better yet, take a whole semester of classes since you have a lot of free time. Look into CIS/MIS/Applied CS, those are geared towards more practical programming than theory. Not only would it be cheaper, but the learning experience would probably be better too. I would certainly include a SQL/database class as well. Most of what programmers know, they learn by doing, "on the street," so think of a few projects you wanna do and build them too.
Anything without CUDA is not an existential threat, but anything that supports PyTorch and provides lots of RAM at a low price is a monopoly-profits threat.
Making crypto investment simple for everyone
No they're saying theoretical improvements does not directly lead to practical, because theory and practice have diverged due to how computers work. Instead, theoretical will most likely lead to indirect gains, as the techniques used will result in the next-generation of practical improvements.
Let's play "Get hired as an Air Traffic Controller" game
seriously! nested menus on nested menus! There must be literally thousands of third party vendors. Good heavens... I'm pretty sure GDPR explicitly specified it should be as easy to reject consent as give it, and it must be in a reject-by-default state. Sad that courts seem to not feel like enforcing the law at all.
The PRO parts are "certified" to have ECC working.

Essentially it's binning - AMD takes portion of the bins and runs them through more verification steps including ECC tests. The rest does not get run through ECC testing, but have the exact same parts, and - unlike Intel - AMD does not lock ECC out on them.

The CPUs are physically the same except for branding detail.
lose*. It's not so hard, man.

Also accumulated know-how can be partially visible by writing out docs, patents, guides and the like. Definitely not enough but can increase visibility.
As syscalls run more code and access more data they can increase TLB pressure in the same way the increase general cache pressure, but syscalls per-se (outside of things like munmap) don't typically invalidate the TLB as the mapping is not changed on an user-space kernel-space transiation, only the access right (there were exceptions like the brief period when people where running with full 4GB user address space on 32bits cpu).
This doesn’t seem to just be for the Mac Studio.
That's funny, I was just about to write the same comment!
IP block lists are still used, though mostly in form of "IP reputation" blocks.

And they suck.
> . The suicide rates of teen girls have tripled since the introduction of social media.

This is simply false.
MOLOCH -> "It is, in its way, a statement of purpose: not just the assurance that every person, place, and thing is now or will become food for its rightful devourers, but that those doing the eating also think of it as junk food."

Funny, in history, people fed children to Moloch.

Now Moloch has become a symbol of capitalism.

And now, in the analogy, people are junk food. Because life is cheap, people aren't worth enough to spend money on their safety.
Thanks for the tip. I’ll ask there too.
How do you check the basic mechanicals of the car at that hour?
So that the driver (automated or human) cannot later claim "oh there was a mechanical failure" ?

What's to stop Cruise or other bad actors to take possession of the car and then clip the brake lines to claim it was actually an OEM vanilla car mechanical fault and not their AV hardware/software?

It's not that outlandish. You already have them doing a whole bunch of lies of omission and smoke screening their video evidence, enough so to trigger a wave of resignation/firings.
> Prisoners are deprived of rights... by due process...

Nice sound bite; but not really true.

It's certainly true a process is followed but that process is pretty shitty.

Plenty of people get released after the murder weapon is actually tried for fingerprints and low-and-behold it was somebody else! How does a person go through trial with even the murder weapon being tested? It's not required by the process.

Plenty of people have been convicted because "their bite marks match". Is there actually some peer-reviewed standard of bite marks where if I gave you somebody's bite and a bite mark you could match them together at 90% accuracy? No. How are non-reproducible methods used to incarcerate people? The process doesn't require accuracy.

For more, John Oliver: Forensic Analysis [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScmJvmzDcG0
I think it is pretty clear that regulation or at least effectiveness of such must have peaked in relatively recent past. Going back century or two certainly had capitalistic practises, but also much lesser regulations in many places like food or safety of products.

Now interesting question is when did the effectiveness or regulation peak?
Wouldn't it be even more dangerous to report them to a journalist?
> I'd also submit that he and his cohort has no idea—no idea how much anger there is about what he and his cohort have done to make every aspect of life flatter and crueler and riskier and worse, and no idea how lucky he is that all that rage is still being pointed in, and not up.

This is pretty loud and clear to me!
My service doesn't play well with a number of other services so the other services are all wrong.
Can it auto generate diagrams from the code without selecting snippets?
> That is the I in ACID.

That is isolation. It's the first time hearing someone call that "transaction safety". In my opinion they are not synonyms. If anything, transaction safety would be something that the database authors have to consider, not the user of a database. A quick google search and chatgpt question agree.

> That is the A in ACID.

Yeah, that is what I assumed you meant when you said "transaction safety".

> If you can say isolation is orthogonal, I can say atomicity is orthogonal.

Yes you can indeed.

> In any case, I was refuting the idea that transactions in a standard ACID database would protect you from, e.g., two message queue workers picking up and processing the same message when they are not supposed to. But if that's not a part of 'transaction-safe', then you're essentially backing up my point.

Then I think it's just a language matter. There is no automatic guarantee against e.g. two message queue workers picking up the same message. There is no guarantees like that in general for transactions and there is fine-granular control with things like "read for update" or "skip locked" for that. I don't think any database ever claimed otherwise.

However, using databases allows the user to opt into these things.

> With an append-only MQ, you will let a few bad actions happen - logic errors, and consistency errors resulting from too much 'eventual'. You can spot these actions since you didn't delete them. Then you can append the corrections to the MQ.

Or, you allowed a user the withdraw cash at two ATMs at the same time, and now their balance is negative even if it must not ever be negative. You just broke the law and might use your banking license and go bankcrupt.

So yeah, in those cases an append-only MQ simply doesn't help you. You need some system that supports ACID.
Could you maybe distill the serious parts? I'm not exactly sure what you think is joke and argument here. I'm also sceptical of whether that is a comparable approach. If I'm reading you right, you need to account for the fact that cars have lifespans and all the deaths over a lifespan get summed. Assuming a 15 year lifespan for a typical car that bumps the car figure up an order of magnitude and then the rates are basically the same (0.09 vs 0.10).

So the figures you're quoting suggest that a catastrophe in the aerospace industry is business as usual on Denmark roads. Putting aside rather important questions of methodology (eg, 737 MAXs would do a lot more trips than a typical Denmark car).

Not only that, but the 737 Max rate has likely dropped because they got a lot of attention and problems were likely remediated. It is easier to raise the engineering standards over 1,000 planes than 3,000,000 cars. You can see in the Denmark case that back in the dark eras past (like 2002) the situation was much worse but they improved quickly. Boeing will be undergoing the same process right now.
Why not go into a Sales Engineer role? I hear those make bank and some devs even move into it.
> I'm referencing Jonathan Haidt's work

Why not link to real numbers though? Haidt doesn't understand the numbers, misquotes them out of context, and mangles the data.
First new panel in a decade at US waste facility
I was talking about a point discussed in the article. There is an attack on OTP because the attacker can change the message if there is no hash-like authentication of the message's correctness. I asked if there was a pen-and-paper way to authenticate an OTP message.
I deeply dislike string-typed operating systems (i.e. Unix and its issue). Likewise with 'everything is a file'.

OSes are a superb use-case for recursive, object-oriented, hierarchical setup and configuration, but no; Unix and friends, and the programs that run on them, insist on spewing a million-odd .ini, .cfg, .json, .yaml, .xml, .whateverml files all over the filesystem and then 'hiding' them with the leading full-stop.
You can't ever fully stop wilful abuse of technology by end users (humans keep looking down at their smartphones) but you can mitigate the problem of complacency with increasingly better human monitoring. IMHO Tesla should be restricting FSD to vehicles where the car can visually monitor the driver's attention.

Predictions of the future have always been poor, but ML/AI has thoroughly fucked up any prior intuitions we had around the rate of advancement. So many things progressing more rapidly than we thought possible, while others being an endless slog of local maxima after local maxima.
I have a similar story. I made major lifestyle change. But the thing is, I have got back to eating carbs and retained all the benefits (i.e. clear headless and energy all day long). Bear in mind by carbs I mean whole grain. But still, I wonder if macros are really the culprit and if keto is not placebo on top of something else (at least for me). Maybe it has something to do with insulin and glucose metabolism.
If you have a plugin that lets your turn off JS per website then that works 99% of the time. It's a nuisance and often unnecessary when you're reading what is essentially just text.
A PalmOS cell phone - the Treo - was featured in the original iPhone keynote. I had two, the first (600) was OK. The second (650) was abject garbage - it would crash just sitting waiting for calls.
https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/wiki/faq#wiki_gett...
Facebook S-1 (2012)
I thought this was known almost a decade ago.
Honestly? This isn't even a question of time. My house could take 5 minutes to clean and I still wouldn't find motivation to do it every week. Here I just push a button and at least the floors will be cleaned and mopped, and when I have more motivation I can clean in a deeper way.

I think you're mad about something but I can't quite pinpoint what, because it's not frustrating, the charging station isn't that ugly and is out of the way (because the robot knows how to get back to it), and lithium batteries have not been a real fire hazard since the note 8. I agree that using them in the first place is kind of Not Nice for the planet, but since you brought up the points of frustrating and tripping over stuff: do you somehow think using a wired vacuum is a pleasant experience?
I made a userscript to make the table sortable. Just click the table header to sort.

https://gist.github.com/nake89/da99121ef5557e99ea6ca3804e219...

Disclaimer: ChatGPT helped me because I'm lazy.
Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons' Data from Data Brokers
What would be the safest drugs to consume ?
> Maybe I'm out of touch, but I think I'll stick to my thermostat-controlled Weller soldering station and FTDI UART converters.

Regarding FTDI products, after the well known controversy (1) I avoid them as much as I can. I also have two Wellers and will keep them until they die, which given their reliability should equal to never, but a few years back I purchased a Pinecil (1st model) out of curiosity and because I wanted to support Pine64 some way, and have to admit the device works really well even with non trivial joints that require a decent thermal mass (something many of those Hakko clones fail at). I have never installed anything onto it or even used any other function than plain temperature control though, but as a portable solder iron it just does the job without hitches.

1- https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/43q3vt/ftdi_d...
> journalists can protect their sources.

But in this case not. He must have been pretty worried about German lawyers and courts, which decided really strange lately.
I think this is a critical part of cracking self-driving cars - "scene understanding", or more accurately, identification AND MODELLING of all traffic participants. A tiger chasing a deer will identify and model what the deer will do, what the terrain is, and take appropriate decisions on how to best pursue; a good driver will do the same - e.g. understanding that a round object bouncing in the street of a residential neighborhood is a ball, and where a ball comes, a child will follow.

I also think that this feedback loop of "Model the world, take action, observe, update model" is a key component of consciousness (whereas we model ourselves!) and key to AGI. I would not be surprised that AGI comes from a self-driving car development model.
Isn’t that an inherent feature of socialism?
They’ve always been a country of socialist matrix progressing ever towards communism!
I really like the admiralcloudberg blog, which provides extensive analysis of plane crashes and the NTSB investigation that follows.

I hadn’t thought of it, but I think the idea of similar investigations for self-driving car accidents is a really great idea.

Though, one recurrent theme of that blog is that blame and persecution are generally counterproductive to understanding the accident and improving safety.
Exactly, when selling a big software system like this to the government, the contractor will very deliberately ensure that it follows the requirements exactly (because requirements are never specific enough) so that the government will then have to go back to them for fixes and upgrades forever. If they see a poorly worded requirement that they can implement as-is knowing it will cause a problem, they celebrate because its a future revenue source.

The only way I can see to avoid this is for a government to have its own dedicated software developers who make these types of applications and maintain them. Preferably open-source so that other governments can use them as well. The incentives change and they'd probably save a ton of money.
GP specifically called out, "don't try to get fancy with crypto" and I'm inclined to agree with them for this use case.
I think the problems with the Soviet economy were much too complex to reduce them to „central planning is bad“.
> Be audacious. Most people who are talented or smart are scared of doing things. I’m not sure why that is, but it’s more often than not the case.

Because they are book smart. As in raised in right conditions and sent to the right schools.

Also not smart enough to actually realise they will die one day and contemplate on that.

They are focused on resume and status building as if they are eternal. Common traits involves plugging a lot of keywords while talking, posting a lot on twitter/linkedin/instagram etc

If they do realise their own mortality they won't be so scared and not afraid to do anything meaningful.
Since version 8.0.3, SCIP is available under Apache 2.0 License:

> https://www.scipopt.org/index.php#news

So the new player to show up is here. :-)
Gradle isn't made by JetBrains.
The way large trades are done is you structure periodic block trades representing a small fraction of the volume in that time period. As an example you would sell 10% of the daily volume every day until you finish liquidating your assets.
I tend to agree.

OP, if your motivations are largely economical, you're probably best off leveraging your existing skillset and experience. Sales is a very valuable skill, and engineering/tech, while valuable in isolation, truly shines when applied to a domain. Building your own product while learning how to code could propel you forward in your current field.

On the other hand, if this is something with a more intrinsic motivation behind it (which it sounds like it could be the case given your post) then it might be worth considering doing the "slow" path. Have you looked into community college courses that you might take nearby? This might allow you to work your learning into the other obligations in your life. I chose a similar path (my original background was in consulting/sales) after I realized I loved the subject of computer science. I really benefited and appreciated a more formal academic setting. Funnily enough, I discovered this love after building my own product. (Which was terribly constructed, but a great experience!)

In the end to truly achieve a high level of proficiency takes time. I'm coming up on six years and only recently feeling exceedingly competent.

Remember that no bootcamp or university "owns" the knowledge and satisfaction of programming, it's out there accessible for anyone willing to put in the time. =) You'll have to have a deep look at your motivations and decide what is best for you. For me, learning programming and computer science was one of the best things I ever did.

This article is a classic and might be a nice read for you: https://norvig.com/21-days.html

Edit: Another great resource to self-study: https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf
Idk this reads like apologetics for the software industry, which I know people will be more sympathetic to here. But. I know doctors that tell me their EMR log them out after a minute of inactivity and take 3 minutes to login. This can happen multiple times during a patient visit and are totally disruptive. I've heard that it's even begun to affect the throughput of the hospital. So I wouldn't be so dismissive of doctors complaints.
I'm familiar with the major propagandists.
"we arent bombing the places that the innocent civilians are escaping to"

Non-combatants, including US intelligence have concluded your country is:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/plan-one-month-gaz...

Or are you saying they weren't 'bombed' because they were tank shells?

Look up the actual definition of genocide. You're on the wrong of this.
I’d extend that to say “regulated” in both the legal and broader social senses - not just comparing government regulation before and after the Reagan/Thatcher era but also things like connection to places: smaller businesses are more likely to be run by someone who feels some responsibility to look after their community and workers, which certainly wasn’t perfect but still better than what happens with huge multinationals whose senior leadership probably isn’t even in the same time zone and certainly aren’t worried about going to church/the country club with people who will ask them why they’re polluting so much or decided to lay off a bunch of people right before Christmas.

I don’t want to oversell that kind of thing as a factor but I really think there’s a cost to scale when a business reaches the point of impersonality where you don’t even know or have much concept of the existence of the people affected by your decisions.
Thanks for answer.

> I prefer elegance in my software

Do you mean in the software you develop, consume, or both? Do you reject Electron apps only on the basis of being Electron?
Afaik, the crashes were caused by the software mistakenly believing the plane was in a stall due to a single faulty sensor and pulling down the nose - while the pilots had absolutely no clue what was going on (because they never were told the software could do this), and had no way to disable/counteract the software.

I believe the updated software now uses both sensors and only acts if both sensors agree (which is actually standard for such systems and should have been done right from the start) - and can be disabled by the pilots, who are now aware of it's function.

But please don't trust my word... I'm no aviation export by a long stretch.

For a more qualified take on this, done by an actual pilot and pilot trainer, I recommend checking out "Mentour Pilot" on Youtube. He's got a number of videos on the 737 Max and the reported problems at Boeing.
If you want to read more about this history in the US, I cannot recommend And the Band Played On highly enough. The book deals with the early history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and touches on the issues related to blood donations and transfusions given the technical limitations at the time.

It's also a crushingly depressing book.
And the goodwill of the thousands of us who donate to the Internet Archive every month (or year).

There are lots of people who believe in Internet history, and try to do something about it..

But yes, if everyone thinks "someone else has got this", then we will lose our history slowly but surely.
Can you give a concrete example of tech work that a "low IQ person" would not be able to tackle?
Elections are about power; there could hardly be a bigger motivator to rig the outcome even in the absence of any external factor like betting markets.
The camera is there for object detection, so that it can avoid all the toys that are lying around on the floor.

I think most of the competitors will use a camera for object detection and a LiDAR for navigation, since LiDAR is faster than VSLAM.
Shout out to https://virt-manager.org/ - works much better for me, supports running qemu on remote systems via ssh. I used to use this all the time for managing bunches of disparate vm hosts and local vms.