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Nanite?

> Nanite virtualized micropolygon geometry frees artists to create as much geometric detail as the eye can see. Nanite virtualized geometry means that film-quality source art comprising hundreds of millions or billions of polygons can be imported directly into Unreal Engine—anything from ZBrush sculpts to photogrammetry scans to CAD data—and it just works. Nanite geometry is streamed and scaled in real time so there are no more polygon count budgets, polygon memory budgets, or draw count budgets; there is no need to bake details to normal maps or manually author LODs; and there is no loss in quality.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/a-first-look-at-unre...
>There was no immediate explanation provided for the blaze, which erupted just two days after the French cloud computing firm kicked off plans for an initial public offering.

That pretty much sums up why the fire started
It's frustrating that the article never fully separates 'part of day' from 'time of day'. That is, sometimes we want to know if it's morning or mid-day or night, and other times we want to synchronize at specifically 1:00. These are different things and time zones only help in superficial, inconsistent, and misleading ways (as mentioned in the piece). There are replies on the page that discuss this point.
Just let me pay more for a non-ads version. Worked just fine for Amazon Kindle products.
I always do because I despise exit seats on A320s, at least on Alaska.
I’ve used it by running it memory from python as a temporary dB. In my case it was just for simple bounds checking queries but it worked incredibly well.

I’m not sure about trying to get 30fps out of it though - might be a stretch!
Yet our current system shows we do have tolerance for dead weight, be they geniuses who happened to have bad luck in the theory they chase or be they frauds. One way to rephrase the issue in light of this is to ask if we have optimized the dead weight for the benefit. If we double the scientists and accept that we will increase our percentage of dead weight, won't we still all benefit from the increase in non-dead weight. Have we really reached the point of diminishing returns?

Yet another thing that bothers me is how benefit is viewed. Ability to defraud others, addict them, create fear and then provide the safety for that fear are all seen as benefits where as a scientist who pursued the wrong theory is not. Yet in terms of how better off society is, isn't the scientist winning even if they net contribute nothing?

I don't claim to have answers. The more I ponder the nastier the problem becomes. Some of the answers I've seen other gives, things that could be summarized as variants of socialism or related, fail to account for other flaws in humans.

It somewhat reminds me of trying to figure out how to run a government. Like someone pointing out all the problems with democracy, yet seeing that there isn't a better solution. Well, incremental improvements in the specific variant of democracy aside.
Sorry - I meant to focus on argument from workers point of view. Govt jobs, you can get basically a job for life if you are not a total idiot.

Not for everyone of course.

One model I've seen some pretty large success with is employee ownership of companies. They seem to tolerate the total disaster flake outs less than unions do. I've seen unions fight for the drunk guy who hit someone with a forklift. My exposure to employee ownership shows it is complicated and there can be problems, but for whatever reason stuff happens.

Collectives on the other hand didn't really work - too many opinions? I know berkeley's collectives all fell apart.
Cool! One thing that confused me, though, is why they used the inet.af import path. I get that it looks cool, but it'd be better if they just used tailscale.com for everything.

On a related note, I'm not sure which problems Tailscale aims to solve (although I suspect it's one of those "you'll know when you need it" tools).
That's not simpler because it throws up more questions. Who would want that, how did they get access, how did they plan it do quickly, how they know to target this specific one, etc.

Simple is: fires happen in buildings due to failures. There was a nonhuman failure like in millions of other cases. No need for a conspiracy.

Otherwise, with your logic, god explains everything because "it's simple"
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> Are you fucking kidding me?

No.

That article has nothing to do with iPhones and doesn’t even contain the word iphone anywhere on the page.

That’s because iPhones are recycled.

Those devices are supposedly more repairable Android devices.
I fundamentally disagree that line employees are responsible for pushing back on top-down corporate BS/dishonesty.

This is the same thing people around here say about FB ads or whatever, that you should take a stand and refuse to work on such things. Make yourself a beautiful soul all you like, we all know they will just find someone else to do it instead.

I can understand not wanting to go along with things one finds unethical (or just plain wrong), but I can't support the delusion that this has any actual effect at all. It won't stop them, probably won't even slow them down. To be clear- if you are so privileged, as we say nowadays, to be able to pick what you will or won't work on, feel free to exercise that privilege! But that's all it is.

Companies are managed by management, they do what management says. It is literally that simple. Yell at the management to change. (Oh they won't listen? Huh, that's weird.)
I’m not sure where you’re located, but here in the Bay you can find most of this stuff at Asian markets like 99 Ranch.
Cells self-replicate. Cells are alive. People are composed of cells. Therefore, people are alive. Sterility is irrelevant.
it's made for some engaging discussion around the family dinner table.
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Hi! Sorry for the late reply.

Here's a screenshot of my screen from the time of writing the comment https://i.imgur.com/ngD1Xkj.png

I'm on a macbook pro 15.4-inch (2880 x 1800).

I see you've changed background, thank you for that! <3 Now it is far far better. Though I still find myself having to try harder to read the text on such color. I'm not sure of the reasons, though. Maybe it's me, maybe it's f.lux.

(though f.lux is on Movie Mode, meaning the dim and color correction are lighter than default)

P.S. I do not know of and never experienced any color perception problems.
Apple isn’t blocking ads here. They make their money through the hardware and additional devices, without the need to inject ads everywhere.

If you use an ad supported service like Peacock or Hulu you’ll still see ads in the streams.
Shameless plug for my iOS OctoPrint client, Kraken: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kraken-for-octoprint/id1472939...
>If you hide the scrollbar until you scroll, then users often won't scroll, because they won't know there is more to see.

Do you have evidence for this, even if it's anecdotal? To be honest a statement like that sounds like a hypothesis and a reasonable hypothesis, but I am not joking when I say when we did user testing, it was absolutely never the case that someone actually didn't scroll because they didn't see a scroll bar. Now we didn't test specifically for that but I'd be surprised if a controlled experiment testing that hypothesis concluded that people will actually just never bother to scroll unless they explicitly see a scrollbar.

Scrolling is actually a very natural thing that people do without the need to visibly see a scrollbar. Using a dedicated scroll button or gesture is a very cheap and consequence free action to perform. I'd be very surprised if you have data that contradicts this and indicates that an actual human being would simply not scroll because the only visual cue/indicator that people use is a scrollbar, rather than the multitude of context specific information available to indicate whether more content is available.
Real problem: people growing invasive species like bamboo that escape and over time destroy local plant ecosystems (see all the kudzu in the south of America as another example).

Silly problem just to show how silly the OP's argument is: putting a plant indoors now means it costs carbon to keep it living--I have to water it, but that water doesn't come for free and depends on a vast pipeline of industrialization to extract water, pump it to my home, and then build containers for me to hold the water and drip it on my indoor plants. It would be better to just cut that chain entirely and let plants get water from rain directly... by not being indoor houseplants.
How much do you imagine ads pay?? Because it is a tiny amount. Cents. Not dollars.
I mean, Marita Koch's 400m record from 1985 and Flo Jo's 100m and 200m records from 1988 still stand. PEDs work, and if they go away they can cause records to stand for decades.
Did you us eye tracking to check that the users never look at the scrollbar?
Fun fact: in Europe all pet food is safe for human consumption.

It's too legally expensive dealing with the fallout when a child tries to eat dog food and claims they got sick otherwise. It's cheaper for the manufacturer to just show up in court and say "it's certified for human consumption".

It also means that equipment can be swapped between making pies and making dog food.
To be fair, they paid for the TV but you didn't pay for the article.
You'd have a point if they didn't say "the comparable Boeing aircraft". There is nothing "comparable" about the two given Boeing's other offerings, they're not in the same class or generation.
Firefox on Android supports uBlock Origin. DNS-level ad blockers (such as PiHole or NextDNS) are another good option.
It’s not like a decision based on he doesn’t like nvidia — they would pretty much have to rewrite the whole rendering pipeline for a completely separate model. It simply won’t happen unless the kernel guys can do something and bring nvidia prop drivers to behave well with the kernel abstraction wlroots (and thus sway) sits on top, or someone(s) reimplement the whole thing yet again (and then maintain basically two codebases with twice the bugs)
> All of my classmates had taken up with advisors who were, like most physicists, experimentalists, the researchers who do the hands-on work of, say, smashing particles together at accelerators to see what comes out. Theorists like Rajeev, or for that matter Einstein and Feynman, who instead do the noodling necessary to explain the results of experiments with math are fewer and further between.

Wow, I got so used to the idea that almost all physicists are theoreticians that this looks quite foreign :) .
Most of these ads are actually built into the firmware, I have a pihole set up and I still get ads from my tv, sometimes even on startup there will be a new thing appearing in the corner. Next up is preventing it from accessing the internet entirely, but then I'd need to have a second remote to actually watch my content.
Took my time to study this and it is astonishing indeed.
I put my Prusa on a UPS, and was delighted to watch it just keep right on printing during a 10 minute power outage a week ago.
At the end of the article a researcher (who thinks the restrictions on where to look for bugs are inappropriate) says these are good training grounds for students / beginners.

Would anyone like to comment if this is their experience? Do people think the white hat courses are better places to start

(old coder here, but aware that breaking things is as good away to learn as any)
If you honestly think this, you've spent too much time on very dismal parts of the internet.
Ahh - very nice.

I don't use hulu. I license movies I like on the itunes store if I'll be watching them a few times. And stream very lightly.

I would not take it well to have to deal with ads on an expensive device, or even be forced to jump through hoops to turn them off. I'm sure Apple is leaving money on the table, but I'm very willing to pay the apple premium to have to worry a lot less about this type of total jerk behavior.
Yes, I believe that's what I'm recalling, I remember there was a cave walk through demonstrated along with it.

I would think a technology that claims the more detail the better and that it will deal with worrying about optimizing what can be handled would work very well with a high quality scanning technology to make very detailed real-world based models.
> sometimes in a magical cloud of instances, living in harmony.

That's part of the point here, I think: They are far from magical and, at some level, they are "physical" ...

Let's call it a "gentle" reminder, then :)
UTC makes more sense for global transport logistics that essentially run 24/7. time zones are just an additional opportunity to make a mistake here.
Tracking Your Sleep Could Be Why You Can’t Sleep
I read somewhere a report that suggested that top software engineers tend to be up to 3 times more effective than average software engineers, and that 10x and the like is only really achievable in comparison to the worst engineers, and the worst engineers are often so bad that it's not sensible to compare with them. For a company, avoiding those guys is probably even more important than hiring the best - if your company has 10x engineers, your recruitment process is probably broken.

I have worked with some extremely productive software engineers. They tended to know the domain and codebase they were working in well, worked long hours and had either the enthusiasm, motivation or mental practice to maintain focus, and I believe those factors explained the majority of their advantage, which was large but not superhuman.

But like the author of this article, I've also seen a lot of situations where an apparently huge multiplier was best explained in some other way. For example, some apparently 10x engineers were only so because they were allowed to only work on interesting, relatively easy early stage work. The difficult, fiddly work of mopping up the awkward corners was left to other engineers, who were considered 'slow'.

Incidentally a lot of people will be a lot more productive if you let them work on only projects that interest them. I know some people who were considered 'problem' engineers because they spent most of their time doing stuff other than what they were asked to do, but they made a lot of interesting and useful stuff and with only a slight change in perspective or luck, they could have been considered 10x developers.

For maximum impact, having the wisdom and opportunity to work on the right thing is much more important than working 10x as hard.
My LG TV recently updated and gave me AirPlay 2 so it’s not all bad
It might be a surprise to you, but most of us aren't fond of being subjected to foreign laws.

Other gouvernement will take notice.
I wish someone would teach low level programming from scratch with Zig
This guy overpaid by a lot... I have a VIZIO QLED that is 65 inches that cost like $450 and looks like reality
cool. and what about your .com?
There isn't much difference there, but it would be more of an uphill battle if you tried to put everything different that Wayland does into X extensions. That still requires maintaining an extra code path for old X servers that don't support the new extensions, and creates additional risk of breaking things and causing regressions in the X server because of all the new code you're adding.

Clients like term, xpdf, and xfig should work fine in XWayland. Window managers won't work without getting ported, but someone has been working on a port of Openbox: https://github.com/johanmalm/labwc
That's pretty neat! But I feel some of those tools can just be implemented with coreutils, pipes, and redirects...
Solar time for human-centric activities can return now that digital assistants run our lives. At the very least, we can have two dimensional time zones around major metros. I would like the sun to rise at seven am every single day, as I have evolved to expect. Machine-centric activities can stick with UTC.
Duet controllers are another good option of OctoPrint doesn't appeal. Having everything integrated into one board makes a lot of things easier, and from a safety perspective it feels a lot more trustworthy than random cloned driver boards.
This submission is to a reblog of wccftech, who has issued a partial retraction of their original story:

> Update: It seems like the mining algorithm used here wasn't Ethereum but Octopus which is a different cryptocurrency coin and based on an algorithm that NVIDIA might not have limited its hash rate for yet. So as of right now, the hash rate limiter remains in place
My take is that ad revenue for TV manufacturers is next to nothing today, and it has zero impact on the cost of a TV set. But they're trying in case they can have access to a potentially huge revenue stream in the future. And my take is also that they won't do it well and they won't gain access to a revenue stream that only the likes of Google or Facebook are able to command and manage, but they will certainly annoy a huge amount of users along the way.

Only convenient option here seems to be to not give connectivity to your TV set, or not have a TV set at all.
> Cool! One thing that confused me, though, is why they used the inet.af import path. I get that it looks cool, but it'd be better if they just used tailscale.com for everything.

Why would it be better to use tailscale.com?

It has nothing to do with Tailscale. It's just an IP address.

A neutral package name seemed best.
Only a matter of time before they start downloading ads via OTA datastream. Could do rough geolocation by differential signal strengths/timing. TV could run code to infer gender/age/etc or just link it to the serial number of the purchaser and their address.

Of course you didn’t get your 65” TV delivered to your own house, right?

If it’s strictly one-way, ad purchasers may not know precisely how many “hits” they got, but could be inferred from the online TVs.

To be determined if it’s worthwhile if almost everyone puts the TV online anyway, but if there’s a world where people don’t, you’ll still be almost as screwed.
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The sustainability of that model of responsibility must be in doubt, though. Take a simple case like a website that loads a resource from somewhere else. Given how the technology works, any model where the original site is responsible for everything and the user's data is supposedly protected is obviously misleading, because very often it's the third party services that are run by the bigger, more powerful, data-hoovering businesses, and neither the original site nor the user may be fully aware of what is happening or have any practical control over it. The model assigns responsibility where it's convenient, not where it's reasonable.
> My school basically expected you’d double major in math or CS

Coding knowledge is becoming a matter of literacy for more and more professions, so it might be worth trying to pick up a bit of it before it's too late - lockdown might be an especially good time.
While I understand the point you're trying to make, I'd argue that this take is too simplistic.

> Well the cat produces only waste while a human creates technology/innovation.

This statement is problematic for numerous reasons. I'll focus on two.

Have you had a pet? I'm a dog person. They create waste (in small amounts, they're not very large), but they also bring joy, companionship, love, a reason to walk outside at least 3 times/day. They make me a better person.

Some humans create technology/innovation. Some humans create value that has nothing to do with tech or saving the planet. Some humans don't create much value at all.

> A cat won't develop electric cars for sure.

And being realistic, neither will most humans. While the potential certainly exists, comparing the relative merits of raising kids vs. raising pets by focusing on people like Gates, Bezos, Musk and Buffet is not quite right either. (I'd also question why these are the four people we're benchmarking against).

For sake of argument, it's worth considering this: for people who choose pets (or nothing) over kids, how much does that decision enable them to more fully pursue their passions? Is it possible that not having kids makes it more likely that someone will create the next big thing in tech? Or be the source of innovation that helps improve the planet? I know my own struggles with depression have a direct impact on my ability to create value, and my dogs help me with my depression. Conclusion: my dogs create value.

Going back to the original argument: "pets are more eco-friendly than children" - I think this still has merit. Can the opposite be true? Sure. Is it generally true? That's more complicated.
The most surprising part to me was that go devs are feeling less and less welcome in "the community" and less and less welcome to contribute.

I wonder why that is.
Well, it's a good thing they were able to get Google actually respond after completely shutting down their accounts and providing no method for review or accountability.

It's too bad that so many other individuals/businesses working with Google have not had the same amount of luck in dealing with similar situations.
I mean, in a way, you are changing the end of the work day (the work day will end a hour earlier in the previous time zone at one shift, and one hour later in the previous time zone at the other shift), it's just that the time zone shift is the mechanism we use to do it.

If we use the approach of having the workday end at 5 PM during one half of the year, and 6 PM in the other half, people have to ask themselves "Are we in the 5 PM half, or the 6 PM half?" This confusion will probably last for a few weeks, similar to the confusion when a year changes (I write the old year for at least a month).

On the hand, changing the clocks is a one time change, and then you don't need to constantly check which half you're in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_database_model

This was pretty common on mainframes, before db2 and other SQL databases
Wow. Just wow. It’s really scary when people think like this. It sounds like a fascist dystopia I want no part of. Do you realize you’re advocating genocide in the name of social justice?
"It’s large. A Go slice is 3 words (so 24 bytes total on 64-bit machines) just for the slice header, without counting the underlying array that the slice points to"
So is the theory of racial superiority but we all agree it’s wrong.

And your article refers to the 1619 Project as “Pulitzer Prize winning” yet fails to note most historians call it crap.
Lots of comments are basically just a reaction to the headline (bringing up questions/complaints which the article addresses without referencing the article's points).

It's not really that surprising, engagement in any community is largely driven by a desire to participate in a discourse around interesting topics. I do think it results in several levels of conversation happening at the same time around a topic though.
why wouldn't someone just hire a developer to do this? My understanding is that the market for contractors is oversaturated right now. You could probably pay someone hundreds of dollars to write software that interacts with web services etc if you look hard enough

Like the grandparent comment, it's hard for me to imagine that there are enough people in need of this service to justify a $5B valuation
I just want to say I love how the information is provided and broken down in this blog post. Masterclass.
> How the heck does one even turn an IPv4 address into 28-56 bytes?

It's covered in the blog post.
Wait till they desaturate the icons like they did in Visual Studio recently or make them all look the same splash of colors like google did with their product icons.