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Well sonic games are… weird. The actual experience of playing them blind is frankly very poor. You want to go fast but you’re constantly stopping because it’s too difficult to play smoothly without prior knowledge of the level. The levels aren’t designed to be particularly challenging to complete; they’re designed to be challenging to master and complete “quickly”.

Most of what we think of for evaluating levels is from the ethos of mario. Which is probably the right call as most people don’t want to play platformers levels multiple times.
Relevant:

Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects:

-- https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/int...
So a drug to counteract the effects of the drug to counteract the effects of a poisonous calory-provisioning industry. Perfect!
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it was a soft use of the word 'exactly' meaning 'do what I intended you to do'.
I personally would prefer if NASA handled this internally rather than trotting out an individual to chastise for no benefit to anyone. Accountability on an org? Absolutely. Just don't scapegoat someone when organizational or process incompetence is actually to blame.

Meanwhile, boeing is a publicly traded company with what amounts to a monopoly on many, many, many contracts. What was the point of defeating communism if we just give handouts to non-competitive and highly unproductive organizations who can't even hold themselves accountable? And the people who come out of the woodwork to defend them are even more confusing. Don't you want to avoid burning tax money and calling it progress? If they wanted to be seen as a public good they would have voluntarily given up on profits decades ago instead of trying to come off as parasites.
Thanks for sharing. I agree it is pretty depressing for any engineer that worths its salt. That's probably the reason many others quitted BA.
> I might enjoy having written a book

It's cheap and short-lived satisfaction. Any seasoned author is not going to feel good if they haven't been working at something new for awhile. We might project that it would make us feel good in terms of projecting an identity (for validation), but the rules are different when operating under imagination which necessarily suggests a divergence from the current reality, where you might not get much validation either from yourself or others (because you don't do anything)
I would give them 30% tops and that's like the final negotiation step "take it or leave it" kind of thing.

Also for the love of God give him a 1 year cliff, 4 year vesting schedule. DO NOT just cut him equity.

Other comments here also properly note, you may not even need a cofounder. Just hire a commission based sales dude. That sounds much better.
Even plasma 5 and 6 are pretty legible. At least, much more so than Gnome-land. The UI is dense, there's lines and separators, buttons are outlined.
The IEEE consensus process has some good ideas on how to achieve "rough consensus" even in the face of persistent objections: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7282 . Some takeaways

- Lack of disagreement is more important than agreement.

- Rough consensus is achieved when all issues are addressed, but not necessarily accommodated.

- It's not a vote - one strong, well-reasoned objection carries more weight that dozens of "yeah looks good to me"s and vice versa.

I think it's important to not label concerns as "bikeshedding" at first. Or to label someone as a "bikeshedder" a priori. That's a shortcut to critical thinking and good way to shut down communication. All concerns should be heard, initially at least.

But not every concern should carry the same weight. Dealing with someone who repeatedly brings up the same minor concerns is exhausting. This requires a decision maker who can politely move the debate forward saying "We've noted your concern but we're not addressing it here ..." The group acknowledges the issue, the person raising the issue gets "I told you so" rights, but it's explicitly de-prioritized - no insults required.
What, in your view, are the "very serious long term side effects" of semaglutide/GLP-1 agonists?
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monads in no way are a representation of state tho
I always thought the information density advantage of ternary disappeared once you put it in the real world:

- harder to discriminate values as you pack more in the same dynamic range

- more susceptible to noise

- requires lower clock rates for (wired) transmission

- requires more complex protocols for (wireless) transmission

- representing 0 or 1 as switched states uses "no" power, but getting a switch to be "halfway on" uses a lot of power
Hope this encourages some miniscule semblance of climate control in some of these sweltering stations
F# is not particularly practical as far as jobs go, but it benefits from the large C# ecosystem.

I'm primarily a C# dev, but after dabbling in some F#, I concluded that most of the niceties in F# could also be done (to some extent and with some limitations) on C# as they have the same compile targets.
I would think there wouldn't be much of a difference because the smallest unit you can really work with on modern computers is the byte. And whether you use 8 bits to encode a byte (with 256 possible values) or 5 trits (with 243 possible values), shouldn't really matter?
"Food insecurity is an official term from the USDA. It's when people don't have enough to eat and don't know where their next meal will come from."

How is this a drastic departure?

Also, some of the earliest research into food insecurity was done in 1798, and the phrasing came out of the aftermath of WWII. So, neither is it new.

https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/20864
Yes. The ARM Chromebooks suffer from long term support issues just like phones. Qualcomm and the other chip vendors will only support a given chip for a few years, and then that's it.

For x86-64, the peripherals are mostly standard, with the sometimes exception of suspend / resume support. So a regular Linux distro will often just work with little tweaking required.
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Why? It's the norm in pretty much every country when it comes to making decisions at the national level. If secret voting is not ensured and there's a standard way to verify anybody's vote with 100% certainty, there will be employers firing people for voting for a particular candidate, there will be discounts/freebies for people who voted for a particular candidate, there will be violence and ostracism, celebrities and company executives will be harassed to justify their voting decisions, and all of this WILL pressure everyone's voting decisions (or the decision to not vote, to try to avoid being politicized), so it's not just a problem for the tax institution or police, it becomes a problem of elections fundamentally no longer being free or fair. For this reason we have the secret ballot, and documented election processes to ensure they can overall be trusted despite individual votes being kept secret.

"they can write any confirmation code they want on a ballot and take a photo proof"

Apart from the fact some jurisdictions (such as UK) will discard your vote for writing codes on the ballot, there are a million ways to photoshop or fake a ballot selfie some other way, there's no standard way to be 100% certain how anybody voted.
I looked at it and dismissed it as too hacky for production. I don't remember the real reason why. I would have to look through my notes. The main question is whether the RP2350 will change that. As in it actually possible to do bug free without weird hacks.
New macOS Sequoia permission prompts: a subscription you can't cancel
RIP, Jake. The world is lesser without you.
Note though the reduction didn't come from anything getting in fact more efficient, but from "two companies donated materials and installation" - probably to quell the bad press. And it looks like $1.7m is still going to get spent, just maybe on two toilets instead of one.
Sure, nepotism and corruption also exist. Sometimes hiring managers just get it wrong, and there is nothing nefarious afoot. There are of course also "diverse" people that get unfairly overlooked because racism, but underqualified diversity hires still exist.

Multiple things can simultaneously be true.
Going for shock value (which leads to more media exposure) over peaceful protesting is new, you can’t ignore that. It is in fact the most valid point of this clearly conservative-biased article. Before, you were looking for people to sympathize with your plea and behave nicely as a consequence, today it’s all about getting more clicks and eyeballs and feeding outrage.
The Just Stop Oil protests are modeled on the protests of British suffragettes. They also started as nuisances, and when that didn't work, proceeded to real violence: bombs, acid attacks, riots.

The movement was deeply divided about whether that did more good than harm. And there's really no way to know. But it's nonetheless true that women had been campaigning for decades, and got success not long after the violence started.

Violence is the worst tool in the protest toolbox. Especially since it is available to everyone, regardless of the merits of their cause, and in fact the worst causes are the first to use it. But it comes as no surprise that even the best causes eventually reach for that tool when every other one has failed.
The metric they use for "efficiency" seems rather arbitrary and looks like a theoretical mathematicians toy idea. Unfortunately real computers have to be constructed from real physical devices, which have their own measures of efficiency. These don't match.
How did you land that part time gig?
He was infamous for procrastinating.
If their sex linked genetics gives them an advantage over women but not men, why should they be restricted from competing against men? That seems unnecessary and cruel.
And obviously, if you expect workers to find a collective solution to their problems then you should also expect parents to find a collective solution to their problems.
Not sure on leading to universal healthcare, but it will absolutely impact healthcare. The obvious ones like less heart disease are huge. Then others like fewer knee replacements, and fewer CPAP machines required, the list goes on.

GLP1s have also shown to help with drug and alcohol cravings so there's an entire other area to explore.

I could see where the government simply makes them available to most people.
i never understood this affinity with paid boilerplates. i mean, the information to get started are there, for free!

the argument is that it saves time. i counter that it takes more time to fix things when issues arise or when you're trying to make it fit more complex use cases.
How do you figure? They're an abstract concept commonly used to represent values over a sequence of operations. How does that not describe state? Do you mean something very specific with the term "state" that might make it more meaningful?
Psst, someone tell the poor kiddo about save states in emulators.

Practice the hard parts as much as you want.

It makes playing/experiencing all the ultrahard games a lot easier. Of course a lot of diehards hate that, but ultimately keeping old games relevant involves making them accessible and the save states help with that quite a lot.

Ditto with faqs and maps and cheats. What is nice about the old games is that you can direct-hack the roms and memory spaces a lot more easily than modern games, so it is an early entry into computer architecture and education within the context of games.
Remember *69? You'd get the phone number of the person who just called you? (Theoretically - it didn't always work.)

How in the hell do we not have a trivial "report a scam" option on phone calls and text messages? Which reports it to the FTC or FBI or something?
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Handland (Multiplayer Rock, Paper, Scissors with AI)
Isn't high speed signalling full of examples for multi level (as in, more-than-two level) signals? PCI-E's gen 6 and the various wireless standards come to mind.
This one is more to the point I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_radix_choice
Why do big digital projects in the public sector fail?
What about Metal Gear Solid? Ocarina of Time? Chrono Trigger? Crash Team Racing? Kirby Super Star? I'm not gonna say any of these games are flawless, but I do think there are at least some SNES/PS1/N64 games that are eminently playable even without nostalgia goggles.
Buying the stuff from the drug manufacturers is crazy expensive. Over $1000 a month. Going through a compounding phramacy is much cheaper, I pay around $249/month for my script.

You can go even cheaper and buy the peptide yourself from places like peptide sciences and compound it yourself, less than $100 for a 3 months supply, but you increase your risk profile pretty significantly going that route. My partner is a pharmacist and that type of mixing (assuming you do everything correctly) is considered acceptable for "immediate emergency use", not mix up and use for a month or three and keep it in the fridge in the meantime. It's a small risk to be sure, but non-sterile compounding at home is riskier than having a compounding pharmacy do it the right way.
I would add ultra-processed foods to this as well.

I firmly believe that, decades from now, we will look back in horror at what food manufacturers have done to us.
You choose your circles and can be selective about who you let in. I've met plenty of adults some 50+ who reason worse than many 15 year olds.

I've seen this escalate in media for many years, where loud childish points are celebrated. One current example is how republicans are "weird", and repeated by everyone for the last week, and a talking point even in international media (I'm not from the US). That's the story I'm told about US elections, that democrats think republicans are weird.

And everything that catches our attention will be repeated since they see it working and this destructive cycle continues. The idiocracy is here.
> The current densest NAND uses 16 different positive voltage states to encode 4 bits per cell.

Wait, what?! I did not know this. Is there a link where I can learn more?
You can make a single file executable that does not require any dependencies with just the following. No runtime is required on the host, which I assume you allude to as lacking necessary package in the official feed might cause issues if it's required (and given it's present in everything that is not Debian, it is a Debian issue and something Debian must address).

JIT: dotnet publish -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:PublishTrimmed=true

AOT: dotnet publish -p:PublishAot=true -p:OptimizationPreference=Speed*

Use -o to specify destination.

By default targets the host's OS RID, but can be overriden with e.g. `-r linux-musl-arm64`. Cross-architecture compilation is supported within OS, and there is a nuget package that switches the publish to Zig toolchain to allow publishing for Linux under Windows without relying on WSL2: https://www.nuget.org/packages/PublishAotCross This only concerns AOT as .NET uses the same linker to produce the final binary as your regular C/C++ code. It is a true native executable through and through that is understood by all standard tooling like native code profilers. For JIT binaries, anything that .NET supports can be published for under any other OS and ISA.

* my recommendation as the size impact is negligible but codegen quality in edge cases improves quite a bit. Other flags that may be useful are -p:IlcInstructionSet=x86-x64-v3 (AVX2 and friends) and -p:IlcFoldIdenticalMethodBodies=true (it's disabled by default because it can mess up stack traces, naturally, in .NET 9, disabling stack trace information enables it as well).
On the ground people need to build a jettison rig that they can install inside the Starliner, launch that rig with SpaceX up to the ISS, install the rig, jettison the Starliner, and finally come home with the SpaceX module. Any other way is certain death and the Russians won't help them.
I can't remember where I read this, but it's always stuck with me:

"Healthy is merely the slowest form of dying"
AI-powered docking system
> One of them responds, “I’m not sure”.

In practice this answer is hardly different from saying Yes, since it's understood that the person saying Yes is just speaking for themselves and the waiter will wait for the other person to confirm.
Voltages are always measure relative to each other. In ops example -3V to +3V has 6V difference just as 0V to 6V does and the arcing is the same.

Op didn’t specify any particular voltage but you should get the example. You need more voltage between the highest and lower states to differentiate the signals compared to binary. It can work well but only in circuits where there’s already very low leakage (flash mentioned as another reply is a great example).
Another comment suggest that NAND chips use 8 different voltages / states to encode 3 bits just in voltage states.
Something more like Better than Ezra is my guess.
Do you speak a tonal language?

Vietnamese is one example. Having tones attached to syllables means that words and sentences are shorter. In fact, the grammar is very logical and efficient compared to baroque European ones, especially of the slavic/baltic flavour.

But. The same mechanism in Indo-European languages is used for intonation. we express sarcasm, irony, etc this way be essentially using a single sentence tone.

I have some good Vietnamese friends explaining how hard it is for them to use (and hear) a sentence-wide tone. So, say, some of the fluently speaking Russian Vietnamese always sound like they are sarcastic.

Otoh, I always had problems ordering rice with pork in hanoi...
Yes, it's a complex self-reinforcing system.

But blaming the consequences on the capacity of random people to decide for themselves is a completely wicked and wrong conclusion to take from it.
They site this Ars Technica article: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-likely-to-signifi...

> Three separate, well-placed sources have confirmed to Ars that the current flight software on board Starliner cannot perform an automated undocking from the space station and entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

The reasons why the current software can't perform this operation when it could during ground testing are supposition though, and it seems Jolopnik ran with that a little bit.
As mentioned by another comment, NAND has multiple voltage levels.

- Single-level cell (SLC) flash: One bit per cell, two possible voltage states
- Multi-level cell (MLC) flash: Two bits per cell, four possible voltage states
- Triple-level cell (TLC) flash: Three bits per cell, eight possible voltage states
- Quad-level cell (QLC) flash: Four bits per cell, 16 possible voltage states
> Tonal languages allows individuals to express way more than Latin based languages.

Not true. There was a study that showed that information density is pretty consistent across all languages, regardless of the average number of phonemes used in that language or the strategies that are employed to encode structural information like syntax. I can only assume you are refering to the density with your statement based on the subject matter in that article as well as the fact that, given enough time and words, any language can represent anything any other language can represent.

I apologise if my terms are not exact, it's been years since I've studied linguistics. In addition, since I'm not going to dig up a reference to that paper, my claim here is just heresay. However the finding lines up with a pretty much all linguistic theory I learned regarding language acquisition and production as well as theory on how language production and cognition are linked so I was confident in the paper's findings even though a lot of the theory went over my head.
Free speech for me and not for thee
Haskell is far from being an academic language. It’s used in industry and has very practical features and libraries.

Same as F#, OCaml, etc.
There is no ethical consumption while living a capitalist way of life.
"Winning the space race" is a rather woolly concept and depends on your definitions. Although NASA did land astronauts on the moon, the Soviets had firsts in most of the main areas relevant today (first satellite, first astronaut, first space station, first landing on another planet, etc etc.).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Space_Race
Every day I fear becoming the Dad from this Onion article.

https://www.theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-...
Has there ever been any real hardware that was ternary based?
Fix your video game's timestep
Not agreeing with the parent post, but the different domains in modern electronics only work because they're (nominally) isolated except for level crossing circuits.
Common Lisp does, but then again, only druids care about its existence and the tales of strange machines, powerful graphics workstations, that used to be fully written in languages full of parenthesis.

To the point people don't realize notebooks are how those machines REPLs used to work.
RIP, his later articles really echoed some of my personal experiences. Thanks Jake for taking the time to write what many others couldn't.

Spend time with your loved ones.
> Vietnamese is one example. Having tones attached to syllables means that words and sentences are shorter.

This does not entail that more can be expressed than other languages. Please see my other reply which goes into (admittedly only slightly) more detail.
At least Fortran 2023 is much better than raw Python with CPython.
Oh, I thought this was deliberate. I liked it!
> who here doesn't think they'll be bailed out

One can hope that, if they're "bailed out," that it comes with mandates for quality control that, if violated, result in a corporate death penalty and temporary nationalization.
Sort of? Gene therapy is a permanent fix where as GLP-1 agonist compounds are needed perpetually for maintenance.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/dd4f2296-2186-45d6-b42a-10966b4...
SAP does nothing out of the box, except maybe some parts may fall off and you'll find them under the couch later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_cell
Really glad to see native support for this being worked on, however in its current state it's unusable for me and I'll continue using Sideberry. I constantly use tab grouping and I want to see at a glance what the tab is about, so having text title be visible is a must - having just favicons won't cut it when I have 20 GitHub and 10 StackOverflow links open.

UPD: I saw that there's a way to enable text titles - that's much better. Still, without grouping it would be too painful to use for me.
Human babies are fragile because of physical limits on gestation time.

Lots of mammals stand up and start doing things literal moments after they are birthed.
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