2 months later we have the "Spectre" - an aperiodic monotile (without reflections): https://aperiodical.com/2023/05/now-thats-what-i-call-an-ape...

Edit - a visual explanation of this journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfVwelta1fE

Also previously discussed on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36119920

edit: and a live stream chat with the article's authors, worth a watch for the quirky tilings by Yoshiaki Araki alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OImGgciDZ_A

One thread in that linked discussion was asking if one could buy ceramic tiles to tile a floor/wall, but no links provided. I'd really love to use one of these spectre tiles to redo a bathroom or backsplash. If anyone finds or knows of a manufacturer making these tiles please provide a link!

> Americans waste almost 40% of all the food that is produced in America, and for all sorts of reasons.

Put another way, free markets produce 67% more than required. When it comes to food, most populations that eat prefer a market that favors the buyer.

But that is inefficient resource allocation.

We could reduce the waste food production and reduce 'carbon' output from USA.

Presumably next someone will point at another country and say 'they're worse'. That may be true, but it doesn't make the free market efficient, not make externalised environment damage go away.

That is efficient resource allocation, optimizing for scarce and important resources (in the case of USA, labor and customer convenience/time) at the expense of abundant and thus unimportant resources (in the case of USA, food).

> There are any number of tools that will generate me a pretty and useful database schema diagram if I point them at a relational database.

I'd even go so far as to design database schema with these ER diagram tools in mind: if the automatic diagram is messy then that's more-often-than-not a code-smell in need of refactoring (before being hit with production data).

> his companies were earning about $800,000 a day selling diet supplements, gun paraphernalia and survivalist equipment.

It's almost as if Jones' show is a binary classification filter for chumps https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...

Sound decreases by 6dB for every doubling of distance: https://www.airbornedrones.co/drone-noise-levels/

So a typical 80db commercial drone flying at 300m (CAA minimum) would be 50db at ground level (closest point), or about a loud conversation (but less than quiet road traffic).

drones noise are very directed, the side noises are much smaller than if directly below.

Source: I did drone noise research a few years ago. It's almost impossible to detect via noise with decent distance (>100m) unless directly under.

Why is the pubkey "hash" sent to the server as a query, rather than staying client-side as a fragment?

Why does "Regenerate Private Key" not actually regenerate private key?

Why is the pubkey obfuscated by encrypting with "123NSA"?

How do I know the 624-byte pubkey "hash" doesn't contain the 32-byte private key?

How do I know the server isn't secretly harvesting IP addresses, associating them with pubkeys, and crawling referrer URLs for messages?

I'd corrupt the quote slightly to factor informational effects of propaganda: "a wealth of [conflicting] information creates [an apathy] of attention and a need to [withdraw] that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."

In this way, information sources can destroy attention rather than foster efficient allocation (which is hard work).

So the only hangover from bad parties is that the party ends?

The biggest, baddest parties will always draw the popular crowd, and the same DJs will know better when to quietly slip out the back door with bags full.

How does a well-regulated party compete against that without calling for more regulation?

By operating in an open and honest manner and standing the test of time.

In the end though they will probably still call for more regulation because once they have stood the test of time they will want to cement their position.

> Life is filled with risk. Accept them or don't.

Life is also filled with negligence. Companies (and people) have a duty of care to minimise risk or damage to others.

Right. The plaintiff should not have been riding a motorized vehicle on a sideWALK, thereby increasing potential risk to himself and others for grievous bodily harm. He failed his duty of care to using the vehicle and infrastructure as it was designed.

> Hardware is quite cheap.

Enterprise has embraced a cloud-first stragegy.

Suddenly, throwing hardware at a problem becomes throwing cash at the cloud.

You are missing broader point here. If something is in production and burning cash, it can be replaced with optimised code if system are decoupled. But forcing optimisation earlier will make your developers less impactful and loose interest in the project or job. Most business logic code is updated frequently due to change in requirements and spending 100s of hours for feature which will be used by just small set of users is bad investment. This strategy can help you release some feature faster, get it A/B tested and once you have scaled enough you can start focusing on the individual decoupled system to be optimised.