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>Seriously underestimated

Seems to be the rule of thumb with climate apocalypse now.

There really is no precedence justifying a conservative/reactionary stance on climate change. This won't play itself out somehow. We need proactive Interventions now. It's like with SARS2: We got the second wave, the third wave... no matter how uncomfortable, shit happened exactly like predicted by science - people unnecessarily died. Climate crisis will be so much worse.

As a German, I am really happy about the recent constitutional court ruling extending political legislation's consequences to account for future generations' freedom, and voiding the last insufficient "climate law" by the corrupt CDU/obedient SPD. I hope this level of responsibility gets implement everywhere.

Fish is awesome, but it lacks features and shortcuts of bash/zsh, and it's sometimes hard to translate things. It's also quite buggy IME. Great out of the box experience. Tho, I wouldn't recommend it to new CLI users.

I wish the wiki had a bit more redundancy and TL;DRs. Way too often you are "required" to understand some related issue completely to follow "the arch way". Problem is, this stacks indefinitely. IMO premises should be explained shortly. I want to understand the why, without understanding linux in every detail every time.

I don't know... This year I lost all hope for Germany's future. This goes beyond VW. Until now, I kinda thought everything is going to be alright, Germany is a rich country and all. I wasn't aware of the extend of moral corruption in the CDU. They really eroded the whole country for personal gains. I've never been this disappointed and disillusioned by politics and society as I am for the last few month.

That's not the argument tho.

You liking Apple's ecosystem doesn't mean they aren't anticompetitive.

And really your point is kind of... weird. It's not like you don't have to go out of your way to get third-party apps on your Android phone. And you would lose nothing, if Apple did the same, maybe even more buried in hidden settings and behind disclaimers and warnings. Reads like the typical retrospective justification of any limitation Apple features.

"A single USB-C port? Yeah, I love it! Keeps you focused and mindful about peripheral devices!"

Every god damn time. Beyond bizarre.

The new Siemens offshore turbines put out up to 16MW. This has blown me away. Tho, they are scary machines and I get uncomfortable looking at them (like single balcony on a huge wall kind of uncomfortable). Aesthetically the vertical ones are much, much better IMO. Especially if they can be placed in an symmetrical pattern, not this super optimized complex mess traditional ones show.

I think offshore wind farms have been proposed to protect the US from hurricanes. So apparently they substantially decrease wind energy.

I think in Germany it fails, because reporting positive tests fails. Nobody doubts, if the app was promoted and reporting working flawlessly, it would hugely contribute to managing the spread.

Could you elaborate or link a source. I have a hard time believing acting on lethal blood oxygen levels somehow does not apply if infected with SARS2.

Neither extrem weather events, nor pandemics are expected to be freak events in the coming years. SARS1 was a warning shot.

I don't think pandemic monitoring and response preparation are a that expensive, even if you use them just once a decade or two.

And lots of failings highlighted by the pandemic are of a general nature concerning infrastructure debt. If health care wasn't run at max human capacity for "cost effectiveness" we may not have to talk about triage. If broadband internet access and digital literacy were a thing, WFH would run more smoothly.

I imagine for semi-criminal actors, injecting code or "accidentally" using systen data, are still two different scenarios. I mean, state actors could also just follow you around, or place agents as friends and family... so why bother about anything?

Also, isn't x86 ISA just a translation layer today? I thought on the metal, there is a RISC like architecture these days anyway.

Because with Linux excitement can change things. What are you gonna do if you miss something in iOS/macOS? The right people can in principle make anything work in Linux but with macOS you are left praying Apple decides your use case is their business case.

Imagine what would happen if the compute/$ M1 laptops would perform in some respect better with Linux than macOS. Things may get out of hand, when huge chunks of the Linux community gets involved.

Something like this... but a lot cheaper please. Like <500€ please.

Thanks for jumping in with way more info than I could provide.

I love how the DNA language, much unlike spoke words, is in close relation to physical properties of the world.

There really is some exciting magic in the interception of biology and computation.

I was actually about to write the net benefit bit, but decided against for avoiding some knee jerk reaction of the HN crowd, drowning the argument XD

I don't think your comment your comment is a fitting response as I clearly stated this is about the general, theoretical stance, where you can't make assumptions about either the alphabet, nor the text.

As I recognized, introducing assumptions of course opens possibilities for doing things differently.

I was using the DNA example, because bioinformatics is where a lot of people learn about BMA, because the math is easy there and we are not tempted to make assumptions about the text, even tho it's not random. For most bioinfo applications the alphabet is not four letters, but e.g. the amino acid alphabet, or having additional sequence information included.

In bioinfo practice the naive algorithm often performs competitive against BMA if you optimize for hardware assumptions. Branch prediction is a bitch for BMA.

As a German, I don't see VW getting it together rapidly.

Germany doesn't get life in #Neuland. VW and most of the German industry are respective leaders in some niche by being good at through mechanical engineering IP. Electrical cars are simple. Innovation is in software, DRM business models and battery tech which is all completely foreign to the German industry. People here get Teslas for the charging infrastructure alone, as the alternative is a huge mess. Don't forget, VW is still trying hard to lobby for their known turf, pushing for hybrids and hydrogen combustion mechanical marvels...

Germany doesn't get it. The pandemic has shown, the era of old white me... industrialist has forced the country between a rock and a hard place.

While Musk is shooting consumer internet into space, our leaders had long, exhausting talks, recognizing Germany's need to modernize and embrace technical progression and they fearlessly concluded: It's time to let go of fax by 2030.

Yes, for the looks, but this was based on old Intel.

Now I imagine God looking into the petri dish watching car and paperclip forming entities fighting each other over the measured resources of the experimental culture medium, seeing the beauty of balancing forces, having naturalistic fallacies touch him where he likes to be touched, a lot.

Yes ofc. I was making a theoretical argument. Assumptions about the data or hardware matter in practice, but they are not relevant for the theoretical exploration.

Yes! Thanks for pointing it out!

> ... but it's energetically infeasible to replace petrol based plastics

(2nd paragraph)

I am using this throw-awayish account with a lacking mobile app and cannot edit. So by all means, everyone, consider selimthegrim's comment a shame-edit to mine.

What?! I got that book somewhere. That's hilarious, I didn't expect that. Now I have to read it.

Thanks for the insights!

Still I think ebooks are a different product. At least in my head. I have a different emotional relationship with a physical book. The information within isn't in competition with the endless a "wealth" of information available legally or not.

For text books piracy is a victimless "crime" in my case, as having a digital copy or not, is independent from financial loss above a certain price tag. That is, I can't afford most text books, so I won't buy them; piracy does not influence the income of the publisher. On the other hand, if I really need/want to buy a book, I am likely gonna get much more intimate with it. Let's face it, digital copies are much more likely not to be read. Maybe only indexed and searched as part of a collection. Digital has a different value. (Although, I ofc understand the superficial dilemma here.)

This is the situation we got IMO.

Side note: You, as someone from the industry, I assume we can both agree that at the very least, a free digital copy should be included with every physical one, right? That just silly and artificial to separate, if you make an argument for the value of content and presentation.

(I am no expert at all!)

I mean yes of course in specific scenarios certain assumptions can be made. E.g. for UUIDs you probably better off exploiting the fixed length pattern too.

But for the general/theoretical case these intuitions do not pan out usually. I mean even "memory hacks" make assumptions about the data indirectly by common hardware architecture.

That is, most data isn't random strings of course XD

However when BM is used in e.g. bioinformatics on DNA and you are still stuck with firstly finding data against evolutionary noise, when your algorithms must adapt to your hypotheses, theory becomes more relevant I assume.

I think DNA focused "string search problems" are really inspiring and have a lot of potential for mingling with philosophical fundamentals of informatics. There is something about the evolutionary emergence of "data" AFAIK no other field offers. E.g. the overlapping, extending, or contextualizing information meta-layers upon meta-layers in DNA translation and structure "specified" to no more than merely exist. Throwing Boyer-Moore at ASCII encoded sequences in FASTA files almost feels blasphemous, or the arrogantly fallacious human essence.

Also that thinking about string matching problems isn't good for my mental health. I had horrible nightmares on the road to my O(m) good suffix rule. Very hard not to go a little mad over iterating countless ideas and string matching scenarios in your head... on the train, on the pot, laying in bed trying to sleep.

Btw. digital tablet with pen input is gold thinking about algorithms, as you get modifying your scenarios in place endlessly and copy and paste over paper + pencil.

Yes, I am not contesting or anything, but my example shows how the original BC and GS rules don't protect you from quadratic worst case complexity either. That's my point, it's not easy to do sub-quadratic worst case search.

I haven't recently looked into the sub-quadratic worst case improved version of BM, but IIRC it's far from trivial and not what most people think of for this algorithm. I assume it's also slower IRL, for cache misses, or for expensive operations like modulo in the main loop, and prolly has a space penalty.

BM just has a better average case than naive string search.

I think in the general case, random strings, long patterns do not improve average performance.

Or rather nothing will change, once the pattern length exceeded the expected value for the alphabet used. E.g. for a simplified DNA alphabet, extended BC shifts on average 4 characters. On the fly I can't do the stochastics on GS, but I assume substring match length and chance of reoccurrence run against each other in a similar manner.

On the other hand long patterns increase preprocessing/access time: Extended BC and GS have O(m) for preprocessing, and BC may have non-constant access, depending on space tradeoff.

Just to nuance the nuance...

We do not have an alternative to petrol based plastic for our current economy. Yes, we can make plastic from non-fossil biomass, but it's energetically feasible to replace petrol based plastics. We don't have the landmass, fertilizer, ... to switch completely. (Especially, if you consider the big picture: Biofuel, carbon sinks, food security, ...)

In a way petrol chemistry bought the planet some time before being destroyed by us. It saved the whales and prevented ecological exploitation in the colonies.

Since plastics are used amass not just for stupid junk, but also critical for e.g. medical single use items, sanitation and so on, we shouldn't just think about pollution. Although the thought of eating up to 7g of plastics a day doesn't sit right with me. (Little known side fact: It's not just obvious "plastics", silicone and paint does contribute to microplastic accumulation too.)

Our survival very much also depends on preserving oil reserves for essential use cases of petrol chemistry. Carbon neutral alternatives for many things usually come with an increase in another factor (energy, land use, non renewable resources) which makes them in concert unable to replace fossil energy/chemistry.

Resist.

REDUCE.

Reuse.

Recycle.

Rebury.