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Arguably, the economy just is. It has no purpose, other than what it does[0].

It's not like anyone designed it, or has any control over it. Some people are in position to make adjustments, nudge some aspect of it towards a desired goal or away from undesirable one, but there's only so much they can do - it's all strongly path-dependent.

Put another way, the shape of the economy is just an exercise of descending down the gradient. Any individual or group has very little control over this, and major changes to the economy basically only happen when war or technological inventions reshape the entire gradient.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
> I didn't find anything about sub-addressing in the features list. Is it a supported feature?

Yes, assuming you mean addresses like user+<anything>@domain. The "+" is configured by default when you add a new domain. See https://www.xmox.nl/config/#cfg-domains-conf-Domains-x-Local....

> Also, with a version number starting with 0.0. I'm left wondering if Mox is already stable enough to be entrusted with my precious email.

It's been suggested to just increase the version number since it's more stable than a 0.0.X might suggest. I'm currently considering mox at release number 14. I'm still on the fence about it. Ideally people make the decision on the merits of stability, not based on the looks of the version number. But I understand it's used as a signal for how stable software is (but mileage will vary!).

At least I'm trying hard not to break anything, so upgrades will work for all installations.
there's truecolor support (which is now available in screen 5) and the other thing is clipboard support (not sure what it's called exactly) which basically allows you to directly copy text from screen (or say, neovim) even from remote sessions. Can't think of anything else personally (oh there's undercurl support if you care about that).

I find screen to be more stable than tmux but can't say I had any issues with tmux in the past couple of years (but it bothers me that tmux sessions share the initial environment the first session was launched from iirc). Right now it's the clipboard support that makes me use tmux over screen.
The post-Soviet / early Russia oligarch playbook.

The US really is losing the Cold War. It just lost async.

Edit: it's also to destroy the institutions by making it harder to rehire and house people after the firings are done, as pointed out by someone else here.
even the first picture is not correct so not reading all of that
> The real life is not as simple as you wish The energy I produce can only go to my neighbors, it can't be sent to a different region in the same village it is a grid limitation.

I would need to write something the size of a PhD thesis, not a comment, to fully describe the various possibilities and their trade-offs for even just the Italian grid, let alone the whole of Europe's.

But to keep it simple, I can say that limits of your grid can be re-engineered, and even for unrelated age and capacity reasons people are already planning to spend more on upgrading the European grid anyway, than it would cost for the material to build a global high-power DC backbone that would let the EU be lit in the middle of night, in the middle of winter, without any batteries at all, by panels in the Australian outback — and I have in fact done the maths on that.

(Only China is actually making enough aluminium, there's geopolitics even before Trump happened, but the price tag to get a single ohm of resistance around the entire planet is actually fine).

> Or if there is someone that can buy it because of too much solar the prices would be close to zero then the solar panels investment will not be worth it since you could be cheap energy from the people with solar panels when the weather is good.

Such investment is still generally worth it, because you don't need to actually sell anything when the price is low (or even negative), and even if it was zero the whole time forever, you've saved 100% of the current cost of supplying yourself with electricity.

> My gut feeling is that 100% solar is stupid, it is like the 20-80 problem we see now a lot of growth since it is very profitable, when more grid investment is needed and profits will go down this growth will stop.

100% anything leads to correlated failures.

But there's several other renewables.
Nice to see that Europe remains a failed socialist hellscape even in the eyes of supposedly smart Americans. Thanks for taking the time to write this. Must've took a solid 4 hours of googling on ketamine.
As a layman, I think this opinion is wrong. I think it's clear that the EU position vis-a-vis Russia would have been greatly compromised had it not been for the magnitude of U.S. military spending.
Deflation (defined as, the value of the currency goes up with time) means that prices go down with time. This however tends to accumulate wealth and not have it move around in the economy (it being more remunerative to hold on to your currency because its value increases). This makes it harder to run an economy because eventually, with a fixed supply, all the currency gets hoarded and only a bare minimum circulates to buy essentials.

A little inflation means that your currency buys stuff _today_ that's worth more than hoarding it for _tomorrow_, so you spend, vitalizing the economy.

The reality is, it needs to be balanced. There needs to be enough money in circulation such that economic activity is not stymied, but not so much that it starts price wars.

Kinda like blood sugar!
People cook with microwaves ?
*physician competency
US is prosperous because it produces the world currency. Need to buy steel? Just print more dollars and buy it from any other country. Need to buy food? Ditto. Need to buy brains? Ditto.

No working is required, when you can print any amount of currency and can buy anything from any part of the world with it. Yes, printing speed up inflation a bit, but unlike in any other country of the world, when US is printing dollars, they spread the effects of inflation on all of the world: US becomes richer and all other countries a bit poorer.

This is why linking dollar to the gold would kill US prosperity. Also, one reason is why US is so heavily militarized and is fighting wars all over the world: you need to constantly threaten all the world so that they can't even think of choosing any other mean for world trade other than dollar.
It's not difficult, but it's something extra. Now I just plug my car in the garage and it's always charged. Plus it drives so so much better (constant torque at any speed feels amazing, you can control the car very precisely), and doesn't stink and make noise.

I wouldn't go back either, even with the occasional 20-minute charge break on a very long trip.
Architectural Innovation (1990)
Even if we take different hardware into account we can readjust for measured vs theoretical throughput.

Ceph cluster achieves 1 TiB/s / 1.7 TiB/s = 0.58% of theoretical throughput.

3FS cluster achieves 6.6 TiB/s / 9 TiB/s = 0.73% of theoretical throughput.
The gap between haves and have nots is more related to politics than economics IMO. It's about how the value is (re)distributed.
The landing page may be a bit too minimal in giving overview of this cool project. I really liked the direction towards real-time P2P networking, based on Iroh [0]. See the blog post about this [1].

> After almost two years of collaboration with the wonderful Iroh team, and years of discussions with numerous experts in the decentralization space, we are happy to announce that Delta Chat 1.48 apps on all platforms contain state-of-the-art Peer-to-Peer networking support, including hole punching and forward-secret end-to-end encryption. Concretely, Delta Chat now establishes private Peer-to-Peer gossipping networks between users who start a webxdc app that uses the new joinRealtimeChannel() API.

[0] https://iroh.computer/

[1] https://delta.chat/en/2024-11-20-webxdc-realtime
> the website makes these products look very mature.

I remember using their software over 20 years ago, so it should be
I massively prefer it to Adobe. Granted I’m not a professional designer, but as an amateur affinity is much more affordable, but also much easier to work with.
These things also generate revenue. It's not a zero sum game. Fast charging pricing varies quite a lot but 50 cents per kwh is a nice round number to work with (and probably lowish). Some places charge more, some less. If an average charging session charges 30 kwh, that's 15$/session. To earn back 90K, you need 6000 charging sessions. At 17 sessions per day, you'd get there in about a year. You also have to deal with power and other overhead obviously. And chargers are more expensive than just that. A good charger should be generating 50-100K of revenue per year and do that for several years until it is replaced. The lifetime revenue should be at least a few hundred thousand $.

Of course this whole article is based on the notion that its assertions about cost are correct. They probably are high balling a few numbers. All I'm reading is that US charging companies are paying a high price for their infrastructure and are apparently failing to benefit from economies of scale, learning effects, etc.

High speed chargers are being deployed at scale across the globe. The US is technically behind on this front with relatively low EV adoption rates. So, I would expect US companies to be somewhat behind on the cost front as well.

Bottom line: done right, unsubsidized charging infrastructure should be doable and profitable.

Subsidies are of course involved in a lot of places. But it's not like fossil fuels are un-subsidized. Regardless of what you think of that, there's a good reason for that: governments are eager to sponsor energy infrastructure because it's an economic multiplier. Economic growth is strongly connected to energy availability and usage. Lucrative economic activity tends to be very energy intensive.

The US has invested many trillions in it's oil and gas infrastructure over the decades. And that's just direct investments. All those expensive wars in the middle east to secure access to oil are also part of this. And it has had a decent return on investment on those investments.

It's nowhere near matching that for the clean replacement for any of that stuff. Other countries are outspending the US so they can provide clean, cheap energy to their economies. The US should be spending more and spending smarter or it risks pricing itself out of the market. China in particular has built up quite a lead here. I don't think the Chinese are wasting their money.
My first question on this sort of thing was how well does it work with GMail. And they have an FAQ entry on it: https://providers.delta.chat/gmail
Zig 0.14.0 Release Notes
> As for Eich and JavaScript; technically, I doubt more that 0.1% of working coders are fit to lace his boots.

That seems pretty extreme.
The illegal gold rush driving up global chocolate prices
A rather medieval way of thinking about gold - it is only scarce on Earth. The year is 2025, and asteroid mining is on the horizon, so gold supply could increase dramatically. Tying the dollar to something that may soon become abundant doesn’t seem like a brilliant idea.
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> The majority of available studies fail to demonstrate that flossing is generally effective in plaque removal

How about removing gunk left from eating? Anyone who did a bit of flossing knows it’s very effective at that.

> One study review in 2011 did credit floss with a slight reduction in gum inflammation [..] A commentary in a dental magazine stated that any benefit would be so minute it might not be noticed by users.

The benefit of brushing your teeth will also not be noticed immediately, it’s still a really good idea to do it. And as someone who didn’t floss for a long time but does now I am quite sure there are benefits. And my dentist can immediately tell.
There are also java realtime JVM with different latency promises.

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

https://www.aicas.com/wp/products-services/jamaicavm/

Additionally there are plenty of others around,

And then there are flavours, like microEJ, Android, what Ricoh, Xerox ship on their copiers, BlueRay,....

Folks' hate for Oracle make them forget that the Java push into the industry was not Sun alone, rather Sun, Oracle, IBM trio.

Oracle has since early Java days embraced the technology, and even had their own flavour of JavaStation, called Network Computer.

Oracle has been a better Java steward than the alternative, being Java dying in version 6, losing Maxime (whose ideas live on GraalVM),...

No one else jumped to acquire Sun, and Google missed their opportunity to own Java, after torpedoing Sun.

Nowadays Google has their own .NET.
Marathon rockets of fury networked. Carmegaddon and Must/Pyst. Spaceward Ho! Where were you? {Fires rocket} pathways into darkness. Loderunner, dungeons of doom, Oregon trail
You say this like there are not ample valid reasons to criticize Mozilla.
Was nonsense 'vegetative electron microscopy' phrase a Farsi typo?
Blind trust, yes:

"Fact check: Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm into a blind trust during presidency"

Carter put his peanut farm into a blind trust during the presidency – he didn't sell it. An expert told USA TODAY blind trusts allow someone to retain ownership of an asset while transferring management to another person or institution.

<https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/24/fac...>

The sale happened after Carter left office, with considerable personal debts:

The Carters sold the peanut farm in March 1981, shortly after Carter left office following a failed bid for a second term. Years of drought and changes in warehouse management had left the Carters with more than $1 million of debt at that point...

I'm not sure a blind trust makes particular sense for a specific business as an isolation measure. Contrast with, say, an investment portfolio where management of the portfolio is completely handed over to an independent entity. In that case there's no direct managerial control over the individual investments themselves (save shareholder votes), and the contents of the trust can vary over time.

Putting an individual business in a trust strikes me as putting a single item in a bag and then into another bag. You're not abstracting or collectivising, only putting more packaging around it. Maybe there's some managerial distance, but everyone on both sides of that gap knows exactly who ultimately benefits.

(I'm not calling Carter corrupt. He's likely the least corrupt president the US has seen in 50--75 years. I'm saying that this specific measure, well-intentioned as it may have been, was rather empty. It's also immeasurably better than present practices, of course.)
Assembly doesn't really have indexes, as it doesn't have arrays. It's all addresses and offsets. Offsets are naturally 0-based.

Everywhere else, indexing is just a convention, even in natural language and math.
I've been hosting three servers for over a decade and only had that problem once for a month with Google about 6 years ago. As long as you setup SPF at a minimum you'll be fine
I was not saying that you were.

I was adding to your comment about OP.

You suspect OP to be based in American and influenced by some American line of reasoning towards Israel. I'm saying that someone from the CCP is more likely to change the target by attacking American hypocrisy towards Israel
If you need the money now, get the job.
If you don't need the money right now, get the university one.

edit: Keep in mind that changing the company you work for every few years will get you a better salary in the end so don't get too comfortable at your first job.
>There is a very big reason why there’s no more large swaths of immigrants from European and some Asian countries flocking into the US.

Yeas, and this reason - US visa is one of the hardest to get.
I actually disagree. It allows us to gather collections of retro software.
Honestly, imagine being in a regular software field and improving your product 2x. It is now two times better than it was previously. That's amazing! You could probably beat out all the competition, steal all the customers, quadruple your profits.

OpenAI and every other peddler keeps promising upgrades in the magnitude of 100-200x. That's impossible. To be affordable and usable enough, they would have to come up with actual miracles.

At this point, they've picked off all the low hanging fruit. At best, we're going to be seeing marginal improvements at the cost of a large price increase (see latest OpenAI flagship).

There is some usefulness, but after so many dollars wasted, all companies are going to be left with is a bunch of useless GPUs. I can't wait.
Libreoffice Draw is an often overlooked application that I've been using for years to create one-page/two-page designed documents. It has become quite powerful over the years.

Also, you might want to have a look at the open source "Scribus". I never liked it too much, but it gets a lot of jobs done.
I love Tom Wolfe; I’d not connected his out-of-vougeness to the recent preference for ‘truthiness’ in reporting the reviewer identifies.

I remember reading him at ~13 - my dad gave me a copy of ‘The Pump House Gang’, and told me something to the effect of: “try to write like this - don’t ever try to sound like this.”

We live in Didion times - clean lines and clean sentences - and though maximalism on the page (or in any design) is hard to achieve, especially when written from reality, I think we have room for a few more.

Or at the very least, I think Wolfe deserves to be thought of better by the zeitgeist. He’s so much fun!
> It looks like written code and it compiles like written code - it's written code.

And more often than not it's just plain wrong code. LLMs aren't actually writing code, they are guessing at what might satisfy an input. Writing code is more than guessing, it's about assembling instructions with intent, for a purpose. LLMs lack that intent and purpose.

> You can rightly criticise the use of LLMs in many ways but it is more useful to focus on the actual reasons they cause harm than to set red lines over language.

The "actual reasons" they cause harm are inherent to how LLMs work. The real problem is people not understanding how they work and placing too much trust and in them and believing the hype. They are not some miracle, they aren't even all that helpful, and in my experience they are more of a waste of my time.
This is probably disinformation. A majority of the Ukraine aid resources from US get spent inside the US so any lost funds or misaccounting would happen there.
My reply is low value for HN but your comment is the literal embodiment of an older meme:

- Tech Enthusiasts:
Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via Alexa! I love the future!

- Programmers / Engineers:
The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

P.S. More seriously I agree, we witnessed multiple times over the enshitification that inevitably follows.
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Ah, the joys of thwarting a piece of hardware.
I would like to note that there are many other fields in science which have even more trouble performing experiments, but nobody says that e.g. astrophysics or astronomy is not a science.
why would tariffs make US exports more competitive? It would make other countries under tariff to retaliate, which makes US exports less valuable.

Unless, of course, the US has some sort of monopoly on an export that others have no choice but to take. I dont think the US has such a resource.
The Guillotine's First Cut
Making money with money (a.k.a. finance) existed long before fiat currency, you can't get rid of it by going to the gold standard. It would be much more effective to ban speculation in investment markets (calls and puts).
> Got you, I was a bit on edge from previous not so fun exchanges on another thread.

Ah, that happens, no problems on my side whatsoever.

> I go by Feynman's logic: if you can't explain it simply you don't understand it.

That's true, but in reality it needs a couple of passes to distill down, which needs time. An example of a live document I have written can be given as [0].

Can it be better? By miles. How much time does it need? An amount I don't have right now. "When you're poor, everything is expensive" works for time, too. So, I try to do my best when I have time, and polish it later when I have additional time for it.

[0]: https://notes.bayindirh.io/notes/Hardware/Installing+a+Home+...
We actually can't judge this without really looking at outcomes.

If the parent leans on the hard earned skills to make better decisions that improves outcomes for their team and by extension the org, then it's entirely possible it makes them a better manager.

Where it gets complicated is questions non-related to this:

- Who and how is anyone measuring outcomes? This is often very difficult in abstract.

- Is the org actually setup to allow these teams to flourish? Will the measurement be fair, or is there effectively internal sabotage?

- What's the reward for being better? Would the parents life actually be materially better for making the effort?

Personally, I agree with the parent. On average, having good ICs making your IC decisions lead to better outcomes. Where there's grey areas is there's more than 1 way to structure this. Player managers are definitely valid. Better than non-technical managers with good soft skills making poor engineering decisions over and over.

Where I'd disagree is the continuous effort. Once you've reached a certain level, a lot of what happens below syntax. Occasionally you end up managing something you don't understand with contention in the team.

At this point, you either invest or defer. The problem with the latter, in my experience, is very few devs have experience with commercials, so most of the arguments are based on laziness, interests, or purism, rather than outcomes.

For the record, whilst there's managers we like working for, if they're not able to extract reward for business outcome for the few that chase that, are they actually any good?