But e.g. the US Castle Bravo test or the soviet Tsar Bomba tests were almost pure fusion. For the Tsar Bomba they left out the 3rd fission stage. It was the cleanest bomb ever detonated in terms of radiation per yield.

Remember that "data is a team sport". Together, we try and make better decisions (in manual or automated ways). A DE can produce great data but it's only useful if it helps the DA/DS. There's a lot of friction there.

Most of that friction disappears with SQL-based orchestration tools (I mean specifically dbt here, but there are others). Suddenly the analyst can create the data they need! With minimal guidance from a DE.

That can be with Spark SQL (+ DeltaLake / Iceberg), or some warehouse. That's not the issue.

The issue is around keeping orchestration simple when you're not just doing simple stuff anymore. Keeping that DAG logical, clear, and smooth is difficult once you include non-SQL items.

This isn't solved by Spark UDFs unfortunately :)

Check out Paradox Interactive's games, they have one for most interesting time periods and are pretty entertaining.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFlVNtGJVDU

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/hf1da1/1st_attempt_at...

ps: The BEAM is what makes LiveView so great, do not expect the same in the other environments.

> Ethically: there's no arguing meat eating is better. None. However well you treat animals you're still ultimately going to kill them.

Ultimately every animal is going to die. If the moral hangup for you is the certainty of death, then wouldn't you consider any form of reproduction immoral? 'However good and rewarding their life may be, children are still going to die eventually, ergo noone should reproduce'.

Unless it's the act of killing with the intention to consume that's the issue?

It took me 5 minutes of Googling to find articles that refute this from all kinds of credible sources.

Going vegetarian might be a step up from the average Americans diet, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find any research that demonstrates plant-based diets are any better than a balanced diet that includes meat protein.

I think you're really painting people who don't follow your thinking with a pretty aggressively negative stereotype here.

I love a good steak. The fact that it came from a cow is irrelevant to me - I like it for taste/texture/etc. If you can give me the exact same product from a lab, I'll 100% buy it (especially if it's cheaper). This is how most people are (and not just about meat) - they care about the end product they're consuming, not its origins or how it got to them (otherwise, y'know, we'd be thinking about where our iPhones came from and whatnot). Give them the identical product they have now that's better along some line that matters to them (like cost) and they'll happily switch.

Ethical: cruelty is bad, so responsible production of meat is preferred but there’s no reason why killing animal for food should be bad, such that same argument can’t be applied to veggie production.

Environmental: grass fed meat is very much preferred to monoculturing the crap out of our planet. Animas are part of life cycle of the environment.

Health: crappy grains have done way more health damage than crappy meats. Also focusing on meat exclusively, skipping organs is unhealthy. Saturated fats aren’t as bad as you’re told (only in combination with sugars). Red meat doesn’t cause cancer (smoked foods do). Lots of myths around nutrition.

Taste: highly subjective.

Most of the world does not have the culture of offering vegetarian/vegan meals. And if they did, living that lifestyle can be prohibitively expensive.

> Ethically: there's no arguing meat eating is better. None. However well you treat animals you're still ultimately going to kill them.

No, there are a lot of arguing about this. There is no ethical consensus on "killing animals" being the "wrong" thing. Hell there is not even consensus on whether an objective ethics is possible.

Organisms consume other organisms. This is part of the cycle of life. Declaring this objectively wrong without exceptions just because you feel bad for the poor animals is a weak argument at its best.

You can talk about the perils of the modern day animal farming which involves treating animals like vegetables and "growing" them in conditions indistinguishable from torture; but that doesn't have to mean "killing animals" is bad per se.

> Environmentally: a hundred reasons to choose a plant based diet, all of which have been cycled here a million times so won't go back through it but we all know it's true.

Yes, but there is research supporting that grain and vegetable farming has a lot of problems as well. Farming in scale in general is a problematic thing. Some even go as far as to state that animal farming can be even less harmful environmentally, when done right. What I'm trying to say is that, this claim hasn't been proven yet. If you want to see counter arguments and relevant research, try following a couple of carnivore diet advocates on social media. I don't have any links to share off the top of my head at the moment and I'm sorry about it. But there is no real consensus here, not so easy.

> Health: again, see pretty much all the research ever. Eating a plant based diet is so much better for weight, health, BMI, etc etc etc

Yes, there are a lot past research about this. But as we can see today there are a lot of problems with those researches as well. A lot of them are being challenged today. Ketogenic and carnivore diets are on the rise and for good reason. USDA's food pyramid is reversed. Fat, eggs and animal protein are no longer the enemy according to many new researches. I suggest you to keep up with the new research as well.

> Taste: this is the kicker imo. If you'd asked me 15 years ago when the vegetarian alternative was a crappy pasta with tomato sauce, I'd have been more tempted to chomp my way into a steak. Nowadays? There is SO much good vegetarian food. Loads of choice, huge range of flavours and in many places it's the vegetarian food that gets the chef's attention, rather than falling back on the Default Meat.

Yes, this may be the kicker for you. For many, animal based foods are still irreplaceable. Not much point talking about this as it's fairly subjective.

Would that not lead to a desire to create as many "lives" as possible? I don't think I've met many people optimising for that, although I won't rule it out.

Ethical vegetarians are vegetarians for primarily ethical reasons. For example, they may think meat-eating causes excessive suffering (I fall into this category). Most Western vegetarians are ethical vegetarians, but some people are vegetarian for medical or religious reasons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

But to explain the product, the current homepage just needs to add "Plant-based" before "Coffee without beans? It's molecular!" above the "To the Lab" link. Otherwise you might wonder what "Coffee without beans" must be made of.

Qubes-OS is a tool for letting you run your digital life in a series of boxes which are separate from each other. So, if one gets infected, the others aren't. It is similar to the trend of using Virtual Machines to separate areas of concern to try to limit the damage of a rogue process.

Genode takes a different approach entirely. Instead of dividing your computer into a few boxes, each of which is subject to any rogue process, it gives each and every process NO access to anything else, except for those things explicitly provided.

The analogy I like to use is that of a wallet.

The Windows, MacOS, Unix, Linux, etc.. approach is to hand over the users wallet to any program that is running, and hope the program doesn't misuse it. Anything in the wallet (your system) is at risk.

The Qubes-OS approach is to do the above, but to have the ability to have more than one wallet, to divide up the risk a tiny bit.

The Genode approach is much like a human uses a wallet, you decide what resources are required, and ONLY those resources are at risk.

The ease of use is that it is effectively impossible to limit the resources a process can access in other systems, whereas in Genode, it is almost drag and drop.

Personally I'm not interested. I have no need to be connected all the time.

[1] https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-migrate-preview-b5eno5g08d...

It’s not a difficult task, but when discussing viability with the APIs team, the general consensus was that you don’t want your API coupled to your data. Most of the time, you don’t want to expose everything.

Of course, you can start describing what to omit, but now you’re just writing an API design by omission.

Building good APIs is hard, so you want to build the right abstraction - which is not always the easiest one.

When you're operating a CNC machine, as an operator, do you need mess around with internal wiring, schematic, motor controllers? No. You just need a control panel, with DRO and a bunch of buttons, a joystick for manual override, e-stop and a keypad. You're not dealing with the exposed wiring and internals of the machine. Nor do you care (except if you're a hacker, more on this below).

APIs are all things the user needs to do and we allow them specific endpoints to do those things. A lot of modern GraphQL methods allow you to become a "hacker" and get access to what you want. But, after you're done hacking, you want a proper control panel with steel panels and a version number. You, as a user, are guaranteed that interface and you're going to build your world around it. Check out Shopify, Stripe or Dropbox APIs. See what they allow you to do and what they don't.

Here are some reasons why we want an API:

- Decoupling internal resources from the user (user can still be an internal service). We want to be able to change the database, swap it with anything else we want, completely change the schema, whatever... without affecting the user.

- We might require processing/handling of the data, sometimes with help from other microservices before serving.

- We might want to cache read access, although I am sure this is possible with these automation tools.

- We want stability over expediency (although, this is ok to forego initially).

- We want a singular point of entry, aka entrypoint and be able to control it.

- We might want to asychorniously process the request. "Hey, I got your request and I am processing, here is the processing ID" and respond with status code 202.

All these automation tools are great to get a product running quickly. Personally, I would just use straight SQL for prototyping. If you're working on UIs and don't have access to the server, you can just use https://postgrest.org/ and get an API running. However, after you're product has reached maturity, tighten up those endpoints.

The endpoint design is your control panel. Make it look tidy, checkout how others build this panel, engineer it well and your users will thank you.

One way to create a sandbox for finding edge cases would be to create a general petition site using voteflux, or convince change.org to implement it.

I think such a site would also help with adoption, because it will gradually introduce people to the idea, and for issues with large enough support politicians will have to follow petition results, even if they were not elected on flux platform.

A GPU thread variable is just like a SIMD lane, and a GPU warp variable is just like a SIMD vector register

Nvidia's SIMD instructions are called PTX and they are similar to AVX-512

An AVX-512 core is like a general purpose CPU with a 512-bit GPU core built in

So paying for a single AVX-512 core is like paying for part of a GPU, plus the general purpose compute you need to keep the GPU supplied with work

If you could divide the GPU up, you would lose most of the parallelism, keep all of the communication latency, and still need the drivers etc.

Would a hypothetical virtualized GPU be competitive with an AVX-512 core in terms of price/performance? I don't know, I haven't done the comparison

Also, the “daily notes” feature in Roam is really useful, it’s a small UI thing but it gives me a nudge to make a daily note when I do any thinking, rather than having to file it manually in Obsidian.

Obsidian has most of the core stuff that Roam does though.

https://www.draftbit.com

I’m one of the founders, would love to know what you think!