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I'm not sure what you're trying to say, or why you're making a blanket statemeny of a point that is so blatantly false that above comments prove incorrect.

It was relevant and important enough to the author to contact me, and they are apparently interested in having this discussion. They didn't need to engage in this discussion, but they felt it important. Just because it's not important to you, doesn't mean it's not important to a lot of others here.

I would certainly avoid blanket statements like 'people are not interested in ___' - I'm not sure if you read the author's reply before yours, but I think what you clearly meant is that you don't care.

Which is your right, but please don't put thoughts or words in other people's mouths, especially when there is dissenting evidence of your statements only a comment above.

I'm glad you can feel it's not relevant. Unless you're trans, or a direct ally, you have the benefit of it not affecting you. Great.

But I'm not the only trans person on this forum. This shit matters to us - matters to our allies, including, evidently, the author of the software - and it's our right, and sometime our obligation, to speak up. Get over it. :P

You can feel free not to engage, which would have been preferred to your insinuation that nobody here wants to have that conversation - which is obviously and blantanly untrue, and born out of the privilege to not have it affect you.
Isn't that exactly what's going on already though? There is an alternative, it's called android. Epic has their software on many other platforms, but apparently there are enough people choosing to buy iOS that they felt it was worth paying the "tax" to reach them. Now they're complaining that they're paying the tax to reach the people they wanted to reach. After all, it's not like Apple is forcibly cramming iPhones into consumers hands and preventing them from going anywhere else. iPhones are as or more expensive than high end android devices, they come with well known limitations. Any price sensitive consumer should be (all else being equal) buying android devices where they could play all the fortnite they wanted and Epic could sell without paying any Apple "tax". And yet here we are. Apparently enough consumers prefer the Apple way that despite the abundance of lower cost options, they're still buying iPhones. So what is the fundamental difference between paying the tax because users have chosen iPhones and paying the tax because users have chosen the "Official iPhone Store" in some alternate reality?
my point is that your ability to walk away doesn't make it an equal relationship. There are way more reputable candidates than there are reputable companies. It's one sided.

The exception being candidates skilled at a rare niche, then it's stacked in your favor.
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For that, I think you would want a 3d solid modeling program. The best known program in that space that I know of is SolidWorks. We were looking at using it for a local company run by a friend that was doing one-off conversion of vehicles from internal combustion engines to full battery electric, but it was damn bloody expensive. You could get a student version, if you could prove you were a student, but the models it allowed you to make were simple, and were intentionally incompatible with the models made by the professional version.

I’m sure there are others in this space, but I don’t know of any names off the top of my head.
I can see the advantages, for example I could send you a page as an email attachment without any problems. There’s clearly a use for it because browsers let you do (more or less) this with their own custom formats.
We're veering away from physics here, but isn't consciousness actually quite "magical". It's beyond remarkable to me that stimulating nervous tissue, composed of quite mundane things like protons and electrons, yields a subjective experience. I know many people reject the hard problem of consciousness, but to those who don't, the implications of thought experiments like Wigner's friend, like superpositions or entanglement of subjective experiences, are truly paradoxical. You are calling certain viewpoints obviously wrong or false because you adhere to certain philosophical viewpoints. There's nothing wrong with that, and they're all justifiable, but none of them are complete consensus among philosophers.

Coming back to physics, there's an assumption you and other commenters are silently making, which is that quantum mechanics is even applicable to macroscopic objects like humans. The largest objects which have been shown to act wave-like are a few thousand atoms large. While it's indisputable that at the lowest level the universe is fundamentally quantum mechanical, it's a little brazen to extrapolate that over more than 20 orders of magnitude. As a physicist myself, I'll believe it when I see it, and I'm looking forward to getting results from proposed experiments like FELIX and its successors.

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Isn't there an entire general term for this? I recall looking into beta-voltaics in college.
Even in the classical world we measure that pool table by interacting with it. If I stand next to the table and see it, it's because light hit it and then hit my eyes - but I've absorbed whatever light might have gone on its course through me as an observer and maybe hit the table again eventually (attenuated), and I also happen to emit some light myself. My body being present and warm, my breathing of air in the room, etc.. creates convection currents of air, which affect the fluid mechanics of the same volume of air that the balls are in.

My brain can't really perceive much of any of that and does a lot of filtering of information, and we've designed the pool table to be something we grasp and play with easily so the relative inertia of the balls will mostly overcome all the more minor terms to take into account wrt fluid mechanics, but all of that is classical physics already. "Closed systems" might only exist conceptually.
It seems the key challenge with the general technology of atomic batteries is power density. Is there any chance that might be solved?
No it’s not saying someone doesn’t understand Boolean logic.

It’s visual noise. This isn’t an issue with truthiness either. I’m talking normal java code. Where if I see an if-statement, clearly the thing inside doesn’t need comparison against true or false unless you want to add another comparison just for fun and mental gymnastics.
With respect, it’s also the programming language. There’s only so much that the IDE can do for you to fix any problems that are inherent in the language.

And if you hate, loathe, and despise the underlying language, I don’t think any IDE sugar-coating is going to fix that.
I just love restaurants that serve one or very few items even if they're small bodegas or a street cart. Being presented with a 12 page menu is off putting, and knowing a single place simply cannot serve 200 types of quality food (ingredients, cooking methods, etc.) is a significant part of that.

With a half a page menu I simply know the cook/chef specialized in that, and the ingredients have a better chance of being fresh and higher quality. One great sauce is 10 times better than a full menu of random choices.
Most employers, HR and payroll aren't willing to deal with taxes, labor laws ect across different countries.

I am really surprised that some employers are willing to go such great lengths.
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Run several thousand tenants at a few places.

Common usage
95% of of tenants is 20% of your traffic.

1% is 60% of traffic.
Rest is the Rest.

Balancing is always weird. 4000 tenants can share a 3 servers and be fine. 1 client might actually need dedicated hardware.

Turns out AWS gets painful to manage beyond 1000 tenants. You start running into various account limits.
Marketing budgets are a function of sales too. If even the people that know about them (such as yourself) aren't buying them, they're not going to have a lot of money to pour into marketing.
I think MWI actually predicts continuous branching. The prescription for MWI is just to run the Schrodinger equation forwards in time. So the branching would look like one blob of probability gradually becoming bimodal, and then splitting into two components with less and less overlap. (There might also be 3-or-more-way branches, not just binary splits.)
We've had better technology in NLP and problem-solving since the mid-1970's -- and many methods that were deemed intractable are trivial now given that compute is on the order of 1 million times more powerful. Systems that use partial-order hierarchical planning, abductive logic programming, bi-directional search, constraint satisfaction, multi-modal interaction, multi-agent conversational modeling based on planning applicable speech-acts, etc., have been replaced with simple state-machines, and in "advanced" cases, simple slot-filling -- and more recently relatively shallow black-box stochastic methods based on deep learning models.

Having worked at two companies that offered such systems, I can say that this is due to both not understanding/appreciating what has been done in the past, but also because companies treat these systems like car companies treat features -- they know that an deliver rich features in the future, so the "logic" is to wait to do so, in the hope they can make more money in the long-term, and be able to dribble out new features.

To be fair, there is also the issue of reproducibility and predictability -- companies expect everybody's agent to respond the same way given the same input, rather than have variability in agents due to non-determinism or context and learning -- but we can't ask for for flexible "human-like" AI on one hand and also not expect the variation (and occasional misunderstandings) that humans would also suffer.
would you accept “very badly”?

a colleague of mine attempted to share a dropbox link of a git repo and working directory he had helpfully zipped up. including 4 datasets.

So in order to get the 50 lines of code i was meant to merge in, he thought it was reasonable to have me download a headless 4 GB.

I told him no.
No one said that?

This demonstrates Cisco is shockingly incompetent. Imagine if, instead of basically causing them a business hassle, this engineer decided to grab the list of sales contacts for companies -- easily available by looking at who salespeople are meeting with -- and sell those?

It's cisco's job to make this impossible in more robust ways than hoping every employee they have is a good person.

Cisco are also liars, because they've almost certainly made commitments in SOC2 or 27001 or other audits that this is impossible via policy and procedures. And yet.
Some projects started by researchers from Stanford University seem to address these issues. Some keywords I have come across are MLflow, sisu and Databricks. The last one is aka spark. Sisu is a company I did not try, and I had trouble working with MLflow however the ideas are worth taking a look.
Your eyes and a bright flashlight? Any hidden camera will need a translucent window with a lens behind it, and they're not that hard to spot once you know what you're looking for.
Good. It's about time ISP switched to ipv6.
I’ve found shared app, shared database completely workable by utilizing Postgres’ row level security. Each row in any table is locked by a “tenant.id” value matching a tenant_id column. At the application level, make all requests set the appropriate tenant ID at request time. You get the data “isolation” while using the simplest infrastructure setup.
Yes, a two-way relationship, but that doesn't mean you have equal leverage. They have way more leverage, especially if they are a good company and pay well.

I think I confused "two-way street" to mean an equal-sided transaction.
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It was my art teacher who pointed it out in grade 9. I always just thought it was normal and never put thought to how different each eye colour was.

My dominant eye* is the colour blind one, so it affects the way I paint things unless I actively remember to match what I see in my right eye only. And even then my colours tend to be wonky because I'm just used to seeing things this way. I get made fun of my colour labeling often enough - especially when I comment on the colour of food items. Like both orange and purple are different shades of brown. Purple looks richer, like chocolate, though. Orange is more like clay.

* To tell which eye is your dominant one: with both eyes open, stretch your arm out and point at something. Without moving, close one eye, then switch. Only one eye will be lined between your finger and the pointed-to object. That's your dominant eye. The other is used for context and 3D resolution.
It actually technically could support Firefox/chrome, but I have disabled it because enabling accessibility on chrome breaks window managers.

Also vimium will always be faster than vimac due to how slow the accessibility API is.

I would recommend using both for now.
I second that..except for the security part though ;)
Optical tweezers are a really cool technique, and actually surprisingly easy to make for something that was only discovered in the 70s.

In my 3rd year undergraduate optics lab we were given a laser, a camera, and a bunch of mirrors and lenses and told to make an optical tweezer and take measurements on the trapping potential for a bunch of different sized polystyrene beads. It was challenging, but ultimately quite do-able for a couple of undergrads with minimal advice / assistance from the lab coordinators.

If I ever had any doubt about whether or not I wanted to be an experimental physicist though, that lab really did confirm to me that I'd hate being an experimentalist. Give me a whiteboard any day.
Maybe instead of "yes, and..
" one can day something like "interesting to hear. That's actually very different from how things were when ..."

> if they hear you out and consider what you're saying openly

Yes I agree
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> quantum computation can do anything that reversible classical computation can

Well, yeah, but that "reversible" hedge is quite significant. Reversible means you have to retain all of your intermediate states, and it is far from clear that you could build a reversible AI that would run for more than a few milliseconds before consuming all of the available resources in its light cone.

> You just need a large enough supply of qubits initialized to |0> for all the copies you plan to do.

Yes, and that produces exactly the same problem: it is far from clear that there are enough qbits in the universe to build a quantum AI this way.

You also have a more fundamental problem, which is that neither quantum computers nor reversible classical computers can do I/O, so how are you going to demonstrate that this thing is in fact an AI? It can't even participate in a Turing test, let alone pass one.
Given modern consumerism is making the planet uninhabitable this is a weird argument to make in favour of tribalism.
A specific technological change: writing (and printing.) We were able to remember longer spans more accurately than could be done by memorization and the passing of that knowledge from old to young. Reversions occur due to the active destruction of recorded history through war and religion. When the retention of novelty depends on the health of a relatively small number of people, as a society you're perpetually rediscovering instead of discovering.

Now our problem is even having the ability to assimilate enough established knowledge during a lifetime to have a chance of making any novel contribution. The obvious endgame to AI is a dream of being able to assimilate information and innovate indefinitely.
EEVblog did a debunk of this at https://youtu.be/uzV_uzSTCTM

Basically, the power density of these are so low that they're useless for most applications. Sure, it might last 28,000 years, but you're only getting 100 microwatts from a battery the size of a normal AA battery.
oh man, that's rough.

Would need to get a US-made HWRNG, and a China HWRNG, and hope at least one isn't compromised???

How would you recommend we get random numbers?
The limits on tenants are soft limits and should be extendable by reaching out to them.
> There are way to many factors at play here to make broad assumptions that no employer does it...

Yes you can make broad assumptions that almost no hr, payroll, legal dept of any company is setup to deal with taxes, labor laws ect across hundreds of different countries.

Yes exceptions exist.

> - it’s important enough to mention again, Covid changed everything.

No it didn't. Do you have even a single example of an employer thats allowing ppl work longterm from whichever country they please due to covid?
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Cameras with night vision mode often have an infrared LED that you can see with most phones front camera.
But how do you develop this kind of mindset?
Most countries follow territorial / residence based taxation. People that live in the country are taxed in that country. An Italian that lives in Italy pays tax to Italy. An Italian that lives in the US, pays tax to the US.

A couple of countries have worldwide / citizen taxation (i.e. the US). A US citizen that lives in Singapore will pay tax to both Singapore and the US. They pay tax to Singapore and can claim a tax credit on their US tax return. They can also claim the foreign earned income exclusion deduction.
Yeah it's a bit hard to tell either way - works or does nothing much. The enthusiasts like Sinclair take DNA methylation tests which seem to indicate some effect but whether that translates to longer life I dunno. I've been too tight to try those as they tend to run $300 per test.
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At least Italians don't, but you get a lot of problems stemming from the "whatever, just burn it, not my problem, I just want my garbage gone"-culture.

You'd get into serious trouble doing the same further north in Germany, Denmark or Sweden.
Yes it is airgapped, as stated in the doc, and multiple times in these comments.
Ideally, the state should not require (it is what it is) slave labor to fulfill basic needs of society. Yes I know in theory it is voluntary and everything, but it is wage dumping using forced labor - because without said slave labor the state would have to pay a lot more for a real standing force.

As with most cost cutting measures, eventually the chickens will come home to roost, and there has been quite a horde of chickens that came home over the last months, across the world.
> I don't doubt that plenty of people share your view and plenty will share mine.

Your statement is true. And it's also true when we switch the pronouns. What's your point?

"Plenty" is not the same as "majority", which was your original claim.

> Okay, so one of your idealized cases and it's still closer

How is it one of my "idealized" cases? Putting words in my mouth isn't going to help this conversation.

> to the "1 hour by public transit" scenario than "10 minutes by driving" you originally chose.

1. I never claimed you will always find affordable houses within 10 minutes drive. I was countering the claim that it need be an hour or more. That it took 40 minutes is still in support of my claim. That it took more than 10 minutes doesn't refute my point.

2. It was fairly clear from my original comment that the point was one can move to a city where you can find sub-hour commutes. From that it's clear that I am not implying you'll find it with every employer or in every city. The whole comment was about choosing where you work.

> I'm curious where you get this, too. The top 5 MSAs already cover 25% of the population.

Simple: Look up a list of metro areas in the US. Add up the top 20. Then add up the rest.

Hint: A city of 100K is still a city. Trying to claim that this is a minority position will again get the same response: Given that most people who live in 100K (or even smaller) cities believe they live in a city, it would be incorrect to claim that the majority do not view such places as cities. There may far fewer employers for engineering in such cities, but I can assure you there are still plenty.

(And no, you don't need to go as low as 100K to get a cumulative greater than your top 20).

Your statement was:

> I'd wager most people think of something like the top 20 metropolitan statistical areas by population when they hear the term.

Baltimore is not in the top 20. Nor is San Antonio. Nor is Portland. Nor is Milwaukee. The list goes on and on. Do you think these people do not think of their own cities when using the word?
Thanks for sharing the doc...
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It seems all of the engineering resources are going towards iOS and macOS is only an afterthought, a device necessary for making iOS apps... I'll be moving on when I get a new laptop.
Nice! Something similar but maybe not so extreme is Deck Set. https://www.deckset.com/

Write markdown and it does the design for you.
Aren't all interface variables pointers in Go, regardless of whether the type implementing the interface is a pointer or a value?
Really want a way to have vi-mode input in all text inputs throughout the OS, hopefully that is a future possibility
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I can't imagine a world where cell phones don't have chargers...and battery life indicators are a thing of the past. Such a surreal thought.

That said, would it be wrong to worry about the dangers of this? I mean, cell phone batteries today spew fire if you puncture them. This tech has to have massive potential energy, can it fail similarly?
The technology has advanced a lot but what major changes have these advances in AI really made to the average person's life? I can't think of any that are anywhere near as dramatic as the invention of cars/air travel/the internet/smartphones.
“Eat The Rich” by P.J. O’Rourke has an excellent chapter on the early 1990s Albanian economy. He described it as a “pyramid scheme based economy.”

He described the primary means of law enforcement as blood feuds, which were “pyramid schemes of death.”

The chapter’s title is “Bad Capitalism.”
Some editorialized vlog thing, probably not for everyone:

https://youtu.be/lMUtU0tOmNE - a YouTube channel called Rare Earth has a few videos shot in Albania, the linked one focuses on the pyramid scheme and the collapse
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That's why I wrote "commitment scheme" of which there are many and which secure one you use doesn't really matter.
Whenever I hear about weird shit from the realm of quantum physics (this theory, double-slit, etc..) I can't help but think:

Why would I hardcode values for imperceptible objects, that would take an enormous about of ram and cpu time to constantly update values in the off chance it's needed.

Much more efficient to optimize for what the _player_ can see at their perspective. Oh and I should probably code in some error handling in the fluke event one of these particles is detected, I'll just calculate their position retroactively, the user will never be able to tell and we can host way more players due to the reduced memory.

It would seem to me that god is a junior dev and no one reviewed his pull requests.
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10.12 reporting in. Wondering how hard it would be to backport this... I'm not too familiar with ~macdev.