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There are many earlier computers than ENIAC.

ENIAC has been claimed to be only the first electronic computer, i.e. made with vacuum tubes instead of relays or other electromechanical devices, which decreased the switching times from milliseconds to microseconds.

Some earlier electromechanical computers, including those of Zuse and those of Aiken, had structures much closer to a modern computer than ENIAC, except that they used distinct kinds of memories for the program and for the data. The name "Harvard architecture" for the computers with separate program and data memories comes from the electromechanical computers of Aiken, who worked at Harvard.

While ENIAC can be considered the first really useful electronic computer, it has been preceded by another more special-purpose electronic computer, that of John Atanasoff, which had a structure dedicated to solving systems of algebraic equations.

Moreover, the development of the Atanasoff computer and of the ENIAC computer (both in USA) has been made possible by the previous invention of various kinds of electronic counters, made with vacuum tubes or gas tubes, which had been invented by several physicists who had worked in UK in the research of nuclear and cosmic radiation, during the decade preceding WWII.

The priority of the Atanasoff computer was used to invalidate the patents related to ENIAC, as a result of the Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand lawsuit. The conclusion of the lawsuit was deserved by the ENIAC team, because one of them had visited Atanasoff, gaining useful intel about how to design the electronic circuits of the future ENIAC, but then in multiple occasions they have attempted to present their work as more original than it really was, omitting any references to their prior sources of inspiration.

ENIAC received a big budget due to the war, which resulted in a machine very big and very fast for those times, which has been used to solve a great number of important mathematical problems.

Nevertheless, in the few documents that have remained from the Atanasoff-Berry university project, Atanasoff demonstrated a much clearer understanding of the problems of automatic computing than the ENIAC team, like also von Neumann would demonstrate later. An important contribution of the Atanasoff computer was the invention of the dynamic memory, which was made with discrete capacitors, but it was nonetheless the ancestor of the current DRAM memories.

The inadequate memory capacity was the greatest disadvantage of ENIAC, which was immediately noticed by von Neumann. It was very fortunate that von Neumann had the opportunity to study the ENIAC project, because he had the vision of the future that the ENIAC team lacked.

The ENIAC team has been obsessed more with how to monetize their experience in the ENIAC project than about how to improve their computer and they were annoyed that von Neumann has explained publicly to anyone how to make better electronic computers, which has started a great number of projects for developing electronic computers, not only in USA, but also in many other countries.
Agree. I don't tip myself. And abundant portions at home are easy left-overs. And often the ingredients are not completely consumed by one meal and so amortize across a number of meals.

I think if you run the real numbers, eating at home is still a huge savings. And this allowing that you are probably using higher quality ingredients.
Modern flash drives are at least an order of magnitude more reliable than floppy disks were. This is just rose-tinted nostalgia.
> My parents however, left us with a Tombstone pizza or Swanson's TV dinner three times per week when they went out to dinner.

I would consider this negligent parenting due to the poor nutrition of those meals.

It’s not time consuming to cook some lentils or other protein and add some spice and eat some yogurt.
> We do the same for OS resources (handles, sockets, etc) and dont use automatic resource managers, we do it manually.

Generally, in most languages, file handles and sockets are automatically closed, when the variable holding them gets out of scope.
This is the next installment in the Taken franschise.

This time its different:

Brian (Neeson) gets taken and no one bothers to look for him.
It's an arbitrary and flawed scale, but necessarily so given the only space-faring civilisation we can see is the one in the mirror.

It does, however, give us a common point of reference for conversation about what may yet come.
You’ve made a big assumption about being on the same file system there. We had a CI job that was spending an awful lot of time in fetching cached artifacts.

We investigated and it turns out that CI was pulling to %TMP%, but we were actual executing the builds on a separate EBS volume meaning we downloaded and wrote to an EBS volume, then had to copy it to another remote volume, it was super easy to spot on windows, but I’m not sure I would have twigged it as easily if we were moving from /tmp to /data/dira
Probably that it doesn't devolve into lowest common denominator rule.
Dont forget to tip your grocery store shelf stocker.
From TFA:

> ...so far there's no indications of major shifts around going open-source on the user-space driver side, especially around their walled CUDA compute garden.
Ford Cuts Battery Orders as EV Losses Top $100k per Car
They also got in on the drive-thru cafe concept before Starbucks figured it out, thus a lot of people became accustomed to going to their local "McCafe" in the morning. Never had their coffee, but I've heard it's not half bad to at least being acceptable. Oddly enough, public opinion seems way more divided on the quality of Starbucks than that of McCafe.
The sun is pretty near, so it would be much easier to capture all of its energy, when compared to capture all of the energy of millions objects scattered over thousands of light years.
Just remember that it's exactly the same total amount of crypto as if everyone didn't bother.
Going years between restaurants, including fast food, is pretty extreme. But if I leave out travel, eating even takeout is a maybe a twice a month sort of thing. I could certainly afford to do so more often but I mostly can’t be bothered and there aren’t a lot of great options around where I live and plenty of options to prepare a 20 minute meal at home.
I find it hard to sympathize with consumers about rising food prices in a country with overabundance of highly caloric and cheap options everywhere.

If this hike is truly due to increasing labor costs: good. A decent living standard in the world's greatest economy shouldn't be a privilege.

If the hike is due to corporate greed, then that's shitty, but it's arguably good for the consumer who will now seek out healthier dietary options. Fast food being part of a regular diet is partially responsible for the abysmal health epidemic in the US, and other countries this has spread to. Restricting access to it by raising prices can only be a good thing.
Minority rule by design (or originalists), a perspective:
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1246297603/ari-berman-minorit...
Can you expand on how brace is an alternative to fwupd? There's no mention of firmware in the README
This was really interesting!

What about COTS hardware on the ISS? I haven’t heard of major failures with things like their laptops.
No, I'm fine with ballparking this. It's not like the dead care either way.
> 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

That's like saying that building a house and building a metropolis is the same level of technology because cities are made of houses.
I’ll echo the titles you recommended, but given what the MC goes through in Re:Zero I’m not sure that it falls into the bucket of wish fulfillment nearly as much as most shows of its genre do. I can’t think of many people who’d want to be the MC.
> the large price increases are everywhere

That was the case for a while, but hasn't been for quite a while in the US. Food at home has been one of the factors bringing down the inflation rate for more than a year. The most recent data release shows only a 1.2% increase in the last year. It's true that food at home has risen by 25% since the start of the pandemic, but that was driven by what happened in 2021 and 2022.

Inflation on food away from home has come down quite a bit as well, but its inflation rate is still above 4%. At "limited service" food establishments (fast food), the inflation rate is well above 5%.
And Apple and Google signed up for this.
That is not true. Democrats have only had enough votes (60 in the Senate) to pass legislation for 6 months in the latter half of 2009 (which is when they got Affordable Care Act passed, with heavy compromises).

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

Also, Republicans have held the House for 22 out of the last 30 years. Hence why Republicans were able to hold up more Supreme Court judges from Obama, and obtain a Republican majority on the SC.
On full moons, you can read a book and see the shadows cast by the moonlight. It's fun to take someone to see it for the first time who originally do not believe the shadows are possible.
In a wealthy first world country, it's very difficult to pay a living wage while also keeping prices low. Prices of things we buy are very sensitive to labor costs, so low income earners find themselves on a treadmill where their wage increases get eaten up quickly by cost increases.

The solution would be something like wage crush from the top. The mass of this change wouldn't come from billionaires or the 1%, they are a drop in the bucket compared to the 50-90%.

There are tons of "average" people who got absolutely stacked in the last 5 years. Especially here on HN. They won't raise their hand, it's pretty taboo in this environment, but consumer spending and unrelenting housing prices make it very clear which social classes are fucked and which ones are richer than ever. And it's not billionaires and everyone else.
Demystifying Privacy in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox (2013)
> Imagine if either Biden or Trump died

Please don't give me false hope like this
Inflation, plus a pinch of good old corporate greed. In europe most money since first covid came lost at least 20% of its value (so if somebody claims their property gained cca same amount of worth, it just kept its value). Holding money really seems to be most stupid thing to do with them.

Big retail chains were making record profits, raised prices, offloaded most of risk elsewhere, and didnt correct once covid became another meh.

You can add travel cost there, folks went mental with traveling after restrictions were dropped, and so far dont seem to slow down.
The doctrine of adverse possession is well-established, at some point there has to be certainty about who owns what. Look at East Germany after reunification if you don't believe, the fights over real estate seriously delayed rebuilding.

But for copyright adverse possession doesn't apply - it's understandable why the music industry would have the Court say so.
I would love to see the actual stats on what people are doing instead. Like, are they getting more takeaway from other places, because the prices are closer now? Or are they biting the bullet and cooking at home? There might be a few people who are just eating less often, but I can't imagine that's happening at high enough numbers to account for the change.

I justified fast food to myself for a long time, telling myself I didn't have the bandwidth to plan meals, cook them, etc., and certainly not on busy days.

I don't remember where I found the idea, but eventually I ended up with two 2-week meal plans. I saved those grocery lists on the "to-go" order list for the grocer that's on my way home, and once every other week, I stop in and some nice employee brings the food out to my car. It doesn't even cost extra to have them do the shopping. For $15, they'd even bring it to my doorstep.

It does mean spending 3 hours every other weekend prepping the meals for the two weeks (it can be done in three 1-hour slots if it needs to), but then all I do at any given meal time is pull a jar out of the fridge, reheat it, and eat it. Most of the meals are fine cold too, just slightly less enjoyable. I have a little insulated lunchbox I put the food in if I think I might not be home at mealtime.

It took a little iterating, but it's vastly simpler, easier, healthier, and more convenient for me than the fast food ever was, and I've wondered since then if people are just intimidated by the change, or have some other reason that really does make fast food their best option.
Here's a list of some old and new ones, that an old fart might enjoy

Monster (Chasing a serial killer)

Ergo Proxy (Can't describe it)

Samurai 7 (Sci-fi variant off 7 samurai)

Last Exile (Post appocapltic world with lots of flying
machines)

Kino's Journey

Mushishi

Time of Eve

Gargantia

Baccano

Durarara

Psycho Pass

Arslan Senki

Sunaboju (Desert Punk)

Witch Hunter Robin

Hunter x Hunter (old not new)

Texnolyze

Darker than Black

Black Lagoon

Great Teach Onizuka (One of the old and best)

Gintama (Comedy, It's at the level One Piece and Naruto
disgusing as Comedy, you have to get past 30 episodes)

Kabaneri of Iron Fortress (Just for animation quality)

Beck (Music career)

Golden Kamui

Terror in Resonance

Ping Pong Animation (Don't let the animation fool you, it's
one of the best stories)

Area 88 (Story ends abruptly, watch at your own risk)

Ashita no Joe (Old anime, boxing genre)

Valkyria Chronicles (War story)

Scissor Seven (Comedy, Chinese, assassin, in a strange
world)

Shura no Toki (Martial arts, 3 generations)

A Record of Mortal's Journey to Immortality (Chinese
cultivation genre, 3D good animation, faithful adaptation of
one of the good novels in this genre)

Swallowed Star (Chinese cultivation genre Sci-fi variant, great 3D animation)
Fun fact: That's the exact argument a lot of EU politicians made after the cutoff from russian oil and gas caused price shocks.

Like yes, we do have to phase out fossil fuels sooner than later, but maybe that's not the core issue here?
There was a time when ~$3 could get you two very average 450kCal burgers from McDonald’s. One could hypothetically survive off $6/day. Less if you were in a cheap state.

This is the experience people are disappointed about missing; McDonald’s was never about the big ticket combos, it’s always been about the value deals which couldn’t be found anywhere else. I worked for three years at a Canadian McDonald’s, week after week our most popular sandwiches were the McDouble and Junior Chicken, each coming in at $1.46 CDN after tax. Now they’re both $4.50 after tax, roughly a 300% increase in the span of 10 years. People are right to be upset: the entire category of ultra-cheap-takeout is being swept out from under them with McDonald’s being just one of many companies following the same trend.
- "Capturing the energy of a planet" isn't even a coherent concept."

There's a perfectly cogent definition: it's the technological level where you can scale out solar photovoltaics (or equivalents) to within an order of magnitude of the solar energy incident on a planet. It's a useful framework of thinking. Human civilization in particular does not possess this technology level. We're four orders of magnitude short of this energy output, and we don't have the technical ability to reach it even if we really wanted to—i.e. today's manufacturing methods are too primitive, not automated, rely too heavily on manual labor.

It's a framework to measure and then think about this technology gap. What's the difference between that imaginary civilization, and ours? We don't have advanced AI automation: we simply can't print O(100 trillion meter^2) of solar PV at any price. (The automation fraction is too low: human labor is the finite, limiting resource). Nor can we cover oceans with solar panels: we don't have the raw infrastructure power to build megastructures on that scale (again, some sort of an "automation" gap). And another: our (cheap) photovoltaics are an order of magnitude short of theoretical efficiency limits, waste most of the light that's incident on them. This one's a technology gap, and there's presumably a giant amount of physics understanding, computational power, and engineering ability that separates us from that end-game technology level. That separates our civilization from a hypothetical reference one.

It's a framework to contemplate these kinds of questions.
Honestly 90% of the time I have no idea who these people are
Why is Copyright, of all things, exempt from the federal statute of limitations?

Are federal CSA cases exempted from the federal statute of limitations then?

For CSA cases, e.g. California has: two (2) years from when the victim remembers IIUC?
Apple is popular, so complaining about anything they do is an easy way to get attention online.

A certain portion of the population makes hating Apple into a hobby, and try to see everything they do in the worst possible light.

Some people are bored and having nothing better to do than complain about things that aren't worth complaining about.
Could you provide an example where maintainer "ripped out" a feature because of a strictly political reason?
This is strange, because through absorption meditation one can identify with anything. So one just identifies with eternal things. God, universe, and everything; solved.
Besides what Terretta wrote... why would we? This seems like such a hostile approach to releasing a protocol that I wouldn't want to support them financially.

Especially when our use cases are something like "make a home-made coffee bean counter last 90 days on battery power instead of 55".
You should know that this is an American phenomenon. Other countries have their issues but the police in the US are rather corrupt.
There is also land and capital, of course, but it is not very often that the landlords don't also want a raise when labor starts making more money. That is their living, after all. For all intents and purposes there is only labor.

Granted, you can often play political games with labor, such as only raising the wages of workers in the USA, while leaving the labor making the plastic trinkets in who knows what third-world country to continue to struggle. In that sense, it doesn't necessarily happen linearly. Not really achieving the goal of a "living" wage then, though.
> who wants to work somewhere with no services

Nobody wants to work there, yet lots of people work there since they need money.
And it's the employer who chooses the location.
Of course top talent does not need to work in a crappy company, but that's the theory.
Also empty space = less trafic.
And you can get food delivered. If you can afford it.

People are foreced to work in crappy open plan offices all the time.
I started mentoring college students several years ago. I’ve been stunned by some of their spending habits. Many of them are just not price sensitive at all, even when they should be.

Many will complain about how expensive fast food is, but then brag that they refuse to learn how to cook. Some will complain about how expensive fast food is, then talk about going to Five Guys or other expensive fast food places multiple times per week. It’s strange to hear someone complain about how they can’t afford their daily Starbucks any more, yet they continue getting it every single day.

I don’t know what happened. I didn’t go to college all that long ago, but even then it was rare to see someone drinking daily expensive coffees and fast food was more of a treat than a meal plan.

Now I hear college students complaining about how expensive their DoorDash was on a regular basis, which blows my mind as an adult who could afford DoorDash but avoids it because it’s so expensive.

It’s like supply and demand suddenly broke because a lot of people started downplaying the price factor into their decision making. I don’t know what it is. Maybe the way we’ve let people load up on $100K of loans at the beginning of adulthood and the payments are delayed until much later? I’ve witness multiple conversations where students wonder if they could get more student loans to help free up their budget to buy brand new cars or really nice apartments or even vacations. For some, it’s like a magic money faucet that unlocks whatever they want, and the consequences haven’t even begun to arrive yet because they haven’t graduated. I really worry about the downstream effects this has on perceptions about budgeting and how expensive things are. When you’ve just been given a $100K loan but haven’t received a bill yet, that $15 burger seems like nothing.
Connectomics
You can see the effects of the CME on the HF amateur radio bands.

This live map (https://g7vrd.co.uk/wspr/IO81) would usually be full of worldwide contacts being reported by WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter), but the solar flares have closed down the bands quite considerably.

The map is centred on Maidenhead grid square IO81, but you can change it to wherever you are: https://www.whatsmylocator.co.uk/

This will also cause problems with aircraft, as they use HF when they're out of sight of land.
The real magic is not putting all the cells in one place. It's distributing them over the land mass.

A single solar power station can be taken out by a cloudy day.

A million little solar power stations spread across an continent average together into an even power source that provides power for longer than daylight hours.
Boston's food prices are pretty nutty. I've been here for almost a month and a lot of things here are outrageously expensive. I'm not even talking about food that tourists are meant to eat, but just everyday basics. The funny thing too is that there's so many college kids here that the price of a mere burger seems like a low-level swindle to capitalize off the proliferation of student debt and gimmies from Late Boomer (Gen X) parents.
Mercedes Retreats to Gas Guzzlers as EVs Fail to Boost Profit
They say explicitly in the episode that that is not the search engine he used. But they do discuss Clearview extensively.
I had a back and forth on Reddit about how the rest of the world is capable of taking their breakfast or lunch to work and it exposed the degree to which many people are behaviorally addicted to fat and salt.

“I have a commute and no time to fry and egg or make a sandwich” but can wait 10-15m in a drive through twice a day.
Want to Understand Socrates and Sartre? Talk with Your Kid (2022)
I'm wondering what the effect would be if we had astronauts on the moon, or on the way to mars.
1) go to perplexity.ai

2) type in "Is the earth's magnetic field weakening?"

3) read the summary and click the sources if you don't believe it.

Read this about your CO2. The CO2 in our atmosphere is already at a concentration where the narrow band of wavelengths CO2 absorbs is fully saturated. This means more CO2 isn't going to cause more warming, because there is no more light in its opaque wavelengths to absorb. Also the pattern of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere vs surface temperature does not indicated that CO2 causes warming, but that CO2 levels rise after warming has already occurred. Policy around CO2 is hindering human progress and has caused massive economic damage. The models were all wrong, and this paper explains the reason.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266649682...
The OO paradigm is much more fundamental and natural to the way we think of and model Domain Concepts/Objects. I remember studying fundamental techniques like CRC(Classes/Responsibilities/Collaborations), Commonality/Variability Analysis, Rumbaugh's OMT etc. and thinking how natural it felt to model domain concepts directly in code. People seem to have forgotten all that and only focus on fads/acronyms like Patterns/SOLID etc. without really understanding how they came about and what their nuances are. The result is that people don't think through their analysis/design but merely follow a cookie-cutter approach popularized by some self-aggrandizing author and when things fail blame the OO approach.