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by w10-1 3y ago
What's the legal authority permitting "seagliders" to carry passengers but escape aviation regulations? Or to use navigable waterways at high speed when other maritime users are severely restricted in speed? I doubt any his
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by w10-1 3y ago
The Swift compiler and standard library are pretty tightly linked. The Swift type system is getting pretty complicated already, handling a whole range of lifetimes, async, the combination of protocols, generics, existentials, etc. with som
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by w10-1 3y ago
The project to rewrite Foundation in Swift is many years old, and had been stalled. New in 2023 is instead NOT to match all of Foundation, but to make some core libraries that make Swift usable on many platforms. E.g., they broke out the v
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by w10-1 3y ago
It likely has nothing to do with YC. Since the dawn of time builders have partnered with popularizers in search of building wealth or power; that's not new. For MBA's, the easy money is in consulting, financial engineering, or mon
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by w10-1 3y ago
The numbers and interest could change significantly if desalinization membranes could target multi-stage high-volume applications. Or using overland solar tunnels: roofed with solar arrays, the bottom of which would be cooled to condense t
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by w10-1 3y ago
Obviously developers who design semantically for different UIs would be far, far ahead. And Apple API's can be used there. The harder problem is building accessibility API's for oblivious developers, so they can retrofit at the l
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by w10-1 3y ago
"if you opened the notification center with a Braille display connected" This sounds obvious, but imagine all the combinations of all the features that can interact, and then imagine having to test them all manually, because there
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by w10-1 3y ago
Perhaps it will pan out, but it seems more like a private intellectual-property play than a real effort. It will likely slow progress by wrapping up information and access. Methodologically, no one solves a hugely complex system by looking
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by w10-1 3y ago
Renaissance? Immune therapy is the most active area for drug development in the last two decades, comparable to sequencing for diagnostics (except much more productive). There are dozens of drugs suppressing and amplifying different aspects
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by w10-1 3y ago
Layoffs and dividends are relatively independent decisions. The real story is the dependence of modern stock prices on financial engineering. Even Apple is paying dividends and doing stock buy-backs (and even Warren Buffet is buying back s
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by w10-1 3y ago
The easiest way for a beginner to do SIMD numerical computing now is with Java. Java's Panama project is working on their 6th preview (JEP-450) for the September 21 (LTS) release, but the released Java 20 previews JEP-426 features, inc
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by w10-1 3y ago
A species in the genus "Straw Man": mischaracterize to minimize. Laced with the traits of covert actor and the dynamics of stampede. Trained on 1.2T tokens of perceived scarcity and bias. Often hallucinating, but credible nonethel
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by w10-1 3y ago
Even as the article states, the problem is the risk-aversion of private actors to regulation. I can assure you, the scientists are happy to have the administrators handle regulatory affairs. To get approvals, administrators do the compara
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by w10-1 3y ago
It's hard to imagine that sentimental navy brass can gum up a critical roadway for over a decade -- contributing to the many-billion-dollar increase in bridge cost from the original plan. The interplay between civilian control of the m
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by w10-1 3y ago
What's the business case, for them or for developers? Ideas aside, the web app future belongs to those with the resources to sustain a response, or those who can restore the ability to capture/monetize developers and users in a cl
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by w10-1 3y ago
I'm always impressed with the clarity of Java's design/implementation discussions, which I think is due to Mark Reinhold's leadership since 1997 (a breathtaking tenure in its own right). But this needs to replace stack l
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by w10-1 4y ago
I appreciate Sonatype putting so many resources into keeping pypy and the supply chain clean, batting down thousands of malware packages. The interesting bit is where Sonatype used the token extracted from the malware to hack back into the
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by w10-1 4y ago
It's not the bribery but the reciprocity and equality. When does it create an obligation? Another example is bringing food or drink. Generally when we bring comestibles to share, no one expects to have to reciprocate, because we&#x27
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by w10-1 4y ago
No court has said AI ingesting open-source code is "fair use". Almost all open-source licenses say it can be copied for use in development (i.e., not for re-publication or regurgitation), and even completely open licenses are spea
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by w10-1 4y ago
Mark or no-mark, the question is really about ownership structures. Facebook/Meta and Google have ownership structures that give them wide latitude to sacrifice present earnings for the future. But aside from showing that it's po
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by w10-1 4y ago
Each of us builds capabilities used for both good and evil. The modern extent of government power and private influence would be unthinkable even decades ago. Personal rights have failed to keep up, in part because it requires constitution
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by w10-1 4y ago
No article, headline, or comment about batteries should omit the proven lifecycle. Unless, of course, the battery manufacturer has a very long warranty and the resources to back it up. Otherwise: noise :)
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by w10-1 4y ago
Google politics and history aside, it's much better to link research with products for software. Unlike physics and biology, software is basically what we say it is, so there isn't a natural ordering to research (and it can wande
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by w10-1 4y ago
fyi, JEP status dashboard: https://bugs.openjdk.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=...
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by w10-1 4y ago
John Denver failed to fill his gas tank -- twice. Multiple Long-EZ's that failed over water ditched without injury. About 95% of all private plane crashes are due to running out of fuel or flying into clouds. It is ridiculously easy t
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by w10-1 4y ago
Yes, let's build the tallest building on sand about 10' above sea level a couple blocks from the sea, in an era of climate change. Yes, 212 parking spots for 996 people/bedrooms in 722 units will cause no parking problems. Ye
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by w10-1 4y ago
Addicted, losing friends and family, and still trying to help others.
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by w10-1 4y ago
"Appropriate" depends on the kind of relationship you want to have. For cap tables, remember than a board can issue as many shares as it wants to whomever it wants, diluting anyone at any time. So even if you could see the cap ta
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by w10-1 4y ago
Let's not forget some of the origins of this wisdom: - Aristotle's distinction between activities/beings that are an end in themselves vs. activities that end with the achievement of their goals, and the realization that one
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by w10-1 4y ago
(fuzzy...) Mainframes and mini-computers had test batches run on the same hardware as the real batches. Later for OLTP/continuous bank (ATM) systems, the big variable was storage: when to attach a disk you've been hoarding since i

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