If you're referring to "there will be a cosmological event horizon surrounding each observer, which will radiate Hawking radiation at a temperature of roughly 10-30 kelvin" this is a very tiny fraction: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10%5E-30
There's a kinder way to share this. Ben's teaching a number of things here (basic electronics, computer architecture, assembly..) in an incredibly inviting and rewarding way. I'm confident he's reaching people at varying skill levels. Let's keep that energy going.
A much better phrasing is “what help do you need?”. This works with people you’re responsible for, peers, and others. This has a better chance of discovering if they’re using you to vent to, or discovering a need that someone else can provide and you can connect them with. Secondarily it prevents the problem from becoming your problem because the question stops being an offer.
I’ve been working through Ben’s videos on the 6502 since September. It’s been a highly enjoyable way to relax and learn for me. It’s very easy to go beyond what he’s teaching. There’s so much material out there (6502.org for instance). The most rewarding for me has been taking the basics he gives on address decoding and going beyond it.
A few responses pointing to Ben Eater's videos. I have only a rudimentary understanding of electronics. I built my first 6502 computer following his first two videos. Ben's able to strip away a lot of things you don't need to know immediately to get up and running. Supplementing this with reading sites like 6502.org has built a lot of confidence for me to go beyond what Ben's released so far.
To add to the list, there was an attempt to change the name of the Stockton Airport to San Francisco-Stockton Regional Airport. About 80 miles from San Francisco.
I would not pin the troubles the city is facing on Ed Lee. The Board of Supervisors has an outsized influence on policy, especially housing, and for the most part continues to obstruct development single handedly.
I would love to say rfc.me/bgp (for instance) and get what I’m looking for without wading through obsoleted RFCs. This would be a solid next step for the author. Significantly more work though.
Large, unlimited, and permanent files sounds great to the average person. One nitpick I have with the IPFS crowd is the use of the word 'permanent'. They know exactly what it means, but the connotation for the average person is incorrect (persistent data for the latter, permanent address for the former). The marketing problems run deep.
I love Stafford Beer's "The purpose of a system is what it does" here. It separates fact from intention when reasoning about systems. The engineers that Kumail catches offguard are (in my opinion) confused because the issues he raises are so far from their intentions.
There is an incredible subculture for denim, distressing jeans the old fashioned way, no skeuomorphism here. The pre-WW2 production methods produced a higher quality product (surprise?) but the small looms couldn't produce it fast enough or cheap enough and were sent overseas. The Japanese have carried on producing proper American work wear, while American brands largely produce a simulacrum of American work wear. Sad fact, Cone Mills is shutting down after more than a century, last of its kind in the US.
"This is stupid. Yeah probably, but for its very specific use case it's not terribly bad."
Don't put your work down like this. You created something useful for yourself, and likely useful for others. I'd be surprised if someone called it stupid.
Definitely! Second hardest is paper for me. I've finally settled on Muji's .7 pens and .5 grid notebooks. Very cheap, and the notebooks are thin enough that you get a frequent fresh start.
I choose physical notebooks over digital because it's easier to go freeform when needed and you don't need most of what you think is important at the time.
"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure."
This is a statement about an existing organization and the system they design. It doesn't say you can design a system and then the organization of your choice forms around it.
Back in the early 2000s I worked for a telco. Telecom was having a pretty rough time following the dot com crash. They replaced the previous CTO with a CTO that had a financial background (would have been suitable for as a CFO). This blew my mind at the time. The explanation was simply he's going to be less persuaded by seniors managers arguing for projects on technical merit and more persuaded by the dollars and cents. Rightly or wrongly, it worked, they got out of trouble early and when the economy turned around he was swiftly replaced by a hacker CTO.
He's doing announcements and withdraws of a bunch of /24s and a few other prefixes (including a few IPv6). The green bars are showing that a specific prefix was visible in the global routing table at a specific point in time (and the absence of green indicating it was not globally routed).
Definitely taking them too seriously. As someone who's been on the inside of several big companies the hiring managers often have a ton of power to get the people they want in. If his friends are there, that's an excellent starting point. Applying to a big company in this case is a worthwhile experiment, just don't go through the front door without the referral.
In Canada we had the Big Turk chocolate bar by Nestle. It was a reasonably hard/chewy turkish delight covered in chocolate. Getting one of these as a child was akin to punishment. There were also the miniatures that old folk would put out, you'd expect to find caramel or nuts in the center, but nope, just horrors. Sometime in my late 20s I tried real turkish delight and enjoyed it. Sweet, but not unnecessarily so, with some interesting flavours, especially the floral ones. On one of my last visits to Canada I picked up a Big Turk again... and loved it.
35 years old and it reads like a retro interpretation of modern Apple developer documentation. For technical documentation there is just something so warm and inviting to it (even when the UI is basically just text!). Like a safe little refuge for developers.
I’ve enjoyed working with material-ui. There are other options such as Material Design Lite, which might be a better choice if you’re more at home with CSS. I would really really love to see material-ui support React Native. This would make creating a consistent web and mobile experience easier.
I've recently been bit by global state that used function initializers (func init() isn't the only way to execute logic when a package is imported!). The package used very reasonable defaults, but panic()'d when things didn't look right. So, forking, maintaining patches until upstream changes the behavior, painful.