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Not a physicist, but why isn't the simple explanation that light loses energy over cosmological distances not also a valid explanation of redshift? We already know that energy isn't conserved at those scales.

As long as it isn't due to a protected class reason, I don't immediately see the problem. If you break your ISPs TOS, or you commit fraud, it makes sense that those private companies would not want you as a customer.

The issue I see with this approach is that library code is duplicated among applications. In the limit, this is how you get every Electron app bundled with Chromium.

It's a little more complicated, but modern Node development is a huge step forward to the old days of sadly attempting to get the LINPACK header configuration correct in your C project.

Personally I appreciate being able to choose my linter, compiler, dialect etc. I also tend to prefer distributed solutions. Deno running the entire environment is a negative for me, at least for now. To me, it just shows an approach of ignoring what already exists and reinventing the wheel.

I've tried to get Deno to work before in production, but it had so many compatibility issues last I tried it would take weeks or months to refactor things so it would work.

It's been shown recently that it's at least theoretically possible for code to be taken down if it violates copyright.

Importantly, it's vital people don't look down on engineers which don't work at the very lowest levels of abstraction. There is quite a lot of value gleaned from abstracting the electrons away.

One issue is that MATLAB is a hilariously inappropriate tool for any real software engineering, including robotics. What's worse is that it's just powerful enough to empower your traditional PE to be dangerous.

I definitely recommend reading the sequences. More than anything, it's about recognizing cognitive biases. Altruism is where money comes in, but I would classify that as the Effective Altruism movement.

Don't you have to register your architectural plans in most all cities anyhow?

I mean, deciding whether or not an arbitrary starting configuration loops back on itself is undecidable. So some problems are out of the reach of a finite sized network.

Assuming it's possible both mathematically - in terms of an arbitrary encoding that we cannot explain away using standard physical phenomena e.g. quasars, and more importantly assuming it's actually possible from an engineering standpoint. All radio signals we send become indistinguishable from noise quite quickly.

But since license terms and in general legal art is granted copyright, does one have the right to use the license for their own projects? That is, what is the license of the license?

See various controversies surrounding provincial law text being under copyright.

How much fuel would lifting 10 million tons of dust into high orbit require? Probably more than we have the ability to access.

Sounds magical to me!

I think all forms of electric propulsion have too small thrust compared to the mass of the electric engine for that to work.

However, electric planes could benefit a lot from not having to carry their battery.

Maybe the users are too blame as they measurably prefer websites with modern UX and don't really care about latency over a few hundred milliseconds.

I think that's a pretty myopic view... Personally, I think taking more chances to positively affect your workplace "technopolitical ecosystem" ultimately improves your ability to do your job.

In general I notice a trend in cybersecurity: it is very hard to do right, and it is very business critical.

This has led to a cottage industry of bad tech and bad science, whereby people peddle easy security solutions where none exist.

On what architecture would evaluating this abstract data structure be faster than a simple opcode?

The statement of saying someone else's view of art is objectively incorrect or silly is in itself silly. I like your proposed definition of art, but as you know everyone is free to have their own conceptions.

Permutation City has the same themes of loneliness and disconnection from the world experienced by digital minds.

It's worth keeping in mind that judges have a lot of leeway in determining the conditions of probation. As well, a person is free not to agree to the terms, and just do their time.

You don't have to break the law again to necessarily break probation.

It's all a matter of where you accept the complexity - in the compiler, in the language, or in the downstream applications. In my view it's an obvious choice to choose a more complicated compiler on exchange for simpler downstream applications...

This is awesome, and as the title says, very left field. I wonder what visuals would be produced if you could specify that a given parameter linearly tracks across a parameter space. Some crazy animation?

I can only guess at motivations, but holistically people need to enforce their license terms or they lose their teeth.

I can never tell whether these titles are referring to the programming language or the board game.

This was a very enjoyable read... twice. A metaphorical fugue on Turing, Godel, type theory and the generalization of this fundamental paradox that is Lawvere's proof. And, how it may relate to the more practical problems of memory management!

I've been reading Permutation City recently. There has to be a way to shoe horn the fundamental problem of consciousness in here somewhere.

Oh yeah, I completely agree. To a certain extent it's best to be risk averse with things like this, especially when working on professional problems.

npm has spoiled me, so I doubt I'll ever try to use a language in anything other than a hobby capacity without a very good package manager and corresponding community of functionality.

As other people have specified in this thread, the underlying problem is Goodhart's Law, i.e. these performance tracking systems break down when pressure is applied to them.

This is pretty cool. This project has a long way to go before it's mature, but as someone who uses Typescript every day professionally, the promise of the ease and safety of Typescript coupled with the speed of C++ is really compelling.

Yeah, TS has one of the most powerful type systems I've come across, with its distributive conditional types and type narrowing logic. Recently I've been using type predicates to "dynamically" expand 'this' in specific clauses.

It's very fun to work with and allows for really safe code.

I believe the above poster was referencing the fact that the underlying technology is a lattice structure composed of relatively "normal" Nickel based materials, and it's mechanism depends only on classical effects.

Additionally, from a computational perspective, I don't think problems such as MNIST have a particularly clean formalism under which they can be solved more efficiently by exploiting quantum "parallelism", although perhaps a researcher can correct me on that front.

I admit I only read the abstract however, maybe there's something I am missing.