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> he insertion of "We" feels like an imposition; the company who wrote the code reaching in and enacting their will with your equipment, using your screen as their soapbox. It's icky.

But they are reaching into your computer and enacting their will. The passive voice strikes me as even ickier when it is used to amorphously shift blame into the ether. I would much rather read "sorry, we fucked and formatted your harddisk because we suck at programming" than "an error occurred and all your data is gone". Take some damn responsibility.
I have hundreds of CD's that I bought that have games on them. If it had starforce it was a good chance it was an UbiSoft game. That company has always been very hostile to copying of its products. Especially to its paying customers.
> reality of the situation is that slapping up insulated plasterboard on the inside of half of the UK's homes and putting a trickle vent on the window would save an enormous amout of CO2 and make people more comfortable

And meanwhile require a complete redoing of all interior finishes, including the finish carpentry, in the home. IMO, that's the real barrier (no pun intended) here.

Near Boston, I live in a 1920s structural brick house (I think what the UK would call cavity wall construction). The house was built without any explicit "this material is insulation" and has been retrofitted with attic fiberglass, attic floor cellulose, and I spray foamed one room we renovated. Some of my rooms are painted, which would be manageable cost-wise, but still would have a 20+ year payback period if money had no cost to borrow. Other rooms have intricate wallpaper or decorative wood paneling which would be much more expensive to recreate (pushing the payback period much farther out).

With interest rates above 5%, a 20-year-at-0-interest project literally never pays to do. Even grant programs will often cover the direct insulation work but don't (and frankly, probably shouldn't) pay for intricate finish carpentry work or wallcoverings.
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Ehm.

You need a precise clock for any form of GNSS[0] to function. AFAIR StarLink satellites doesn't have precise clock on the board. And anyway, modern GNSS chips are.. $1? Cheaper? No way you wouldn't use GNSS already deployed and working (and you are not paying for it) in a commercial product.

[0] GPS is GNSS, it's just in America GPS became the synonym for GNSS
I was thinking that an old motherboard may require a BIOS update for a relatively newer, but socket compatible CPU. I remember having to ebay in a random CPU just to able to turn on a motherboard to update the BIOS for the better CPU I bought earlier.
I was a little upset, I had no idea it had anything there till after they replaced it, after years of going there...

Edit:

Apparently the pavillion was only partially funded by the Norwegian government. Your comment made me curious.

https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2021/08/13/who-actually-owns-...
Ukrainians complained about geofencing. Now it's seemingly gone and they have something new to complain about
Honestly, I get that it somehow became cool to ignore the grammatically correct "computation" and "computational resources" in favor of just grunting "compute" — why not go all the way?

"efficient utility of compute resources", etc. Just shorthand everything.

Does it take a famous developer to do it first for everyone to feel comfortable doing it?
Stephen Baxter's books are along the same lines, start with one of these:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Baxter_novel)
Since this announcement is about Unison Cloud, it might not be clear for people who aren't familiar with the Unison language that you can run Unison programs without Unison Cloud. So much like just about any other language you can put a Unison program in a Docker container, deploy it via AWS Lambda, etc. Unison Cloud is kind of an "easy mode" for scalable and distributed deployment with support for typed durable storage, the option to expose public HTTP/websocket endpoints, etc.

Here is an example of containerizing a Unison program: https://github.com/ceedubs/containerized-unison-program

And here is a library that makes it easy to create an AWS Lambda out of a Unison function: https://share.unison-lang.org/@gfinol/lambda-runtime
You'd do it with media queries and make different grids for different screen sizes. If anything it's more flexible than bootstrap because you can change element order as well.
The amount of bot comments and likes on there is crazy.
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You still have a number of atoms, composed and selected, in a way that is completely similar.

But you'll discover that almost every program in a functional language has an enormous complexity when measured that way. So, it does pretty much make as much sense as on the imperative case, and also it's completely useless (instead of only partially useless, I guess).
Firefox was actually successful, in the form of its fork KaiOS. It's a shame that Mozilla wasn't the organisation that managed to bring the OS to the people, but KaiOS is still running on millions of phones today. Mozilla partnered with them to upgrade the Gecko engine from some ancient version to a much more recent version, as well.

With KaiOS 3 not receiving many app updates necessary to continue functioning (WhatsApp, most importantly) I'm not sure how long it'll stick around, but it certainly left its mark on the mobile phone industry.
> The system needs to...

The system isn't handed down to us by a higher power. It's just people. It's shaped simply by what people decide to do. Want different? Then you must do different.

There is no alternative. There is no magical genie that will grant you three wishes. If you don't do the work someone else will, and they will do it the way they want it done, same as you would.
He means to adapt for hydrogen gas combustion. Without the fuel cells used by the hydrogen electrical ones.

Although we are talking of different pressures, at first sight it sounds feasible, due to adapt motors for using butane gas combustion has been done for decades, they use the luggage space for to place the tanks.

So he points it would have been more practical to wait for the needed tech in electric batteries and motors, using those hydrogen conversions by the moment as a transition (hydrogen would be obtained mainly from oil extraction, if I remember well, as the electrolysis tech is not there yet).

I'm not sure if the recharge points would accept to cross through two transitions in such short range of time (petrol towards hydrogen towards electrical), but more important is that I don't know where all the electrical energy that is going to be needed is going to come from.
Correct, however again the photo doesn't prove that the next step wasn't putting in the locking bolts.

I don't disagree with the conclusion, but the photo merely *supports* the conclusion, rather than proving it.
MDN specifically calls it out.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Falsy
Wikipedia confirms that IBM introduced this in 1958.

> Separate read/write heads providing transparent read-after-write verification.
They'd rather blame SpaceX even though HIMARS wasn't available to use in Crimea over a year after arriving
Observation alone doesn’t necessarily give falsifiability. This requires an interaction of clear terminology with physics. In short, I was prodding at their definition of “doorways”.
i wonder if it had to do with the Django hello-world example app being called "Polls"

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/intro/tutorial01/#crea...
> There is no real forum left for beginners to ask dumb questions they would rather not see in some chat log.

this is a key point; employees who have been together a long time can easily switch over to maintaining that same level of connection while WFH (I've experienced that). But it's very hard for a "new guy" to integrate if s/he has never interacted, or only occasionally, with their coworkers in person.
You still don't get. All human problems are individual. Emotions in one person have zero impact on emotions in a driver two state away. Software problems are systemic. They change the entire system at once.

Your "just hypothesis" dismissal would carry a lot more weight if silicon valley hadn't been cranking out bug filled garbage for the last 20 years in their move fast and break things frenzy. Kyle Vogt was (in)famous for vaunting that culture at cruise so there's no argument AVs have somehow escaped the silicon valley rot. The tech industry need to stay far, far away from anything safety related
I was there too. Actually ever since Mozilla M1 or M2 I think. Things were pretty rough back then (so much blue!). Then the browser-only Phoenix followed by the rename.

I (and presumably others) hated the notion of a Microsoft/Windows-only web. Younger folks just don't realize how close we came and the debt owed to those Mozilla devs.
Its not like we won't survive, it's more like moving from your New York 100k/month penthouse to a tent under an LA highway ramp. You can still live/eat/sleep/&c. it's just a bit less nice
The actual URL is https://stract.com/

OP’s link is to a blog that tries to get your email in order to let you read.
Probably not. Although, you can immediately follow that up with asking whether this makes any sense in any programming language. From the wikipedia link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity#Correlat...

Correlation between CC and defects isn't always present and in fact lines of code might be a better metric.

I assert that there is no current objective metric where you can plug in source code and get out some sort of comprehensibility value. Lines of code is the best we have at the moment. And it goes without saying (but I'm going to say it anyway) that lines of code isn't a great metric to be stuck with.

Right now the only thing we have are best practices (ie some other people were "successful" in some other context and they happened to be doing this) and code smells (right, the code makes my tummy feel bad, you can just feel the objectivity pouring out).

[It's been pointed out to me in the past that Weyuker's 9 Properties can be used to determine comprehensibility, but when you look at the papers published about it they're all really underwhelming. Basically, people have built a machine that when given source code dumps out a number that correlates to Weyuker, but then nobody takes the next step to see if that number actually correlates to anything that anyone cares about.

People are trying things though. For example, there's this:
https://www.sonarsource.com/resources/cognitive-complexity/

I'm not particularly convinced by it, but it does a better job than Weyuker, iirc.]
What does "across the board" mean? You mention that the article scores for newbie Google searches about XSS in React.

I mean, it's correct that people who ask such questions should spend a year doing web dev without React probably (and maybe learn basic programming concepts). But the people who comment to you about that post seem to be self-selected for not knowing much about JS.

People who know their ropes aren't left with any questions by your article :) and probably know about everything it contains already.

Still, feedback from me: good content, especially for beginners!
>I mean, where does this mentality come from? It's insane.

From people who studied some history, unlike you.
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I watch Netflix regularly and never had this issue. I wonder if it is your client?
I use an Nvidia Shield(Android TV).
agreed, the phoenix dubs and guides are excellent.

for elixir books, i strongly recommend sasa juric’s elixir in action—it’s the best explanation of processes and genservers i’ve found.
>don't know a single gotcha except for the renamed attributes/props that are otherwise reserved keywords (htmlFor, className).

This is related to `React.createElement`, I think. Preact does not have this problem. For client-heavy web applications I prefer React over Preact (not all libraries work well with Preact), but server-heavy web applications are fine with Preact.
They've been lobbying for access. Now it's here and suddenly accusations of supplying Russia
Greg Egan is the Nintendo-hard of SciFi. You enjoy re-reading many times and every time you figure out something new.
Eating meat, flying a lot and driving a car does not equal a high standard of living. I'm not doing any of these things, but I would say that I have a very high standard of living - probably even higher than people who are stuck in a car in traffic for 2 hours a day and eat cheap meat until they get a heart attack.
I mean, it's just an alarm you hear for 30 seconds once per month. Compared to living next to a train line or an airport, that's nothing. (Though I've never lived closed to one of the sirens, maybe that's worse.)
> It's not mysterious, it's that thermal convection is much stronger when the panels are vertical

I agree that, when you factor in semiconductor physics, it's not a mystery but it isn't necessarily an intuitive result for most. I've been working in aerospace for 5 years and one of the things that has been very clear to me is that peoples' intuition about things breaks down very quickly when there's non-linear factors involved in an analysis. In aero it's primarily square-law/cube-law tradeoffs; in semiconductor physics it'll be more exponential.

For this particular problem you've got an exponential (semiconductor behaviour as a function of temperature) multiplied by a trig function/dot product (cosine of the angle of the sun relative to the normal of the solar panel), with a bit of natural thermal convection thrown in for good measure. Modelling this (digital twin, as they call it) is feasible but it's not something most people are going to have a good intuition on with respect to where the sweet spot is going to be.
yep, that’s the right way to do it.
Let me help you:

"While I'm excited about the potential improvements to traffic safety, congestion and waste of life that self driving cars can bring. I still yearn for improvements to public transit and micromobility that can eliminate cars from the road altogether and yield major improvements in density, efficiency, safety and pollution (noise, tires)"
Or, like me, you can completely abscond from the test and still achieve
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I'm already planning my $3k course on how to use brain vats for passive income.
Also the language everyone uses to tip toe around saying people got laid off. Some employees 'were affected' or were 'part of the RIF' or whatever other acronym is currently popular.
I see the opposite problem in a lot of large businesses... "ah, AI is cool but it will never disrupt our space, our work is too complex" - heh, ok buddy.
They're emitters though. I assume the US and Ukraine are already able to locate every emitter within minutes of them powering up.
You can only blame yourself for choosing to go open source. Likewise if you stand on the street corner and hand out free stuff as much as anybody likes to take, people will show up and take as much they can and start selling it. Going open source is an open invitation to other people to leech on you.

There's nothing you can do about that guy. I hope you learned your lesson and stay away from the endless cycle of misery that is open source. Why not sell your software to honest people who want to pay you for honest work? Instead of festering in a pit full of leeches.
> They in fact want to shift it back to congress

When Congress does that and there is a dispute, it ultimately falls to judges to adjudicate until Congress can update the law.
I don't think this article was very good and seems to be written by someone that doesn't really know what they're talking about, or by someone that does but "dumbed down" to a degree where it's conclusion inaccurate.

I think HTTP3 is probably doomed for a IPv6 like existence for a long while. While everyone claims that TCP is apparently "too slow", the vast majority of corporate/enterprise settings will just block it.

It seems like a technology built by the big players who want to shave a few cycles off each connection and save $millions rather than a practical standard.

Do I want to use HTTP3 at home? Yeah, sounds cool.

Will I be able to use it at work? Probably not for 5+ years.
> shift that determination from agency specialists to judges

Again, that's still not my reading of it. The determination is still done by the agency, right? This is purely about the recourse of folks who don't like what the agency has decided and the futility of appealing it or not.

I feel like both you here and the original poster I replied to are implicitly saying that an agency only truly has the ability to implement laws based on expert qualifications if there's no "check" on them. But this isn't really true for Congress, is it? They make laws around specific topics based on expert input all the time, whether it be around trade or cryptography or whatever, while still having the courts sit above them with the ability to hear out someone who thinks the law is unconstitutional. How is this any different?

It's true that without Chevron, there's more freedom to appeal an agency's decisions. But as a general principle (i.e. not this specific moment in time but say 20 years from now), it seems just as likely to me that an agency is politicized, paid for by corporate donors, etc, as the courts, so it's not clear to me that an un-appealable agency decision is better than one that can be appealed.

Edge cases make great news, but I suspect in our sprawling administrative framework of government agencies, the vast, vast majority of interpretation of laws is done by experts, is relatively fair, and has gone and will continue to go unchallenged. So I don't think the characterization that "interpretation of laws by agencies will move to judges from experts" is fair, on the whole. Maybe only on the controversial parts where there are interests on all sides, but then maybe that's a fair place to have that, too.
Same here! I only developed a feel for the actual geography once we had a car.

I love driving in London. It demands complete attention, like an action-oriented video game, and the culture (if you will) of drivers is a wonderful blend of courtesy and aggression. Like, if you sit waiting to make a turn onto a busy street you'll never find a gap, but if you assert yourself into traffic someone will always let you in; or, if you and someone else simultaneously arrive at opposite ends of a street with only one traffic lane you're immediately in a race with them to get to the pullout to let the other one by. It's great fun, and made everywhere else I've driven feel like easy-mode.
Can we build a unary computer?
Fair point but most beer had a low alcohol content .5%~3%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_beer
I've never understood why building house of cards financial instruments that can fall apart at a moments notice is still legal. How many times do we need to go through 2008 style crashes before we can stop it?
Ass beat? More like outlasted. The Taliban went to Pakistan for 20 years until the US left.

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

The US lost 2,380 and the coalition killed 72,000+.
IMO, Egan's prose and plotting are not notably bad. Characters are probably his weakest point. Plus, Egan knows when to stop rambling, or rather, he doesn't ramble. As opposed to the other guy.
> This is Apple's entire MO. You are expected to replace all your devices every year or two.

As someone who previously was an "anti-fan" of Apple's (we're talking 2000s, early 2010s) for their ridiculous prices (and that still stands for things like the Vision Pro), I've now seen the light (or gone to the dark side if you prefer) and now believe Apple provides better value for money than most of their competition due to the longevity of their devices. I know this is anecdotal and a sample size of one but I'd be curious to see data backing up your claim above.
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> doesn't die from wet bulb temperatures

AI, which is data-centers have been first-class citizens on this planet. All DCs have air conditioning, which most humans don't have. Without AC, these race of machines will fail often.

Also, this race of machines is refreshed every 3 years.
>JSX is a mediocre templating language

You can also complain about JSON being a mediocre data format. But I think it's minimalism and compatibility with JS made it successful.
Well it wasn't a "trap" interview, if that's what you mean. It also wasn't a "pr tour" type interview of the sort we have repeatedly given Zelensky. I think the thing it reminded me most of was the old school days of interviews with people like Larry King.
If that was the reason, Gemini must have been doing some very convoluted reasoning...
And before electricity we required 0 wires. Before cars 0 petrol

It was all brought by "technology". We live better than before but not in a sustainable way, replacing every gas car by an EV won't do much, it'll buy us a couple of decades at best, you still need batteries, plastic, steel, energy
There are probably better sources now than the original paper for an implementer to reference, and you probably want a vector clock, but it’s still worth a quick perusal at a minimum. It’s just good clear scientific writing.

I suspect that when the histories are written that the name Lamport will appear right up there with Knuth, Dijkstra, and other such seminal contributors to the field of computing science.
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Thank you so much for recommending both authors! I'm a huge fan of Egan and would really appreciate to explore the Australian sci-fi scene more.
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The bunkers are in New Zealand in the hopes that a rich island stable democracy will not undergo complete societal collapse even if much of the world does.

Although, if society doesn't collapse I'm not sure if the bunkers are all that useful, maybe for the stockpile of tradable goods? Or as a castle?

> We went from a notable history of great public works to satisfy the ego, libraries to the glory of mankind, beautiful commissioned artwork and sculptures, and more to… well… “my name on a hospital/university”, effective altruism, bigger yachts and doomsday bunkers, and sprawling McMansions filled with boring bowling lanes for boring people.

I'm not all that convinced we aren't just remembering the nicer parts of turn of the century wealthy philanthropy instead of their gold toilets. And effective altruism is at least supposed to be helpful in a different way.

> Of course this is a generalization and, I think a lot of good work is going in to funding research projects and things like space exploration (making fun of wealthy people trying to launch rockets is way too nihilistic for my taste). But on the whole it really seems like our civilization hates itself and the actions of the wealthy seem to reflect that quite clearly.

Oh yes. But the "I want to run away from this doomed planet" is way too obvious. But aren't a bunch of the tech billionaires at least somewhat techno-optimists?