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I wonder what you (or any of us) would like to say to N. J. Ayuk, Executive Chairman at the African Energy Chamber:- (his words, not mine)

“Africans don’t hate Oil and Gas companies. We love Oil and today we love gas even more because we know gas will give us a chance to industrialize. No country has ever been developed by fancy wind and green hydrogen. Africans see Oil and Gas as a path to success and a solution to their problems. The demonization of oil and gas companies will not work.”

and this is very far from an isolated opinion in the developing world. Given the amount of Western human capital applied to reducing dependence on fossil fuel it's a somewhat sobering experience to take a look at the Mauna Loa CO2 rate of increase. Can you see any significant decrease in recent years. I can't.

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
I play a video game that I'm sure someone has speedrun way faster than me, and got way more points and did it with way more efficiently than me.

I still play video games.

Making a Tailscale replacement doesnt sound fun for me, but for some I guess it is? Why shit on that? Who cares?
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Can anyone explain why this is better than 7zip?
The main problem I have is the article takes a performance/devlopment lens to soft deletes, and only pays lip service to the objectives you're trading off performance for with soft deletes ... namely data retention / disaster recovery / audit requirements.

* availability / recovery - soft deletes provide the best RPO/RTO in archival / lifecycle planning

* auditability / compliance - much easier to achieve with 1 system than 2 or 3 systems

* security - see above

You certainly can achieve these objectives with CDC / snapshotting / warehousing / archival practices, but the soft delete pattern has its place at the application layer in spite of performance which is only begrudgingly acknowledged in the article.
You should try seeing the milky way from the middle of an ocean sometime - most folks have never been far enough from light pollution to really see it as it used to be.

It really does look like a river of starlight across the sky, once you are a few hundred miles away from shore.
A Joint Statement from UniSuper and Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian
Don't worry, the protocol is explicitly designed to prevent it from interacting with "fake" devices. Your device needs to present a special cryptographic certificate in order to work properly.
While ANNs are rather trained for unidirectional propagation, action potential propagation in biological neurons is symmetric e.g. ”it is not uncommon for axonal propagation of action potentials to happen in both directions” ( https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.03... ).

Also, while current ANNs use guessed parametrizations, objectively available is joint distribution - biological neuron should be evolutionarily optimized to exploit, and it is relatively simple in approach from this arXiv.

Such joint distribution neurons bring additional training approaches - maybe some of them are used by biological neural networks?
> general story completely arbitrary

That's the exact promise. BotW has a main story, but it's not where the real fun is. The game devs will still write some overarching plot for people that want that, but you can just ignore that and live your own story.

There will also be a lot of fun in seeing how far you can stretch the original story to its breaking point, like how people enjoy breaking Skyrim with too many mods. Testing the limits is the fun. "What if I defeated Ganon by taming an army of crabs?"
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A good burger will run you $25 in Boston. Wages are generally higher, but still. It's kind of insane. That being said, I noticed probably even 10+ years ago that fast food prices were a pretty bad deal.
It’s only $20/mo. Just don’t ask for how long.
> Offer two factor authentication (password + keyfile) for all formats supporting encryption, to increase security against guessing and dictionary based attacks on weak passwords.

uhhh, that’s not how symmetric encryption works. We have salted password-based (PB) KDFs for exactly this purpose.

Encryption probably doesn’t belong in the compression container format.
A Freediver Finds Belonging Without Breath
> Why would anyone ever want to go near a McDonalds

Depending on the franchisee, it's often one of the only late night options in town, giving sustenance to the stoners and post-drinks drunchies of the world.
It's more complicated than that, brain cuts out the blurry "in between" frames when you move your eyes. Which means it has to extrapolate the images from before the movement to fill the gaps. There's many weird effects of this hack - for example when you look at something moving very fast (like wheels of passing vehicles) but don't move your eyes - it looks blurry. But when you move your eyes - the frame in your brain "freezes" and you can notice non-blurry details on the fast moving things. There are even ways to force eyes to see stuff from the past (like seconds' hand on a clock moving at different rates depending if you move your eyes).

You can't actually say that human eye has a strict fps, so the higher screen fps the less weird interactions with the ugly hacks in our brains.
Go ahead, take off the scare quotes. You’ll feel better, founder.
In some restricted environments (e.g. containers in CI, build servers or AWS Lambda) you may have limited disk space or no write access at all, so it is useful to have a tool that can stream to memory while decompressing on the fly, and discarding what you don't need.
Nice! I'm mainly touching Win32 stuff so I suppose it would need quite a lot of adapting (and a COFF implementation) but this is very intriguing, I'll need to dive into this.
I also recall seeing estimates posted on HN one time, but can’t find the source. I seem to remember $500m ish. ‘Cheap’ insurance relatively speaking.
Plus solar panels are actually MORE reflective than forests, so if we cut down forests to place the solar panels we'd be directly helping out against climate change, by lowering the albedo of the surface.

(forests are only a little less of a "heat island" than an asphalt surface is, and that makes sense, doesn't it? Forests actively try to maximize what they capture from the sun. That tress is capture more is why trees exist in the first place)
It's funny that restaurant burger prices in my EU country are basically the same as in your "upscale American city". I thought everything there was more expensive since the higher percentiles of your salaries are so much higher.
I hate the Kardashev scale. How is it useful in describing technological advancement? A civilization that technically had the ability to capture all the energy output from a star may not decide to do so. There's also the fact capturing the energy of a star and capturing the energy of a galaxy is the exact same level of technology, given galaxies are made of stars. "Capturing the energy of a planet" isn't even a coherent concept.
> how many other things there are that people subconsciously learns, without it ever becoming obviously noticeable for them?

95%+? Stuff like how to jiggle keys on a keyring to get the right one for the door you're about to unlock? This only works for your keyring, it's highly kinetic, tactile, initial condition dependent etc, yet yet can usually be done unconsciously IME with the 6 keys on my keyring.
I worked with manual memory management for a decade (24/7 systems) and don’t miss it. It’s not per-se hard, it’s not scary, but if you’re dealing with structures that may contain reference loops, or using an architecture based on event handlers that may be moving references around, you need to do some very careful design around memory management instead of just thinking of the problem domain.
I just launched my website where you can design a shirt to your liking and have it delivered to your home.

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Try shopping at your local ethnic grocery store. There’s a Korean market with high quality cuts of pork and chicken for practically pennies in my city.
> Roberts, 38, now only gets fast food "as a rare treat".

I feel that that is it should be? When I was young it was important enough to mention at the monday class circle if your grandparents had taken you to visit the Golden Arches and everyone would be very jealous.
In certain circumstances it can be a good move. It might significantly improve real world performance, for instance.

Walter did this in the DMD compiler years ago and it gave a drastic performance boost. [0]

> You are now prone to memory fragmentation (many use a bump the pointer allocator when not freeing)

Pointer-bump allocation is immune to fragmentation by definition, no?

Keeping dead objects around might lead to caches filled with mostly 'dead' data though.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20190126213344/https://www.drdob...
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The 4K Bluray copy I have seems to be an improvement over both?

Note: This is the HDR screenshot so colours look wrong unless tonemapped to a SDR display.

https://i.imgur.com/PFVzuYi.jpeg
Reasonable consumers are like "common" sense ;)
Logarithmic scales are not that exotic. "Damages going in the 6-digits" is a common thing to say and people do understand.
Look something has to be done about the constant interruptions these aggressive advertisements cause. They're breaking the internet experience and wasting an astonishing amount of valuable human life hours. They're really stealing that time. If advertising was an option, 99.9% of people would switch it off.

I think there was very little truth in your first reply it reads like an excuse for an exploitive business model. I'm assuming you're a marketer or just like playing devil's advocate.

In any case, time has come to find technical solutions to hit back at advertising to the degree the industry can never recover.
North America has a unified agriculture market amongst Mexico, US, and Canada - drastically simplifying logistics.

The EU has a similar setup, but 26 countries still adds some overhead versus 3 countries with some form of a "Commerce Clause". It makes sense though - a Polish farmer probably can't compete with a Dutch farmer at scale due to less capital to invest in relatively expensive automation or larger operations.

At least you aren't paying East Asian prices for a lot of produce.
I have to disagree with both. I help a colleague teach a class in which students often read necromancer, and it often has a deep impact on them. The cloned ninjas and laser weapons are uninteresting to them for the reasons mentioned above, but the Necromancer + Wintermute dynamic and central plot is fascinating to them.
That was quite clearly expressed in the OP:

> Obviously instead of using an off the shelf solution like tailscale, I decided to reinvent the wheel which has honestly been quite fun with learning about eBPF, and recently clustering and HA with etcd!

Just because you don’t see or don’t care to see the point doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. And just because it’s not fun to you does not mean it’s not fun to anyone.

As everyone else has said, people can choose to have fun with their free time and what they do with it is up to them. “This isn’t a viable competitor” is an extremely shallow dismissal of one’s work when the motivating factor isn’t even remotely making a competitor. Which some people couldn’t give two shits about.
Which standardization? The world is still very much split between the long and short scale (and other systems)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Yeah people conveniently ignores US directly waterhoses their auto manufactures with subsidies and bail out money ontop of consumer tax credits to drive consumption. More in aggregate than the few years PRC have been focusing on EV. Different is PRC subsidies focused on trying to find actual winners who increases efficieny and brings costs down, instead of senators trying to keep their voter base happy. Or lame excuse that PRC products made with dirty coal vs that sweet clean US LNG (unproven with evidence to contrary). TLDR US decades of unfair US subsidies with USD money printer still can't compete against a few years of PRC subsidies. I wonder if these folks would accept a PRC plant built in US on JV model like they did in PRC, chances are no, because deep down they know PRC is simply just better at volume manufacturing than US.
> it will help some but less than you might hope

That sounds odd, do you buy particularly expensive ingredients? I'm not in the US, but I prep my own meals with average quality ingredients. Not accounting for the extra time that it takes (which amortizes well with meal prep), I probably spend between 1/4th and 1/3rd as much as I would spend if I were to eat a similar meal at a restaurant.
In my case I use Postgraphile. If you select a column that you can't access, you get an error - I don't see a problem there.

PostgREST doesn't support column selection?
>So when you abandon fast food and change to preparing your own, it will help some but less than you might hope.

While true, there are many people who cannot do this because they work 16+ hours per day. And if they have children it is even more difficult.

To me, this points to the fact people in the US are not being paid a "living" wage. I even heard Walmart will help new employees apply for food stamps, that is sick because we are subsidizing the owners of Walmart and their stockholders.
My first Linux distro was about 50 diskettes ;)
I live in the Greater Boston area and you can still find decent meals for say $18 takeaway. I saw the chart on reddit and can't find it right now but McDa prices effectively doubled in the last 5ish years. Many fast food places way outpaced inflation.

It makes almost no sense to go fast food. Cava is about $12-13 out the door. It's even crazier on the west coast where in and out exists. I don't understand how McDs exists and since its significantly more liked than Burger King, even in a HCOL area, I don't see how they make money.
I'm talking about the author of the article, Lipton. Not Barbeau who is the subject of the article itself, not its author.
Growing up in the 80's, I got fast food (McD's, Pizza Hut) maybe once every two or three weeks. I got to go to a "nice" restaurant perhaps twice a year.

My parents however, left us with a Tombstone pizza or Swanson's TV dinner three times per week when they went out to dinner.
Your eyes being analog and the 60Hz display being offset from your own cycle frequency would play large roles in that.
It seems pretty confusing given that operator D already exists as notation for the usual differential calculus. (Not the most common notation, but useful sometimes). It may not be very exciting that D{n} = 0 for all numbers, but that's the actual derivative of a number.
^ This.

Ime, Ethnic markets didn't see significant inflation because I guess us grubby "third world" Asian and Latino immigrants are very price sensitive.
Actually in the case of beavers they were mostly deliberately hunted. Beavers get along fairly well in close contact with people, they're happy to live in the peripheral wetlands around the places we like to settle. But their natural behavior is to dam those wetlands, which tends to inconveniently flood the areas we're trying to use. So over time we killed them all, deliberately[1].

So, as long as you're willing to modern hydrology management around their areas to prevent damage, beaver restoration programs like this actually work very well. Beaver chew in suburban parks in the US west is a routine thing to see now.

[1] Also it turned out they made inconveniently fashionable hats, which didn't help.
You make a great point about the resilience of certain tech during solar events. Most everyday electronics are shielded enough to handle minor solar disturbances, but the intense conditions of multiple X-class flares and a KP-9 geomagnetic storm like we're discussing can push beyond the usual scenarios.

Storms like this one flood the Earth's magnetosphere with energetic particles, increasing geomagnetic currents that can affect both large-scale and local infrastructure. This might lead to unusual behavior in ground-level electronics, such as increased bit flips, clock shifts, or even unexpected resets in sensitive systems.

As for satellites, their advanced shielding often keeps them running smoothly, which likely explains why your internet service didn't get borked. But during extreme events like now, disruptions to satellite functions and GPS signals will occur, as these systems face direct exposure to the storm's impact. Most likely spare capacity rerouted to supply your link during the impact.

I think it's interesting that secondary particles formed when these high-energy solar particles smash into atmospheric molecules also make their way down to us. These include muons and neutrons—particles that, while generally harmless, can penetrate deep into the atmosphere and occasionally impact ground-level electronics, adding another layer of interaction during severe solar events.

There's also the way that alterations to the flux of EM fields induced locally by the larger currents fluxing in the global electric circuit can cause glitches in microelectronics. And how the fluxing of current in the Earth's magnetosphere causes electron and other charged particle release from the ground. All of these things are amped up now and can contribute.

This whole interaction of solar activity / space weather with our technology is a dynamic area of study—there's always more to learn about how these cosmic and solar stuff affect our ground based or Earth based tech. Hahaha! :)
> Memory bugs are no worse than logic bugs

I guess it comes down to what you mean by "worse". It seems that memory bugs carry a higher risk of being completely invisible except in deliberately contrived situations. This makes them more dangerous because there's less of an incentive to fix something that clients will never notice.
Nothing bets a hardrive wrapped in a blanket, in case you accidentally hit or drop the bag you put it in. This is how we did in my university, in late 1990s.
1. who are these people working 16+ hours a day?

2. let's say these 16+ hours workers were the only ones justified eating ready meals, would the industry survive?
Well, 5 1/4" disks were floppy on the inside & outside, so compared with them, 3.5" disks weren't floppy.

To me, at least, the name 'floppy disk' already felt like an anachronism, even in the heyday of 3.5" disks.
I feel like the advantages of stereo vision may be oversold in this scenario. At the distances that sailing vessels would engage there's limited need for binocular depth cues - they really only start to come into play at the point where you would begin a boarding action
Better in what aspect?
That’s good to hear. I haven’t used Chrome since Firebug was released.
Don’t forget to factor tip and taxes into your prices. Without those it’s difficult to actually compare them to countries that actually show the final price.
Jazz drives FTL

Literally threw one against a wall to destroy it and never get tempted to use one ever again.

Went back to a 150Mb QIC tape drive for a while thanks to Jazz.

The stuff of nightmares.
Isn't CUDA still incompatible with the open kernel driver?
I don't know if this is better, but 7zips developer has an unnerving track record when it comes to security practices. He resisted adopting basic mitigations like DEP and ASLR for a long time, only relenting after a security researcher basically begged him to after finding arbitrary code execution exploits, and he still doesn't want to use any more advanced hardening techniques because they (slightly) bloat the binary size or have a (tiny) performance overhead.

I'm all for lean software but breaking ASLR by stripping the relocation tables, just to shave a few kilobytes off an executable which is primarily intended to parse untrusted files is just reckless.
Cross-platform - works on Linux (with GUI).
PeaZip also uses a PBKDF (PBKDF2). No longer the latest and greatest, but fine.
> _________ does (_______ and) the world at large a disservice.

what a flexible template.
Why people take some commercials seriously and others just watch?
Recent apple ad vs any other interesting commercial? All adds are all fiction but why some people feel the need to take an ad seriously?
This is probably a good thing. When it was super easy and cheap to get a crap meal for $10, lots of people did it and lots of people got bigger and that $10 a day added up.

For us, when we go out, we'll do a sit down restaurant and actually enjoy it more because it's rarer.

It still costs pennies to make French fries. I'm not really sure why they charge $5 for them now. I'm sure inflation is real, but I'm sure some greedy Fs in corporate offices are taking advantage of the situation by artificially inflating prices because they now have an excuse to do so. People will only pay so much for crap food, until they don't. The last thing McDonalds wants is people to start to learn and enjoy cooking at home.
I have zero stakes in this other than stating perhaps it’s not the audience that’s at fault, when an in-circle term isn’t translated for a more general audience; and the audiences are consistently confused and annoyed.

I woke up, noticed the title & blog (and references), went through the same tortured route and confusion, before stumbling on the fine print, and coming to same “oh, for crying out loud” reaction.
If you pay a “living” wage, prices of goods will go up, and soon it will no longer be a “living” wage.
In my experience, ibuprofen/advil in an unsealed bottle that's over a year past expiration date simply doesn't work well. You may need 2-3 pills of the expired stuff in a situation where 1 pill of unexpired would be sufficient. This makes it in practice hard to pick a dose which is safe but effective.

After enough such annoyances, I have started consistently throwing out expired Ibuprofen.
> I think C# is quick at going the C++ way, and there is no return from there

To be fair to Microsoft, they have favoured rich, complex languages for a long time now. They were probably the biggest champions of C++ and TypeScript also doesn't seem to be going down a particularly minimalistic route (an understatement). They're fans of rich languages, and while such languages are not my cup of tea, they do have a large audience (although I think it's a large minority audience).
Between e/acc+singularity, hyper-libertarianism and the actual locked-in, rent-seeking, culture-choking techno-feudalism we're getting, it's always been pretty obvious to me that the "mission" is to become the secular equivalent of a god, and then reign eternal, just like the world-building genre of games primes them for.

Too bad it's a big club and everybody here won't be in it, eh.
> According to State of European Tech 2023 Europe is a net importer of Global Talent.

Then why are jobs empty in Germany? It's a net importer, but 30% of people in Germany also leave after living their for some years.

Also, regarding bew language, culture, it can definitely be a net win. But it's always about tradeoff. For someone from an third world country doing their masters, the net win from language might be less than net win from taking advantage of all the education resources available to them now in Europe.

A good engineer without knowledge of local language has a more robust prospects around the world than a bad engineer with local language knowledge.