We still doing BGP update typos?
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My ISP is routing public internet traffic to my IPs these days. What keeps me from running my blog from home? Fear of exposing a TCP port, that's what. What do we do about that?
The error in estimation of foods eaten out I treat as a constant factor baked into the daily caloric budget. If I'm gaining weight, the budget just needs to be tightened, i.e. rescaled to account for an error factor that was larger than anticipated. The problem basically becomes estimating one's own estimation error, then adjusting.
As it is, this is a dumb law, and prejudiced against decisions made in silico rather than in vivo.
So the idea of a highly advanced civilization requiring so little resource extraction, or even being able to entirely synthesize all its resource needs from energy, and manage global resources in a non-destructive way, while letting the natural ecology revert to as close as possible to a pre-civilizational state.
So you see small hubs of super-high-density cities, and vast expanses of "nature". Harder to detect from space that way, thus it could resolve the paradox?
You can see our own time moving that direction with urbanization and re-greening happening simultaneously, population growth falling, and a huge effort to abolish the use of one particular variety of extracted resource.
So by maximizing profit at each step along the path, the company destroys itself. Which ultimately sends profit to zero.
So... there's a break in logic somewhere. A link in the chain where responsibility isn't taken.
I don't think it's accurate to say that it is simply us wanting cheaper things. There has been a deliberate trade and even monetary policy that has led to this outcome. It is a matter of policy that the expertise to manufacture such things no longer exists in the United States.
For example, the WTO trade rules the U.S. engineered and China's entry into the WTO facilitated the outsourcing by which managers of U.S. companies sold core industrial competencies out.
Another policy has been the maintenance of a strong dollar, bolstered by the petro dollar system. This makes U.S. exports on the whole uncompetitive.
The abandonment of vocational training in favor of a college-for-all approach has also undercut the skillbase that would be necessary to maintain a domestic electronics and devices industry.
In essence, you could see it as an abandonment of the working class in favor of college graduates, whose stock portfolios benefitted from the cheaper costs accessed in the Chinese labor market.
The America you are familiar with perhaps doesn't care. But many Americans understand that the trade and monetary policies have undercut their own earning potential, and they buy those cheaper Chinese goods with great resentment, simply because _there are no longer alternatives_ in a huge number of categories.
Eventually the dollar will lose its "reserve currency" status; eventually enough of the rest of the world will be developed enough, or trade relationships fraught enough, or free trade discredited enough, that the pendulum will swing the other direction. I suspect the swing has already begun. Part of my motivation for writing the original post---to test the waters.
Anyway, I wasn't aware of Bruce Bastian specifically but the Mormon/LGBT angle stands out. It must have taken a lot of character to be out so publicly in that community.
(The LDS church's response to legalization of gay marriage was to excommunicate anyone who got married to someone of the same sex, and to bar their children from baptism and advancement unless they disavowed their parents' relationship. The policy was rescinded in 2019. In earlier times one could get excommunicated simply for _being_ gay.)
It looks like Bruce and his husband made some appearances on Mormon Stories podcast if you want some inside baseball: https://www.mormonstories.org/?s=bruce+bastian
Burn has Candle as one of its backends, which I understand is also quite popular.
It's a different task to re-implement an already-designed language rather than designing and implementing at the same time. Nevertheless I have run into a number of the difficulties mentioned in the article, and arrived at my own solutions - foremost passing around global UUIDs rather than actual `&` references, and enforcing existence constraints at runtime.
I've experienced the protracted pain of major refactors when assumptions baked into my data model proved false.
In some regards these refactors wore some of the shine off of Rust for me as well. BUT I'm still glad the game is implemented in Rust, exactly because of Rust's dual emphasis on safety and performance.
The AI I'm developing requires generation of massive quantities of self-play data. That the engine is as fast as it is helps greatly.
Rust's strength in ML means my AI training and game code can share important types, ensuring consistency.
The effectiveness of Rust for writing CLI tools (mentioned in the article) has lent itself to a number of game-specific command-line interfaces that are of high quality.
Rust's memory safety became critical once I decided to network the game. I don't want `umpired` to be any more exploitable than it needs to be.
My constraints have been very different than the OP's; obviously it makes sense for their studio given their experience to move away from Rust. But I think Rust still has a place in games.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire:_Wargame_of_the_Century * https://github.com/joshhansen/Umpire
Doesn't this contradict the headline?
Tangentially: I keep thinking an ML framework could be done based on Rust macros, so the automatic differentiation is done entirely at compile time. `let grad = autodiff!(x + y);` (The `autodiff` crate does this at runtime IIUC). Then the compiler's optimizations can apply to the static computation graph.
I always thought that was the vision for TF in the early days, but clearly it moved in a more dynamic direction under PyTorch's influence.
Gives me a summary of the leading issues, from multiple angles. Not an endless stream of murder-suicides.
Disclaimer: I'm a very small time investor, after first becoming a huge fan.
Or maybe it was the colonialist taint that just doesn't sit right these days?
But... the world is still vast, and worth exploring. Maybe even moreso now we _think_ we know everything via Twitter etc.
International Geographic, anyone?
What drove me from Fedora was mostly the need to upgrade every 6 months, and the short support windows.
If you have suggestions for improvement, raise them, or critiques that need a response, raise them.
My suggestion would be to combine this approach with quadratic voting. Then there's no need to decide who does or doesn't get to vote on a development proposal. People who care about it will use their votes on that. Those who don't will use their votes elsewhere. Because votes are finite, people have to prioritize.
And so... maybe I'll just wait for Mint to update.