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> How could someone use vim without using R?

I press I, I add my commit message, then I press :wq and I'm done.
> That latency is experienced everywhere too.

Don't confuse latency and bandwidth though. Most of those messages are relatively small, so they don't contribute to (network) latency almost at all. Plus gzip exists, further reducing the amount of data transmitted, thus both reducing latency and improving bandwidth utilisation.

Also usually when it comes to cases where text would be actually a bottleneck (e.g. images, videos, audio, etc), binary formats are preferred and work very well, and generally you can tolerate e.g. images or audio being slightly broken, so you don't need to debug those formats too frequently. It's a nightmare do debug them though.
The part about Final Fantasy XIV is outdated.

> There’s far more demand for housing plots in FFXIV than there is available land, and no formal market that allows land or houses to be bought or sold. Instead, when a plot is relinquished, a hidden timer starts counting down. At a random moment over the next 24 hours, the plot will silently become available for sale for a fixed price, and the first person to make an offer gets it.

It's a lottery system now. Also, the game is not as crowded as it was during the pandemic times so I'm starting to see plenty of empty plots on my EU server. If you spent too much time away from it it gets demolished and put up to sale again. The subscription is the tax.
Well, the fungi "breaks down plastic", which means that it converts it into other types of molecules. Just plants use C02 + H20 + sunlight in photosynthesis to convert it into O2 + glucose.

If we could break down the molecules ourselves we would have done it already, but it's not easy to do that. That is why we benefit from these natural occurring organisms that break them down and leave a more useful byproduct (to us). Although nano technology can eventually give us the ability to do this in a controlled way.
More conspiracy theories. The driver assist disengaging had nothing to do with a ploy by Tesla to shift responsibility. A driver taking control of the car 0.1s before impact is a result of inattentive driving.

Like I said in the other comment:

There is absolutely no other company in the world where a predictable and disclosed shortcoming of the driver assist combined with the failure of the driver to fulfill their responsibility to be in control, would be blamed on the driver assist program.

Both Musk and Tesla are far from perfect, but the lengths that people go to to attack them is obviously agenda-driven and a result of emotions
Using drones to move cement bags up a mountain
It won't save as much as you might expect, though, because the insurance provider also knows that the people opting out of the scheme would have (on average) cost the provider less to provide healthcare for.
Obviously Big Kotlin is suppressing the news.
I've found even the cheap stuff to be long-lasting if you disassemble it before moving it. Carrying or pushing shelves in a way that turns them into a parallelogram is what damages them.
Yup. I used to think I was a massive YIMBY, right up until learnt about plans to build student housing on a park and playground where I played with my kids every day. Rational me could make lots of arguments about why the city needs more student housing (big university town, with too little student housing) and why that would be a perfect place to build student housing (very close to one of the main campuses and existing student housing). Actual me didn't care about any of those arguments, and strongly opposed the plans. Nothing to do with property values, I just selfishly wanted a nice park and playground within walking distance of my apartment. Turns out I wasn't a YIMBY after all, just massive hypocrite and a YIYBY (Yes In Your Back Yard).
I had no idea so many Hacker News commenters were rocket scientists.
I might be totally wrong, but it feels like reimplementing all of vim is not easier that mapping neovim stuff to zed stuff. The author says they would lose it if they embed neovim, but I'm not yet convinced.
Run benchmarks. It doesn’t matter what I think is easier to parse.

Protobuff is slower than JSON.parse in node by 4-8x for my data sets: large reference data needed.

I was only measuring decode time, since that’s I can recompute my data well in advance.
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I would be curious to see this learning curve without all the subsidies that renewables received. These are impossible comparisons as the magnitude of hype and wishful thinking around these technologies is incomparable.
>the credit system seems as reasonable as any.

It's fraud, pure and simple. I don't know how such a broken system could be "reasonable" for anything. But hey, at least polluters can lie to their customers and claim "their greenhouse emissions have been offset", so I guess capitalistically, it makes sense.
They would benefit from exposing big western coorporations. By dragging them down, they go relatively up.
I'd just like to point out to the vim curios Emacs users lurking in here (hi guys, you will succumb eventually) that he doesn't mean the R programming language.

Definitely nobody uses that, true. And we aren't going to make you when you decide to switch over, it isn't like a prerequisite to use the editor.

Nor is some weird shitty lisp from the 80s. There was an abomination called Vimscript until Neovim decided to murder it. Praise be.

It is now scriptable with Lua, Python, Ruby, JS if you're a satanist (who am I kidding, you probably are), whatever you want.

So honestly you're running out of excuses at this point. ;)

P.S. - Since a vim-mode will always only support the subset of Vim the authors care about it is rather pointless. Also, Neovim has a robust ecosystem of plugins this Zed thing is leaving behind. There is no escape no matter how hard novelty editors will try to fix what isn't broken.

There can be only one! /Sean Connery accent
I was walking North through the back streets of the City just a few days ago - from London Bridge to London Wall. It's amazing that so much of my route - zigzagging left and right through various junctions and down alleys - is clearly visible on an 800 year old map. I suspect none of the buildings are the same, but the roads are still there.
Google, what's a Dutch roll?

https://www.boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly/aerodynamics/dutch-r...

> Dutch roll is a series of out-of-phase turns, when the aircraft rolls in one direction and yaws in the other. Its name comes from the motion of a classic Dutch skating technique.

It even has diagrams.
Yes, in a museum's deep vault somewhere, since it's one of a kind.
Some very interesting variations. I love the Gate's Law variant.

Surely Parkinson's Law [0] - the work expands to fit the resources
available - is behind it all (something that Gall mentions in
Systemantics [1]). What I like to do is combine suckless [2] code with
modern processors. An Orange Pi Rockchip running something like
Fluxbox WM massively outperforms a i9 or AMD Ryzen struggling with
Windows. Everything is just instant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

[2] https://suckless.org/
Bear in mind that the underlying protocol used to request hot swap on Java is a lot more expressive than the standard HotSpot implementation is. If you use the Jetbrains Runtime (a fork of OpenJDK) or the GraalVM "Espresso" VM (a.k.a. Java on Truffle) then you can do way more hotswapping than you'd be able to normally.

Espresso goes further and doesn't only allow hot swapping but lets you write plugins that react to hot swaps of code:

https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/java-on-truf...

If you use the Micronaut web framework then it will selectively re-initialize your app in response to hot swaps that need it. Pretty advanced stuff.
Do you have any other genius ideas on how to deal with an exponentially growing waste product that doesn't seem to easily break down naturally and gets shredded into smaller pieces eventually ending up in the environment as micro particles and get into our food and bodies and affect our and our environment's health?
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isn't China producing more electricity with solar than all other countries combined (with solar)?
> Make a special library that can be called from the language and which only works with Excel

There are plenty of those libraries without the "only works with Excel" part, if you mean to have Excel running on the machine. As a Python example, a customer of mine is using XlsxWriter and openpyxl for .xlsx files, xlrd for .xls plus python-docx for dealing with docx files.

I don't remember why the two modules for xlsx files and not just one. My customer runs that software on Linux inside a Django app. I expect that Microsoft is interested only in Excel on Windows and in running Python inside Excel. What I expected was a VBA editor for Python and maybe a library for Windows to access Excel objects from a Python script in a cmd or powershell prompt.
The one and only interest of the for-profit company is earning money for shareholders. And Musk did earn a lot of money for them since the deal was signed. The tools do not matter as long as they are legal.
They have terrible rear visibility because modern crash standards (and the laws of physics) require that. 80s cars had much better rear visibility, but the roofs would easily flatten and those cars were generally deathtraps for any kind of crash. Modern cars handle crashes much better with stronger roof pillars and a high "beltline" (the line between the metal parts of the doors and the windows) and side-impact protection beams in the doors, but that comes at the cost of visibility.

Luckily, modern technology solves this, and more, if you get the backup camera (now legally required in US) and the rear blind-spot-detection radar. Visibility with those is much better than it was in the old days, as long as you know how to use them. However, they do all come at a cost, especially the blind-spot radars.
You make it sound as if the US is a paragon of workers rights. From what I can say it's pretty bad in the land of the free. Nowhere near the civilised world at least.
Descriptive titles have their place, but so do titles that arouse curiousity and need you to read TFA.
I personally had good experience with a ZMA supplement for exactly the problem you described (not a severe though). More vivid dreams also.
> The entire EU emits around the same as India alone.

Well, but India is a huge country. It has 3 times the population of the EU.

Which means that pro-capita the EU is emitting 3x more than India.
I described this system word for word 2 years ago, glad to see it come to fruition on the only software stack integrated enough to do it.

https://fleetwood.dev/posts/a-case-for-client-side-machine-l...
> With only a third of India's population.

Therein lies the rub.

The current reality is that US and EU per capita emissions are rather flat ATM whereas those of India and China are on the rise.

There is work to do all about, the EU and US could certainly come down per capita (but by how much) and India and China ideally should be capped (but by whom and how) at less per capita than the EU|US currently .. ideally new technology will achieve that while allowing "modern" expectations of consumption.

The future reality is even should that all come to pass we're still looking at a global net increase in emmissions when ideally we very much want a global reduction.

However we as humans in the world get there it's hardly useful to foster international bickering when we all stand to gain through cooperation.
That proverb is totally out of place here.

One can use paper and pen to write or draw something disturbing and distribute it through the internet. Should we censor the internet then? Put something on scanners and cameras so it donesn't capture such material?

Why don't we work to put a microchip on people's brains so they are prevented to use their creativity to write something disturbing?

We all want a safe society right? Sounds like a great idea.
That's called incremental compilation and is fully supported by languages like Java or Kotlin. The JVM also supports this, being able to recompile methods on the fly whilst the program runs. And the IDE plugins for these types of languages are actually "presentation compilers". They do all the work of compiling and type checking, except for code emission, and they run fast enough to run continuously in the background on every keystroke.
Really? China's co2 emission per capita is half of the US.
Not only would it be life changing for most of their employees, but consider how much the executives are making (https://www1.salary.com/WALMART-INC-Executive-Salaries.html)

How much do you think Suresh Kumar's life would change if he made 10 million next year instead of 14.5 million? Do you think he would have to stop buying the groceries he usually does, or that he would have to cancel a vacation? It wouldn't change his life at all. Same for the rest of the people in that list. Every one of them could take just a little less and increase pay for the people who actually do the majority of the work necessary for the company to function and be profitable and it would make no impact on the day to day lives of those executives. Absolutely nothing life changing.
It can be done, but at a high cost. None of those cars you listed are inexpensive by any means.

By contrast, budget-friendly Japanese cars don't have options like this; you get maybe 3 option packages to choose from and that's it. Manufacturing is much simpler and gets better economies of scale when everyone gets the same thing.
Although I agree that this is not a great sight for IKEA, they did not demand that this wood be cut and put on the market for them. They probably sourced it because it was cheap. But the wood had already been cut by that time.

Unfortunately, I would see this purely as Romania's unwillingness or inability to address the issues leading to the illegal cutting of wood. Possibly the usual suspects of corruption, a lack of will to act, and a lack of "resources".
No, I really won't. This is a well known issue in my area. Considering that I haven't said where I live, you shouldn't make assumptions.
Gloom and doom seems to be the sentiment of the day (I feel it, too. I fear a relapse into authoritarian, racist isolationism and protectionism. It makes me depressed.) but with regards to quality of life all available numbers point in a different direction. Granted, the most up-to-date dataset [1] does not draw a simple graph, but it shows a pretty promising development across twelve areas. Combined it looks pretty good to me. Which metrics do you refer to?

Compared to other nations the situation gets even more confusing. The OECD Better Life index [2] places Germany consistently above average. The index is compiled from available data and surveys conducted in the corresponding country. So Germans feel everything is doomed but when asked they rank themselves in most metrics concerning quality of life above average. That does not make sense and I doubt the numbers are wrong. So why are Germans so gloomy? Is it the Mittelschicht-Problem? That's a serious question, because I don't know and it is important.

[1] https://www.gut-leben-in-deutschland.de
[2] https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/de/countries/germany-de/
The term i like to use lately is: faf - Fake As F*ck.
> Notebooks allowed me to do a 2 week project in 2 hours.

So... your alternative framework was too enterprisey for your purposes?
And guess what, it's not the Greens to blame, but the party and lobbyist who set this big-oil friendly scheme up in 2015 and renewed it in early 2021.
Peak Merkel/Altmaier-era greenwashing enablement, the scaled down PV and Wind in favor for an extended transition period to be run on petrol and russian gas.
> What tradeoffs are you referring to here, exactly? C# (in the right hands) is more flexible than what you seem to be implying here, and the GP is likely in the small minority of experts that knows how to leverage it.

It's flexible, but if you want to write something that is GC-less, you're on your own. Most libraries (if they exist) don't care about allocation. Or performance.

I'm not talking HFT here, I'm talking about performance intensive games.
>but didn't really want to mess too much with a product that has stabilized over the past 30 years.

This describes the feeling of all major features added to the native app incumbents that built their foundations in the 90s: Office, Creative Cloud, etc

You really get the feeling the core dev teams of these apps have a poor understanding of their own foundations and even adding a button is an ordeal for them.
Done at "...another CEO-turned-MAGA ghoul". Snark-as-a-Service seems oxymoronic.
They get a 10% dilution, so you will probably see many lawsuits. Specially connected and within the institutional investors and funds, that changed their mind at the last minute. What made them change their mind at the last minute? Any promises of stakes on xAI?

Because Cathie Wood fund is a major shareholder, but has a stake on XAI, as she reluctantly admitted on CNBC.

From the case details below, even if it romanticizes a little bit the Tesla journey, while forgetting the more than 5 Billion in government subsidies, his companies received until 2015, is pretty clear there is no Corporate Governance at Tesla. At least not as you learn about when studying for a MBA :-)

The board and compensation committee are is long time friends, his accountant, his brother and so on. If Tesla shareholders are willing to invest in the company, it's their money. Delaware law exists to enforce shareholders protection for all shareholders, so they can continue to choose it as an ideal location to incorporate a company.

This case also raises serious issues of what real companies governance means, and specially in public companies. Not only for Tesla but for many other companies. Explains why in general, CEO and Board Level compensation, continues to raise at a pace that obfuscates the raises of normal workers.

It's governance by checklist. By it's not much different from a CEO, who would decide to blow 100 million on a Las Vegas party using corporate funds, or hire his family, under the the threat of leaving the company, or tanking the share price. If shareholders vote for it...

https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=359340
As most things it is a balancing act. Children also need to socialize and learn to operate in a social setting independently from their parents. Day cares have an important role in this aspect in our nuclear family based societies. Confining children to be paired to their parents all the time is also not going to be good for their development.
It was to reduce knock which was solved with electronic fuel injection.
I did not choose this framing myself, I was responding to the paper which claimed that these jobs will be fully replaced by 2027.

And regarding your other point:

> both of which are arguably replaceable with LLMs today

Arguably, but they are not. That‘s my point.
Causing harm is illegal. Words are not magic.
As I mentioned, the manufacturers will need to spend money on R&D to develop alternatives. Right now the tire manufacturers don't have any incentive because there's no financial benefit.

Even though consumers don't have a choice when they buy tires today, other products have cleaner alternatives. If I was a manufacturer of tires and saw consumers consistently choosing cleaner products when possible, I would have an incentive to see if I could reduce the pollution, because I would gain market share. The first manufacturer would sell more tires and others would need to follow. Not enough consumers make this choice today to make up the cost of new technologies.
The NVDIA stock has had a huge AI-related run over the past year while Apple has barely moved.

This basically says that only a tiny bit of the AI will done on NVDIA hardware for the billions of Apple users.

The market is not pricing that in.
This thread shows to some extent why we are doomed. Half of the comments are focused on if we can blame China or not. While reading cursorily gives clear indication that all of the parties could have caught it and did nothing. Instead of trying to root out corruption near us, we are happy to blame other and do nothing.
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Bear in mind that in both Java and Kotlin you can statically import enum entries:

import foo.SomeEnum.MIDNIGHT

setThreadLevel(MIDNIGHT)

In practice, you write out ThreatLevel.MIDNIGHT, let the IDE import it for you, and then use an IDE hotkey to do the static import and eliminate the prefix.
Where are the useful economics papers to help the metaverse projects?
I dont want to nitpick here but a 'notebook' is a small book with blank or ruled pages for writing notes in.

All the greats carried one and I too carry one.
To quote from the judge's judgement:

https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=359340

> Musk controlled only 21.9% of Tesla’s voting power, so he lacked mathematical voting control...

> Defendants sought to prove otherwise, and they generally contend that the stockholder vote was fully informed because the most important facts about the Grant—the economic terms—were disclosed...

Basically, the shareholders voted on the grant while having a full understanding of the economic terms. It was awarded by musk, to musk, with approval of the shareholders and (supposedly overly friendly) board.

It really makes it sound like the judge might have been wrong based on the sequence of events we have now, which is:

1. The shareholders approve a stock grant on economic terms

2. A judge says "If the shareholders knew everything, they wouldn't have approved that"

3. The shareholders, now knowing everything, approve it again despite it having almost no benefit now

That really really makes it sound like the shareholders did in fact want to approve it in 1, and so the information they didn't know wasn't all that important, was it?

I know it's a different set of shareholders then and now, but still...
Sounds like The Onion title.
> For example, I can’t imagine working on any performance critical low-level code without a good sampling profiler.

I'm pretty happy with https://github.com/mstange/samply.

It worked out-of-the-box on Linx and MacOS, even on Windows after installing directly from the repo (recently added feature).
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The wax in wax paper is also a petroleum product.
In German, we have the word Schwuppdizität (perhaps "snappiness") to describe the perceived operating speed of a computer. Very important to distinguish from actual FLOP/s number or similar measures.
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I can't wait for the Australian border to patrol the oceans in order to block this new "microorganism that could pose a serious risk to their ecosystem and blah blah blah..."
LVT is not property tax.

By its intrinsic structure LVT discourages speculation.

Georgian proponents would say that this should not happen that pensioners are being driven out because land values don't rise as much because there is no land speculation, and they pay the LVT instead of rent, mortgage and/or property tax.

I personally am afraid LVT is unimplementable, as for why, see top comment (LVT being self-defeating): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40677483