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> Small powers are needed for things like meat or eggs, but very seldom for vegetables.

I understand why you would use low power for eggs, but meat? I always applied power in proportion to the product's water content, as it has high specific heat and absorbs microwaves readily. Meat is largely water so high power it is.
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because you wind up with your military and government being heavily dependent on a foreign power who may be hostile towards you
Customers always prefer fixed-price and it doesn't protect you from being treated like an employed or worse ...
Depends on the import tree. The way I understand it, this:

import { x } from '/a.js';
import { y } from '/b.js';

Does not take longer than this:

import { x } from '/a.js';

Because the message to the server "Give me b.js" goes out in the same network packet as "Give me a.js" and the data of b.js comes back in the same packet(s) as the data of a.js.
If you look up the pixel dimensions of the displays offered by even the best glasses or headsets, you’ll find that you get the equivalent of one modest screen at best. This includes the best of the Xreal glasses mentioned in a comment below. So I don’t think this kind of hardware will satisfy your needs.

I’m typing this on a Surface Pro 3 (running Linux), which has (is, really) a 12 inch screen with pixel dimensions of 2160x1440. It’s 10 years old; the display outclasses anything you can wear on your face.

I’m with you: I’d love to replace screens with this kind of technology. But it’s not there yet.
Given the neighboring thread where I just learned that the lexer runs before the preprocessor, I’m not sure that would be the outcome. There’s no reason to assume the comment terminator wouldn’t be ignored in strings. And even today, you can safely write printf(“hello // world\n”); without risking a compile error, right?
I was always extremely wary of clients that wanted a fixed price contract. It seemed the more they pushed for it the more hidden issues there were waiting to bite you.

Having said that sometimes it can work in your favour. I did one project for a pharmaceutical company where I just happened to have several pieces of knowledge that they needed and they were losing a lot of money waiting for a solution. The first thing they said to me when I walked in the door was "we are so glad you are here, we have been looking for a solution for ages and are losing a lot of money every day". Eight days work kept me going for the whole year.
Most companies should be banned from doing this.
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> Let it fail. Once hundreds of thousands of Americans are jobless due to executive mismanagement and shareholder greed, will actually meaningful and impactful policy be made.

There’s more at stake than money when it comes to companies like GM, Boeing, and Intel.

Wipe out existing shareholders and management and start over like GM in 2008, letting Intel die would be a gift to our adversaries.
Regarding the last point: maybe you're based in the US and you know some rich employees there, but I don't know a single one where I live. Consulting is very hard - for the reasons you mention, and others - but in some places it has a much higher ceiling than being an employee.
I believe the argument for privatization of services is that you can switch providers in a marketplace, that should provide efficient options. So you can switch payroll and billing systems from ado to new without laying off a whole division and software rewrites. However in practice it leads to vendor capture and more interface layers of project and program managers and auditors.
Yeap, that was the issue, thanks mate.
Probably just decades of quarterly thinking, deregulation, consolidation, extraction, socialized losses, and privatized wins arriving at their obvious and inevitable destination.
Having no kind of gatekeeping or moderation whatsoever before changes are published seems like a fantasy of another age. Nowadays, the wiki would be co-opted by some type of spam or malicious activity basically instantly.
By embracing adaptive interface models and leveraging individual-level prompting, we can make AI interactions more personalized and efficient, ultimately enhancing the user experience across various domains.

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Easiest way to get downvotes is to ask people not to give them. You just gotta ignore the haters.
> Please add a five minute demo video at the top of the Readme

Or you could just follow the link to the website where there is a fully functioning demo of the app?

https://signal.vercel.app/
In the last few weeks I’ve noticed there’s been an influx of engineers moving from X/Twitter to BlueSky. If you’re looking for early Twitter vibes, https://bsky.app is where it’s at.
> lots of this trust has already been lost when google started pulling highly used services like rss!

The people making decisions in businesses who use Google Workspace, as a category, literally do not care at all about what Google did to Google Reader and most other end user project that Google shut down. They only care about stuff that is critical to their business and how reliable Google is in that regard.

> And what if somehow, they find appscript to be too burdensome, when it does not
derive much, if any, revenue?

If you make unreasonable enough assumptions, anything is thinkable.
If you don't trust risk-limitjng audits, you're never gonna trust any voting system. Someone has to administer the system, do the counting, sum up the totals, etc.
Letting it fail may bring a windfall boost to others.

If anyone is worried about supply of pure intel silicon, the IP can be sold off or placed in the public domain to keep the ossified 8086 nectar flowing.

And fabs can still make chips under new ownership.

Maybe someone will succeed in a GPU plan to challenge you know whom.
Let’s save them with the condition all chips have even more back doors.
Try it with more memory and/or larger swapfile space on your drive.

It might be OK until 8 specialty fonts need to be reproduced beyond a certain number of cells. If more memory was all it takes to fix, that would be good to know.
Why do you self-host?
When it comes to most enterprise software, the term "self-hosted" is such a misnomer. It makes the exercise sound like a cool and quick DIY thing.

The reality is that most self-hosted deployments require even more hand-holding and support from the software vendor for installation, configuration, training, etc., than the corresponding "vendor-managed" or SaaS offering. This is the opposite of "self". The correct description should be "Hosting the software on infra that you own or manage yourself."

Even for many open source projects, when it seems like "self-hosting" is really easy, the easy part is running the thing on your local computer (maybe through a Docker container). If you actually self-host (meaning self-install, self-configure, self-manage, self-patch, self-upgrade, self-....) it on server(s) for non-trivial production usage, it requires specific in-house expertise, which is seldom the core competence of the teams who just want to consume this software.

Having said that, there are often legitimate reasons for "self-hosting." What are yours?
that's so true! you don't need a javascript framework to make a beautiful site - it's all css! nowadays, people reach for react and a component library when they plan to make a somewhat advanced site or app, but these aren't necessary.

the opposite is also true - just because you're using plain html and css does not mean your site must be super, super simple.
This is right in the Musk wheelhouse. As SpaceX is to Boeing, and Tesla is to GM/Ford, ______ is to Intel. I'm surprised he hasn't made a move in this space.
That is as may be (though I'm not sure it's quite as dire as all that), but I'd argue that if it isn't true that anyone can edit and see their changes instantly then it isn't really a wiki.

That doesn't mean wikis can't have bans, require captchas, or lock pages that are frequently abused to tenured registered users, but the tooling needs to support instant updates and freedom to edit needs to be the default. Otherwise you're looking at a static site or a CMS, not a wiki.
The problem is not that Intel sales are down. It's that it's spending a massive amount ($160B) on fabs.

Fabs are expensive, and much more so if in the US than in Taiwan. It's costing TSMC $65B to build one on Arizona.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-spent-over-160-000-1147...
Every major communist country has been left in the dust by capitalist ones. Poverty is at a historical low.

We have gone from people dying from starvation to complaining that not everyone can buy a house. Nearly everyone has a universally connected borderline supercomputer in their pocket.
Exactly. Industries that are too big to fail shouldn’t be allowed to exist in general (anti trust regulation should see to that), but if that must happen for some reason, then it must be nationalized, or at least very tightly regulated, like utilities are.
"Hyper-palatable foods" was a new expression to me, but I like it. Much more reasonable than "processed".
If I were a high school teacher I think it would be very much worthwhile to have my students read this post and have a group discussion.

Q1. What does the author wish to convey by presenting plots, US vs China, of out-of-wedlock births? Electricity generation?

Q2. What might be the possible downsides of living in a society, such as China, that deals with violations of social and moral norms so much more efficiently and effectively than the United States does?

Q3. In the early 20th century, many American communists enamored of the Soviet Union travelled to the Soviet Union but returned home disillusioned. How likely do you think it is that the author would become similarly disillusioned if he were to go to China for an extended stay?

Q4. Do you think this post would be accepted for publication in the opinion pages of the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal? Why or why not?
Yeah bad choice of naming here. Oddly this project shows up first on DDG for “ractor” despite prevalent Ruby ractor documentation.
People used to be ok with Webpacker before Esbuild came along and thought that was OK, until Bun show what is really possible. The same with Atom, VSCode, and now Zed. ( For a very long time people on HN claim VSCode is about as fast as Sublime )

I am hoping Vision Pro, Meta or VR / AR will finally have enough incentive to solve latency computing. Most of today's computing is very slow. From OS to Apps and Web. And I value Steve Jobs' opening the lid of a MacBook and it should be ready mentality. Sometimes I think if Steve Jobs was the yard stick on speed and smoothness of the Apple software platform. Because it has gone downhill since. Especially on Safari.
One eye-opening experience for me in this regard was when I installed an old version of Microsoft Excel--I think it was either the 2000 or the 2003 version--on modern hardware. The snappiness of every action was AMAZING. Every click, drag, keystroke felt instant.

It's hard to describe because modern Excel doing typical actions doesn't feel slow and prior to this experience I would have said it was immediately responding to my inputs, but the difference experienced was obvious and felt GREAT even though it was probably only a small number of milliseconds.
TSMC is spending $65B to build its fab in Arizona.

Hard to imagine a startup raising that much money. And where's the IP going to come from? This is not like build a car factory.
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Then how are we supposed to pickup the stock when it's down 90% with a sure upswing? Institutions have been stocking up on cash for a while. Even the long-term Buffet-esque investors are timing the market right now. All the smart money is saving for the mean regression so they can pickup sweet deals.
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For anyone that wants to see how this compares on ann-benchmarks.com, the project is called 'sptag'.
If that’s true, which it may well be, this is an extremely strong argument for why it should be nationalized.
it won’t be competitive with farming in other countries, where everything costs less (labor, land, equipment, etc)

But if America and other first world countries think it’s important grow food at home this is a way of making it more competitive.
> If playing multiplayer, the mod must be installed serverside.

Shoot! Would have been fun to create my block storage on an anarchy server and then fight to defend files in Minecraft.
I didn't suggest no gatekeeping or moderation whatsoever. I explicitly qualified 'gatekeeping' with the word 'pre-emptive'.

A wiki allows anyone to edit by default and their changes are deployed without verification by another user. Moderation takes the form of locking specific pages on a case-by-case basis to users with tenure (who can still edit instantly) and rolling back misguided changes.

There's nothing wrong with having a site that isn't a wiki, but this is just a static site maintained by one person, so calling it a wiki is odd.
Auth0 has some of the best documentation on this same content, but it's in their main product docs. So this I'm sure is partly a response to that.
There is a linked update (this one is months old) about how much wiring he's been able to remove, and how few modules he has left on the bench. Looks like different OEMs have taken different routes regarding how interconnected everything is - fortunately for OP, it looks like Hyundai is less of an interconnected mess
The last time I went to the movies, it was because our department got some free tickets for the Lotte Cinema. My experience may have been atypical because I went in the afternoon, it was a British movie, and the theater was nearly empty, but I don't remember any ads.
That seems a rather defeatest attitude. I was fed up with working for other people 20 years ago. I started my own 1-man software company and write software how I think it should be written. The software isn't perfect, but I'm proud of it. I'm not rich, but I do fine financially. It isn't a viable path for everyone, but it is something to consider if you hate your job.
This hits home. We upgraded a very massive Excel-based model to the peak of our best practice. Proper split in requirements vs. implementation, a separate data quality layer, model validation on the model, Ze Kloud, etc. Turns out accountants don’t grok model validation and I am still explaining imputation on individual data fields to auditors expecting each individual value to be user inputted somewhere. Waving IAS8 in front of your auditor doesn’t help since you are threading on their expertise and that gets messy. Excel models turn out to be multi headed dragons, but you can mail a spreadsheet with five example cases and get by.
I've always thought these complaints are really just a reflection of how stuck we are in the C paradigm. The idea that you have to edit programs as text is outdated IMO. It should be that your editor operates on the syntax tree of the source code. Once you do that, the code can be displayed in any way.
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You could do something like that in Rust with a request-scooped arena. But then you'd have to do Rust.

In node you could use worker threads (which create a new V8 instance in a separate OS thread) but that's probably too heavy handed.
I once wrote a puzzle using this, which (fortunately) doesn't work any more, but would do interesting things on older JDK versions: https://pastebin.com/raw/Bh81PwXY
I couldn't upvote this enough. I find it utterly infuriating that across the world, we spend hundreds of billions (trillions?) of dollars on computing hardware. And almost all of the cycles (easily over 99% of them) are totally wasted doing stupid, totally unnecessary makework because programmers are too lazy.

Tauri (an electron-like written in rust) used to have a page where they touted how efficient it is, boasting that it "only" took 300mb of ram to run a “hello world” app, and it started up in only ("only") 25000 syscalls. 300mb of ram is 2.4 billion bits. Just, how? The tauri benchmarks page has since been taken down - perhaps out of embarrassment.

In comparison, the Super Nintendo had 128kb of RAM (2000x less than needed for tauri's hello world) and it ran all sorts of incredible games, including the legendary super mario bros. The Atari 2600 shipped with 128 bytes of ram, which is less than one tweet. (Though cartridges could contain extra ram chips).
It wasn't a fantasy, but it does belong to another age. The Internet was small back then and a much higher trust society. Today it's a war zone and everything must be locked down.

"Speak friend, and enter."
None. FWIW, this exists because they wanted to ship a whole Python environment with an electron app.
Siphash and Blake3 or NOT reasonably fast, they are dirt slow. They should not be used in hash tables at all. Fighting DOS attacks can only be done with detecting DOS attacks, which is much cheaper than using a slow, better hash function. Count the collisions. And then either stop the attack, or fallback to a tree.
This is like praising the reliability of modern automobiles while decrying the distance we have to travel for everything. You wouldn’t have fast computers without slow software.
As someone who used to work in the industry, whole reason for Cost Plus is with more traditional contracts, there was a ton of paperwork showing the government wasn't getting ripped off which is obviously crazy expensive as well. So whole point of this fix rate system is government puts out "We are going to pay X for Y with profit of Z, take it or leave it"
I nearly always got a job offer at the end of my contracts. I never accepted them because the terms were always poor, they couldn't match my rates. Not only that but being a contractor offers some distance from the internal politics.

Usually the internal staff knew the business well but were weak on the technology they were using. No amount of training seemed to fix that.

The only downside for me was the travel which was why I used the downtime between jobs to pivot to developing my own product.
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If you're lucky and the consultant is experienced and has narrow scope, they can provide a lot of structure. They will also push back where applicable. If they have a wide scope and/or they don't have much experience, you are 100% correct that they have to figure it out like anyone else.
> So I was surprised to see it presented here as a thing that happens in big companies too (but I've only worked with very small companies).

Many companies are internally every bit as centralized and dysfunctional as the Soviet Union.
I'm finding it slightly ironic[0] that this site takes 162 MB RAM (according to hovering over the tab in chrome), scrolls incredibly slowly, and has hijacked the right-click menu so I can't open links in a new tab.

I definitely agree with the content, though. I'm so glad I don't do webdev.

[0] I think this is actually correct usage of "ironic."
nix mentioned let's go

In all seriousness, it is a bit tiresome when you come back to the python world and see a completely fragmented ecosystem (poetry, pdm, pip-tools, uv, and the older ways).
My point is that this could very well be incompetent instead of malice.

Doesn't really change anything and I would not install an app that requests all these permissions and I am also very careful with apps distributed outside the official store.

With that said, Android by default disables dangerous permissions and almost everything has to be opted in these days.
Also consider oligopolies, for example the shit show that is Canadian telecom.
It's relative. They are about 1000x slower than fast, good enough hash functions. Dirt slow.

Nobody is talking about password hashes here.
I just wonder, in situations where precision is so important that these small rounding errors actually matter, aren't floats the wrong tool anyway?
I think this is overly reductionist. Winning is fun, of course; nobody goes into a game with the intention of losing. But equating losing with human misery is a stretch. Most people playing games aren't miserable after a loss, at worst they're tilted after a tough loss or a losing streak. If losing were inherently the cause of human misery, we wouldn't be sending our kids to play organized youth sports for multiple generations. Or played chess for thousands of years.

I've been playing fighting games a lot recently, which is a pure skill-based 1v1 genre, and going up against people better than me who beat me is fun, not miserable. Obviously the ideal outcome is to win, but getting stomped by 6-time Marvel vs Capcom 2 world champion Justin Wong doesn't make me miserable, it makes me want to improve.

I'm not saying it's for everyone, I have friends who tilt off easily at every loss and yeah they shouldn't play ranked at least, but as long as your attitude is "you win or you learn" you won't be miserable.
I think the right way to look at this is the trade off spaces that are maligned with performance. You can usually gain something by losing some performance, so those who gain but don’t go too far overboard on things being slow will win.

I will say I share the authors sentiment that 9 billion cycles should be enough for anybody. Unfortunately for us, it’s usually somebody else’s computer that’s holding us up.