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> "Market approach" is when you don't give any thought about the cost to other party - you just make your request, and expect them to tell you whether they'll do it, how long will it take, and what they expect in return. You then negotiate the scope of the request and the "price" until both sides are satisfied, or the request is rejected.

Note (for your forthcoming tweet storm, apparently) that just these evaluation steps could be pretty time-intensive for the other party in the first place.
Congrats on the release! I wish the "(almost) always releasable testing" proposal would get more traction tough. These long freeze periods aren't very good if you are using testing as a rolling distro.
Author of the blog post here, folks! Happy to discuss the project or answer any questions.
That’s a misunderstanding. Aluminium smelting is the process of extracting pure Aluminium from its oxide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting

Recycling generally avoids smelting aluminum because Aluminum in say cans only has an atomic scale coating of Aluminum oxide around pure Aluminium.
Echoing this. The mainstream compositors all seem to be plenty fast even on very old hardware provided that you have GPU acceleration. Ranger is written in Python of all things and spits out colored text (which has quite a bit of overhead) yet I hardly perceive any latency if I'm running in a decent VTE.

In Android I don't recall the various stock AOSP components having any performance issues, just the custom carrier and vendor stuff.
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iPhones are already continuously scanning your photos. Every notice how it recognizes faces and organizes your photos by them?

You can’t turn that off!!

There’s no way to tell the iPhone, “stop with the AI recognition on my photos.”

Since Apple has decided it’s going to categorize all your photos based on AI, it was just a matter of time before they started categorizing some bad stuff.
No, some were better.
> I couldn't imagine trying to build an iOS app on an iPad, even an iPad Pro with a keyboard.

Why not? The only officially-supported way to build iOS apps right now is using Xcode on a Mac. What would be the difference between using the Xcode app on a Mac or the Xcode app on an iPad with a keyboard?
Is Youtube actually a social network or a broadcast medium with a very narrow feedback medium? All the big channels I know about (only briefly) have forums etc external to youtube.
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This is how it's done now. Tool lines are flushed with chemically regenerated atmosphere (basically getting LOX + LN2 bottles from air liquide, and mixing them,) or argon, or nitrogen only.

Older, and cheaper fabs still rely on natural atmosphere, and other, less sure tricks to keep halogens out.
That's a good point. Like with any other business activity, software can be automated -- to a point. You can automate the repetitive parts of business activity and software development.

But you can't automate an entire business and you can't automate the entirety of software development either.
Well there’s more demand than supply so of course they will raise prices. If the other vaccines work as well then there’s be competition at least in the global market. Then you need new vaccines to replace the older ones as the virus evolves. Obviously prices are going up.
> Debian has order of magnitudes less desktops/servers than Windows

Source for Debian running orders of magnitude fewer servers than Windows ?
I am a huge Kenton Varda fan. his sandcats platform was genius. I'm happy to see it open sourced, but sad to see the development slow down.

great to see he is still pushing cap'n proto forward!
I had near-photographic memory through my adolescence. I had a bad mountain biking accident with a brain injury that took that and much of my short term memory function away (the short-term part has largely improved in the following decades).

I see the downsides. Before my accident I had a backlog of resentment events that I revisited internally very frequently. It may be the change in memory or my own maturity and change of perspective with age, but I can no longer remember those things that I held on to and resented so deeply, and I'm grateful for that. I think I still remember the real traumas, but a lot of what I forgot was just piddly stuff where I was lacking empathy for the other side's predicament.

I did have a hard time re-learning how to learn. I lost my stellar memory function in the summer between high school and college, and had never learned to study - I just reflected on what had already been presented instead. I had a very hard time figuring out how to study, and had a thing against taking notes (I felt it was better to be engaged with the lecture than trying to re-read it later). I started taking notes in graduate school because I couldn't keep up with many lectures and needed a way to walk through what had happened later.

I now takes notes obsessively. I keep a paper notebook at hand 100% of the time I'm working and every thought or follow up goes into it. I've developed a shorthand that makes this work seamlessly. Funny enough, I now distrust people that aren't taking notes when we're discussing importing things lol.

That said, I do miss the days of massive recall.
Great to see that the preservation effort is still alive.

Though having missed the glory years of tracker music, since a young age I have had a strong affection for its sound.

Another treasure trove for tracker music is The Mod Archive: https://modarchive.org/

Some of my favorite tracker music:

- Purple Motion - Starshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xHPIuX3s4

- Robert Allen - Epic Pinball Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqC9yS9oLCY

- Dr. Awesome - Space Deliria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g60hfiO1WY

- 4mat - Chipmusic is dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfSoqzkWhF8

- 4mat - Eternity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHzG7OJ76t8

For those who like ambient:

- Jazz Jackrabbit 2: Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHJ7IWBpRs

- Deus Ex: Naval Base https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aj4jfiqiLw
I'd say Elixir is an absolute super power when it comes to building a startup with a small team and small budget. It's fantastic if you're an experienced solo dev who wants to indie hack. It's also a great paradigm to learn that will level you up if you've never worked with anything similar.

I'm not sure it's that great if you're just looking for a job, though.

I faced a lot of automatic screening rejections myself—even after having worked at a Chinese startup focused on iOS, at Groupon, at a couple of YC startups working with Node + React and then on my own (failed) startup where the primary language was Elixir.

If I recall correctly, every single European company I applied to rejected me without even a phone screen. Later, I did a bit of consulting where I built the back-end of a platform for automated trading. It went well and since then I've gotten quite a bit more inbound interest. Finding decent work with Elixir was harder for me since I'm living in Asia. But it was also easier than it would be for many others, since I have a body of work in the form of hundreds of tutorials on YouTube.

What got me my current role was that the founder signed up on Alchemist Camp, hired me on a one month contract for the initial launch of his next startup. That contract was renewed for two more more months and then renewed again in an on-going arrangement. Since the founder is the former CTO of one of YC's top 3 startup successes, I'd say it's the best career opportunity I've had to date.

It's worked out well, but in all fairness I'd say that someone with the same experience and a YouTube channel about another technology would have found decent contract work more quickly.
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Just curious, is there any progression for relatively high bitrate audio codec? Not that I'm not satisfied with the current state of AAC, but I found most of these new development often about some super low bitrate (this case is even more extreme, 3kbps!?).
I have a story to share:

When my daughter was three years old, we started giving her some IPad time.

She learned about Kids YouTube, and wanted to become a “Youtuber.”

Unbeknownst to us, she began making extremely long, detailed videos teachings other kids how to perform her latest accomplishment: how to use the potty.

She then pushed a series of icons which, she believed, uploaded the videos to YouTube for the world to see.

She then offhandedly informed us that she had been teaching other kids how to use the potty. By YouTube.

Much screaming and shouting ensued. Ultimately we determine she wasn’t uploading anything, and couldn’t even if she knew how.

She did however have several hours worth of videos showing th world how to use the potty.

She was quite upset when we deleted them.

Leaving aside debate on the “scanning photos against a database of hashes”, I hope that the parent-enabled features are useful.
Lately, I have been pratising a similar philosophy. I find it truly helpful to remove all that extra noise that sometimes builds up.
I think the good will comes from YouTube doing something useful for the user with the collected info (video recommendations).
At that point, we aren't just talking about computers that write code. You're talking about a general purpose AI that can effectively automate all human intellectual pursuits not just software development.
Do you barge into people’s bedrooms and demand them to justify their choice of linen and wallpaper too? Does it bother you if their desk isn’t aligned with your internal feng shui?

You’re the one coming in rambling about something just because “I don’t like it” and you expect people to donate their time to arguing with you?
At my last job, this was the attitude we eventually took with tickets that were several years old.

If it's still an issue with our internal customer [0], they can reopen the ticket or open a new one. But we've completely rearchitectured our systems since the ticket was first opened, our internal customer has changed leadership and has had considerable staff turnover, and not a single person has brought it up in our biweekly meetings with our internal customer for ages, so we might as well just close it out.

[0] when I say "customer", I'm talking about a department, not a single individual
Aside from the speed benefits, are there any other major advantages of Cap’n Proto?

I’ve been using grpc/protobuf with Java and Scala. Overall I like it, but the grpc Java library does feel like it comes with a lot of opinions baked in. As an example, I was looking in to implementing automatic retries on the client side for certain classes of error. Grpc Java has some experimental retry support, but it seemed tightly coupled to their also-opinionated way of doing service discovery. I can see why you might want the server to inform clients how to do retries, keepalives, etc. But for less sophisticated operations (read: me) it is frustrating and over complicated. Why can’t I just specify a retry policy when creating a client stub?

Still, it’s better than anything else I’ve seen.

But I do long for a simpler alternative. Is that Cap’n proto? Seems like for Java there is only 3rd party support for serialization only, and not RPC.
Wow that is an awesome comment I think maybe even teaching people in languages such as shell which specifically and explicitly state when variables are being referenced (prepended with the $ symbol) would be an excellent technique in teaching to let students understand the different syntactics of programming, I think syntax highlighting would also help a lot, cause it would let kids (on their own) figure out that all text in pink is of the same groups and refers to variables, while code in blue is a function, therefore a ‘group of code’. Of course, I’d maybe explain first what data types there are and really what a computer is, because many people don’t necessarily understand what is happening behind the scenes and do not see it with such technicalities, maybe the majority say about computers that they ‘just work’.
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Marshall Brain’s short novella “Manna” is worth reading, if only because it keeps becoming reality with every development like this one.

To be specific, I’m referring to the first dystopian half of the book. I suppose the people at the top of Amazon are gradually entering the utopian second half.
I don’t think I understand the point you’re trying to make. By that time, Google, with their undeniably charismatic founders, had pulled in north of $30Mio from investors, so they’re hardly a counterexample to the article. Clearly they knew how to sell their vision. Or are you arguing they did not need the money and would have succeeded ‘on the reality of their product’, whatever that means when you need to scale like that and have no income until figuring out Adsense in 2003?
> GPT-3 proves that you can automate creative writing.

It requires creative input. It's just remixing what it already knows. Once you've exhausted that you're back to needing human creativity again.
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I'm ancient by tech standards (lol), but one of the things that keeps me in analytics/data science/stats is that I've always wanted to focus on the problem, not the technology. tech is a means to an end, ideally.

But even in my field, culturally we're often under constant bombardment by people internally and externally with new abstractions, tech, brands, techniques, buzzwords, frameworks, methods, committees, collaborations.

The war is literally never-ending...

If it was JUST human nature or something, I think I could silently let it slide, but imo there's a level of maturity/seniority where you realise this attitude and phenomenon limits the kinds of problems you can actually solve.

sure, politics and self interest is everywhere, but as the article is hinting, eventually you reach a point where the complexity means your system will fold and be swept away. And genuinely complex problems or thoughts cannot be had or tackled if the foundations of your intellectual or tech tower aren't simple, strong or sturdy enough.
It’s funny how Lisp proponents have been promoting Lisp for 60+ years and are still completely fail to get developer mindshare. While “inferior” languages like C/C++/Java/… are successfully used by millions of developers to create the software that runs the world. And it is especially funny when a number of Lisp proponents keep going on about how much smarter they are than the rest of the world. While failing to use their smarts to achieve any successful outcomes. Perhaps those Lisp proponents should use their “superior” intelligent more productively? Maybe by questioning their deep held assumptions about the superiority of Lisp vs. languages that are actually successful in the real world? Now that would be real progress.
The Delta wave has been ongoing all summer, infecting millions of people so far. How many children have died from covid over the summer?

Data from England, where Delta variant deaths are tracked, shows that during the period under study, only 8 people under the age of 50 died from it.

EDIT, as I'm being rate-limited:

Even with the differences you note, the fact that England, with a population of 55 million, had only 8 deaths of those under the age of 50 from the Delta variant, after a month of Delta variant propagation in the country, definitively shows it's not a significant risk to children.
This is really impressive. They say that at 3kbps this new codec sounds as good as Opus at 12kbps, and that it is trained across a wide range of bandwidth. It is a much bigger deal than Lyra was. I'd like to know whether it can run at low latency.
Please be more specific as to exactly what you mean by partnership marketing.
For a company the penalizes sites for being "not mobile friendly", they really drop the ball on this blog. All the graphs have their right sides off screen, hidden, with no chance to see them on a normal modern Android phone.
Exactly. The one that never runs around or deserts you.
Antlers may be less useful since they are seasonal, whereas the the tusks presumably stayed attached to the mammoth throughout its life.
I'd go one step further in that analysis. Why does it feel that large companies are the most representative to the people (like me) claiming that consumption under capitalism is unethical?

Well, I'm a bit of an anarchist, so I'm going to go down the 'distribution of power' line here. It doesn't matter that purism or system76 is ethical when Google controls my every waking moment. When the mega evil Corps have all the power and the influence. When they control not just my life but also the ecological and political environment around me. Denying the power of Google is akin to climate change denial. So yes, I'm not going to point to a small company built off of open source and pretend that my life is okay.

Or I could go a bit further down the Marxist line, and say it's because capitalism requires large scale exploitation at a large scale. Ignoring that exploitation is supporting that exploitation, and is immoral. I'll not get into the theory to support this in this comment, but when Amazon warehouse workers literally work themselves to death for my shitty orders, we've got a problem. And it is immoral to point to the existence of Purism and say that everything is fine.

This is coming off more intense than I intended. I'm sorry. I swear this isn't personal criticism, just an attempt at productive engagement with ideology, but the world is breaking. It's really fucking hard to be kind.
Bullshit. When your "minor issue" becomes something that kills people, you test the living bejesus out of it before you think of deploying. When even the slightest change in UI becomes a deadly operator error, you make damned good and sure that those errors won't happen. There are more things that there is no "undo" (or antidote) for than you can imagine. Having things not isolated is the only real problem.
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Boeing seems to be doing this particular launch with their own funding, as per the article.

One metric in which Startliner could be different from crew dragon, is that Starliner does not splash down in the sea, rather parachutes down on land.
General Harmonics[0] may have come up with something.
[0]www.generalharmonics.com
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fn maybe_alloc() -> Vec<usize> {
if collatz_conjecture_is_true() {
vec![42]
} else {
vec![]
}
}

fn main() {
let v = maybe_alloc(); // Does this allocate?
}
COW filesystems have more write amplification than non-COW FS's, which will wear out the SSD more quickly.
Are we reading the same article? I'm pretty sure this dude didn't build Twilio... and he never says he only worked 40. He actually says he worked more than 40?
Technically this is quite possible. Modern container ships are very long, 1300 feet = often bridge 2 or more waves = the ship is a beam with 2 or more cushiony supports that mean the full weight of the ship bridges them. Consider a square ship as long as a container = 1300 feet square, it will have to act as a beam in all directions. This is quite doable - given the will to do it. This is a quarter mile square. You can make it bigger, but it may be wise to make it as a number of quarter mile squares all connected via flexible beams to allow the tiles to flex, with enough space between for rough sea flexure. They could even be made of concrete with stainless steel rebar. They call it ferrocement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrocement making it cost a lot less than steel. They could also be made of thicker concrete with stainless steel rebar, like the floating docks of the D-Day invasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour
This would allow for long lasting floating cities, made with several security bulkheads so a hole in one section could be isolated. The entire volume within could be used for living, manufacturing, recreational spaces as well as hydroponic LED lit green houses. These would be anchored in areas with good weather(hurricane free) and no risk of hitting rocks. Many countries whose land area will vanish in the next 200 years could become entirely oceanic. They could have extensive areas of aquaculture around them? They might be moored over ocean mining areas so they could recover manganese nodules etc. - if ecologically allowed.
In any event, via aquaculture and fisheries with internal green houses the only thing they would need is power. The top can be solarised, in addition thorium reactors would be viable (China is finalising this design) - we would not want to use coal/gas for power.
This was the conclusion that Don Lemon of CNN (of all places) came to after interviewing covid patients in Louisiana. He said few people were antivaxers. Mostly just people who hadn't gotten around to getting the vaccine or were a little bit hesitant to get it and wanted to wait just a little bit longer to get it.
For a sales pitch it can be good for a listener to be able to anticipate a happy ending for themself before you get to the end of the story.

And as you conclude, it fulfills what can be expected at that point.
I’ve been doing Rust full-time for two years and I had no idea you could do this. I’d just have used `push_str` in any case.

Giving this up doesn’t seem very impactful and I’d be happy to do so to enable actually useful features.
Oh I'm aware of this, and I'll get around to doing just that as soon as I'm in the mood to waste more of my life chasing other breakages after pacman turns my entire world upside down just so clang can run again.
Climate change is fake science. Go read a book. Get offline.
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Just give us a bit of time. We had to use some IPs that due to licensing limitations prohibited us to release the source and we were only allowed to release the bin files. We are replacing them to open source cores and we will have that part of the project available to you too. I hope you understand the situation of the project. I would love to see people adding more features to the FPGA part of it such as IRIG-B output and many other cool things that can be done. Please stay tuned.
Who wants a vaccine? Against what?

How about a vaccine against liberal retardation?
I'm sympathetic to the stoic view, but wrestle with why it doesn't resonate with me. I think it's because at some level it seems to me to be a lie, or more accurately, it betrays the lie of society. There's some dissonance there. Sure, being stoic about it is actually healthy in a lot of ways but isn't it harmful too? What about the lot of the less fortunate? Stoicism would be fine if we as a society all shared some kind of empathetic orientation toward our fellow beings. It's not the fact someone else came out better, it's that we as a society proceed as if this always occurs because of some kind of just world, which is nonsense to use a polite word. Socialized risk, capitalized gain, stoic when things are bad, and just world when things are good.

It's this age old tension that arises with a lot of Buddhist philosophy and is embodied in the serenity prayer. At least it's a large source of tension for me: when do you let it go? Because some things shouldn't be let go.
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The Wikipedia article for him says, "It is not known for certain when and how Dandolo became blind." We don't know if it was political mutilation.
fake science by fake scientists

I bet they have degrees in butthole-fingering-ology
I use facebook as an address book. When i need to get touch with someone I haven’t been talking recently, I open fb messenger and reach out. Then we can move it to a better form of communication. But it works. I don’t think I feed much info into it. Also fb market place has decent items.
I'm not so sold on your premise. I think there are trade-offs when using AI for software dev, like with copilot.