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an immutable black hole might as well be a shredder. the OP in the reddit did precisely that. that money is GONE. locked away forever. it has not been transferred to anyone else.

Call me weird, but I'll take callbacks any day over async await.

If it goes too many levels deep, we have to ask what we are trying to achieve and perhaps consider a better approach (a specialized state machine? threads?)

tangent: why is the basis of most async functionality a form of polling underneath?

Why are interrupts not used? or are they?

source: epoll, select(bsd at least), isn't kqueue also like a multiplexed epoll?

And the US was already having issues in terms of STEM competitiveness...

I believe the term is "decline" or "decadence"...

I do not approve of publicly funding parochial religious schools, for example. This is a bad road to take. The would-be-theocrats don't even comprehend the damage their wish's fulfillment would bring.

I had the misfortune of attending such a "school" once and found it full of fake curriculi and it set me back a year at a crucial time. It was a total joke. I attended approximately 8 different public schools prior to that and after that, including some rather lousy ones, and all were superior to these weirdo cult luckily didn't have to spend much time in.

Public funding? public standards.

and here i thought this was about undocumented behavior in a programming language... https://crystal-lang.org/

I have issue with the massive cost in other peoples lives you seem to be ok throwing away with such pronouncements.

We have to FIX our system, not make it worse. The reality of trying to force our entire civilization to commit mass suicide is a slow horrible intensification of all that is wrong with the world.

Please do your part to spread the word to your fellow nihilists. (by definition, not my opinion nor an insult)

energy usage is RISING with increased difficulty of proof-of-work, as intended.

except that bitcoin doesn't replace any traditional financial systems. in the real world, crypto holders also have banks and buy and sell cryptocurrencies with/for fiat.

very few retailers of any quality/price/repute sell physical for bitcoin, let alone denominated in fixed prices in bitcoin, even at peak hysterical hype (right now)

apples priced in bitcoin would fluctuate wildly and you wouldn't be able to count on being able to eat any given day of the week buying food denominated in bitcoin. the reality is that bitcoin is an unregulated security. It's a volatile investment and it's fluctuations make 'fiat' currencies inflation/deflation pale in comparison.

why not (get rid of) both?

When do we auto-organize as a species and ditch these primitive blame games and Mutually-Assured-Destruction madness such as competitive wasteful economics systems that cause people to drive hours to a place they don't like to "work at a job" doing something that is useless for the overall group and displeasing for the person doing it, simply due to dumb plumbing not organizing us. Maybe we should ask some machines how to run ourselves... (partially joking, but you know what I mean...Where is our group common sense and ability to hive-mind when we need it?)

I have no notion of what metaphor you are referring to. In real life, POW is a waste of electricity that produces nothing external to proving that CPU cycles were wasted, with an ever-increasing difficulty in the case of Bitcoin (getting worse with time, on purpose)

Think of it as some sort of elaborate Dilbert, rather. The essence of it is the dysfunction of corporate office life.

front-end build toolchains and the alleged difficulties in coding es5, cough cough...

or proxying https://plausible.io/docs/proxy/introduction

The fate of life on earth depends upon 2 corrupt fossil-fueled obstructionists. Why is Joe Manchin even in the Democratic party? His voting record during the Trump admin was atrocious, including his confirmation of Kavanaugh.

EDIT: Freudian slip, Tramp admin, Trump admin

Maybe I'm being terribly naive, but I don't see this from a maths perspective at all, I see this as about the shape of data and about memory allocation. If one increments pointers across an array of data, one should know the stepping size, for example.

How is this (programming/practical) side of the word "type systems" related to formal/mathematical "type systems"?

I missed that part

this is nuts.

essentially, serving a website to older devices that are missing the X1 certificate is broken now that the X3 certificate expired yesterday...

or?

(meaning, it's not a realistic strategy to tell clients to update/upgrade, and the cert-expired page makes you look dodgy, and mavericks ain't never getting a chrome higher than 67 and there are tons of people on that still, so...)

that will need to bootstrap first, and you won't be able to use such GC code in the initialization code for the OS.

GC code using Boehm would not be suitable for device drivers nor realtime code.

I can understand where making it available for higher level systems is desirable.

I could envision the kinds of alternative GC systems that could be inbuilt given the knowledge an OS may have about a process or a sub-system etc. Alternatively, Objective C settled upon reference counting (ARC) and this is superior to GC where it counts.

Where do you envision the GC bootstrapping and how do you see it interacting with virtual memory and your malloc implementation?

no Zig nor Nim nor D but you include 2 GC'ed languages as suitable for "low-level code"???

It just doesn't seem like there was a comprehensive plan from day 0.

Conflating:

1) the hideout of some rogue Saudis who architected 9-11, and the search for them.

2) regime change (we all saw those Bimini Buddhas blown up and heard about how bad the Taliban were treating women etc.)

3) occupation (hard work. requires physical presence)

into one big ball of 20 year mud that just doesn't have a tractable conclusion without a clear

1) plan

2) a ton more money

3) locals assuming power vacuums we create and owning it.

It was a failed state before the US arrived, arguably, and the Taliban represent a local power that organically had arrived at the stature it arrived at.

The NATO coalition had a limited mandate from most countries and it was largely driven by post 9-11 solidarity, and largely squandered any goodwill by the time Bush and Cheney invaded Iraq for no reason.

The Afghan adventure arguably broke the Soviet Union more than any occidental efforts. The writing was on the wall before the US arrived there.

If a child can see that there's no clear goal to the war, no clear point of winning that can be determined, then it's probably not very sound, conceptually.

(aka, if you invade a faraway country it can only be held by your people moving there and keeping a large physical presence there. See what happened to the Mongol Empire the minute the Golden Horde moved on... the only remaining vestiges were things of use to the subjugated peoples like the Yam and the Yass)

Basically, a muddled war with no clear strategy or even goal was only ever going to end this way...

needs to be coupled with subsidies for alternatives, transport (public, electric vehicles, etc) and with the knowledge that a poor person will drive that old diesel car into the ground, so give them an incentive to switch.

The point I got from the OP was that traditional culture was low-carbon from day 0, and that at least Britain's climate change minister was jetting about an AWFUL lot, and there are plenty of jet-setters pushing a vegan diet upon the world when home-kept chickens are obviously a net plus, both in terms of food waste (accounts for a significant carbon and other pollution footprint, as we pay to produce it) and in terms of proteins that don't require killing your chickens over (eggs). Contrast that with having a cat or dog (look at amount of animals slaughtered for pet foods)

I agree that our systems need revamping in a large-scale way, particularly agriculture, as you imply.

The actual report https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/

I suspect that bad-faith-social-actors will attempt, as always, to undermine this report and minimize the obvious need to act in reality on Earth circa 2021.

I suspect that we must come up with social and economic mechanisms for making ALL pollution the problem of the polluter, versus an externality for everyone to absorb.

I suspect that we had better find such mechanisms NOW, vs a later that is too late.

not the OP, but I'll propose that the code inside methods is largely procedural code, and this is one level (what you need to learn first), and then how it's organized is a whole other world subject to much debate. (even given SOLID DRY OOP etc.)

Which sort of presumes that there are other places said people can shuffle off to. Their occupation of public parks is largely due to not having a designated place to go, or enough shelter beds, or a myriad of other problems.

One who has no home has fewer options on where to plop with all their things.

Individually, one could analyze each situation, collectively and systemically speaking, you will ALWAYS have homeless people when there is no housing safety net. there are a myriad of things can can occur in individual lives.

Homeless tourism is something that should be worked out between the desirable locations and the locations of origin that likely kick the responsibility can down the road in running homeless OUT of town, and hence to SF or wherever.

Honolulu and beach bummmery is something I've no knowledge of. Actual homelessness is something that doesn't occur much anywhere else I've seen in the world to the same level as it does in USA. I suppose that many places have folks migrating to the city from countryside regions in the hopes of a job and potentially falling on their face. I'm not sure where those folks are in many nations that I've seen (about 50, mostly Europe, South America, Asia, and North America)

in all seriousness there is no backup beyond a few hundred beds in even the largest cities, with waiting lists, and not exactly the first thing you think of when things turn strange in your life and you end up on the street suddenly. You don't think that you are "one of them" and you just are "holding on for this or that" to happen. At some point, if you exit early enough, you can still transition to other societal levels. Left long enough, it changes you or at least you are considered differently and looked at funnily, to say nothing about the difficult in maintaining work and income to get OUT of said situation, etc.

under a bridge downtown.

I mean totally crazy.

Nightmare stuff

that's nuts.

deference to a high speed armored vehicle always?

I will contend that "pedestrian" is the base state of a human who may also be a "driver" when seated in a vehicle. Cities are designed for whom?

We err in allowing cars and pedestrians or cyclists to intersect at all. Cars belong in tunnels or highway-like contained danger zones where high-velocity armored vehicles are the only objects moving there.

And Tiannamen was crushed, but one still has to try, as the watershed moment or breaking point can come in the blink of an eye.

It's my view that Occupy was dismantled by the vested interests it confronted, in the form of paid editorial hit jobs, much as anything that threatens large hegemonies of power. The goal was simple and achieved: awareness of how Wall Street gambling led to the global economic crisis of 2007 and 8 It was ahead of it's time, and will later be seen as such.

What is puzzling to me is how easily that anti-elite message was hijacked by Trumpkins and his elitest of silver-spooned back-scratching politics, which certainly goes against the spirit of Occupy. The takeaway is that there is a public for anti-elite messaging, but that it's now possible to weaponize that in order to innoculate that very same public against targeting you...Trumpkins public is rightfully socialist, just brainwashed by the very elites they think themselves against, lol