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He had the same dead look as he does today.

I kind of agree that its not eithet/or, but:

> and another group who earns less, works hard, but does something they find very meaningful and important to their ethics

It is very rare, in my experience, to find this in tech careers. I don't know why - perhaps its something structural about the uses to which technology is put, and the disconnect with personal values and/or work ethic.

Sure, screen time. But I am also deeply tired of just keeping things charged. Some of my stuff insists on special usb cables - because those cables contain chips that mediate between the <thing> and its charger. Its exhausting.

They didn't repatriate the gold in the sense of physically moving it from the US to France. Instead, they sold the gold that was held in the US and used the money raised to buy gold from other sources, which is held in France.

Different gold, and two financial transactions, accounts for the financial gain.

> Just looks like the Moon.

It is the moon.

> Also didn't realize we could capture an image like this in what I assumed was total darkness.

The "Dark Side of the Moon" is a misnomer. It gets as much light as the side we can see.

It works if you invert it too:

"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

- Óscar Benavides

Reading the "endgame" section, and I feel that some serious thought ahould be given to what the replicator colony will do after it has finished dismantling Mercury.

This reads like it was written by the Cleverest Person in the Room. I have to use Azure Devops at work, and some of the critique of Azure rings true for me, but the author-centric presentation was quite off-putting.

> Fernandez, who more than two decades ago published a four-CD audio compendium of hundreds of recordings from around the world called the Conet Project. It's considered the Bible for numbers-station enthusiasts.

The Conet Project is an interesting listen -- very analogue, Cold War-ish, and a bit sinister. Seems to be available on the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/The-Conet-Project

Interesting. I have no reason to disbelieve you.

So...

If its being broadcast by the US military or the CIA, why Persian?

Because they're issueing activation orders to their network of ani-regime operatives inside Iran? Who, mysteriously for spies, only know that language?

Or because they want the Iranian government to think that? And a numbers station broadcasting in - unusually - Persian, is an easy way to get the attention of the Iranians?

I'm thinking the latter.

> Oracle bought Sun for Java, not for Sun

My recollection is that they also qanted Sun's storage hardware products, to sell alongside their existing DB software.

All odd numbers are obviously prime. Don't believe anyone who says otherwise.

27 is a pretty cool number.

Most birds roost in trees to minimise exposure to predators. Is it possible that birds that are used to living with humans might similarly see a cage as a place of safety? For rest or just taking a break from watchfulness?

(I'm personally uncomfortable with birds being caged for long periods or in confined spaces, and I'm not offering the above as a justification. I don't own or live with any animals.)

I used it 18 months ago when I was looking for a job, and I found a paid subscription genuinely useful. Before and since: almost never. If I change jobs again then I'll use it again.

At this point I assume that all the "thought leaders" posting garbage are either bots or people too oblivious to understand how dismal the platform is.

One thing I've never been able to understand about this new sideload "flow" is whether it will be applied to older devices, or just from some (future or recent) version of Android. Does anyone know?

And then they would find a way to make that embedded Doom run the thing that they are building [1]. Possibly inside a cellular automaton.

[1] Can Doom Run It? An Adding Machine in Doom https://blog.otterstack.com/posts/202212-doom-calculator/

Yubikeys with fallback to Google authenticator.

> Yeah because it has replies.

That doesn't make sense. How would people be able to reply to a comment that was hidden?

This is verifiably not true.

Here's a comment [1] written by an account that is currently two hours old. Its visible to me if I'm logged in, with or without showdead enabled. Its also visible in an incognito tab where I'm not logged-in.

As others have said, you probably posted something that triggered a filter.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553799

I'd argue that your life isn't a thing at you "do" something with. To think that it is seems like a category error to me. This doesn't preclude healthy ambition - but above all try to enjoy your brief time in the light, and be kind.

----

    Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

    by James Wright

    Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
    Asleep on the black trunk,
    Blowing like a leaf in green shadow.
    Down the ravine behind the empty house,
    The cowbells follow one another
    Into the distances of the afternoon.
    To my right,
    In a field of sunlight between two pines,
    The droppings of last year’s horses
    Blaze up into golden stones.
    I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
    A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
    I have wasted my life.

> "TotalEnergies CEO Pouyanné said offshore wind was 'not the most affordable way to produce electricity' in the US, which he identified as being natural gas-fired power plants. [...] So it was a win-win dialog," he said."

Pouyanné is only 62 years old. If, as I hope, there are criminal trials in the future for those responsible for recklessly endangering life on this planet, then I hope that he is still alive and that statements like this form part of the prosecution. Unfortunately Trump will almost certainly be long dead by then.

At what cost, I wonder?

And even then: "after you" ... "no, I insist, after you" ...

I'm a 10↑↑10x programmer. Can I have a job?

> some apps (e.g., banking apps) will refuse to operate and such when developer mode is on

Enable dev mode, sideload the apk, then disable dev mode. I'd argue that it is poor security practice to keep developer mode enabled long-term on a phone that is used for everyday activities, such as banking.

I'd rather not have to go through this ritual, but I appreciate that there is a genuine security problem that google are trying to address. I also suspect that they have other motivations bound-up in this - principally discouraging use of alternative app stores. But basically I could live with this process.

Yeah, I know... Stockholm syndrome...

Although I may not have to live with it, as none of my present devices are recent enough to still receive ota updates.

Context: I don't use alternative app stores. I occasionally side-load updates to apps that I've written myself, and very occasionally third party apps from trusted sources.

GCC == Gulf Cooperation Council?

I probably don't have your mathematical sophistication - but I like and appreciate Quanta precisely because it helps people like me to understand a little bit about challenging things. This enriches my tiny life, and I hope it also makes the world a fractionally better place for us all.

Perhaps you're just not in their intended audience?

"a solid foundation for the future" is faint praise for a language that has been around for over thirty years.

> It has become a best of breed language

To me it lags significantly behind .net (runtime) and C#/F# (language). I don't see Java catching-up.

Interesting article. A few years back I implemented a bunch of maths primitives, including trig functions, using Taylor sequences etc, to see how it was done. An interesting challenge, even at the elementary level I was working at.

So this article got me wondering how much accuracy is needed before computing a series beats pre-computed lookup tables and interpolation. Anyone got any relevant experience to share?

How much accuracy does ray tracing require?