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So how bright do we want/need our displays to be? How many bits? For me, even a 500 nits TV in a dark room is enough viewing from about 10' away.

The advantage of high peak brightness (eg > 1000 nits) is brighter small regions such as specular highlights. 500 nits full field is eye-searing.

I use IDEA and most typed languages I write (eg Java, Go, Python with annotations) have better support for things like automated refactoring, bug detection via static analysis, etc

Very excited to hear about this. Elixir is a fantastic language but tooling lags behind some other options, a type system should help with that.

You can rent a supercomputer from AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p4/

I was referring to PGP as a solution for being potentially MITM’d by an AI when trying to communicate with an entity you already trust.

This technology will kill all digital information exchange.

This is a bit hyperbolic. We have strong encryption like PGP for media like email (although I suppose getting people to use it is the issue), and there will be plenty of incentive to develop other tech to counter the problems you mentioned.

Binary palindromes are real engineering, Google Search is not? Pretension indeed.

I don’t think GitLab will do this as they would lose many government customers that self-host on private networks.

We would submit that the simplest explanation for this relationship can be garnered from the known relationship between borderline personality disorder and extreme, though changeable, expressions of identity. A large study found that the P factor, which we attempted to approximate here, seemed to perfectly correlate with a latent borderline personality disorder factor (Gluschkoff et al., 2021.). Those who score high in neuroticism are plagued by worry and doubt, including about themselves and even about who they are. Bing high in neuroticism strongly correlates with suffering from depression and anxiety (see Nettle, 2007). The world appears to them as a frightening place, beyond their control, meaning that even their sense of "self" can be unclear. In periods of extreme concern, they deal with this by creating - and expressing - clear and strong identity (Fox, 2020). This ameliorates their negative feelings, at least for a period of time, meaning, as this has been found with religion, that their identity may even become less extreme and conspicuous as they enter a period of relatively mental stability (see Hills et al., 2004). Thus, unnatural coloured hair can be regarded as an expression of, and way of negotiating, high levels of neuroticism.

Is there anyone alive practicing “Roman Stoicism”? People today take valuable and useful ideas from the philosophy of Stoicism such as those that underpin CBT. Why disregard these because some people did or wrote things you disagree with hundreds of years ago? The author doesn’t say anything meaningful here.

This is purely my opinion: Lincoln’s point was that the threat of civil war or violent dissent (what we today would call domestic terrorism) is a much greater threat to the US than foreign states. I think this remains true today. In fact, what you mention when you say a fracturing of states within was exactly what he was talking about.

A foreign state would need to cross the Atlantic ocean, contend with the most powerful Navy on earth several times over, land in either Canada or Mexico, both of which are US allies, and then mount a land invasion on the US homeland. It’s hard to imagine how that would be possible.

You raise a good point when you say crushing defeat does not necessarily happen on the conventional battlefield. Nuclear weapons create the possibility of MAD, and other “battlefields” like the cyberspace or global economic warfare have developed since Lincoln’s time. I still think the essence of what he said is true though: the greatest threat to the US comes from within.

A great quote from Lincoln:

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

Hadoop/HDFS

Not sure if it counts as structured concurrency but Go has the feature you describe: https://gobyexample.com/waitgroups

I'm not sure it's fair to characterize a container as a snapshot of an entire OS install - you can have containers that are very lightweight, e.g. just a static Go binary copied into a "scratch" container - but often the required effort is not put in to reduce size.

GitLab uses Vue, that qualifies as a serious product.

Install GitLab Runner on any EC2 instance you’d like, it’s simple. You can even run on Spot!

Regardless of whether this decision is correct or not, Uber's financial situation is of their own making and shouldn't factor in to the ruling.

Ember.js is very much batteries-included although learning the framework definitely requires a time investment.

I think we’re at that point judging by the reaction to Apple’s latest generation of keyboards and their (rumored) upcoming change.

One of the professors quoted in the article suggests otherwise:

The system promulgated a definition of sexual misconduct so expansive that it “plausibly covers almost all sex students are having today,” as Gersen wrote in an article in the California Law Review.

Go isn’t the perfect language because it doesn’t intend to be. Likely, as this article seems to hint at, there’s no such thing and there never will be. Go has a well defined set of design goals (including simple and pragmatic) that it has achieved.

Inspecting JSON payloads that are returned during normal use of the app doesn’t seem like an illegal activity.