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Surf would be way, way up though

This is a great set of charts and analysis, although I have two problems with it.

1. On the chart of energy density, I'd like to see the the energy density of petrol for comparison. It's much higher, and even though extrapolation is dangerous, I'd like to see how long it could take to reach parity given some of the different forecasting models they mention. Specifically regarding their mention of air travel, I'd like to know what the minimum viable energy density would be for a vessel's fuel source, because my current understanding is that commercial air travel powered by electricity is not feasible.

2. They mention S-curve adoption, but that reaches a horizontal asymptote eventually, it doesn't go up forever. I'd like to see more analysis on where we think we're at on the S-curve, and why. I'd like to see a guess on where it levels out displayed on that chart, instead of the arrow simply pointing at the sky. If nothing else, show where the chemical limit might be based on current battery technology.

I want to displace fossil fuels and reduce pollution and slow the greenhouse effect as much as possible. I think transparency and realistic expectations need to be part of the transition. The more information available to markets, the more efficiently they can work towards the goal. I find it very difficult to get answers to these types of questions when discussing renewable energy generation and storage. I'm sure part of it is my own ignorance on where to look, which is why I ask: especially here, hopefully an expert can see this and quickly point me in the right direction.

In addition to what sibling comments have said, and I know this is a waning concern these days, but having the events in iCal also affords offline use.

I would think you could automatically load the first match's "hide" URL until no more matches appear in the page, but it might trip some kind of rate limiter.

I consider it a game to try using those without bumping my hand into any part of it or getting any water in my face

I know other people use their feet, which is partly why I use my foot

And think of how much more productive we could be if we could save trips to a dedicated room for it! Every desk could be fitted with a waste vacuum, right next to the soylent dispenser. Just don't mix them up...

If you pay a mortgage till the day you die, how’s that different than paying rent till you die?

If you can find a home you like more than places you can rent, and the payments are similar enough, seems like it’s still better to get a mortgage.

A mortgage payment can’t increase like rent can and most likely will, forcing you to move every X years if you decide you can find somewhere more affordable.

Of course there are tradeoffs in the other direction, like if you need to move to a distant location for job/family/health, I just don’t think it’s as one-sided as you present it.

Could you show us an example of a service API that you maintain that doesn’t uses API keys?

This is some negging bs.

Current front page items include a paper on vector databases, an example of AI garbage that showed Amazon in a bad light, a quite in-depth treatment of “Trilinear Point Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering” hosted on a PhD’s own github page, you know github, a huge gathering place for hackers to share their code with each other? An article criticizing Unity about banning an open source LGPL application, written by a developer of said open source product, introducing a competing platform to further decentralize the app store landscape, an article critical of Boeing, an article critical of Apple, a radical rocket design, bluetooth mesh networking, an open source python notebook project, an indie developer’s project to run stable diffusion in an iOS app instead of from some corporate server, an article on the ethics of immersive tech, an article on mysticism and empiricism, an article on epistemology…

Yeah, real dull business environment here. I’d totally rather go back to my training on peer performance reviews.

If you can’t find anything interesting on this site, it is a you problem.

"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."

We’re all so sorry that you can’t just do whatever you want while unleashing the externalities on society at large. You want to hack, go do it in your basement where you can’t affect the rest of us. You want to engineer, you have to answer to more people than just your mom asking what you want for dinner.

bazel does a fairly nice job with this

I don’t think that’s why they did this, considering they added the ability to view comments.

So what happens if you send a message with a video and the recipient’s device is not responsive, say because it is out of battery or data service range? Should the message simply be lost or should it be stored somewhere until it can be successfully sent?

I want to know how a socialist or communist approach can produce a viable open source ecosystem, and I want to learn about it by studying the actual results of an existing system, not the whim of theory.

If this is on macOS, what about ⌘ ^ SPC to get the emoji picker?

Nobody is denying partitioning is helpful. It’s the implementation details of that partitioning that cause the debate. IMO using repos as a partition boundary is an abuse of git. And IMO invoking Plato to make a point is not helpful. Argumentum ad antiquitatem. This goes for the “30 years” comment as well: it’s entirely conceivable that they’ve been doing things inefficiently for 30 years. More likely that there is such a huge sunk cost that they are heavily invested in justifying it.

As someone who has worked in monoliths and microservices, monorepos and github galaxies, I think it would be better if we could converge on a monorepo managed by something like Bazel where you can just create a new build target that lists its dependencies, and can work directly with the dependency graph via its querying mechanism. Using repositories to encapsulate dependencies and build scripts I think is much too heavy of an abstraction and leads to poor discoverability. When I have to deal with that I usually wind up treating it like a monorepo anyways by creating automation to check out all repos and manage syncing them.

What is an example of a noncapitalist society with an open source software scene?

> FAANG thenselves contribute a lot to open source software

The salaries of the people who work on those projects are paid by the revenue streams generated by the companies.

How do you control for bias coming from the same coin flipper? Do they usually flip their coin from the same starting height (whatever comfortable arm positioning they have, which I assume would also introduce bias by how they catch it as well) and to the same arc peak height? Or were they encouraged to try a different body position, strength and angle of launch for each flip?

1K is way higher than I would’ve guessed, that’s good to know! Very impressive.

True generally, but it gets murkier all the time. Just last week I ate at a traditional restaurant that stated up front that there is a 15% service charge on all checks. This was in a city that has a very high minimum wage even for tipped employees. More traditionally, parties of a certain size at a restaurant always are charged a fixed gratuity.

Then there’re the square terminals that are normalizing up-front tipping for everything, not even just food service anymore. I’m sure I’m not the only person who has tipped up front for something and the service wound up being terrible. So there are three examples of tipping towards the future.

There’s another future component to tipping: in many places there is regulation that states if the tips don’t make up the prevailing normal minimum wage, the employer must pay the difference in salary. I’ve personally never seen this happen and I worked for tips for about 7 years.

It seems to me that if you want to be a CEO that wants to stay connected at the ground level, then you have to actually do that: you have to know each engineer, and understand the work they’re doing on any given day. Naturally, this tightly constrains the possible size of the company. If you want to grow beyond that size you must accept that you will become disconnected and out of touch and all of the bs being discussed here will inevitably creep in.

Tell that to Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes and SBF. There are limits on what you can say to people and how you can exchange money.

We’re all humans and life is very complicated with many facets. If we all looked hard enough I’m sure we could find a person you’d refuse to engage in a debate with over their “thing.”

But that wouldn’t be a wise use of time in my opinion. And that’s what they’re ultimately driving at: we all have limited time to expend, so do it in things that matter to you. I believe “matters to you” is a bias.

That “if” is doing a good bit of lifting though. Nobody is talking about the hallucination rate.

How many times have innocent people been wrongly convicted? The innocence project found 375 instances in a 31 year period.

How often do LLMs give false info? Hope it never gets used to write software for avionics, criminology, agriculture, or any other setting that could impact huge amounts of people…

Isn’t life expectancy an average? If so, then reducing any input values (people dying earlier than they otherwise would) would reduce the average. Doesn’t matter in which n-tile the reductions occur.

Granted I’m still very early in my parenting years but if my child’s high school requires a smartphone I feel like I’m going to be viewed as a kook because I’ll turn up to meetings shouting at them about how they’ve failed the kids from a social development standpoint.

Any particular reason you’re being so combative about this?

I’m talking about a take home code challenge. It’s unreasonable to have someone to record a video that could last an hour or more. And I’m not gonna sit and watch that.

What’s so great about a career? I grew up loving programming. My career had disabused me of that long since. I am indeed very lucky and grateful that my income can support my entire family such that my wife could take a break from her career (in social services, a hell much worse than my own career) to raise our child full time. I would trade the frustrations of tech to be a stay at home dad in a heartbeat.