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What if we gave the moon a sulfur hexafluoride atmosphere?
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Before anyone gets the wild idea to use this, beware HTAs, VBScript, etc. are slated for removal from Windows around 2027.
I don't entirely get why this is even a decision.

You have a capsule that failed on its first crewed flight and is built by a company plagued by technical mismanagement with multiple high-profile failures over years. On the other hand, you have a capsule that has flown 10 times with crew and another 10 without to the ISS with its predecessor flying 23 times.

It's not even a question. Do the math on the fall-out of the capsule failing and having to retrain 2 new astronauts. It's entirely incalculable and immoral to put them back on that capsule.

I am not a fan of Elon as a person anymore but this is exactly why reusable rockets and cheaper space travel is good. Spend the money, get them home safe, cut off Boeing.
Oh right I always get thrown off on .NET vs c# versions.
I'm sure they aren't exactly angry that they are stuck there, but, they were planning on a 9-day tour.

They are missing spouses, birthdays, weddings, they will miss thanksgiving and christmas with their families.

I'm sure it's great to be there and they are lucky to be there, but, it must also suck to miss out, especially unexpectedly and when you have no real choice in the matter.
This is much nicer in functional languages that have tuples. Then an array of tuples (if normalized or flattened) is both stored efficiently and ready for vectorization. You really don't want to model mathematical objects like vectors as mutable, heap-allocated objects. OO isn't the right fit here.
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Sir, I appreciate your insight. I'm currently installing Gentoo on my smart toaster.
The worst part of this is, say you have no intent to make rehabilitating the color yellow your life goal, but you see it as the morally right thing to do.

Not doing so is thus morally evil.
Upper management yes but level for level engineers are paid more than biz roles at most other tech companies, FAANG. The only other people who possibly make more is sales (performance based)
.com domains get blocked too. Any security based on the assumption that a site is good or bad based solely on the tld is a complete failure.
aerc is really weird in the sense of being designed as a client, not storing the mails on your computer. Which has some performance implications and limitations. Though you can have local mail too, really felt like a second-class feature when I looked. But to be fair it has been a long time since I looked at it.

Given the above I'm really surprised that IMAP doesn't work better than it does. Often gets disconnected and I have to restart to get back to it.

Also have trouble with shortcut overlapping in neovim and aerc.

All in all, not super happy. I could maybe give it a second chance and see what I've missed in my setup, but currently more hopeful about neomutt.
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I have sometimes bought something via advertisement that I wouldn't have known existed without. As such I'm glad those advertisements exist because my life is better for those things.

Most advertisements are for junk that makes your life worse if you buy, but there are some that are useful.
Oh, Norwegians are quite moral. I think you're making the mistake of considering intention-driven behaviour to be somehow moral and effect-driven behaviour not.
Right. Again, not our problem. We aren't making money off of it, they are, from exploiting us and finding new ways to psychologically enhance their ways of advertisement to make boatloads of money. That's a solid 'No.' - Everything is a giant billboard already, tailored and catered directly to an algorithm based solely on how it knows me better than I know me; I want less of that. The excuse 'it's how we pay for this and that' doesn't have to be acceptable by all of us, and isn't. Eventually enough has to be enough, that time should be now.

I view content. It either exists and is delivered to me, or it doesn't. Either way, I'm blocking it, for my mental health. I see your viewpoint. But, I'm not a metric, I'm not a KPI, I'm not a cost per click, or a cost per view. I don't want my data saved, tracked, bought, sold, manipulated, interpolated, twisted, catered and sprinkled on top to deliver to the next guy. I'm a human being.

I get it, I entirely do, but that's my stance. I'm sticking with it.
This accounts for an extremely small part of your microplastic intake. The vast majority comes from air particles from tires, and then the rest from water due to washing synthetic fabrics.

Until you can figure out how to stop breathing and drinking, you have microplastics in your body. In fact there's no organisms left on Earth without microplastics in their body. Which is why everyone is making a fuss. If this does turn out to be a problem, we're kind of fucked.
> I find it kinda funny that they apparently consider themselves part of the Empire.

You should check the headlines in major German newspapers. /s
You can configure aerc to pass the email contents through an intermediate program depending on the MIME type. I believe it renders HTML through w3m by default or something like that. Of course it isn't full rendering with CSS and whatnot, but it is pretty good for most mails.
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>Your first comment - the one that started all this - was, as far as I can understand, arguing that this feature indicated that Google had the capabilities to do more advanced - understanding? processing? meaning analysis? - than it had done in the past. If I keep coming back to that, well, it's because it appears to be your main point. If it's not, please correct me.

Here is what I said. "It highlights how much Google analyses the content of its videos... It isn't that I didn't know Google had this ability...". My point was not that I learned about Google's capability from this feature or that this capability was new, it is that this calls attention to Google looking for meaning in the content of the video. A transcript does not call attention to Google looking for meaning regardless of how the transcripts are prepared.

>I mean, this is easy enough for you to check. Here's some videos about flour / flower - notice how the CCs correctly determine if the word is flour or flower with almost 100% accuracy.

Both those videos include the correct homophone in the title and description of the video. Choosing the correct one is not an indication of the system using the meaning of those words, it is pattern recognition. Every use of "flower" means the next usage is less likely to be "flour". The specificity of the example I used was important because it used both "flower" and "flour" in a way that can only be distinguished by the meaning of the words.

>Are you saying you specifically think that YT is analyzing meaning from this feature, or just some generic user? I think you are smart enough to know that it's not true, but perhaps my mom might not understand that CCs require infinitely more processing power and this feature is just a drop in the bucket. (If you really still don't think it's true, definitely go read more about how CCs are made!)

This feature is a glowing sign that Youtube as a company analyses the content of the videos for the meaning of what is said in those videos. You are too deep into the technical details trying to assign credit for what aspect of Youtube does the "understanding" or which "require[s] infinitely more processing power".

Think of this feature like receiving mail and you see one of the letters has already been opened. That could make you feel like your privacy was invaded in a way you wouldn't feel after receiving a postcard. And now we have spent several comments debating whether a torn envelope indicates whether anyone read the letter and whether a postcard is private.
Are you sure about that? Because there are some extreme examples, for instance some USB cables won't work at all for Android Auto. Then some USB cables I had music skipping, and with at least 1 cable the quality seemed much worse for Apple CarPlay than for the best one.
That is not a requirement for advertising. It is how it often works, but it need not be that way. How do we stop all the other side effects is the question. (I don't know the answer to this)
Outsourcing, or even part-time contracting, is a totally valid option. The main reason I want to invest in in-house customer service is that I see the role as more than just customer service, but also as a means to build community.

I think it is natural to see customer service in some industries as the kind of thing that gets tucked away into a call center or similar type of industrialized or factory-line like situation. However, I have seen the result when the customer service team is embedded within (or at least closely adjacent to) the development team.

Often these roles are more like "customer success" and they border on account management in many cases. They are part community building, part moderation, part customer training, part evangelism, part technical support.

So this wouldn't be a role in the vein of "answer X tickets in Y amount of time" but rather a much wider remit of ensuring overall community happiness by engaging in forums, answering questions and escalating technical problems, contributing to FAQs, etc.

My feeling is that trying to fill that kind of role with temporary workers, especially ones that are managed by some other company, would mostly defeat that purpose.
They're not breathing in compressed air at depth (which could then expand in their blood upon surfacing), just what they brought in from the surface.
Maybe. I grew up in the Southwest.

Ellison and Zuckerberg have very different values than I have.

Getting out of the Southwest and coming to the Midwest (school) and staying for a while before spending 18 years in Canada was a joy.

I found the people to be less religious, less racist, surprisingly in to locally sourced food and nature conservation.

I'm certainly not poor, but most wealthy people I know are, well, not really someone I would want to spend a lot of time with or emulate.
Not sure how I feel about this. As the author acknowledged at the end, the piano tuning maybe was "good enough" in the beginning that no one would really notice the difference. What, then, was the point that leads us to say this piano tuner is essential and should not be replaced by something that can get it tuned to the level it was at the start of this essay? Especially considering not many could afford that piano tuner's exorbitant Sunday rate. We shouldn't pretend ROI doesn't matter.

I want to agree with the thesis of the essay, but this anecdote didn't get me there.
It's fairly off-topic per the guidelines.
I hope they don't give up improving now that the political gain will not be there. I was in Zurich last year and I was jealous of them being able to swim in the river with clear water. I don't if in reality is a bit polluted but it looked really clean.
> wonder if the 2 astronauts will ever just 'call it'

The forcing function is Crew 9, currently scheduled to launch no earlier than 24 September [1]. If they don’t want to fly Starliner, the face saving move is to delay signing off until then.

[1] https://www.space.com/space-force-1st-guardian-from-own-laun...
I'd give up the rest of all of those holidays to be a human that lives any part of their lives in any part of space
Yes.

Host your own root DNS server for your tld, make it public and convince folk to use it.

Additional resources:

https://opennic.org/

https://wiki.opennic.org/opennic/creating_new_tlds
Yeah, I know. The dose makes the poison. Water is toxic if you drink enough of it.

The point is: without evidence that "the poison" is actually toxic, and certainly without evidence that it's more toxic than anything else you're regularly doing, then you're effectively just fretting. In the case of microplastics, we basically have neither. We have some weak lines of evidence of minor harm in other animals, and lots and lots of theories about what might happen.

Note that I didn't say "don't worry about it". I just said "don't be terrified".
Even better when said companies are (secretly) owned by said three leter agencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
Essentially 100% of it is functional! What you have here is a repetitive pattern of small simple protein domains, all connected together in a long "assembly line."

As this is a polyketide synthase (PKS), it is a long assembly line of "modules" that are like individual fatty acid synthase complexes, made from a bunch of small domains that each do a single chemical step as part of a massively complex many-step chemical synthesis.

So we're talking about a huge number of individual domains (140 of them) that each fold separately into a "blob" from this massive peptide, and then they have "linkers" which are not folded, but connect from one domain to the next, and are just long enough so they are each in the proper spot.
GenAI is designed to give you a median output. Amazing value for people on the left of the talent curve. Annoying for those on the right. Net result is the median shift right as people stop making garbage. In the short term. But in the long term, with the entry level on ramp devalued to zero, new entrants won’t do the hard work to practice and move themselves to the right half of skill.

So it raises the floor, but actually will entrench those who are the most talented writers, programmers, artists.
I enjoyed things like Boca Burgers and Quorn back in the day. It’s not clear to me that the new generation products are substantially better: there is like 20x the hype (the media just never wrote about those things 20 years ago) but at best 50% more self space for products in the store.

Ten years the product space in the store will be the same or maybe another 50% more but blessedly there won’t be so much hype and chatter. The VC-based “startup” model seems to be mismatched for this field, I mean there was no getting Quorn into Y Combinator but they got on shelves. This megafactory got built without any western VC or hype:

https://www.finc-sh.com/en/about.aspx#fincvideo

but you can get a pack of delicious straw mushrooms at the Chinese grocery store for about $2 in the US because they can grow mushrooms for six months with people only handling them with a forklift.
I didn't write it up at Esolang, someone else did. I wouldn't have rotated it 45 degrees.
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I think that the conflict here is that you are asking which term nobody9999 prefers to be used to describe a group of people similar to them on a certain set of axes, whereas it seems that nobody9999 would prefer that there not be such a word because they'd prefer not to be grouped on that set of axes at all.

On a personal level, this reminds me of my own struggle to identify with the term "agender". At best, it's not incorrect. But it describes an aspect of myself that feels irrelevant to whatever context it's brought up in, almost to the point of being a category error. I am currently wearing a black shirt. Does this make me a black-shirt-wearer? Well, yes, but this tells you nothing about who I am. Better to describe me on a relevant axis: I am an engineer. I try very hard to be kind to everybody no matter what I think of them. I am an optimist. I enjoy sour beers. All of these are more relevant than asking what gender I identify with, because the fact of the matter is, I don't.

Extrapolate that to the disagreement between you and nobody9999 if you find it useful; I may have misunderstood the debate or nobody9999's point entirely and make no claim to represent their views.
There's two directions that goes into. Highly specialized error codes with zero results on search engines, or overly generic errors with a billion results and underlying reasons.

Error design needs to be its own subject / specialization. Errors need to say what the problem is and how to fix it, in an ideal world, or what the user can do or should google to solve it.

And of course, any error code of any public software should be listed on a website or a locally accessible resource.
The article definitely elides that the words didn't become loaded on their own, but there were deliberate projects and fights to load words like "welfare" with baggage. While "differently abled" is the result of disability activists gaining new ground, many of the other renamings listed represent retreats from contested territory.
Sorry. I missed it. It was too clever for me!
So it's a linked list
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The first diagram in that article is incorrect/quite outdated. Modern computers have most PCIe lanes going directly into the CPU (IO Hub or "Uncore" area of the processor), not via a separate PCH like in the old days. That's an important development for both I/O throughput and latency.

Otherwise, great article, illustrating that it's queues all the way down!
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The TV adaptation of A Man In Full is out on Netflix now.

I first heard about the Stoic philosophy from that book.
One of the angles I find interesting when it comes to "quality" is the debate between Spotify and Apple Music. You'll see takes on Threads/Twitter like "I didn't realize just how much sound I was missing until I switched to lossless audio on Apple Music; Wow!" Its pedantic to point out: The audio quality you're hearing probably isn't better on Apple Music. I mean, the stream is definitely higher quality; AM delivers ALAC lossless audio for most music, while Spotify is still on 320kbps. But, you're listening to it through Airpods, which do not support a wireless, lossless codec. [1]

However: You did notice something different. I know you're using APs, because you noticed something different. What you noticed wasn't audio "quality" per se; you noticed the APs' faux-Atmos. Its a similar vein to saying that the vogue "TAYLOR SWIFT 9 DIMENSIONAL SURROUND AUDIO" [2] Youtube videos are "higher quality"; obviously Atmos, when its at its best, is packing more data from the master, more microphones, more streams. But, you're muxing all that data down to a lossy wireless codec, and then outputting it through two speakers. At best, what you're hearing is not necessarily higher quality, but is simply "more pleasing". And, when Apple Music delivers truly-fake-Atmos tracks, meaning the Atmos was synthesized and processed from original Stereo masters, which does happen quite frequently with older music on the platform, it might even be accurate to say that what you're hearing is actually worse quality; but it might still be more pleasing.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/118295

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpMsqFc7-Z4
>We already constantly have to change so that our language doesn't sound dated. It's doubly important if it also avoids insult.

>I have to wonder a bit about people who really don't want to stop using terms that have become insulting, but otherwise freely pick up new usages of words in other contexts. It seems to me like they just want to be insulting.

Natural evolution of language feels natural. You start hearing and using terms as you need them. The word "gamepad" was scarcely, if ever, used 50 years ago, some inventions came to be and people needed a term to refer to a specific object, so they naturally picked up the term.

Start a campaign today to demand people stop using the word "gamepad" and start using "funtroller" with the threat of moral condemnation and you will find the same resistance.
Let’s see, tofu, tempeh, seitan have been around a long time and are affordable and I think pretty tasty.
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Fixing the mistake yourself and then sending the code back is a positive example, since you're demonstrating the correct way rather than asking for a fix.

But in my experience, if you continue iterating from that point, there's still a risk that parts of the original broken code can leak back into the output again later on since the broken code is still in context.

Ymmv of course and it definitely depends a lot on the complexity of what you're doing.
I get it now. These will be lighter and cheaper than induction motors, due to containing a lot more plastic and a lot less metal and wire.

Nobody fixes fractional Watt induction motors. When a coil burns out (or whatever), it goes to the landfill (perhaps along with the whole appliance).
The octane shouldn’t matter. It was probably really old and broke down. The main advantage of the canned gasoline is that there’s no ethanol which is really bad for small engines. It attracts moisture and doesn’t burn evenly which is why canned fuel (or any non-ethanol fuel) is so much better.
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They used to call those “NPC:s”, but I believe that this term has fallen out of favor.
>What is there to learn from an "storage industry expert" or major vendors?

I mean, literally every problem they outlined.

>Compounding this latency, hard drive performance is also variable depending on the other transactions in the queue. Smaller requests that are scattered randomly on the media take longer to find and access than several large requests that are all next to each other. This random performance led to wildly inconsistent behavior. Early on, we knew that we needed to spread customers across many disks to achieve reasonable performance. This had a benefit, it dropped the peak outlier latency for the hottest workloads, but unfortunately it spread the inconsistent behavior out so that it impacted many customers.

Right - which we all knew about in the 90s, and NetApp more or less solved with WAFL.

>We made a small change to our software that staged new writes onto that SSD, allowing us to return completion back to your application, and then flushed the writes to the slower hard disk asynchronously.

So a write cache, which again every major vendor had from the beginning of time. NetApp used NVRam cards, EMC used dedicated UPSs to give their memory time to de-stage.

Etc. etc.

>network attached block level storage at AWS's scale hasn't been done before.

This is just patently false. It's not like EBS is one giant repository of storage. The "scale" they push individual instances to isn't anything unique. The fact they're deploying more pods in totality than any individual enterprise isn't really relevant beyond the fact they're getting even greater volume discounts from their suppliers. At some point whether I'm managing 100 of the same thing or 1,000 - if I've built proper automation my only additional overhead is replacing failed hardware.

Downvote away, watching HN think that re-inventing the wheel instead of asking someone who has been there already what the landmines are seems to be a common theme.