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Basically the concept of rPython is you write your interpreter in rPython you get a jit for “free”. However your target language doesn’t have to be Python.

A list of rPython projects is here: https://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html

I suppose you could do something similar like writing your interpreter in luaJIT. It’s not clear if rPython is doing anything special to enable jit in the target language but it is designed for this purpose.

Here is a language sample from Rosetta code:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set#IDL

Are you serving files other then html/images/css, etc? 300tb is a lot, AWS cloudfront would be charging ~$6000/month by a quick estimate.

Recognize they were probably taking a loss with your business, I'm surprised you didn't discuss how much bandwidth you were expecting when you agreed to the contract, sounds like a miscommunication.

Two thoughts:

* First, although they are claiming every aspect of this battery is quite a bit better, the key variable missing is price.

* Interesting that $1 billion investment, partially by Qatar Investment Authority. It seems the oil states may be realizing things are changing. It might also incentive them to get on board with electrification.

Seems like the problem here is there is several high quality and well-developed formats, but the author and the commenters here dismiss them because of the different trade-offs they make.

csv -- Simple for simple use cases, text-based, however many edge cases, feature lacking etc

xlsx -- Works in excel, ubiquitous format with a standard, however complicated and missing scientific features

sqlite -- Designed for relational data, somewhat ubiquitous, types defined but not enforced

parquet / hdf5 / apache feather / etc -- Designed for scientific use cases, robust, efficient, less ubiquitous

capn proto, prototype buffers, avro, thrift -- Has specific features for data communication between systems

xml -- Useful if you are programming in early 2000s

GDBM, Kyoto Cabinet, etc -- Useful if you are programming in late 1990s

Pick your poison I guess. Engineering is about trade offs.

If high quality light field displays become common place they might be. Think like a 3D display that looks more like a window then a display.

Maslow's theory was never proven and in fact is widely criticized but it provided a starting point for people to think about theories of motivation.

Also see the ERG theory which builds off of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERG_theory

Yes, it reminds me of the “Americans designed a pen that can be used in space, Russians just used pencil” joke.

Even though that joke is wrong… graphite breaks off and is a fire hazard… in this case using dispensers seem to eliminate this problem and the massive apparatus used to support it.

Maybe Hilton guests just really like their bar soap? How many people don’t bring their own anyway?

It was a YouTuber, possibly inspired by a 2012 stunt

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USKD3vPD6ZA

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickferri/2012/12/20/any-monkey...

IQ has actually been increasing

https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence#by-country

Why not hydrogen? Hydrogen's weakness is volume and cost; but for shipping neither of those is a huge concern. Batteries are more efficient but given the scale for shipping that may not be as much

I think are right but not because of the size of the internet. Although the web has grown, the cost of computing and bandwidth has decreased and there’s a lot of open tools, technologies, and open datasets like YaCy and Common Crawl. The data you would want to index is a tiny fraction of the total internet.

The challenge comes from the massive investments in turning that data into a good search engine and cutting through spam. That is the investment I think Google has scaled over time. Secondly, mind share; the moat Google has is immense, although I think DuckDuckGo and Bing has shown given enough time it is possible to get mindshare slowly; though if anything this demonstrates the challenge.

Sad to see commenters here not reading the article and just reacting to the headline. The article is about contagious vaccines for animals for diseases that do not currently spread to humans.

It says female/male characters in advertising; not necessarily fictional.

It sounds like A01- broken access control. Simply that judyrecords was marching through record ids and the backend was not authenticating that access. The backend I think they said is a relational database.

This is the most common security issue right now according to OWASP. You have to understand these issues come the fact that likely lawyers oversaw this project and they picked contractors that were "best value" (low cost).

https://owasp.org/Top10/A01_2021-Broken_Access_Control/

Games aren’t made to look physically realistic at all costs; it’s an artistic effort to try to make games look visually good, communicate with players clearly, and balance performance.

SSAO is subjective if it looks good, but it often does communicate corners and edges clearly which may be what they are going for.

If you want a real answer, it’s because there are many other companies that would love to hire Mr. Cook and would be willing to pay a lot to do it.

Your spreadsheets look nice! I think if I was a banker I would be thinking "okay but what if no one shows up and wants to buy". All the spreadsheets say is that you will lose at least $140k (probably more if you didn't include everything or were too optimistic) per month if and until you got some solid sales coming in.

So the bankers are just asking themself if they want you are the type of person worth losing $200k per month over and what's the chance you could make the idea work.

Your "downside" being positive also might be a red flag, if the bankers feel like making money in New York City really is as hard as people say. To a NYCer anyone saying "you will make money no matter what" sounds like a hustler.

I have mentored for SCORE which is small business advising and is pretty old school, but they no longer push for business plans unless the client is looking for a bank loan.

Instead, the choice of a lean business plan (business model canvas) is also offered or at least talked through. Someone has an idea but isn't sure what to do next. Well a business plan can just be the very essentials (who do you plan to serve and how... what are you planning on actually doing and can you afford to do that)

If you think about it like gambling it makes sense.

It takes about $14 billion per year to maintain the current price given that new bitcoins are "mined", so that's the theoretical supply inflation right now not subtracting deflation from lost coins.

The gambling industry worldwide revenue is $219 billion.

That's just one theory of its value if its purely used for speculation. That said I still believe it could totally collapse at any time or perhaps hit an all time high and slowly decline from there, with several smaller rallies on its way down.

Oh interesting! Good to know

Another alternative that I've seen used is a zip or tar with no compression if you are just appending files and reading but only rarely updating or deleting.

But sqlite is still better, it is more reliable, a bad write on that end of zip index destroys the whole zip archive and sqlite also gives you a lot more potential flexibility later on if you need to add metadata or something else. It is better in terms of inserts and deletes, although you will still need to vacuum.

Well there is NPR but it is quite critical of the government and doesn't have any control over private media

If all apps go on strike, an app that crosses the picket line gets all the revenue in their market. This is related to the economic term "cartel", and why they are unstable in practice.

NASA has this site: https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/

Of course the resolution is very low, it is meant for Earth science monitoring

I get that but also consider that people are free to publish in other journals.

Although it does make me uncomfortable that its a for-profit company, they only print 7-10 articles a month, so I can understand the financials mathematics of needing to make it this amount per article if they want to continue to have a full staff maintain the journal the way they want to run it. I am just grateful these articles are now open to the public for free.

The article says "Our aim is to ensure that lack of funds is never a barrier to publishing with us." As in they will provide funding if someone can't afford it.

Isn't this a really good thing? What is the average budget for an research project that ends up with an article published in this journal?

Clinical trials are in the millions, and research grants are often 6 figures.

I know people see this as rent seeking, but journals DO provide a service which costs money. The issue is before they prevented freedom of information. With this model, they are not.

Anyone want to guess as to why?

Here is my guesses:

* iMessage. Teenagers are pretty social and try hard to fit in. Teens may feel more "cool" and "in" to use the same type of device, and iMessage also cements that.

* Affordable. iPhone SE is $400 which is still expensive, many parents may see that as affordable for their teen

* Parental controls. Apple has a staggering number of parental controls, does Android match this in terms of features and ease of use?

From the faq it sounds like the purpose is to differentiate the gobolinux top level folders from the hidden compatibility folders, which makes sense to me.

They can both be valuable from a student perspective; GSoC from my experience is a full time gig during that time.

I don't how many internships Google has but SoC is 1-2k people a year

Google Internships from Google's perspective is people that they may want to hire. Summer of Code the candidates are chosen by the participating organizations so it's a wider range.