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The sub thread this created of people not recognizing this as a problem is pretty interesting.

It's probably one of many ingredients that went into how so many of these apps are so half baked and buggy.

Not just the obvious that the language was aimed at and used by junior programmers and so of course much of the code is not robust in general.

But here is an example of the toolbox missing a tool. You can't really fault people for doing whatever seems natural using the tools they are given.

Not being experienced developers otherwise, they didn't know that something necessessary was missing, and made things that only mostly worked without it.

To be clear they would have often mis-used the tool if it existed too. In this thread people have thought the way you would use exists is to check before doing some actual operation. The inexperienced coder aspect is also true, seperately.

But the combination of a missing tool combined with a language explicitly aimed at users who don't come with their own experience and don't know anything but what the language provides, seems a little extra nasty.
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> Trump is also known for threatening his allies with not upholding the US obligations unless something extra is given to him.

And of course by “paying what they contractually owe to the alliance” qualifies for “something extra to him” if you’re asked.
Less clickbaity, sure, but it doesn't say elephant. Title was changed after submission. Nobody had any problem with it when it was submitted 3 days ago.
Which works fine assuming all new development is happening in the F# half of a codebase and you don't have a significant amount of old F# async code lying around.
Firstly, you don't have to be rude. I won't fall for this bait.
Secondly, if you are tied to writing one configuration file, I understand, after all you have a free choice. For me, the separation of logic is a positive aspect, because I don't have to think and search for entries about the specific server I'm proxying to. JSONs used here are overcomplicated I see. And the difficulty of mounting configuration files from ConfigMap with one file or two is practically the same - yet with this software you store two files in ConfigMap. I understood from your post that you are a HAProxy fanatic and I won't bother you in any way.
If you want companies to adopt your tech product, who should be your main target?

- The junior dev with no say in decisions

- The seasoned contributors whose opinion is listened to but who know that there is no magic tool, only compromises

- The managers who almost always have the last word, who live with constant FOMO, and whose jobs are mostly based on impressions rather than actual results
Noob question but I'll ask it: How is it possible for a fire to happen naturally in Antarctica?
Humans aren’t adapted for salt water. We use water evaporation for cooling. Our kidneys don’t minimize water usage.

This adaptation is not limited to marine mammals. Jerboas (Desert rodent) get all of their water from food.

Additionally, most marine mammals don’t eat a diet of shrimp. Fish are much less salty than seawater.
Will you update your priors after searching a bit more how Republicans have already done huge efforts to eliminate parts of the voting population, between gerrymandering, voter rolls purges, putting polling stations in inaccessible places, counting prison population in the electoral weighting of districts...
I've done very little renting from AirBnBs and they can be cheaper and there are certainly certain types of properties (like whole house rentals) that aren't really available from traditional hotels vs. AirBnB/VRBO/etc.

That said, especially for visiting a city, I'll pretty much go with traditional hotels, often chains, for the predictability. I've very rarely had a truly bad experience and it's usually been something like a badly situated luck-of-the-draw room and even that isn't usually a big deal in a city where I'm not spending a lot of time in a room.

I can reliably checkin whenever, there's staff on-call, I don't usually care if I have a kitchen other than a small fridge (which many hotels have these days), and so forth. I've stayed in many B&Bs--some of which are also listed these days on AirBnB. Most have been good, some less so. Usually less of a good option in urban centers.
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The limitation should be obvious --- the expectation that real "intelligence" will somehow "emerge" from a statistical process is unfounded.
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Yeah, and we might have stood a chance at constructive reform had so much of the population not fallen for the siren song of fascism, itself just a different lazy option offered by the elites. Same old story - they turn the screws of extraction as long as they can get away with it, and when the jig is up they contain the ire by making sure it's directed at superficially different individuals.
Ah, you would need to ask them for a concrete answer, but my understanding is that it is completely baked in.

Long optional explanation:

I say that because I think Memileo sculpted the actual brushstroke in Blender (https://krita-artists.org/uploads/default/original/3X/5/7/57...) and rendered lighting at different angles, and exported each as an image.

Each rendered image becomes 1 frame of the "animated brushtip", with the option that each frame matches "direction" rather then being "incremental", and thats how you get the faux-light!

The cool thing is that you can extract and edit the animated brushtip in Krita e.g. this one "https://github.com/Draneria/Metallics-by-Draneria_Krita-Brus..."

Which means theoretically, you could use photo editing to change the height I think!
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Dupe from just a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42103166
Definitely. I think people using MkDocs should use Material as their first choice.
Had to have been that given the age. The only other alternative is a binary plug-in.

JavaScript/VBScript didn't have enough control to pull it off and Java was way too slow back then. It used to be a real dog - probably still carries some of that baggage albeit undeservedly (Android for instance, runs things just fine)
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There were upper and lower bound stats that accounted for many discrepancies. The high numbers were "death with covid", which means the covid might not've done it, and the low numbers were "death by covid" where we were (fairly) sure Covid did it due to lack of other factors, but missed things where Covid tipped someone over the edge.
> the hypothesis postulates that previously a species different from ours had achieved high intelligence and technological civilization on this planet

An interesting special version of this hypothesis is that if a species has achieved truly high intelligence and advanced technology, it may by design not have left any traces. Not because of modesty but because long-term sustainable existence actually required being light on environmental impact.

Changing your environment at planetary scale and breakneck speed is not necessarily the pinnacle of intelligence, certainly not if you have manifestly not yet understood all its intricacies, interdependence etc. A lack of understanding coupled with aggressive random interventions may even affect the very survival of a species.

The downside of the deep-sea tree-huger cephalopod scenario is that it is even harder to falsify...
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COVID-19 appears to act similarly to the other coronaviruses that are endemic in humans. There are two key properties.

1. You don't develop an immunity to infection by them, but you do become less likely to be made severely ill from subsequent infections.

2. The severity of illness from the first infection is generally less if you are very young.

With the others it is thought that they probably did cause deadly pandemics when they first crossed over to humans, but did not cause much harm to babies or very young children, and so by the next generation they were no longer a big deal.

Nowadays we don't even bother to have a name for infection by them. We just lump them in with around 200 other viruses and call what happens when we get sickened by any of them a "common cold".

Pretty much everybody alive now was exposed to those viruses as a baby, got mildly ill and got that first infection out of the way, and then it is just a routine common cold to them when they get older.

I don't think it is yet known if COVID-19 will fully follow that path of those others. It still does cause severe illness far more often than the common cold viruses even in people who have been infected multiple times.

We probably won't know for sure until we see what happens over several years with people who were very young during the pandemic or were born after it.

For people older than that is is probably going to be something that is more like a severe flu, where we'll have a vaccine each year for the strains expected to be most common that year, and while the vaccine won't stop you from getting sick it will greatly increase you chances of not getting severely sick.

We are already seeing that. COVID-19 fell from the 4th highest cause of death in the US in 2022 to the 10th highest in 2023, with 76000 deaths. Compare to 246000 deaths in 2022 and 462000 in 2021.
What is charged for distribution is more of an antitrust issue to me (i.e. "20% is clearly ridiculous unless there are a bunch of reach/network effects the platform offers due to it having market power. mitigating that market power is almost always a good idea)."

Now that IS a different matter and Off Topic
It sits on a major European waterway, the Danube, which after Vienna exists into the plain lands - Hungary, Romania.

Started as a Roman settlement, Vindobona, it has been strategically important for a very long time.

Paris without the Seine would equally be irrelevant. London too.
I read somewhere that cephalopods are kind of like "individual flashes of genius".

They develop large brains very rapidly, with lots of skills, BUT they don't pass on their skills, in part because they die quickly!

This article mentions that:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/opinion/sunday/octopuses-...

Despite being mollusks, like clams and oysters, these animals have very large brains and exhibit a curious, enigmatic intelligence.

I followed them through the sea, and also began reading about them, and one of the first things I learned came as a shock: They have extremely short lives — just one or two years.

Other discussion - https://tonmo.com/threads/why-dont-octopus-and-other-cephlap...

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Humans do seem to have some the longest life spans on the planet, and that's an important adaptation -- "grandmother hypothesis" and all that. I can see that generational knowledge is big deal, even in my own family, and in my coworkers' families.

Or you can look at the family of (ironically) Charles Darwin, with Francis Galton, and so forth

The outliers among primates move the civilization forward. So just having a few people with big brains, who absorb knowledge from their predecessors, is a big deal.

Though of course there could be some cephalopod species that evolved to live 100 years ... and then for some reason they disappeared, or lost that adaptation
> thought mud was great for preserving fossils?

If rapidly and anoxically deposited. Undersea landslides and volcanoes do that. Dredging operations may, too.
> s their level of communication and their information transfer speed as high as language?

First, spoken language isn't extraordinarily fast. Most of us here have experienced points in our lives where speech has seemed laboriously slow. Second, we have through much of recorded history, relied upon correspondence and the written word, where communicating a few sentences worth of ideas took weeks.

It is not outlandish to think that complicated, colorful shapes on the cuttlefish's back (pictures in the link, if you need a reminder) could convey an entire sentence' worth of information. With a refresh rate of what, 5 seconds? More than enough for human-speech-level speed.

Whatever other challenges they face, communication just isn't one of those.
The issue with these "ghost chess" implementations are always the same things

1. How do captured pieces get removed?
2. How to handle pieces that move through other pieces (knights, castling)?
3. How to promote a pawn?

I have never seen these solved in something that is not awkward and neither seems to be the case here.
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> The BB10-powered Passport was my favorite device

I loved mine.

My favourite device was my Nokia E90 Communicator. Hardware-formfactor-wise that's the best smartphone I ever owned.

Closed, it's a one-hand T9-driven smart candybar phone. Open, it has a usable QWERTY keyboard, a letterbox screen that can display a slice of an A4 or Legal PDF at readable size. I never watched films on it, but you could do in principle.
> “Even if they succeeded, the obvious question is, what would you do with it?” said Stuart Pimm, a professor at the conservation ecology research unit at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. “If you had a Woolly mammoth, you would put it in a cage. It’s a colossal exercise in ego.”

This is my thought about all these efforts. The mammoth people talk like it's about a solution to climate change, but that's obviously working backwards from their goal (revive the mammoth for reasons) to some sort of reasonable-sounding justification. They set out with different motivations in mind.

I'd ask the same question here: why try to bring back a species we already killed off? These won't be descendants of the animals we killed, so it's hardly a form of reparations. If it's about preserving the ecosystems we already have, there have to be more efficient ways to do that than rebreeding less stripe zebras.

It's hard not to see this as just the same impulse that led to the poodle: because we can and because it will look cool and draw attention and make money. The only difference is there's a slight nostalgic bent to the aesthetic.
I (too recently) realized "shoulda, coulda, woulda"'s are generally useless, and to focus on only "need, want"s. If it doesn't fit into these two categories then it's not important enough to think about.
the infinite process only solves the problem of having a processed event happen before anything to process has entered the queue - as far as I can tell.
i got davinci and i have no idea how to use it.
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>… search?

Search alone doesn't seem to be very profitable. Look at how many different products Kagi is rolling out just to capture more paying users.

DDG would have to be create an even better search than Kagi. I don't think this is the obvious (or easy) way forward. It sounds expensive and risky.
AI has already made art, music, YouTube, the internet as a whole, the written word, customer service interactions, amazon, google, and the environment objectively and irrefutably worse so it doesn't seem like a stretch that it also fucks up programmers.

It's doing a fantastic job of addicting people to social media even more and selling them cheap Chinese garbage though!
Or do you mean physical/geological/natural structures?

There's a bunch of these, the bulk of which eventually get reasonable explanations.

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

I'm surprised there's no Wikipedia list of these.
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I would probably refer to category 1 as "Open Architecture". I wouldn't want to give anyone the false impression that category 1 is comparable in the slightest to Open Weights, which is vastly more useful.
Lol, author's thought process mirrored mine as I read the article, as I was reading I was thinking, 'doesn't kqueue support that?... and then a section on kqueue. Then I was thinking to myself, so how does the Linux implementation do it then?... was just about to start trawling the source code when 'A parenthesis..'

Great article. Sorry to say though, Windows does manage all this in a more consistent way - but I guess they had the benefit of a clean slate.
It is a very different thing to claim "the language doesn't allow simple things such as checking for a file's existence" (which is false, the language allows many ways to do so) than to claim "the language doesn't have many options, but allows you to interop with the entire win32 API if you need to". The first is a valid if only false complain; the second reads to me not as a complain, but as a feature.
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It's not. The fires to be fought are not natural fires but accidental ones relating to human activity.
Hey,

I'd like to share my hobby project that I've been building for last few months. It started as an excuse to build something using rust and scratch that itch. Also it was actually something I looked for to easily just collect everyone's photos after a backpacking trip.

Tech stack is Rust using axum (really like the author of this library as well and have watched his YouTube videos which have helped me understand how to navigate and reason about rust code better). Then NextJs for frontend and Neon.tech for Postgres.

This is my second big project using rust. First one was to migrate an existing Python flask service. It really is much more pleasant for me to code in than python because I feel more confident in my code, I have the architecture structured better in code, and the compiler just is a great mentor along the way.

The biggest challenges for this app were figuring out things like streaming and using Tokio for streaming zip files. The frontend side for things like the map view also was difficult to get up and running smoothly but happy how it turned out.

Let me know what you think.
I’m not sure what that has to do with this discussion, though.

Someone who can’t afford a car at all and takes the bus isn’t affected by gas prices, and raising/lowering gas prices won’t help them afford a car significantly more easily.

Gasoline is essentially the smallest cost related to vehicle ownership.
The first and only time I rode on Atlanta's MARTA I got to the airport and thought "ok this wasn't that bad", as I get up, turned around and see a homeless man passed out in his urine puddle running down the car.

This is not "public transit", it's public toilet, public unsupervised mental health shelter.
Could one create a proof of pseudo-science, by injecting a faked fundamental corner stone paper, that becomes proof by inheritance that a full field is rotten?

Also why does this remind me of european politicans, claiming everyone wants to life european lifes, meanwhile whole countries goto war and atrocities without big counter-demonstrations by those western valued citizens .. narrative glider guns going ad absurdum..
> "Trust but verify."

"Trust but verify" is just the diplomatic equivalent of "don't trust". Their meanings are identical.

And yes, in the world of genAI, trust becomes impossible. That's the major problem with the technology. It makes having a functioning society even more difficult.
No, because the top 99.99+ percentile of accounts will attract much greater scrutiny from the mods.
I think this is a gross misunderstanding of probability.

> You are mathematically guaranteed to lose your money playing roulette.

You can win roulette, people do all the time.

> But you have a small chance of winning buying a meme-coin/stock/option.

Right, but you also have a small chance at winning roulette. Love to see the math here, but I'm betting your roulette statement still applies:

> Nobody ever got rich playing it unless they cheated somehow.

Put differently, of course there are winners in roulette, even if it's often the house. I'd bet "the house" applies to crypto too.
I think it's mostly simplicity; with SLS I can have an endpoint for a random function in minutes, so when I want to build e.g. "return AI generated image" I reach for SLS. Then as that project grows, I stay on SLS because it's just there.

But if I could get that set up with SST in similar time, I would reach for that instead. I think SST is very feature-ful and I often find myself putting good thought into what I am architecting when I'm using it; but it isn't very often that I want to put good thought into what I am architecting when I am just starting a project.

To give an example I am using SLS in most of my contracted work; I am using SST for a project that builds other projects. If you solve the "why are they reaching for SLS at all" problem I think SST would be the very easy choice in every scenario, if for nothing other than the sheer number of providers that are supported instead of just AWS.

I'm sure some of this is a compromise that's tough to design around, so maybe the solution here is a service built on top of SST. I don't necessarily mean Vercel (am familiar with your thoughts on that company), but maybe an easy graphical tool or even a form that spits out my sst.config.ts for me :)
Your writings pass the sniff test, but are based on many false premises that undermine your agenda.

Poor countries are forced to commit more of their resources, be it monetary or human, to the war at hand.

This is not because our moral system or military doctrine is better than theirs. We don’t want to avoid human suffering in any greater capacity than them. We’re not levitating above them in any sense.

Once the aliens who overpower our militaries 10 to 1 arrive here, we will be forced to commit everything we have to that war.
Oh yeah, I agree. I personally like the rails approach of light JS for necessary interaction, but keeping all logic serverside.

The URL is the command line and all that.

But like you, I sometimes feel like an old person yelling at the cloud.
Amazing! The title is a bit confusing though.
It even has the Lumex toy microscope I had as a child in the 70s. Happy days!
Oh ok thanks that make sense. For those interested there’s a slide at 20:00 that show that very clearly: https://youtu.be/dEmDNwDBdkE
Yes, based on previous experience with this sort of delisting happening.
On the other hand, discounts for the company willing to be on the bleeding edge & help smooth out the wrinkles does make sense. And in 2024 that company was by far Intel, with TSMC only just starting to take delivery of high na machines. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmcs-first-high-...