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It depends on how much context is needed. Imagine you have a Go library that parses JavaScript. Parsing can return an error, and it's very helpful to know information like the line and column number. So you might have an error like this:

    type ParseError struct {
        Line int
        Col  int
        Message string
    }

The user of your library isn't expected to handle this error explicitly, but when they print the output, they can see exactly where the issue was.

Yes, that's what a log scale does to a graph. But why do you feel a log scale is appropriate in this situation? To me, a linear scale is a much better choice. The underlying data isn't necessarily exponential, so there isn't a compelling reason to use a log scale.

How is it dishonest?

How is it easy? You could have a wallet that holds customer funds that you don't disclose to auditors.

I find fishing barbaric, and I spent a lot of time fishing as a kid. Fly fishing is definitely more humane than a lot of other types of fishing, but ultimately you’re hurting a fish for pleasure. That’s basically a form of sadism. Of course, most don’t take pleasure in the fish’s pain, but the suffering of the fish is an essential part of the sport. You can’t catch a fish without it suffering. And ultimately, most just take a picture and throw the fish back. These days, I’d rather go for a hike along the river.

Dams do not make land uninhabitable. Dams use land for a productive purpose. Do railroads make land uninhabitable? I would say that land with railroad tracks should still be considered habitable, even though you'd die should you choose to live on the railroad tracks. The land itself is still habitable, you'd just need to remove the dam to live there. Just as you might need to remove the railroad tracks.

Liabilities

I don’t think it’s whataboutism. The OC said they do not understand how a human can fin a shark because it’s cruel. The GP comment provided an example (factory farming animals) that illustrates animal cruelty is commonplace. That is to say, if you understand animal cruelty in factory farming, you should be able to understand animal cruelty in shark finning. I don’t think the GP intended to dismiss concerns about shark finning because factory farming exists.

I don’t think that many people would complain if shoplifters were forced to return legitimately purchased wares. After all, we fine people for shoplifting. Money is fungible. So the effect is similar.

How many people live in the Chernobyl exclusion zone? Svetlana Alexievich interviewed some of “The Zone’s” residents in her excellent book Voices From Chernobyl. It’s not a fun place to live, unless having all your teeth fall out is fun.

An XRF spectrometer might work on food.

But the nuclear power plant has the potential to make large swaths of land uninhabitable for thousands of years. There’s clearly a difference.

I think the Fed wants to taper the rate increases to reduce volatility in the market. If they announced a halt to rate increases then there would be a massive upswing in the market and inflation could potentially increase again.

Core CPI was up 0.2% MoM. That’s just over 2% annualized.

Can you give a specific example of what is wrong with Min's security configuration, assuming it is following Electron best practices. Asserting that the security model is bad and linking to Electron's security tutorial is not helpful.

At the same time people aren’t as flush with cash. During the pandemic, car dealerships were selling cars sight unseen and months from delivery. Buyers aren’t going to accept that anymore. The dealerships need inventory to show people.

Europe is basically a U.S. vassal state, so it shouldn't surprise you.

I think we're just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of what software is, so it's a bit premature to say where it went wrong. The author says that "Software is not creative." This may be true, but software is a creation. And currently it is created in the most crude and rudimentary way possible.

There are a lot of creative people out there. Writing software today is too hard. It takes too much knowledge and too much work. If writing a game was as easy as creating a TikTok video, imagine how much creativity would exist within the realm of software.

His podcast gets around 11 million listeners, so off by over an order of magnitude.

> It is possible, it will just be a ridiculously large video.

Ha true, I guess you could encode every P/B frame after the cut as an I-frame.

This is like saying thread count is always the bottle neck in computation. More money allows more parallelism as you can pay for more people and more equipment for more research. As in computing, there are diminishing marginal returns and surely a version of Amdahl's Law for human endeavors.

This would obviously be codec dependent, but I'm surprised it's impossible to losslessly re-encode a video given I, P, and B frames. Mentally, I think of P frames as containing "changes" in the frame. The changes would be the same regardless of whether or not the previous frame was an I or P frame.

TikTok has 138 million MAU (in the U.S.) and the average TikTok user spend 95 minutes per day in the app. I'm unaware of a podcast that has that type of reach.

Source: https://wallaroomedia.com/blog/social-media/tiktok-statistic...

This has nothing to do with user data. People are influenced by the content they see on social media. Allowing a foreign adversary to run the main information network for an entire generation of the population is not a wise move.

Yes. The lasers are supplied with 400 megajoules, but it's a start.

Isn't Lua's main benefit that it has a small runtime that can be executed inside the context of a large C/C++ executable? Julia has support for C FFI, but it looks like you'd have to manually wrap all of your native code in Julia wrappers.

One library I've really liked for this use case is QuickJS. It's a super small ES2020 implementation written in C. It has a great API that lets you bind native C functions and types into JavaScript functions, objects, and classes. This lets you bind native C code that gets used naturally in JavaScript without needing to write wrappers.

That's just known reserves. New reserves and extraction techniques are frequently being discovered.

I was curious about the source of that block diagram. Not an exact source for the diagram, but here is an explanation of how the lasers work with the energy input and output at each stage: https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/how-nif-works/anatomy-of-a-nif...

The advertiser isn’t paying $1195 for 10,000 impressions. They’re paying for an endorsement. That’s much different than the YouTube pre-roll ad model.

Nuclear usually refers to nuclear fission. Fossil fuels are not the product of nuclear fission. Even if they were, saying that things powered by fossil fuels are nuclear powered is just a terrible take.