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Yes, any time you have to reduce something to a point for analysis in any geometric problem.

You can also vary infinitesimals and utilize them not just in nonstandard analysis, but in fractional calculus, such as for inferring stock market motions.

They have helpful applications in physics, especially field theory.

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I can imagine, a long time from now, many elegant mathematical constructs simplified by the use of, e.g. infinitesimals, Clifford algebras, category theory, etc. There's a lot of complicated ideas that are nicely simplified, and are even more intuitive, easy to teach the fundamentals of, rather than the standard approach.

I think it's important to understand that the canonical calculus approach came from rather mechanical questions in analysis and proofs, and the math is layered with that, as well as the notational conveniences of forms of calculus commonly used for electromagnetism, classical mechanics, etc. There's a lot of legacy syntax there, and we just live with it, but it's not optimal. Infinitesimals are a way to go back to applications and to better syntax.
Sure but what do you actually use office for in your day to day home life?

I stopped paying for it in like 2010. I haven't needed to make a formatted document since college, and I graduated in 2006. Google sheets is quite good enough for my random spreadsheet usage.
California has a long history of failed forest management. At what point will the voters say enough is enough? But they keep electing the same people.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/25/1010382535/gavin-newsom-misle...
> I am not planning to get a lawyer involved as I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end.

An officious word for lawyer is counsel, because that’s what they’re for: they offer legal counsel. You don’t technically “talk” to a lawyer , instead you ask them questions. They answer. That’s why client-attorney privilege exists at all: so you can feel free to seek counsel, ie ask questions, without fear of those questions ever being held against you.

You’re right not to talk to a lawyer. Instead, you should ask them questions. Like “what’s the worst that can happen?” and “what are my options if it does?” and “ what documents / evidence would I need to defend myself?” and “what would you advise me not to do?”.

As a silly rule of thumb: every message to a lawyer should have at least one question mark in it. That is the role of legal counsel in our society. Use that privilege. Seek counsel.

Then, if you don’t want to do anything with their advice, that’s ok.
I am happy with my employer provided plan
The real crime is that alternatives are expensive due to how our new economy is structured. I personally prefer oatmilk (oatside) to dairy milk. However, it’s too damn expensive that I find myself only drinking it from time to time. Now how is a vegetarian milk more expensive than a full cycle of cow milk (cows are too burdening to maintain) you might ask?!?

My guess is that we are seeing something along the lines of EVs. Instead of making these healthier alternatives mainstream, they are being sold as a status symbol for the rich and making them unaffordable to the common man.

Here waiting for my chinese oat milk.
Do I even want to know why Ginsberg is being posted to HN?
>very little that can be done in these situations

I don't agree with that. People can choose to not live there. There is an entire country to live in and we keep crowding in what seem to the worst places to live and then act surprised when it goes badly. Climate change is going to make some places uninhabitable, that's why we tried to prevent it, but no one cares.
Crazy Debugging Stories – Quota
Wonderful read, thanks for sharing!
Cultured meat is a long, long ways away, unfortunately. I suspect economic, environmental, and ethical factors will push people away from meat long before cultured meat replaces it.

Well put argument though!
Yes! The Minilogue was where it clicked for me - solely because is its oscilloscope
Well good, since professional and volunteer firefighters are the most common arsonists. People with violent criminal records should not be in those fields at all.
that sounds fucking amazing!!!!! I think the main “disagreement” we have is that I truly believe there are too many people thinking that FAANG-driven career is fullfilling and something that should be taught to new kids that are coming into our industry. I am now and will spend the rest of my career pleading with them to choose a more fullfilling and rewarding career
Totally agree about Newton and his 3 ways. I remember reading in Burton's History of Mathematics:

"Newton developed 3 different versions of his calculus, apparently searching for the best approach; or maybe each version served a different purpose.

- 'Infinitesimals': largely a geometric approach,
- 'Fluxions': a kinematic approach,
- 'Prime and ultimate ratios': his most rigorous, "algebraic" approach.

The 3 methods weren't always kept apart when solving problems. See: DT Whiteside, Mathematical Papers Isaac Newton."

You might enjoy Tristan Needham's book on Visual Differential Geometry where he really dives into Newton's geometric approach.

Thanks for the other links... must go through them. Lots of gold there.
They claim to be the public square because they don't want you building your own square along side them.

The next time you hear them claiming to be a public square ask them if they're like to be regulated like a public utility. I think we all know how they'd answer that one.
They're being provided with a full life while the rest of us pay for it. If, at market rate, their earnings make up for the expense the state pays for them, I'd be willing to let them earn it, but I doubt any are earning that much.
Ruby has Sorbet if you want to add typing. And better concurrency constructs for Ruby are in the final stages of being backed with Fibers. For example, Falcon is the new Ruby web server that’s built with Fibers. It’s not quite ready to replace Puma but Fibers are coming along.
Okay, but my main complaint is that the medium (video) feels very under-utilized.
Dreamforce is basically a cult gathering.
> But you use capabilities all the time... operating system users work that way.

Most operating systems don't have proper capabilities - they use things like ACLS, RBAC, MAC, etc for permissions.

The golden rule of capabilities is that you should not separate designation from authority. The capability itself represents the authority to access something, and designates what is being accessed.
please no. that article is nonsense. this is all nonsense.
It's a good time to be an embedded software engineer. Ford will need plenty for this effort, and AI still has a ways to go before it can replace SWEs that touch real hardware.
> The majority of humans do not think it is immoral in principle to kill and eat an animal

This is wrong, the majority of humans may think that way because they don't have to kill any animal personally, they are disconnected from the "killing" part of the whole equation. Let's see how many people eat and kill animals (i.e. hunting) once we remove meat factories.

Another counterargument is: pets. Somehow all meat eaters gasp on the idea of eating their pet, so they are not morally okay to eat an animal (as you claimed).

> Or is less suffering better?

Ask yourself, how would you like to die? After listening to music you love? getting massages? OR being hurled up a thousand other humans in a small room?
The fact is you are dying, your neck will be cut off, and it doesn't matter what you did before it, how is listening to peaceful music before dying less of a suffering?

It is like saying that concentration camps should have been more "humane", they should have cared more for prisoners before killing them to reduce their suffering. Death matters the most for any living creature, all of us (humans + animals) are primed to avoid it. So, we need to take a path where we are reducing overall deaths, not a path where we are reducing pre-death suffering.

What you can say is, "I don't care about suffering; I just need meat." That would be a more logically correct statement than claiming that you care about reducing their suffering.
California hasn't built a reservoir since 1979. They released all the water during the last season which ended the drought and left the reservoirs over capacity.
> you can set your career such that you are more valuable to them than they are to you. and once you get that money is no object no more… and you get to stay decade (or two) in the same place vs doing the leetcode-change-jobs-like-socks dance.

How many of those companies that know your name will pay you straight out of college $160K-$200K and up to $400K-$500k+ within 5-7 years?

If you want to be at a company where everyone knows your name, it’s going to be a small company.
~15 years ago I remember a friend convincing me to drive a bunch of us to a rave that involved meeting a guy in grocery store parking lot between certain hours and writing down the instructions he gave us. We then drove an hour on the freeway, got off and spent 30 minutes on a series of forest service roads to get to a 2(3?) stage rave in a clearing in the woods. It went at least until sunrise, we left as the sun came up.
Decades ago I did a free-running sleep schedule for a few months while working a fairly intensive software project that required almost no interaction with others. I didn’t have a schedule, I just slept when I felt like it, and did resistance training throughout the day when I felt like it (I had a bunch of gym equipment in the same room as computers). Empirically, this turned into 26 hour days, so my hours came into phase with “normal” hours roughly every two weeks. It was a pretty comfortable lifestyle, felt pretty healthy, and I put on some muscle.

The main challenges were two-fold. First, there is a significant part of the time where it doesn’t line up with store and restaurant hours that well, which is inconvenient. Second, there are few days every couple weeks where your schedule is completely out-of-phase with normal people which makes socializing nigh impossible on those days e.g. waking up at 8pm and going to bed at 2pm. However, since those days were predictable, I’d simply not schedule anything on those days.

I don’t think this really works for a global business though. Many people around the world are really fussy about rigid schedules, and you will only overlap those a third of the time.

All that said, I think for >24 hour days to be practical, it would be best in a synthetic environment where everyone is on the same clock with limited access to natural sunlight. I could totally imagine it being viable for something like a submarine.
Yeah my knowledge of macroeconomics is lacking, can you recommend any books?
It's Newsom's (and Schwarzeneggers and Davis, etc...) fault that California hasn't meaningfully added to its reservoir capacity since 1979 yes.
Be careful of those as well, but in this case it's quite simple: password reset links should only be sent when the user explicitly requests them; of you receive an unexpected email asking you to reset your password, don't click the link.
IE == Industrial Engineering: broad, but generally "Engineering of Systems" instead of a physical product. Laying out factories, setting up supply chains, etc. It's morphed a little bit from the original field so the name isn't super accurate.

FEA == Finite Element Analysis: advanced method of predicting the strength of a product via numerical simulation.

DOE == Design of Experiments: evaluation of how the outputs of a system change as you vary the inputs. At a high level, you build model of the system, then vary all the inputs through their entire range and to build a response surface of the output.
If you can generate an image you can flatten it and if you can flatten it you can cluster it, and if you can cluster the flat sections you can draw vectors around them.
Not exactly fire/smoke-related, but I did this one year for a remote house that I leave idle 6-months a year and wanted to prevent stagnate air. It did work. The fan energy costs can get excessive, and there are some websites that suggest slower RPM fans what are cheaper.

But the box fans are so ubiquitous. For this year, I settled on adding a timer to the AC line and only run the fan periodically and my energy bill is noticeably lower.
This is a bit scary. Knowing how software is developed, I know there's no government program that could actually ensure a device is secure. It's one thing to measure an electronic device's EMI or pump it full of power and see if it catches fire. But black box testing of software is itself a black art, as software security is a lot more complex than [typical] electronic design.

The scary bit is that this label is going to be found to be ineffective, and then consumers may lose trust in government-issued safety stamps.
Hey I'm one of the devs, let me know if you run into any issues getting setup!
> The literal job description involves running the city based on money they have, including prioritizing what’s important.

Sure, and to that end the Police and Fire together make up in excess of 60% of the entire budget.

Should all income go to the Fire Dept? (Obviously not) .. again, I'm an outsider, but from a helicopter perspective there already a good sized portion of the budget going towards Fire as a priority already. Should some of the Police budget be cut and redirected?

One a portion of total available has been allocated it does rather fall to the Fire Chief to make the most of what has been granted.

The challenge appears to be how to make what's available go the furtherest.

Here, not California, we make considerable use of volunteers .. well equiped and large well trained volunteers with solid liability insurance should they toast themselves and backed by a professional full time core.

I dare say similar things happen in California, I note the use of the prison population in fire fighting.

It's a tough problem domain, not helped by all the outside hot takes on twitter and elsewhere that casually claim budgets are being gutted, etc.
Well, it's not believable at all, so the other option is just "lying"?
LAPD has a history of its own…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources_Against_...
I find this fascinating as well. And I think it’s because part of the ruby & rails cultures are to deliberate cultivate delightful touches in the language & framework. This creates a positive feedback loop that has kept the “honeymoon phase” alive much longer (at least for me) than many other technologies I’ve fallen in love with.
> Now how is a vegetarian milk more expensive than a full cycle of cow milk (cows are too burdening to maintain) you might ask?!?

Not enough scale because little demand compared to regular milk.
My wife would file for a divorce. This reminds me a bit of when I tried polyphasic sleeping about 20 years ago which was an absolute disaster.
Phoenix and Tucson are pretty mild for disasters. There are sometimes violent storms in the late summer but nothing that ever rises to the level of requiring evacuation as far as I know.

On the other hand, you better hope your AC works in the summer.
It's not antagonistic to shareholders/investors who thought Salesforce was bloated before.
Seconding this. It's entirely likely the registrar is this petty and boneheaded. It's less likely that their boss is though, this is a really bad look for the university.

Personally I would find a way to contact the president of the university (possibly through university PR, who also care about public image) and simply state,

"The registrar is asking me for quid pro quo, that I develop software for them in exchange to restore my ability to register for classes."

and include a screenshot of that communication.

Additionally, consider "agreeing" to their demands, if they will unblock you immediately. Register for classes, then reneg on your half of the "deal". Even if they then retaliate, that strengthens your position (a) that they are engaging in quid pro quo, and (b) that there's no valid reason that you should be barred from registering for courses, and also buys you some time.
I'm German and I wasn't sure if you made it up or if it existed before. :)
No, I actually was referring to their native vector AI image generator, not their vectorizer - although the vectorizer was better than any other we found, and that's why we were using it to convert the Midjourney PNG dropcaps into SVGs

(The editing quality of the vectorized ones were not great, but it is hard to see how they could be good given their raster-style appearance. I can't speak to the editing quality of the native-generated ones, either in the old obsolete Recraft models or the newer ones, because the old ones were too ugly to want to use, and I haven't done much with the new one yet.)
I agree this is something missing. I wish the framework had it. I bookmarked this to try out soon: https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/rails_db

I know there are a few other projects like this which I’ve seen over the years, but I’ve yet to truly investigate any.
I think you and I are at the same point in Godot progress. I have chosen to do everything in one scene and leave the code where I first put it when experimenting. It's my project, I'll find the code when I need to change it. Lots of crazy overabstraction on YouTube tutorials by people who are not software engineers but who think obfuscating working code makes them so. Let's sadly look away from why our industry gives them the impression that that's a good idea. I will finally have to learn separate Scenes when I give up on one level with teleports and shift to loading, which may be never.

I watch clickbait Godot tutorials on YouTube on 2x speed in my spare time. When I stumble into a problem that I suspect has been solved before, like your resizeable platform problem, I go to YouTube and see if I can find a reference. For your case, I think you're looking to create a Tool, maybe. You'd need to define your platform as a programmaticly sized node using either tile maps or that texture thing that lets you define the corners, the fill texture, and size from there.

But if it were me I'd lift the code for the platform out of the node that sizes it. Then you can just hand edit each platform, and link the platform to the controlling node (or whatever relation you see fit to use).

It's important to focus on the game over the infinite ways you could structure code in an environment of such high flexibility. At least coding your game with bitmaps in C you can't get lost in trifles, you'll just spend more time reimplementing and understanding the basics. See raylib.
Straight out of the playbook from Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time: https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...
> listen to crap from politicians all day

This part I recently decided I will stop doing. It will not be easy and I may fail, but I think my mood requires it.
Imagine an entire institution where your goal is to minimize the ability for anyone to convince people you were negligent, and you hate your job because it doesn't matter how you do it, you have little control outside of whatever fiefdom and backroom channels you've assembled.

The kind of person who doesn't leave that role tends to be either someone who enjoys accumulating or wielding power, or would have trouble in roles outside of an institution like that.

Now imagine a person who has almost no power just made a public spectacle about something in your camp that you've been not doing for years even though it's been a well known problem because nobody could make you do anything about it.

You're probably going to go into overdrive and try to kill this story, even if it's not because you'll be directly punished in any way from it (because that's very uncommon in academia), but because this person DARED to challenge you.

...at least, that's my perception from years of time around toxic parts of academia (and some less toxic parts, but.)

I'm not saying the story is true, I don't have enough data to comment, but I have absolutely seen enough academics go off the handle from 0 to 11 to buy this as plausible.
This is just not happening. Rich people aren't hiring people to speed drive them in their own cars.

If you're rich enough you don't need to hurry... And if you do, you take the private jet.
I assumed this is satire and ... its not?

Yet lines like this just seem really tongue-in-cheek:

> In fact, I avoid talking about the schedule at all with others.

> The internal benefits more than make up for the slightly trickier external interactions.

> I don’t keep track of this in any scientific way, only mental notes that I make along the way

> There might be some longer-term changes, mostly associated with my health, but if these exist, they’ll likely start showing up in the next few years. We’ll see what the future holds.
People skipped updates for a reason.

Windows updates are slow as fuck, take forever to download, then forever to install, take your CPU, hog your storage and require multiple boots and MUST be finished after started.

On everyLinux distro I've used, updates were single command/click at most, downloaded in the background, cleaned up from storage automatically, never used much CPU and rarely 'required' reboot.

Yes my Linux distro is updated twice a week and Windows was deleted after being out of ~updates~ use for 6 months, why do you ask?
I was curious to learn why we "never allow the forest to burn", given that Cal Fire for example has a whole department of Prescribed Fire. Sounds like the problem is lawyers and property owners:

> One of the primary obstacles to increasing the pace and scale of beneficial fire use in California is the difficulty for practitioners to obtain adequate liability coverage, although the rates and losses from escapes are very low.

https://www.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/natural-resource-manageme...
Databases Will Be Free
After reading that, it seems TESCREAL-ists, for lack of a better word, currently prefer conservative policy due to its loosening of regulation because regulation tends to tighten the reigns on "move fast and break things." I'm not sure how TESCREAL is antithetical to conservatism, which seems to be what you were implying. To me, it seems TESCREAL-ists will support any political party who has the least likelihood to regulate them as the primary deciding factor. This seems to be evident from the political support the TESCREAL-ists described in the article (Musk, Andreessen, Thiel) have given. Can you elaborate more to help me understand how you feel TESCREAL idealism and current conservative ideology are antithetical?

Chain for reference:

>>It is disheartening to see people on a forum like HN who I assumed have values similar to mine fall right in line with conservative propaganda

>Yeah, its pathetic.
Fwiw, not everyone on 'hacker' news is like this, and many of the thoughtful ones are smarter than I am and skipped this post entirely. But its so disheartening the rot in the Silicon Valley ideology that's everywhere here.
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People don't care about people as long as they are out of sight and you're trying to get them to care for non humans that are even further from sight.