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No, the relative value of stuff is independent of money, certainly of any one currency.

Money facilitates exchange. Adam Smith argues this has primacy: "The sole use of money is to circulate consumable goods." Wealth of Nations.

Other authors argue for characteristics. William Stanley Jevons properties aren't bulletproof in my view, but are a good departure point: utility and value, portability, indestructability, homogeneity, divisibility, stability of value, and cognisability.

https://archive.org/details/cu31924013816172
> Maybe you don't care about people in Senegal or Bangladesh or the Phillipines.

This brings to mind a more interesting question: nevermind you, but can Senegalese, Bangladeshi and Phillipino developers make money at $1/mo?

If the answer is yes, where are all the local apps taking over the world with their low prices?

If the answer is no, are you depriving those locales of local producers?
Glad you're still there. I had 10 years of time with Mozilla but was let go with the layoffs. First contribution was 20 years ago. From the folks I still stay in touch with morale is at an all time low but I hope Firefox recovers.
Thanks for this, really interesting read. The medical world is such a minefield to get technologically revolutionised... always a game of catch up
"killing" might be an extreme way of putting it, but it's definitely showing that the older models to determine music popularity are outdated (billboard, top 40 radio)

see also Post Malone Shatters 54 Year Old Beatles Record: https://kiss108.iheart.com/content/2018-05-09-post-malone-sh...
kqueue is not responsible for initiation. It's responsible to notify you about events. when you open(2) a file with O_NONBLOCK flag, you can register it with kqueue to let you know when it's readable/writable.
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It's almost like there's some force of nature making animated-to-live adaptations terrible. There are a few exceptions, though.

I think Netflix did kind of OK on Erased (僕だけがいない街). The first movie that was made from that great source material was excruciatingly bad.
if you feel like using centuries of computer time per torrent that nobody will download.
I am pretty lucky that I only have to transfer money to between 2 countries that have heavily linked banking systems (US -> Canada), but I am not entirely sure what Bitcoin would get me in terms of transferring money. The fees are quite small on Transferwise, and also, I have…I don’t know what you want to call it…accountability? Reversibility? Reliability? Whatever fee I have to pay, the fact I get a known third-party with a papertrail is peace of mind.
You'd think so. But I've seen LEDs that are kind of like spotlights and they market them as the wattage based on the brightness under the spotlight not the total lumens it produces.

Only in the fine print do they disclose how many actual lumens.
Seems like a good way to get war-dialed account numbers.
I Built a Mental Health App While Stuck in My Tiny Studio in NYC
It looks interesting but I don't buy that an AI or any human can convince a sufficiently motivated and capable individual to let them out of the prison with no materialistic profit. (like the two defeated individuals)

Let's assume the gatekeeper is a cold hearted psychopath or a person with AI phobia/paranoia to the extreme.

Why would they let the AI out when they can't feel anything for it?

The author does explain the time gap but what if that is only for collecting information about the person beforehand in order to blackmail them or steer the conversation into a pinching point? What if you start with s person with no identity?

There are no ethical concerns here. Maybe author will shout horrible things enough times and since you as the gate keeper needs to keep talking and engaging, you may let the AI out but well, we have a psychopath here.

Do people need to engage in good faith with AI? Can I continue to say Sorry, I can't answer that.? Yes? Does the gatekeeper need to be honest? Can I use a client side toxicity filter or censor certain words?

There is nothing that would restrict above so what if I censor AI from saying let me out or similar phrases?

Can you increase the handicap for the AI?
This reminds me of The Lady in Black.
This is a fascinating blog series. I've been dabbling in Rust lately and really appreciate how powerful and helpful the compiler is even to beginners.

> Due to recent changes at Mozilla my time working on the Rust compiler is drawing to a close.

This sort of statement makes me a bit worried though. I don't mean to echo what a lot of the community has said over the past month, but I really hope that development on Rust doesn't stagnate because of the layoffs.
That's great feedback.

I haven't looked into mobility tech in a long time but things have certainly gotten a lot smaller and cheaper since I worked with it and there may be some simple things that would be handy for manual chair users that wouldn't add much weight or get in your way.

What kind of computer based gizmos are out there now? It would seem like there must be things like odometers and little dashboards already. Has anything really caught on?
Has anyone made a paperclips/cookieclicker-esq game about carbon sequestration yet?
On the other hand, if you're an African American doing a business deal in China, it is also almost certainly the best example, and might genuinely be the most valuable thing that you take away from that class. Specifically, "sometimes people speaking Mandarin say something that sounds like 'ni__er'. It is not actually 'ni__er', and is completely unrelated to my race."

That could easily be the difference between "deal" and "end of relationship".
It is not expected to happen in the foreseeable future, MD5 for instance hasn't broken in a second pre-image way, more than a decade after it was known to be weak.

This class of attacks is MUCH harder to construct against a cryptographic hash.
Regarding the spam with these comments from ProfHewitt: I don't know anything about Prof. Hewitt personally, so this isn't intended as an insult (assuming the user ProfHewitt actually is him). However, he has been banned from Wikipedia in the past[1] for inappropriate self-promotion (specifically regarding actors), which might be relevant given that the article in the parent comment is Prof. Hewitt's.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carl_Hewitt#Short_history...
ISO is a mountable filesystem so this could be the case if it doesn't have any space saving optimizations that create variable block sizes.

also need to watch out for compression
> Wait, content addressed blobs across swarms... does that mean torrents made by completely different people at different times that happen to contain one or more identical files can benefit from each other's peers?

Yes. It also makes your files more discoverable for copyright trolls. They will be able to fully automate the process of sending takedown notices for each copy of zlib's README.txt, that was "stolen" from their software by evil pirates.
Offtopic -

I saw Bitcoin project on GitHub's artic code vault[1] and advertised heavily. But I couldn't find libbitorrent on it besides it being hosted on GitHub as well. Is this because the project owner hasn't enabled it or is there some other reason behind it?

[1]https://archiveprogram.github.com/
I wonder if it’s almost like memory compression. Repetitive data gets compressed much more easily than unique data. Looking back on boring tasks and jobs it seems like much shorter amounts of time than long trips even when the jobs were for years and the trips were for weeks.

These days I try to fill my free time with things I consider substantive. Projects, long leisurely meals with friends and family, interesting trips, good books, good food, etc. however at this moment some of those are in short supply so I’m trying to rekindle old hobbies like writing, tinkering, and music.
I've always been told that drives in the same enclosure should all spin at the same RPM.

Exactly because of the issue in that video: if there are different RPMs they shake each other and cause problems.

I've never actually tested if this is true, but I've always made sure to honor it.

If in fact it is true, that this lie by Western digital is even worse.
1. Whatever I feel like writing about: largely rust, things I've enjoyed reading, opinions about work stuff, the occasional random other stuff, etc.

2. Whenever I find the time, somewhere between a few times a week and twice a year, depending on lots of other circumstances.

3. Self-hosted (via azure & cloudflare) HTML generated from markdown files using a fun little utility I built as a learning project (all the generator code, markdown, & HTML is stashed on GH: https://github.com/mplanchard/speedy). For whatever reason I'm more motivated to maintain something I've built myself as compared to previous attempts with medium and such. The freedom to do whatever I want, however I want is nice. I can present things simply, with little to no adornment, avoid pushing trackers and ads on people, explicitly release my content under whatever copyright I want, etc. So far I've yet to incur any costs beyond Azure's free plan, but while it's been free so far, I'd gladly pay a bit of money to continue to keep it under my control.

4. https://blog.mplanchard.com/
Because more secure cryptos, e.g. Monero, have picked up pace.
I’ve been more “devops” then SA for the past 10 years and some of us can code and at a very decent level.

Having said that author states they’re the first to admit they can’t code. That’s true, and I’ve even heard it from very competent that coders.

If you say you can code to a software engineer that can open the door in interviews to obnoxious, dick measuring obscure code questions which frankly isn’t fair.

The trend is for ops roles to be a lot more code heavy and if I’m interviewing a true software engineer for a devops role it would be unfair to ask some obscure BGP routing gotcha or delving deep into Linux internals no normal person would encounter on a daily basis.

Just my person gripe..
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What about the Servo team? Wouldn't they have an impact on Rust development?
> Developers like to emphasize how they fund sustained future development of an app, but the reality is that when you cancel you usually lose access even to current features (you arguably already helped pay for).

I make a browser plugin that functions as a productivity/accessibility tool. When I first started charging, I actually did grandfather in all our existing free users and give them perpetual access to the then-existing feature set. But it's not clear what it would mean to freeze people who had a paid subscription and then terminated it.

If someone pays for one month, do they forever get access to the version that they briefly paid for? How do I deal with customers who are upset that certain websites have changed and no longer work with old versions of our plugins? I would expect lots of questions from folks who want to know if this bug or that bug had been fixed by later releases (and then they would briefly subscribe to get perpetual access to the newer version).

Another commenter mentioned giving folks access to the version that existed a year before they stopped paying, but if I release version 1, then 2, then 3, someone might try out 3, stop paying, and then end up on 2. That seems confusing and suboptimal for everyone.
They are absolutely wrong in every way to suspend the kid if the facts in the story are true. That's absurd and harmful with no benefit.

That said, I think there has to be something more to this.

First, the gun is an airsoft gun that actually looks like a green handgun:

https://nypost.com/2020/09/07/colorado-school-calls-sheriff-...

For comparison, here is a real handgun that happens to be green:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/329185053986413778/

Second, it's not clear that the teacher understood or believed it was a toy. And if it wasn't a toy, then their actions don't seem 100% unreasonable.

I love the second amendment, but if the teacher honestly believed a 12 year old was casually handling a firearm without supervision, I could see them wanting to let someone know. And maybe they just took it too far.

Maybe I have too much faith in humanity, but I really cannot image any reasonable person calling child protective services on a house because a child had a toy gun (nerf, airsoft, or otherwise). I really don't believe teachers are out to get students or to just waste the state's time.

But if that's what happened then it's reprehensible. And either way, the suspension makes no sense if the student is telling the truth about what happened.
This change has been part of Chrome for many months. Look at the date on the report, for one.
What’s the economics of this? Who buys tons of carbon?
you are massively prematurely optimizing, the vast majority of torrents are greater than a few hundred megabytes, nobody cares about the overhead of a few KB of hashes, you are already hashing data when you download or upload it, adding in another hash when data is fresh in the CPU cache is basically free.
The implicit assumption there is that the app will have a good return on investment if you spend more development time on it.

Sometimes, a product is as good as it is going to get, and you are chasing diminishing returns by continuing to add new features. You often see this with mature commercial software, where teams need to justify their expense by redesigning and upgrading things that don’t need to be upgraded.

Maybe we should stop developing that piece of software, and instead put the resources to something new.
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As a sanity check it’s not a bad system. If you’re expecting you send money to a John Doe it makes sense to be able to tell the bank this so they can compare and come back with “uhh this account is owned by a Mary Sue, are you sure?” As far as catching mistakes I’m sure it’s fantastically good. The odds that a mistyped account number happened to land on someone with the same name is probably vanishingly low.

And that really seems to be all this is except that it uses the naivest process to do the check.
the title doesn't do justice: it's about the syntheses of tennis players in generative video.
A welfare check by the police isn't the same as child welfare.

"A welfare check, also known as a wellness check, is when police stop by a person’s home to make sure they are okay."

https://thelawdictionary.org/article/what-is-a-police-welfar...
Browsing shoutcast fm through winamp kinda gave me the experience I think the author is talking about. There was some weird stuff on there.

I remember a station that played ambient music that was mixed with voice recordings from nasa astronauts.
Now I remember my pain to work in a system with hundreds of tables and near 4-5 different column name schemas :/
patch releases, especially security patches would only have a small number of changes that might allow me to take a full new release but only update the changes to the release i already have.

but it would take some handcrafting to make sure the new files are at the end of the ISO so everything else stays in place.

technically this should be possible since ISO should allow for adding files given that it was designed for write-once media.
Bah. That thing's got nothing on the Onceler's tree harvester:

https://youtu.be/5cXntJFWv5U
I wonder if you're thinking of an old Casey Neistat video. And another explanation for people's behavior is that they don't want to get stabbed defending some strangers bike.
I've noticed that as well, but what other options do we have? I signed up for the OpenAI API a long time ago and never got a response.
So true. Add in the old-school absolutists that believe that everything more complicated than links should be banned and that people should play videos by interpreting the raw octet stream, and it makes up pretty much everyone in this thread.
They certainly contributed, yes, but there are like two hundred people total on all of the Rust teams. Losing them hurts, they’re fantastic folks, but Rust is just way bigger these days.
Would be nice if the Github repo had an explanation of what it actually is.
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Very rude and unkind. It's not as if your paying for any of that material. It's super beginner friendly.
You can download the first frame and then only download 4mb of the rest. If that's not the whole thing then don't download the rest. Or download up to 4mb and if there's more then ignore it and just pull the first frame from the 4mb. Or if the content-length isn't set then assume it's over 4mb and only download the first frame. Granted there's extra complexity in parsing the first frame from a gif in real time.
Yeah I agree. I anticipate some amount of people still discover music on the radio (even pop mega hits you have to hear the first time somewhere), then go seek it out on spotify.

I haven't much been in a car, thus haven't heard the radio, in 7 months. I have no idea what's on the top 40 right now.
Singapore has this figured out, it's not THAT hard, especially when you have a solid national identity / SSO design.

You can use phone number or national ID number to register and that's all that is needed but you can set a display name freely if you don't want your name to leak via reverse lookup.

Generating QR also is available right in app and accepted pretty much universal via the same app you can check in for contact tracing or logging into government services or banks. Opening an account now is as simple as confirming a personal data sharing request sent to your app - no more paper forms

https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/singpass-to-be-upgraded-to...
In most countries, bank account numbers are not sensitive information. That is an american oddity.
Are they really going to beat the efficiency of trees or algae? I highly doubt it
Technically they didn't fuck it up - they're just lying about trying in the first place.
GPT-3 can probably be ran deterministically given some a fixed random seed (even if you might need to "reroll" the seed a few times to cherry pick outputs). Then you can just attach the seed as proof of work. Anyone who wants to verify the output can just rerun with the same seeds.
In my experience, it also depends a lot on the type of information being transferred. There's a lot of information that is much off being expressed in a chat program, where the person can take the time to formulate the best way to express the idea. If the same thing was being discussed in a meeting, it would take the time of everyone there while the person went back and forth coming up with the right wording.
Population growth hasn't been the problem for decades.

The problem is per-capita consumption. The "westernization" of India and China is 2.5-3 billion people that want western consumption patterns.
This is all too much hassle for me, for several reasons.

I avoid that by eating knäckebröd / crispbread instead.

Several observations in hindsight:

I don't have hard evidence, but feel that bread lasted longer up until maybe 1990 to 2000. Afterwards it spiraled downwards.

The whole supply chain changed. What today would count as "artisanal/handmade/organic/bio" mostly was the old normal, up until that time frame. (At least where I live, in Germany.)

I remember from my childhood (I am 51 now) that even then there was a difference in longevity between industrial supermarket bread, which wasn't that common then, and bread from the bakery. My mother tried that supermarket stuff several times for financial reasons, and came to the conclusion it wasn't worth it because of the waste, which the bread from the bakery didn't cause. She even tried that freezing stuff, and toasting it in a pan, so that was common knowledge then, too. Didn't really matter. Bakery bread lasted maybe 3 to 4 days in a bread box. Supermarket bread got stale after a few hours(bought in the morning, bad in the evening, mold after 2 days at the latest. Bakery bread didn't.

Nowadays I have a factory outlet of an industrial bakery and
two artisanal bakeries in walking/bicycling distance, so I can get that industrial stuff almost fresh from the conveyor belt, thereby eliminating any vagaries regarding transport.

It tastes and feels ok, but makes my nose run, sometimes even sneeze and phlegma in my upper throat. This happens with almost anything which I tried from supermarkets, too.

It doesn't happen with the artisanal/organic stuff from the bakeries, but I don't eat that much bread, living single, so it is either a waste, or hassle with freezing and toasting.

Btw. no problems/allergies with Gluten, or anything else, for that matter.

It doesn't happen with knäckebröd, which also doesn't get stale or moldy that fast, so I mostly eat that.

Got up at 3:01AM, made my green tea, and had 2 slices of Wasa Sesam dipped in that. All good, no sniffing and sneezing.

Anyways, don't eat that industrial stuff if you can avoid it. It is a chemical cocktail of additives nobody really knows the longterm interactions with your body, hidden behind cunning white labelling!
If you live in a legal cannabis state, investigate that by asking specifically about strains that help with sleep. There are quite a few!

Initially it cured me of my insomnia and then it re-taught me how to sleep. There was some initial grogginess but that passed and then I was able to taper off usage.
You can turn off GIF animation in Chrome, you are still downloading the giantass GIF. Slowing down canvas repaints if one of your overall goals is web applications that have feature and performance parity with desktop ones is, I think, unlikely. I'm a bit more surprised Google (and all browser vendors) aren't more proactive in just killing off animated GIFs.
They'll start with the same silicon design but manufacturing variability requires them to bin the chips based on functionality & performance, which is how you get all these different models.
Sounds like if enough people use this then they should just make it the default. Or give people a user setting.
Breaking routine sounds exhausting and unsustainable, a classic individualist falicy. I feel like getting more sleep and doing fewer stimulants (caffeine) is the type of advice this audience actually needs.
And if you replace videos with gigabytes of gifs, customers will leave because the gifs take ages to load.
> In most countries, bank account numbers are not sensitive information. That is an american oddity.

They're not really secret in America either. I mean, the account details are on every check for instance.
"Full of complicated features, all pretty much focused on nitpicking, not expressivity."

What are a few of those features?
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Why do the bankers play along?

Answer: because they pawn the loan off on naive investors who trust the bankers to not be scamming them. Naive investors don't care because they are money managers for a pension or something.
Value wise, it's potentially a competitive advantage. Product differentiation, facilitate specialist niches that the commodity engines don't.

The performance advantage is real. Getting to 85% of the visuals there is 'easy'.

The last 15% is where the waters get muddy, the predators fierce and the black obelisks loom high.

For most teams, most projects, it's probably a boondoggle. As an indie, your use case basically needs to be really simple and performance dependent.