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The very same hubris caused trouble in Vietnam, which were fixed with rapid re-introduction of guns to fighters, and dogfighting to fighter schools. Sad to see this lesson having been lost.
You could make the exact same argument about the ecological movements opposing nuclear power generation. Not sure if that goes along, or perhaps across, the point you are making.
As for books, I wholeheartedly recommend the excellent https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sled-driver-brian-shul/1123... written by one of the pilots.
Windows 10 does a little trick to speed up boot - when you perform a shutdown, Windows 10 saves a mini-hibernation image to the hibernation file. When you perform normal boot, it can start up quite fast[1]. This gives noticeably shorter boot time especially on spinning rust drives (i know, i know, $CURRENT_YEAR). However if you perform a "reboot" instead of "shutdown + power on", you'll get the full length boot of notably longer time.
[1] assuming the hardware setup is sufficently unchanged
Surprisingly enough, supersonic planes have good fuel economy while supercruising - thanks to thin air at the high altitude, and speeds around Mach 2 ... 3 being good for turbojet engines.
Expect worse taxiing, take-off and climb fuel economy, due to dense air and also suboptimal (high) angle of attack. This means supersonic planes are best suited for longer routes.
Even the grandpa Concorde had good fuel economy in cruise, however it was overshadowed by atrocious fuel economy at low speeds, and the use of afterburners in transsonic region[1]. The designed but never built Concorde "B" would have notably better economy thanks to more advanced engines doing away with the afterburners.
[1] https://www.quora.com/How-fuel-efficient-was-the-Concorde-co...
I am gonna hold onto your quote, for enjoyment and giggles in 2032 :^)
No; passing on knowledge isn't quite sufficient. The key difference is our ability to manipulate objects with hands, and our ability to harness external sources of energy, starting with fire.
Cetaceans (in particular orcas and dolphins), chimps, crows, they all are known to develop & pass on language, culture, and knowledge like hunting tricks. Cetaceans, and also octopuses have relatively high intelligence. The former live in long-running packs (pods), and pass on their distinct cultures, language dialects, and hunting habits. The later live with little to no contact with their parents, and have to discover everything from grounds up. Both have been around for much longer than humans. Neither have progressed anywhere near close to having a technological civilization, and are on relatively similar level.
Indexes have lower computational complexity for certain tasks (in particular range queries & sort), but higher constants than typical hashing.
Thus indexes make more sense with two-tiered memory; to cache in RAM metadata about data kept in block storage.
How that could be put to good use with the L1 cache being much faster than RAM is anyone's guess[1].
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[1] without guessing, we already know a small interpreter that fits in L1 can be blazing fast.
Both the good outcomes and the bad outcomes. Cue the recent Slack WYSIWYG editor woes.
Slack used to have an IRC gateway, allowing anybody to peruse it from any OS, on any device, with any UX. The Slack corp. chose to supply UI for one popular platform (Electron), and cut off[1] any other means of access. This single platform focus did put Slack in full control of the UI and UX of the messenger, and able to force the WYSIWYG editor on all users.
Without the overwhelming dominance of one platform (Electron), Slack most probably would feel the need to maintain the fully featured IRC gateway, letting people interface with it fully via alternative means.
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[1] the APIs are un(der?)documented, changing, and you are on your own
Sadly I can't help you more - best ask on mailing lists[0] or on IRC[1].
Historically Plan 9 was developed from grounds up to support several architectures, so in this case you're really asking about drivers for specific peripherals.
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[0] http://mail.9fans.net/listinfo/9fans and http://lists.9front.org/
[1] #plan9 and #9front and #cat-v on irc.freenode.org
And yes, it uses mouse-based select/cut/copy/paste, with line- and block- level operations.
For those unable to switch outright, I wholeheartedly recommend plan9port[0] - an almost complete set of utilities and protocols from Plan 9, ported to run in Linux, MacOS X, and OpenBSD userspace. It's being actively developed[1] by the 9fans community.
plan9port comes with both sam and acme[2] programmers' text editors.
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[0] https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/
The fake university was a magnet for people who didn't want to show up to the classes - the gist of the program was to find student visa users who did not care at all to study; they just wanted to get in the USA.
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[1] started in january of 2016: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/27/univers...
>a lot of what we do as humans—at our best—is frankly irresponsible
There's no responsibility without risks. If anything, responsibility is in the conscious & reasoned risk-taking, having prepared to clean up or nullify any negative side-effects.
>obeying all the laws of their local jurisdiction
Speed limits are set at 85 percentile of traffic's speed[1]. Without the speeders we'd be having even more regressive speed limits.
The run was a good idea, and I am looking forward for the next attempt.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit#Maximum_speed_limi...
One can't realistically ask people to only ever do what's safe.
As a species we're built to operate at certain risk level. If you track the risks of business, leisure, travel, etc., through ages and cultures, they do show remarkable stability. As soon as better technology, organization, skills, and so on come along, people start going faster, harder, further, more intensely and such.
You can make superficially reasonable arguments, but you can't change the fact that risk-taking is necessary for gains. This observation is built into our, humans, very nature, and everybody has a natural grasp of it.
But it has, or at least close to:
RTGs[1] weighting a couple dozen kilograms are used in space exploration and in rare cases in cold climates. Their main problem is low power density.
Nuclear pacemakers[2] of just a few centimeters across used to be a thing - long lasting and reliable. Also used thermoelectric generators. Replaced by cheaper lithium-based batteries due to high costs of making the nuclear capsule resilient against various possible sources of damage - like body cremation, car accidents, etc.
Nonetheless we have reached certain natural limit of nuclear fission, and only use of nuclear fusion[3] (or major scientific and engineering break-throughs) could change the status quo. The three main unsolved problems for wide scale commercial deployment of fission power:
1) radiation shielding - right now we only have passive shielding via use of structural materials, weights a lot
2) critical mass for active chain reaction (heavy and requires active management) vs passive generation via spontaneous fission (low power density)
3) operational safety and non-proliferation issues: a fission device requires radioactive material, and radioactive material is by its nature dangerous
Notably all three issues are either minimized or entirely absent for nuclear fusion.
Lastly, in typical nuclear power plant, the power generation facilities are usually of comparable size to, or even larger than, the nuclear reactor building itself - so miniaturizing the reactor would yield only diminishing results. High-temperature superconductors ought to be of some help here.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
[2] https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/medtech-memoirs-...
[3] "Typical fuel pellets are about the size of a pinhead and contain around 10 milligrams of fuel." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion
Not at all; it's a valid strategy. The events and the state of the world can be deduced from observing the (near) past just as well as from reading the news, perhaps even better. A person can stay reasonably well informed by skipping on the news, and instead observing actual events, actual outcomes, that is the (near) history. Both in person and through social circles, in particular friends and family. You could call it "the slow way" of getting the news.
As noted in OP and elsewhere in discussion, the news are rife with misinformation. It follows news listeners, subject to the misinformation, end up with various misconceptions and strong emotions, thus prone to doing things no well informed person would do. Having a sizable segment of population not subject to the news, and instead informed via others means is a natural counter-balance, a safety mechanism against single mindedness imparted by the centralized news.
To quote from the 'About' section,
>To achieve this goal, I am developing a file system to replace the hierarchical file system paradigm used on every computer since the 1970s. I am also developing a human-computer interface to replace and extend the mouse and keyboard, which have kept the desktop experience from moving forward for nearly 50 years. I am working hard to move the desktop computing experience forward, breaking it out of the confines of tradition and integrating the full potential of advances in technology into the desktop experience.
It's essentially the cathedral mindset (vs. Linux' bazaar mindset). It's about designing a system according to the author's best knowledge vs. evolving a system according to both known and also unknown constraints.
BitChute certainly, if only in part. The website proper is centralized, but the video delivery is ran via BitTorrent. Currently the video quality is kept somewhat low (720p IIRC), but this means initial wait time is pleasantly short, on the order of 2...5 seconds.
Yes of course. As per "The Mythical Man-Month"[1] adding more people to a project doesn't speed id up - quite the opposite, slows it down.
Right now we have huge overhead in training and communication. Low s/n ratio follows. You can fix that gatekeeping science a bit better - pick more talented, better educated, harder working candidates, and train & finance & supply them better.
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A lot of the exploits would be rendered harmless by employing well established technique of splitting one huge monolithic app into processes with limited capabilities and communicating via simple and narrow channels. Qmail[1] is a good example of such architecture. The architectural support is already present in common OSes.
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About the only change that had a significant impact on projects I worked on was removal of the 'mysql' DB extension (replaced by 'mysqli' and 'PDO'). For an older project I created a few shim functions and it still works just fine.
While frameworks come and go, the core of the language is highly backward compatible. The choices made early on were in the UNIX style, so they were right.
To quote an earlier post[1],
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There is something to be said about PHP's staying power. The early versions of the language weren't considered "right". Except maybe they were right for the problem at hand.
The way I see it was PHP captured the vector of change, and left ample room for future developments. Both internal changes (hello, bytecode; hello, JIT), language level features (hi there, namespaces), and runtime level features (oh hai, countless built in classes and functions).
Moreover, unlike many framework that shone brightly and burned out quickly (Rails?), PHP captured the essence of the environment: HTTP is stateless, and URLs aren't uniformly routable from either end, and well-formed HTML/XML/JSON is just a subset of tag soup.
Worse is better.
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The whole weapon system was a technological dead end.
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Thus my joking response - mirroring your post's form & logic, and yet arriving at the opposite result. Essentially me lampooning your position "factually wrong but morally right"[2], as the (UN environmental official's) quote turned out to be factually wrong.
I will stick to the "> The fact that we are seeing the same headlines for many years now should have been an obvious giveaway" part tho.
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[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-fact-checker-declares-war-on-...
[2] https://babylonbee.com/news/snopes-introduces-new-factually-...
https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
>June 30, 1989
> A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
Your response is tangential to the original point.
OP asserts correctly that increasing supply of labor depresses wages, by lowering the negotiating leverage. Your response handwaves it away with "skilled immigration is better for the whole economy".
Sorry to burst your bubble - this is a thread about balancing the wages / profits split. OP is right; the higher the supply of labor, the lower the price of labor, thus leaving higher proportion of the surplus as profits. Aka the dreaded inequality.
It's fine to prefer profit over wages, if that's how you make your living. But let's not pretend we're for increasing wages while in fact for increasing profit.