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How to Design Impenetrable Airport Security by Wendover Productions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1kJpHBn50, 14 minutes, well researched)
Doesn't appear to have any downsides, appears to be logical, effective, and necessary. Appeals to emotion not withstanding.
If you have any good faith suggestions for improvement after watching this I'd be all ears.
Oh, my God, I was wrong,
It was Earth all along.
You finally made a monkey...I care because David Patterson is a badass who was right about everything. :)
For a fun recent one please turn on caption translations and enjoy this short-film/music-video/documentary by Russian band Leningrad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bRPTb3z2rU
You won't regret it. :)
Is it possible to improve this micro benchmark? Of course, by bundling all the inserts in a single transaction, for example, or by using another, non-async database driver, but it does not make sense as it's not how a real-world codebase accessing a database looks like. We favor simplicity over theorical numbers.
Nothing theoretical or not-real-world about it. It is how SQLite docs recommend you do it.
https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q19
https://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/tips.html#sqlite-is-differ...
Although the studies I glanced at say something like:
<2000 steps, couch potato, certain doom
>2000 greatest reduction in risk
6,000–9,000 steps per day 50% reduced risk of CVD for 60+ year olds <=== you want to get used to this as your baseline to be a healthy silver fox
10k steps, marketing for original pedometer
20k steps, best way to lose weight, almost nobody does this daily :)
Here is a depressing video High School Fitness (1962): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGa6BPj3Mcw
And the easiest one to compare is of course US basic training standards that have gone down each time they have been revised since WWII.
I recommend this as a pilgrimage. They have a tour with a very fine actress playing his housekeeper, properly researched and intelligently done, he would have approved.
The backdrop of this investment is not as simple and pithy as HN makes it. Twain was no fool and no gambler.
Abandoned half-finished rewrite of the BQN VM in Rust as is hipster tradition: https://github.com/cannadayr/rsbqn/
http://nsl.com/papers/origins.htm
https://github.com/zserge/odetoj
And watched a few neat videos on the concepts of APL. There's a black and white one on YouTube of a British fellow introducing it using a typewriter. :)
I vaguely get it, my beef with BQN besides being slow is that it is fledgling. And so I have no real excuse to play with it. Otherwise it seems like a holy grail, like, woah finally an APL/J/K to rule them all.
I've seen enough wide eyed salty lispers telling tales of white whales to fear for my sanity going on this quest. Need some sort of lie to buy into like "BQN beyond a superior array language is so fast you could bang out half a page of code in a few minutes and get insane performance and functionality that no mere mortals with their aliensquiggles-less languages can hardly even conceive of".
What kind of half assed cult are you running, haha. No, I refuse to get sucked in. You will not nerd snipe me. Must. Resist.
I keep eyeballing that thing. But I am afraid that like only 7 people use it and it isn't a good longterm investment. No idea.
Which is why they nag you. I don't really understand this mindset but there's no question it exists. And there's no question the paperclip machine will have its goddamn paperclips.
Probably the 19yr old will eventually get turned into Solyent and replaced with a more polite/savvy version - and you will succumb and buy a pro you don't need just to be nice. And numbers will tick upwards.
The simple truth is that dropping out and starting companies for example is not deemed as an acceptable path in life by most of polite society in these places.
And well, there must be a number two after Silicon Valley. Who would you say that is?
China’s ASML is Years and Years Behind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtOyW-JpJjM
tl;dw - Nope. Can't just throw money at this problem.
I suppose the next intriguing step is for it to not just spew the boilerplate but pick on its own what are the best components to connect - hard to predict how far away that might be.
The big lie thing would not be possible if not for the many little lies, they weren't galvanized for no reason nor is there any guarantee it won't repeat if nothing changes.
It is not enough to try and fish one person out of propaganda because often on some deep level they know. They have lost trust in their friends, family, society, so they go along with the lie because they are sure everybody else will go along with the lie. So they pick the blue pill. They know.
How the USSR Collapsed on Soviet TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgT-wR29aIU
Here is Bertrand Russell on his meeting with Vladimir Lenin in 1920: https://youtu.be/6TK9c-caEcw?t=65
Lenin: Oh we're not establishing peasant proprietorship, it is, you see there are poor peasants and rich peasants and we stirred up the poor peasants against the rich peasants and they soon hang them from the nearest tree. *cackle*
It predates modern day Russian, Soviets, or even Bolsheviks. It goes back to Mensheviks who initially developed such psyops to get into and hold power. They had their own inspirations of course but this is really where this evil exploded. It isn't some big secret - the ends justify the means, so lie, make false equivalencies, get people all stirred up and questioning reality and sow distrust as much as possible. Once you get in power you'll put things in order what could possibly go wrong? Things are dire and can't get any worse, so get in power by all means necessary.
With the backdrop of the Cold War they turned it outwards, if you aren't familiar you can get a good feel for the vibe from any Adam Curtis documentary, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
The problem is that once trust collapses and nobody believes in the media, the institutions, and everybody is aware that people lie -- the trick really is to get you to lie also, even a little bit -- a society can get completely untethered from reality.
> It's absolutely fantastic to me how people can just suspend reality and start believing the most absurd notions.
A lot of conspiracies do end up true, coverups are a thing, who can you trust? What even is real?
It is not that your friends are bad people or lack critical reasoning skills. They got shaken out of solid ground and now are in a question-everything mindset.
Very effective. Tragically so.
"Prompt engineering" ChatGPT English in this case is like a new higher order programming language. Prolog meets Ruby. A Haskell for mortals. No more counting parentheses or semicolons which turns away a lot of people from coding.
I guess that is magical, yeah.
Sure. I'm just saying attempt effectively. And don't forget everyone is not everyone you like/agree with.
> The author of the article, could have included a more inclusive preselective
Eh? You want the article to better reflect that bisexsual dudes might want to think twice about moving to Saudi Arabia? One would assume that is common knowledge or at least the responsibility of the reader to further research. By the same token, some of the readers are conservative muslims. How does one simultaneously editorialize the article to be more inclusive/cater to them?
I hope my point is clear. I don't believe a more inclusive preselective is logically possible in every situation, the broader the subject the less chance you have of pleasing every possible reader.
Consider not spending your inclusivity tokens on every single thing you encounter simply because you'll run out. Spend wisely. :)
P.S. - Please don't shoot the messenger.
Of course! This is such a strange point to make in my opinion, I assure you even though you are a bisexual you are ignoring all kinds of things that don't affect you directly as you are only human. :)
It is a big complicated world filled with problems, everything can't possibly be equally urgent in equal proportions to every single person. If anything it is a good way to drive yourself into a depression and in-action, what good is impotent emoting really?
Alternatively you can, for my edification, demonstrate by way of example -- how should I have phrased my initial point in a more palatable manner in your opinion?
Honestly I'd be worried once these people figure out how to edit your work without your talent. Is there a place HNers can contact you btw?